Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 28 August 2011
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Prince of Thieves
The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man's heart -- and that man is the Prince of Thieves...
Nina Reilly, local lawyer at Lake Tahoe hears all the gamblers stories - stories of their wins, divorces, bankruptcies and overdoses. Then one gambler is murdered, and suspicion falls on the winner of the biggest jackpot in Tahoe's history, Nina's client - a girl who won't tell anyone her name.
Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century London judge, investigates the strange reappearance of a long-missing nobleman shortly after his brother's execution and his connection with an American's recent suicide.
The hair-trigger thrillers of Quintin Jardine, one of Scotland's top-selling crime writers, have been highly praised for their ingenious plotting and powerful emotional drama. With Bob Skinner, Edinburgh's toughest cop, at the center of the action, they form a first-rate, robustly entertaining series of police procedurals.
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Repost)
Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare.
