Product Description: Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant, specializing in recovering debts and stolen money for wealthy clients. At 115lbs., she hardly seems a threat, but her razor sharp intellect and resourcefulness allow her to succeed where traditional methods have failed...read more

Product Description: Will Traverse is a war baby, a Brisbane boy, and in later life a taciturn and solitary retired engineer. But there is another side to Will - romantic, lyrical, and deeply sensitive to the culture of the original inhabitants of this part of South-East Queensland...read more

AVA LEE TAKES ON A MASTER CRIMINAL IN HER MOST DANGEROUS CASE YETIn Ian Hamilton's The Water Rat of Wanchai, we meet forensic accountant and martial arts expert Ava Lee in her early days working for the mysterious businessman Uncle as they track down large sums of money that have disappeared. One of Uncle's longtime friends has requested help for his nephew, who needs to recover five million dollars from a business deal that went sideways. Ava steps in and immediately is off on a global hunt for the missing money that has her dodging shady characters.On a journey that takes her from Seattle to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Guyana, and the British Virgin Islands, Ava encounters everything from the Thai katoey culture to corrupt government officials. In Guyana she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, Robbins decides he wants a piece of Ava's five million dollars and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share.

Product Description: La esperada segunda parte de El abrazo de la tigresa. Continuacion el titulo ganador del premio Arthur Ellis de la asociacion de escritores policiacos de Canada a la mejor primera novela. Un thriller violento y sensual que desvela los secretos del mundo del poquer al mas alto nivel...read more

Product Description: Neither the Asquith banquet, nor the talk at the Admiralty that midnight had persuaded me I was going to do what I am actually doing at this moment. K. had made no sign nor waved his magic baton. So I just kept as cool as I could and had a sound sleep...read more

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE AVA LEE SERIES In Ian Hamilton's The Red Pole of Macau, family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her half brother, Michael, and his business partner, Simon, from a disastrous multimillion-dollar real-estate deal in Macau. When the developers turn out to be gangsters, Michael and Simon are threatened with bankruptcy and much worse. Ava struggles to salvage the deal and her family's money, but then Simon is kidnapped, and the rules of the game abruptly change.Determined to keep her mentor, Uncle, out of the affair, Ava is forced to turn to a former client, the cunning and seductive May Ling Wong, for help. With time running out, Ava must use all her skills to outwit the gangsters, rescue Simon, and save her family's future.

Product Description: "Formidable...Ava Lee is unbeatable at just about everything....She's perfect."―Toronto StarMeet Ava Lee, alluring but deadly, with a mind like a steel trap, as she chases millions of dollars and dangerous criminals around the globe in this exotic and fast-paced new crime series by Ian Hamilton...read more

Product Description: "One of my favorite new mystery series, perfect escapism."―Sarah Weinman, National Post Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is Ava Lee―sleek, capable forensic accountant and sleuth...read more

Product Description: Los frascos pequenos esconden los mejores perfumes, pero tambien los peores venenos. Ava Lee, nacida en Hong Kong y criada en Canada, mide 1'60 y pesa 52 kilos, pero es experta en una letal variedad de kung fu y no dudara en emplearla para llevar a buen puerto los trabajos como forense contable que le encarga su «tio», el anciano Sr...read more

Newly available letters, manuscripts, and interviews provide details in a full critical biography of the preeminent postwar American poet, whose troubled personal life increasingly became the material of his art

Product Description: Originally privately published, this brief narrative tells of the part played in the Battle of Majuba Hill - a notable British defeat in the first Boer War - by the young Lieutenant Ian Hamilton, who later found fame - though not, alas, glory - as the hapless commander of the disastrous Dardanelles expedition...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: A STAFF OFFICERS SCRAP-BOOK DURING THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR by SIR IAN HAMILTON, K. C. B. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND PLANS. Originally published in 1906. PREFACE: IT is difficult to convey to the peaceable citizens of Greater Britain a true picture of that glorious and impressive survival from heroic times, a nation in arms...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: With a new introduction by the author's son, this updated edition of John MacCormick's seminal work examines the early years of the twentieth-century Nationalist movement in Scotland, providing an invaluable insight into people and events that help create and then shape the SNP and its campaign to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly...read more

Product Description: Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey and in doing so became a Scottish national hero...read more

Product Description: On 11th October 1915 General Sir Ian Hamilton, commanding Gallipoli, received a cable from the SofS for War (Kitchener) asking for an estimate of the losses which would be involved in an evacuation of the peninsula. Hamilton regarded such a step as unthinkable and replied accordingly the next day...read more

Product Description: Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) was truly a British man of letters in the finest sense of the term. As a young man he co-founded the influential magazine, The Review, and started a short while later the magazine Tomorrow. He was for a time the fiction and poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and went on to found The New Review...read more

A collection of great twentieth century essays celebrates the form, with contributions from Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, James Thurber, Phillip Roth, and many others. (view table of contents)

Product Description: English poet Matthew Arnold had two lives. In his youth, he was an impassioned lyric poet. In his later years, he was Victorian England’s best-known social prophet, educational reformer, and literary critic. Arnold’s poetic life that gave us ”Dover Beach,” ”The Scholar-Gipsy,” and ”Empedocles on Etna”—was effectively over by the age of forty, when he began to devote all his energies to “purposeful” prose composition...read more