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Originally Posted by ATDrake
The Night of Knives by Canadian Arthur Ellis Award-winner (this is our major mystery/crime prize, akin to the Edgar Awards) Jon Evans ( Wikipedia), originally Hodder & Stoughton 2007. ETA: Ooh, actually a FeedBooks freebie and the author has put up more.
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As the blurb above indicates,
Night of Knives is but one of several Jon Evans freebies accessible at FeedBooks. I've listed below, in chronological order, that book's description, along with the titles and descriptions of Evans' other freebies posted at Feedbooks
listed here:
Dark Places (2004)
An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Feedbooks.
Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to...
Blood Price (2005) Sequel to the award-winning
Dark Places. Paul Wood was just a tourist in Sarajevo. Then an unexpected encounter made him a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, he must find...
Invisible Armies (2006)
In a world where security cameras prove what you have done and databases define who you are, the few who know how to manipulate the technology can play God. They can change the future; they can alter the past....
The Night of Knives (2007)
Veronica Kelly came to Africa to start her life over. Still reeling from her divorce, she is grateful when a handsome stranger invites her to join a tour to visit gorillas in Uganda's wild Impenetrable Forest — a trip that goes desperately wrong when their group is captured by brutal gunmen.
This is no random kidnapping: her abduction is only the first move in a deadly strategic game. Now she must embark on a wild journey across Africa, to unveil a malignant conspiracy before it consumes entire nations — and thousands of lives...
Beasts Of New York (Published Version) (2011)
A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact.
Beasts of New York (Revised, Unedited Version)(2011)
A revised version of the book (also freely available on Feedbooks, as
Beasts of New York 2.0), which won a 2011 ForeWord Book Of The Year Award and has been published by the prestigious literary press The Porcupine's Quill.
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Swarm (2012)
James Kowalski is having a bad week. First he found out his genius girlfriend Sophie has been hiding something important from him. Now the US government wants her to investigate a drug cartel's new weapon: unmanned...
Also, Volume 1 of Jon Evans' graphic novel,
The Coder (2011) can be
read online at Engineering.com.