The Red Coffin

Author : Sam Eastland
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271790
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Coffin written by Sam Eastland and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught of Nazi Germany. For the coming battles, Stalin has placed his hopes on a 30-ton steel monster, known to its inventors as the T-34 tank, and, the 'Red Coffin' to those men who will soon be using it. But the design is not yet complete. And when Colonel Nagorski, the weapon's secretive and eccentric architect, is found murdered, Stalin sends for Pekkala, his most trusted investigator. Stalin is convinced that a sinister group calling itself the White Guild, made up of former soldiers of the Tsar, intend to bring about a German invasion before the Red Coffin is ready. While Soviet engineers struggle to complete the design of the tank, Pekkala must track down the White Guild and expose their plans to propel Germany and Russia into conflict.

Author : Sam Eastland
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055390809X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Pass written by Sam Eastland and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sam Eastland's Archive 17. Deep in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine known officially as T-34 is being developed in total secrecy. Its inventor is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, Stalin brings in his best—if least obedient—detective to solve a murder that’s tantamount to treason. Answerable to no one, Inspector Pekkala has the dictator’s permission to go anywhere and interrogate anyone. But the closer Pekkala gets to answers, the more questions he uncovers—first and foremost, why is the state’s most dreaded female operative, Commissar Major Lysenkova, investigating the case when she’s only assigned to internal affairs? In the shadows of one of history’s most notorious regimes, Pekkala is on a collision course with not only the Soviet secret police but the USSR’s deadliest military secrets. For what he’s about to unearth could put Stalin and his Communist state under for good—and bury Pekkala with them.

Author : Sam Eastland
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571254276
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Red Tsar written by Sam Eastland and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar's treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom and the chance to re-unite with a woman he would have married if the Revolution had not torn them apart. The price of failure - death. Set against the backdrop of the paranoid and brutal country that Russia became under the rule of Stalin, Eye of the Red Tsar introduces a compelling new figure to readers of crime fiction

Author : M. T. Coffin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S 14: Blood Red Eightba written by M. T. Coffin and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig always loved video games--until virtual reality has him running for his life on monster pool table. The giant cueball is flying across the green felt scattering balls in all directions. Craig's only escape is a plunge into the dark depths of the corner pocket--where he comes face-to-face with the red pulsing terror of the Blood Red Eightball!

Author : Timothy Schaffert
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1609530683
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coffins of Little Hope written by Timothy Schaffert and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty-three-year-old obituary writer Essie finds her life in small town Nebraska turned upside-down when a young country girl is reported missing and the long-awaited final book in an infamous series of young adult gothic novels is being secretly printed on her newspaper's presses. Reprint.

Author : Wenguang Huang
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580666
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Red Guard written by Wenguang Huang and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xi’an, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang’s grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night. Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma’s burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family’s memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.

Author : J.S. Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440545278
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contents of the Coffin written by J.S. Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. S. Fletcher (b. 1863, d. 1935) was a prolific British author and journalist. He wrote over 230 titles, both fiction and non fiction. He was one of foremost writers of detective fiction during the Golden Age of murder mystery novels.

Author : Gwendoline Butler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312310714
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffin Underground written by Gwendoline Butler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip C. Semprevivo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teams in Information Systems Development written by Philip C. Semprevivo and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Watson
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 1788420136
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffin, Scarcely Used written by Colin Watson and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia. But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like foul play, unless a surfeit of marshmallows had led the late and rather unlamented Mr Gwill to commit suicide by electrocution. ('Power without responsibility', murmurs Purbright.) How were the dead men connected, both to each other and to a small but select band of other town worthies? Purbright becomes intrigued by a stream of advertisements Gwill was putting in the Citizen, for some very oddly named antique items... Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay. What people are saying about the Flaxborough series: “Colin Watson wrote the best English detective stories ever. They work beautifully as whodunnits but it's really the world he creates and populates ... and the quality of the writing which makes these stories utterly superior.” “The Flaxborough Chronicles are satires on the underbelly of English provincial life, very well observed, very funny and witty, written with an apt turn of phrase ... A complete delight.” “If you have never read Colin Watson - start now. And savour the whole series.” “Light-hearted, well written, wickedly observed and very funny - the Flaxborough books are a joy. Highly recommended.” “How English can you get? Watson's wry humour, dotty characters, baddies who are never too bad, plots that make a sort of sense. Should I end up on a desert island Colin Watson's books are the ones I'd want with me.” “A classic of English fiction... Yes, it is a crime novel, but it is so much more. Wonderful use of language, wry yet sharp humour and a delight from beginning to end.” “Colin Watson writes in such an understated, humorous way that I follow Inspector Purbright's investigation with a smile on my face from start to finish.” “If you enjoy classic mysteries with no graphic violence and marvellously well drawn characters then give the Flaxborough series a try - you will not be disappointed.” Editorial reviews: “Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous.” New York Times “Flaxborough is Colin Watson's quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a seething pottage of greed, crime and vice ... Mr Watson wields a delightfully witty pen dripped in acid.” Daily Telegraph “Arguably the best of comic crime writers, delicately treading the line between wit and farce ... Funny, stylish and good mysteries to boot.” Time Out “A great lark, full of preposterous situations and pokerfaced wit.” Cecil Day-Lewis “One of the best. As always with Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and wickedly funny!” Literary Review "The rarest of comic crime writers, one with the gift of originality." Julian Symons “Flaxborough, that olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings.” Sunday Times