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Hugh McLeave
Bio: Among those he once covered a too close-up look at an H-bomb test and interviewed such disparate individuals as J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the A-bomb; and Klaus Fuchs, who revealed its secrets to the Russians. He knew the men who trail-blazed modern heart surgery on which he wrote the first popular book, The Risk Takers. Hugh McLeave’s twenty-three books include the novels A Question of Negligence and No Face in the Mirror, written around his psychiatric sleuth Gregor Maclean. His nonfiction list comprises The Last Pharaoh, the life of King Farouk, also a film; a biographical history of the Foreign Legion, The Damned Die Hard; A Man and His Mountain, the life of the painter, Paul Cézanne; and A Moment of Truth—published by Boson Books—a biographical novel on the life and times of Zola. Joining these is McLeave's history of the most spectacular art thefts, Rogues in the Gallery.
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A Moment of Truth: The Life of Zola [Secure Mobipocket]
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 A Moment of Truth is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France. A Moment of Truth tells of Zola's early struggle against poverty and incomprehension; his blood-brother friendship with Paul Cezanne; his backing of the scorned Impressionists; his monumental creation of twenty Rougon-Macquart novels depicting and dissecting the French Second Empire in raw and often lurid prose. Finally, this book details Zola's courageous comb... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Rogues in the Gallery: The Modern Plague of Art Thefts [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Hugh McLeave
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Rogies in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave has researched the whys and wherefores of the question for years, drawing on resources available to him through agencies such as Interpol, the FBI, the French Sūreté, and Scotland Yard.
(Published: 2003)
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The Bent Pyramid [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk albeit gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator at the Aspenwall Museum to fetch Sir William Garfield Tate's papers from his widow. Chisholm stumbles on an envelope containing snapshots of a horde of pharaonic jewelry never seen before. When the Aspenwall governors learn about the jewel hoard they decide to send Chisholm to Egypt to find it for their museum. In Cairo, he soon discovers Garfield Tate and his Nubian mistress were probably murdered and Lady Garfi... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Bent Pyramid [MultiFormat]
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 Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk and gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator to find a horde of pharaonic jewelry found in an envelope in the late Sir William Garfield Tate's papers. Tate and his Nubian mistress were killed for these jewels. Ewan embarks on an adventure to find both the jewels and the murderers ... before they find him. (Published: 2001)
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White Pawn on Red Square [Secure Mobipocket]
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At the height of the Cold War, a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin and use it as a hostage to free her dissident brother and others from a Siberian gulag. She recruits five people, each with a motive for settling scores with Lenin; she lures an English diplomat, who loves her, into the conspiracy. But someone is a traitor; two plotters die and four others land in the notorious Lubyanka prison before one of the group hatches a plan to outwit the KGB. Don't miss this exciting... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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