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BESTSELLER NAZIONALE • Una raccolta di racconti “di prima qualità” che esplorano, con grande affetto, umorismo e intuizione, la condizione umana in tutte le sue imperfezioni. Un cronista di un giornale di provincia con idee antiquate sul mondo moderno. Un veterano della Seconda Guerra Mondiale che affronta le sue cicatrici emotive e fisiche. Un attore di secondo piano catapultato in una fama improvvisa e in un frenetico tour stampa. Quattro amici in viaggio verso la luna a bordo di un razzo costruito nel cortile. Queste sono solo alcune delle storie che Tom Hanks cattura nella sua prima opera di narrativa. I racconti sono legati da un elemento comune: in ognuno di essi, una macchina da scrivere gioca un ruolo, a volte minore, a volte centrale. Per molti, le macchine da scrivere rappresentano un livello di artigianato, bellezza e individualità sempre più difficile da trovare nel mondo moderno. In queste storie, Hanks raggiunge con grazia quel livello degno di una macchina da scrivere. Alternando toni fantastici, arguti e toccanti, Uncommon Type lo stabilisce come una nuova voce benvenuta e meravigliosa nella narrativa contemporanea.

"Jan Fabel has returned to the Hamburg murder squad to track down a horrifying killer. Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, there is a massive storm hitting the city. After the flood waters recede, a headless torso is found washed up. At first Jan believes this may just be another victim of a serial rapist and murderer who is stalking his victims through social network websites, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the city. But he soon discovers that the situation is far more complex and even more sinister. Fabel's investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult called 'Pharos', the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire, Dominik Korn. Fabel finds his skills as a policeman are being tested to their limits as he is drawn into an unfamiliar, high-tech world of cyberspace, where anyone can be anybody or anything they want. Jan quickly figures out that he is no longer the hunter, but the hunted."--Publisher

Mike Ford was following his father into a life of crime, when he chose to go straight and instead worked his way through Harvard Law School. Now he's landed the ultimate job with the Davies Group, a powerful political consulting firm run by the charismatic Henry Davies. Rubbing shoulders with Washington's heavyweights and with more money and privileges than he's ever imagined, Mike believes that everything has finally come right. But he's about to discover that power comes with a price. Henry Davies is looking for a protégé for a crucial deal and one that must go right no matter what. Mike soon learns that being on the side of the lawmakers doesn't mean your work is legal. And there's no place for a moral code when you're on the devil's payroll. THE 500 is a fast-paced thriller that takes the reader on a journey through the corridors of power to the crack dens of Washington and the corrupt underbelly of American politics.