Slyngelmanifestet : roman af Colson Whitehead (Bog)

Slyngler af Elmore Leonard

Thriller om hospitalslægen Peter Brown, der pludselig konfronteres med sin fortid, da mafiagangsteren Squillante bliver indlagt på hans afdeling og forlanger helbredelse. I tilbageblik fortælles den sorte historie om Peter brown alias Pietro Brnwa alias Bearclaw Titel: Exgangster Genre: Thriller Sammendrag: Exgangster er en thriller-debut med stil om Peter Brown, en tidligere hitman, der nu arbejder som læge på Manhattan. Hans fortid indhenter ham, da en tidligere forbindelse dukker op som patient, hvilket sætter gang i en farlig kamp for at overleve mod mafiaen og hans egen fortid. Type: Hardcover

Jack Whitman, 35 år, har succes som producer på en amerikansk tv-stations udenrigsredaktion med fokus på Latinamerika. Bag facaden lever han et kompliceret privatliv, blandt andet med et forhold til en gift kvinde. Da vold, korruption og storpolitiske interesser krydser hans arbejde, bliver han trukket ind i en sag, der både truer hans karriere og hans personlige sikkerhed. Handlingen udspiller sig i New York med stærke miljøskildringer fra Brooklyn og Manhattan og følger Jacks forsøg på at navigere mellem ambitioner, moral og overlevelse, mens presset og faren stiger. Type: Paperback Romanen "Brooklyn Blues" af Colin Harrison foregår i New York, primært i Brooklyn og Manhattan. På bagsideteksten præsenteres Jack Whitman, 35 år, der arbejder med udsendelser på en amerikansk tv-station og har specialiseret sig i udsendelser fra Latinamerika. Han har et forhold til en gift kvinde, hvilket

Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes." This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own. Aminata's eventual return to Sierra Leone--passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America--is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey. Lawrence Hill is a master at tr

A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel. The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family