James Thompson
1) Snow angels
Author
Series
Inspector Vaara novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Booklist Best Crime Novel Debut
“Don’t miss this one.”—USA Today
"A masterful job." -Michael Connelly
It is called kaamos—two weeks of unrelenting darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink into depression.
This year, it may have driven...
“Don’t miss this one.”—USA Today
"A masterful job." -Michael Connelly
It is called kaamos—two weeks of unrelenting darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink into depression.
This year, it may have driven...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
It Kills Slowly...
In an excavation site in Mexico, a team of archeologists uncovers the lost tomb of Montezuma—and a deadly strain of anthrax as ancient as the Biblical plagues. One by one, the team falls violently ill, bleeding from their eyes and ears before succumbing to a slow, painful death. Whatever was buried with the Aztec chief is still active, infectious—and now airborne...
It Spreads Quickly...
In Austin,...
In an excavation site in Mexico, a team of archeologists uncovers the lost tomb of Montezuma—and a deadly strain of anthrax as ancient as the Biblical plagues. One by one, the team falls violently ill, bleeding from their eyes and ears before succumbing to a slow, painful death. Whatever was buried with the Aztec chief is still active, infectious—and now airborne...
It Spreads Quickly...
In Austin,...
Author
Series
Inspector Vaara novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Kari Vaara, physically and psychologically scarred a year after the Sufia Elmi case, investigates a ninety-year-old national hero for suspected war crimes, an effort that is complicated by the murder of a Russian businessman's wife.
Author
Series
Inspector Vaara novels volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing...
5) John Irving
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 502
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
Learn the 25 keys to a great business plan, including writing the company's mission, identifying market opportunities, calculating appropriate financial ratios and projecting growth rates, that will help guide your company's expansion and attract necessary financing:
Key 1. Every business should have a mission.
Key 2. Every business needs to define what the business does and identify a market opportunity.
Key 3. The entrepreneur must...
Key 1. Every business should have a mission.
Key 2. Every business needs to define what the business does and identify a market opportunity.
Key 3. The entrepreneur must...