<p>Presents evaluations and ratings of more than one thousand major-league players and minor-league prospects, with statistical benchmarks for each player or pitcher, past statistics and computerized projections for 1994, and player summaries. Original.</p>

The Bill James Player Ratings Book 1994

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JAMES, Bill

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Collier Books

Underworld boss Bernie Tenderness Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright with a blowlamp. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior policemen Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles see their chance to nail a ruthless, sadistic villain.

Protection

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Constable Co Ltd

"Le Carré-like psychological ambiguities and fierce double-crosses―from an author who, in an understated sentence or two, can pack a knockout punch."―Kirkus Reviews Sarah Iles's latest young lover, Ian Aston, and the seedy gangland club he frequents both possess the intense attractive of the forbidden. When one night at the Monty they witness a fatal knifing, they unwittingly learn far too much for their own welfare of a deadly plot that could, if successfully executed, rearrange the city's criminal power structure. Immediately, the unfaithful wife and petty criminal become targets of both police and underworld observation. The Machiavellian ACC Desmond Iles, Harpur's superior officer―a character Booklist calls "ranting, conniving, brutally sarcastic, and painfully funny"―has often taken the center stage in Bill James's novels. Here the betrayed policeman allows a professional crisis to become part of a personal vendetta as well, and Harput is swept direction into the path of escalting subterfuge and violence. In Come Clean, Bill James once again explores the no-man's land of law enforcement, where human concern and naked expediency stand perennially at odds with each other. And just as in its four predecessors, a memorable drama is played out against James's striking and unique urban tableau.

Come clean

Constable

This is a crime story involving undercover agents, cocaine and weird ideas of comradeship.

Halo Parade

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Group USA

Bill James's Come Clean, the fifth novel in his stunning series of British police procedurals, was greeted with unprecedented critical acclaim upon its American publication in 1993. Readers eager for the next in the series will be amply rewarded with Take, an equally powerful portrait of men and women on both sides of the law. Ron "Planner" Preston has enjoyed a long criminal career out of jail. Caution, if anything, has been the key to his success. So a payroll van with a predictable route and minimal guard looks like a quick easy take. When the truck's schedule is abruptly changed and its guard doubled, however, Preston much either abandon the plan altogether or take on some young and risky new recruits, ones who may consider his habitual wariness a sign of the timidity of old age.Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles, are accustomed to keeping an eye on men like Preston, not so difficult a task in a milieu where cops and criminals meet on many levels: professional, familial, social. Therefore, they are quick to take notice of increased activity surrounding "Planner" on the part of his family and associates. But how are these moves to be interpreted? And where is the line between certainty and conjecture to be drawn? As one criminal aptly observes, "Chance matters."

Take (A Harpur and Iles Mystery)

Mystery

Pan Books

Astride A Grave (Harpur and Iles Mysteries)

Genre Fiction

Pan.

The Detective Is Dead (Harpur & Iles, Book 12)

Pan Macmillan Uk

A Harpur and Iles novel. Ralph Ember is determined to live down his nickname, Panicking, when he sets up his own drugs syndicate. But when an afternoon with his mistress ends in bloodshed, Ralph realizes there are others with the same plan who will not stand for competition. Who are his rivals?

Panicking Ralph

Pan Books Limited

Lovely Mover

W.W.Norton

Take

Macmillan

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