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This classic 1959 Cold War-era thriller inspired both a fairly faithfully adapted 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, and a more loosely based, updated 2004 Jonathan Demme remake with Denzel Washington. Raymond Shaw, a lonely, bitter American, is brainwashed by Chinese and Russian communists during the Korean War to become the perfect assassin, utterly unaware of the dreadful deeds he is ordered to perform. Several years later, the Communists are prepared to unleash their secret weapon...but who is Raymond's projected target? And how will that plot affect the political aspirations of Shaw's stepfather, a buffoonish but extremely influential anti-Communist Senator entirely ruled by Shaw's mother Eleanor, a ruthless woman prepared to use any tool available--including her son--to fulfill her ambitions? Although the linchpin of the plot--that it's possible to psychologically program someone to enact a series of morally repugnant tasks--seems somewhat fantastical, it is a fact that the Chinese, the Russians, and the Americans experimented with brainwashing during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Young barrsiter Michael Cantrip has skipped of to
the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case
thats worth a fortune -- if Cantrips tax-planning
cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip
has waded in way over his head. Strange things are
happening on these mysterious, isolated isles.
Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping
off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon
Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for
help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hilaray
Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get
Cantrip back to safety of his chambers -- alive!
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When a dead body turns up right in the mid le of the fiction stacks, the police are baffled. But Helma Zukas, who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm of everyday life, is tracking some baffling questions of her own. With the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth, a six-foot-tall bohemian artist with a nose for gossip and a penchant for getting into trouble, the two are soon in hot pursuit of the truth... and getting lose enough to find they're about to become the killer's next victims.
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At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works.Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky,The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naïve Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death.The Glass Cell's bleak and compelling portrait of daily prison life—and the consequences for those who live it—is, sadly, as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1964.
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