Banksy
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Sadly not , hardback , but picked up for about a fiver just before Christmas.
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iscalad
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Thanks. I'll wait then
Moomin Grecian
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“The Deal”
It’s an inside look into the role agents play in today’s football transfers. This is an area that interests me as it’s good to get a bit of an inside view about what goes on during negotiations.
It’s an inside look into the role agents play in today’s football transfers. This is an area that interests me as it’s good to get a bit of an inside view about what goes on during negotiations.
Hunter Killers: The Dramatic Untold Story Of The Royal Navy's Most Secret Service. By Iain Ballantyne
There are two classes of nuclear submarines that are fought in a very different fashion. Firstly there's the SSBN which which carry nuclear tipped missiles and who stealthily go on patrol (usually about 8 weeks duration) doing their level best never to be tracked or located. Then there is the SSN whose primary role is to locate and destroy enemy warships, be they SSN's or surface units before they can cause harm.
It's interesting to note that a SSN has 2 crews and that 24 hours after a patrol finishes the next crew up is in control while both crews combine to resupply the essentials before it once again resumes patrol.
There are two classes of nuclear submarines that are fought in a very different fashion. Firstly there's the SSBN which which carry nuclear tipped missiles and who stealthily go on patrol (usually about 8 weeks duration) doing their level best never to be tracked or located. Then there is the SSN whose primary role is to locate and destroy enemy warships, be they SSN's or surface units before they can cause harm.
It's interesting to note that a SSN has 2 crews and that 24 hours after a patrol finishes the next crew up is in control while both crews combine to resupply the essentials before it once again resumes patrol.
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When the Telegraph had an article about it, it was in the Lifestyle section aimed at 'Men'.Felix the Railway Cat, By Kate Moore. About the cat that lives at Huddersfield railway station. Don't judge meI was on holiday when I selected it, and wanted something easy to read. All I had unread on my Kindle was some stuff written by George Orwell, wasn't in the mood!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/meet-felix-huddersfield-station-cat-100000-followers-book-deal/
Unless that's because most trainspotters are men, of course ;-)
The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by By Philip Carlo
Richard Kuklinski claimed to have killed over 200 people while claiming many to be Mafia contracts. One such contract claimed was the boss of one of New York's five "families."
Kuklinski earned the name 'iceman' because many of his victims were dumped in freezers so confusing their time of death. He used clubs, guns, knives (nape of neck and upwards into the brain) while aerosols containing cyanide was also popular (clean and quick). For those who wanted the 'hit' to suffer before death he take the victim to a rural New Jersey cave, pegged them to the ground, set up lights and a camera and film rats eating them alive.
Richard Kuklinski claimed to have killed over 200 people while claiming many to be Mafia contracts. One such contract claimed was the boss of one of New York's five "families."
Kuklinski earned the name 'iceman' because many of his victims were dumped in freezers so confusing their time of death. He used clubs, guns, knives (nape of neck and upwards into the brain) while aerosols containing cyanide was also popular (clean and quick). For those who wanted the 'hit' to suffer before death he take the victim to a rural New Jersey cave, pegged them to the ground, set up lights and a camera and film rats eating them alive.
The Mitchell book, a collection of his newspaper columns, was quite disappointing, no wonder I didn't get through it on holiday that time!
Since read another Frederick Forsyth thriller - The Cobra - about an attempt to rid the world of Cocaine. Very good.
Now reading Iain Banks' "Transition". So far so odd.
Banksy
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Painting the Darkness , Robert Goddard.Long lost , believed dead , son comes back to fight for his baronetcy.
Is he or isn’t he the heir , that is the question. Six hundred well written pages and although I think I ‘ve guessed what will happen two thirds in , I ‘m still enjoying it
Is he or isn’t he the heir , that is the question. Six hundred well written pages and although I think I ‘ve guessed what will happen two thirds in , I ‘m still enjoying it
iscalad
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An 8/10 book for me.