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Stewart O’Nan
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From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan comes a timely moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.
In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out for Palestine by the tens of thousands. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them; taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel.
City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war - honest, strong, capable of moral choices. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell; reclaims his faith; and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history.
A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control.
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- De Wayne en 06-03-16
De: Mark Dawson
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Way of the Wolf
- The Vampire Earth, Book 1
- De: E. E. Knight
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel, E. E. Knight (Introduction)
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine.
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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
- De Kevin McLaughlin en 11-26-08
De: E. E. Knight
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A Beautiful Place to Die
- De: Malla Nunn
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Unfolding in 1952 South Africa, A Beautiful Place to Die is a riveting international mystery that flows from the pen of author Malla Nunn. Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned, making for an intrigue that will titillate any mystery fan.
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Police Procedural & The Pain Of Apartheid
- De Sara en 09-30-15
De: Malla Nunn
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The Romanov Conspiracy
- A Thriller
- De: Glenn Meade
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Dr. Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to solve one of the twentieth century’s greatest enigmas. Dr. Pavlov is a member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed by their captors in July 1918. When Pavlov discovers two bodies perfectly preserved in permafrost in a disused mine shaft, they offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs and, in particular, their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been shrouded in doubt.
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Ho- Hum
- De monet en 10-03-12
De: Glenn Meade
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Now and in the Hour of Our Death
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
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Patrick Taylor’s first novel of the Irish Troubles, Pray for Us Sinners, introduced us to Provisional IRA bombmaker Davy MacCutcheon and the love of his life, Fiona Kavanagh. Davy planned to leave the Provos after one final mission. But the deadly mission backfired, and Davy ended up in prison. Six years later, in Now and in the Hour of Our Death, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in Vancouver, Canada. But news of a breakout at the Maze prison brings back memories she thought she’d left behind.
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The Perfect End of a Great Epic
- De J. Lindsey en 03-01-15
De: Patrick Taylor
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Night Life
- De: David C. Taylor
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary United States intelligence agency, and the bodies of murdered young men are turning up all over the city.
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terrific in every way
- De Martha en 04-12-16
De: David C. Taylor
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The Unlikely Spy
- De: Daniel Silva
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
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“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
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The Unlikely Spy
- De Margaret en 12-14-09
De: Daniel Silva
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Stormbreaker
- The First Alex Rider Adventure
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Parker
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
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Okay action story held up by an great narrator
- De Mary Fan en 08-13-13
De: Anthony Horowitz
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The Confessions of Al Capone
- De: Loren D. Estleman
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 19 h y 37 m
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In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his Outfit committed, the Bureau has a good chance of nailing key members who now are active in the wartime black market.
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Interesting story
- De Michael en 02-07-17
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The Winds of Marble Arch
- De: Connie Willis
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Tom, an American, is in London for a conference when he begins to experience unusual forces in the Underground. Is it an easily-explained phenomenon - or ghosts from Britain's past?
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Hugo award winner
- De Katherine en 07-09-12
De: Connie Willis
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Gold of Kings
- De: Davis Bunn
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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Storm Syrell sells antiques in Palm Beach, Florida. However, when her grandfather dies under suspicious circumstances, she struggles to uncover clues he left behind in a frayed leather journal. Leaving behind Palm Beach for the untamed wilds of Cypress, Africa, and beyond, Storm is joined by one Harry Bennett - a scruffy, professional treasure hunter (aka, ex-con) who claims he must be the one to help solve her grandfather's murder.
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Treasure hunting & antique dealing -good combo
- De Kathy en 10-28-09
De: Davis Bunn
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Burning Paradise
- De: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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Cassie Klyne, 19 years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015 - but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassies world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: That for decades - back to the dawn of radio communications - human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity.
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Annoyingly Bad
- De David Shear en 11-11-13
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- Dubi
- 03-28-18
Redundant, Exasperating, Frustrating
Stewart O'Nan is an accomplished writer. Why on earth would he want to rewrite Elie Wiesel and claim it as his own? Primarily resembling Wiesel's Day, O'Nan gets inside the soul of Brand, an illegal immigrant into Palestine in the aftermath of WWII, the sole survivor of his family, suffering survivor's remorse. In order to stay in Palestine, he has to join a terrorist cell of the Irgun, participating in increasingly dangerous missions.
Mixed into this Day-like story are Brand's reminiscences of concentration camp, which echoes Wiesel's Night. These memories, doled out in bread-crumb-size doses, never add up to even a slice of Brand's life. His cover in Jerusalem is as a taxi driver who ferries tourists around -- the number of times he mentions taking fares to see the view from the Mount of Olives adds up to more words than what he tells us about his holocaust experience. It's as exasperating as it is frustrating.
Now that's how I felt, being so close to the material, as the son of Holocaust survivors, born in Israel. Most everyone with greater personal distance will not have a clue about the politics of Palestine after the war, before Israeli independence. Another flabbergasting, frustrating choice -- Brand is as confused about it as the reader is, so why not have him learn about it and thus explain it to the reader (having padded this already very short novel with far too many repetitive details about driving around Jerusalem).
It pains me to slam a novel that is so close to my family's experience, that I really wanted to be a door that could open this period of time for others. But it is a waste of time. My parents' stories -- even their post-war tales as refugees trying to get to Palestine, directly related to this book -- are more interesting than this (and they were regular people, not terrorists). Do yourself a favor and read Wiesel instead.
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