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Raylan GivensSerie

Esta serie sigue a un mariscal federal poco ortodoxo que navega por las líneas borrosas de la aplicación de la ley para llevar a los criminales ante la justicia. Cada caso presenta dilemas morales complejos y adversarios peligrosos, obligándolo a menudo a enfrentarse a su propio pasado problemático. Ofrece una exploración cruda del bien contra el mal en el rudo escenario del sur de Estados Unidos. Los lectores pueden esperar personajes cautivadores y giros argumentales impredecibles.

Riding the Rap
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Raylan
Stile Libero - Noir: Quando le donne aprono le danze
Fire in the Hole
When the Women Come Out to Dance

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    • 373 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto-- which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky-- the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody-- but not careful. So Raylan's determined to find the fugitive's Italian hideaway before a cold-blooded Sicilian "Zip" does and whacks Arno for fun. After all, it's a "pride thing., ."and it might even put Raylan in good stead with Harry's sexy ex-stripper girlfriend Joyce.

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    Riding the Rap

    • 336 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura
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    Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he “starred” in Elmore Leonard’s Riding the Rap—an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters—including a psycho enforcer with a green thumb, a Bahamian bad man, and the beautiful, unabashedly greedy psychic Reverend Dawn—Riding the Rap dazzles with Leonard’s trademark ingenious plot turns and razor-keen dialogue. Gripping, surprising, and unforgettable, it is a crime fiction gem that any thriller writer—from past masters John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain to the bestselling mystery auteurs of today—would be thrilled to call his own.

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    Raylan

    • 312 páginas
    • 11 horas de lectura
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    El agente judicial Raylan Givens es un hombre de pocas palabras, conocido por su sombrero vaquero y su facilidad para desenfundar. Su debilidad son las mujeres a las que dedica sus mejores modales, pero en los ambientes en los que se mueve no se encuentra precisamente a lo mejor del género femenino. Siguiendo la pista de un narcotraficante, víctima de una red que extorsiona y trafica con órganos, Raylan se topará con Layla, una enfermera cuya ética profesional deja mucho que desear; o Carol Conlan, una abogada al servicio de una compañía minera cuya falta de escrúpulos le lleva mucho más allá de la ley en su negociación con los trabajadores; o Jackie Nevada, una estudiante que frecuenta las partidas ilegales de póquer; o tres atracadoras de banco que trabajan para Delroy Lewis, el dueño de un garito que ha jurado matar a Raylan después de que lo enviara a prisión. Plantaciones de marihuana, traficantes de órganos, mineros afectados por la contaminación, timbas ilegales, corredores de apuestas, criadores de caballos, delincuentes sin el menor rasgo de humanidad y mujeres fatales se entrecruzan esta nueva obra de Elmore Leonard, el gran maestro de la novela negra norteamericana.

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  • When the Women Come Out to Dance

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    This textbook focuses on the substantive law that governs freedom of expression in the media. The work bases the discussions of the substantive law on the print media, as the press, unlike broadcasting, is substantially unregulated and this lack of regulation raises issues of particular concern regarding the limits of media freedom. The book also considers the contrasting models for control of the media and the impact of the Internet upon them. It covers the impact of the Human Rights Act on media regulation and broadcasting regulation in particular, drawing upon a wide range of sources from the UK, Europe and the USA.

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  • Fire in the Hole

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    In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.

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  • Stile Libero - Noir: Quando le donne aprono le danze

    • 219 páginas
    • 8 horas de lectura

    Il mondo è quello dello show-business, che per Elmore Leonard vuol dire tutto il mondo: dal cinema hollywoodiano allo sport, dal rodeo allo strip-tease, dai gironi dell'immigrazione clandestina alle sette nazi-punk, con sconfinamenti nel selvaggio West. Il clima è quello esilarante, allucinato, della sua migliore narrativa: dialoghi laconici e folgoranti, situazioni paradossali e tragiche, eroi sempre in bilico tra legge e illegalità. Protagoniste sono le donne. Che devono affrontare innamorati banditi, mariti criminali o agenti delle assicurazioni troppo ligi al dovere. E li affrontano con le armi della seduzione, con una sessualità dirompente, con astuzia e coraggio e, all'occorrenza, con una calibro 45 o un fucile a pompa.

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