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Jack O'Connell

    Tento autor mistrovsky spojuje klasické prvky noir thrilleru s prvky mysl ohýbající fantasy. Jeho tvorba zkoumá hluboké otázky vědomí, sílu nevědomého a vliv příběhů, které vytváříme i konzumujeme. Díla jsou plná spletitých zápletek, temných tajemství a nezapomenutelných postav, odhalujících témata ztráty, hněvu a nakonec i odpuštění.

    650 - Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth, and Wonder
    The Car: True Stories of Tears, Fears, and Shifting Gears
    Word Made Flesh
    The Resurrectionist
    Box Nine
    The Skin Palace
    • The Skin Palace

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení
      4,0(1)Ohodnotit

      Jack O'Connell's The Skin Palace is a harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post-industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation.

      The Skin Palace
    • Box Nine

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,2(5)Ohodnotit

      A stunningly original dystopic novel about the impact of new synthetic drug Lingo on a depressed New England factory town. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo delivers a shot to the brain cells governing linguistic comprehension and verbal skill. Until murderous rages and babbling insanity take over, this mind-expanding feature makes the drug dangerously seductive. Box Nine shows a noir vision of a city that has become a virtual battlefield between warring multi-ethnic drug cartels.

      Box Nine
    • The Resurrectionist

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,6(15)Ohodnotit

      Sweeney's son Danny was the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have resurrected other patients. Sweeney soon learns that the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son was drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue surrounding the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to terrifying corners of darkness and mystery. The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a twisted territory.

      The Resurrectionist
    • Word Made Flesh

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,4(9)Ohodnotit

      Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flensing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster? Or maybe the whole thing has something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious Methodology? So many questions and more in the fourth book in the Quinsigamond Quintet.

      Word Made Flesh
    • Do you remember your first car? How about your worst car? What about your road test or that first big road trip? The talented writers who contributed to this collection shared their moving and hilarious car-related stories with a live audience in five minutes, and just 650 words. Curated by Read650's founder and editor, Edward McCann, the personal essays in this volume were originally presented on stage at the Ossie Davis Theater in the New Rochelle Public Library.

      The Car: True Stories of Tears, Fears, and Shifting Gears
    • Learning never stops, from first steps and arithmetic through being hired and fired and falling in and out of love. This volume celebrates rites of passage-life lessons-with stories first performed for a live audience at Vassar College.

      650 - Lessons Learned: True Stories of Work, Warmth, and Wonder
    • Surviving the College Game

      • 292 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      The narrative follows Jack O'Connell's transformation from an unpopular high school student to a more confident college freshman determined to improve his social skills, particularly in dating. As he navigates the challenges of college life, Jack confronts his low self-esteem and learns valuable lessons about relationships, ultimately sharing his growth and successes in connecting with women.

      Surviving the College Game
    • Total Recall

      More Reminiscences from the USNA Class of 1952

      • 198 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      Focusing on the experiences of the naval academy class of 1952, this follow-up volume features a collection of reminiscences from graduates who served in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. The stories, lightly edited to preserve their authenticity, highlight the unique achievements of this class, which boasts a remarkable number of general and flag officers as well as four astronauts, setting records since World War II. The book offers a personal glimpse into the lives and careers of these distinguished individuals.

      Total Recall
    • Wireless

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      When an activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral, the crime has all the hallmarks of a routine Bangok Park gang killing. The perp is a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their subversive diatribe. Detective Hannah Shaw tracks Speer's enraged quest to Wireless, the retro-radio nightclub and epicentre of a diverse subculture. She must stop the defrocked Fed or fall prey to a campaign of censorship, violence and ultimately death.

      Wireless
    • Lenore Thomas ist Polizistin im Rauschgiftdezernat in der heruntergekommenen Stadt Quinsigamond. Sie jagt die teuflische Droge "Lingo" und gerät dabei in den gnadenlosen Kampf der Drogenbarone, wobei sie bereit ist, ihren Körper als Waffe einzusetzen, um den Hauptverantwortlichen zu fassen.

      Nirgendwo in keiner Stadt. Thriller