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We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

Author : James Meek
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2014-03-04
ISBN 10 : 9780802192011
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (21 downloads)

Download We Are Now Beginning Our Descent in PDF Full Online Free by James Meek and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] sharply observed meditation on modern war . . . as far from Tom Clancy’s entertainments as a vintage Mini Cooper is from a snarling Hummer” (Alex Berenson, The New York Times Book Review). James Meek’s masterful historical novel, The People’s Act of Love, received accolades around the world, earning Meek comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, and Greene. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is a tour de force of storytelling, furthering his reputation as one of the most exciting and original young novelists writing today. Adam Kellas, a British journalist, would-be thriller novelist, and failed lover meets Astrid Walsh, a self-possessed, hard-charging reporter while the two are covering allied military operations in the Afghan mountains. After sharing one passionate night in a watchtower near a defunct airfield, Astrid disappears from Adam’s life. A year later, following a disastrous dinner party in London during which he destroys his few remaining friendships, Adam receives a short, beseeching email and hastily embarks on a transatlantic journey to a small town near the Chesapeake Bay where he believes Astrid waits for him. He envisions the fresh start his new life with Astrid might offer, unaware that she may be harboring unsettling secrets of her own. A passionate, incisive novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent lays bare the entwined hypocrisies, foibles, and desires of our age, and is a testament to the obsessive pull of love. “I am full of admiration for Meek’s precise and lyrical prose, for his mapping of the political landscapes through which his characters drift and for his evocation of the strange, torn geometries of the life in the global news stream.” —The Washington Post

We are Now Beginning Our Descent

Author : James Meek
Publisher :
Release Date : 2008-04-21
ISBN 10 : 0002008564
Pages : 295 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (2 downloads)

Download We are Now Beginning Our Descent in PDF Full Online Free by James Meek and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Kellas's world--his life--is not just crumbling, but cracking. An aspiring novelist, Kellas was in the midst of writing a thriller about terrorists and destruction in September 2001 when real life overtook his fictional plot. The terrible events of 9/11 left him scarred, disconnected from the people around him and the meaningless passivity of words. Now headed to the battlefields of Afghanistan as a war correspondent, he drives himself toward action, seeking "some violent blow, inarticulate noise or mad mime-show of truth." In a country that is itself descending into chaos, however, Kellas is not the only broken soul. Astrid, an American journalist who is also struggling to keep her world from splitting apart, is another. As Kellas's plane touches down in Kabul, the last thing on his mind is a relationship--and the last thing he hopes for is redemption. Like his highly acclaimed The People's Act of Love, James Meek's We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is a novel that demands to be read and contemplated, its bold cinematic story and complex characters rooted in Meek's own experience as an award-winning journalist. Moving from the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to London and the waterlands of east Virginia, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is a tautly paced story of flawed individuals searching for perfect love, set against the incendiary politics and shifting ethics of our time.

The Heart Broke In

Author : James Meek
Publisher : Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9780857862938
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (293 downloads)

Download The Heart Broke In in PDF Full Online Free by James Meek and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCE Bec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet Alex wants a family if he could only meet the right woman . . . One man has the information to destroy them all

The People's Act Of Love

Author : James Meek
Publisher : Canongate Books
Release Date : 2008-11-20
ISBN 10 : 9781847673756
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (375 downloads)

Download The People's Act Of Love in PDF Full Online Free by James Meek and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .

It Was An Accident

Author : Jeremy Cameron
Publisher : HopeRoad
Release Date : 2015-08-06
ISBN 10 : 9781908446404
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (64 downloads)

Download It Was An Accident in PDF Full Online Free by Jeremy Cameron and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He tries. But events and people conspire against him. He is offered "work". He is attacked. His mates are attacked. He runs to Jamaica and is attacked again. Now the fight back begins... Filmed starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Max Beesley and James Bolam, It Was An Accident is the fast, furious, bloody and hilarious follow up to the acclaimed Vinnie Got Blown Away. 'A wonderful thriller... An absolute cracker.' The Independent. 'The pleasure is intense.' Time Out. 'Ingenious, his street talk sizzles with wit and invention.' Literary Review. 'Brilliant, unputdownable' The Big Issue. 'A consistently funny and entertaining book.' The Times.

The Hanson Legacy

Author : VINCENT M. MESSBARGER, MD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9780981498409
Pages : 326 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (84 downloads)

Download The Hanson Legacy in PDF Full Online Free by VINCENT M. MESSBARGER, MD and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cocheta" is a Native American word meaning "That you cannot imagine," an appropriate name for America's "blackest" research facility. Hidden inside a mountain in a remote and inhospitable region of the frigid Canadian Rockies, the massive complex is a high-tech laboratory for a handful of the most brilliant minds on earth. Together, they struggle to understand and duplicate exotic extraterrestrial technology before America's enemies do... or before an unspeakable horror arrives from deep space. Benjamin Hanson, PhD is the project's greatest resource... and a dying man. His ultimate goal: unite the world in developing a defense against what he believes to be a coming invasion. To make it happen, he needs a clever plan. One that will topple a well-established culture of secrecy, allow him to evade those who watch his every move and neutralize a ruthless bureaucrat before the cruel tentacles of incurable cancer rob him of his life. The Hanson Legacy chronicles Ben Hanson's life, from a humble childhood in a rural Oklahoma town to his climactic struggle with an evil, self-absorbed administrator determined to keep secret the other-worldly horrors hidden in Cocheta Mountain... and lethal "accidents" involving more than a dozen retired project scientists. The fate of the entire planet may very well rest on the outcome of Dr. Hanson's vital and final mission. Sacrifice, devotion, duty, honor... and a timeless, beautiful love story that endures vicious tragedy and desolate separation. The Hanson Legacy transcends the Sci-Fi genre and will leave you anxiously waiting for Book Two: The Hanson Conundrum! "The story grabbed me by the throat from the first page and left me almost breathless until the exciting climactic scenes. The characters are strong, superbly developed and totally believable... If you read this book, make sure you have a long flight or a few free days ahead of you --- you won't be able to put it down!" Andrew McLaughlin Editor - Australian Defence Business Review (ADBR) Editor - Defence Industry & Aerospace Report (DIAR.com) Military Editor - Australian Aviation