Product Description This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance....(展开全部)

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New Y...(展开全部)

Neville Maxwell is uniquely qualified to write this book. He reported these events for The Times as their South Asia correspondent, augmenting and reappraising his understanding of the dispute as a senior fellow at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. In his research, he was given access to unpublished Indian government papers and reports. Born in London in 1926, ...(展开全部)

Like most of my novels ,See How They Run comes right out of my worst nightmares rathe than real life. Obviously, the United States boycotted the Moscow Olmpics in 1980. I ask the reader to folllow my alternate entry in this story

14 hours, 15 minutes In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, brings home the most intimate evil of enslavement: the cleaving and separation of families. Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious p...(展开全部)

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey...(展开全部)

Like most of my novels ,See How They Run comes right out of my worst nightmares rathe than real life. Obviously, the United States boycotted the Moscow Olmpics in 1980. I ask the reader to folllow my alternate entry in this story

作者简介： 大卫·布鲁斯特博士为澳大利亚印度研究院特聘研究员、澳大利亚国立大学国家安全学院高级研究员和澳大利亚皇家海军海权中心研究员，主要研究印度及其在印太地区的安全关系、印度洋战略事务、澳印关系、中国与印度的海上关系和亚太地区安全等问题。在上述研究领域，布鲁斯特博士著述颇丰，除3本相关专著外，还在澳大利亚的智库和国际期刊上发表了大量研究报告和学术论文。作为澳大利亚在印度洋问题研究方面的领军人物，他在学术界享有较高国际声誉。 译者简介： 杜幼康，复旦大学南亚研究中心主任、教授，承担印度洋协同创新中心课题。

Praise for Qiu Xiaolong: "A sequel [to Death of a Red Heroine ] that in many ways is even more impressive. . . . [Qiu] has moved from the poetic, exotic milieu of his first book (although plenty of elements remain) into a tougher, wider, probably more commercial and modern version of China as seen by America."— Chicago Tribune "Another wonderful novel featuring Inspector Ch...(展开全部)