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No Safe Place
ASIN: 0345300203
Release Date: 1982-02-12 |
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The outside man is society lawyer Adam Shaw. A northerner in a southern town jealous of its secrets, he finds the dead body of his best friend's wealthy wife -- and his friend is missing.
In a world where wealthy people will stop at nothing to maintain a genteel image, Shaw must gamble his career, his marriage, and his very life in a passionate quest for the real murderer -- and learn the shocking truth about his own past and future . . . .
"A classic detective story." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Rich, complex, beautifully written." -- The New Republic
"Richard North Patterson seems destined for celebrity status, alongside Scott Turow and John Grisham, as an acknowledged master." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Ho-Hum.......2007-08-31
Main character, Adam Shaw was only missing a cape as he took on everyone in his search for truth and justice. Yawwwn!
Entertaining But Not Greatly Memorable.......2007-06-18
Originally from Ohio, Adam Shaw married socialite Kris Ann Cade straight out of law school. Seven years later finds himself employed by her father's celebrated law firm in Birmingham, Alabama. When an errand sends him to a client's home, Shaw stumbles onto the body of Lydia Cantwell. Frustrated by police suspicions of Lydia's husband Henry, Adam undertakes his own investigation--and quickly finds himself embroiled in law firm politics, police prejudice, and a host of long-hidden secrets that threaten to errupt in scandal.
Those scandals run the gamut from adulterous affairs to homosexuality to racism (the latter seemingly suggested by the infamous "Scotsboro Boys" trial of the 1930s), and before the tale ends we've been treated to several assaults, a few murders more, and plenty of southern-fried gossip. The result is entertaining enough to keep you turning the pages, but when all is said and done Patterson's plot strains at the joints and the characters are seldom more than names on a page. Enjoyable for what it is, but in the end it isn't a book to which you'll return or that you'll go out of your way to recommend to friends.
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Couldn't finish it..........2006-10-24
I read "Silent Witness" and really lived it. I saw this book for sale and figured I'd give it a try. Poor move.
The book was hard to follow. There were so many flashbacks I had a hard time figuring out where I was (not the plot - the actual place the characters were). I forced myself to keep reading, hoping that it would improve. It didn't. I put the book down about 20 pages from the end.
My First Brush With Author Inspires Further Investigation.......2005-12-22
I just finished this novel (my wife grabbed it for me at a used book sale), and I was surprised to realize I'd never read the author before. And I found more than enough to like about "The Outside Man" to gladly pursue more of his material. While earlier reviewers are correct when they say Patterson's habit of jumping around can be a bit disconcerting, I wonder how much of that is simply due to other authors in the genre feeding us a steady diet of completely linear plots. Regardless, it's Patterson's gift of descriptive language that inspires me to read more of his material, as opposed to merely the plot itself. It's certainly interesting, and has the requisite twists, but I still had the murderer pegged early on. (I'm not patting myself on the back -- he telegraphs it.) But that didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the book. Instead, I took pleasure in his style. The opening passages, in which he describes the "violence of beauty you can find only in the South," are particularly impressive, and there's plenty more inspiring prose throughout the book.
My wife also picked up "No Safe Place" at the same time, which was written 17 years later. I just started it, and it will be interesting to see how he's evolved!
good book.......2003-07-06
i like the author a lot and the story, pace and writing style were good.
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- Coloring Outside the Lines, by Mark Hyde
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Coloring Outside the Lines: One gay man's journey to self-acceptance and spiritual awakening
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Why are we afraid to be who we really are? Why do we seek to measure up to other's expectations instead of our own? Why do we so freely hand our power over to someone else? In the process of coming to terms with one's own truth and finally feeling comfortable in one's own skin, there awaits an even greater reward. The gift of YOU. Coloring Outside the Lines reveals how to get to this place--how to come to terms with one's true self, and how to know total empowerment. Coloring Outside the Lines takes an honest and heartfelt look at one man's story of growing up in the deep, conservative south. Mark Hyde's childhood was unique in the fact that he was one of a set of triplets from a broken home. He constantly tried to do things by other people's standards and not his own. He lost himself in religious dogma, six years of Baptist education, a feeble effort at marriage, and two suicide attempts. It was a desperate struggle to fit in. It is a story of the extremes to which we often go to not disappoint other people. He knows all too well what it's like to be uncomfortable in one's own skin, to seek after other people's ideas of truth instead of his own. This is Mark's account of walking away from his entire support system that defined his self-worth as a person. He had to do it for his own sake; he had to be true to himself. It was the only way to find comfort in his own skin and as a result, embrace his personal truth. You can be true to yourself. You have a right and a freedom. Take heart that it can be done and done beautifully. This is a story of how to get to that place we all desire, complete assurance of who and what we are.
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Compelling Read.......2007-03-12
This story of one man's life journey, is a compelling read--couldn't put the book down and finished in two reads. His comfortable writing style draws you in and is emotionally evocative--found myself moved to tears at several points. Highly recommended!
The Author's Spirit.......2007-02-20
Mark Hyde uses this book as a tool in which to deliver his heart and soul. In reading it, we see the incarnation of a genuine, loving and fearless spirit.
Courage to live your Truth.......2007-02-16
I loved this book, couldn't put it down. It was a moving and inspiring account of one person's struggle against invalidation and judgment. I so admire the author's courage and the strength it took for him to make some hard choices in order to live his truth. This is not about being gay or straight, black or white, male or female, so much as it is about being human and living your own truth. A great read that will inspire!!!!
Coloring Outside the Lines, by Mark Hyde.......2007-02-09
This is truly an inspired book. Mark has captured the essence of how to be true to your real self and live your best life. Once you start this book you won't want to put it down. And after you have read, it you will know what it will take to live the rest of your life to the fullest with spirit. Gay or Straight this book is for everyone.
Brilliant self motivational book!.......2007-01-23
It only took me two evenings to finish this book. I didn't want to put it down. What an amazing life story. He has had a fare share of what life can give us. And to have so much intelligence and poise to become such a strong, warm and kind individual is admirable.
I came away with wanting to do everything I can to be a better person, for me.
This book really touched my heart!
Thank you Mark. Can't wait for your next book!!! :)
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Extraordinary.......2007-08-31
This play by Wolfgang Borchert is simply extraordinary. It is about those who returned from the war and found their country, and lives destroyed, and themselves haunted by their terrible experiences. This short play should be a must read for everybody.
It was like that........1997-10-29
Borchert did not write for us. He spoke for the dead, the victims of a war they did not begin and neither wanted to win nor lose but to simply stop immediately. His love was for the victims, his hatred for those who lived on as if nothing ever happened. His work is the cry of a devastated generation returning to devastated cities inhabited by devastated people.
After the war Borchert had only two years before he died and those he spent every minute writing, knowing that the end was near. Some of his earlier poems show clearly how much he loved and valued life. Everything he ever wanted was to live in peace. Even after he everything but physically lost his life in World War II he somehow found the strength to carry on, to fight against his fate. "Whatever comes tomorrow, and be it sorrow: I say YES."
Not only Borchert finally lost. He wrote the legacy of his generation. It is up to us if their death will be remembered. Ignoring their cry will ensure that new generations will share their fate. In my opinion everything Borchert wrote boils down to: Never forget what it did to us and never ever let it happen again.
Do I like Borchert's style? Do I adore his poems? Do I admire his technique? Rest assured: with Borchert it doesn't matter.
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When a friend who taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison asked Bridget Kinsella to read the work of one of his best students, she readily agreed. As a publishing professional, Kinsella was used to getting manuscripts from all sorts of sources. Who knows? she told herself. Maybe I can help this talented inmate get his work published. She had no idea that her correspondence with a convicted murderer serving life without parole would lead to a relationship that would change her life forever. Why in the world would anyone get involved with a prison inmate?
In this beautifully written, brutally honest memoir, Kinsella shares how she stumbled into a relationship with a lifer and became part of a sorority she never thought she’d join. Over the course of three years, she spends time with and ultimately befriends the wives, girlfriends, and mothers of some inmates at Pelican Bay. On this unexpected journey, she learns of the hurdles, heartbreaks, and hopes they have for their relationships as she experiences a connection with someone who helps heal her own wounds.
As the United States continues to incarcerate convicted criminals for increasingly long periods of time, our prison rolls swell to unprecedented levels—more than two million today—as does the number of women and children whose lives are thrown into limbo and who live for their next “visiting time.” Through the lens of her own unlikely experience, Kinsella examines those impacted by crime and punishment with keen observation, candor, and compassion.
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Beautifully written memoir: bracingly honest & couragous.......2007-09-25
I think some of the negative reviews posted here stem from the fact that this memoir is so achingly honest that it makes some people uncomfortable when they imagine themselves in Kinsella's position and they lash out at her to push away the pain she's dealing with in this beautifully written and uncompromising memoir.
I'm not a soft touch with books (movies can often make me cry, but books rarely do), but i was teary-eyed reading Kinsella's memoir. The penultimate chapter, MOTHER'S DAY, is particularly moving and sensitively observed as that deals with the Get on the Bus program that brings children into prisons on Mother's Day weekend to visit their incarcerated mothers. This is a real heart-breaker with sobering facts sprinkled throughout ("According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice, as of 2000, 1.5 million children in the United States have an incarcerated parent. That same study show that women are being imprisoned at a much more rapid rate than men; in the 1990s female prisoners rose by 106 percent and male prisoners by 58 percent.").
I'm also a slow reader but this book moved around with me from the moment I picked it up: it was with me on the subway, in the bathroom and by my computer at home. As it got closer to the end, I was reading it almost like a novel, wondering just how was this story going to end. Not once did i feel myself losing interest or wishing that Kinsella had done anything different (meaning I never found myself thinking, "Just get on with it" or "go back to..."). VISITING LIFE was a riveting read; very affecting and one that you'll want to discuss with friends.
This is an inspirational title that upturns many pre-conceptions from readers (especially the notion of how any woman could enter into a--even platonic--relationship with a man in prison). Kinsella's portraits of many of the other women visiting men in the same prison are haunting, sympathetic and initially as suspicious as most readers would be.
This is a story about Kinsella's process for healing old wounds that haunted her for years and hindered her ability to trust and to make herself vulnerable by making herself available for a new relationship. Impatient readers who anonymously tell her to "just get on with it" seem to miss the whole point of the book. She wasn't able to get on with her life and it wasn't until she found the perfect combination of a "safe" man (behind bars) who was also open to doing what he could to help her heal, that she was able to come out the other side.
This is an amazing achievement.
A relationship that had little to do with love.......2007-09-21
I was intrigued by the concept of this book, especially after hearing the author being interviewed on NPR. It touched on a number of subjects I'm interested in -- the prison industrial complex, the complicated inner lives of women, relationships between people from different social strata.
Unfortunately, the concept is all it has going for it. I read this book in the same way many of us watch bad horror movies, yelling aloud, "Don't go in there! Run away! Who would do that?!" While I'm open to the possibility of "lifers" being involved in healthy, loving relationships, Rory is clearly emotionally immature at best and a manipulator at worst. Similarly, the author comes across as emotionally stunted and stuck in the past. Granted, I've never experienced divorce myself, but it struck me as strange that even after years of being divorced, she is still utterly consumed by her failed marriage to her college sweetheart. I'm not swept away or touched by their relationship -- I'm repelled and slightly grossed out.
Also, the interspersed chapters on the other women who come to visit their boyfriends and husbands seem like an afterthought to add padding.
To top it all off, this is some of the worst writing I've come across.
I wanted to like this book, I really did. Sadly, I put it down a little more jaded and disturbed.
Robert Mladinich, co-author "Hooked Up for Murder," "Lethal Embrace" and author of "From the Mouth of the Monster".......2007-09-10
There were numerous times throughout the book when I thought the author was being conned by the convict or she was trying to con the reader. However, something kept bringing me back to the book with eagerness and enthusiasm. There is a lot to be touched by in this book, but the author's descriptions of the love between her and her family, especially her mother and grandmother, are extremely touching and make it clear how she can have such an open heart. There is nothing more rewarding than reading an author who is willing to tell their tale with raw emotional honesty. I can't even imagine what Ms. Kinsella's peers must have thought when she told them of her romance with a lifer. But she followed her heart and her own path and wrote a book that packs a real emotional wallop. I commend her for such an outstanding effort and look forward to reading more from her in the future.
Visiting Life: How A Con Manipulated Me..........2007-08-31
...should be the name of this book. I don't believe this "love" story a bit. Sadly, I think Ms. Kinsella was conned by Rory into parcipating in a fantasy "love" that helped him pass the time in prison. Rory's letters to Kinsella sound like something a high school boy might write and she reacts with a schoolgirl's adolescent giddiness. Kinsella mentions that after the end of her marriage, she developed a fear of sex. If one is afraid of sex, a relationship with a prisoner might seem attractive. I found myself becoming annoyed with Kinsella, who seems to be an intelligent woman, for being conned by Rory's glib talk. The ending of the book was particularly unbelievable. Her visits to him have tapered off, though she still professes to love him madly, and he is angry. He announces that he has cancer which he will not be treating so that he can die. But, he will love her to the end. It sounds like a bad movie. Am I the only one who doesn't believe this?
A Well Told Story.......2007-08-25
Bridget Kinsella does an excellent job of telling her personal story of finding hope in a very hopeless place. This book is written in a very conversational manner, as if you are sitting down and talking with the author over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. Ms. Kinsella bears her soul for the reader, while telling her own story, the story of the man that taught her to love again, and the story of the women she met at Pelican Bay. A very good book about a subject that is not talked about too often: women falling in love with men who are in prison.
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Outside Man
Cora Holmes
Manufacturer: Legend Books
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Ancient legends, edge of the seat suspense, a heart tugging romance, and such vivid details the reader is right there at every turn. The drama unfolds on many levels, the secrets of the past, the tense intimacies of a man and woman on a grueling trek across a rugged island in the Aleutians, and the shadowy promise of Askhana.
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Outside Man.......2006-07-27
What a find! This lively adventure novel Outside Man has to be my best read this year. Ms Holmes wit and humor kept me busy turning pages long past the story hour. Images of this stunningly beautiful setting sweetened my thoughts throughout the book and beyond. The book cover piqued my interest from the beginning as it alluded to a story with a bit of mystic. Ms Holmes brought the adventure of Adam and Mel to a climax, satisfying my expectations right to the end. You may be certain I will be looking forward to seeing more novels by this gifted and talented author. Doris Telleria
Life at the Edge of the World.......2006-07-17
Having spent a summer on Unalaska Island, including a few days on the west end of the Island where part of this story takes place, I was immediately transported back when reading this book. Ms. Holmes' writing style makes it easy to picture both the modern and the historic Aleutian Island setting. She also has a distinctive way of describing contemporary life in the Aleutians. The story was gripping on many levels--the suspenseful nature of the mystery plot, the descriptions of life in the Aleutians then and now, as a native and as a non-native, the development of a romantic relationship, and the wonder of being a new mom. I could not put this book down once I started reading it, and I sent it to several friends and family members as a Christmas gift to share this story with them.
Though a completely different (nonfiction) genre, I also recommend Ms. Holmes' other books including "Good-Bye Boise...Hello Alaska," and "Dear Cora"
Floridian's review of Outside Man.......2006-06-06
This book is a great story of realism, endurance, ambition,adventure, toughness and honesty. It's very well written, easy to read and is one of those, "I couldn't put it down" books. Nothing was shocking but some things were startling. Adventure was present and with natural "outdoor man" type romance expected from one whose subsistence is of first importance and natural instincts always present. Making it through life and making a life are the basics that make this book the "must read" it is.
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The Overseers: Public Accounts Committees and Public Spending (Commonwealth Parliamentary Association)
QC, David G. McGee
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Text consists of the proceedings of a study group formed to assess how Public Accounts Committees (PAC) are working in practice and whether they are fulfilling expectations as important guarantors of good governance. Tackles such issues as capacity building, independence, and information exchange.
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In Overseers of the Poor, John Gilliom confronts the everyday politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those who know it best-the watched. Arguing that the current public conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife with political and conceptual failings, Gilliom goes beyond the critics and analysts to add fresh voices, insights, and perspectives.
This powerful book lets us in on the conversations of low-income mothers from Appalachian Ohio as they talk about the welfare bureaucracy and its remarkably advanced surveillance system. In their struggle to care for their families, these women are monitored and assessed through a vast network of supercomputers, caseworkers, fraud control agents, and even grocers and neighbors.
In-depth interviews show that these women focus less on the right to privacy than on a critique of surveillance that lays bare the personal and political conflicts with which they live. And, while they have little interest in conventional forms of politics, we see widespread patterns of everyday resistance as they subvert the surveillance regime when they feel it prevents them from being good parents. Ultimately, Overseers of the Poor demonstrates the need to reconceive not just our understanding of the surveillance-privacy debate but also the broader realms of language, participation, and the politics of rights.
We all know that our lives are being watched more than ever before. As we struggle to understand and confront this new order, Gilliom argues, we need to spend less time talking about privacy rights, legislatures, and courts of law and more time talking about power, domination, and the ongoing struggles of everyday people.
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In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask whether the men involved in the investigation arrived at the right verdict. Part essay on the art of historical detection, part seminar on the history of slavery and the Old South, Death of an Overseer is, above all, a murder mystery--a murder mystery that allows readers to sift through the surviving evidence themselves and come to their own conclusions about who killed Duncan Skinner and why.
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Fascinating lesson in history; terrible stab at fiction.......2005-03-18
Death of an Overseer starts off a murder mystery and on the way teaches a good bit on historical research and writing. In respect to the latter the book is far more illuminating in potential pitfalls and mistakes as well as demonstrating sources to draw upon. As the former Michael Wayne impresses early on he will not tip his hand as to who he thinks was the responsible for the murder. It's an interesting if unoriginal idea and at times Wayne's writing makes for sometimes disjointed reading as he tends to repeat earlier passages to the point you feel like saying "you've mentioned this before, move on!" But he doesn't move on and does keep repeating himself and frankly it gets annoying. Wayne also slowly parses out additional information to change your mind all while slowly chugging along to the end.
Wayne's writing is quite good from a historical and genealogical perspective, but the end takes a truly bizarre turn as Wayne, after scrupulously avoiding conjecture, comes up with a maudlin fictional letter from the "falsely" accursed and dying McAllin to his young son. The letter is hysterically maudlin, sounding painfully like a 20th Century writer striving to sound 19th Century. The premise is too far fetched and intended to "exonerate" McAllin in way too heavy handed a manner. For a writer striving to let the reader decide why would you include such a ham-fisted attempt to exonerate?
And therein lays the problem. Its evident Wayne is indeed NOT impartial. If he were truly impartial he never would have included this bizarre fantasy, so clearly he thinks McAllin had absolutely no role in the murder. In that respect he doesn't really want the reader to decide, he wants to steer you towards what he thinks is the right direction. I read the book and made up my own mind. Wayne makes a compelling case the three slaves murdered the overseer. Its unlikely Farrar could have created the lie about the slaves implicating McAllin without others seeing through it and Farrar had too much to lose to gamble on something so patently foolish. So in likelihood the slaves probably implicated McAllin. Whether he was truthfully involved or not is unknown. His behavior was certainly suspect after the murder. Wayne's elaborate hypothesis that McAllin was querying the slaves solely on Clarissa Sharpe's behalf is too far fetched. If Clarissa Sharpe needed that done she would have brought someone in of her same class who had the resources to get to the bottom of it. That person would have been Farrar, a planter like herself, not McAllin a carpenter. The class system that was so dominant in the South at the time would have had it no other way. Futher, McAllin stood to gain nothing from inquiring with the slaves to see who murdered Skinner the overseer. Skinner was an obstacle to McAllin and he would have no interest in finding out what had happened or who may or may not have murdered him.
Wayne looses his objectivity in a desperate attempt to clear McAllin in a non-too-subtle manner and the book suffers as a result. Had he left out the fictitious letter that tips his hand I would have thoroughly enjoyed the book. Some mysteries are just never meant to be solved.
A riveting look at how historians do history.......2001-06-20
A riveting murder mystery involving race and sex in the Old South, "Death of an Overseer" is equally fascinating for what it reveals about the historian's craft. Besides this, it is beautifully written. Historians and the general reader alike will find this book hard to put down.
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The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts)
Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
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The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor constitutes the collection of the earliest and most complete set of records pertaining to poor relief in early America. In a substantial introduction, the editor Eric Nellis describes the process by which the Overseers of the Poor, a board made up of generally wealthy merchants elected by the town meeting, attempted to distinguish between the "deserving" poor, eligible for "outdoor" relief in their homes, and the "undeserving" poor, who were remanded to the rigors of the workhouse. Because each Overseer knew personally the recipients of public charity, researchers will find here a wealth of detail about the nature of poverty and welfare in eighteenth-century America. This selection of records includes admissions records from 1758 to 1800, births and deaths from 1756 to 1771, a census and inventory of the almshouse, as well as fragmentary financial records from the period.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Tex Murphy: Overseer (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)
Rick Barba
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Under a Killing Moon: The Official Strategy Guide (Secrets of the Games Series,)
ASIN: 0761513140
Release Date: 1998-02-25 |
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Most gaming fans know Tex Murphy as the star of Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive. But the introduction to this well-written guide informs you that Tex made his first appearance in a game called Mean Streets way back in 1990. Since then the Tex Murphy games have developed into one of the most popular and successful series of adventure games around. Rick Barba's straightforward guide to Tex Murphy: Overseer walks you through the game step by step, leaving no stone unturned. The book includes a detailed list that outlines each item in the game, tells you where to find it, and explains what you can do with it. You'll also find a copy of the game's original screenplay, which offers a glimpse into the creative process behind this exceptional piece of interactive fiction. --Michael Ryan
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Inside, discover:
• All Expert Level Puzzle Solutions
• An Annotated Walkthrough for Every Day
• A List of all Items and their Locations
• the Original Screenplay for the Game
About the Author
Rick Barba is the author of Myst: The Official Strategy Guide the bestselling strategy guide of all time. He has also written Riven: The Sequel to Myst — The Official Strategy Guide, Outlaws: The Official Strategy Guide, Warlords III: The Official Strategy Guide, and other Prima game titles.
Customer Reviews:
A great cheatbook.......2000-02-13
Tex Murphy: Overseer is a great sequel. It all started with the games Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive. When I got this game, I got stuck on the first two levels. Then I got this book. It has detailed walkthroughs, which show you exactly what to do, and an original script for the game in back which has some helpful tips. And for a bonus, they also have a behind the scenes look with the creators. So if you have the game and you are stuck, get this book. (Oh, and a little cheat not in the book is when you reach the floor puzzle in the gallery near the end, press ALT-F and the floor will become safe to cross.)
Average customer rating:
- Kept my interest
- Intriguing
- A good story
- Not so far fetched
- Exciting read
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Overseer, The
Jonathan Rabb
Manufacturer: Crown
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0609602535
Release Date: 1998-05-12 |
Book Description
The deadliest document ever written must be found.
And time is running out.
It has long been rumored in academic circles that a sixteenth-century monk named Eisenreich took Machiavelli several steps further, writing a masterplan for world domination so dangerous the Pope had him killed to suppress it. But Eisenreich's text, On Supremacy, survived. Some scholars even believed the Third Reich had a copy. But when the bullet-riddled body of a young girl is found in Montana and "Eisenreich" is her dying word, it becomes terrifyingly clear that not only is the document real--someone is planning to use this explosive piece of history in the late twentieth century.
This deadly document is at the heart of The Overseer, a chillingly authentic, compulsively readable thriller of global intrigue and political conspiracy that follows a desperate search for a fabled manuscript, one with frightening modern-day implications. Beautiful, troubled government agent Sarah Trent is given just enough information by her covert office to begin digging into the murder of the young girl. Her search takes her to Columbia University and a brilliant young political theorist named Xander Jaspers, who agrees to help her. But neither Xander nor Sarah fully understand the dangerous situation into which they've been thrown. For On Supremacy has fallen into the hands of a cabal intent on using it as a blueprint for ripping apart society as we know it and creating a new world order out of the ashes of the old.
The cabal, led by a coldly intelligent mastermind called the Overseer, begins its campaign of terror. As the acts of terrorism--assassinations, bombings, the collapse of the grain market--go off like clockwork, Sarah and Xander realize the only way to prevent total chaos is to find another copy of the manuscript and uncover the identity of the Overseer--and so the race is on.
This intelligent, full-throttle thriller is the extraordinary literary debut of a young political theorist, author Jonathan Rabb, who asks: What if such a sophisticated and dangerous sixteenth-century document resurfaced at the turn of the millennium? Would it be the most thrilling discovery of the twentieth century...or the most terrifying? Read On Supremacy at the end of this provocative novel and judge for yourself.
Customer Reviews:
Kept my interest.......2004-05-04
While I do agree with the previous reviewer who did not find the characters particularly compelling, I did find enough interest in the plot alone to zip through the book. I got the feeling that Rabb himself was more interested in the plot than the characters. That said, the plot is fascinating and believable. There are a few plot twists that completely surprised me, so overall it was an enjoyable book to read. The writing and editing were unobtrusive. However, the characters are pretty flat and not memorable...hence only three stars.
Intriguing.......2002-11-21
This is not just a novel to enjoy but also something to think about. A very powerful group of people, with the objective of build a new society create chaos in all levels of the society throughout economic, political, social and cultural crisis. As I said before, this is a novel to think about because this "master plan" that Mr. Rabb gave us in his "Eisenreich Manuscript" have being applied in many of the Third World Countries in some way destroying national economies, shaking societies and classes, creating political and religious turmoils and tensions, etc. Watch out, it most be true.
A good story.......2002-09-27
I read this book before September 11 2001, I thought that it couldn't be true, now I am not sure of that, I think that it could be real that some people are planning to have control of the world, may be not the way is written in this book but in these days anything is possible. If the manuscript that is at the end of the book was written in the sixteenth century, the person who wrote it could be anything, but he has an excellent mind.
The book will not let you leave it until you finish it.
Not so far fetched.......2002-09-11
I was intrigued and engulfed in this book. It is an amazing comparison, in my opinion, to current events. Great read! I can't wait to pick up his other two books.
Exciting read.......2002-07-30
Overall, I liked this book.
The thing that really held it together for me was the blending of political theory with spy novel suspence.
Yes, there were some forced moments. The love scene was certainly one. One the whole though, the action was good, the plot semi-believable, and the suspense OK.
Not as well thought out as a Clancy novel, but refreshing nonetheless.
Customer Reviews:
Not as good as the first in the series but still pretty good.......2003-11-03
I didn't think this book was as interesting and intriguing as the first even though I was glad that we spent more time with the twins Theo rescued. Not as many flashbacks as in the first book and these read more distant from the plot. There is also several unclear relationships in the book -- for example who are Adam and David? Ghouls, childer, what? Also I'm not sure I buy how easily lend astray the prince of Minneapolis is and her disrespect for an Archon. Maybe some of my questions will be answered in book three.
Wow........2003-10-01
This book is incredible. After the last book, Slave Ring, I made sure I got a copy of Overseer as soon as I could. I haven't been able to put it down. It's incredible. I'm not going to give any spoilers away or anything, but the book sucks you in, and then just blows you away totally. The action is relentless, the characters are great, the story is awesome, and the ending is just wild, man. I can't believe I have to wait to December to get the last book.
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