Victim Prime

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497635187
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victim Prime written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2092 the world’s ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread, and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal: to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation, which has turned public murder among willing competitors into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff? His neighbors’ lives, as well as his own, hang in the balance. Hilarious, savagely funny, and imaginative, this is Sheckley at his best! From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473207436
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victim Prime written by Robert Sheckley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2092, the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal, to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation which has turned public murder, among willing competitors, into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and then the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff. His neighbours' lives, as well as his own, hang in the balance.

Author : Dan Laughey
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chloe - Prime Victim written by Dan Laughey and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired policeman takes a fall. A suspected sex attacker goes AWOL. His accuser is missing too. As violence and drug spiking rocket, the only legal brothel in England suffers the public’s wrath and a motley crew of zealots campaign to shut it down. D.I. Carl Sant has his work cut out keeping the peace, and that’s before a pair of corpses get dumped in a frosty field and the spring turns very chilly indeed. Sant and his fellow detectives go on the hunt for muggers, pimps, lost girls and ruthless killers. Business as usual for the police and their troubled lot. But is Inspector Sant still up to the job? A riveting crime thriller full of twists and turns, 'Chloe - Prime Victim' is the third book in Dan Laughey's Carl Sant Murder Mysteries series.

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413418005
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victim Prime written by Robert Sheckley and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480496995
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter/Victim written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look at a dark, deadly future where the game is hunting and the result is killing, human to human, with status, money, power, and sex as the prizes. The operation runs underground and Frank Blackwell is a new recruit who is destined to change the game and turn it into legitimate popular entertainment for the masses. From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.” “The key words with Sheckley are clever, deadly, cool . . . I don’t know anyone else in SF who has written quite so many classic stories.” —Spider Robinson

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480496847
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 10th Victim written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill one another for sport and for the entertainment of the masses—until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes as each of them seeks to kill a tenth victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters. From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”

Author : Ezzat A. Fattah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349083054
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Crime Policy to Victim Policy written by Ezzat A. Fattah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350104981
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Name of God written by Joel Hodge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of René Girard, Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists is a response to modernity in two ways that have not been sufficiently explored by the existing literature. Firstly, it is a manifestation of the unrestrained and escalating state of desire and rivalry in modernity, which militant jihadists seek to counter with extreme violence. Secondly, it is a response to the unveiling and discrediting of sacred violence, which militant jihadists seek to reverse by more purposefully valorising sacred violence in what they believe to be jihad. Relevant to anyone interested in Islam, philosophy of religion, theology, and terrorism, Violence in the Name of God imagines new ways of thinking about militancy in the name of Islam in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0786871415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Victim written by Ridley Pearson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Lou Boldt, the Seattle cop who stars in Ridley Pearson's deservedly popular series, is a sharp and touching figure--perhaps the most believable police officer in current fiction. Early in this ninth book about his public and private life, Lou has to put on a bullet-resistant vest to lead a raid against some dangerous criminals. "The vest was not physically heavy, but its presence was," Pearson tells us. It meant battle; it meant risk. For Boldt, a vest was a symbol of youth. It had been well over a year since he had worn one. Ironically, as he approached the hangar's north door at a light run behind his own four heavily armored ERT personnel, he caught himself worrying about his hands, not his life. He didn't want to smash up his piano hands in some close quarters skirmish. . . . Boldt plays jazz piano one night a week in a local bar, and despite his concern for his hands, he takes every opportunity he can to get away from his desk and into the streets. But money pressures, caused by his wife's recent illness, also make him think about the possibility of a better-paying job in the private sector. Meanwhile, some extremely ruthless people are murdering illegal Chinese immigrant women and leaving their bodies buried in newly dug graves. An ambitious local TV journalist named Stevie McNeal and the young Chinese woman she thinks of as her "Little Sister" risk their lives to investigate the killings, while Boldt and his team round up a most unusual array of suspects. This combination of hard-edged realism and softer sentiment has become Pearson's trademark, and once again it works smoothly. --Dick Adler

Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061743607
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Victim written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere. A renegade U.S. customs agent, a brilliant and beautiful forensic phychologist and a streetwise convict master hacker are on the trail of the maniac who is methodically slaughtering innocent women -- a hunt that is leading a trio of unlikely heroes across an imperiled nation...and deep into the darkest corridors of cyberspace. But there is no system the maniac cannot infiltrate, no secrets he cannot access. He knows he is being hunted...and by whom. And he's determined to strike first -- in ways too terrible to anticipate.