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Robert Wilson
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Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard
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A Small Death in Lisbon
— published 2000 — 29 editions |
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The Blind Man of Seville (Javier Falcon, #1)
— published 2003 — 34 editions |
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The Company of Strangers
— published 2001 — 16 editions |
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The Hidden Assassins (Javier Falcon, #3)
— published 2006 — 16 editions |
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The Vanished Hands (Javier Falcon, #2)
— published 2004 — 19 editions |
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The Ignorance of Blood (Javier Falcon, #4)
— published 2009 — 19 editions |
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Instruments of Darkness (Bruce Medway, #1)
by Robert Wilson (Goodreads Author), Anthony Sheil — published 2002 — 9 editions |
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A Darkening Stain (Bruce Medway, #4)
by Robert Wilson (Goodreads Author), Anthony Sheil — published 2004 — 5 editions |
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The Big Killing (Bruce Medway, #2)
— published 1996 — 7 editions |
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Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway, #3)
— published 2004 — 5 editions |
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| Not just a fascinating account of the assassination of the Blond Beast, Reinhard Heydrich, and the heroism of the Czech and Slovak assassins, but also a sometimes charming, occasionally incisive and frequently brilliant report of the research and wri...more | |
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by Paul French
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| Excellent research. Very well put together. Good narrative pace. Superb and accurate historical detail. Restrained, descriptive prose. A powerful emotional build. A disturbing insight into the evil that can reside in an expat society without the norm...more | |
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| An outstanding account of a curious adolescence. Beautifully descriptive of first friendships, an obsession with yo-yo, an eccentric step father, running away from home and the joy at finally breaking free. One of those rare books that make you laugh...more | |
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“Loss is like a shrapnel wound, I said, where the piece of metal's got stuck in a place where the surgeons daren't go, so they decide to leave it. It is painful at first, horribly painful, so that you wonder you can live with it. But then the body grows around it, until it doesn't hurt anymore. Not like it used to be. But every now and again there are these twinges when you are not ready for them, and you realize it is still there, and it's always going to be there. It is a part of you. A still, hard point inside.”
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
“They crossed the Mondego and Dao rivers to Viseu and headed south to Coimbra and Leiria.”
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
“The chinese character for "strife" is represented by two women under the same roof.”
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
― Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
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I'm enjoying the accurate and restrained prose with which he builds this wonderful vision of old Peking. I was going to write a China novel myself, but was warned off by my agent. I did a lot of research before that happened and it's interesting to see how Paul French uses his decades of knowledge to tell his story. I met him in Shanghai on a research trip and he took me and my wife to some guerrilla restaurant run by a Tiananmen Square protester who was on the run. It was the best meal we had in China. Plates piled high with chillies. We were smoking by the end of it.