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New York: Forge, 1996. BI5 - A first edition hardcover book signed and inscribed by author to previous owner on bookplate adhered on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. Kilo Option is a nonstop ride into the maelstrom international terror, packed full of the up-to-the minute inside information Sean Flannery is famous for. Sean Flannery is the pseudonym of David Hagberg. 9.5"x6.5", 383 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Forge, 1996, 3, New York, NY: Signet Book, 2007. Reprint. Later printing. Mass-market paperback. Fair. Well read and well worn. Small scuff inside back cover.. Mass market paperback. Glued binding. 983, [5] p. Ken Follett, internationally-acclaimed master of split-second suspense, author of six #1 bestsellers, reaches beyond the expected to achieve his most brilliant and remarkable novel. The epic story of the building of a cathedral in 12th century England and the lives of the people entwined with it and each other is a sensuous, enduring narrative, and a gripping tale of faith, ambition, bloodshed and betrayal. From Wikipedia: "Kenneth Martin "Ken" Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 130 million copies of his works. Many of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list, including Fall of Giants, The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, Winter of the World, and World Without End. Follett was born on 5 June 1949 in Cardiff, Wales. He was the first child of Martin Follett, a tax inspector, and Lavinia (Veenie) Follett, who went on to have three more children. Barred from watching movies and television by his Plymouth Brethren parents, he developed an early interest in reading but remained an indifferent student until he entered his teens. His family moved to London when he was ten years old, and he began applying himself to his studies at Harrow Weald Grammar School and Poole Technical College. He won admission in 1967 to University College London, where he studied philosophy and became involved in centre-left politics. He married his first wife, Mary, in 1968, and their son Emanuele was born in the same year. After graduation in the autumn of 1970, Follett took a three-month post-graduate course in journalism and went to work as a trainee reporter in Cardiff on the South Wales Echo. After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general-assignment reporter for the Evening News. Finding the work unchallenging, he eventually left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of the small London publisher Everest Books. He also began writing fiction during evenings and weekends as a hobby. Later, he said he began writing books when he needed extra money to fix his car, and the publisher's advance a fellow journalist had been paid for a thriller was the sum required for the repairs. Success came gradually at first, but the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 made him both wealthy and internationally famous. Each of Follett's subsequent novels has also become a best-seller, ranking high on the New York Times Best Seller list; a number have been adapted for the screen. Ken Follett has written 29 books in the past 35 years. The first five best-sellers were spy thrillers: Eye of the Needle (1978), Triple (1979), The Key to Rebecca (1980), The Man from St Petersburg (1982) and Lie Down with Lions (1986). On Wings of Eagles (1983), was the true story of how two of Ross Perot s employees were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. He then surprised readers by radically changing course with The Pillars of the Earth (1989), a novel about building a cathedral in the Middle Ages. It received rave reviews and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 18 weeks. It also topped best-seller lists in Canada, Britain and Italy, and was on the German best-seller list for six years. It has sold 18 million copies so far. The next three novels, Night Over Water (1991), A Dangerous Fortune (1993) and A Place Called Freedom (1995) were more historical than thriller, but he returned to the thriller genre with The Third Twin (1996) which in the Publishing Trends annual survey of international fiction best-sellers for 1997 was ranked no. 2 worldwide, after John Grisham's The Partner. His next work, The Hammer of Eden (1998) was another contemporary suspense story followed by a cold war thriller Code to Zero (2000). Follett returned to the WWII era with his next two novels, Jackdaws (2001), a World War II thriller about a group of women parachuted into France to destroy a vital., Signet Book, 2007, 2, Detroit: U X L. Fine. 1998. First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. 0787631639 Oversized 485pp plus large section on various trials Photographs Light crease near bottom outside corner of front cover ., U X L, 1998, 5, New York, NY: Berkley Books, 2001. Reprint. Seventh printing. Mass-market paperback. Good. Has some wear and soiling.. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 1152 p. Contains: Illustrations. Jack Ryan Novels. The #1 New York Times bestseller in hardcover, on the list for 24 weeks! President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel....A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears--including antiterrorism specialist John Clark--to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny--and change the face of the world as we know it...From WIkipedia: "Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. (April 12, 1947 October 1, 2013) was an American author and historian best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, and for video games that bear his name for licensing and promotional purposes. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also a brand for similar movie scripts written by ghost writers and non-fiction books on military subjects. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and Vice Chairman of their Community Activities and Public Affairs committees....Tom Clancy was born at Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 12, 1947, and grew up in the Northwood neighborhood. He was the second of three children to Thomas Clancy, who worked for the United States Postal Service, and Catherine Clancy. who worked in a store's credit department. His mother worked in order to send him to the private Catholic Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1965. He then attended Loyola College (now Loyola University) in Baltimore, graduating in 1969 with a degree in English literature. While at university, he was president of the chess club. He joined the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps; however he was ineligible to serve due to his nearsightedness, which required him to wear thick eyeglasses. After graduating he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O. F. Bowen Agency, a small insurance agency based in Owings, Maryland, founded by his wife's grandfather. In 1980, he purchased the insurance agency from his wife's grandmother, and wrote novels in his spare time. While working at the insurance agency, he wrote The Hunt For Red October. Clancy's literary career began in 1982 when he started writing The Hunt for Red October which in 1984 he sold for publishing to the Naval Institute Press for $5, 000. The publisher was impressed with the work; Deborah Grosvenor, the Naval Institute Press editor who read through the work, said later that she convinced the publisher: "I think we have a potential best seller here, and if we don t grab this thing, somebody else would, " and considered that Clancy had an "innate storytelling ability, and his characters had this very witty dialogue". The publisher requested Clancy to cut numerous technical details, amounting to about 100 pages. Clancy, who had wanted to sell 5, 000 copies, ended up selling over 45, 000. After publication, the book received praise from President Ronald Reagan, calling the work "my kind of yarn", subsequently boosting sales to 300, 000 hardcover and 2 million paperback copies of the book, making it a national bestseller. The book was critically praised for its technical accuracy, which led to Clancy's meeting several high-ranking officers in the U.S. military. Clancy's fiction works, The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991), have been turned into commercially successful films with actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck as Clancy's most famous fictional character Jack Ryan, while his second most famous character, John Clark, has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber. All but two of Clancy's solely written novels., Berkley Books, 2001, 2.5, Random House, 1964. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . Light wear, pages yellowed; a good solid binding. The dust jacket is present but heavily worn and torn; some wrinkling, old stickers on the cover. "A torrid love affair between a famous international spy and a Russian ballerina, carried on against the background of a spine chilling plot to end the cold war-the wrong way." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 196837. ., Random House, 1964, 2.25, Penguin Books [c1985]. Soft Cover. 508, [3] p., index; 20 cm. "Goethe did not go to Italy as a journalist in search of newsworthy stories, but some of the best passages in 'Italian Journey' owe as much to journalistic good luck as they do to literary talent. While sketching a ruined fort in Malcesine he is nearly arrested as an Austrian spy; Vesuvius obliges with a major eruption during his stay in Naples; sailing back from Sicily, the boat he has taken is kind enough to get itself nearly shipwrecked on Capri; eccentric and comic characters cross his path, like the Neapolitan Princess with the outrageous tongue, the choleric Governor of Messina, or Miss Hart, the future Lady Hamilton, who seems-- God forgive her!-- to have invented the Modern Dance; a chance remark overheard leads to his meeting with the humble relatives of Cagliostro, the most famous international swindler of the time. Goethe is not usually thought of as a funny man, but his descriptions of such events reveal a real comic gift and, even more surprisingly, perhaps, they show how ready he was to see himself in a comic light." From Carlsbad to the Brenner to Verona to Venice (Sept. & Oct. 1786); Ferrara to Rome, Oct. 1786-Feb. 1787; Naples & Sicily, Feb. - June 1787; Rome, June 1787-April 1788. Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#40838., Penguin Books [c1985], 0, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. First American Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4. 209 Pages. No marks or stamps. Interior text pages are flawless. The author was born in India in 1971. She and her mother left India when she was 14 and both now live in the United States. Her 2006 title The Inheirtance of Loss won the Man Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Her mother, Anita Desai herself was short-listed for the Booker Prize on three occasions. In this book Sampath Chawla was born into a family not quite like other families, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure at school, failure at work, of spending his days dreaming in tea stalls, it seems as if Sampath is not going to amount to much until one day he climbs a guava tree in search of peaceful contemplation and becomes unexpectedly famous as a holy man, sending his tiny town into turmoil. A syndicate of larcenous, alcoholic monkeys terrorize the pilgrims who cluster around Sampath's tree, spies and profiteers descend on the town, and none of Desai's outrageous characters goes unaffected as events spin increasingly out of control., Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998, 4<

ISBN: 9780965618595

Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Used - Very Good. Light to moderate shelf wear. Complete. Clean pages., Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 3