Bullion

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Goldsmith, John

Thrillers & Suspense

Arrow Books

A central figure in the political and cultural life of our time for over fifty years, Sir Stephen Spender has witnessed and participated in some of this century's most significant events and has known many of its most interesting and gifted individuals. Having kept journals intermittently for most of this time, Spender has recorded his vivid observations and reflections on the scenes he has witnessed, portrayed his friends and acquaintances--including W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and many others--and set down his ideas, hopes, aims, and regrets. This first paperback edition of Stephen Spender's journals makes for constantly entertaining and illuminating reading. One comes away from this fascinating inside look at one man's extraordinary life full of admiration for his vitality, his enduring interest in others, and his remarkable honesty about himself.

Journals 1939-1983

SPENDER, Stephen

Oxford University Press

It was probably the greatest private hoard of gold in the world: two thousand tons of bullion lying in a vault in Zurich, which had to be sold.The Greek who owned the gold believed that he was cursed by it; the American underworld who had accepted it as security for a loan wanted their money back. Yet, its sale on the open market would cause the price of gold to plummet and precipitate a global financial crisis.Two men were separately commissioned to secretly sell the gold to private investors. Eddy Polonski, a metallurgist of genius, was being hounded by the South African gold cartel. Dan Daniels, an international attorney, was brilliant but broke. Both recognized the Greek gold was an opportunity to make millions, but did not realize that there was a ruthless force to contend with: a major international bank, which saw a chance to manipulate the market fix of the century-the Gold Rush of 1979.The price of gold doubled in under three weeks; an event as sensational as the Wall Street Crash. In a blend of fact and fiction, in which the fiction pales in comparison with the fact, Bullion tells the real story.

Literature & Fiction

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

The swashbuckling Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver journey back to the legendary Treasure Island and face mutiny, capture by Spaniards, treachery in Jamaica, slavery in Mexico, and romance for Jim with the lovely Isabella Zorillo

Return to Treasure Island

Children's Books

Pacer Books

Contemporary

iUniverse

John Goldsmith’s wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks.In 1942 accidental circumstances saw his recruitment into Buckmaster’s F Section of the Special Operations Executive. His faultless French and upbringing in Paris were to prove invaluable. Commissioned overnight and after intensive training he was parachuted into France for the first of his three missions.His adventures included crossing the Pyrenees, sabotage, forming his own circuits, being captured by the Gestapo, a daring escape and black-marketeering. In 1944, now a Major, he was advisor to the Maquis in the Mont Ventoux area where they fought the Germans in pitched battles and won.Although this refreshingly modest account does not admit to it, Goldsmith’s extraordinary war is best summed up by his DSO, MC, three Croix de Guerre and Legion d’honneur.Accidental Agent is as thrilling an account of war behind enemy lines as has ever been written. The author’s descriptions of his experiences and the many colorful characters he came across are a joy to read.

Accidental Agent

Charles Scribner`s Sons

<p>The speaker is old Reuben Abrahamsen, one ofthe richest shipowners in Copenhagen, a man whohas sought for sixty years to escape his own Jewishness. His granddaughter Rosa sits by his bedside,listening to his memories of the past and to hischilling vision of what is to come. He sees theNazis marching through the streets of Copenhagen,the Danish Jews being herded off to die, the poisonof anti-Semitism seeping into a country that hasnever known it. But Rosa is not concerned with his thoughtsabout the future-after all, Denmark, if neutral, issafe. She knows, however, that it is Reuben's pastthat is about to engulf her. For, a fugitive from theTsarist pogroms, he had found refuge in the freedom and tolerance of Denmark, and a fortune whenhe wrested a shipping empire from the Larsen family. The Larsens were never to forgive or forget;and now Rosa is in love with Valdemar Larsen.</p>

Exodus '43

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

It's Easy to Have a Ladybird to Stay

Allan, Judith

Random House Children's Books (A Division of Random House Group)

It's Easy to Have Wood-lice to Stay

Accidental agent

Leo Cooper Ltd.

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