A novel about family, adventure, and the art of the con from acclaimed crime writer Richard Lange. Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. Tinafey is a hooker who's tired of the streets. Their paths cross one snowy night in Reno, and they hit it off. An old friend of Petty's turns up with a rumour about a crew of American soldiers who smuggled two million dollars out of Afghanistan and stashed the money in an apartment in Los Angeles. He thinks Petty's just the guy to steal the cash. Petty thinks he hasn't got much to lose. He decides to drive down to L.A. to investigate. Tinafey decides to go with him. These might be the last decisions they will ever make.
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply.
How far would you go to find something that might not even exist?
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.
One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999.
From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug smugglers in the ...
Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that killed his mother: he lit the match.
"Ike Atkinson is a charismatic former U.S. Army master sergeant, drug smuggler, card shark and adventurer from North Carolina whom law enforcement nick-named Sergeant Smack.
The Smack Man
Smack Express takes us deep into this world and unravels the web of criminal connections that are at the heart of the Australian underworld.