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Språkforskeren Gemma Wisharts bil blir funnet forlatt, og Gemma uteblir fra et viktig møte. Samme dag blir liket av en kvinne funnet på et billig hotell. Hun er uten identifikasjonspapirer og har fått ansiktet ødelagt til det ugjenkjennelige. Det eneste sporet er et visittkort fra et eskortebyrå, Angel Escorts, som mistenkes for å utnytte østeuropeiske kvinner. Gemma har hjulpet politietterforsker Lynne Jordan med å tolke når hun har snakket med de østeuropeiske kvinnene, og Lynne er sikker på at det er en forbindelse mellom drapet på Gemma og drapet på en østeuropeisk prostituert. Etter at to nye kvinner blir funnet drept, blir Lynne overbevist om at det dreier seg om en seriemorder.

Easy Rawlins har mistet fabrikkjobben, og det nye huset hans står i fare for å gå tapt. Det er fristende å bite på det noe uklare tilbudet fra DeWitt Albright - et hundredollars oppdrag med å oppspore en viss Daphne Monet. Beløpet dekker første avdrag på huset, men trekker den godtroende Easy ut i en sump av vonde overraskelser. Underveis mot løsningen sveiper han fra barbersalonger, jazzkneiper og svartes vannhull til hvite folks luksusboliger, som bak den iøynefallende fasaden har desto mer å skjule.

Vi er i Los Angeles' svarte bydeler, og rasemotsetningene putrer eksplosivt. Easy Rawlins er en tvilsom helt. Han eier flere leiegårder, men leieboerne vet ikke hvem som til sist hover inn leiepengene. Ikke engang den fattige og syke Poitisettia vet hvem hun presses av når hun ikke har betalt leien på to måneder. En dag er hun død, hengt i stuelampa. Easy finner flere døde, og oppdager etterhvert at han er en brikke i et dobbeltspill der forfølger og forfulgt lett forveksles.

En hacker trenger inn i Vatikanets datasystem og planter en foruroligende beskjed. I all hast sender Vatikanets etterretningstjeneste sin beste mann til Sevilla for å oppklare to mystiske dødsfall i den kirka hackeren nevner og for å avsløre hackerens identitet. Den lokale presten nekter imidlertid å samarbeide, og noen har hyret en forbrytertrio til å forkludre saka for alle som har befatning med den.

Historikeren Gale Grayson kommer tilbake til Statlers Cross, Georgia sammen med datteren. I stedet for en fredlig atmosfære finner hun sære slektninger og en død kvinne som går igjen. Så skjer mordet på Martin Cane, og Gale må finne ut hvorfor han ble drept og hvilke hemmeligheter byen gjemmer på.

Eric Pearson hevder at han blir forfulgt fordi han har journalen til Simon Blake JP, som avdekker en pedofil ring som kan styrte mektige menn. Mike Croft blir tilkalt for å etterforske saken. Så blir en liten gutt funnet myrdet og avkledd.

Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch- his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style- corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters- and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. "Hollywood Nocturnes" shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.

When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, noe one is safe, especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the oddball circus known as the Sunshine State, little things like astronomical body counts tend to get lost in the shuffle.

Whether duelling with new forensics or the local old boys' network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. but the fun stops the day Andy's dad, New Jersey's legendary ex- DA, drops dead in front of him at game in Yankee Stadium. The shocks pile on as he discovers his dad left him with a fortune of $22 million and a murder case with enough racial tinder to burn down City Hall. Struggling to serve justice and bring honor to his father, Andy must dig up some explosive political skeletons, and an astonishing family secret that can close his case for good.

Bailey's in bed with her commitment-phobic lover when she gets a frantic call from her boss at Glos magazine, Cat Jones. It turns out that something is seriously clashing with the decor in Cat's chic Upper East Side town house: the dead body of the family's nanny. When Cat appears to have been the intended victim, Bailey is suddenly up to her bed head in a high-profile investigation that's perfect fodder for the tabloids. Faced with a glittering array of A-list suspects, Bailey's soon hotfooting on her blood-red slingbacks from Manhattan's exclusive enclaves to the tony estates of Connecticut in search of a killer story - and a murderer who could delete her name from the masthead for good.

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions and a state prison term, Eddie's skills and loyalty attract the attention of J.C., a near-legendary hijacker. Eddie becomes the driver for J.C.'s ultra-professional crew. J.C., the master planner, is finally ready to pull off that one huge job every con dreams of, the Retirement Score. But some roads have twists even a professional getaway man couldn't foresee.

Trying to discover the identity of a murder victim brings together the vampire Dmitri and a hunter for the Guild, Honor. And as the gruesome murders continue, a lethal sensuality explodes between them.

This book tells the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. From sex and music to fashion and commerce, the author tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. The book examines how hip has helped shape - and continues to influence - America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity.

The author argues that the expanding European Union is becoming a second, and potentially superior, superpower to the United States, and outlines what the new Union will mean to world trade, politics, and power.

The book gives an examination of the American way of empire, the author demonstrates that America always has been an empire in denial, and shows the consequences of its special brand of imperialism. He also examines the challenges to the United States from its principal rivals for hegemony, the European Union and China, and offers an analysis of the interconnection between the country's domestic economic health and its foreign affairs.

Den nøytrale verden Adumar har bestemt seg for å velge side i stjernekrigen. Delegasjoner fra begge sider blir invitert til Adumar, og de vil få tid til å fremlegge sin regjerings sak.

I juni 1994 dro Alvah Simon og hans kone Diana avgårde i seilbåten sin for å utforske områdene nord for polarsirkelen. Fire måneder senere fører uventede hendelser til at Simon blir fanget alene i isen når båten fryser fast langt fra nærmeste bebodde sted. Med bare en katt til selskap, klarer Simon å komme seg gjennom måneder med ensomhet, plutselig blindhet og private demoner.

Caitlin kommer fra et privilegert hjem og da hun inviterer Victoria "Vix" med til sommerhuset i Martha's Vineyard, blir de snart kjent som "sommersøstrene". Her finner de kjærlighet og sex. Etterhvert som de vokser opp, studerer Victoria på Harvard, mens Caitlin reiser rundt i Europa og har en rekke kortvarige forhold. Det er først når hun kommer tilbake til Martha's Vineyard, at Caitlin gjør det utenkelige som forandrer både hennes vennskap til Vix og livene deres.

X-wing er galaksens eliteflystyrke, og flygerne risikerer livene sine i kampen mot Imperiet.

Selv om de vant det store slaget, er krigen nettopp begynt. Luke, Han, prinsessen og deres tilhengere tvinges til å flykte.

Boba Fett kjemper desperat for å overleve sine mektige fienders sammensvergelser mot ham.

Boka inneholder historiene Interlude at Darkknell, Jade solitaire, Gathering shadows, Hutt and seek, Longest fall, Conflict of interest, No disintegrations, please, Day of the sepulchral night, Uhl Eharl Khoehng, Last hand og Simple tricks.

The authors define Blur as the accelerating pace of change of our postmodern economy. Comparing companies with living organisms, they say the most successful companies of the next 10 to 100 years will resemble the lowly bacteria: minimal infrastructure, reproducing at will and continually evolving to meet whatever challenges are thrown their way. With index.

X-wing er galaksens eliteflystyrke, og flygerne risikerer livene sine i kampen mot Imperiet.

The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war. Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. They're being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way backwater, far from the battle front. The most they can look forward to is the capture of the occasional pirate cruiser and the boring duty of supporting the Cluster's peaceful integration with the star kingdom at the freely expressed will of eighty percent of the Clusters citizens. With a captain who may have seen to much of war and a station commander who isn't precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn't exactly what the students of Honor Harrington, the "salamander", expected. But things aren't as simple-or tranquil-as they appear.

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything like Saddam's or Kim Jong-il's level of international attention.In this fascinating, eye-opening read, New York Times bestselling author David Wallechinsky offers in-depth portraits of each of the twenty worst dictators -- and the governments they head -- currently in power: exposing their crimes, and revealing their strange personalities and mysterious backgrounds. Tyrants also reveals the extent that foreign corporations and governments support these tyrants despite their policies.Timely and provocative, crafted with the popular touch that has made Wallechinsky a bestselling author, Tyrants will awaken you to the criminal regimes of the present -- and pose challenging questions about America's role in curbing (or promoting) their power in the future.The Tyrant Hall of Shame includes:Kim Jong-il/North KoreaHu Jintao/ChinaSeyed Ali Khamenei/IranKing Abdullah/Saudi Arabia Muammar al-Qaddafi/LibyaOmar al-Bashir/SudanIslam Karimov/UzbekistanSaparmurat Niyazov/Turkmenistan Fidel Castro/Cuba

The police call them The Violets, and they are crime-fighting's secret weapon. Through their violet eyes they can actually expose the face of a murderer. But now one killer is closing their violet eyes permanently, and even the FBI can't stop him.

Anju wants a husband. Equally important, her entire family wants Anju to have a husband. Her life in Bombay, where a marriage can be arranged in a matter of hours, is almost solely devoted to this quest, with her anxious mother hauling her from holy site to holy site in order to consult and entreat swamis and astrologers. As Anju's twenties slip away, she's fast becoming a spinster by her culture.s standards. Only then is she able to persuade her parents to allow her to move to New York, where, she hopes, she will not be viewed as a failure.

Patty Taylor spiller i et band, og forsørge sin to år gamle sønn, Willie. En dag dukker faren til Willie opp. Han soner en lang dom, men er blitt løslatt på prøve. Nå kommer han for å kreve Patty og sønnen tilbake, selv om hun for lengst har brutt med ham. Dermed har det Patty fryktet mest av alt skjedd. Fortiden har innhentet henne.