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The Honourable Schoolboy (Book 2 of Karla Trilogy)
by John le Carre is $3.92 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Honourable-Sch...able+schoolboy Below is the blurb: Featuring George Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment in the renowned Karla Trilogy, the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose. The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances—and lives—are bought and sold. |
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Redemption Trail by Preston Wood
Western in the California Gold fields Word of Californian gold hit Solomon Weatherbee like revelation and redemption rolled into one. Handing in his notice at Mr Hennepin's store, he takes $7.50 from the cash box, his weathered mare, and his father's old Harper's Ferry rifle. It was time to make his fortune. The author was a director in early television, an ad man on Madison Avenue, and a freelance television writer for over 20 years. He wrote over 150 teleplays. Oops add links http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R58C3VE/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00R58C3VE/ http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00R58C3VE/ Last edited by Little.Egret; 01-26-2015 at 08:20 PM. Reason: Oops add links |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Golden Eagles by Robert Mitchell, another one of his globe-trotting treasure hunt adventure thrillers, this one originally out from Australian publisher Boolarong Press in 1992. Are the iron chests, chests filled with Golden Eagles – gold coins issued by the United States of America in the 1930’s and coveted the world over for their rarity – still on board the USS President Coolidge as she lies in her watery grave off the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu? Or were they removed soon after she sank in October 1942? Three people set sail from Townville, Australia, to seek those eagles out, to dive, to cut and force their way deep into the bowels of that once mighty passenger liner, but are they alone? Their yacht, the Belle, is tracked to the island by others determined to hijack the coins, regardless of the cost. The Coolidge lay quiet beneath the waves, and at peace. But that peace would never again be the same. Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot) Thunder Island by Larry Johns, an action adventure thriller (possibly crime-based according to the categories; it's hard to tell from the blurb which mainly consists of a cryptic excerpt from the book) originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 1980. Greed, intrigue and triple-cross; the component parts of disaster. Gilby Nash, demolition expert extraordinary, reaches for a glittering prize on a sun-soaked island where the bullet and the knife are never far away. Johns also offers a self-pub-looking mercenary adventure thriller, if you're interested. |
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Green Ice - Raoul Whitfield - $1.99
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A Bullet for Cinderella (194pp) by John D. MacDonald -
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Dirty Money by Larry Johns, a self-pub sequel to his 2011 Robert Hale-published mercenary action adventure thriller A Warrior's Code, which we've previously received free last year, so if you liked that one, you might want to try this as well. With nightmares of past deeds threatening his sanity, Martin Palmer - hero of "A Warrior's Code" - wants out of the mercenary soldier business. The problem: he was good at it. Very good. The question: will the business let him go? His solution: try any damned thing that does not require pointing guns at people. Keeping his profile obscured he ends up in Nigeria where, more or less on a whim, he opens a motor-repair business. Chance brings him together with a full-blooded Kenyan tribesman, Kowato Segani. The pair hit it off from the start, like long lost brothers, and Palmer hires him to help in the repair business. Neither of them know too much about motor repair and, understandably, the business as such does not exactly prosper. Of the two of them, only Segani really wants to make a go of it. But, for Palmer at least, it's a lot of fun, and he's sleeping nights. Then, out of the blue, up pops a man who bears all the hallmarks of a mercenary recruiter. The offer is in mercenary numbers and the job is related to the mercenary business. Apparently, something Palmer stole many years before, had already been stolen...and they want it back! Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Stone Dog by Robert Mitchell, another one of his treasure hunt action thrillers, this one an historical-ish adventure set in the 1970s, originally out from Australian publisher Boolarong Press in 1995. 20th September 1917 – Wakaya, Fiji. The Count Felix von Luckner, Master of the German raider Seeadler, lowers a sealed iron chest into the waters of a small unnamed bay under cover of darkness. 17th December 1971 – Cairns, Australia. The chance mention of von Luckner’s name revives memories of boyhood tales of the secrets of that far-off night, and of the iron chest watched over by the stone dog. But were the tales, told by Uncle Max, bosun on the Seeadler those fifty-four years ago, true, or were they merely that, yarns, nothing more? And if true – would the chest still be there? And if true – will it be worth the bloodshed? |
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Four books by Lia Matera, several of whose books were finalists for various awards back in the 1980's-1990's, are $0.99 right now. These are all Simon & Schuster titles, so $0.99 is a pretty good price.
Havana Twist is, according to SKYM and the cover photo, the seventh and last in the Matera's Willa Jansson series, although the Kobo and Amazon websites say it's an Earl Swagger mystery. US Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/havana-twist US Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Havana-Twist-E...dp/B00AK78V90/ Spoiler:
Designer Crimes is the fifth and last in the Matera's Laura Di Palma series. Kobo US: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/designer-crimes Kindle US: http://www.amazon.com/Designer-Crime...dp/B00AYIDUTG/ Spoiler:
Last Chants is the fifth in the Willa Jansson series. US Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/last-chants US Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chants-Wi...dp/B00BOVCI0E/ Spoiler:
Star Witness is the sixth in the Willa Jansson series. US Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/star-witness-1 US Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Witness-W.../dp/B00AYIDUT6 Spoiler:
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Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh #1) by Judy Fitzwater is FREE again at all retailers. Orig pubbed by Fawcett in 1995. GR reviews aren't flattering.
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There are four mysteries on sale as part of an Open Road Media "Superbowl" sale. I just noticed this sale, and since the Superbowl is tomorrow, this sale may be fairly short-lived.
The mysteries are: Collin Wilcox: The Lonely Hunter - $1.99 Stuart M. Kaminsky: The Big Silence - $0.99 Richard Curtis: The Suicide Squad - $1.99 Charles Williams: A Touch of Death - $0.99 The link to the Open Road page describing all of the books in the sale is: http://www.openroadmedia.com/superbowl? Once you are there you can click on each cover image to pull up a description of the book, and then click on the "buy the ebook" button for links to various retailers. Or, if you already know the retailer you want to use, you can just go search for the book there. Open Road books are traditionally couponable at Kobo... Last edited by sufue; 02-01-2015 at 10:02 AM. |
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Bargain @ $1.99 each from Soho Crime (couponable @ Kobo, price should be the same in the other usual Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted in other regions):
Some really nice (mostly) 1st-in-series introductory price-drops I spotted while doing last-minute end-of-month shopping (Soho rotates their offerings on an irregular schedule, so I'd expect these to last for the next couple of days, or weeks, even). Three of them were directly on my wishlist, and accordingly I snapped them up, and one of them has themes Relevant To My Interests™, so of course I bought that as well while it was still cheap.
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Sacred Games has already gone up to $12.79 at Kobo, but it's still 1.99 (so far) at Amazon (US).
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Huh. That's weird. Normally stuff gets discounted in the US Kobo store and not the Canadian one, with us very occasionally getting some price-matching via Amazon.ca. For the travelers in the audience, Sacred Games is still $1.99 at Kobo Canada when I check it with my auxiliary former-Sony Canadian account which doesn't already own it, and straight through to checkout the price stays the same (until test discount couponage is applied). |
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