Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent ...(展开全部)

Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister of War raises the spectre of war across Europe.

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

本書是一部語不驚人死不休的科幻小說。在作者幻想的世界裡，巨型企業控制了整個社會運作：政府不再徵稅，上班族直接冠上雇主公司的名字作為姓氏，維持治安的工作完全由公開上市的保全公司負責，除非能找到公民付帳，否則政府絕不主動偵查犯罪—這是一個自由市場機制獲得全面勝利的恐怖世界。

本書是一部語不驚人死不休的科幻小說。在作者幻想的世界裡，巨型企業控制了整個社會運作：政府不再徵稅，上班族直接冠上雇主公司的名字作為姓氏，維持治安的工作完全由公開上市的保全公司負責，除非能找到公民付帳，否則政府絕不主動偵查犯罪—這是一個自由市場機制獲得全面勝利的恐怖世界。

伊恩‧歐佛頓 Iain Overton 畢業於劍橋大學唐寧學院，在倫敦的慈善機構「對武裝暴力採取行動」(Action on Armed Violence)擔任主席，並於劍橋大學擔任客座講師，同時也是調查記者兼戰地記者，於全世界超過八十國工作，在柬埔寨、伊拉克和索馬利亞等殺戮地區報導新聞。他也以製片的身分，為BBC、ITN和Al Jazeera等導演紀錄片，並且和《衛報》(the Guardian)、《獨立報》(the Independent)、《周日時報》(Sunday Times)等合作。他的報導曾榮獲皮博迪獎(Peabody Award)，兩度獲得國際特赦組織獎(Amnesty Award)以及一座英國電影和電視藝術學院蘇格蘭獎(BAFTA Scotland)。他成立調查新聞報導局(Bureau of Investigative Journali...(展开全部)

This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel, 'Sanctuary', was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in 'Sanctuary'. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. In an attempt to save her, Temple goe...(展开全部)