A New York Times bestseller The secret history of America's submarine warfare is revealed for the first time in this "vividly told, impressively documented," (The New York Times) and fast-paced chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War. For decades, only a select and powerful few knew the truth about the submarines that silently roamed the ocean in danger and in stealth, seeking information and advantage. Based on six years of groundbreaking investigation into the “silent service,” Blind Man’s Bluff uncovers an epic story of adventure, courage, victory, and disaster beneath the surface. With an unforgettable array of characters from the Cold War to the twenty-first century, Sontag and Drew recount scenes of secrecy from Washington, DC, to the depths of the sea. A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting, Blind Man’s Bluff reads like a spy thriller with one important difference: everything is true.
“A well-tangled web of intrigue and murder.” —Entertainment Weekly “Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff shows why.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s way in the wake of a horrific home invasion and brutal multiple murder. Author Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live on the New York Times bestseller list, proves once again that “no one working in the crime genre is better” (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, surprising shocker.
We think watching movies is fun and easy: suspend your disbelief, enter the dream world of cinema and escape. But when we try to talk about films we often falter: 'It's kind of a gangster film... no, more like an action thriller... a Western... but it's different, because...' - and then we are stuck. Whether you are at school or university, a lecturer, secretary or globetrotting film buff, Path of Blood will give you a solid understanding of genre film through the popular crime movies of the enigmatic Russian director Aleksei Balabanov. Being the first book-length study dedicated to Aleksei Balabanov's work, Path of Blood uses the prism of genre to focus on representations of Russia, America, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Western Europe. As a result, Path of Blood demonstrates that the genre method can successfully be applied to Russian narrative film. The book, moreover, lays bare Balabanov's rejection of a clear-cut post-Soviet identity and his problematisation of dominant Russian ideologies and thus brings a corrective to previous writings on his films. Seth Graham from the UCL SSEES writes that "One of the book's strongest contributions is to the study of contemporary Russian culture, and here the choice of Balabanov is spot-on. This book is a forward-looking and - especially in its contribution to film genre studies - innovative piece of film scholarship. This is as much due to the author's keen choice of subject as to his thorough grounding in genre theory. Film genre has convincingly been shown to be a powerful analytical prism by Florian. I sincerely hope that he writes a sequel to this book." Stephen Hutchings from Russian and East European Studies at The University of Manchester observes that "Path of Blood succeeds in challenging many of the conventional wisdoms surrounding Balabanov's work. Perhaps most impressively, Weinhold's deep (yet far from uncritical) sympathy for his subject enables him to convey a real sense of the anguish that Balabanov felt for the fate of his nation and his fellow Russians and, ultimately, to capture some of the most difficult contradictions at the heart of the very term 'post-Soviet'. What is clear is that Weinhold's book is a fitting tribute to a director, the like of which Russia (and, arguably, the international cinematic canon within which he can now claim a place) has never seen before and, perhaps, will never see again." Path of Blood is two books in one: a groundbreaking must read on Aleksei Balabanov's highly popular and controversial genre films as well as an easy-guide introduction to 'film/genre', in general, and several genres such as, for example, the gangster and war genres, the Western, melodrama and film neo-noir, in particular.
Investigator Tawny Lindholm's plans for a romantic Florida vacation with attorney Tillman Rosenbaum vanish when they're caught up in Hurricane Irma. Tillman's beloved coach, Smoky, disappears into the storm, along with a priceless baseball card. Is he dead or on the run from a shady sports memorabilia dealer with a murderous grudge? During a desperate search in snake-infested floodwaters, Tawny becomes the bargaining chip in a high-stakes gamble. The winner lives, the loser dies.
Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Book by an Author and Second Place for Best Latino Focused Fiction Book in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards, and Pulitzer Prize nominated story of one combat veteran's experience of Vietnam: "Twenty-seven years after I got off the flight home, I realized Nam war was just Raw Man, spelled backwards. I'm pretty raw today."
If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at the poker table and beyond. In Walter Mosley's Mister In-Between, a bagman is sent to collect from a rigged poker game, but soon begins to wonder who the real mark is. In One Dollar Jackpot, Michael Connelly's detective Harry Bosch finds himself looking for tells when facing off against a professional poker player in the interrogation room. And a young woman learns how to bluff the hard way in Hardly Knew Her, by Laura Lippman. In these and others stories, aces of the mystery-writing world--including Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, and others--combine to form a winning hand.
