This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The shooting of US senator Charles McKinsey and the near fatal car crash of media tycoon John Rochester, both in Washington, trigger an investigation by reporter Mike McCabe. The story that unfolds is a thrilling contemporary tale of violence, political intrigue, conspiracy and duplicity, involving power, the banks, the security agencies and basic human frailty.

A car accident is the catalyst which unveils a story of disturbing sexual violence, depravity and human weakness that challenges the integrity of the diplomatic corps in Washington, the power brokers of Capitol Hill, the secrecy of the US State Department, the insight of the city's academic community and the ability of the DC police to unravel the mystery. Investigative journalist Mike McCabe, once more, follows the trail of clues and his news instincts in search of the story.

The book is a contemporary thriller; the sequel to another Mike McCabe adventure, White Collar Option.The shooting of two apparently innocent tourists on vacation in northern Florida and a fire in a wealthy neighborhood of Washington, DC are two seemingly unconnected incidents. However, they prove to be strands in a mysterious pattern involving organized crime, a children's charity, the clergy and a dead security agent.Together they trigger an investigation by journalist Mike...

A corpse aboard an unmanned yacht drifting into St. Augustine harbour in Florida triggers a tale of mystery and intrigue, involving the US Coast Guard, the US Security Agencies, the DC and local police and the Russians.Investigative journalist Mike McCabe is on the case, in search of the truth.

The shooting of US senator Charles McKinsey and the near fatal car crash of media tycoon John Rochester, both in Washington, trigger an investigation by reporter Mike McCabe.The story that unfolds is a thrilling contemporary tale of violence, political intrigue, conspiracy and duplicity, involving power, the banks, the security agencies and basic human frailty.

Triggered by the death of his professional mentor, this tale of subterfuge and intrigue, takes British investigative journalist Mike McCabe on a journey from the USA to Scotland and back, under the watchful eyes of the British, Russian and American security agencies, as they play their political games in pursuit of a dangerous nuclear cargo.

A masterpiece of postwar Polish literature, Stone Upon Stone is Wies?aw My?liwski¢s grand epic in The rural tradition — a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate Szymek, recalls his youth in their village, his time as a guerrilla soldier, as a wedding offic...

Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad. Told in the manner of friends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task of shelling beans—in ...

Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rózewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, Rózewicz conti...

Although Witold Gombrowicz’s unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile. Polish Memories-a series of autobiographical sketches Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Europe during his years in Argentina in the late 1950s-fills the gap in our knowledge.Written in a straightforward way without his famous linguistic i...

A haunting, allegorical Swiss masterpiece centered around a posse of villagers as they brave dark elements to ascend a mountain, thicketed with loreTeeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s.Feed is running low in a rural village in Switzerland. The town council meets to decide whether o...

From the golden age of radio comes twelve episodes of this popular and realistic police procedural.The Lineup was a hard-boiled drama. Like Dragne**t, it realistically showed police doing their jobs. The show always began with a police sergeant ordering suspects to stand at attention so that the victim, behind one-way glass, could try to identify the criminal. While the lineup was rarely the key to solving the case, it did give the show a rhythm and also allowed f...