Who are you, Malone? Just a little while ago you were a cop. That was before the two punks and their girl hit town. That was before they boosted a payroll and shot down a man and took your 9-year-old daughter as insurance to cover their getaway. Now you're just a man. Scared. Not for yourself-that would be easy. But for your child, the only thing in the world you love enough to make you play ball with the kind of scum you've hated all your life

Mix politics and police, and the result is poison

The Tony Award — winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn’s ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the metaphysical — the very essence of human motivation

Joining Rome, Paris, Istanbul, London, and Dublin as European hosts for the Akashic Noir series, Copenhagen Noir features brand-new stories from a top-notch crew of Danish writers, with several Swedish and Norwegian writers thrown into the mix. This volume definitively reveals why Scandinavian crime fiction has come to be so popular across the world. Includes brand-new stories by: Naja Marie Aidt, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Helle Helle, Christian Dorph and Simon Pasternak, Susanne Staun, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, Klaus Rifbjerg, Gretelise Holm, Georg Ursin, Kristian Lundberg, Kristina Stoltz, Seyit Öztürk, Benn Q. Holm, and Gunnar Staalesen

Heinrich Copernick and Martin Guibedo came to the States as penniless refugees after World War II. By 1999 they had made huge fortunes in the field of medical instrumentation. But Heiny and his Uncle Martin weren’t just filthy rich, they were also the world’s best gene engineers. And their latest inventions could free Humanity from want and oppressive governments forever. At least, that was the plan. Imagine: Free homes with all the furnishings and utilities! Free food! Even free babysitters! Heiny and Uncle Martin even thought they should give their inventions away. Free. That’s when their troubles began

Este libro recoge la transcripción de unas clases que di en el Centro Rojas en el invierno de 1988. El público fue una veintena de estudiantes muy jóvenes: a nuestro alrededor, los cuatro pisos del Rojas hervían de performances, videos, cine, música, pintura, capoeira, teatro, títeres, talleres, seminarios, cursos… Todo lo que se manifestaba parecía contiguo a su propia invención: igual que en la obra de Copi. Esa inmediatez dio el tono de nuestras reuniones. El curso se llamaba "Cómo leer a Copi". Me pareció que la respuesta más plausible era postular una especie de continuo con el que podríamos "seguir" leyendo, a Copi o a quien sea, indefinidamente, creando un mundo que siempre pasará a otro mundo que lo incluya, y éste a otro más… Con la hipótesis complementaria de que todo pasaje es una transformación, ya estábamos listos para contarnos el cuento maravilloso de Copi. César Aira Osvaldo Aguirre Aira revive a Copi La publicación de COPI importa, por varios motivos, una novedad. Se trata del primer libro de ensayos de César Aira hasta ahora conocido por sus cuentos y novelas. Se trata también, del primer título de Beatriz Viterbo Editora, sello que tiene su sede en Rosario. La colección que inaugura ese libro se llama `EL ESCRIBIENTE` y está reservada a la edición de ensayos. El proyecto no parece reducirse a dar curso al `nuevo libro` de Aira, sino que apunta a situar como objeto de lectura – es decir, de reflexión y de debate- al ensayo género, de características difusas que no suele merecer demasiada atención a la hora de definir políticas editoriales (aunque la intuición sobre lo que es bueno reporte, a veces, más dinero que el olfateo de lo que es vendible). COPI, Raúl Damonte, nació en Buenos Aires en 1939 y murió en París en 1987. Aparte de ser dibujante de cómics, escribió once obras teatrales – algunas interpretadas por él mismo-, cinco novelas y una serie de narraciones cortas. El ensayo de Aira es una transcripción de cuatro conferencias dictadas durante el invierno de 1988. `Dado que la obra de COPI es poco conocida en la Argentina – nos explica el autor-, opté por presentarla, en sucesión más o menos cronológica, contando y describiendo sus novelas y piezas teatrales, algunas con todo detalle`. Este procedimiento está ligado a la postulación de un `continuo`, formas de lectura que Aira extiende, virtualmente, a cualquier texto: se trata de leer llevando `adelante` la lectura, de buscar el significado en lo que sigue y no en lo ya leído, en lo que hace continuo y no en lo que se corta de recorrer la horizontal del funcionamiento y no la vertical del sentido. Ahora bien: la `transcripción` ha respetado el tono y la sintaxis del discurso oral. De ahí las anécdotas y las digresiones, las marchas y las contramarchas, las citas aproximadas y las improvisaciones? para nada accesorias, porque en esos lugares Aira se ocupa de cuestiones de poética (de las relaciones de sucesión en el relato, de las diferencias entre cuento y novela, etc.) y recupera, discute y, finalmente, acepta o rechaza materiales de la tradición (de Borges sobre todo). Paralelamente a la vida y a la obra de COPI se muestran así las maneras del narrador oral, que sabe atraer la atención del oyente y que sabe transmitir, con su historia, el arte de relatar. La forma del cuento breve, según la corriente derivada de Poe, sería la de un hilo cuya tensión excluye adornos o digresiones, la del ensayo (de Aira), la de una madeja que se ovilla y se desovilla en forma ininterrumpida. Tomado de `El cronista cultural, Julio de 1991

Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amber-"hot rocks." Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe

The sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut. Helen Huntingdon is beautiful—so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face—and now has to cover her face with iron so she won’t be taken over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey. Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Alistair, she lives at the edges of her life, secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy procedure turns deadly, Jane goes missing—and is implicated in the murder. Meanwhile, Alistair’s influential clique Copperhead—whose emblem is the poisonous copperhead hydra—is out to restore humans to their “rightful” place, even to the point of destroying the dwarvven who have always been allies. Helen is determined to find her missing sister, as well as continue the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her own husband—and when she meets an enigmatic young revolutionary—she’s pushed to discover how far she’ll bend society’s rules to do what’s right. It may be more than her beauty at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart

Tom Garrity and Joe Loomis are cops in New York — commuters to a job in a city where people often feel like animals. As cops, they’re at the center of it. The brutalizers and the brutalized. Unable to take much more of it, they invent a romantic dream for getting the hell out. The cops decide to become robbers. Joe discovers that a blue uniform will get you in anywhere; allow you, for instance, to hold up a liquor store without even being suspected. He and Tom decide to pull one big caper that will net them each a million. Then they’ll wait around a year, and after that pull out for good. They offer their services to the Mafia, because on their own they don’t know what crime to commit for that kind of money. A Mafia boss named Vigano points them in the right direction. After that there is no turning back, and no guarantee that they’ll make it. What happens to Tom and Joe and their families as they make their breakaway move is what COPS AND ROBBERS is all about. Here is a major novel on a major theme by Donald E. Westlake who, in telling a brand new kind of story, makes use of his proven ability to create suspense and entertainment

After nine years as one of Chicago 's finest, Erin McNeal had come to sleepy Logan Falls for a second chance, not to be watched over by a man as infuriatingly overprotective-and disarmingly attractive-as Nick Ryan. She was no damsel in distress, but someone wanted her dead, and Nick knew better than to entrust a guilt-driven daredevil with her own safety. It was his duty to protect her-whether she liked it or not. It seemed the only thing the chief of police and his newest deputy could agree on was the one thing they couldn't resist-each other. Could the cautious single father and the reckless beauty be cops…and lovers?

"I won't talk to anyone else – only you. Another child, another sweet girl will die. You can stop it, Kitt. Don't you want to stop it?" Five years ago, three young victims were found dead, posed like little angels. There were no witnesses. Strangely clean scenes. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts "the perfect crimes." The case immobilized the close-knit community of Rockford, Illinois, and nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career – and her life. During the investigation, Kitt tragically lost her own child to illness. She was overwhelmed by the death of her daughter, and the final blow was the crushing realization that she let the killer get away. Now the Sleeping Angel Killer is back. Familiar with every nuance of the cold-case file, Kitt knows there's something different about this new rash of killings – a tiny variation that opens terrifying new possibilities. Is the Sleeping Angel Killer really back, or is a copycat killer re-creating the original "perfect crimes"? But Kitt has no authority in this investigation. Young, ambitious detective Mary Catherine Riggio is heading up the Sleeping Angel Killer case. M.C. knows that Kitt wants back in and she's smart enough to realize that Kitt's obsession with the case has given the detective insight that M.C. lacks. But M.C., intent on proving herself, fears Kitt will blow the investigation – again. Then Kitt starts receiving disturbing phone calls. It's him – the Sleeping Angel Killer – and he makes Kitt an unthinkable offer: help in finding his copycat. Forced to rely on each other, Kitt and M.C. must decide whether to place their trust in a murderer… or risk becoming victims of a fiend who has taken the art of the perfect murder to horrific new heights

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