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Police: A Harry Hole thriller (Oslo Sequence 8) (Harry Hole 10) by Jo Nesbo at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 1846555965 - ISBN 13: 9781846555961 - Harvill Secker - 2013 - Hardcover
'Shooting for the big time with all guns blazing' Guardian Containing STALKING THE ANGEl, LULLABY TOWN and THE MONKEY'S RAINCOAT, this omnibus introduces readers to one the sharpest PI's on the scene; Disney obsessed Vietnam vet Elvis Cole. And the most frightening sidekick since Spenser's Hawk; the taciturn and lethal Joe Pike. Award-winning, critically acclaimed Robert Crais built a rock-solid following with these sparkling crime novels. Now they are available in hardback for the first time to his growing legion of UK fans. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Book Descri...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Book Description: Discover the strange folk of Fairytale land and see what they get up to in their not-so-ordinary everyday lives. About the Author: Jeanne Willis trained as a copy-writer, then wrote ads for TV, cinema and radio. She has written many books for children and is best known for her Dr Xargle series. She lives in North London. Korky Paul was born in Zimbabwe. After art school in Durban, he worked in Cape Town in advertising, then in 1976 he fled South Africa to London and started a successful career in children's illustration...
One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs or weapons, don't cheat, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone at the border of Pakistan to fend for himself. In a book that takes a true story and shapes it into a beautiful piece of fiction, Italian novelist Fabio Geda describes Enaiatollah's remarkable five-year journey from Afghanistan to Italy where he finally managed to claim political asylum aged fifteen. His ordeal took him through Iran, Turkey and Greece, working on buildin...
Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events involving a bag of ‘jinxed’ money, a suave American, a corrupt policeman and a rich doctor’s daughter, in which Robert’s life is changed forever. Alive with malice and grace, this is a taut tale reminiscent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith: a story of double identities, and ...