An historical novel about Alves Reis. He pushed so many counterfeit escudo notes into Portugal during the 1920s that he almost crashed their economy. He was able to do this by using forged documents that enabled him to have other countries print the notes that he then flooded Portugal with and he made himself very rich in doing so. View More...
Vintage TV tie-in paperback. Fair condition but the printing plates for the first twenty pages of text were misaligned, cutting off a few lines of text at the top of each page. However there's about 900 more complete pages to make up for it. -- Dan View More...
I'm primarily categorizing this as SF because the author is best known as an SF writer, but in fact it's a historical novel, a fictionalize telling of the events of the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986. First American paperback edition, first printing by number line. Very good condition with slight interior browning. View More...
Some dirt and discoloration to front cover, but book is otherwise square and tight. January, 1944 ... On the vast grey waters of the Atlantic the balance of power has shifted. For Rudolf Steiger, ace U-boat commander, there is a new sense of urgency. Dedica ed, ruthless, fanatical, he has become a legend in his own time, a symbol of Germany's greatness. But now, as he takes the U-boat flotilla, Meteor, out into the bitter winter seas, he faces a new and deadly enemy - his own nagging doubts about the outcome of the war. Steiger knows that his destiny may be to court heroic death rather than su... View More...