A Firing Offense (Nick Stefanos Series, Book 1) by George Pelecanos

By George Pelecanos

Because the advertisements director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos is aware all of the tips of the electronics company. Blow-out revenues and shady bargains have been his lifestyles. while one of many stockboys disappears, it's now not information: simply one other metalhead who went off chasing a few dream of massive cash and simple dwelling. however the child reminded Nick of himself twelve years in the past: an indignant punk addicted to velocity steel and the quick lifestyles. So whilst the boy's grandfather begs Nick to discover the child, Nick says he'll try out. A Firing Offense, Nick Stefanos' debut, exhibits why, as Barry Gifford places it, "To fail to spot Pelecanos will be criminal."

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By George Pelecanos

Because the advertisements director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos is aware all of the tips of the electronics company. Blow-out revenues and shady bargains have been his lifestyles. while one of many stockboys disappears, it's now not information: simply one other metalhead who went off chasing a few dream of massive cash and simple dwelling. however the child reminded Nick of himself twelve years in the past: an indignant punk addicted to velocity steel and the quick lifestyles. So whilst the boy's grandfather begs Nick to discover the child, Nick says he'll try out. A Firing Offense, Nick Stefanos' debut, exhibits why, as Barry Gifford places it, "To fail to spot Pelecanos will be criminal."

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Weber believes it to have been nothing less than a world revolution, unparalleled in ancient history in its magnitude and extent . Paret writes that it began a great migration of the peoples of all Central and Southern Europe as well as Asia Minor ; it revolutionised the old world and created the basis for the new . Bachofer has called it a flood that determined the destiny of the world . We cannot, therefore, simply dismiss these events as invented myths or as historical fairy-tales for the comfort of the Athenians .

The expedition of the Atlantis people took place in the time of the great natural catastrophes . C. C. events took place which confirm the account of the Atlantis legend to an astonishing degree . " Apart from the contemporary inscriptions we have already discussed-which were described by Bilabel as " documents of the greatest historical value "-the results of numerous archaeological excavations help to throw light on this decisive epoch of European history, and enable us to reconstruct the course of events .

For nearly two hundred years they ruled Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean, which came to be known, after the leading tribe of the North people, as the Sea of the Philistines . In alliance with the Libyans they finally succeeded in the invasion of Egypt, when they established a king of military dictatorship . C. a Libyan, Sheshonk I, usurped the Egyptian royal throne . A comparison of these events, confirmed by contemporary inscriptions and extensive archxological evidence, and the statements of the Atlantis legend, show that all the statements of the legend agree with the historical facts .

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