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Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on Stump's interviews with Ty Cobb while ghostwriting the Hall-of-Famer's 1961 autobiography, this award-winning new account of Cobb's life and times reveals both the darkness and the brilliance of the "Georgia Peach."
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Marlowe thinks he's found his first big headline in the attempted assassination of a priest-the bullet miraculously rebounding off the holy man's cross. Employing a young pickpocket to help him uncover the identity of the sniper, Cobb is soon led into a far more dangerous story: the advancement of German officials coming into the city from ammunition ships docked in the port. Then, when Cobb falls for a young Mexican laundress, he believes he's found...
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"Finally--a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don't tell half of Cobb's...
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Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast baserunner, Cobb often has been remembered as a hated athlete, a bitter man who died nearly 50 years ago. No biographer has explored the complex personality as deeply and meticulously as Don Rhodes in his new comprehensive biography. Rhodes reveals the man as Cobb was in Augusta:...
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In a spine-tingling mystery, death follows TV network sleuth Matt Cobb to Bermuda. A cruise ship full of mystery writers may sound like a fantasy for some, but for Matt Cobb, whose job consists of untangling serious knots for a large television network, it's anything but - especially when it results in a real-life murder to solve. Cobb is snatched from his normal duties at the network and put on a boat to St. David, to act as minder for two winners...
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Matt Cobb deals with love and murder on the rink. In the last installment of the popular Matt Cobb series, the TV network's expert troubleshooter, faces a literal case of cold-blooded murder. At two in the morning, he stands in a Manhattan ice rink, over the grisly body of Dr. Paul Dinkover. The network was supposed to be taping a figure-skating special, and this discovery can't be a coincidence. The victim is a psychologist, one so thoroughly disagreeable...
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During a trip to England, a fog of mystery threatens Matt Cobb's vacation - and his life. Matt Cobb is ready to quit. His job as a special projects VP at a giant television network involves intense troubleshooting and an egotistical boss, and both have taken their toll. The network president has other ideas, though, and persuades him that all he needs is a long vacation. So Cobb takes off for London, with his dog and his lovely fiancée, Roxanne,...
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Matt Cobb goes to bat for a friend accused of murder. Matt Cobb, an executive who is tasked with smoothing over sensitive situations for a major television network, is used to looking disaster in the eye. But while traveling upstate to look into rising corruption in the sale of cable broadcasting licenses, and mixing with some old college friends, he doesn't expect murder rears its ugly head. Cobb's former roommate, Dan Morris, is still pining over...
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An electrifying puzzle, corporate sleuth Matt Cobb is set up in a TV-world murder. This Edgar Award-winning debut novel introduces Matt Cobb, vice president of special projects at a large television network - where "special projects" means anything sensitive, or even fatal, that the company wants to keep quiet. Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation,...
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Matt Cobb, troubleshooter extraordinaire, must track a killer when a talk-show host goes off the air permanently. In television production, "fringe time" refers to the period after the late-night news before the morning shows begin - the time when anything could happen. For Matt Cobb, a VP charged with getting "The Network" out of jams, fringe time is especially fraught, because it's a time when one of his charges is seriously at risk. Cobb has had...
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At a snowed-in retreat, a corporate takeover turns deadly. A remote mansion, a blizzard, and lack of phone service: It's an opportunity a killer can't pass up. Matt Cobb, the in-house troubleshooter for a television conglomerate, is summoned to an executive meeting at the Adirondack home of billionaire G. B. Dost. Dost plans to acquire the TV network, and the shareholders are anxious about the rich man's intentions. One of the bigwigs might even prefer...
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Destined for an arranged marriage she wants nothing to do with, Princess Breanwynne decides her only option for escape is to run away. After announcing this plan to her trusted cat, Fen, she's shocked when he asks that she take him along. Following his suggestion to venture into the lair of the Swamp Witch begins a life-altering adventure and reveals shocking information that will lead to more than one happily ever after-if she and Fen survive.
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Can the villain be the hero?
Charlie Cobb is the man they call 'Breaker'. The guy the mob sends to scare the worst of the worst.
He's promised his daughter he'll change his ways. But there's a witness to silence. Which finds Charlie at a crossroads... Pull the trigger on young Danny, or turn protector and take on vicious crime boss, Ivan Rudenko?
If you like your action fast, brutal and darkly funny, get ready to meet the baddest new good guy on...