Passport to Hell: How I Survived Sadistic Prison Guards and Hardened Criminals in Spain's Toughest Prisons
Terry Daniels and Sandra Gregory
Book
'Que es esto? Que es esto? Es cocaina!' I couldn't speak a word of Spanish but I understood the word...
Policing, Port Security and Crime Control: An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape
Book
Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global...
Army Sniper Rifle Shooting 3D: A Lone Survivor Assassin Game
Games and Entertainment
App
Ultimate assassin is recruited as marine sniper on contract to takeout enemy soldiers at border...
Narcos: Cartel Wars
Games and Entertainment
App
Power. Loyalty. Warfare. Product. It’s all fair game when you run your own cartel in the official...
Lost Luggage
8.0
Rate It
Book
Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has...
Xia: Legends of a Drift System
7.3
Rate It
Tabletop Game
A competitive space adventure for 3 - 5 Players Have you ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Nowhere To Run in Books
Oct 24, 2021 (Updated Oct 24, 2021)
I think I can safely say that I'm a fan of James Oswald's work and I particularly like his character DC Constance Fairchild, otherwise known as Con. She is one tough cookie and this is shown in all its glory here.
It starts off pretty sedately with Con recuperating in an isolated cottage in Wales but, as is the case with Con, trouble seems to find her regardless of whether she is in the centre of London or in the middle of nowhere! Here she is getting embroiled in a smuggling operation on the Welsh coastline - you just know from the very beginning that things aren't going to go well for Con but little do we know just how bad.
Once again, Mr Oswald creates fantastic characters even ones of the four legged variety; I absolutely loved Gelert the deerhound who embodies the phrase "[wo]man's best friend" and I guarantee you will want a Gelert in your life albeit without the flatulence!
With action from the start, numerous scenes of peril and suspense all wrapped up perfectly in a plot which mixes contemporary themes with Welsh folklore and a touch of the unexplained, this is a book that I have no hesitation in recommending.
Thank you Headline and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
Lois Sonna (aka Batman) is tired of trying to be the kind of wife her husband expects her to be. She realizes this is not who she is and wishes to be free from the antiquated views of marriage and wifedom that her husband has.
She leaves her 4 children with her mother and heads for Mexico on Easter weekend and ends up securing a job and housing in Irapuato, Mexico.
She returns to the US to get her two youngest children and promptly heads back to Irapuato to move into their new apartment and report to work.
She soon discovers how different things are in Mexico from the battle to maintain more than 5 minutes of hot water, issues with plumbing, and the lack of American food choices to struggling to imbed some semblance of American culture in her childrens upbringing and making everything work out happily ever after in the end.
Due to unforseen (and not very well thought out) circumstances, she learns the Mexican ways of bribery and upcharging as well as taking advantage of the machismo culture of Mexico. This leads Lois to consider entering the world of smuggling goods from the US back into Mexico in order to make ends meet.
The memoir was written by Lois's oldest and only daughter, Linda Sonna, who recieved letters every week from her mother. The original manuscript was presented in letter form, but later changed to flow more like a story, with much of the writing taken verbatim directly from the letters.
This is a heart-warming, laugh out loud, and sometimes ridiculous story that can only be made sense of because it really happened.
Telling Stories
Book
Telling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books...
The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service
Book
Canadian Pacific at its apex operated the most expansive and comprehensive transportation system the...