Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy)

Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy) by K. J. Parker Download PDF EPUB FB2

Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline/5().

At 15 hours 11 minutes, the audio book version of Devices and Desires is more than double the length of a comparable Agatha Christie mystery. Ostensibly about a Norfolk-based serial killer (‘the Whistler’) the plot takes a sharp turn into rather more obscure territory, a dysfunctional community that inhabits an isolated headland dominated by a controversial nuclear power station.4/5.

Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk by:   Devices and Desires is a fantasy novel about an engineer named Ziani who is sentenced to death for deviating from the Specification, the rules that all Guildsmen must follow.

Worried about what will happen to his wife and child, Ziani manages to escape and makes plans to manipulate the neighboring countries into war that will reunite him with his family/5. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk /5(17). “Devices and Desires,” the eighth book in the best-selling crime series by P.D.

James, brings commander Adam Dalgliesh into a complicated web of motives for murder. The Whistler A serial killer is preying on young women alone in the dark in this headland on the coast of Norfolk.

Later Dalgleish books, such as A Mind to Murder (), Shroud for a Nightingale (), A Taste for Death (), and Devices and Desires (), have made it. “Devices and Desires is a brilliant and stunningly written story about the moral dilemmas created by desire it pushes the crime genre to its outermost limits.” —The Globe and Mail “P.

James is unbeatable.” —Ottawa Citizen “Devices and Desires is a superb achievement.” —People “It has the richness of a classical novel.”/5(). Devices and Desires (Dramatized): Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Series, Book 8 (Dramatised) (Audio Download): Robin Ellis, Full Cast, P.D.

James, BBC Worldwide Ltd: Amazon /5(). Devices and Desires is not like any fantasy novel that I have previously read. No gods or demons, swords & sorcery, priests or magic jewels.

Just an excellent premise (chivalry vs. engineering) and very, very good writing. Every character in this book, even the shortest one-paragraph walk-ons, is finely and individually drawn.5/5(5). Praise for Devices and Desires “Once in a while, you come across a book that is so original, so persuasive, so meticulously researched and documented” — Barbara Seaman, The NationCited by: Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.

Devices and Desires Summary. For James, the detective story is a twentieth-century morality play, and in her novels she deals with moral problems that confront society.

Devices and Desires is set in the remote Norfolk headland called Larksoken, the site of a fictional nuclear power station. Devices and desires: a history of contraceptives in America User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. Catholic obstetrician John Rock considered the pill a "morally permissible variant of the rhythm method" and assisted in its development.

This is one of the many fascinating complexities found 4/5(2). Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely /5(9).

Publishers Weekly on Devices and Desires "When so many fantasy sagas are tired, warmed-over affairs, a writer like K.J.

Parker is more of a hurricane than a breath of fresh air."— Dreamwatch "A richly textured and emotionally complex fantasy Highly recommended."— Library Journal (Starred Review) From the Publisher/5(55). With Roy Marsden, Susannah York, Gemma Jones, James Faulkner. Whilst on holiday on the English coast in Norfolk, Commander Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the hunt for the serial killer - The Whistler - amidst a backdrop of mystery and intrigue surrounding the /10().

National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Devices and Desires ISBN or UPC: Book Condition: Used - Acceptable Description: May have some shelf-wear due to normal use.

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Read new romance book reviews, posts from your favorite authors, samples, exciting digital first publications and e-book specials. Her embittered fourth husband once called her a woman of “devices and desires,” while nineteenth-century male historians portrayed her as a monster—”a woman of masculine understanding and conduct, proud.

Book Description Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, United States, Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United StatesIn Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound /5().DEVICES AND DESIRES is a beautifully tailored novel and an enjoyable read, proving once more P.D.

James' skill at crafting both an intriguing mystery and a fine novel. I Cited by: DEVICES AND DESIRES. by P.D. James. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW.

Despite ever-growing sales and stature, James' mysteries have been uneven in recent years--without the thoroughly compelling characters and milieus that made her early output so distinctive.