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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
679 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hodo korosu or "naked kill," and fluent in over six languages. Genius and mystic, he has honed extraordinary "proximity sense" -- an extra-awareness of the presence of danger -- and has the skills to be the world's most formidable assassin. The Americans need...
Author
Series
Nick Heller novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren's teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C. Having...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 522 pages, 48 unnumbers pages of plates : illustrations, (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government...
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
ix, 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Builds on the shocking picture of worldwide economic corruption first presented in John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man • Features a dozen chapters detailing contemporary examples of how the economic hit man game is played around the globe. John Perkins’ controversial and bestselling exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, revealed for the first time the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins’ Confessions contained...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2005], c1979
Physical Desc
486 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicholai Hel, born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go Master, survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover — and its most accomplished and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel’s secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state...
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xv, 224 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping exploration of corporate manuevering and subterfuge, Peter Chapman shows how the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized power and influence of today's multinational companies. Bananas! is a sharp and lively account of the rise and fall of this infamous company, arguably the most controversial global corporation ever -- from the jungles of Costa Rica to the dramatic suicide of its CEO, who leapt from an office...
Series
Fringe volume s. 4
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[℗♭2011], 2012.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (957 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who are you? After sacrificing himself to save both worlds, Peter mysteriously returns to ours. But he has been forgotten, by Olivia, by Walter, by everyone. It's as if he never existed. At the same time, shapeshifters controlled by an unknown master begin an onslaught of destruction, and now the two former enemy universes must cooperate to defy a common foe. Fringe's thrilling 22-episode fourth season continues the inspired series' synthesis of astounding...
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