Keith Dixon

Serial killers are secretive animals. They keep their deeds to themselves and hope never to be found. But there's a new man in town--a killer who warns people in advance he's going to kill them, then does it, in a variety of unusual, even bizarre, ways. Ex-policeman Ben Buckland wants to catch this man not because he's on the list ... but because his 15-year-old daughter is. And that's just not fair. Especially when the killer has sent out warnings to several hundred people ... The new crime novel from Keith Dixon, author of the award-winning Sam Dyke Investigations and Paul Storey Crime Thrillers.

I May Kill You

« J’aime beaucoup Lee Child, Robert Crais, Tess Gerritson. Je pense que Keith Dixon fait partie des grands auteurs. » – Critique d’Amazon. « L’un des écrivains les plus agréable à lire dans le genre de nos jours. » – Critique d’Amazon. Lorsque Paul Storey revient de Londres, c’est pour échapper à un événement qui a ruiné sa vie professionnelle. Il se remet alors lentement à lier contact avec les gens... mais les gens qu’il finit par rencontrer sont voyous, des voleurs et des escrocs...Lorsque Paul Storey revient de Londres, c’est pour échapper à un événement qui a ruiné sa vie professionnelle. Il se remet alors lentement à lier contact avec les gens... mais les gens qu’il finit par rencontrer sont des voyous, des voleurs et des escrocs. Exactement le genre de personnes à qui il voulait échapper. Pire encore, l’une d’entre elles est une femme escroc qu’il, pour une raison ou une autre, n’arrive pas à oublier et une femme dont l’habitude était de manipuler les hommes... Lorsqu’il fut impliqué dans une escroquerie en contrebande de vente d’antiquités de Syrie, il réalisa qu’il ne pouvait pas échapper à sa profession – un homme possédant des compétences spécialisées et le rendant encore plus fascinant aux yeux de ses nouveaux collègues. Essayer de trouver un but à sa vie tout en gardant la tête sur les épaules était son entière préoccupation, jusqu’à ce qu’un Syrien voulant récupérer l’une des antiquités volées se manifeste... et il n’avait pas l’intention de faire de prisonniers.

Storey

Altered Life

A brilliant debut novel about the power the dead exert on the living and the elusive nature of redemption. Warren Bascomb has lost his wife; his son, Ben Bascomb, has lost his mother. One believes her death was a murder; the other believes it was a suicide.

A Novel

Ghostfires

Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship. The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential connections with Nikunau Atoll, at the centre of the Pacific Ocean and once a Cinderella of the British Empire. The analysis explicates their present diasporic circumstances and the pathways through which these arose historically. The intention is to provide a basis for better prospects for succeeding generations from a critical, better-informed standpoint. The analysis relies on the partisan stance of the author, whose kinship ties with I-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau) are affinal, and his 30-year immersion among the People in question. In addition, a large quantity of literature sources and other secondary data are woven into the analysis, as situations and events are grappled with, articulated, interpreted and written into the book. The circumstances are analysed under 14 themes, namely, geographical, demographical, economic, environmental, cultural, societal, etc. The analysis should stir the waters of recent research about Nikunau and Kiribati, much of it concerned with environmental changes making uninhabitable Nikunau, Tarawa and other atolls where I-Nikunau reside, and imagining their resettlement on higher ground, for example, New Zealand, where several diasporic communities exist already. This recent research refers frequently to the social, cultural and economic matters covered in this book, indicating how relevant and important these matters are to the future of I-Nikunau and I-Kiribati. Furthermore, this relevance and importance may apply to the future of other peoples still inhabiting the world's atolls and facing whatever challenges this future may bring, climate-related and otherwise. Abstract in Gilbertese Te Abam'akoro ae Nikunau, e riki inanon ana tai Te Tia Karikib'ai ae Nareau ngke e tabe n anenea kunana ni katabwenaa te Boo ma Te Maaki. Mai ikanne ao a tia ni maeka anti ma aomata ma aomata ake a bungiaki iaona. A m'akuriia abaia b'a ana toronib'ai man inaomata ao ni kukurei. Kaaro ma tiibu a wantongaia ataei karakinan Nikunau, katein Nikunau ao karinean tuan M'aneaban Nikunau. Rikiaia naba kain Nikunau b'a te boborau n taai akekei ni karokoa ngkai. Te nako Tarawa, Nutiran, Buritan ao ai aaba aika raroa nako. Ana kamateb'ai Te -Imatang aei e boboto iaon karakinan te I-Nikunau ma ana kakam'akuri ma ana waaki iaon abana ae Nikunau AO ni boboto riki iaon m'am'a nangaia nakon aaba ake itinanikun Nikunau ike a riki b'a ianena ao tera aroia ni kakam'akuri mani waaki ngkai ai te naan I-Abatera ngaiia.

The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People

Acclimatising to Higher Ground

Blues Insider is an alternative history of Birmingham City; a fascinating personal collection of behind-the-scenes stories from the past 25 years - straight from the pen of a man who's been on the inside. A lifelong Bluenose for more than 60 years, author Keith Dixon has written about the club he loves since the 1980s - and it's a career which has taken him on a fantastic journey. This isn't a trawl back through the glory years: Birmingham are a club which has never won the league championship, never held aloft the FA Cup, not qualified for the Champions League. Forget the match results, player appearances, goals scored, transfers and loan deals, this book takes a fresh approach and looks back at the period and gives a fresh perspective on the club, and gives new insight into the key events. With forewords from two Blues legends from the era, Trevor Francis and Barry Fry, the book draws on the author's dealings with the key characters at the club as he sheds new light on a quarter of a century at St Andrew's to life.

Blues Insider

FEVEREIRO DE 1942: O Struma, um navio à vapor, explode e afunda no Mar Negro, afogando 768 judeus romenos fugindo dos nazistas e indo para a Palestina, e para a segurança. JUNHO DE 1944: Trinta e um soldados do Serviço Aéreo Especial são capturados atrás de linhas inimigas e são forçados a cavar seus próprios túmulos antes de serem mortos e enterrados em uma floresta no coração da França. SETENTA ANOS DEPOIS: Uma jovem mulher é atacada no jardim zoológico de Edimburgo, o atacante procura o documento que pode ligar estes dois eventos de guerra. O investigador particular Sam Dyke resgata a mulher, Chantal Bressette, e embarca em uma missão para descobrir por que o documento que ela carrega está sendo procurado por um alto funcionário do governo e sua equipe de ex-bandidos do Exército. Eles seguem uma série de pistas que os levam, a uma vila isolada no centro da França, rastreada pelos bandidos e ministro do governo Gideon Blake, que fica obcecado em descobrir o que o documento revela porque acredita que implica sua família em um crime de guerra. O é o terceiro da série de investigações de Sam Dyke do autor Keith Dixon. Se você gosta de thrillers de movimento rápido com as mesmas raízes de O Dia do, os filmes de Jason Bourne e Jack Reacher de Lee Child, então você vai adorar “Um Mergulho Para o Passado”.

Uma Travessia Difícil

¡Sam Dyke está de regreso! El detective privado que nunca se da por vencido hasta que los malos sean capturados, o aún peor. Para Sam, este caso en particular no promete mucho. Su cliente es una secretaria que observa a su jefe desmoronarse, y ella no puede soportarlo. El caso exige sutileza y astucia y este no es su tipo de trabajo normal. Pero ella le agrada y lo acepta de todas maneras. Y luego descubre que no son las presiones del trabajo las que acaban con su jefe sino sus colegas, un culto de científicos. Su líder es un visionario/profeta híper-inteligente cuya filosofía personal lo conduce a un acto final: producir un evento calamitoso que va a acabar con la vida de cientos de personas. O más. Dyke se pone en camino para que este loco no logre sus objetivos. Un camino que lo pone en peligro, a su nueva compañera y pareciera que también a cualquier otro que se interponga en el camino de este plan apocalíptico...

El Sombrío

Having witnessed the failure of his third movie, New York filmmaker Michael Jacobs agrees to help his financially troubled producer to fix a horse race, only to find himself deeply in debt and fleeing for his life. By the author of Ghostfires. 15,000 first printing.

The Art of Losing

L'investigatore privato Sam Dyke viene assunto per trovare un uomo rilasciato di prigione e sparito subito dopo. Ma l’ex galeotto è un ex poliziotto che potrebbe essere stato incriminato per un crimine che non aveva mai commesso. Lavorando per la figlia dell’uomo, Sam scopre rapidamente che non si tratta di un semplice caso di persona scomparsa: ci sono altre persone coinvolte, compreso il proprietario di un casinò di lusso e un ufficiale di polizia. E quando i brutali rappresentanti di un gruppo di asiatici compare con tutta la loro persuasione, Sam sa che deve scoprire la verità, prima che tutte le persone che ama diventino potenziali obiettivi....

La Ragazza Strana

Elizabeth Daniel

Andrew Myers

Those managing organisations are often criticised for being ‘faddish’ in their use of new management ideas or innovations, too easily falling into the trap of adopting the latest new idea or concept because it is ‘flavour of the month’. This research-based report presents an in-depth account and analysis of the adoption and implementation of two popular large-scale managerial innovations in four different organisations. It provides case studies of actual adoption and implementation of the balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices. The study explores the reasons for the adoption of the innovations and how these reasons shape implementation success. The report also provides examples of good practice that practising managers use to improve the implementation of new management practices in their own organisations. • Presents an original research-based study that explores the reasons why organisations adopt new management practices (e.g. balanced scorecard and programme/project management offices) • Links the reasons for adoption with the success of implementation • Provides examples of good practice that can improve the implementation of new management practices in organisations

The adoption and implementation of managerial innovations

Don't Blame the Tools

Gil Merrick gave his life and soul to Birmingham City, serving it as player and manager before the club broke his heart with the manner of his dismissal. Loyalty could have been Gil's middle name. His time at the club coincided with many of the best days

Gil Merrick

Trevor Francis

Compelling, entertaining, and refreshingly honest, One in a Million is the autobiography of Trevor Francis, the subject of the first £1 million transfer fee in soccer history--a record for all time. As a 16-year-old, Francis set a record as the youngest player to score four goals in a match--and so his career journey began to unfold, encountering a seemingly endless succession of superlatives, larger-than-life characters, and astonishing events. Trevor played professionally in England, the U.S. and Scotland, in Italy and Australia. He gained 52 England caps, and won the European Cup on his debut in the competition. He played his part in the English revolution at Glasgow Rangers and managed QPR, Crystal Palace, Sheffield Wednesday, and Birmingham City. Trevor takes the reader with him into dressing rooms, into boardrooms, and on to the field of play, providing a wealth of revelations and remarkable stories.

One in a Million

When Paul Storey comes home from London he's escaping an event that ruined his professional life. Now he's slowly making contact with people again ... but the people he winds up meeting are lowlifes, thieves and conmen. Exactly the kind of people he was trying to escape. Worse, one of them is a con-woman who, for some reason, he can't get out of his mind and who has a habit of manipulating men ... When he gets involved in a scam to sell smuggled antiquities from Syria he realises he can't escape being a copper either-and one with a specialised skill that makes him even more desirable to his new colleagues. Finding a purpose in life while keeping his head connected to his shoulders keeps him busy, until a Syrian who wants the return of one of the stolen antiquities shows up ... and he's not inclined to take prisoners.

Keith Dixon

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