Lost Things by John Rector (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Bouchercon Exclusive - First Time In Print. No publication date - published for the 2013 Bouchercon in Albany, NY. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Trade Papeback Original. Unread As New book without dust jacket as issued. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib.

paperback. First Edition. Trade paperback, new in pictorial wraps. What begins as a celebration with his old college friend, Peter, ends with a deadly confrontation so heinous the two make a pact to never tell anyone about it - especially the police.

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Condition: As New. Like New condition. (Crime thriller, murder mystery, suspense).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For the last seventeen years, Lars-a hitman for an East Coast crime family-has been on the hunt for Mitch the Snitch. Mitch, an accountant who turned on Lars's employer, is living in witness protection and has been evading Lars for almost two decades.In comes Trent, a young gun who has been sent to replace the aging gun for hire. With his old boss gone, Lars realizes he has lost the desire to kill his long-time target. When things come to a head with Trent, Lars finds himself on the run with Mitch's teenage daughter Shaine, trying to stay one step ahead of angry mobsters and the FBI, as they make their way from New Mexico to California. Praise for THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT ME: 'Beetner is a maestro with his action scenes, filling the novel with cinematic set pieces, but the real heart of his story is Lars, an aging hit man forced to confront his own morality as the world goes to hell around him. A great read.' -Owen Laukkanen, author of The Forgotten Girls 'Eric Beetner is quickly becoming one of my favorite new crime writers. If you're a fan of fast paced, well-written hardboiled crime fiction, you're going to love this book.' -John Rector, author of The Ridge 'Told with heart, humor, and sizzling cinematic prose, Eric Beetner's The Devil Doesn't Want Me is crime fiction at its most entertaining.' -Peter Farris, author of Last Call for the Living 'Hell of a crime novel & highly recommended' -Spinetingler Magazine.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Russell Carver, an enigmatic and tortured man in search of a young girl gone missing, has come to Factory Town, a post-industrial wasteland of abandoned buildings, crumbling asphalt, deadly characters, hidden secrets and unspeakable depravity. Wandering deeper and deeper into the dangerous, dream-like and darkly mysterious labyrinths in town, Russell stumbles upon clues that not only lead him closer to the missing girl, but to his own troubled past as well. Because in Factory Town nothing is what it seems, no one is safe, and there's no such thing as a clean escape. From Jon Bassoff, author of Corrosion, comes a dark, gritty and surreal novel that is at once a compelling mystery and an exploration into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Welcome to the haunting, frightening, and disturbing experience that is Russell Carver's search for the truth. Praise for FACTORY TOWN: 'This is a profoundly discomfiting and pessimistic exploration of a deeply damaged man, and when Bassoff (Corrosion) invokes real-world horrors alongside the fantastical ugliness of Factory Town and its inhabitants, he suggests that similar foulness is common to all people. This is one to read with all the lights on.' -Publishers Weekly 'Factory Town: A hallucinatory descent into an urban hell that rivals Jim Thompson for stark terror. Jon Bassoff is a master of that territory where pulp becomes poetry, crime fiction mates with horror, but this novel is very much its own self-an unnervingly individual piece of work.' -Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ancient Images 'Factory Town is a journeyman's surreal voyage through the very heart of hell. A novel full of a crazed, ugly, vivid, disturbing energy held together by a deft hand. Bassoff is the king of creepy crime-horror fiction.' -Tom Piccirilli, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Last Kind Words 'For those of us who love the horror-crime genre, Jon Bassoff is a Godsend. Creepy, poetic, and beautifully dark, Factory Town is an absolutely mesmerizing ride.' -John Rector, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Already Gone, Lost Things, and Out of the Black 'In Factory Town, Jon Bassoff gives us Russell Carver, a man whose desperate search for a missing girl takes him to a bleak city where hope has long since been abandoned, and the grotesque is accepted as normal. By turns brutal and lyrical, shocking and uplifting, Factory Town provides a visceral experience unlike any other novel you'll read this year. Jon Bassoff is quickly becoming a must-read author in the field of dark fiction. Don't miss this worthy follow-up to last year's must-read Corrosion.' -Allan Leverone, author of Final Vector and Mr. Midnight 'No crime writer today does bleakness and despair as well as Jon Bassoff. He has the voice of a modern day David Goodis, if Goodis had been influenced by Stephen King. Factory Town is a thrilling genre bending mystery that is as scary as it gets.' -Jason Starr, international bestselling author of The Craving and The Returning 'Factory Town is the novel Kafka would have written had he lived longer. Brilliant writing, this, in the vein of Jung's shadow world. Jon Bassoff's novel is the contemporary Pilgrim's Progress; Russell Carver, the Christian of John Bunyan's work, traveling through the Slough of Despond looking for a salvation that will never come. And, then-there are lines that make you weep at their truth and beauty, like: 'She had once been beautiful, so beautiful that I almost believed in God, but beauty falls apart, just like everything, rusts and rots, disintegrates and deteriorates.' This is nihilism in its final, apocalyptic, terrible form.' -Les Edgerton, author of The Rapist, The Bitch and The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Ki.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Second edition, with corrections and amendments. ESTC T97622, with matching mispaginations. About half of spine label lost, spine and corners rubbed, bookplate (David Smyth of Methuen) and tiny ink stamp on verso of title page. 1729 Full-Leather. [vi], 477, [3] pp. Original full calf with blind-stamped rules and decorations, morocco spine label with gilt titles and double rules. A pseudonymous work by Peter Browne, this is a rebuttal of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Browne also wrote a 1733 work defending divine analogy against accusations that it leads to atheism, a view posed in George Berkeley's Alciphron. Browne was a bishop in the Church of Ireland educated at Trinity College. While studying there "he officiated as lecturer at St Bride's Church, near the college, and in 1697 he was appointed rector of the newly created parish of St Mary. His talents within the university were recognized first by his being chosen to preach at the celebration of its centenary and then to refute the deist John Toland, whose Christianity not Mysterious had outraged the orthodox. Archbishop Francis Marsh of Dublin urged Browne to restate traditional teaching on revelation, which he did in 1697 with A Letter in Answer to a Book Entitled Christianity not Mysterious; Browne was thought by some to have marred his case with repetition and personal attacks on his opponent. He was also active within Dublin in the campaign to reform manners. Reward for his energetic services came with his selection as provost of Trinity in 1699," though his later appointment to the bishopric led to controversy over his supposed support for the Jacobites. "He continued to write on theological and philosophical questions. In order to refute the Arians and Socinians he argued that it was possible by analogy to apprehend God. His arguments were expounded copiously in The Procedure, Extent and Limits of the Human Understanding (1728) and Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy (1732). These publications, modifying the earlier notions of Locke and Archbishop William King, drew dismissive ripostes from his former pupil George Berkeley, and were thought to have widened divisions among the orthodox rather than confuting the heterodox. In addition to two topical sermons, published during his lifetime (1698 and 1716), two volumes of Browne's sermons were published posthumously in 1749. These treated fundamentals of faith. One former pupil revered Browne as an exemplar in preaching and practical charity; Patrick Delany contended that he had established 'true taste both in classical and sacred learning' (P. Delany, Eighteen Discourses and Dissertations upon Various Very Important and Interesting Subjects, 1766, xiii)." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

(5 of them lacking a side or two at the beginning or end), written on her return from her second West African journey till shortly before she went out as a nurse to South Africa, the greater number to George William NEVILLE in Putney, (d. 1929, formerly with Elder Dempster, and the first Lagos manager of the Bank of British West Africa), and Mrs Neville, those to Mr Neville include an important discussion about 'Nana' (Nanna OLOMU, deposed as 'indirect rule' governor of what is now most of the Delta State of Nigeria), in social and economic terms, suggesting Nanna might be amenable to building a new town for himself and his people and provide labour for Mr Swanzy's mines, she bares her heart over the alcohol question, missionaries, amateur officials, her feelings about native Africans, always with deep knowledge and her unconventional brand of common sense, other letters deal with interviews, lectures and articles, on one of which her uncle William Bailey suggests she "emigrate not later than the 25th", others again with the calls on her energy by relations, all written in Mary's inimitable humorous style even under the most trying conditions, and with her remarkable ability to 'network', with a press cutting of the memorial, 1901, to her at Eversley, and a letter identifying the recipient of two of the letters as Grant Reid, editor of the Aberdeen 'Northern Figaro', Mary's letters 54 sides 8vo., 100 Addison Road and 32 St. Mary Abbots Terrace, Kensington, 11th October 1895 - 20th September We have not come across any mention of the Neville correspondence. Mr Neville had a fine collection of artefacts, which Mary urges him not to lend (e.g. to ethnologist Ling Roth) but to keep intact. Of Neville's account of Nanna Olomu, she writes "it is the most important document that so far has come into my hands, because behind every paragraph of it I see my beloved native law". She takes the new Bishop of Sierra Leone (John Taylor Smith) to see them before he goes out in 1897, and asks if Mr Neville's friend "the black Bishop" (Isaac OLUWOLE, (1852-1932, Assistant Bishop at Lagos, from 1893, previously head of the grammar school there) "is still in London". Mary writes to them in increasingly affectionate terms, and in 1899 is intent on finding a house for them near her address in Kensington. Checklist (all 8vo). From 100 Addison Road: 1. 11th October 1895, 1 side, to 'Dear Madam'. "It is a comfort to get in touch with anyone who is not a mere vulture after copy", and suggesting dates. 2. 23rd December 1895, 2 sides, to 'Dear Madam'. Saying a friend has carried off 'The Queen' but lending some cuttings which are "near the truth", she will be "very glad to see you unprofessionally" any Saturday. 3. n.d. c. 1895, 2 sides, to Mrs Neville. "Thank you for the very pleasant afternoon. I reached home in a succession of omnibi" which she describes with Latin names, "I am talking like this because I have caught it from the Lady learned in butterflies who has been here going on in this awful way. for hours - the coralinne man did not come. The butterfly lady" says he usually gets lost "as soon as he gets out of the museum", enclosing a proof [not present] and asking if she and Mr Neville as "a great favour" will "put a pencil through those parts you disapprove of & add anything you think ought to be said". 4. 21st January 1896, 2 sides, to Mrs Neville. "Tell Mr Neville [he] has not seen half the palaver yet", and enclosing "the article on my letter" [not present], "I shall get into an awful row when the National Review comes out, my uncle [William Bailey] advises my emigrating not later than the 25th". 5. 12th June 1896, last side only, no addressee. "I will be waiting here or come to you whichever suits you best". 6. 16th June 1896, 2 sides, to Mrs Neville. Explaining that she has had "desperate alarms and excursions over my Brother [Charles]" who has arrived safe on the Oceana, a "charming letter from Sir Gilbert Carter [Governor of Lagos, 1891-1896]" has heaped "coals of fire on my head for my light hearted cheek of him", she hopes "Mr Neville is not going out to Lagos again yet". 7. 25th August 1896, last 2 sides, [to Mrs Neville]. "My cousin Miss Chanters wedding. must needs take place in the middle of Exmoor - 16 miles from a railway station on the Slow & Doubtful - ie the Somerset & Devon Railway. I hope you still have good news from Mr Neville I have been hearing a great deal of Lagos from Mr Fowler the Govt Surveyor". 8. 18th January 1897, 2 sides, [to Grant Reid, editor of the 'Northern Figaro', Aberdeen]. Suggesting he ask "the Ladies Realm who came and filched the only portrait of myself I have. to lend you their block. As for the book [Travels in West Africa] I have not a copy, myself, all Messrs MacMillan sent me I sent forthwith to my West Coast friends they will read anything gladly in West Africa". 9. n.d., c. April 1897, first 2 sides, to Mrs Neville. Explaining that "confusion has been made worse confounded. by my relations", the Revd. William Harrison, the Rector of Clovelly, and husband of her cousin Mary Kingsley ('Lucas Malet'), thinks it is "good. to mortify the flesh, i.e. leave off his underclothes & suddenly developing a dreadful affair in his throat. necessitating a severe operation. has had to be brought up to London. his wife has done most & I the remainder". 10. 12th May 1897, 2 sides, to Grant Reid. Explaining that "the severe illness of my Brother [Charles] & the death of the Revd. Wm. Harrison my cousins husband have entailed much work & worry", and sending some mats "from Bonny River. my fish take up all my money". 11. n.d. c. 1897, first 2 sides only, to Miss Sichel. Apologizing for missing her by 5 minutes at Mary's cousin Rose Kingley's, about getting estimates for curtains from Whitely and from the Decorating and Contracting Company in Victoria Street, "do not do anything until I see you. tomorrow. do not imagine I mind doing this sort of thing. I shall feel all the be.