John Payne
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In Kansas City Confidential, four robbers hold up an armored truck, getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck delivery driver who is accused of involvement in the heist, sets out to discover who set him up and to exact revenge. He follows a trail that leads him to a web of hired killers and corrupt police in Mexico. Kansas City Confidential was the source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir...
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Tales From The Arabic by John Payne is a rich and enchanting collection of stories that offer a glimpse into the diverse and vibrant tapestry of Arabic folklore and culture. Payne, an accomplished translator and poet, skillfully brings to life a myriad of tales that range from the fantastical to the moralistic, the humorous to the romantic. These stories, drawn from various Arabic sources of the famous 1001 Nights, are a testament to the region's...
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The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. Farming, mining, quarrying, fishing and trade are the traditional industries of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. On one level, the West Country is the most English of all English regions,...
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Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason, (J. Carrol Naish) & his 4 sons ride into a small town for a robbery. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason (John Smith) whirls & shoots dead a boy playing with a toy gun. The Mason clan then flees. Gray Mason (Ben Cooper) feeling remorse, returns to the town & runs into John Willoughby (John Payne) the father of the dead boy, who determines to avenge his son's death.
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The book "You May Not Be Who You Think You Are," is a compelling, hard-fought, masterful, real-life account of one man's journey of dogged determination to discover his once concealed bloodline. A bloodline that had been quietly and mysteriously tucked away in the innermost crevices of the heart where only the sacred secrets of adoption, and the captive spirit of deceit owned the power to release it into the light of truth.
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Dans ce livre de John L. Payne, vous découvrirez les clés essentielles pour libérer la présence de votre propre âme, de même que les outils pour créer la vie dont vous avez toujours rêvé. Vous allez découvrir comment les loyautés dissimulées de ceux qui ont été victimes et qui ont cru à un système de croyances hérité des ancêtres, peuvent vous empêcher de créer la vie que vous souhaitez. Dans ce livre, l'auteur vous transportera...
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The universe wakes up through you.
We see history as an unceasing flow of causality and time; an endless series of past events leading up to the present. We feel ourselves as the detached observers of it, somehow standing on the outside watching the world go by. But the truth is we're not on the outside. We're at the very center of it all.
Interweaving history, mythology, psychology, and mystical experience, author John Payne charts the journey of...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 24
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At the Pomiero Touring Club, there's been an attempted theft of a Napoleon Excelsior. Though the craft wasn't stolen, it was vandalized: the expensive gems that adorn the side were pried off, but not taken. Why not? Holmes investigates to find out that the late inventor, Philippe Napoleon, had manufactured the vehicles to further his quest to discover an unlimited power source, but was driven to an early grave by the pressures of his business and...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 15
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Global Intelligence goes to Level Five Global Alert when Mark Trenton discovers that the top secret haloids containing the master security code is missing! The code is so secret that New Scotland Yard cannot be told of the theft. Sherlock Holmes is put on the case and, by noticing the most minute details, soon recovers the disk – then sets a trap to catch the thief. But the case doesn't end with the capture of the thief, because the thief herself...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 13
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Holmes and Lestrade uncover an elaborate plot which involves red-headed crooks swapping paintings at the National Art Gallery for forgeries…and which employs a crowd of innocent red-headed men to screen their getaway. Who are all these red-heads? The League's employer is none other than Professor Moriarty who is planning to release a chemical (via the forgeries) at a gala to be held that night at the National Art Gallery. By rendering the wealthiest...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 4
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When Lestrade corners the notorious Fenwick and his crew in an abandoned building, all she finds are innocent, mild-mannered citizens. Confounded, she calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate. He quickly deduces that the citizens are indeed the culprits… and that Moriarty has forced a renowned plastic surgeon to use his DNA Washer device to completely alter their appearances! Using the device on himself, a disguised Holmes foils Moriarty's evil...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 23
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Holmes' old friend, Victor Trevor, arrives at Baker Street with an urgent – but nonsensical -note his father left him before vanishing. Holmes quickly deduces that the note is in code and deciphers it to read Gloria Scott. But who is she and what is her role in the affair? While Lestrade and Watson look into a recent prison break, Holmes investigates and finds that their cases are connected, involving a convict breakout on a prison shuttle that...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 17
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Victor Fatherly is a bio-engineer whose work on a new blood regenerator could revolutionize organ transplant work - if his competitor Michael Wooten doesn't beat him to it. Now, someone has stolen both men's inventions. But how? The safe housing Victor's invention is protected by a biometric security system; only Victor's thumbprint and DNA signature can open it. Similarly, Michael's system uses his eye's unique retinal scan as the key. Holmes...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 14
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At their underground farm, the Cubbitts have had a monumental breakthrough. They have perfected a way to grow vegetables in any temperature and in a nearly airless vacuum – a discovery which should prove a great benefit to the world. But someone wants to use the discovery to further his own agenda and tries to take it using force, leaving the Cubbitts unconscious. With the help of the Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes deduces that the stick figure...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 26
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Spending a weekend in the country to attend the wedding of kindly old Professor Presbury might have been relaxing for Lestrade…if it weren't for the strange goings on and screams in the night! On the eve of the nuptials, the bride is awakened by a monstrous gorilla with a face like that of the Professor's, and suspicious hairs are found outside her window. Is the Professor's daughter trying to frighten the bride into confessing she's after the...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 10
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At the insistence of a memo from Lestrade, the Prime Minister contacts Sherlock Holmes when the top secret virtual reality chip, called the Mazarin Chip, is stolen. But the memo is a forgery: a trap to get the Prime Minister and Holmes to Baker Street where Moriarty then descends upon them, trapping Holmes in a virtual prison and kidnapping the Prime Minister. Holmes must escape his virtual prison and discover where Moriarty really is before he...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 19
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The fastest space ship, Silver Blaze, has gone missing just after winning the first round in the International Space Grand Prix. Sherlock investigates and discovers that the competing team is not responsible…and neither is the owner who some thought might be trying to scam the insurance company. Instead, the ship's pilot stole the ship to use as a getaway vehicle; using a clever hologram of a frightening warship, he then robs the shuttle carrying...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 18
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Lois St. Clair asks Holmes to investigate the disappearance of her husband Neville, a man whose reported - and long unsolved – death was, apparently, a ruse to escape his gambling debts. But this time his vanishing seems genuine and Lois fears for her husband's life - what if his debtors have finally found him? Holmes looks into the matter and discovers that Neville, in fact, has no debts or debtors! Rather, he is a secret agent who had infiltrated...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 1
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In the 22nd Century, Inspector Beth Lestrade believes that New London's fool-proof crime control process, called crypnosis, has been sabotaged by the criminal genius Professor James Moriarty…who has been dead for over a century! To prove her theory and catch the crook, Lestrade brings back to life the only man smart enough to have ever defeated Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes tracks the villain, finally confronting him in the heart of the computer...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century volume 20
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Holmes and Watson arrive at Lestrade's apartment to find it ablaze and Beth out of control! She attacks them both, leaps off of her balcony, and escapes into the night. What has caused her to go crazy? Holmes receives a mysterious Chinese puzzle box while retracing the path of Beth's most recent investigation into an amateur burglary and, shortly thereafter, he too appears to go mad. But in this case, Holmes is cleverly faking insanity to ferret...