Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6, 000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism & the Klan.

This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, & provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.

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From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. Repeatedly it seemed that in days, even hours, global nuclear conflict would sweep away much of the United States, the Soviet Union & Europe. They would be obliterated in what President Carter described as 'one long, final & very bleak afternoon'. When the Cold War ended, the Warsaw Pact was wound up & the vast military forces which had flourished for over forty years were disbanded. As with all wars, however, it was only then that the realities of what had been involved began to emerge; indeed, much has remained hidden until now. In The Cold War, David Miller discloses not only the vast scope of the military resources involved, but also how nearly threat came to terrible reality. Most chillingly of all, he reveals that while the menace of nuclear war predominated, it was actually little understood even by the experts. The book examines each military area in turn, covering the formation of the two great alliances, & the strategies & major weapons in the rival navies, armies & air forces. That the Cold War ended without a conflict was due to professionalism on both sides. The result, Miller suggests, would have impressed the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tsu, who, writing in the fifth century BC, said that 'to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill'. ...

The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes & No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, & together they exhibit a daring wit & an exhilarating sense of experiment. ...

The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes & No. For Whom the Bell Chimes.
In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, & together they exhibit a daring wit & an exhilarating sense of experiment.
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The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to ' The Captain's Daughter' & ' The Tales of Belkin', the volume now

Includes:: many more short pieces & ' The History of Pugachev', a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky, Tolstoy & Chekhov. But they are also, of course, brilliant & fascinating in their own right. At this volume makes clear, Pushkins is one of the world's great story-tellers' direct, dramatic, tender, with the author 's voices always peruasively present. Paul Debreceny's highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983. The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkin's birth on 26th May 1999.

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Edited & with an introduction by Robert Phelps The hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as ' Bella-Vista', ' The Tender Shoot' & ' Le K-pi', Colette's subtle & ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours & flavours of the Parisian world & fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit & psychological acuity that made Colette unique. ...

Poet, artist & mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon & emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million copies in more than twenty languages since its first publication in 1923. But all Gibran ...