Parrot Time is a magazine covering language, linguistics and culture of the world around us.
Issue 10: Letter From The Editor - Expansion • Religion in Culture • Languages in Peril - Decline of the Gallo-Italics • Language Learning and Translation • Word on the Streets - Italian Greats • Book Look • At the Cinema - Xingu • Celebrations - Hangul Day • Where Are You? • Words in Your Mouth - Bread
THERE once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger asked him his age, and if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. "I am, sir", replied Aladdin; "but he died a long while ago". On this the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and knew you from your likeness to my brother.
Rain clouds made Seattle gray and dismal. Murder made it deadly. The first to die was just a dog. But this particular mutt belonged to tough ex-cop turned private eye, Thomas Black. And it was a death Black took to heart--because the killer had the same fate in mind for him. He was on the case of a missing blonde named Melissa, who had big blue eyes and a past that was pure scarlet. Now, finding her was leading Black down the seamy side of Seattle's streets on a one-way trip to trouble, the kind that all began with M: Melissa's lovers, Melissa's secrets and Melissa's connection with some very old bones and a brand-new corpse.
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole - code-named Talbot - inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets - leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now...
Albert Spaggiara engineered the most lucrative, ingenious robbery in history, then escaped during his trial--never to be seen again until his mysterious death.
