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“christopher poole”

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  • The Venetian Glass Cartel: Espionage in Murano

    Assassins, Mirrors, and the Ruthless Industrial Espionage in the Renaissance Mediterranean, 1291–1500

    by Christopher Poole ...
    The Venetian Republic violently confines its master glassmakers to the isolated island of Murano under the strict penalty of death. The stakes are the absolute total dominance of the global luxury market. To reveal the highly guarded alchemical formula for perfectly clear glass—known as cristallo—is considered an unpardonable act of high treason punishable by immediate execution. A shadow war of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Hero Town

    by Christopher Poole ...
    Amidst the glittering optimism defining America's post-War period, the great metropolis of New York City is watched over by a legion of costumed superheroes.Half a century later, the heroes are all gone, and New York has collapsed into seemingly irreparable ruin.Throughout the 1950s, superhuman beings with fantastic abilities face off against bizarre enemies and absurd situations in their ongoing ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Summer of the Vigilantes

    by Christopher Poole ...
    In an age when crime runs rampant through the urban jungle of New York City, and the ruthless subsist by preying upon the weak, a clandestine organization of enforcers digs in its heels, and fights back. Led by the obsessed Gary Parker, the multitalented Vigilantes operate in secrecy, taking no prisoners in their never-ending crusade against the powers of corruption, injustice, and evil. From a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Killer

    Being the Wholly True and Unexaggerated Account of the Life and Times of Henry H. Hugo, the World’s Most Gentlemanly Contract Killer

    by Christopher Poole ...
    The most compelling autobiography of the decade!Known throughout the world for years as the deadliest, most elusive killer of his kind, and wanted by virtually every law enforcement agency across the globe, famed freelance hitman-for-hire Henry H. Hugo finally tells his amazing story in his own words. From the traumas and indignities of his troubled childhood, to his early days just starting out ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    by Richard Kadrey, Caitl?n Kiernan ...
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    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychos

    Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

    by Neil Gaiman, Lawrence Block, Ray Bradbury ...
    This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter ( The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman ( American Psycho), stories of serial killers and ... Read more

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  • God's Gym

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    by John Edgar Wideman ...
    In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skin

    A Mike Hammer Story

    by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins ...
    Series series A Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery
    A beautiful reporter. A secret ritual in a graveyard. A disembodied hand on the side of the road. Mike Hammer returns in one of the most shocking cases of his storied career.Private Investigator Mike Hammer may be getting older, but he hasn’t lost his step. So when he spots a brutally destroyed corpse on the side of the road in upstate New York, unrecognizable as human except for the disembodied ... Read more

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  • A Long Time Dead

    A Mike Hammer Casebook

    by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins ...
    With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: The first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he's crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Going, Going, Gone

    by Jack Womack ...
    “Futurist wunderkind Womack concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semi-historical 1968” (Publishers Weekly).It’s 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of “race records,” stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter’s conscience never interferes with his work—until he’s ... Read more

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  • Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction

    Stories Inspired by True Detective

    Edited by Christoph Paul, Leza Cantoral ...
    A talented array of writers, coming from the genres of Noir, Horror, Metafiction, Mythos, Crime, Weird and Bizarro Fiction, were all inspired by the existential themes from the first season of True Detective. Clash Books is very proud to present this collection of powerful and evocative stories about the humanity and inhumanity of modern man in an ever-shifting moral and cosmic landscape. ... Read more

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  • First Thrills

    by Steve Berry ...
    Twenty-five high-octane stories from the hottest thriller authors in one anthology, edited by #1 New York Times –bestselling author Lee Child.Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present an anthology of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before ... Read more

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