A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct ...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Nobody wants to believe that Grace Peltier committed suicide: not Curtis, her father; not former U.S. Senator Jack Mercier; and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the circumstances of her death. But when a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of the Aroostook Baptists, a religious community that disappeared almost for...(展开全部)

John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow" were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" "(Publishers Weekly)" Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style.THE KILLING KINDWhen the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious co...(展开全部)

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots ...(展开全部)

A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le CarréSet in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a dangerous path. In his plot and characterization le Carré is as thrilling as ever and...(展开全部)

Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a politic...(展开全部)

故事讲述了小丑（Joker）的起源，通过闪回的方式展示了他从一个失败的喜剧演员变成哥谭市最臭名昭著的犯罪狂人的过程。小丑试图证明任何人只需要经历“一天的坏事”就会变得疯狂。他绑架了警察局长詹姆斯·戈登（James Gordon），并对他的女儿芭芭拉·戈登（Barbara Gordon）进行残忍的攻击，试图让戈登精神崩溃。与此同时，蝙蝠侠（Batman）竭尽全力阻止小丑的疯狂计划。 这本书不仅探讨了小丑的心理状态，还深入挖掘了蝙蝠侠与小丑之间复杂的关系。它被广泛认为是小丑的“终极”故事之一，也是最好的蝙蝠侠故事之一。