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Sacked Canberra political correspondent Paul Ryder is chasing a story that will blow the doors of a federal election campaign. Trained killers, spies, hardened political operators and his mother-in-law are trying to stop him. If he survives them, he might finally achieve the fame and fortune he craves.

Tragicómica y melancólica, esta novela nos presenta un mundo plúmbeo y totalitario, dominado por fuerzas ciegas e impersonales. Un escenario humano desolador en el que la inteligencia es anulada por la fuerza bruta y la violencia, y en el que el caos arrastra irremediablemente a unos personajes que, entre el conformismo y la insignificancia, no aciertan a crear un orden nuevo menos cruel y menos gris. El estallido de violencia no alcanza siquiera el rango de revolución y la vida transcurre, en esta pequeña y anónima ciudad húngara, sumida en una atmósfera de terror y amarga ironía.

Del otro lado de las nubes, la pequeña ciudad de Davos, rodeada de montañas nevadas, amanecía blanca y billonaria aquel miércoles de enero. Ahí empezaban a llegar el 1% de los primates habladores más ricos y poderosos de la tribu humana. Los así llamados líderes globales. En un mundo donde las diferencias entre ricos y pobres son cada vez más abismales y los cambios tecnológicos y ecológicos tienen efectos expansivos, encontrar soluciones a la crisis humanitaria se convierte en algo urgente.

Vol 4 in Bush Capital Series. With his career in political journalism a smoking ruin, Paul Ryder becomes a ghost-writer. A legendary West Australian mining tycoon hires him to pen his autobiography. All Paul has to do is write a lot of lies and bank a fat cheque. However, he stumbles upon a dark family secret, gets mixed up in murder, is targeted by Chinese spies and has to flee for his life.

Paul Ryder is still a pariah on the Canberra Press Gallery and forced to ghost-write the memoirs of vapid sport stars. However, a chance encounter at a wedding puts him on the trail of a story that will shake federal politics to its core. Chasing that story will test his cunning, courage and faithfulness to his long-suffering partner. Another fast-paced romp through the Canberra political scene and the inconsequential world beyond.

El narrador es el propio autor de esta novela. Varón de 44 años. Está escrita en presente como tiempo verbal y ambientada en Cádiz (España) justo antes del estallido de la guerra civil. El narrador adopta un estilo mixto. Aunque narra en tercera persona la mayor parte del tiempo, se permite intervenciones en segunda persona a modo de pensamientos dirigidos a los personajes, específicamente a María, la protagonista. Esto le da un toque de cercanía, como si estuviera acompañando al personaje y cuestionándolo o aconsejándolo, aunque el personaje no lo escuche directamente.

Senator Francesca Thurston is embroiled in a battle to be the first female president of the United States with frosty Ice Queen Congresswoman Margot Smith. Francesca is a trailblazer, being an openly gay senator. What she doesn't expect is the immediate chemistry she feels on her first meeting with Margot. Francesca doesn't like Margot and her tendency to stoop to underhand methods to get what she wants, but she can't resist the lure of the icy older woman. If anyone caught them together it would destroy everything they had fought their whole lives to build.

When bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin Njike loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance, he never imagined he could end up serving his family’s killers. However, that is the case after he joins the country’s intelligence. Things start to go wrong when he finds himself in the dark about operations. But it is the death of the dissident visionary Vincent Chi that opens the floodgates of his memory, forcing him to grapple with the tragedies suffered by his family. Now, there is unrest boiling beneath the surface of Cameroonian society. President Pablo-Nero Essomba, the leader of ...

He dreamed of becoming president as a kid. As a young man he learned the biographies of the most famous Ukrainian and American presidents and got their unique formula for success. According to the formula any man can become president if he does… Chapter I We all laughed at him at school. It was very hard not to laugh at a person who is telling such nonsense. However our classmate Yehor Khmurov, a.k.a. Khmurik, declared very seriously that he would become a president in future. And he didn't mean that he would be a president of the Dental Association or something like that. No, he was ...

Thursday evening. Inky Venables returns to his home town in the Midlands, sacked after ten years as a national journalist in London. It is the week before Christmas and he faces a bleak future, sustained by memories of past headlines and the hint of a job on a new Sunday regional paper. He still has his dreams. "On the principle that a writer should write about what he knows," John Garforth says, "I know about local government and local politics. This is a dull subject, but the people involved are as accident prone and interesting as the egomaniacs in any other walk of life." This novel is ...