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A pair of disaffected Midwestern youths meet, fall in love, and light out on a cross-country killing spree Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants to be with her man—the first person to ever make her feel special. They set off on
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"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine."
So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair novel hasn't lost a step. It's the story of Paul Kavanagh, a burnt-out ex-Green Beret who copes with what we've since learned to call PTSD by retiring to a dime-sized islet in the Florida Keys. There he lives a determinedly simple life, his...
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"If you're not part of the solution, you must be part of the problem."
You heard that a lot in the early 1970s, when the country seemed to be teetering on the brink of revolutionary upheaval. Miles Dorn, living quietly in retirement in the U.S., had come a long way from his roots in Central Europe, leaving his past as an assassin and agent provocateur behind him. But as soon as he walks into his house and smells the smoke from a Turkish cigarette,...
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«Te atraviesa como una dosis de sales volátiles y te arde como yodo.»
Con estas palabras la revista Kirkus Reviews describió a El hombre peligroso, cuando éste hizo su aparición en inglés, hace casi cincuenta años, bajo el título de Such Men Are Dangerous, y desde entonces esta novela no ha perdido un solo paso: sigue manteniendo al lector sentado en el borde de la silla.
Disponible por primera vez en castellano, El hombre peligroso es...
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A military noir thriller from early in Lawrence Block's lengthy career, it deals with an ex-Green Beret, Paul Kavanagh, who is called out of semi-retirement on a little island in Florida to steal a shipment of high-tech weapons being stored in South Dakota -- an entertaining stand-alone with plenty of twists and turns and reversals, as military heists are apparently not that easy to pull off.
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Go Healthy for Good volume 3
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Tummy pain in kids is common and can be hard to figure out. It could be serious or self-resolving. It could be a simple case of colic, or an emergency.
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