Japan, 1989. The era of the sukeban (delinquent girl) is at its peak. What was supposed to be Yumi Mimura's first day at her new high school, turns into the longest day of her life. When a schoolyard fight goes wrong, the girl-boss of one of the city's largest gangs is left seriously injured. Yumi, along with her newfound delinquent friends are all marked for death. Now every gang member within a hundred mile radius is out for blood. As daylight fades, the girls must make a dangerous trek behind enemy lines to catch the next train out of the city. The city of Asura becomes a death trap as other gangs, yakuza, corrupt police and a vicious serial killer slowly circle in on them. Their skills are going to be put to the test as they fight tooth and nail to try and survive the night. And the night is long.

Japan, 1989. The era of the sukeban (delinquent girl) is at its peak. What was supposed to be Yumi Mimura's first day at her new high school, turns into the longest day of her life. When a schoolyard fight goes wrong, the girl-boss of one of the city's largest gangs is left seriously injured. Yumi, along with her newfound delinquent friends are all marked for death. Now every gang member within a hundred mile radius is out for blood.As daylight fades, the girls must make a dangerous trek behind enemy lines to catch the next train out of the city. The city of Asura becomes a death trap as other gangs, yakuza, corrupt police and a vicious serial killer slowly circle in on them. Their skills are going to be put to the test as they fight tooth and nail to try and survive the night.And the night is long.

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David Rabe’s award-winning Vietnam plays have come to embody our collective fears, doubts, and tenuous grasp of a war that continues to haunt. Partially written upon his return from the war, Girl by the Road at Night is Rabe’s first work of fiction set in Vietnam—a spare and poetic narrative about a young soldier embarking on a tour of duty and the Vietnamese prostitute he meets in country. Private Joseph Whitaker, with Vietnam deployment papers in hand, spends his last free weekend in Washington, DC, drinking, attending a peace rally, and visiting an old girlfriend, now married. He observes his surroundings closely, attempting to find reason in an atmosphere of hysteria and protest, heightened by his own anger. When he arrives in Vietnam, he happens upon Lan, a local girl who submits nightly to the American GIs with a heartbreaking combination of decency and guile. Her family dispersed and her father dead, she longs for a time when life meant riding in water buffalo carts through rice fields with her brother. Whitaker’s chance encounter with Lan sparks an unexpected, almost unrecognized, visceral longing between two people searching for companionship and tenderness amid the chaos around them. In transformative prose, Rabe has created an atmosphere charged with exquisite poignancy and recreated the surreal netherworld of Vietnam in wartime with unforgettable urgency and grace. Girl by the Road at Night is a brilliant meditation on disillusionment, sexuality, and masculinity, and one of Rabe’s finest works to date.

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Countdown to disaster for Edinburgh's hardest cop... Terrorists strike at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival in Skinner's Festival, Quintin Jardine's second novel in the ever popular Bob Skinner series. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid. 'Robustly entertaining' - Irish Times An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate Skinner realises this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. The Fighters for an Independent Scotland want the English out of Scotland too and they're ready to back up their demands with bombings, murders and blackmail threats aimed at wreaking havoc at the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. But the Fighters haven't reckoned with Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner, head of the Edinburgh CID and security adviser to Secretary of State Alan Ballantyne. Even as craven Ballantyne vows empty defiance of the Fighters, defending his principles with the blood of innocent coppers and bystanders, Skinner assembles a crack task force, carries the ball when the Secretary fumbles on the air, and wrestles with the beast within, who emerges with periodic ferocity to foil a clever, greedy scheme involving the crown jewels and Skinner's own daughter. What readers are saying about Skinner's Festival: 'Gripping, plot twisting brilliance, a true thriller' 'Suspense from beginning to end' 'Totally absorbing' 'Couldn't put it down'