?A dystopian sci-fi novel imagines a future New England crippled by pollution and under the control of ruthless corporate patriarchs.? ?Kirkus Reviews (see complete Kirkus review here)?If you are prone to believe that even severe climate change will be well managed, that future governments will calmly move cities inland, providing good jobs in construction and engaging our better selves, Kitty Beer will turn you inside out. The compelling, gutsy characters, the cults and marauding private armies, the Prudential Tower poking out of the Boston Sea and other vivid landscapes, are horribly credible. If Beer?s trilogy, set in the 2040s, 2060s, and continuing here in the 2080s with The Hampshire Project, can?t inspire you to action, nothing will.? ?Robert Socolow, Princeton University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-director of Princeton Environment Institute?Kitty Beer?s latest novel, The Hampshire Project, third in her Resilience trilogy, offers a foreboding, forbidding, vision of a future, post climate change New England. What was once the proud city of Boston is now underwater, victim
El autor da rienda suelta a la imaginación recreando la técnica del thriller, recurriendo al esperpento en la peripecia de los personajes de la Residencia, para ofrecernos un final inquietante que se ha ido anunciando a lo largo de la novela.
"Sangre en El Zapillo". Una extraña sucesión de crímenes en algunos puntos de Almería y su provincia ?personas descuartizadas y los restos metidos en maletas? hace que la Interpol tenga que intervenir, echando una mano a la policía local y nacional y a la Guardia Civil para tratar de resolver un caso que, en principio, parece de todo punto irresoluble por las circunstancias que en él concurren y, en principio, por la absoluta carencia de pruebas. Quiere la casualidad, o el destino, que el agente que envían de la central de New York, Carlos Hernández Almazán (Charlie o Charly para los amigos) sea un almeriense emigrado en su adolescencia a Los Estados Unidos. Huelga decir que a Charly, la idea de regresar a su patria chica y con una complicada misión por delante, le parece de perlas. El joven agente cumple dicha misión y, de paso, hace una feliz incursión en el mundo, un tanto desdibujado ya, de su niñez y adolescencia.
Esta novela, que ha obtenido el Premio Joven de Narrativa de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el 2009, es ante todo una irónica e inteligente crítica de los excesos de las burocracias, de su ineficacia y de las corruptelas de la clase política. Pero es, además, por su trama, una novela negra llena de giros inesperados y una obra de tintes borgianos.
Damon Traynor leaves a glittering career on Wall Street to set up his own private equity business. When it is the winning bidder in the multi-billion dollar auction for a government-owned defense company, his firm?s future success looks certain. But soon after the deal closes, Damon makes an alarming discovery?something that makes the recent acquisition worthless. Then he learns he was duped by the financially-strapped federal administration and that there are many others in the same position. Facing financial ruin, he investigates the US treasury officials behind the transaction. What Damon uncovers is a terrifying web of organized crime?extending all the way to the White House itself?involving blackmail and assassination on an industrial scale. When those around him begin to die, Damon finds himself locked in a deadly battle with the leader of the free world. Praise for SHAKEDOWN: ?Bodenham?s unique insight into the world of high finance has created another authentic financial thriller.? ?Howard Leigh, Lord Leigh of Hurley ?On the money. Finance and politics mixed in
When a dying friend and fellow Civil War reenactor asks California physician Hank Houston to find his daughter's killer, Hank has no idea what problems his snooping will cause. The last thing he expected to uncover was a US murder squad being run by the DHS. But this domestic black ops unit is determined not to be exposed and, as Hank gets closer to the truth, he discovers just how far they will go to hide all their dirty little secrets.
SUMMARY Ex-US State Department terrorism analyst, Joe Hawkins, and ex-MI6 psychiatrist, Kate Farrow, are whistleblowers wanted by the US and UK authorities--wanted for divulging information relating to a corrupt arms-for-oil deal. Exiled from their homelands, separated from the people they once knew, they are hunted and on the run. When Joe and Kate learn of the mysterious events unfolding at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group, they know it's their last chance to fight back. Their journey takes them to the Lost Coast of California and on to an American Indian reservation in the Badlands. Only if they can prevent the loss of innocent life and expose the corporate and government forces conspiring against them, can they stop running. Tipping Point is a powerful and complex story of intrigue and deceit that takes readers on a ride into the dark politics of climate change. EDITORIAL REVIEWS "Tomas Byrne scores again with an important and relentless political thriller that will have you pondering conspiracy theories long into the night... Byrne paints landscapes that even masters like Cormac Mc
La conquista de Mogariza por los falangistas de ese pueblo, tuvo lugar días después de la sublevación contra la República española, llevada a cabo por el dictador Franco el 18 de julio de 1936. La aldea mogariceña asistió perpleja a ese acontecimiento, sin acertar a explicarse en razón a qué era debido tal hecho protagonizado por algunos de sus paisanos, envalentonados como nadie hubiera imaginado.
"Carver" es una novela en movimiento, que nunca se detiene. Más como un recorte caprichoso de la vida que un argumento canónico, las casualidades hacen que los personajes se crucen en un momento y un lugar determinado, y que ese encuentro marque el camino a seguir. Un profesor de literatura, una adolescente marginal y un enano son los personajes que, unidos por la impostergable necesidad de alguna búsqueda, se embarcan en una aventura sin sentido. Y en esa búsqueda, en ese recorrido que los llevará de Bariloche a Burzaco, se irán descubriendo a sí mismos y al mundo que los rodea. Recuperando y perdiendo la fe en cada episodio, en cada acto delictivo, que los pondrá, incluso, de cara a la muerte. "Carver" es, básicamente, una novela policial negra, plagada de guiños al lector, conversaciones con otros textos y vínculos con la música y el cine.
Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara understands that politics is like playing football on a muddy field. If you don?t get dirty, you?re not giving your all. But dirty politics is not his style. ? It's 2008 and the presidential campaign is all coming down to New Mexico. Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara, charged with delivering five electoral votes for John McCain, understands that politics is like playing football on a muddy field. If you don?t get dirty, you?re not giving your all. But dirty politics is not his style. ?? The Democrats' Barack Obama is drawing adoring crowds with his uplifting speeches, and Zamara?s GOP bosses are pressuring him to do ?whatever it takes? to win. ? ? Challenging him every step of the way is fierce, young Sierra Le?n of the Democracy Project, who calls on him to listen to his better self and reject his party?s unsavory practices.? ? But if only his life were as simple as politics. Mayor Zamara is also grappling with being a suspect in his wife?s murder; fending off his father, who wants to rescue his failing business with city money; and satisfying his demanding new woman, the radian
?A dystopian sci-fi novel imagines a future New England crippled by pollution and under the control of ruthless corporate patriarchs.? ?Kirkus Reviews (see complete Kirkus review here)?If you are prone to believe that even severe climate change will be well managed, that future governments will calmly move cities inland, providing good jobs in construction and engaging our better selves, Kitty Beer will turn you inside out. The compelling, gutsy characters, the cults and marauding private armies, the Prudential Tower poking out of the Boston Sea and other vivid landscapes, are horribly credible. If Beer?s trilogy, set in the 2040s, 2060s, and continuing here in the 2080s with The Hampshire Project, can?t inspire you to action, nothing will.? ?Robert Socolow, Princeton University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-director of Princeton Environment Institute?Kitty Beer?s latest novel, The Hampshire Project, third in her Resilience trilogy, offers a foreboding, forbidding, vision of a future, post climate change New England. What was once the proud city of Boston is now underwater, victim
El autor da rienda suelta a la imaginación recreando la técnica del thriller, recurriendo al esperpento en la peripecia de los personajes de la Residencia, para ofrecernos un final inquietante que se ha ido anunciando a lo largo de la novela.
"Sangre en El Zapillo". Una extraña sucesión de crímenes en algunos puntos de Almería y su provincia ?personas descuartizadas y los restos metidos en maletas? hace que la Interpol tenga que intervenir, echando una mano a la policía local y nacional y a la Guardia Civil para tratar de resolver un caso que, en principio, parece de todo punto irresoluble por las circunstancias que en él concurren y, en principio, por la absoluta carencia de pruebas. Quiere la casualidad, o el destino, que el agente que envían de la central de New York, Carlos Hernández Almazán (Charlie o Charly para los amigos) sea un almeriense emigrado en su adolescencia a Los Estados Unidos. Huelga decir que a Charly, la idea de regresar a su patria chica y con una complicada misión por delante, le parece de perlas. El joven agente cumple dicha misión y, de paso, hace una feliz incursión en el mundo, un tanto desdibujado ya, de su niñez y adolescencia.
Esta novela, que ha obtenido el Premio Joven de Narrativa de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el 2009, es ante todo una irónica e inteligente crítica de los excesos de las burocracias, de su ineficacia y de las corruptelas de la clase política. Pero es, además, por su trama, una novela negra llena de giros inesperados y una obra de tintes borgianos.
Damon Traynor leaves a glittering career on Wall Street to set up his own private equity business. When it is the winning bidder in the multi-billion dollar auction for a government-owned defense company, his firm?s future success looks certain. But soon after the deal closes, Damon makes an alarming discovery?something that makes the recent acquisition worthless. Then he learns he was duped by the financially-strapped federal administration and that there are many others in the same position. Facing financial ruin, he investigates the US treasury officials behind the transaction. What Damon uncovers is a terrifying web of organized crime?extending all the way to the White House itself?involving blackmail and assassination on an industrial scale. When those around him begin to die, Damon finds himself locked in a deadly battle with the leader of the free world. Praise for SHAKEDOWN: ?Bodenham?s unique insight into the world of high finance has created another authentic financial thriller.? ?Howard Leigh, Lord Leigh of Hurley ?On the money. Finance and politics mixed in
When a dying friend and fellow Civil War reenactor asks California physician Hank Houston to find his daughter's killer, Hank has no idea what problems his snooping will cause. The last thing he expected to uncover was a US murder squad being run by the DHS. But this domestic black ops unit is determined not to be exposed and, as Hank gets closer to the truth, he discovers just how far they will go to hide all their dirty little secrets.
SUMMARY Ex-US State Department terrorism analyst, Joe Hawkins, and ex-MI6 psychiatrist, Kate Farrow, are whistleblowers wanted by the US and UK authorities--wanted for divulging information relating to a corrupt arms-for-oil deal. Exiled from their homelands, separated from the people they once knew, they are hunted and on the run. When Joe and Kate learn of the mysterious events unfolding at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group, they know it's their last chance to fight back. Their journey takes them to the Lost Coast of California and on to an American Indian reservation in the Badlands. Only if they can prevent the loss of innocent life and expose the corporate and government forces conspiring against them, can they stop running. Tipping Point is a powerful and complex story of intrigue and deceit that takes readers on a ride into the dark politics of climate change. EDITORIAL REVIEWS "Tomas Byrne scores again with an important and relentless political thriller that will have you pondering conspiracy theories long into the night... Byrne paints landscapes that even masters like Cormac Mc
La conquista de Mogariza por los falangistas de ese pueblo, tuvo lugar días después de la sublevación contra la República española, llevada a cabo por el dictador Franco el 18 de julio de 1936. La aldea mogariceña asistió perpleja a ese acontecimiento, sin acertar a explicarse en razón a qué era debido tal hecho protagonizado por algunos de sus paisanos, envalentonados como nadie hubiera imaginado.
"Carver" es una novela en movimiento, que nunca se detiene. Más como un recorte caprichoso de la vida que un argumento canónico, las casualidades hacen que los personajes se crucen en un momento y un lugar determinado, y que ese encuentro marque el camino a seguir. Un profesor de literatura, una adolescente marginal y un enano son los personajes que, unidos por la impostergable necesidad de alguna búsqueda, se embarcan en una aventura sin sentido. Y en esa búsqueda, en ese recorrido que los llevará de Bariloche a Burzaco, se irán descubriendo a sí mismos y al mundo que los rodea. Recuperando y perdiendo la fe en cada episodio, en cada acto delictivo, que los pondrá, incluso, de cara a la muerte. "Carver" es, básicamente, una novela policial negra, plagada de guiños al lector, conversaciones con otros textos y vínculos con la música y el cine.
Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara understands that politics is like playing football on a muddy field. If you don?t get dirty, you?re not giving your all. But dirty politics is not his style. ? It's 2008 and the presidential campaign is all coming down to New Mexico. Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara, charged with delivering five electoral votes for John McCain, understands that politics is like playing football on a muddy field. If you don?t get dirty, you?re not giving your all. But dirty politics is not his style. ?? The Democrats' Barack Obama is drawing adoring crowds with his uplifting speeches, and Zamara?s GOP bosses are pressuring him to do ?whatever it takes? to win. ? ? Challenging him every step of the way is fierce, young Sierra Le?n of the Democracy Project, who calls on him to listen to his better self and reject his party?s unsavory practices.? ? But if only his life were as simple as politics. Mayor Zamara is also grappling with being a suspect in his wife?s murder; fending off his father, who wants to rescue his failing business with city money; and satisfying his demanding new woman, the radian