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During the waning days of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, a journalist named John Converse takes up with a bored American expatriate woman in Saigon. She invites him to buy an interest in three kilograms of pure heroin. Once this deadly package is safely Stateside and distributed to her friends...
The stark evil in this plan quickly flowers into nightmare. Two hoodlums pick up Hicks' trail the moment he arrives in Berkeley. He and Marge escape with the heroin, but when Converse gets home he walks into a trap. The thugs are not, as it happens, emissaries from the...
Dog Soldiers is more than a white-knuckled plot; it is a harrowing allegory. The novice smugglers evade a sense of their own villainy through sophistry or indifference. Converse rationalizes that in a world capable of producing the horrors of war, "people are just naturally going to want to get...
This is the at first unpromising story of three English women living in crabbed intimacy in a Liverpool row house: two sisters, Nellie and Margo, plus their brother's daughter Rita, 17, who came into their care after her mother died. Unmarried Nellie's indignation colors their lives...
The big battle in the Nottingham coal fields was being waged over miners for whom the strike will be a huge financial loss-"those who live from Friday to Friday, up to their bloody eyeballs in debt," as Joe Whelan puts it. Even the oldest red brick row house in...