Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature--Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (*USA Today*) and "compulsively readable" (*Memphis Commercial Appeal*). His narrative power an

It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphiliti

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative powe

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative po

Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literaturePhilip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (**USA Today**) and "compulsively readable" (**Memphis Commercial Appeal**). His narrative power

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies...Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. -- Publisher's website.

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative powe

*Dreamland* is Hitchcock on the Hume: a good man corrupted; an identity stolen; a meandering drive from Sydney to Melbourne. It was just a little lie-to say he was the one driving Danny Grogan's car when it was caught by a speed camera. But Danny hasn't told him the full story, and by the time he w

From Tom Gilling—*The New York Times* Notable author of *The Adventures of Miles and Isabel*&#8212comes a skillful, compulsively readable modern thriller about re-inventing one’s identity. It was just a harmless lie—to say he was driving Danny Grogan’s car when it was caught speeding down the Sydn

„Meistens phantasierte ich vor dem Einschlafen darüber, dachte mir Dinge aus, die Susanne mit mir anstellte. Die wir miteinander anstellten.“Schon seit seiner Jugend ist Tom von seiner heißen Tante fasziniert. Und als die lüsterne Susanne ihm dann einen ersten prickelnden Vorgeschmack auf ihre eroti

SUMMARY: Crushing gravity. Thin air. Winters of unimaginable cold Searing summers under two suns. A deadly wasteland teeming with monsters and killing fever. That was Ragnarok, the most dreaded planet yet discovered. And Ragnarok was where a thousand untrained Earthmen -- and women and children --

Jack Teller is through with the CIA'until the Berlin station is contacted by a Colonel in the East German Stasi just days before President John F. Kennedy's scheduled visit to the Wall. The Stasi officer has an important message'and he will speak to no one but Jack. The informant claims a treacherou

Time to leap into the Cortina as Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt roar back into action in a brand new installment of Life on Mars. 'Smell that borstal whiff, Tyler. The heady aroma of body odour, spunk, and bunged up khazis. And that's just the staff who work here.' It's time to get tooled up as DI Sam Tyle

### From Publishers Weekly Wallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack's ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his c

Nolan Kilkenny is a former Navy SEAL who is now pursuing his doctorate in advanced computer technology. While investigating a seemingly harmless technical problem in a complex, highly secured computer network, he becomes involved in the CIA and FBI's fierce hunt for three computer-age in

Crushing gravity. Thin air. Winters of unimaginable cold Searing summers under two suns. A deadly wasteland teeming with monsters and killing fever. That was Ragnarok, the most dreaded planet yet discovered. And Ragnarok was where a thousand untrained Earthmen -- and women and children -- were bruta

**From one of Australia's most acclaimed novelists—a "taut, suspenseful" psychological thriller about white lies, dark deeds, and the mysteries of self (*Publishers Weekly*).** It was just a harmless lie—to say he was driving Danny Grogan's car when it was caught speeding down the Sydney stre