Henry - Libros y biografía

A night-club owner gunned down at his own bar—an editor gutted with an antique switchblade—a smuggler who took five shots in the back—a millionaire whose “suicide” didn’t make sense …Each killing left...

Lady on the Make:She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn’t know whether he was in heaven, or...

A bird pooped in my daughter's mouth yesterday. Do we need to worry about anything?Sure, kids may say and do the darndest things, but concerned parents definitely take it to a whole other level. While...

Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning NEW YORK TIMES Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia. Kamm's invaluable document--a factual...

A leggy torch singer of bawdy ballads with an eye-opening dance routine to match . . .A lady jewelry designer with an exclusive - deadly - clientele . . .A sweet young bride with a drawerful of illicit...

A petulant blonde bombshell with a deadly taste for danger … A ham actor who stars dramatically in his own murder … A sharpshooting hoodlum who takes his killing casually … And a lady Greek philosopher...

The game of murder: it’s not a pretty game. The players are weird. They don’t fit in with normal people, sensible people - people who don’t get a kick out of shoving in the knife, ripping through the...

''She turned her head, young, pale, with enormous black eyes. She looked at me, but she didn’t see me. I saw her: the round smooth face and the deep black eyes and the full curved glossy mouth, a red...

Olga was the sexy young wife of an old millionaire. She wore black painted toenails, a small black Luger, and very little else.Anabel was a talented stripper with an act that drove the customers wild....

The only uninvited guest was—murder!The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were: A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the...

Beverly Crystal had a million-dollar idea and a circle of “friends” who would never force her to hunt around for enemies.The happy crew included:Danny the Dance: who waltzed his way through life like...

It’s nice to be a millionaire.Money can buy you darn near anything. It can buy you things you’re only supposed to get for love. It can buy you the best-looking women—in a city where good-looking women...

A firsthand report on contemporary Vietnam presents a portrait of a nation that is struggling under the hold of Communism and places the Vietnam war in the perspective of a four-thousand-year-old history.

A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.The seminal work on foreign...

'A fascinating switchback roller-coaster of a plot' GuardianNovember 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West...The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Henry Fraser is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met" J.K. Rowling"What a story of transformation, inner power and inspiration" Jonny Wilkinson The memoir of the...

The proposition sounded like a pushover.All Peter Chambers had to do was find out where a teen-aged chorine had been for the past month and why. And for that information the girl’s father, a prosperous...

The eagerly awaited third and final volume of memoir from the best-known American diplomats of the twentieth century—Henry Kissinger, a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,...

In this second volume of Henry Kissinger’s “endlessly fascinating memoirs” (The New York Times), Kissinger recounts his years as President Nixon’s Secretary of State from 1972 to 1974, including the ending...

''Are you a ladykiller?'' the vision asked. She had skin like cream, hair like jet, and a body that could turn any male into an instant sex-maniac. With a wicked little smile, she moved closer to Peter...

An engrossing and thoughtful contemporary tale that tackles faith, friendship, family, anxiety, and the potential apocalypse from Katie Henry, the acclaimed author of Heretics Anonymous.There are many...

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year!Put an atheist in a strict Catholic school? Expect comedy, chaos, and an Inquisition. The Breakfast Club meets Saved! in debut author Katie Henry’s hilarious...

How far would you go for love: a white lie, a small deceit, full-scale fraud...?When Charlotte Briggs' husband Ed is sent down for fraud, she cannot find it in her heart to forgive him for what he has...

'An espionage master' Charles CummingFormer spy Robert Harland returns in this nailbiting thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular...

I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can; if it's cold you turn up the heating, if you're hungry...

n reposant la question fondamentale de la phénoménologie, et de la philosophie - la question de la donation -, en interprétant celle-ci non plus seulement, selon la pensée traditionnelle de l'Occident,...

De nombreux responsables de la lutte antidrogue l'affirment : cette guerre est irrémédiablement perdue. Les drogues sont aujourd'hui moins chères et plus faciles à trouver. La prohibition n'a qu'un bénéficiaire...

Le terme de « mémoire » n'est plus seulement un mot galvaudé, c'est un mot usé. Il a fini par désigner sans distinction tout type de rapport entre passé et présent, reléguant au second rang, non sans...

Londres, années 1870-1880. Hyacinth Robinson, jeune typographe engagé dans les milieux anarchistes, rencontre un soir au théâtre la belle princesse Casamassima, une aristocrate qui s’efforce de tourner...

Du Moyen Âge jusqu’à nos jours, les hommes et femmes célèbres ont aimé et été aimés, ont séduit et été désirés, ont trahi et été déçus. Écoutons-les car en leur compagnie les délices de la chair ou les...