John Chancer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie was sentenced to ten years for a Texas robbery in which four people died, including two members of his own gang. Seven million dollars have never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For a decade Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by inmates and guards, all desperate to know the secret....
Author
Language
English
Description
Clarie, an out-of-work British actress, pays the rent on her New York City apartment the only way she can: as a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers, hired to entrap straying husbands. When the cops begin investigating one of her targets for murdering his wife-- and potentially others-- they ask her to lure the suspect into a confession. For a woman who's mastered the art of manipulation, how difficult could it be to tempt a killer into a trap? --...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.