Richard Condon Libri
Richard Thomas Condon fu un romanziere satirico di thriller, rinomato per i suoi romanzi cospiratori. Le sue opere erano caratterizzate da trame complesse, un fascino per le curiosità e un profondo disprezzo per i potenti. I suoi personaggi sono spesso guidati dall'ossessione, sia essa sessuale o politica, e dalla lealtà familiare. Le sue intricate trame presentano frequentemente elementi di tragedia classica, in cui l'orgoglio dei protagonisti porta alla distruzione di ciò che amano. Alcuni dei suoi libri possono essere descritti come storie segrete, che rivelano verità nascoste.
Best Sellers - 220: Morte di un politico
- 380pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
The Final Addiction
- 338pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Owney's father is in the secret service and he is brought up by his mother, almost alone, until she runs off when he is nine years old. He spends years trying to find her until he meets and marries Dolly, the daughter of his boss. Then his mother turns up.
A Trembling Upon Rome
- 416pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
Dark satire about the piratical anti-Pope of 14th Century Rome.
The Manchurian Candidate
- 358pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
When its real, Conspiracy is no longer a theory
Prizzi's Family
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
By day Charley Partanna is a hit man for the Prizzi family. By night he studies for his high school equivalency exam--when he's not juggling two gorgeous women. But these two may be more than even Charley can handle. One, Mardell, is a knockout, one-third fantasy and two-thirds legs. The other, Maerose, is Charley's boss's granddaughter. She's hungry for power, honor...and Charley...usually in that order. And she doesn't want to share. For Charley, it's a problem that he needs to solve--but his hormones keep getting in the way. "Cheerful and funny...foaming with perversity, rascality, obsessional religious mania, assault and battery and our old friends greed and lust." (Time)
Prizzis Honor
- 326pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
PRIZZI'S HONOR is no ordinary story of boy-meets-girl. Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for the Prizzis, New York's most powerful Mafia family. The object of his affections is Irene Walker, a Los Angeles-based tax consultant. But it's her freelancing that pays--she's a hit woman for the Mob. She has also cheated the Prizzis out of an unforgivably large sum of money. This is very dangerous moonlighting indeed, and eventually it places Charley's oldest loyalties in conflict with his newest one. Which wins? "His best book since THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE...he mixes caricature and character as easily as Charley hacks off thumbs." (Chicago Tribune Book World)
Centers on the Prizzis' efforts to influence a presidential election and ensure that Charley Partanna becomes the new president's right hand man
The Oldest Confession
- 344pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
The plan was so simple. Switch the original paintings for fakes and smuggle the genuine articles over to France. Easy. But when the originals vanish en route things begin hotting up.
