roses have thorns!
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Località: Italy + Southeast Asia
Con parole mie:
Immer noch flaechenabdeckende Nischen-Rezensentin fuer alle, die wie ich aus dem Ausland bestellen, und Preise/Versandkosten vergleichen wollen/muessen...
Und fuer Buecher, die ausser mir anscheinend fast niemand liest :)
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This Thriller is the second in Jake Needham's Jack Shepherd series after the LAUNDRY MAN (A Jack Shepherd crime novel), which was a very satisfying read. We learnt that Jack once was a lawyer in Washington who specializes in global finance and business. He left the U.S.A. and is now teaching business at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Due to his past, he has accumulated a very colourful group of acquaintances: Thai police and intelligence operatives, foreign agents, obscure businessmen, spies - or - not spies, and also some criminals. Because of this, most people assume that he knows more than he really knows. Jack and his wife Anita are celebrating their… Leggi di più
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... the Prologue and the First Two Chapters of The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel - and a Freebie, too! The short story "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" has come out in the year 2006 - an oldie but goodie! The adolescent boys Vic and Enn from East Croydon have an invitation by Alyson for a Party. Enn isn't such a party animal, but Vic is in hist best form. When Enn admits to have nothing to talk to girls at parties, there appears the following line: >>"They're just girls," said Vic. "They don't come from another planet."<< And there they go, right into an adventure absolutely NOT to… Leggi di più
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... but a lot of money all around Southeast Asia. This is the debut of Jack Shepherd, once a big-time lawyer in New York, and now a quiet professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. When a former partner in his ex law-firm - presumed long dead as a stone - makes contact, a lot of unpleasant things begin to happen in Thailand's capital and extend to Hong Kong. And our good man Jack is in the middle of this typhoon... >>A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today's allies are tomorrow's fugitives, Jack Shepherd battles the global tide of corruption, extortion and murder that is fast engulfing the new life he has made for himself… Leggi di più
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