Clandestine (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

Clandestine (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there. Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all about the wonder, an elusive quality he finds while dealing

This Storm (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Black Dahlia (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

My Dark Places (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old

Brown's Requiem (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy

Perfidia (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its

Big Nowhere (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the

Cold Six Thousand (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and

American Tabloid (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's

Hilliker Curse - My Pursuit of Women (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and 'summoned her dead.' She was murdered three months

LA Confidential - Classic Noir (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

The Big Nowhere (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

The D. A.'s brass, a sheriff's deputy, and a rough-and-tumble bagman are unknowingly chasing a nightmare in this thrilling novel from the author of 'some of the most powerful crime novels ever written' (New York Times). The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A

L.A. Confidential (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

L.A. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests

Blood's a Rover - Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2 (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a

Dermaphoria (Clevenger Craig)(Paperback / softback)

Clandestine chemistry and the LA underworld provide the atmosphere for this kaleidoscopic tale of lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them, from the author of 'The Contortionist's

Gabriel's Rapture (Reynard Sylvain)(Paperback / softback)

Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell and is teaching her the sensual delights of the body, and the raptures of sex. But their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics and jealous

Jim Reaper (Kelly Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Lowly office clerk Jim, has been press-ganged into a clandestine organisation of assassins, who control the population by secretly culling them in a variety of bizarrely ridiculous ways. If you thought your day job was bad, just wait until you see Jim's 'To Do'

Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith (Laruelle Francois)(Paperback)

In this new translation, Laruelle offers a serious and rigorous challenge to contemporary theological thought, calling into question the dominant understanding of the relation between Christ, theology, and philosophy, not only from a theoretical, but also political perspective. He achieves this

His Majesty's Hope (MacNeal Susan Elia)(Paperback / softback)

Whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be

Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life (Kaminsky Sarah)(Paperback)

The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter. Subject of The New York Times documentary 'The Forger,' winner of a World Press Photo Award and an Emmy AwardAs seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper '[An]

No More Heroes (Kan Michelle)(Paperback)

The peaceful nights are kept under the clandestine and watchful eye of young, gifted vigilantes the world over. But a sudden rash of vigilante deaths heralds the arrival of a new and unfamiliar enemy - one whose motive is as unclear as their identity. Someone or something seems determined to

Mission Earth 1, The Invaders Plan (Hubbard L Ron)(Paperback / softback)

A novel rooted in todays clandestine worlds of intelligence, drug smuggling and government

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name 'Grin' (Jones Clive)(Paperback)

Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies