In a “ripping spoof of the spy genre” ( Vanity Fair ), Hugh Laurie tells the tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune, who also happens to be one hell of a nice guy. Thomas Lang is a James Bond for the 1990s, with the same ingredients, but brought bang up-to-date, and with much better jokes. Cold-blooded murder just isn’t Thomas Lang’s cup ...(展开全部)

休·劳里，著名演员、配音演员、作家和音乐家，一九五九年生于英国牛津，毕业于伊顿公学与剑桥大学。早年获英格兰国家杯双人艇青年组冠军，并代表英格兰青年队参加世界锦标赛。在主演福克斯电视台的热播剧《豪斯医生》后，劳里成了美国家喻户晓的艾美奖提名演员，《西雅图时报》直言，看《豪斯医生》有三个理由：休·劳里、休·劳里、休·劳里。他导演过5部影视作品，出演过69部电影电视，担任过6部电影的编剧。

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" "(Vanity Fair)" -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an Am...(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)

In the arena of a vast New York sports palace, a man lay dead, murdered during the opening scene of a spectacular rodeo. Can you, as Ellery Queen does, follow these clues to the murderer? — A dead man's belt. What was the meaning of the deep ridges in the leather? — An ivory handled revolver. How could the “feel” of the gun-butt provide a clue? — The broken locks on a green box...(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.

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)

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbro...(展开全部)

A visionary, maverick, and genuine American business hero, Ken Iverson is one of the most closely-watched business leaders in the world. Credited with single-handedly rejuvenating the rapidly declining American steel industry to the status of world-class producer, Iverson is one of the most successful and, as he likes to point out, one of the lowest-paid CEOs in the U.S. In his...(展开全部)

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbro...(展开全部)