戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professionaltwenty-something young women don't get visitedby ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara'sgreat-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has onerequest: Lara must find a missing necklace that hadbeen in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and atfirst it seems as though they have nothing in common.But as the mission to find Sadie's necklace leads tointrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very'different "twenties" girls learn some surprisingtruths from and about each other.
The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez'sdaring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired thecritically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, andco-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the Americanembassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics stillreverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected tothe crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officernamed Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky planto rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by acast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents,and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehranunder the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fictionfilm called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect filmbackdrops, Mendez and a
In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angierdistills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials,delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop scienceeducation. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing thesimple question "What do you wish everyone knew about your field?"The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyridethrough the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world aroundus and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angierproves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guidein her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and thebasic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology,cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Evenscience-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "tomake the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffableaffable."
Perry and Lester invent things: seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems. When Kodak and Duracell are broken up for parts by sharp venture capitalists, Perry and Lester help to invent the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups. Together, they transform the nation and blogger Andrea Fleeks is there to document it. Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot-bomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Walmarts across the land. As their rides gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive engineers a savage attack on the rides by convincing the police that their 3D printers are being used to make AK-47s. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry’s friendship falls to p
Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man ofboundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a districtjudge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faultsand prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are awell-adjusted couple with two grown sons.When one of Rivlin'sstudents-a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee-isassigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, atwo-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of thebloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with hisson's failed marriage. Rivlin's search leads to a number ofimprobable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeplyserious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrayscharacters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above allby a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics andlife.
Sue Hubbell， DarhanIn the wake of Stieg Larsson’s best-sellingnovels, readers are discovering the rich trove of modernScandinavian crime fiction. If you’ve devoured the Millenniumtrilogy and are looking for your next read, Karin Fossum and herbone-chillingly bleak psychological thrillers have won theadmiration of the likes of Ruth Rendell and Colin Dexter (ofInspector Morse fame). In Bad Intentions, the newest installment in the Inspector Sejerseries since The Water’s Edge in 2009, Konrad Sejer must face downhis memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpsesof troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. Hispsychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital,Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by amysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown oneyear earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejerhesitates to call it a suicide. Then another corpse is f
On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, ayoung man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled forher angelic looks. To court Anielica Hetmanska he offers up his"golden hands" to transform her family's modest hut into abeautiful home, thereby building his way into her heart.Then wararrives to cut short their courtship, delay their marriage, andwreak havoc in all their lives, even sending the young lovers farfrom home, to the promise of a new life in Krakow.Nearly fiftyyears later, their granddaughter, Beata, repeats their postwarjourney, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of hergrandmother's stories. But when she arrives in Krakow, instead ofthe whispered prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a citycaught between its future and its past.Whimsical, wise, beautiful,magical, and at times heartbreaking, "A Long, Long Time Ago andEssentially True" weaves together two remarkable stories,reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy ofone unforgettable lo
It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets aman he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who diesviolently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse astaggering legacy of death: " THE GENERALS...THEY'REBACK...AQUITAINE " Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alonewith the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymousexecutioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play agame of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind.One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to thehear of every major government-- a network of coordinated globalviolence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and thewoman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who canwrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.
Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African Diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s.one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American west later that century, and one a Gl posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlist for the 1993Booker Prize. Caryl Phillips exploration of the relations between black and white is nuanced, humane,and sympathetic ,And his deep awareness of the historical proess is combined with an exceptionally inteligent prose style-clear,unecumbered,and compassionate'New Statesman& Society.
When a squire's body is found hanging from a tree, TemplarBascot de Marins is given the task of unearthing the truth beforean unprecedented meeting of kings at Lincoln Castle.
