From the breakneck pace of an opening where he is in action inHelmand province, under fire from the Taliban, Mick Flynn pulls nopunches. It's obvious that he is a trained killer. But how did itreach this point? The journey starts with his childhood, a workingclass lad, learning to fight and finding himself repeatedly on thewrong side of the law. Even after joining the Army he is found atfault and jailed, an experience that finally shocks him intobehaving himself. From there, it is off to Northern Ireland andstraight into hotspots where Mick's courage and determination areall that keep him alive. There's love too: his estranged wife,Denise, is being brought back into the picture, just as Mick triesto start a new life with his girlfriend Rachel. Can he manage toseparate his ferocious soldiering persona from the real Mick? Asthings remain complicated, Mike flings himself into further toursof duty, in Bosnia, Iraq, the Falklands. Action-packed,shoots-from-the-hip narration from an engaging hero, this is gr
In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the firstauthoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset ofmillions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller andtouchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s mostsought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post.It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But thetrauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writingnovels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort ofproject. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented afifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest.Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success andgives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took itsshape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decadeto keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing sociallandscape. Now, nearly fifty years aft
