15 Results for : rankin's
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Hard Case: John Harding Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
Hard Case begins in a back alley warehouse in East Oakland, CA, where Harding fights for money, and to keep his skills honed, coupled with the fact he likes it. Harding does odd jobs with the only guy he trusts implicitly, his handler and manager, Tommy Sands. They bodyguard, escort tourists around the Bay Area, and do bail bond, skip trace work for a lawyer named Tess Connagher. Two events throw Harding's seamy life in the shadows out into the light. Strobert is ordered to enlist Tess Connagher's law firm to act as an intermediary with Harding in order to protect an outspoken Afghani woman whose family Harding protected long ago. The woman's father requested him, and the state department realizes they'll be off the hook if anything happens to Samira Karim while under Harding's care. Secondly, Harding fights a particularly brutal fight with a Russian mob backed fighter named Van Rankin who hates Harding. They'd had words. The YouTube video of Harding's subsequent beat-down of Rankin goes viral along with many of his prior fights. When Rankin's Russian mobster backer, Alexi Fiialkov pushes for a rematch on the UFC circuit, CIA Agent Strobert sees infinite possibilities since the United Arab Emirates has part ownership in the UFC. Some matches would be taking place in Dubai, where the CIA knows targets of opportunity show up from time to time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014813/bk_acx0_014813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Standing in Another Man's Grave: A Rebus Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
Its 25 years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and 5 years since he retired. But 2012 sees his return in Standing in Another Man’s Grave. Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit. Added to which, Rebus may be about to derail the career of his ex-colleague Siobhan Clarke, while himself being permanently derailed by mob boss and old adversary Big Ger Cafferty. But all Rebus wants to do is discover the truth about a series of seemingly unconnected disappearances stretching back to the millennium. The problem being, no one else wants to go there - and that includes Rebus's fellow officers. Not that any of that is going to stop Rebus. Not even when his own life and the careers of those around him are on the line. James MacPherson played DCI Jardine in Taggart for 16 years, and has acted on stage in plays as diverse as The Taming of the Shrew and ART by Yasmina Reza. He has presented a regular books programme for Radio Scotland - for which he has interviewed Ian Rankin. He won a Spoken Word Gold Award for his reading of Strip Jack, a Crimefest Audible UK Sounds of Crime Award for Doors Open and has narrated all the Ian Rankin Rebus books. James lives in Glasgow. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Macpherson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000553/bk_orio_000553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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If I Should Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 873min
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of If I Should Die, the astounding debut from British author Matthew Frank. Read by the actor Will Rycroft. It begins with vicious, apparently motiveless attacks on down and outs in South London. But when one of the homeless victims dies from his wounds, it's murder.... For the Met investigation team's newest member, Joseph Stark, death is already all too familiar. Injured in an attack that killed his fellow soldiers and tortured by nightmares since he returned, Afghan veteran Stark has enough on his hands just trying to recover without enduring the scrutiny and sideways glances of his new colleagues. The drink and painkillers he's leaning on to keep going aren't helping. And there's only so long he can ignore the efforts of the Ministry of Defence to speak to him. When one of the victims of the attacks fights back it's soon clear that there's much more at stake than gangs preying randomly on society's weakest members. But as Stark hunts down the truth - and the rotten heart of the crimes - his own strength is fading. It seems that the ex-soldier's determination to see justice done may not, this time, be enough to carry him through. If I Should Die is the first title in a new crime series, and outstanding characterization, pitch-perfect dialogue, and precision plotting mark out Matthew Frank as a debut writer to watch. With the introduction of series character and ex-soldier police detective Joseph Stark, fans of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels will be hooked from the word go. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Rycroft. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000484/bk_pauk_000484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation (Volume 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 9min
Triumph Can Come From Tragedy: Teaching Children a Lesson in Social Justice Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation is an immersive, thought-provoking story about a family passing on the legacy of the civil rights movement by learning about a 14-year-old boy who was murdered for whistling at a woman. The author gently but boldly diverges a story from Mississippi's once racial, hatred-filled atmosphere to create her first in a series of children's civil rights books set in the Magnolia State. Longtime devotees of the author's playful children's book that dispels rumors and misnomers about Mississippi - Up North, Down South: City Folk Meet Country Folk - and new fans of this rip-roaring brand of children's story: Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation - real, raw, yet hopeful and encouraging - join together in praise as this proven writer breaks into a new space. Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation opens in a home in rural Mississippi with Renee King, a curious fifth grade girl with a book in her hand, asking her mother, Tonya, "Mommy, what's wrong with his face?" Careful not to stir up racial tension, Tonya calls the entire family into the living room to have a teachable moment of morality, social equality, and optimism. The idea for Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation came as Rankin covered a number of civil rights stories and couldn't shake the historical relevance in today's political climate. The first line of the book - "Mommy, what's wrong his face?" - sat in the back of Rankin's mind for nearly a year before a trip back home to Mississippi gave her the perfect setting for telling the story in an age-appropriate manner for middle school students. In the book, the back dirt roads and the loving atmosphere of her mother's home provides the backdrop for a disturbing tale of deception but leaves you with a sense ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katina Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119056/bk_acx0_119056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived: Cornelius Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
The epic conclusion to the epic trilogy - and trilogies do not go out with a bigger bang than this one. Young school boy Norman is dead. His father fell out of the sky and flattened him. And as Norman did not engage in full time employment before he died he is rather miffed to have it thrust upon him in the afterlife - at The Universal Reincarnation Company. There are too many filing cabinets and much too much paperwork. The fault lies with God (a flawed genius, in the opinion of Hugo Rune). If He hadn't decided to close down Hell, then heaven would not have got so overcrowded and there would have been no need to build the extension. And until that extension is built the URC will just have to keep on recycling souls and the paperwork is going to grow and grow. And there is something very wrong going on at the URC, someone is pre-incarnating, being reborn again and again on their original birthdate with all the knowledge they had gained in their former lifetimes. Just imagine if you could do that. You'd probably end up as The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived. Or something very very wicked indeed. Cornelius and Tuppe are on the run from the law, some questions were asked regarding all that golden booty the epic pair liberated from the Forbidden Zones; questions that the tall boy was quite unable to answer. But at least they do have another epic automobile to drive around in and a couple of feisty young women with whom to drive about. They might have simply had a holiday, had they not met up with the ghost of a dead schoolboy and the occupant of a flying saucer and learned of Hugo Rune's final plan, the great big plan to end all great big plans. In this concluding part all the stops are pulled out and flung through the window. There has never been anything quite like this before and there probably won't be anything like it again. These three books are amongst Robert Rankin's all-time favourites and he makes absolutely no apologies for t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014466/bk_adbl_014466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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