Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
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Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time
S.N. Behrman
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ASIN: 1892145170
Release Date: 2003-03-31

Book Description

A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearly—but not quite—priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Is it real or is it Duveen?.......2004-02-10

While this book is enormously entertaining, it's value is limited as a serious work of history. The reality is; Lord Duveen, grandson of a blacksmith from Delft, who went on to be an English Baron, was much more of a hustler than this 1950's era fantasy makes him out to be. For a more modern take on Lord Duveen try: Artful Partners: Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson.

1 out of 5 stars Duveen.......2003-09-16

This book was horrible! There was no logical order to the book because it is just a bunch of stories put together about Duveen. It is so boring, all the book does is talk about how dumb millionares were and how they were stupid enough to buy from Duveen and his crazy ways. This book was so bad, please save yourself the time and money and not buy this book.

5 out of 5 stars Witty History.......2000-12-26

This is one of the most fabulous books that you will ever read. At about 100 pages it is a fast read. Too fast. Duveen is the most amazing art dealer that the world will ever see and Behrman tells the life story of this undeniably interesting man with quick wit.

5 out of 5 stars Duveen's divine.......1999-12-16

Excellent biography of a forgotten man and his times - a man that changed the way Americans collected European art. Funny, witty and appallingly honest. A must read for anyone serious about art buying.

A Woodworker's Guide to Making Traditional Mirrors & Picture Frames
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A Woodworker's Guide to Making Traditional Mirrors & Picture Frames
John A. Nelson
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ASIN: 1565232232

Book Description

With this book of patterns and instructions, woodworkers can re-create the antique look of period mirrors with all the conveniences of modern tools and ready-to-use patterns. Eighteen mirror patterns are included, copied directly from the original antiques dating from 1730 to 1885. Beginning with simple frame construction and moving on to more complex designs, this book takes woodworkers step-by-step through every part of the process to ensure woodworking success. Designs range from a Chippendale mirror in birds-eye maple to Queen Anne and Victorian mirrors. The five major styles of mirrors and frames explored are a simple mirror or picture frame without scrolls, a simple mirror with scroll at the top only, a simple mirror with scroll at the top and bottom, a mirror with scroll at the top and sides, and a mirror with scroll at the top, bottom and sides.

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5 out of 5 stars Mr........2007-10-11

A wonderful book. I enjoyed it much. I received it in record time. It was a great buy and I appreciate the good service.

2 out of 5 stars Don't BUY!!.......2007-04-26

i bought this book hopeing to learn something about building picture framing, what i wanted an what i got was not even close. if you are a woodworker "which i am" an just looking for some woodworking plans to go by then this is for you. But if you are like me an wanting to learn something new to add to your portfolio, than this is not the book for you.
my advise is to keep looking. at the same time that i bought this book i also bought home book of PICTURE FRAMING by Kenn Oberrecht, as soon as i finish i'll let you know how that goes.....

5 out of 5 stars Enhanced with tips on specialized tools.......2004-05-18

The Fox Chapel Publishing Company is the premiere publisher of books for dedicated home woodworking enthusiasts and special project carpenters. Woodworker's Guide To Making Traditional Mirrors & Picture Frames by John A. Nelson showcases a series of 18 woodworking projects for making 18th and 19th century mirror and picture frames. From Small Looking Glass (c. 1790); to Early Looking Glass (c. 1800); to Victorian Wall Mirror (c. 1865); to Chippendale Wall Mirror (c. 1875), these patterns are detailed and presented with easy-to-follow instructions. Enhanced with tips on specialized tools (as well as tools commonly found in home woodworking shops), Woodworker's Guide To Making Traditional Mirrors & Picture Frames will prove to be a popular and appreciated addition to any home woodworking hobbyist's personal reference collection.

Scottish Country: Christopher Simon Sykes and
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Christopher Simon Sykes
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ASIN: 0517582732
Release Date: 1992-11-03

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The first book on Scotland to capture not only the beauty of its spectacular landscape and architecture but also to tell about the history, traditions, and culture from the perspective of a witty, knowledgeable insider. Through lush gardens, sweeping landscapes, and 15 of Scotland's less well known houses, Scottish Country reveals an identifiably Scottish style. Illustrations.

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5 out of 5 stars Very fast.......2007-01-09

Shipped from the UK and arrived in record time! Book was new as promised. Very pleased.

5 out of 5 stars Superlative.......2003-10-30

From the writing to the splendid photographs to the book production itself, this is a superlative volume without peer. Sadly, it is OOP but, if the subject matter is relevant to your interests or to your métier, this title mandates acquisition at any cost.
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    Charles and Christopher Simon Sykes MacLean
    Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson
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    ASIN: B000J3ULK2

    Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7)
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    Extreme Justice (Ben Kincaid Series, No. 7)
    William Bernhardt
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    ASIN: 0345424816
    Release Date: 1998-11-28

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    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss--until a corpse crashes through the ceiling with a grisly smile carved on its face.

    The body is that of "Cajun Lily" Campbell, legendary singer and onetime girlfriend of club owner Earl Bonner. The cops are convinced that Bonner killed her--and Kincaid knows he didn't. Though he swore he was through with law forever, Kincaid descends into an underworld of gangs, drugs, Internet sex "clubs," and long-standing vendettas. And at the bottom, a killer waits, targeting Kincaid as the next to die with a smile on his face.

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    3 out of 5 stars Since I Don't Have You (slow and easy).......2006-08-30

    Music is the language of love. Time is a cruel master; it keeps no secrets. The music in this complex suspense novel takes place in Tulsa at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium where the proprietor is landed with his worst nightmare, compliments of an old member of the group involved with crime in the jazz district on the North Side. Ben Kincaid has taken a sabbatical from his law practice to be himself as a jazz pianist. He was surprised to learn that his mother had been a blues singer with the group before he was born. He had the syncopation down pat, with the music from inside him; he was "in the groove" but was a bit slow letting the music take over as he performed with a black group in the jazz club.

    Even though she had recovered, she was not the person she'd been before. A near death experience changes you, not 'weaker' but with a stubborn determination to act yourself without hesitation or consternation. Once, I thought I was a goner but that doctor was wrong. Five years later, with no doctor and only a strong spirit which would not give up made her a force not easy to deal with. Thomas Wolfe was right...you can't go home again. You can only go forward. Living in the past doesn't do anybody any good. You must put your painful episodes behind, and get on with life as it it or can be. You do what you have to do. But, sometimes memory plays tricks, as we see in this story.

    The writer moves from one character to another, then back again, until we reach the conclusion to learn why things were played out on the stage and off. It is just a memory now, but here's how it played out: First, a singer who had appeared with the jazz group in their early years meets up with the wrong person to relive old times. They had made beautiful music together; but that too was all in the past now. All gone. She was no longer young, but was still radiant and time had not masked the beauty which was her birthright. She had still that elusive charm and trusted the wrong person. It was a shame she felt she had to paint herself with so much makeup to be presentable.

    Chuck had moved in next door as the murderer was moving the carpet and almost felt the pocket knife on his throat. The good neighbor would never know how close he'd come to being a dead neighbor. He had killed before and would again. Eventually, something had to break when secrets are kept locked up in our memories. He transported her body to the jazz club where he was seen taking off his disguise in the restroom by one Tyrone Jackson. Talk about sweet music! This was a Coltrane original, a Gershwin rhapsody, and a B. B. King solo all set out in newsprint. It became known in the media as the Jazzland Slaying. He didn't like loose ends but when he had one, he knew what to do about it as he stroked the shiny silver serrated blade. It was his polished silver treasured weapon. The razor-sharp knife he liked to call Mr. Entertainment. He used it to carve smiles on his victims. At the catwalk, he tracks Ben into an unsafe position and told him who he really was and why he had sought revenge on Earl, embroidering the truth somewhat. He was the one and only Hoodini, the magician.

    While Ben is in a coma in the hospital, one of the nurses talk with him incessantly to snap out of it as he is needed by those who love him. When all hope is given up, his eyes open and later he returns with flowers and chocolates for the nurse named Angela Tucker -- only to discover that no one with that name had ever worked there. I'd say that his guardian angel saved Ben for a return to the legal system and a new life with Christina.

    4 out of 5 stars A Jazzed up Mystery.......2006-08-28

    Good, easy-to-read mystery that commences when a body is found in a jazz club on the night of the club's anniversary performance. The piano player is a former lawyer who is compelled to take on a case when the jazz club owner is charged with the murder, but did he do it or is he being framed?!? You'll have to read it to find out, but the writing is good, the characters pretty interesting, and there are few (while possible to anticipate given clues left by the author along the way) twists along the way to make it an interesting story.

    3 out of 5 stars Extreme Nerdness.......2006-02-28

    This is a good plot. Attorneys get burned out. And a lot stay with it, giving less intensity to their clients because they are filling up with more superficiality. So kudos to Ben Kincaid for stepping away. He wants to follow his dream, being a piano player in a jazz combo. But he wants to play . . . . folk music? Can there be a type of singing playing reciting protesting (gently) in America that is any more meaningless?

    But it makes sense for Murder Defense Lawyer extraordinaire Ben Kincaid because he's SUCH A TOTAL WOOS. All I could think of was Opie, Ron Howard with hair as a kid, or the late Don Knotts, nerd extreme. Ben Kincaid raises the bar. How do these people like Christina, beautiful, caring, intelligent, loving, A WOMAN WITH NEEDS, DAMMIT, and Mike, the kick-butt Detective, put up with this guy? Heck with the bad guys. You want to kill him. The pages scream MERCY KILLING.

    He has a big target on his head. Everyone picks on him because he's a magnet for such abuse. So I'm sitting in jail and I'm facing the death sentence. This is not the guy I want between me and Capital Punishment.

    It's hard to get into a story where you neither like or respect the leading character. 3 stars. Larry Scantlebury

    3 out of 5 stars Not as good as the previous ones.......2004-01-05

    The previous books in the series were very good or excellent, but in this installment Bernhardt delivers an average book. It is still easy to read and entertaining, but there are some things missing. The most clear one is that there is no courtroom events in this "legal thriller". The other thing I didn't like was that the descriptions of the violence are too gory in some parts.

    After deciding to leave his legal practice in the last book, Ben Kincaid starts playing the piano in a jazz group and is forced to go back to practice when a body drops on top of him during a performance. The the main suspect is Earl, who owns the place and has established a friendship with Ben, since the murdered victim is a former lover.

    For those of you that follow the series there are a couple of interesting side stories going on with Jones, Christina and Mrs. Marmelstein.

    Of course I will continue reading this series; at least the next book to see if the quality picks up again.

    5 out of 5 stars A new one found.......2003-08-04

    I enjoy finding what I call a new Author. Finishing this book I knew I had a new one. I will go back now and read all in the series. His plotting is great and he actually follows a story line that you can follow. The "coma paragraphs" are really great. I highly recommend this book.
    One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
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    One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
    Thomas Frank
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    Release Date: 2000-10-17

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    After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. With his acerbic wit and contempt for sophistry, he declares the New Economy a fraud. Frank scours business literature, management theory, and marketing and advertising to expose the elaborate fantasies that have inoculated business against opposition. This public relations campaign joins an almost mystical belief in markets, a contempt for government in any form, and an "ecstatic" confusion of markets with democracy. Frank traces the roots of this movement from the 1920s, and sees its culmination in market populism as a fusion of the rebellious '60s with the greedy '80s. The overarching irony is the swapping of roles--suddenly Wall Street is no longer full of stodgy moneygrubbers, but cool entrepreneurs "leaping on their trampolines, typing out a few last lines on the laptop before paragliding, riding their bicycles to work, listening to Steppenwolf while they traded." Meanwhile, "Americans traded their long tradition of electoral democracy for the democracy of the supermarket, where all brands are created equal and endowed by their creators with all sorts of extremeness and diversity." Frank's close reading of the salesmen of market populism nails such financial gurus as George Gilder, Joseph Nocera, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas Friedman. Their writings, he contends, have served to make "the world safe for billionaires" by winning the cultural and political battle--legitimizing the corporate culture and its demands for privatization, deregulation, and non-interference. Frank's incisive prose verges on brilliant at times, though his yen for repetition can be exasperating. In either case, his boisterous reminder that markets are fundamentally not democracies is worth repeating as the level of wealth polarization in America reaches heights not seen since the 1920s. --Lesley Reed

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    One Market Under God is a cogent, fiercely entertaining, and often scathing assault on the institutions and pretensions of the new capitalist order and the tyranny of the almighty market.

    At no other moment in American history have the values of business and the corporation been more nakedly and arrogantly in the ascendant. In One Market Under God, social critic Thomas Frank examines the morphing of the language of American democracy into the cant and jargon of the marketplace. Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Frank traces an idea he calls "market populism"-the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the people. The belief that any criticism of things as they are is elitist can be seen in management literature, where downsizing and ceaseless, chaotic change are celebrated as victories for democracy; in advertising, where an endless array of brands seek to position themselves as symbols of authenticity and rebellion; on Wall Street, where the stock market is identified as the domain of the small investor and common man; in newspaper publishing, where the vogue for focus-group-guided "civic journalism" is eroding journalistic independence and initiative; and in the right-wing politics of the 1990s and the popular social theories of George Gilder, Lester Thurow, and Thomas Friedman.

    Frank's counterattack against the onslaught of market propaganda is mounted with the weapons of common sense, a genius for useful ridicule, and the older American values of economic justice and political democracy. Lucid and intellectually probing, One Market Under God is tinged with anger, betrayal, and a certain hope for the future.

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    4 out of 5 stars revealing.......2007-01-06

    although it seemed a bit repetetive at times, this book was right on. i guess it seemed that way to me because everything was so intertwined. Many thanks to pbs for bringing this author to my attention.

    5 out of 5 stars Very Worthwhile.......2006-08-14

    If you want to know how the economy really works and who is really in charge, read this book. You don't need to agree with all of the author's conclusions, but the the facts and arguments presented are very compelling.

    5 out of 5 stars Solid thoughtful, nails our national policy failures in a big way.......2006-08-02


    This is a very serious book, one that any candidate for President would do well to read, especially so the centrist candidates willing to announce that both the Democratic and Republican parties have sold the public into slavery to corporate fascism.

    In summary, the author documents in detail how the Reagan Revolution, and especially the firing of the air traffic controllers and the wrongful use of military air traffic controllers as "union busting" scabs, eliminated the counter-vailing force of labor unions, at the same time that government deregulated and abdicated its responsibility for a social safety net, the media converted into advertising with a "news hole," and corporations lost all moral and social standards.

    He deconstructs the "New Economy" in persuasive detail and caused me to re-evaluate some of my earlier readings, especially of Kevin Kelly and others in the WIRED generation who articulate with blind faith the democratic value of the network, but fail to see, as Robert Samuelson and this author would have us understand, that outsourcing is union busting, and the actual effect of the network has been to make it possible for corporations to outsource middle class jobs while importing poverty through illegal immigration. The net loser is the Nation, because one of its most important sources of national power, an educated engaged citizenry, is being sold short.

    The author is brutally on target when he points out that corporations have achieved a slight of hand in disconnecting labor from the value of created wealth, claiming much more management value (to the point that CEOs make 400 to 1000 times what their workers make, up from 25 times long ago). He also points out that the democratization of the stock market is code for what Mark Lewis called, in "Liar's Poker," "exploding the client. The smart money rides the early surge and then sells out to the middle class dreamers, who end up losing 80-90% of their value over time.

    I have a note in the flyleaf that this book is "quite extraordinary, almost breathtaking in scope, with a compelling array of well-ordered facts."

    Overall, while many will not like the term "corporate fascism" and the author prefers to use "extreme capitalism" while others discuss immoral and predatory capitalism, or "class war" (see my review of Faux's "The Global Class War" and, somewhat less solid but still good, Pabast's "Armed Madhouse" (dispatches from the front lines of the global class war). The sorry reality is that Americans have been lulled to sleep like sheep for a slaughter, and do not seem to appreciate the fact that there has been a MASSIVE theft of public capital through what this author calls "the Wall Street tax" on America.

    The greatest strength of the book is how the author documents the calculated and comprehensive manner in which Wall Street and the evangelical right came together to turn reality on its head, and persuade everyone including blue collar workers that it was okay to break the social contract with labor, and that what is good for Wall Street is good for America and its workers. In fact, as the author points out repeatedly, when workers get laid off, Wall Street stocks go up. His entire review reminds one of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's classic "Manufacturing Consent." Public relations has been used in a classic manner by American corporations, to include penetration of teen-age sub-cultures and the manipulation of teen-age desires. In Europe they consider public relations to be, according to this author, advanced corporate lying.

    The author draws an excellent connection between the "blind faith" that keeps the corporate illusion of free trade on the table, and the "blind faith" that led Dick Cheney to depose George Bush and invade Iraq without regard to the policy process, accountability, or reality. America is in the grip of a very destructive combination of corporate ideology, religious ideology, and political ideology.

    The author is properly and comprehensively critical of the media for failing to do its job. Journalists, a few exceptions aside, have become "filler." The author excels at picking Tom Friedman apart, and at mocking the Wall Street Journal for idiocy in print.

    The book ends on a sobering note, where the author points out that reality has a way of unmasking ideological pretensions in a most painful manner. He specifically suggests that George Bush Junior (he does not mention Cheney) will go the way of Herbert Hoover in the history books. Reality--that's what one White House staffer is reported to have said had no relevance, because this White House "creates its own reality." Yes it does--a reality of greed and theft and immorality at the top, poverty and disease at the bottom, and a loss of American honor around the world.

    First class thinking and writing. A really strong book.

    5 out of 5 stars Enlightening romp through a decade of idiocy.......2006-05-07

    From John Perry Barlow to Virginia Postrel, from _Liberation Management_ to _Who Moved My Cheese?_, from dot-com millionaires to cult stud academics, Thomas Frank summarizes, contextualizes, and debunks a decade's worth of pro-business propaganda. The major theme, he argues, was the concept of "market populism", the notion that The Market was far more democratic than actual democracies, doing whatever their copious focus groups had determined the people wanted. Frank, a serious supporter of genuine democracy, skewers their absurd myths and provides some insight into the harm they did to working people.

    4 out of 5 stars The Democracy Bubble.......2006-01-17

    If there were two overall themes guiding this book, I'd say it was these:
    During the late 1990s, it was pretty obvious that a rising tide was not lifting all boats. And for a very long time now, conservative and many liberal economists, business owners, investors, business writers and assorted pundits have equated democracy with the ebbs and flows of the free market.
    I've never read What's The Matter With Kansas or The Baffler before. My introducation to Frank came through this book with it's marathon chapters, sometimes repetative thesis', and thoroughly damning evidence of our nation's continuing problems with a form of tulip mania and the delusion that a janitor/schoolteacher/truck driver playing the stock market with a few shares has economic parity with someone like Warren Buffett.
    The title itself is an interesting look at the subject matter here: free market economics has long been a dogma among Americans. We are told time and time again that collective bargaining, state investment, and regulations over wages will lead us down the path to destruction. Also, supposedly, if we allow the foxes to guard the henhouse, someday we can all be rich.
    Frank points out that this isn't a new ideology but it has become more and less popular over time. The end of the 20th century resembled the beginning more than any other time; the middle class was slowly eroding and obscene wealth consoled obscene lack of wealth with idea that even if you're living in poverty, you can just make a couple of smart investments, spend wisely, and the idea of the American Dream will be fulfilled and you'll get wealthy.
    This might all seem painfully obvious, but Frank deserves credit for actually documenting it.
    Extreme Justice: The Secret Squad of the Lapd That Fights Violence
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      Extreme Justice: The Secret Squad of the Lapd That Fights Violence
      Frank Sacks
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      Extreme Justice: Extreme Justice
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Extreme Justice: Extreme Justice
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      5 out of 5 stars a fascinating book.......2001-08-01

      November 4, 1943. Tonkawa, Oklahoma. More than 200 German prisoners of war jammed into the mess hall of their American POW camp. Before the evening was over, one of them, Corporal Johannes Kunzeaccused of treason-would lie in a pool of his own blood, savagely beaten to death by his fellow prisoners.

      Within three months, five men present in the mess hall would be accused, tried, and sentenced to death for the murder of Johannes Kunze-a sentence carried out in July, 1945, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Here, for the first time, the remarkable true story behind these events is revealed: the stark conditions in the POW camps; the tactics used by military intelligence to tempt informants and turn the prisoners against each other; the one-sided legal battle dominated by a sharp young military prosecutor, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Jaworski (of future Watergate fame); and the passions and politics of war which insured that for Kunze and his accused killers, there could be no mercy.

      A powerful and controversial account of crime and punishment, EXTREME JUSTICE demonstrates how-beyond innocence or guilt-the search for justice can be lost in the desire for blood-revenge.

      5 out of 5 stars Facinating, hard to put down.......1999-05-14

      This book perfectly lays out the picture of world war II prisoner of war camps. From the mistreatment of prisoners by fellow inmates, to the final justice handed out by their captors. This book is highly recommended.
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        Extreme Justice

        Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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        Binding: Mass Market Paperback
        ASIN: B000HXLIEM
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          Extreme Justice
          David Blyth MacEwan
          Manufacturer: Exposure Publishing
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          Dave liked the way his life was panning out and had realised early on that normal work wasn't for him; he just wasn't suited to it. From those early days of street crime, Dave slowly but surely built his reputation, street cred and his career. He soon became known by the local constabulary and looked upon them as the enemy. The better they knew him, the less they liked him and the more he liked the whole situation. Dave felt comfortable on the wrong side of the law. Linford Graham had an uncontrollable hunch that one day; David Jonathon Armstrong would get greedy and make a major slip-up. When that day arrived, Linford wanted to be there to savour it, he would never forget the night that Dave Armstrong had blackened his eyes and broken his ribs and had already started a small undercover operation to keep an eye on Armstrong and his gang of thugs. He hadn't cleared this with his superiors though as it was a very personal issue. If his bosses were to find out about it then Linford would be severely reprimanded but it was a risk he was prepared to take. Linford was determined to put Armstrong behind bars one day and he was quite prepared to wait as long as it took until the time was right.
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            Extreme Justice
            William Bernhardt
            Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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            Binding: Paperback
            ASIN: B000SBZACE
            Extreme Justice #14 March 1996
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              Extreme Justice #14 March 1996
              Washington
              Manufacturer: DC Comics
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              Binding: Comic
              ASIN: B000VXPHBS
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                Manufacturer: Ballantine Publishing Group
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                Binding: Audio Cassette
                ASIN: 0736668454
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                  Extreme Justice (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 532)
                  Marilyn Tracy
                  Manufacturer: silhouette
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