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...listen to while the three spent 20 minutes rifling through files. Then they checked the bound detective's circulation, packed up some files and disappeared. When news of the burglary filtered out, tremors went through Special Branch's network of informers and operatives. Slipups like this can mean a bullet in the head or a bomb reaching its target...
...giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling and the visceral sexuality of her characters suggest something more like Jeffrey Eugenide's 'Virgin Suicides.' Rabinyan is not yet well know in the U.S., but her move...
...young Neil Sedaka's face and prepubescent tenor singing voice, Sidney is a grinning naif who can't wait to be corrupted. J.J. takes him as a prot?g?, creates him out of nothing, to use him and then destroy him, return him to nothing: zero, with a bullet...
...Waverly Novels”—essentially tales of British people killing each other, the most famous of which is “Ivanhoe”—with a large crater on the top, into which juts the hilt of a knife adjacent to a bullet. The other sculpture, labeled as being part of the Forgotten Writer Series, celebrates forgotten writer Eugene Field—don’t worry, I hadn’t heard of him either, which is the point of the series. His books are stacked on top of each other...
...that’s before she dons a bullet-proof vest and the uniform of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), and straps on her gun belt, filled with a baton, two-way radio, pepper spray, handcuffs and a nine millimeter Glock 22 handgun...