The Manchurian Candidate is a novel about conditioning, control and manipulation - and brilliantly explores all these topics. It's concise, well written and one of those brilliant books that you have to read with a straight face because you can't decide whether to laugh or grimace.Sergeant Raymon...
Ci sono sostanzialmente due modi di raccontare la criminalità organizzata in un romanzo: o attraverso la mafia patinata ed affascinante del Padrino di Mario Puzo, oppure attraverso i toni violenti e realistici di V.Higgins (Gli amici di Eddie Coyle). Poi ovviamente tra il bianco ed il nero ci son...
AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 in Paris and Berlin. A beautiful young French Jew, Paula Bernheim, and a Prussian officer, Wilhelm von Rhode, meet and fall in love. Within a few months they are married and settled in Berlin--just as Hitler's rise to power begins. The stor...
He sat in a daze sipping cranberry juice and mourning Keifetz. He should have paid him more. Why was he so stingy with everything? He remembered Keifetz’ uncle, an old dermatologist named Harry Lesion. Keifetz used to send the old man a hundred-dollar bill whenever he thought of it. He’d have Dai...
His facilities for gathering intelligence anywhere were so prodigious, his paranoiac need to confirm/ allay suspicion so deep, that he used this suborganization for all manner of things, things beyond politics and industrial espionage. Among these investigative interests was Walter Wagstaff West,...