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3) In chancery
In Chancery begins where The Man of Property—and its subsequent interlude—left off, pursuing Soames and Irene Forsyte across Edwardian England, meanwhile highlighting the failing marriage of Soames’s sister, Winifred. Galsworthy juxtaposes the two relationships while bringing more members...
10) The binding
Following his retirement, ex-legionnaire Carbo journeys back to Rome, blissfully unaware of the dangers that await him there. On the way he encounters many adventures, strives to solve a mysterious theft, and meets an old friend getting ready for gladiatorial combat.
In other stories we visit Elissa, the evil priestess, and Vespillo, the trusty watchman, and discover more about
...In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously
...College leaves young Hal Warner feeling incomplete, with no sense of the “real” world outside its ivy-covered walls. So he leaves his life of privilege behind and signs on to work in a coal mine owned and operated by the General...
From the author of The Long Day's Dying, a tense, gripping novella about a daring commando mission in Occupied France during WW2.
Four commandos parachute into occupied Holland. Their mission: to delay and impede German communications long enough to cover the escape of an Allied unit a few miles away. Soon the countryside is in chaos, and the whole German army is hunting
...16) Derby Day
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down?high life and low life, society beauties and White chapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air?this is Derby Day.
For months...
17) Guarding Gable
Guarding Gable starts with an actual event in the life of the screen's number one star and becomes a story worthy of a Hollywood movie.
It's 1942 and World War Two is just beginning. Beloved actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash while returning from a bond-selling tour and her devoted husband, Clark Gable, is beyond consolation. Depressed to the point of suicide, he enlists in the U.S. Army Air Corps, telling his bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
...18) The Long Watch
Millions of lives could be saved by a top-secret scientific formula. But the professor who holds the information is in the hands of the Germans, closely guarded in a secret laboratory in high-security prison.
A small group of men led by the tough and ruthless Major Rhodes are ordered to smash their way through and rescue the professor. Unseen forces soon threaten the bloody venture, however, and only
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