Bøger af Robert Stone

In a story that will appeal to lovers of wine and to devotees of murder mysteries, Harry Benson is The Wine Detective. When a member of an elite wine tasting group is poisoned, Harry is called in by the police to help their investigation; Harry has a unique gift: he can instantly recognise a wine he has previously tasted.The investigation into the murder results in Harry realising that a big fine wine swindle is going on. The action moves from Scotland Yard to the Old Bailey via Bordeaux, Hong Kong and Bali. Harry's the only person who can stop the swindle and bring the murderer to justice, but his life is complicated by a developing romance - with a policewoman!

We are about to experience a new spiritual dimension of glory that will unleash all the glorious treasures of heaven! Position yourself now that you may participate in this next great move of God! Webster defines a "paradigm shift" as "an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way." The church has experienced several such "shifts." Dynamic outpourings have always begun with prophetic promptings, which initiate the spiritual transformation from an established and acceptable reality to the establishment of a new, fresh, and dynamic spiritual way. We stand on the brink of another such extravagant outpouring of God's Divine Presence. This powerful new book will open the eyes of your heart to the coming lavish and global manifestation of glory!

A young person has a tremendous amount of information to assimilate and try to make sense of. The daily routine of getting up and going to bed often sandwiches events that, with hindsight, could be described as bizarre but at the time accepted as the norm. Normality is a term reserved for the adult world because when a young person's experience has no benchmark for comparison, everything is normal. These short tales demonstrates a youthful innocence of simply accepting and being awestruck with the unintended consequences. Young people found entertainment more by accident than by planning. The same mindset is still around but sometimes hidden by a digitally enhanced world. These stories have been changed slightly to protect the innocent and also the not so innocent. But, like all fiction, they have their origins based on fact. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did recalling them.

Lacey's is a cafe in New York where we see three different scenes at the same table, all linked by a common thread, if you can find it. In Blackbeard's Ghost Ed finds his ancestral line goes back to notorious character, with consequences reaching into the present. Rabbit & Mole: Julie lives in Queens, NY. Her past, on the streets, sleeping rough, though behind her is never very far away, as she discovers one cold Christmas. These and other short stories are the best of Robert Stone. The brevity of the format doesn't limit what can be packed into a few words. 'MOMENTS' is exactly that, a collection of moments in life, with unseen beginnings and unknown endings. Nevertheless, compelling, like overhearing a conversation of which we know nothing, and yet are intrigued.

"When Mason Wilson from the NSA teams with Richard Jackson of the British MI6 to find a Chemical Engineer who has disappeared in the oil and gas fields of Siberia, an avalanche of unexpected and unintended consequences tumbles down. High tech fraud, murder, attempted murder, people trafficking and prostitution are but a small part of this game of cat and mouse where joint security operations are always A Step Behind. Intelligence operatives from both sides of the previous 'Iron Curtain' are unable to identify the dark force controlling illicit global activities. A cyber puppeteer remains nameless behind a shield of electronic wizardry to the end. The final shocking twist leaves the combined talents of the NSA and MI6 stunned."

This Revised edition of A Guide to Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2023. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from their investments, and also protect investments.

Discover hidden gems of wilderness in the Los Angeles metropolitan area! Despite the imminent presence of the city, there exists thousands of acres of natural, undeveloped land and hundreds of miles of hiking trails. Highlights include year-round waterfalls, wildlife preserves, lighthouses, boardwalk beach strolls, Griffith Park, the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign, intriguing metropolitan walks, commanding panoramic overlooks, and shady canyon retreats. This comprehensive guide also includes a large selection of trails for the rugged San Gabriel Mountains and many points of access to beaches and the coastline. Residents and visitors alike will find this book essential to locating an amazing number of hiking opportunities.

San Luis Obispo County is located in Central California where the white sand beaches progress into steep, rocky headlands. The coastal landscape is backdropped by the 5,000-foot Santa Lucia Range, interspersed with verdant farmland and national forests. The unique geography and a temperate, year-round climate creates an outstanding hiking environment. This greatly expanded third edition is easily the most comprehensive hiking guide in the area. Highlights include secluded coves and tidepools along the Pacific, rocky promontories atop volcanic morros, massive sand dunes, waterfalls, lighthouses, cool canyon retreats, swimming holes, and panoramic views that span from the inland mountains to the ocean. Numerous maps and accurate directions make these hiking adventures stress free.

"A stunning novel by a great American writer."--Washington PostJerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and madmen of many faiths. In this most fractious city, a plot unfolds to bomb the sacred Temple Mount.Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, stumbles upon the plot while investigating religious fanatics. Entangled in the intrigue are a nightclub singer, an unstable Jewish guru, a strung-out Kabbalist seeking the messiah, and a soldier of fortune routinely found at the world's violent clashes. A confrontation in Gaza, a chase through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze--as Lucas races against time, he uncovers the duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle.An explosive bestseller, Damascus Gate lays bare the dangers at the fringes of faith."A transcendent thriller."--Time"Brims over with plots, subplots, and an impressive array of incisively drawn characters . . . The range of [Stone's] knowledge is spectacular."--The New Yorker"Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth--and its effect on those who think they own it--with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality."--San Francisco Chronicle

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists." -- Madison Smartt Bell "Brilliant." -- Washington Post At an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must end his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences. Death of the Black-Haired Girl is an irresistible tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight. "At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise, brave, and beautifully just." -- Boston Globe "Unsettling and tightly wrought--and a worthy cautionary tale about capital-C consequences." -- Entertainment Weekly "A taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully crafted language." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

Big Sur is an amazing stretch of spectacular coastline where the Santa Lucia Mountains quickly rise over 5,000 feet from the ocean. Along the craggy shoreline are isolated beaches, tide pools, waterfalls, canyons, and redwood groves. A well-designed trail system of more than 300 miles ventures along the coast and across the slopes and peaks of the Santa Lucia range, offering unparalleled views of the mountains merging with the ocean.This completely updated edition includes 99 unforgettable hikes. Many trails are found along the amazing coastline; other hikes explore the interior canyons and mountains. The routes have been chosen to offer a great selection of shoreline excursions, wilderness hikes, cool canyons, and panoramic overlooks while including a range of hiking levels.

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length-some are almost novellas, others no more than a page-but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses-by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive-that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.

The Central California coast has some of the most spectacular scenery in the state. Crashing surf pounds against craggy headlands or washes ashore expansive beaches, while undulating mountains run parallel to the coastline. These 120 coastal hikes provide access to the shoreline, describe the best trails in the state parks, and offer many opportunities to explore the beautiful landscape. A range of hikes accommodates amateur to avid hikers, from urban strolls to panoramic peak trails.

Napa Valley is a beautiful, verdant basin framed by mountain ranges running parallel to the wide valley bottom. Thousands of acres of public greenspace lie interspersed amongst the region's world-renown wineries. This comprehensive collection of 88 great day hikes provides access to the many trails though the valley, across mountain ranges, alongside bays and rivers, and through cool forests. A wide range of hikes accommodates amateau to avid hikers, from urban strolls to panoramic peak trails.

Day Hikes in Yellowstone National Park is a cross-section of 82 great day hikes throughout this incredible park, from level boardwalk trails to mountainous treks up to panoramic overlooks. Highlights include vibrating views of thundering waterfalls, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, unusual thermal features, expansive meadows, crystalline alpine lakes, and 360-degree vistas of the park.

Robert Stone's remarkable novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous - and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul. Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed. In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone's greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author's sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man's mind. What he finds there defies expectations.

In this towering story about a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone again demonstrates that he is "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (New York Review of Books). Inviting comparison with the great sea novels of Conrad, Melville, and Hemingway, Outerbridge Reach is also the portrait of two men and the powerful, unforgettable woman they both love - and for whom they are both ready, in their very different ways, to stake everything. As the San Francisco Chronicle said, "Robert Stone asks questions of our time few writers could imagine and answers them in narratives few readers will ever quite forget."

The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Under the Pitons" is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a riveting account of the tangled lines that weave together the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.