Fall Guy

Author : James Lasdun
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292339
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy: A Novel written by James Lasdun and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun’s acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story, probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness. Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun’s most entertaining novel yet.

Author : "Bad Chuck" Roberson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780888397454
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy written by "Bad Chuck" Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire McNab
Publisher : Bella Books
ISBN 13 : 1642470945
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Guy written by Claire McNab and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, to know Milton Ryce is to loathe him. Now in his mid-forties, the practical joker has never outgrown the adolescent behavior that amused him so much as a teenager. Embarrassing others has been his favorite past time, and he delights in coming up with elaborate schemes for setting up his “friends” as fall guys. Extremely generous with his money, Milton has bought influence in high places and a circle of well-connected friends and business acquaintances. When he plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to find that he was murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton finds a long list of possible murderers—a list that includes family members who are positively jostling for position to be at the top of the list. Then an elaborate practical joke is played out at Milton’s funeral by his son, Ted, and more evidence begins piling up against him. Carol must act quickly to find out if Ted is indeed his father’s killer—or if he is simply being set up as yet another ‘fall guy’…

Author : Archer Mayor
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250224195
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Guy written by Archer Mayor and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two state burglary spree. But it's what is in the trunk that brings Joe Gunther and his team from the Vermont Bureau of Investigation. In the trunk is the body of burglar in question - one Don Kalfus. Complicating matters, while the body was found in Vermont, it appears he was probably killed in the next state over, New Hampshire. The task force charged with finding out why Kalfus is murdered soon faces another problem. Within the pile of stolen cell phones found in the car is evidence of a notorious unsolved child abduction case from years earlier. Now the seemingly simple case has become more complicated and deadly, leading Gunther's team to be pulled from the New Hampshire coast to near the Canadian border as they attempt to find and capture the psychopath responsible for a tangled, historical web of misery, betrayal, and loss.

Author : George Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7G/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy written by George Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Fradkin
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554698375
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy written by Barbara Fradkin and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handyman Cedric O'Toole likes his simple life. He lives by himself on a hardscrabble farm, collecting sheds full of junk and dreaming of his next invention. Then one day a slick city lawyer drives down his lane and his nightmare begins. Lori-Anne Wilkins, the wife of a wealthy local businessman, has fallen to her death from a deck Cedric built, and the furious widower has slapped him with a lawsuit. When Cedric goes to check out the accident site, he discovers that someone has tampered with the railing around the deck. It appears he's been set up to take the blame. But who might want Mrs. Wilkins dead? Then, when someone runs him off the road, he realizes that his life is in danger too. To clear his name and save his life, Cedric has to use his inventive mind to trap the real killer.

Author : Ritchie Perry
Publisher : EndeavorMedia.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1839010835
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy written by Ritchie Perry and published by EndeavorMedia.ORIM. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, action-packed thriller starring a “tough, wisecracking British operative” (The New York Times Book Review). The British Intelligence outfit SR(2) has lost too many agents already trying to stop the European cocaine trade. Now they need someone unknown to succeed where they have failed—they need Philis. Whether he’s courting danger or women, this smuggler-turned-secret-agent is as villainous as he is seductive. Philis has no interest in helping the authorities—until a longtime friend is brutally tortured and an innocent woman beaten to within an inch of her life. Now Philis has but one aim: to find the ruthless drug leader behind it all, and make him pay for his crimes. But he has no idea what he’s about to get into, in this fast-paced espionage thriller featuring a hero who’s “as resilient as a rubber band” (Kirkus Reviews). “A master of the genre at the top of his game.” —Tom Kasey, bestselling author of Cold Kill

Author : Gretchen Cherington
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647420849
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy written by Gretchen Cherington and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author’s paternal grandfather and Hormel’s Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel’s comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company’s coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees. The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy opens in 1922 as George Hormel calls Eberhart into his office and demands his resignation. Hailed as the true leader of the company he’d helped Hormel build—is Eberhart complicit in the embezzlement? Far worse than losing his job and the great wealth he’d rightfully accumulated is that his beloved young wife, Lena, is dying while their three children grieve alongside. Of course, his story doesn’t end there. In scale both intimate and grand, Cherington deftly weaves the histories of Hormel, Eberhart, and Thomson within the sweeping landscape of our country’s early industries, along with keen observations about business leaders gleaned from her thirty-five-year career advising top company executives. The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy equally chronicles Cherington’s journey from blind faith in family lore to a nuanced consideration of the three men’s great strengths and flaws—and a multilayered, thoughtful exploration of the ways we all must contend with the mythology of powerful men, our reverence for heroes, and the legacy of a complicated past.

Author : Joe Simpson
Publisher : Direct Authors
ISBN 13 : 0957519303
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching the Void written by Joe Simpson and published by Direct Authors. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.

Author : Liz Reinhardt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1782951237
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Guy written by Liz Reinhardt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiery Evan Lennox is dreading community service, until she meets Winchester Youngblood. Winch is mysterious and sexy as hell, and Evan soon finds herself falling for his bad boy charm. But Winch has some dark secrets of his own and they threaten to destroy everything. Should Evan follow her instincts and give into temptation . . . or will Winchester prove too hot to handle? 'Winch and Evan sizzle on every page. Keep a fan handy . . . or a fire extinguisher!' Tammara Webber Also by Liz Reinhardt: Double Clutch Junk Miles Slow Twitch