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Book Synopsis A Spy Walks into This Bar by : Gene Coyle
Download or read book A Spy Walks into This Bar written by Gene Coyle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1990 and the Cold War is coming to an end, but the game of espionage continues on as America and the West prepares for the First Gulf War with Iraq. The career of longtime CIA officer, William Wythe, is also coming to a sad end at his final posting in Lisbon, Portugal. His last ten years have been spent mostly in an alcoholic blur since his wife died in a terrorist attack meant for him. The Chief of Station wants to be rid of him, a special counterintelligence section of the CIA suspects he may be a Russian mole and the high point of his dark weeks is anonymously playing piano at a local dive in the city two nights a week. But as is often the case in the “wilderness of mirrors” of espionage, all the facts and the people may not be as they seem. An unhappily married Brazilian woman is frequenting this jazz club and growing fonder of William, raising some hope that he may yet have a future worth living. She joins him on a private search for missing Hungarian royal jewels, which may have been hidden in Portugal towards the end of WWII. A modern neo-Nazi group is also on the hunt for those same jewels. All the players cross paths at the Clube de Jazz, which is run by an elderly Italian-American who’d been in America’s wartime O.S.S., the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Book Synopsis A Horse Walks Into a Bar by : David Grossman
Download or read book A Horse Walks Into a Bar written by David Grossman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.
Book Synopsis Secret Book of CIA Humor, The by : Ed Mickolus
Download or read book Secret Book of CIA Humor, The written by Ed Mickolus and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of espionage humor is based on the author's thirty-three years with the CIA as an analyst, operations officer, and manager. Practical jokes, comical essays, poems, bloopers from performance-appraisal reports, and more are all included.
Book Synopsis A Walk in the Rain by : Ernest O. Izedonmwen
Download or read book A Walk in the Rain written by Ernest O. Izedonmwen and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osaru, received a tourist visa to visit the United States from Nigeria. A grateful and excited Osaru had no intention of returning to his country at the expiration of his tourist visa. With high hopes and expectations, he arrived in America to a plethora of unexpected challenges. He fell in love with a remarkably intelligent and challenging woman, a love made more complicated by his obligation to his Nigerian fiancée, Ese. His fidelity to Ese is tested early by the reality of life in the US as an undocumented alien. Marriage to his American girlfriend promised immediate benefits and reliefs, including, decent employment, but he is torn and tortured by his obligation to his faithful fiancée. With unemployment squarely at his doorstep, he opted for the easy and immediate benefits of marriage to his American girlfriend. Osaru's marriage to his American wife ensured a wonderful life for a while, until it falls apart due to his infidelity and unwitting participation in drug distribution.
Book Synopsis A Walk in the Park by : Jill Mansell
Download or read book A Walk in the Park written by Jill Mansell and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one could have planned for this... Lara Carson left her family and boyfriend Flynn eighteen years ago without a word to anyone. Why has no one heard from her since? Does it mean anything that she's suddenly reappeared in Bath just in time for her ex–best friend Evie's wedding? And what about Flynn? Even the most eagle–eyed observer can't tell whether he's happy to see her, or just stunned. While secrets pile up on secrets, and the gossip mill wings into high gear, the brand–new life Lara's searching for becomes ever more elusive. There's a lot of catching up for everyone to do, and Lara's return is going to be anything but a walk in the park. Praise for To the Moon and Back: "A tremendous look at friendship, hope, romance, and second chances."—RT Book Reviews, 4 stars "A romantic and lighthearted story...fans will eat this story up."—Publishers Weekly "Mansell crafts a lovely story with multiple plotlines, characters, and love interests."—USA Today "Absolutely, positively and outstanding story."—Night Owl Reviews Reviewer Top Pick, 5 stars
Download or read book Cheers written by Joseph J. Darowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at one of the greatest shows of all time. For eleven seasons, Cheers was a critically acclaimed program, ultimately earning more than 100 Emmy nominations and securing 28 wins, including 4 for best comedy series. One of the most popular shows of all time, the series centered on a group of Boston, Massachusetts locals who gathered to drink and socialize. Bar owner Sam Malone was the de facto leader of the group and boss to Carla Tortelli, Coach Ernie Pantuso, Woody Boyd, and Diane Chambers, Sam’s on-again, off again paramour. Regular patrons Norm Peterson and Cliff Claven completed this ersatz family, later joined by Frasier Crane; his wife Lilith; and Rebecca Howe, a new foil for Sam. Cheers not only provided laughs, it revolutionized American sitcoms with its long-running stories and famous will-they-won’t-they relationship of Sam and Diane. In Cheers: A Cultural History, Joseph J. Darowski and Kate Darowski offer an engaging analysis of the show, providing insights into both the onscreen stories and the efforts behind the scenes to shape this beloved classic. The authors examine the series as a whole but also focus on the show’s key characters, narrative arcs, and many themes, ranging from alcoholism to adultery. This volume also provides close looks at how set design, class issues, and gender roles informed the series throughout its run. Also included is an opinionated compendium of every episode, highlighting the peaks and dips in quality across more than a decade of television. Cheers: A Cultural History will appeal to the show’s many fans and bring back beloved memories of the place where everybody knows your name.
Book Synopsis A Carnival of Snackery by : David Sedaris
Download or read book A Carnival of Snackery written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party—lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs. These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background—new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
Download or read book Reckless Kiss written by Lena Pierce and published by MBK Hanson Inc.. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reckless Kiss is book 2 of the Shattered Hearts MC trilogy. Book 3, Burning Kiss, is available everywhere now! I took her unprotected just to keep her safe. I'm holding her here under the president's orders. But the fiery mystery that drove Meghan into my arms has hidden layers I never expected. She doesn't want my help, but she's getting it anyways. We'll find the answers she wants. Then I'll pin her down and take what I want, too. DIRK When your MC president gives you a job, you do it. No questions. No dallying. Just get the sh!t done. But when the job turns out to be snatching up his baby sister and keeping her under my eye, things get a little more interesting. It doesn't hurt that Meghan is a stone cold fox, with the temper to match. She's feisty. I like that in a woman. It makes it all the more fun when I break them. But what was supposed to be a simple bodyguard job turned into exile and war as we run from the men who seem to want her dead. Protecting your mark is never easy, but it's even harder when I'm dying inside to get my hands on her curvy little frame. Every time she smiles at me, I feel emotions bubbling to the surface. Things I haven't felt in years. Things that make me want to break all the rules to make her mine. F**k it all. I've decided I want her in my arms. And I don't care what I have to do to keep her there. MEGHAN I left behind everything to make a life for myself. The biker world has long since receded in my rearview mirror. Now, all I want is piece in my little corner of the city. No war, no choppers, no dead bodies. Just quiet. Calm. Gratitude. But I soon learn that it's not so easy to escape the outlaw lifestyle. My brother – the one who refused to give up his biker ways when I left – calls me out of the blue. His voice is different than I remember. Darker. Deeper. More haunted and cruel. He tells me I'm in danger. Whether I like it or not, he's pulling me back into the world of the Shattered Hearts MC. He says it's for my own good. But the man he sends to collect me doesn't seem good at all. In fact, he's the definition of a bad boy. Dirk Dvorak is everything I ran away from. Massive, muscled, tatted, and terrifying. But he keeps making me react to his presence in ways I never anticipated. He takes what he wants. And gives me only what I beg for. I'm forced to watch from within the MC clubhouse as my little store goes up in flames. No one seems to give a d*mn about finding out who wanted to hurt me so bad. Not even my dear brother. No one, that is – except for Dirk. And the longer I spend on the hunt for answers with the biker bad boy by my side, the more I find out about the man he truly is. And the more I fall deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole I tried so desperately to claw my way out of.
Download or read book Dirk (Book 2) written by Lena Pierce and published by MBK Hanson Inc.. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 2 of the Shattered Hearts MC romance series! Books 3 is available everywhere now! Dirk Dvorak takes what he wants. He came to keep me safe. He won’t rest until he’s claimed me for himself. But betrayal on all sides leaves us with only each other. Can I trust the man who’s sworn to break me? MEGHAN I got away from the biker life a long time ago. Since then, I’ve put as much distance as possible between myself and my brother’s club, the Shattered Hearts MC. I built a new life. Away from the hatred. Away from the violence. But then my brother gets in touch and tells me I’m in danger. Now, whether I like it or not, he’s pulling me back into the world of the Hearts to “protect” me. The man he sends to collect me is everything I ran away from. Dirk Dvorak is dangerous, deadly, and drop-dead gorgeous. And if I’m not careful, he’s going to break my heart. DIRK One rule in the biker world: Do what your president says. But when the job turns out to be collecting his baby sister and keeping her out of trouble, the stakes are that much higher. I’m supposed to keep my hands to myself. But that’s impossible. Because Meghan is sassy, fierce, and too tempting. I’ve kept my distance until now, but I won’t last much longer. The problem is, it’s never as simple as making her mine. This started as a straightforward bodyguard gig. But then the killers came for us. And now it’s a whole new ballgame. There’s blood to be shed. A woman to be protected. And maybe, at the end of all this… A new life with her, there for the taking.
Book Synopsis Romance Spies Collection Volume 2 by : Connor Whiteley
Download or read book Romance Spies Collection Volume 2 written by Connor Whiteley and published by CGD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 imaginative, enthralling, exciting short stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding stories in this one volume. Includes: · Drop At The Bar: A Gay Romantic Suspense Spy Romance Short Story · Loving To Spy · Spying Around An Auction · Democracy Works · Spying For Independence Love spy stories? Love romantic suspense? Connor gives you both layered on thick in this amazingly fun collection. BUY NOW!
Download or read book Fractions written by Ken MacLeod and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's landmark modern science fiction series, this volume comprises The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal. In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star. Against this background, men and women struggle for a better future against the betrayals that went before. Death is sometimes the end, and sometimes something altogether different... Both The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal won the Prometheus Award on their original publication. They are followed by The Cassini Division and the British Science Fiction Association Award-winning The Sky Road. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Creativity Without Law by : Kate Darling
Download or read book Creativity Without Law written by Kate Darling and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the scenes of the many artists and innovators flourishing beyond the bounds of intellectual property laws Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will under-invest in new work. But this premise fails to fully capture the reality of creative production. It ignores the range of powerful non-economic motivations that compel creativity, and it overlooks the capacity of creative industries for self-governance and innovative social and market responses to appropriation. This book reveals the on-the-ground practices of a range of creators and innovators. In doing so, it challenges intellectual property orthodoxy by showing that incentives for creative production often exist in the absence of, or in disregard for, formal legal protections. Instead, these communities rely on evolving social norms and market responses—sensitive to their particular cultural, competitive, and technological circumstances—to ensure creative incentives. From tattoo artists to medical researchers, Nigerian filmmakers to roller derby players, the communities illustrated in this book demonstrate that creativity can thrive without legal incentives, and perhaps more strikingly, that some creative communities prefer, and thrive, in environments defined by self-regulation rather than legal rules. Beyond their value as descriptions of specific industries and communities, the accounts collected here help to ground debates over IP policy in the empirical realities of the creative process. Their parallels and divergences also highlight the value of rules that are sensitive to the unique mix of conditions and motivations of particular industries and communities, rather than the monoculture of uniform regulation of the current IP system.
Book Synopsis Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by : Jim Holt
Download or read book Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes written by Jim Holt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
Book Synopsis The Anatomy of a Spy by : Michael Smith
Download or read book The Anatomy of a Spy written by Michael Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional ones—both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré—the story of why spies spy. Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intelligence? How do intelligence services ensure that the agents they recruit do their bidding and don't betray them? What makes the perfect spy? Drawing on interviews with active and former British, American, Russian, European, and Asian intelligence officers and agents, Michael Smith creates a layered portrait of why spies spy, what motivates them, and what makes them effective. Love, sex, money, patriotism, risk, adventure, revenge, compulsion, doing the right thing— focusing on the motivations, The Anatomy of a Spy presents a wealth of spy stories, some previously unknown and some famous, from the very human angle of the agents themselves. The accounts of actual spying extend from ancient history to the present, and from running agents inside the Islamic State and al-Qaeda to the recent Russian active measures campaigns and operations to influence votes in the UK, European Union, and United States, penetrating as far as Trump Tower if not the White House.
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Book Synopsis The New Spymasters by : Stephen Grey
Download or read book The New Spymasters written by Stephen Grey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old world of spying that emphasized the human factor--dead letter boxes, microfilm cameras, and an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center--is history. Or is it? In recent times, the spymaster's technique has changed with the enemy. He or she now frequently comes from a culture far removed from Western understanding and is part of a less well-organized group. The new enemy is constantly evolving and prepared to kill the innocent. In the face of this new threat, the spymasters of the world replaced human intelligence with an obsession that focuses on the technical methods of spying, ranging from the use of high-definition satellite photography to the global interception of communications. However, this obsession with technology has failed, most spectacularly, with the devastation of the 9/11 attacks. In this modern history of espionage, Stephen Grey takes us from the CIA's Cold War legends, to the agents who betrayed the IRA, through to the spooks inside Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Techniques and technologies have evolved, but the old motivations for betrayal--patriotism, greed, revenge, compromise--endure. Based on years of research and interviews with hundreds of secret sources, this is an up-to-date exposé that shows how spycraft's human factor is once again being used to combat the world's deadliest enemies.--Adapted from book jacket.
Book Synopsis Screening American Independent Film by : Justin Wyatt
Download or read book Screening American Independent Film written by Justin Wyatt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film presents these films chronologically, addressing works from across more than a century (1915−2020), emphasizing the breadth and long duration of American independent cinema. The collection includes canonical examples as well as films that push against and expand the definitions of "independence." The titles run from micro-budget films through marketing-friendly Indiewood projects, from auteur-driven films and festival darlings to B-movies, genre pics, and exploitation films. The chapters also introduce students to different approaches within film studies including historical and contextual framing, industrial and institutional analysis, politics and ideology, genre and authorship, representation, film analysis, exhibition and reception, and technology. Written by leading international scholars and emerging talents in film studies, this volume is the first of its kind. Paying particular attention to issues of diversity and inclusion for both the participating scholars and the content and themes within the selected films, Screening American Independent Film is an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying American cinema.
