![]() ![]() ![]() In reality, Philby was channeling all of their confidences directly to his Soviet handlers, sinking almost every great Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years. These men came up together, shared the same background, went to the same schools and clubs, and served the same cause-or so Elliott and Angleton thought. In Macintyre's telling, Philby's story is not a tale of one spy, but of three: the story of his complex friendships with fellow Englishman operative Nicholas Elliott and with the American James Jesus Angleton, who became one of the most powerful men in the CIA. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's thrillingly ambitious A Spy Among Friends tackles the greatest spy story of all: the rise and fall of Kim Philby, MI6's Cambridge-bred golden boy who used his perch high in the intelligence world to betray friend and country to the Soviet Union for over two decades. takes a fresh look at the grandest espionage drama of our era.- New York Times Book Review Reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John Le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P.G. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Gentlemen, we are at your service." Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. ![]() Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor-the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent)-unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective.Īt the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. 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All books must be returned within 4 days and in the condition in which they were originally sent. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony.Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. ![]() The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. 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Get ready to immerse yourself in the life of Cowboy Mike and his miniature pony, Winston, with “A Day in the Life of Cowboy Mike and Winston.” This delightful children’s book is #83 out of 5000+ in the best children’s Book and #2 for Best New Children’s Book on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll take you inside Club Sin: Chicago, a forbidden place where you’ll find love and pleasure with multiple hot men in these Reverse Harem novellas. This November is the second play session of the year with 10 steamy romances. ![]() It's a complete standalone with a HEA, but please read the Author's Notes before you proceed.Ĭlub Sin: New York took your breath away now visit Club Sin: Chicago for two more play sessions.įantasies are meant to come true, and the men of Club Sin: Chicago will see to your every kinky desire. Room Fifteen: Tied Up With the Dark is an ultra steamy, slightly darker Why Choose romance. 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NIGHT DRAWS NEAR: IRAQ'S PEOPLE IN THE SHADOW OF AMERICA'S WAR by Anthony Shadid Henry Holt and Company. MY WAR: KILLING TIME IN IRAQ by Colby Buzzell G.P Putnam's Sons. OVER THERE: FROM THE BRONX TO BAGHDAD A MEMOIR by Alan Feuer Counterpoint. ![]() WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS by Chris Ayres Atlantic Monthly Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. ![]() They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. ![]() In this history, Jones resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. ![]() ![]() It is clearly some kind of animal farm, for everyone in this dictatorship is from the animal kingdom: horses, donkeys, cats, dogs and other animals. Glory begins at a rally set to be addressed by the “Father of the Nation” of a fictional country called Jidada. “It was a delight and a privilege to channel that oral tradition in Glory.” In the preface, signalling a departure from the realist novel form she used in her debut, Bulawayo notes: ![]() Her introduction to stories was at the feet of her grandmother who used to recount “beguiling tales of talking animals and alternate worlds”. ![]() NOVIOLET BULAWAYO CHANNELS ORWELL IN ‘GLORY’īulawayo notes in the preface that as she wrote Glory, she found herself “constantly coming back to George Orwell’s Animal Farm for its satire of a revolution that ends in betrayal and tyranny”.Īlthough it was to Animal Farm she kept going back, the form of the allegory Orwell used for his classic novel was one with which Bulawayo was already familiar. ![]() |