La ley del silencio (Narrativa del Acantilado nº 192) by Budd Schulberg,Marcelo Cohen de Levis PDF

By Budd Schulberg,Marcelo Cohen de Levis

ISBN-10: 8415277288

ISBN-13: 9788415277286

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con los angeles mafia y dirigido por Johnny pleasant. Él y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un día conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir los angeles ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atracción que despierta los angeles adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura católico, make a decision dar un paso al frente para derrocar los angeles tiranía de l. a. mafia. En una fabulosa introducción, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica cómo surgieron tanto esta novela como el guión de l. a. película homónima—dirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brando—a partir de l. a. información recopilada a lo largo de años de investigación en l. a. ribera portuaria de Nueva York.

«'La ley del silencio' nació del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx».
Gregorio Belinchón, 'El País'

«Una trama en los angeles que l. a. tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajísimos fondos».
Rodrigo Fresán, 'ABC Cultural'

«Magnífica».
J.J. Armas Marcelo, 'ABC Cultural'

«Un libro redondo».
'The ny Times'

«Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante».
'The New Republic'

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Read e-book online De man uit Albanie (Dutch Edition) PDF

By Magnus Montelius,Geri de Boer

ISBN-10: 9056724622

ISBN-13: 9789056724627

‘Kort gezegd nogal briljant, Magnus Montelius! Een naam om te onthouden.’ – Tidningen Kulturen

‘***** Magnifiek.’ – Sveriges Television

‘Verbazingwekkend goed. Magnus Montelius houdt het verhaal strak van commence tot eind en draait het op elegante wijze een paar keer volledig om. Het is moeilijk te geloven dat dit zijn eerste boek is.’ – Dagens Nyheter

‘Een debutant die schrijft als een totale routinier.’ – Aftonbladet

‘Het is lang geleden dat ik zo volledig opging in een mystery als bij De guy uit Albanië en dat ik zo onder de indruk was once van stijl, taal en vaardigheid van een debutant om zowel een belangrijk als fascinerend verhaal te vertellen.’ – Skånska Dagbladet

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New PDF release: Sprache der Krähen: Roman (German Edition)

By Georg Elterlein

ISBN-10: 3711720390

ISBN-13: 9783711720399

Leonard ist ein einsamer Wolf. Er hat seine Erfahrungen gemacht und will von niemandem mehr abhängig sein. Da erhält er die Nachricht, dass sein Bruder und dessen Frau bei einem Unfall ums Leben gekommen sind – und er der einzige verfügbare Verwandte ihres Sohnes ist. Leonard will sich auf nichts einlassen, bis er Erik kennenlernt: einen freundlichen, schüchternen Zehnjährigen, der infolge des Unfallschocks nicht sprechen kann. Bald spürt Leonard eine zarte Zuneigung zu dem variety, das seinerseits an seinem Onkel hängt. Wenn da nicht Leonards letzter großer activity wäre, von dem er sich genügend Geld erhofft, um endlich alles hinter sich zu lassen. Und wenn da nicht Tina wäre, die er eben wiedergefunden und sofort wieder verloren hat …

Eine packende Kombination aus mystery, Liebesgeschichte und Familiendrama – spannend und berührend, ein echter Pageturner!

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Download e-book for iPad: Murder in Caney Fork by Wally Avett

By Wally Avett

ISBN-10: 1611944163

ISBN-13: 9781611944167

it is the trial of the century in a 1940's North Carolina town.
Murder and vigilante justice.
War hero and legislations pupil Wes Ross has to save lots of his uncle--but conceal the truth.

Taught to shoot within the tough logging camps of the North Carolina swamps, Wes Ross recalls his classes good. Dodging antagonistic gunfire with dozens of different younger Marines, he storms a distant Pacific island as one in all Carlson's Raiders within the first commando-style assault of worldwide struggle II. He blasts a number of eastern snipers from their palm-tree hideouts with buckshot sooner than an enemy bullet sends him home.
The Carolina homefront contains a new female friend and a brand new career, studying to be a rural attorney in his uncle's legislation place of work, together with court intrigue and what is going on backstage. Wes, like his uncles, is an efficient guy, the sort who takes up for the terrible and downtrodden, searching if you are effortless prey for bullies.
Frog Cutshaw is the storekeeper within the Caney Fork backwoods, a swaggering ex-moonshiner who's lethal together with his ever-present .45 car pistol. Frog's sunlight rape of a married lady and the brutal killing of her husband bring about Bible Belt vigilante justice, a watch for an eye fixed, a existence for a life.

Wally Avett is a retired newspaperman. He lives in North Carolina.

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Life Almost Still (Anthem Cosmopolis Writings) - download pdf or read online

By Carme Riera,Josep Sobrer

ISBN-10: 1783084618

ISBN-13: 9781783084616

In November 2007, Romain Lannuzel Erasmus, pupil on the self sustaining college of Barcelona, ​​mysteriously disappeared with no hint. this situation continues to be unsolved, whilst the radical starts with one other mysterious disappearance of Costantinu Iliescu, a Romanian scholar. His female friend and of his Erasmus colleagues sound the alarm and circulation heaven and earth to discover him, yet either police and collage officers think that Iliescu has left voluntarily and refuse to become involved. although, they're going to quickly need to switch their minds because the occasions that take place after the disappearance of the Romanian pupil exhibit that anything bad, darkish and macabre is going on on the college.

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D. A. Keeley's Bitter Crossing (A Peyton Cote Novel) PDF

By D. A. Keeley

ISBN-10: 0738740683

ISBN-13: 9780738740683

ISBN-10: 1522661514

ISBN-13: 9781522661511

Having spent the final seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning domestic to northern Maine, hoping will probably be a more secure surroundings for her younger son.

But the felony point has became what was a quiet nook of the rustic into a bootleg exchange path . . . and there’s no telling what they’ll do to guard their interests.

When Peyton reveals a toddler deserted in a frozen box close to the border, she’s pulled right into a lethal conspiracy that places everything—her lifestyles, her occupation, her family—at risk.

“Packed with thrills and high-octane motion” (Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author), Bitter Crossing takes fearless heroine Peyton Cote on a breakneck trip in the course of the underground international of risky smugglers who play for keeps.

Praise:

“The writer paints a notable portrait of the northern Maine panorama . . . Peyton’s robust character and her unfailing braveness should still make for a few interesting destiny adventures."—Mystery Scene

"A stable wager for Nevada Barr and Tricia Fields fans."—Library Journal

"Packed with thrills and high-octane motion, Bitter Crossing is a magnificent debut with a fearless heroine you should keep on with for plenty of adventures to come."—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling writer of The Rizzoli & Isles Series    

"Bitter Crossing is my favourite type of web page turner, enlivened via a compelling heroine—U.S. Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote—and set in a spot so strongly defined it's nearly a personality itself: the distant no man’s land among northern Maine and Canada."—Paul Dorion, writer of Massacre Pond 

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Download PDF by Estela Chocarro: El próximo funeral será el tuyo (Mistery Plus) (Spanish

By Estela Chocarro

ISBN-10: 8416363749

ISBN-13: 9788416363742

El libro del año de Maeva, los angeles nueva apuesta por una novela en los angeles mejor tradición de los misterios locales de nuestro país.

Un crimen olvidado, un pequeño pueblo de Navarra, una leyenda del pasado, una mujer empeñada en descubrir los angeles verdad.

¿Qué ocurre cuando se hurga en las heridas del pasado? (Novela de misterio contemporánea)

«El próximo funeral será el tuyo» es una de las amenazas que recibe Rebeca Turumbay, profesora de arte en los angeles universidad y empleada de los angeles fundación del Teatro-Museo Dalí de Figueres, a los pocos días de llegar a Cárcar, el pueblo en el que ha decidido pasar las vacaciones. Es allí donde nació su abuelo Ángel Turumbay, y ella va con l. a. intención de conocer algo más sobre su historia, de los angeles que nunca le han hablado. Pronto averigua que algo turbio rodea a los angeles figura de su abuelo, y que quizá tenga que ver con el silencio que se cierne sobre el asesinato de los angeles joven Celia Urbiola en el año 1945.

Rebeca pondrá en peligro su vida para esclarecer este antiguo crimen y para ello deberá enfrentarse sola a un macabro juego, en el que nada ni nadie es lo que parece.

Unos entrañables ancianos serán sus mejores aliados y junto a ellos, con los angeles ayuda de Víctor, un joven periodista neighborhood, irá desentrañando los angeles verdad sobre los terribles hechos del «crimen de Cárcar» en el que muchos de los habitantes del pueblo, de una manera u otra, estuvieron involucrados.

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Get L'artista del coltello (Italian Edition) PDF

By Irvine Welsh

ISBN-10: 8850248962

ISBN-13: 9788850248964

IL NUOVO, TRAVOLGENTE ROMANZO
DELL’AUTORE DI TRAINSPOTTING

«Di Welsh ce n’è uno solo, e dovete leggerlo.»
The Observer

«Sporco, spassoso, trascinante.»
Esquire

«Sfrenato, esplosivo: una lettura mozzafiato.»
The Sunday Mirros

«C'è un piacere oscuro, speciale, nel leggere questo libro.»
The Times

Jim Francis è felice e realizzato: vive in California con los angeles moglie Melanie e le loro due splendide bambine, e ha da poco scoperto una vena artistica che non sospettava di avere. Le sue sculture di creta, ritratti di personaggi famosi sottoposti a crudeli mutilazioni, riscuotono un grande successo. Strumenti preferiti? Lame di ogni tipo: non solo quelle convenzionali, ma anche coltelli da caccia, bisturi... eredità di un passato nascosto che preme in step with uscire in superficie. Jim Francis, infatti, ne ha percorsa di strada dagli spazi angusti e claustrofobici di Leith agli orizzonti aperti di una casa affacciata sull’oceano; ma lui non è altri che Frank Begbie, personaggio psicotico e violento di Trainspotting. Quando viene a sapere che il figlio Sean, con cui non ha più rapporti da anni, è stato ucciso a Edimburgo, Begbie make a decision di tornare in Scozia consistent with il funerale. Qui, tutti si aspettano da lui una sanguinosa vendetta e soffiano sulle braci in keeping with risvegliare, sotto quel ferreo, apparente autocontrollo, l. a. fiamma della sua indimenticata follia omicida. Irvine Welsh ha scritto un romanzo nero percorso da feroci lampi di ironia, un mystery incentrato su una domanda cruciale: può un uomo come Begbie dominare il suo lato oscuro?

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Download PDF by I. M. Zapatero: Der Putzmittelcocktail: Ungewöhnliche japanische Erzählungen

By I. M. Zapatero

ISBN-10: 3990487388

ISBN-13: 9783990487389

Menschenleben und Schicksale überall auf der Welt sind manchmal durch unvorhersehbare, oft dramatische Ereignisse großen Veränderungen unterworfen. Sind die Auslöser dann noch Gefühle wie Eifersucht, Neid und Missgunst, sind Mord und Totschlag nicht mehr weit - ob durch reward im Frühstück der Rivalin oder gar einen „tierischen" Täter.

Raffiniert gemixt wie ein literarischer, bunter Cocktail präsentieren sich 20 japanische Detektivgeschichten, die auf wahren Ereignissen beruhen. Mörderische Leseabenteuer und knisternde Hochspannung sind garantiert!

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N K Johel's Bollywood Storm: Book I: New York PDF

By N K Johel

ISBN-10: 0991797736

ISBN-13: 9780991797738

Bollywood typhoon is a lyrical, mystical homicide secret set in Bollywood-style.

With a splash of Kill invoice, this novel won't disappoint these readers awaiting motion; it’s additionally a profound meditation on self, id, ego, intimacy, sensuality, spirituality, repute and obscurity, privilege and loss in either jap and Western frameworks; and it’s received the 5 track and dance numbers in it, too.

The mazza of this tale unfolds in Books, spanning continents.

Elanna Forsythe George is a Boston born, big apple forensic scientist who takes on merely chilly situations, stone chilly useless situations. She solves mysteries in strange methods along with her by chance bought, para-mystical talents. Her circumstances come to her many years after high-powered mainstream investigations, police and felony complaints have all failed, and there is a useless finish. yet she does not take each case.

Book I: New York
Elanna is employed via the Bollywood starlet, Simryn Gill, to reopen the case of Rajesh Sharma, a well known Bollywood director who died supposedly from cardiac arrest years prior. even though it seems an easy middle assault, there isn't any drama, no gossip, no controversy within the Bollywood media. someplace, in that ordinary conspicuous silence, Elanna smells an enormous rat.

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