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King Rat - China Mieville - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

King Rat - China Mieville - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

King Rat blends eerie fairy tale and contemporary urban fantasy in China Miéville''s fantastical debut.Something is stirring in London''s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul''s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the night-land behind London''s façade, in sewers and slums and rotting dead spaces, Saul must learn his true nature. Grotesque murders rock the city like a curse. Mysterious forces prepare for a showdown. With Drum and Bass pounding the backstreets, Saul confronts his bizarre inheritance - in the badlands of South London, in the heart of darkness, at the gathering of the Junglist Massive. Like the DJ says: ''Time for the Badman.''

DKK 120.00
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree - Ann Weisgarber - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree - Ann Weisgarber - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers & long-listed for the Orange Prize It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn’t rained in months, the cattle bellow with thirst, and supplies are dwindling. Pregnant, and struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but she knows that her husband will never leave his ranch. Moving and majestic, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an unforgettable novel about love and loyalty, homeland and belonging. Above all, it is the story of one woman’s courage in the face of the most punishing adversity.

DKK 113.00
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Walk Me to the Distance - Percival Everett - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Walk Me to the Distance - Percival Everett - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times David Larson can never go home.His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won''t even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming.There he finds lodging with Chloë Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the unmistakable spectre of violence. Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western''s codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haunting landscape of the American badlands, where cruelty is the lingua franca. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Percival''s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel James in paperback now.

DKK 126.00
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Walk the Wire - David Baldacci - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Walk the Wire - David Baldacci - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Remember his name: FBI Agent Amos Decker is back in a thrilling memory man investigation. From the number one bestselling author of The 6:20 Man , David Baldacci. A town with a secret. A lone hunter discovers the remains of a woman in North Dakota’s Badlands. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her, reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows – but there is no slab, morgue or camera in sight. A victim without a past. The FBI decide to investigate Irene Cramer''s death, as key questions surface around her mysterious past. Little is known about this school teacher, where she came from or her true identity. But she clearly had something to hide. A hero with a unique skill. FBI investigator Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers. They travel to the local community of London, North Dakota – a town which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence.Decker soon realizes that the nearby ‘eye in the sky’, the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues. And that this town holds secrets so explosive, they could destabilize the entire country . . Walk the Wire by David Baldacci is the sixth book in the Amos Decker series. Continue the investigative thrillers with Long Shadows . Once read, never forgotten.

DKK 119.00
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