[PDF] Blood Orchids eBook

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1477316841

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Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land. Deeply personal, hauntingly prophetic, and bracingly sharp, the start to Bowden’s harrowed quest to unearth our ugly truths remains strikingly poignant today.

Author : Norman Katkov
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780312083953

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Set in Hawaii in 1930, this novel concerns the trial of four young native boys unjustly accused of the rape of an American socialite. The verdict sets in motion a whirlwind of violent passion leading to a vigilante-style beating and even murder.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1477316868

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Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land. Deeply personal, hauntingly prophetic, and bracingly sharp, the start to Bowden’s harrowed quest to unearth our ugly truths remains strikingly poignant today.

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101144939

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Home gets hot for CIA Special Agent Holly Barker in this novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods’s thrilling series. After Holly Barker lets an international terrorist slip through her fingers for a second time, the CIA thinks she might want a long vacation. So Holly returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, where she had been police chief for many years. But a very unpleasant surprise awaits her. Many years earlier, while she was in the army, Holly and another female officer had brought charges against their commander for sexual harassment. Holly had managed to fight him off, but the other woman, a young lieutenant, had not. The officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and has also left the army—for a job as Orchid Beach’s new police chief. Now Holly must decide whether to return to the CIA—or seek her revenge...

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451208811

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“Savvy, sexy”* police chief Holly Barker gets introduced to the cutthroat world of Florida real estate in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Stuart Woods. Blood Orchid: the name of Ed Shine’s favorite flower—and his latest real-estate venture. New to town, the dapper developer makes the acquaintance of Holly, her father Ham, and her wily Doberman, Daisy. It’s just as Holly’s trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of someone very close to her. But before she can settle back into her routine, bullets crash into the home of a friend and a floater is found bobbing in the Intercoastal Waterway. Joining forces with a handsome FBI agent, Holly tracks the clues straight back to their source, only to find a scam more lucrative and more dangerous than any this idyllic town—or Holly—has ever seen...

Author : David J. Schow
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781930235267

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A collection of ghoul and black humor from the father of the splatterpunk genre. In Pick Me Up, a hitchhiker and a truck driver discover they are both murderers. Twelve stories plus a play.