STALLION GATE By Martin Cruz Smith - Like New Condition 1st Edition Hardcover Vintage Book, Fantastic Historical Fiction Thriller Novel!
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Price! Fantastic Horror Short Story Anthology; Great Gift!STALLION GATE By Martin Cruz Smith - Like New Condition 1st Edition Hardcover Vintage Book, Fantastic Historical Fiction Thriller Novel!Like NEW condition 1st edition hardcover vintage book! Excellent historical-fiction thriller novel and a great gift for rare book collectors; Etsy Best Price! May have minor shelf-wear. 100% customer happiness guaranteed!Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$.... Product Details/SynopsisThis is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Peña, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian.Oppenheimer and Groves have hidden Los Alamos on a mesa surrounded by vast Indian reservations. It is the most secret installation of the war, the future encompassed by the past. To it come soldiers, roughnecks and scientists, including Anna Weiss, a mathematician and refugee from the Holocaust with whom Joe falls in love.Item Weight : 1.45 pounds Hardcover : 321 pages ISBN-13 : 978-0394530062 Publisher : Random House; 1st edition (March 12, 1986) Language: : EnglishEXCELLENT condition hardcover book; wonderful gift for science fiction and horror story fans! We ship fast and safe worldwide everyday. Some page edges have a slight superficial stain; does NOT affect integrity of book and appears entirely unread. See publisher details below...Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$....Synopsis From Inner Cover:Stories of terrifying events have fascinated men from time immemorial; and in our own day they are as compulsive in their attraction as ever. An explosive force in the heart of man, terror has dynamited him from the cave into the civilization of the twentieth century. Gathered together in this book are some of the aspects the face of terror has assumed through the centuries.Here is Genghis Khan whimsically amused as six men are boiled alive for his entertainment; the Sawney Beane family living in incest and by cannibalism; the infamous treachery and massacre of Glencoe. Here, too, is the ritual murder of Thuggee, and the terrible practice of Suttee.Krakkatoa erupts with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs; the San Andreas fault "creeps" to cause the San Francisco earthquake; coffins rain like bombs on Valparaiso.And as we approach the present we find a broadcast by Orson Welles caused mass hysteria, an English officer surviving death by hanging during the second World War, the immolation of Hiroshima.As thee reader looks upon the face of terror, so does he become aware that its most numerous features are provided by the cruelty and wickedness of man himself. It is as though he were looking at his own ugly and distorted reflection; and this no doubt is why these tales of terror are so completely absorbing. Hardcover : 507 Pages Item Weight : 1.58 pounds Dimensions : 6.15" x 9.25" x 1.5" Shipping Weight : 1.5lbs Publisher : BELL PUBLISHING CO. (January 1, 1982) ASIN : B000PGKL5S
Price! Fantastic Horror Short Story Anthology; Great Gift!STALLION GATE By Martin Cruz Smith - Like New Condition 1st Edition Hardcover Vintage Book, Fantastic Historical Fiction Thriller Novel!Like NEW condition 1st edition hardcover vintage book! Excellent historical-fiction thriller novel and a great gift for rare book collectors; Etsy Best Price! May have minor shelf-wear. 100% customer happiness guaranteed!Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$.... Product Details/SynopsisThis is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Peña, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian.Oppenheimer and Groves have hidden Los Alamos on a mesa surrounded by vast Indian reservations. It is the most secret installation of the war, the future encompassed by the past. To it come soldiers, roughnecks and scientists, including Anna Weiss, a mathematician and refugee from the Holocaust with whom Joe falls in love.Item Weight : 1.45 pounds Hardcover : 321 pages ISBN-13 : 978-0394530062 Publisher : Random House; 1st edition (March 12, 1986) Language: : EnglishEXCELLENT condition hardcover book; wonderful gift for science fiction and horror story fans! We ship fast and safe worldwide everyday. Some page edges have a slight superficial stain; does NOT affect integrity of book and appears entirely unread. See publisher details below...Purchases of $35 and above qualify for FREE shipping! Buy more from our store and save $$$....Synopsis From Inner Cover:Stories of terrifying events have fascinated men from time immemorial; and in our own day they are as compulsive in their attraction as ever. An explosive force in the heart of man, terror has dynamited him from the cave into the civilization of the twentieth century. Gathered together in this book are some of the aspects the face of terror has assumed through the centuries.Here is Genghis Khan whimsically amused as six men are boiled alive for his entertainment; the Sawney Beane family living in incest and by cannibalism; the infamous treachery and massacre of Glencoe. Here, too, is the ritual murder of Thuggee, and the terrible practice of Suttee.Krakkatoa erupts with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs; the San Andreas fault "creeps" to cause the San Francisco earthquake; coffins rain like bombs on Valparaiso.And as we approach the present we find a broadcast by Orson Welles caused mass hysteria, an English officer surviving death by hanging during the second World War, the immolation of Hiroshima.As thee reader looks upon the face of terror, so does he become aware that its most numerous features are provided by the cruelty and wickedness of man himself. It is as though he were looking at his own ugly and distorted reflection; and this no doubt is why these tales of terror are so completely absorbing. Hardcover : 507 Pages Item Weight : 1.58 pounds Dimensions : 6.15" x 9.25" x 1.5" Shipping Weight : 1.5lbs Publisher : BELL PUBLISHING CO. (January 1, 1982) ASIN : B000PGKL5S
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