Längst ist aus Kid Bellew, dem Grünschnabel, ein erfahrener Jäger und Goldsucher, einer der kühnsten Männer des wilden Nordens geworden. Er und sein Freund Kurz durchstreifen die weißen Einöden von Alaska, und mit ihnen reist das Abenteuer. Sie gehen seltsamen Spuren im Schnee nach, die sie zu einem merkwürdigen Waldlager führen, über dessen Bewohnern ein Geheimnis zu liegen scheint... Sie steigen groß in das Geschäft mit Eiern ein, das sich allerdings sehr bald als Fehlspekulation erweist; doch Kid und Kurz nehmen Rache an denen, die sie hereingelegt und allgemeinem Spott ausgeliefert haben. Von Frauen scheinen beide keine allzu hohe Meinung zu haben. Aber das soll sich - zumindest was Kid betrifft -eines Tages ändern: Anläßlich eines unfreiwilligen Aufenthalts in einem Indianerlager lernt er die Tochter des weißen Häuptlings kennen. Sie animiert ihn zur Flucht. Während er mit ihr in unwegsamem Gelände umherirrt, schreckliche Entbehrungen erdulden muß und dabei stets die aufopfernde Liebe dieses Mädchens spürt, kreisen Kids Gedanken immer häufiger um eine Person, die bereits in dem Roman >Alaska-Kid< eine Rolle spielte: Joy Gastell... Der Autor Jack London (eig. John Griffith, später J. G. London nach seinem Stiefvater) wurde am 12.01.1876 in San Franzisko geboren und wuchs in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf. Er schlägt sich als Fabrikarbeiter, Austernpirat, Landstreicher und Seemann durch, holt das Abitur nach, beginnt zu studieren, geht dann als Goldsucher nach Alaska, lebt monatelang im Elendsviertel von London, gerät als Korrespondent im russisch-japanischen Krieg in Gefangenschaft und bereist die ganze Welt. Am 22.11.1916 setzt der berühmte Schriftsteller auf seiner Farm in Kalifornien seinem zuletzt von Alkohol, Erfolg und Extravaganz geprägten Leben ein Ende

When his widowed father — once a high court judge and always a formidable figure — drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself — and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns. The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the Moors Murderers, Jacqueline Bisset and Gilbert O'Sullivan, the singer-songwriter whose trademark look kept long shorts from their rightful place on the fashion pages for so many years

I’m a card cop. I can spot a shark’s trick after one hand... then I ran into ordinary citizen Carl Breton. With him I had to first meet his wife

When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents. What she doesn't expect is that the articles will set off a murderous chain reaction – and put her life in peril. Perhaps one of the more tragic disappearances in recent Las Piernas history was that of Jenny Fletcher, just shy of her fourth birthday. The body of Jenny's father, Richard, a graphic artist, was found bludgeoned in his studio; hours later Jenny's stepbrother Mason was apprehended with the murder weapon and bloody clothing in his car. But little Jenny was never found. As the years pass, everyone assumes Jenny is dead. Everyone except her brother Caleb, who not only believes Jenny survived but steadfastly believes in Mason's innocence. Caleb, now a graduate student studying with forensic anthropologist Ben Sheridan, works on cases for the Las Piernas Police Department. When bones are discovered at the old Sheffield estate just days after the missing-children articles appear, Caleb finds himself drawn into a case that threatens to bring personal tragedies back to the present. He has a fierce ally in reporter Irene Kelly, who will stop at nothing to solve the mysteries of his father's murder and his sister's disappearance

When a mobster’s wife is kidnapped by her husband’s sexy driver and held for ransom, the only thing she can think of to do is to seduce him. But the driver plays rough — is she prepared for everything he’s going to deal out? Warning — this story contains 3,833 words including M/f bondage, rough sex, oral and anal, and a desperate encounter between two lonely people that you’re not likely to forget!

To a young boy there is nothing more tragic than to be left out of things — even the wrong things