[PDF] Other Peoples Mail eBook

Author : M. James Terrelle
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142693632X

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Intelligence work is a great deal like flying. While flying is hours of sheer boredom with moments of stark terror, intelligence work is weeks of sheer boredom with moments of stark panic. Ben Jourdon works an analyst at the National Security Agency, specializing in the Middle East. He hadn't sought the job, and he isnt sure he even wants it. As with many of the things in life, though, Ben has little choicethe job is an excellent cover. The only thing he ever really wanted was to be a career Air Force flying officer, but that was not to be. After six years of flying, he had been medically grounded, courtesy of a bullet in Vietnam, and had to seek a new direction. The next six years saw him working as a Signals Intelligence Officer, but that came to an end on a dark street in Athens some eight years before. As for his true avocation, though, he was a professional assassin. What a surprise it would be for the security people at the NSA to find out about this other job

Author : Gail Pool
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826212467

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"The first collection of its kind, Other People's Mail is a unique and important anthology. Pool's highly informative introduction explores the nature of letter fiction, and her individual preface to each story provides background information on both the author and the tale. A select listing of additional letter stories rounds out the anthology.

Author : Ken S. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567687341

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This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts. The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and the text's earliest audiences. Comparing a range of examples, these essays address varying ways in which social identity has shaped the historical contexts, implied audiences, rhetorical shaping, redactional development, literary appropriation, and reception history of particular texts over time. Together, they open up new avenues for studying the relations between social identity, scriptural interpretation, and religious authority.

Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307382648

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A voyeuristic look at modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.

Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Letters
ISBN : 0307459640

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Shapiro presents a colorful panoply of rejection letters--many from famous people including A-Rod, Jimi Hendrix, and Andy Warhol--that when taken together offer humor, insight, and the comfort of shared experience.

Author : Jacques Evans
Publisher : Jacques Evans
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145230727X

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The Czar's Last Soldier is the story of the search for the Star of Golconda a 42.5-carat diamond slightly smaller than the Hope diamond. Before he was killed, a marine buried the diamond in his foxhole on the island of Corregidor during World War II. Thirty-two years later, at a Nebraska post office, Sam Gibbons and Roscoe Barnes are removing the old post office boxes and replacing them with new ones. Both men are World War II veterans who teamed up as general contractors after the war. When the old post office boxes are removed a letter hidden between warped boards falls to the floor. The letter, dated 1942, is from the marine who died on Corregidor and gives the particulars of a jewel theft he committed at the Shanghai Officer's Club in 1941. As there are no members of the marine's family still alive, they read the letter. Shortly after the theft, the marine's regiment was transferred from China to the Philippines. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the regiment was tasked to defend Corregidor. When the order to surrender was given, not wanting the Japanese to gloom onto the stolen jewels, the marine buried them. Sam and Roscoe hunt for the jewels but are unaware they were stolen from a czarist officer and are thrust into the middle of an international legal battle.