In the secret lockup of the Authority, the council that decides what can and can't be done with magic, an undead magic user has possessed one of the prisoners. He wants his freedom-and then some. Now Allie Beckstrom and her lover, Zayvion, are the first line of defense against the chaos he's about to unleash on the city of Portland...
Close Range Combat Wing Chun: Volume 2. Explosive Self Defense Techniques
Это вторая книга из трехтомной фундаментальной серии "Close Range Combat Wing Chun". Книга написана известным американским мастером - Рэнди Уильямсом, получившем свои знания от таких мэтров Вин Чун, как Сифу Джордж Яу (США), Сифу Августин Фонг (США) и Сифу Хо Кам Мин (Гонконг). Во второй книге рассмотрены оборонительные аспекты Вин Чун Кун Фу. Описываются методы защиты от различных ударов руками и ногами, захватов и удержаний. Рассматривается бой на земле (groundfighting). Кроме того, включены разделы, описывающие генерацию силы в Вин Чун, концепцию "центральной линии", понятие "указатель" и многое другое.
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover.
Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing. Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real. Something like murder...
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too - and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.
