Ronnie biggs: odd man out - the last straw, Biggs, Ronnie Pickard, Chris

Автор: Delano, Anthony
Название: Slip-up
ISBN: 0955823838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780955823831
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Описание: Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever written . It is the story of the discovery in Rio de Janeiro of Ronald Biggs, a celebrity fugitive on the run for 12 years after the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fiasco that resulted when newsmen and detectives worked out a bizarre plot to bring him back to Britain. Initially a cosy, if highly irregular, conspiracy between Scotland Yard and the Daily Express, the hunt for Biggs soon embroiled every circulation-hungry rival newspaper. And where Fleet Street led, the world s news media followed. It was The Story of the Century. Scotland Yard was outwitted from bungled beginning to embarrassed end. The Express was mercilessly mauled by its opponents. The ends of justice were soon forgotten. Biggs had (unwittingly though literally) planted the seeds of his own salvation and, infamously, he kept out of jail for another 27 years. Behind the blazing headlines an even more entertaining farce had been played out but the enthralled public and exasperated British government knew nothing of it until Anthony Delano, a veteran Fleet Street man himself, produced this riveting account of greed, ambition and double-dealing among a tribe of high-powered hacks on the warpath.

Автор: Thornton Chris Harding
Название: Pickard County Atlas
ISBN: 1250829593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250829597
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Автор: Reynolds, Bruce Biggs, Ronnie Reynolds, Nick
Название: Great train robbery 50th anniversary:1963-2013
ISBN: 0957255977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957255975
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Автор: Pickard, Chris
Название: The great train robber: my autobiography
ISBN: 1789465974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789465976
Издательство: Bonnier Books
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Автор: Thornton Chris Harding
Название: Pickard County Atlas
ISBN: 0374231257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374231255
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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An atmospheric, slow-burning beauty of a book, rich with raw-edged lyricism and achingly real characters. --Tana French, author of The Searcher

Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding debut about the aftershocks of crime and trauma that shake a Nebraskan town.

In a dusty town in Nebraska's rugged sandhills, weary sheriff's deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something--anything--out of the ordinary. It's July 1978, and the heat is making people ornery, restless. That and the Reddick family patriarch has decided, decades after authorities ended the search for his murdered boy's body, to lay a headstone. Instead of bringing closure, this decision is the spark that threatens to set Pickard County ablaze.

On a fateful night after the memorial service, Harley tails the youngest Reddick and town miscreant, Paul, through the abandoned farms and homes outside their run-down town. The pursuit puts Harley in the path of Pam Reddick, a restless young woman looking for escape, bent on cutting the ties of motherhood and marriage. Filled with desperate frustration, Pam is drawn to Harley's dark history, not unlike that of her husband, Rick--a man raised in the wreckage of a brother's violent death and a mother's hardened fury.

Unfolding over six tense days, Pickard County Atlas sets Harley and the Reddicks on a collision course--propelling them toward an incendiary moment that will either redeem or end them. Engrossing, darkly funny, and real, Chris Harding Thornton's debut rings with authenticity and a nuanced sense of place even as it hums with menace, introducing an astonishing new voice in suspense.