In the summer of 1974 the movie Death Wish stunned audiences with its powerful story of an enraged businessman who hits the streets with a handgun to avenge the brutal violation of his wife and daughter. The film packed theaters with cheering moviegoers, became one of the highest-grossing and most controversial movies of the year, and turned star Charles Bronson into the hottest screen icon in the world. Over the next twenty years, four increasingly-violent sequels delivered thrills to a growing legion of fans and solidified the legend of Charles Bronson. Now, for the first time, Death Wish fanatics, Bronson cultists, and action movie lovers will discover fascinating information about the series. In exclusive comments, director Michael Winner, actor Kevyn Major Howard, novelist Brian Garfield, and many others reveal what it was like to work on the Death Wish movies with one of the most charismatic and elusive stars of all time. Covering every aspect of all five movies (including unused casting suggestions, deleted scenes and alternate cuts) and loaded with rare advertising artwork, Bronson's Loose!: The Making of the "Death Wish" Films tells the compelling, untold story behind the most explosive action series in film history.

This is book 3 and the finale of the Black Aces MC romance series! She’s about to die in my arms – night after night after night. No one lies to a biker and lives to tell about it. Not unless they’re eager to die. Janessa got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. And I’m the man who’s about to extract a very steep price for her mistakes. JANESSA I’m quiet by nature. A good girl at heart. But the harsh world I grew up in forced me to get tough and get smart – or die trying. My father did his best, but he didn’t make it. He ended up buried in debt to an outlaw motorcycle club, the Black Aces MC. And the Aces are not the kind of men you want to owe money. Somehow, he paid it off. But by the time he did, they didn’t just want their debts fulfilled. They wanted interest… Blood interest. And my father’s life was the only payment they’d accept. Now, I find myself in the Aces’ employ. With a hidden thirst for vengeance after what they did to my family. But Damian sees right through my façade. When he gets me alone, he’s going to punish me for every lie I told to get here. And what’s worse is… I know that I’m going to love it. DAMIAN I had to hand it to her – the girl had balls of steel. But coming here was a very stupid mistake. She’s in the lions’ den now, looking like a snack… And I’m the hungriest monster in this cage. For one brief moment, she thought she’d gotten the revenge she came here for. Then I forced her to her knees, and she realized she was very wrong indeed. This is a biker’s world, darling. And you’re about to become a biker’s toy. Coming into my grasp was a death wish. *** A tragedy brought her into the biker’s bed… but only a miracle can bring her out. From bestselling motorcycle club romance author Zoey Parker comes a dark romance brimming with mind-blowing sex, forbidden love and so much heat that your heart might melt. You’ll fall in love with this alpha male MC bad boy and the innocent girl delivered to his doorstep. It’s a romance love story for the ages – and if you love dark motorcycle club romance series, then you won’t want to miss DEATH WISH.

Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international cult classics, and more. Passionate and idiosyncratic, each volume of Deep Focus is long-form criticism that's relentlessly provocative and entertaining.Christopher Sorrentino's examination of Death Wish is the second entry in the series. The fourth collabora.

If you like Agatha Christie, then you'll love Robert Thorogood. Seconded from rainy London to the sweltering heat of the Caribbean island of Saint Marie, DI Richard Poole would rather be having a pint at his local pub. But when a body is discovered at the Beaumont plantation, DI Poole must put aside his woes and solve the murder. Despite the fact the victim was found in a locked room holding a smoking gun, Poole is convinced this is not a suicide. When another body turns up the hunt is on for the killer, and the evasive Beaumont family are – rather suspiciously – no help at all... The third novel in the Death in Paradise Mysteries is perfect for fans of T. E. Kinsey, Heron Carvic and Caroline Graham. Praise for Robert Thorogood ‘Death in Paradise feels like a ray of sunshine’ Mirror ‘Plenty of red herrings and twists to keep readers guessing’ Daily Express ‘A treat’ Radio Times

The passengers of an ill-fated bus ride awaken to find themselves duct-taped to their chairs, stranded in the middle of nowhere, miles away from their intended destination.Within minutes chaos ensues, and the passengers are picked off one-by-one in their seats. They quickly learn that they are unwilling participants in a sadistic game - hunted down because of a dark secret they all share in common.But if they want to survive long enough to find out who, or what is behind this game, they will have no choice but to play along.

JAHMANI is smooth, calculating, and vicious underneath his calm exterior. With dreams of obtaining duffel bags of ill-gained riches and escaping the jungle that is the Bronx, he begins a journey to put his plan into motion. Along the way, anybody can get some gun smoke if they cross his path, as many will.It's no secret, New York niccas are the grimiest. One after the other decides to test Jahmani's mettle. With a heart as cold as ice, the young savage lets his gun establish just what he's about, but his gun isn't the only one spitting out death in the borough.Will Jahmani ultimately rule the streets? Or will the streets become his dying place?Beautiful, luscious and forbidden ARI WILLIAMS is the twinkle in Jahmani's eyes. She is the prize for all that he does. Could she be the rider he needs during his bloody comeuppance? Or could his pursuit of Ari be a death wish in disguise.

Since the beginning of time, the archangels have longed to know true love. When four female angels were created for the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Azrael, a chaos spurred by jealousy erupted, and the archesses were secreted away to Earth. The four favored archangels followed, prompting a search that has lasted millennia... As the Angel of Death, Azrael could never be like his brothers. While the others fell to Earth in human form, Azrael descended as a vampire. Today, as the lead singer of a popular rock band, he keeps his true nature hidden--a powerful darkness constantly at odds with his angelic self. Beneath his mask, Azrael holds onto the hope that he will one day find the archess who will complete him. At his brother Gabriel's wedding, Azrael set his golden eyes on Sophie Bryce, the maid of honor. He is certain she is his destined mate, and will do anything to make her his. But Sophie is unaware of her archess identity, and is haunted by unspeakable demons of her own. When supernatural forces emerge from the shadows, threatening Sophie, Azrael is the only one who can protect her. But to do it, he must reveal his true, savage self.

EVIL KENEVIL MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IN THIS ORIGINAL FAST AND THE FURIOUS! THE GREATEST DAREDEVIL OF THEM ALL - BECAUSE HE DOESN'T CARE IF HE LIVES OR DIES! Blake Edmonds had it all - fame, money, looks... and then the world-famous F1 driver suffered a terrible accident which left him hideously disfigured. Fashioning a mask to hide his terrible visage, Edmonds has taken on a new career as a stuntman, flirting with death on a regular basis.

This is the first book to systematically investigate the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die. Contrary to previous scholarship on these texts that assumed these death wishes were simply a desire to escape suffering, Hanne Løland Levinson employs narrative criticism and conversation analysis, together with diachronic methods, to carefully hear each death-wish text in its literary context. She demonstrates that death wishes embody powerful, multi-faceted rhetorical strategies. Grouping the death-wish texts into four main rhetorical strategies of negotiation, expression of despair and anger, longing to undo one's existence, and wishing for a different reality, Løland Levinson portrays the complex reasons why characters in the Hebrew Bible wish for death. She concludes that the death wishes navigate the tension between longing for death and fighting for survival - a tension that many live with also today as they attempt to claim agency and autonomy in life.