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Author : Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Joseph Patrick Kennedy and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: Edward J. Essey Sr.
Author : Simon Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899493036
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Simon Mills and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Hill & Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809055401
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Lisa Jardine and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life. Was he a noble scholar, or a conniving political crook? Was he a homosexual? Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a controversial nuanced portrait of the quintessential "Renaissance man", one whose achievements, while enormous, were nonetheless sadly circumscribed by his class and station.
Author : Elizabeth Cambridge
Publisher : Persephone Books
ISBN 13 : 9781903155318
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Elizabeth Cambridge and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Lindsay
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750980540
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Battle For Hong Kong written by Oliver Lindsay and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable study of the Far Eastern War, Oliver Lindsay and John R Harris have provided the most thorough and searching enquiry into the debacle which led to over 12,000 British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders surrendering Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. The authors have made use of a mass of unpublished material - part of it drawn from the original war diaries which have never before been in the public domain.Although it is over 60 years since Hong Kong was liberated from the Japanese, numerous important questions regarding the war in the East and occupation of the Colony from 1941 to 1945 have not been explored until now. To what extent, for example, were Churchill and the successive Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff responsible for abandoning this outpost, which could not be reinforced when attacked or defended adequately? Is it true that fine leadership prolonged the fighting, inflicting serious casualties on the highly experienced Japanese when they struck in 1941? How useful was Britain's spying organization in China, which led to catastrophic repercussions for the POWs and Internees? What form did the Japanese atrocities take upon the helpless captives?This detailed and authoritative account of the campaign will provide a particularly compelling read for those interested in the Second World War or the history of the Far East.
Author : Joan Lingard
Publisher : Puffin HC
ISBN 13 : 9780140374001
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Joan Lingard and published by Puffin HC. This book was released on 1995-05-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest of Joan Lingard's hauntingly powerful Kevin and Sadie novels which set young love against the backdrop of the Irish troubles.
Author : Kirsten Weiss
Publisher : misterio press
ISBN 13 : 1944767460
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail and Hyperion uncork a murder… Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail Beanblossom is used to running interference for her socially-awkward former boss, tech bazillionaire Razzzor. So when he invites her on a stakeout to investigate the sale of counterfeit wine from his latest venture – an upscale winery – she barrels on in. But the two stumble across the corpse of a wine merchant, and new wine in old bottles is now the least of their problems. Good thing amateur detectives Abigail and her partner, Tarot reader Hyperion Night, have a nose for murder. With their quirky family and friends, their investigation takes them from elegant wine cellars to chic tea parties on the California coast. But just as the investigation starts to get its legs, Abigail discovers there’s more than wine at the bottom of this crime… Hostage to Fortune is book 2 in the Tea and Tarot cozy mystery series. Get cozy with this hilarious whodunit today! Tearoom recipes in the back of the book!
Author : Michael Ennis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771030762
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Malice of Fortune written by Michael Ennis and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, intense historical thriller starring two of the great minds of Renaissance Italy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci. Based on a real historical mystery, and involving serial murder and a gruesome cat and mouse game at the highest levels of the Church -- it was the era of the infamous Borgias -- The Malice of Fortune is a delicious treat for fans of Umberto Eco, Sarah Dunant, and Elizabeth Kostova. This brilliant novel is an epic tale exploring the backdrop of the most controversial work of the Italian Renaissance, The Prince. Here, Niccolò Machiavelli, the great "scientist" of human behaviour becomes, in effect, the first criminal profiler, while his contemporary and sometime colleague, the erratic genius Leonardo da Vinci, brings his observational powers to the increasingly desperate hunt for a brilliant, terrifying serial murderer. Their foil and partner is the exquisite Damiata, scholar and courtesan. All three know their quarry is someone who holds enormous power, both to tear Italy apart, and destroy each of their most beloved dreams. And every thrilling step is based on historical fact.
Author : Cassie Miles
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460303997
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Hostage Midwife written by Cassie Miles and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a twist of fate, midwife Kelly Evans is the only person to hear the last words of a dying man. Although the words make no sense, someone thinks she knows more than she should. And millionaire playboy Nick Spencer may just be her fiercest protector. If his uncle was murdered, Nick fears the Spencer fortune is at risk. And worse, that Kelly, an innocent bystander, may be in danger. When a hostage situation traps Kelly within the killer's grasp, Nick knows he holds the key to her release. He'll do anything to save her life—even if it costs him his own.
Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Caroline Moorehead and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuki Fujine
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596028826
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book HOSTAGE TO DISHONOUR written by Yuki Fujine and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on someone else’s crime, she never expected the punishment to be as sweet as honey… Late one night, Tully sneaks into her brother’s office. Her hasty brother had tried to run away with company money, but if she can return it to the safe before anyone finds out, the crime may never come to light. However, the moment she opens the safe, the lights turn on! An intimidating man stares coldly at Tully. It’s undoubtedly Yate Meachem, the CEO her brother is so afraid of! How far is Tully willing to go in order to save her brother?
Author : Peter C Newman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451686153
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Peter C Newman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada. In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to establish a new republic and those who remained steadfast in their dedication to the British Empire. As the tensions inevitably boiled over into violence, fault lines were exposed as every person was forced to choose a side. Neighbours turned against each other. Families divided. Borders were redrawn. The conflict was long and bloody, and no side emerged unscathed. But there is one story that is often overlooked in the American Revolutionary canon. When the smoke from the battles had settled, tens of thousands of individuals who had remained loyal to the crown in the conflict found themselves without a home to return to. Destitute, distraught, and ostracized—or downright terrorized—by their former citizens, these Loyalists turned to the only place they had left to go: north. The open land of British North America presented the Loyalists with an opportunity to establish a new community distinct from the new American republic. But the journey to their new homes was far from easy. Beset by dangers at every turn—from starvation to natural disaster to armed conflict—the Loyalists migrated towards the promise of a new future. Their sacrifices set the groundwork for a country that would be completely unlike any other. Neither fully American nor truly British, the Loyalists established a worldview entirely of their own making, one that valued steady, peaceful, and pragmatic change over radical revolution. The Loyalists toiled tirelessly to make their dream a reality. And as the War of 1812 dawned, they proved they were willing to defend it with their very lives. In Hostages to Fortune, Peter C. Newman recounts the expulsion and migration of these brave Loyalists. In his inimitable style, Newman shines a light on the people, places, and events that set the stage for modern Canada.
Author : Christopher Whitcomb
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 044655121X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Cold Zero written by Christopher Whitcomb and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 200 people have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the F.B.I. The Hostage Rescue Team is its most highly trained and specialized squadron -- equivalent to the Navy's Seals and the Army's Delta Force -- charged with terrorist capture, hostage situations, and other large-scale emergencies in the U.S. and around the world. Whitcomb is the first HRT member ever to write about his experience. With breathtaking immediacy, Whitcomb describes the brutal training, the weapons and tactics, and the unbreakable camaraderie of the HRT. In short order, after joining HRT in 1991, Whitcomb was sent on missions to Ruby Ridge and Waco, and his frank assessment of those missions is must reading for anyone interested in modern law enforcement. Only rarely does a writer this accomplished have a life this dramatic. Cold Zero is a book of rare action and emotion, and one that introduces a remarkable new writer to the world.
Author : Carolyn McCrae
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788037855
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Carolyn McCrae and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth novel from award-winning author Carolyn McCrae Hostage to Fortune is an intriguing, well written, tightly-plotted and entirely satisfyingly completed story with a twist. Husband and wife team, Skye and Fergal Shepherd, specialise in researching family histories but also act as consultant investigators to a section of the Security Services run by Gordon Hamilton. Having met in A Set of Lies they completed their first assignment in Second Strand and are called upon again in Hostage to Fortune. Gordon asks them to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hammill, a keeper of a safe house. Within a few days they believe they have located her but, against direct instructions, they then involve themselves in two other, seemingly unconnected, events that occur in Diane’s home town within days of her disappearance: the assassination of prominent politician, Warwick Eden, and the apparent suicide of Ryan O’Donnell, a crew-member on Eden’s luxury yacht. Skye and Fergal focus their attention on Guy Cliffe, another member of Eden’s yacht crew, whose family appears to be linked to Warwick Eden’s dead brother, Barford. What they learn of four generations of the Eden family leads them to Southern Spain, to the horrific events of 1936 and that country’s Civil War and it is there that they find the solution to the mystery Gordon had intended them to investigate all along; not Diane’s disappearance, not the assassination, nor the subsequent murders, but something altogether more interesting. Set in Devon, the Caribbean and Spain, Hostage to Fortune will appeal to fans of non-formulaic crime and mystery fiction.
Author : Nick Lake
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408829665
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Hostage Three written by Nick Lake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing: a girl on a yacht with her super-rich banker father; a chance for the family to heal after a turbulent time; the peaceful sea, the warm sun . . . But a nightmare is about to explode as a group of Somali pirates seizes the boat and its human cargo - and the family becomes a commodity in a highly sophisticated transaction. Hostage 1 is Dad - the most valuable. Amy is Hostage 3. As she builds a strange bond with one of her captors, it becomes brutally clear that the price of a life and its value are very different things . . .
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Three Hostages written by John Buchan and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-04-25T19:54:10Z with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1924, The Three Hostages is the fourth of John Buchan’s novels to feature Richard Hannay. Following the conclusion of the Great War, Hannay has retired from British intelligence. He is coaxed from retirement to aid in the rescue of three prominent hostages held by an international criminal organization bent on controlling the disturbed minds of those affected by the Great War. Hannay pretends to succumb to hypnotic mind control and secretly travels to a remote farm in Norway to continue the hostage search. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : John Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347311
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection written by John Anderson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Money, pretension, horrid behavior by cultured people” (New York) —John Anderson’s tale delivers it all in fabulously juicy detail. This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America, including 69 Cézannes, 60 Matisses, and 44 Picassos, among many priceless others—came to be, and how more than a decade of legal squabbling brought it to the brink of collapse and to a move that many believe betrayed the wishes of the founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872—1951). Art Held Hostage is now updated with a new epilogue by the author covering the current state of this international treasure and the endless battle over its fate.
