Having recently been fascinated by the classic cat and mouse thriller "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household, I was impatient read more. I knew the critics were mixed, but I must know the end of history. First I had to find a copy. He is exhausted, but I was able to shop an old library book. Although it was written in 1982, some Forty years after the first, and the plot is dated "Rogue Justice" presents a conclusion worthy of history.
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The book begins with a preface by Saul Harding, the protagonist is legal advisor who brings new readers up to date. It tells how Raymond Ingelram (without a name "Rogue Male ") has taken a passport Major QUIVE-Smith, after killing and used it to return to Germany, hoping success to assassinate Hitler. When the Gestapo learned about his false passport, he was arrested and held in Rostock. The prison was destroyed in a British air raid and he escapes. This is where new adventures begin as Raymond escapes capture and travel in occupied Poland.
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There are big differences between this book and "Rogue Male." The first book focuses on the hunter and the hunted – the hero bites her intelligence and endurance against the formidable adversary, Major QUIVE Smith. The battle of minds between these two, how they try to outfox each other, it's really exciting. In the second book there is not an antagonist, it Ingelram fleeing the Nazis in the hope of another chance to kill Hitler. The suite has more adventure, different places and interesting secondary characters, and yet much of the suspense is gone. Having the hero and targets remain nameless gives an aura of mystery increased in "Rogue Male" that does not come through in "Rogue Justice. That said this is a great story. Espionage intrigues and betrayals lead to an unexpected conclusion and captivating.
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 3, 1984)
ISBN: 978-0140068535
Pages: 208
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Deadly Love (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels) $7.98 Dear Readers:I have a confession to make. I never know where my "muse" will take me next. It has been an exciting literary journey–my writing has evolved in many unexpected way, including recently into the realm of powerful and suspenseful contemporary women’s fiction, which I shall continue to write under my own name, Brenda Joyce. I have never lost sight, however, of my audience–my historical romance readers, and especially fans of my books featuring the Bragg family. To this day, many of you still clamor for more Bragg books. Well, imagine my surprise when my "muse" prompted me to begin a new historical romance suspense series–and then I realized a Bragg had to be the hero! And so the nom de plume B.D. Joyce was born, and with it, the first book in an ongoing series, Deadly Love.Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire. Francesca is no ordinary heroine. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society/ Deadly love begins Francesca’s mad escapades when the neighbors’ little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. It is January 18, 1902. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City’s newly appointed police commissioner, Rick Bragg. And Fracesca can no more stay out of this investigation than she can stop herself from falling love with the city’s determined and powerful police commissioner. But little does she know that on this singular night, he life will change forever.Let me take you back in time to the lost, magical world of turn-of-the-century New York City–where the glittering mansions of society’s elite are only footsteps away from the impoverished back alleys of the city’sunderbelly–and into the heart of true danger and even truer passion.Enjoy!Best wishes and Happy Reading,B.D. Joyce(a.k.a. Brenda Joyce) |
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Writing Romance $12.81 This book is for everyone who has ever read a romance novel and thought, I could write that! Considering that over half of all mass-market fiction sold in North America is romance novels, generating more than $1.2 billion per year, writing about love can be big business!From plot and characterization to editing and selling your manuscript, this reader-friendly book shows you how to realize your creative dream and make money, too.Writing Romance is written by the author of 30 romance novels. This new edition has additional chapters on how to write novels in niche romance subjects, such as erotica and Christian romance.The book features many examples from published works and a helpful resource section. |
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Romance Film Classics with DVD 2010 Wall Calendar $17.95 “Romance Film Classics with DVD Wall Calendar: This 2010 calendar (with 4 bonus DVDs) includes the most iconic names in classic and cult feature films drawn from the great American pop culture traditions of Romance. Each month displays the original movie poster art to the movie of the month! 12 movies in all including |
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Compromising The Classics: Romance Epic Narrative In The Italian Renai $3.34 This text examines the evolution of narrative poetics in three of the canonical poems of the Italian Renaissance, the romance-epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso. It shows how these poets renovated the popular genre of romance into a new kind of narrative. |
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The American (Everyman Paperback Classics) $3.48 `You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!’ A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire’s hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. |
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Radical Love: Five Novels $9.97 Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe’s novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle with serious political and metaphysical questions against the backdrop of urban, suburban, and rural America. |
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Graphic Classics: Rafael Sabatini (graphic Classics (graphic Novels)) $8.63 Graphic Classics: Rafael Sabatini features the origin of Sabatini’s famed gentleman pirate Captain Blood, adapted by Rod Lott and Carlo Vergara. Also, a great selection of mysteries and adventure tales illustrated by Stanley Shaw, Rich Tommaso, Roger Langridge, Jackie Smith, Milton Knight, Gerry Alanguilan and Hunt Emerson. With a comics bio of Sabatini by Mort Castle, and cover depiction of Captain Blood by Joel F. Naprstek. |
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Riders of the Purple Sage (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) $3.48 The first of Zane Grey’s many best-sellers, this stirring tale of adventure and romance established the prototype for western novels. A proud young heroine stands alone against the villains who rustle and stampede her cattle — until a stranger rides into the territory. Classic of American frontier fiction, teeming with color, authenticity, thrills. |
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For Your Eyes Only (James Bond Novels) $12.48 For Your Eyes Only (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming Published in 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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Live and Let Die (James Bond Novels) $12.48 Live and Let Die (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming Published in 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (James Bond Novels) $11.98 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming Reprint Published in 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond Novels) $11.98 The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming Reprint Published in 2003 by Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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Deadly Affairs (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels) $3.48 As the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father, Francesca Cahill’s life should be mapped out for her: find an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up her knack for sleuthing–even though she was almost killed in her last outing…Murder strikes once again in the seamy underbelly of New York’s high society, exposing scandalous secrets and unleashing an intense investigation into one of the most brutal crimes the city has ever known. Francesca must join forces with Rick Bragg, New York City’s Police commissioner and the mans he cannot resist loving, as their search takes them through a twisted labyrinth of menacing lies, corruption, and a passion that refused to be denied… |
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Deadly Desire (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels) $7.98 The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society’s elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming street harbor secrets of their own.New York City’s Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him–even it if means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Franscesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper in a peril neither could have imagined–and a desire that only continues to grow… |
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Deadly Promise (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels) $7.98 It is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress, undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of New York. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O’Hare is missing and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted. Only one person can help her learn the child’s fate-but Police Commissioner Rick Bragg may not want to get involved because Francesca has just stunned Rick by accepting a proposal of marriage…from none other than his own rival. Francesca still questions her decision to marry the powerful and notorious Calder Hart. But Rick Bragg is wed to another…and his dazzling wife has just returned after four years abroad to reclaim their marriage. Francesca remains torn between the two very different men-but she desperately tries to set aside the affairs of her heart when she discovers that Emily isn’t the first girl to vanish in recent weeks. And when Francesca discovers a trail of deception and lies, when someone very close to her investigation is murdered, Francesca realizes that the evil force behind the girls’ abductions may try to find a way to silence her too-if she dares to uncover the truth… |
