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Becoming the Obvious Choice is a guide to prepare you for your next career opportunity. By following the suggestions detailed in the book, when the right opportunity comes along it will be crystal clear that you are the obvious choice for the position.

Professional Oracle Programming (Programmer to Programmer)

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The Last Match (Hard Case Crime)
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Fantastic con-artist portrayal

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The Last Match (Hard Case Crime)
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Great Book.......2007-01-13

I don't understand why people compare this book to other Hard Case Crime offerings. Yes, it's "different" but so are many of their other books. One of the teriffic things Hard Case has done has been to introduce me to some people I was unfamiliar with: Domenic Stansberry, Seymour Shubin, and one or two others. My absolute favorite is David Dodge. Where did this guy come from? I love his writing and how the narrative flows like water, the international flavors to the story, and even the glib but less than honest voice of the protagonist.

Again, a great book by an author deserving to be discovered and cherished. All Hard Case Crime books should be this enjoyable, and most are. There's one guy who they keep publishing that isn't up to snuff (of course not Lawrence Block) and I wish they'd realize it. Other than that, for those who rate the publisher as much as their books, this one makes them shine.

An entertaining and worthwhile read.......2006-11-23

Hard Case Crime aficionados should rejoice at this new offering --- an unpublished novel by David Dodge, bestselling author of IT TAKES A THIEF. Hard Case also published Dodge's lesser known but equally exciting PLUNDER OF THE SUN in 2005. THE LAST MATCH, written shortly before Dodge's death in 1974, is a bit different from his previous work and, for that matter, from most of the other Hard Case Crime entries. Nonetheless, it is an entertaining and worthwhile read.

THE LAST MATCH takes its title from a con game of the same name, and the novel concerns itself with a layabout con man who seems to have an aversion to honest work. Indeed, the nameless protagonist actually works harder being a crook than he would if he was doing something legitimate. It is doubtful, however, that a public occupation would result in exploits as interesting as those contained in THE LAST MATCH.

When we first encounter our protagonist, he is facing the wrong end of a firearm, being held by a jealous husband; the likable scoundrel is indeed busy, given that at the same time he is employed as the chaste gigolo of a wealthy dowager. It is during this time that he finds himself attracted to a young British noblewoman named Reggie, with resulting fireworks; think TAMING OF THE SHREW, with the issue of who the shrew is being debatable. Our man soon finds himself on the run from Reggie, the authorities and a gangster or two, as he hops from one continent to another, skimming and scamming as he goes.

At times the book has the feel of a series of loosely connected short stories. But just when you think Dodge is becoming predictable, he takes a sudden left turn and everything changes. There is an ending that you really won't see coming and a surprising homage to a scam that is the ancestor to the Bank of Nigeria email drop. Technology may change, but human nature does not.

THE LAST MATCH isn't quite as serious as other Hard Case Crime books, but it's an entertaining addition to the collection by an under-appreciated author who left us too early and with too little.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub

Fantastic con-artist portrayal.......2006-11-09

Fans of author David Dodge who were thrilled to see his series character Al Colby back in print with Hard Case Crime's rerelease of Plunder of the Sun are bound to be even more excited to learn that The Last Match, a new, never before published novel and Dodge's last, has been unearthed and is finally available to the public, more than 30 years after it was written.

Dodge, also the author of the novel Alfred Hitchcock used as the basis for To Catch a Thief, used pieces of his life throughout his fiction. A world traveler with his family, he alternated novels fictionalizing his trips around the world with travelogues chronicling the true events. His daughter Kendal Dodge Butler writes in the afterword to The Last Match that "I have such a well-documented childhood that at times I'm not sure whether a thing really happened or it's just something I read in a book." She also believes that Curly, this novel's hero, is simply her father "dreaming of long cons."

But whatever is true and whatever may be recycled from earlier novels (but based on real people), The Last Match is a fine example of Dodge's writing. I didn't particularly enjoy the treasure-hunt aspect of Plunder of the Sun, but the writing was impeccable, and as a fan of long-con stories like The Sting and The Girl with the Long Green Heart (another Hard Case Crime reprint), Dodge's final book was right up my alley. There's not a whole lot in the way of plot; the hero, only known as "Curly" because of his hair, is basically writing a memoir of his time traveling the world pulling cons on unsuspecting marks, and sometimes getting involved with local women.

His adventures take him to many exotic locales, each connected to the last merely by a necessary trip to the next country to escape the authorities of the one he pulled his last job in. He acts as chauffeur to the Honorable (and untouchable) Regina Forbes-Jones in France, and takes charge of a stunningly beautiful (and equally naive) honey-skinned women named Boda while writing suspect letters for Arabs in Tangier. He subsequently hitches a ride in the fire-room of a ship to Peru (after looking out for Boda's future welfare, of course -- he's hardly a cad) where he helps perpetuate a Spanish Prisoner scheme much like the Nigerian scam that permeates e-mail today (and illustrates how old that particular game is). And that's only the first 150 pages or so. On and on Curly goes and it is simply impossible to predict where he'll go or what he'll do next. Often I got the sense that Dodge wasn't even sure, that he was just letting the story go where it took him. This gives The Last Match an immediacy that is equally as fascinating as the story being told.

Which brings me to another reason I liked The Last Match better than Plunder of the Sun: this book displays the easy flow of a writer who is very comfortable behind the typewriter. You don't attempt to chronicle a period in the life of a character in detail unless you are confident in your ability to improvise at the keys. I had the feeling that the other novel was so tightly plotted in order to get the story told efficiently that there was little room for movement, and that comes through Al Colby in his gruff manner. Conversely, The voice of Curly is unforced and very natural. It poured easily off my tongue when I read it out loud to my infant son (yeah, I know, but those board books get tedious after the 37th reading!), even the most complex sentences were easy reading.

Dodge does go a little wrong with the ending of The Last Match in an attempt to give it a climax with some emotional weight, but the rest of this 315-page work (comparatively large for Hard Case Crime, but I'm not complaining) takes the reader on quite a ride. And Curly the life-long confidence artist is not a character I am likely to forget any time soon.

Far from Bunco.......2006-10-10

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PLUNDER OF THE SUN.......2005-06-30

First, let me say that the Hard Case Crime series is excellent. It certainly opens up the opportunity to obtain great hard boiled detective fiction from the past and the present. This book is not really a detective story, it is more of an adventure story with a hero that could have been a hard boiled detective. The formula is simple: a fortune in buried treasure and a bunch of characters that no one should trust. The author seems to want us to learn the Spanish language while we read this book. There are a lot times that he tells what something is and then gives us the Spanish word to go along with it.
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An underrated noir crime-fiction novel brought back from obscurity.......2005-06-25

I am not sure how one goes about the process of having a particular institution declared a national treasure, but I would love to get the ball rolling today for the Hard Case Crime imprint. Over the past several months Hard Case has published a riveting mix of reprinted and original hard-boiled, noir crime fiction in mass market paperback form, drawing readers in with out-of-print titles by familiar names such as Lawrence Block and Erle Stanley Gardner while encouraging others to take a chance on both new and under-appreciated authors and works.

PLUNDER OF THE SUN is one of those works that has fallen into undeserved obscurity, a state that will hopefully be remedied by its new incarnation in the Hard Case Crime catalog. David Dodge was a frequent and fairly prolific writer of hard-boiled fiction from 1940 through 1972. His best-known work, TO CATCH A THIEF, was adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock. But he was also famous for a series of novels featuring detective and tax expert James "Whit" Whitney. Dodge was also a popular travel writer, and his mystery novels soon became recognized for their exotic backgrounds. Dodge created a second series of mystery novels featuring Al Colby, an American detective and fixer based in South America in general and Chile in particular. PLUNDER IN THE SUN is a Colby novel, and is a stellar example of Dodge's talents as a travel reporter and mystery writer.

At first blush PLUNDER OF THE SUN appears to be a bit of a departure from most of the fare of Hard Case Crime to date. It is more global in scope, taking place in Chile and Peru as opposed to the usual hard-boiled environs of New York or Los Angeles. There is also a bit more at stake here; instead of drugs or a bank heist, it is concerned with smuggling and buried treasure. But all of the other elements that make noir what it is --- deadly situations, treacherous men, beautiful but deadly women --- are here. Dodge transforms Colby, his itinerant soldier of fortune, into a competent stranger in a paradise where the act of turning over a rock can bring either wealth or a sudden and painful death.

PLUNDER OF THE SUN begins with Colby being retained to smuggle a mysterious package from Chile into Peru. It doesn't sound like much of a job; all that Colby has to do is take the package from his erstwhile employer, sail on a ten-day cruise to Peru, and give the package back when they land. By the time the cruise is over, however, Colby's enigmatic employer is dead and he is on the run from at least two gunmen. Even worse, he has been betrayed by two beautiful women. The package that Colby is carrying is worth more money than he can imagine, and incidentally contains the answer to one of history's greatest mysteries.

Colby can trust no one, but he doesn't know this, an element that gives the novel some added twists and turns. Additionally, the people who are trying to separate Colby from his package cannot trust one another; alliances shift and turn, with the only constant being Colby's rough sense of honor and decency. Dodge navigates his reader through a complex plot, keeping a sense of wonder present throughout the proceedings. One cannot read the book without spending at least a few moments wondering how such a work could have gone out of print for so long.

Hopefully the response to PLUNDER OF THE SUN will be such that Hard Case Crime will see fit to reprint in its distinctive format more of Dodge's works. This is a great story, by an under-acknowledged master. Highly recommended.

--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub

Another Hard Case Crime winner!.......2005-05-19

Originally published in 1949 and recently reissued by Hard Case Crime, Plunder of the Sun is a story of an ancient Quechua manuscript, long-buried Inca treasure, and greed.

Al Colby, an American living in South America, is hired by an antiques dealer, Alfredo Berrien, to smuggle a small package from Chile to Peru via the ship Talco. Once in Lima, Colby is to turn the package over to Berrien, but something happens to Berrien aboard ship, and Colby must decide what to do with the package. Several other key players know of the manuscript and will stop at nothing to take it from Colby.

Dodge, best known for his novel, To Catch a Thief, wrote three Al Colby books (Plunder of the Sun is the second in the series), but they read well as standalones. This book does a marvelous job describing the Peruvian countryside and its people, and Dodge goes into some detail about the Incas and their destruction at the hands of the Spaniards.

The "New" Noir.......2005-05-17

Having never read any of David Dodge's work, I didn't know what to expect from this novel. Of course, I'd seen "To Catch a Thief" and enjoyed it, but one never knows if that is a result of good writing or merely an offshoot of Cary Grant's charisma or Hitchcock's undeniable skills in film direction. (Incidentally, the truly great movies put out over the last ten years have almost always been a result of Hollywood buying a good book and putting it on film, in my opinion, not the rehashing of world-weary story lines accompanied by the latest pyrotechnics and computer effects.) Needless to say, "Plunder of the Sun" did not disappoint!

Expecting a noir type thriller from Hard Case Crime, I was happy to find exactly that. I found many similarities to two of my favorites, Hammett and Chandler, but in the exotic locales another even older friend was brought to mind, E. R. Burroughs, in short little-known novels like "The Oakdale Affair" and "The Mucker." While Burroughs drew his settings and peoples almost purely from imagination, Dodge had either done a great deal of research about South America or relied upon personal experience. His depictions of Peru and Chile smack of a certain authenticity, even to my Norte Americano mind.

The tale is good, entertaining; the plot tight and quick-paced. What I appreciate most, however, is the hero of the story. Al Colby is the sort of protagonist one rarely finds in these days of nihilism and anti-heroes. A tough man, of course, as to be expected. In those days shortly after WWII, it seems to me there might have been any number of scarily tough guys wandering the far places of the earth, searching for something stolen from them by that horrible war that molded them, as well. That strength and fortitude come in very handily where Al Colby treads. He's intelligent, too, well versed in reading his fellow men and women as well as unafraid to pick up a book to learn something he didn't know. And in the first person, he tells a good story, with clever dialogue to rival Spade or Marlowe.

And, like those two stalwarts, Al Colby has morals and a conscience. It's a rough morality and he is still out to make a buck, but he won't sell out a woman or even a nation's heritage to do it. Human life isn't meaningless to him, and that's what I like about Al Colby the most.

"Plunder of the Sun" took me back to a time we have lost forever, and it's a trip I hope to take again soon. I have a feeling Hard Case Crime will make the travel arrangements for me again and again.

Just not my glass of limonada..........2005-05-05

"When the nocturno pulled out for Cuzco, we slept in separate compartments .... I suppose I was getting old, but it was a dirty racket and the arithmetic was simple: eighty-four divided by two is forty-two, eighty-four divided by one is eighty-four.... I didn't want to shoot Jeff if a locked door between us made it unnecessary." -- Plunder of the Sun

It's a first: a novel from Hard Case Crime that I didn't particularly like. Not that there's anything especially wrong with David Dodge's Plunder of the Sun; I'm just not a big fan of the international-treasure-hunt genre, which actually made it a struggle to get through the book. So much so that I would finish other books in the time between I put this one down and picked it up again. Purely a matter of personal taste, but it does make a difference.

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This is the new-in-paperback edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, the much-awaited sixth edition of the acclaimed standard reference work in statistics, published on behalf of the International Statistical Institute. The first edition, known as the Dictionary of Statistical Terms, was edited in 1957 by the late Sir Maurice Kendall and the late Dr W.R. Buckland. As one of the first dictionaries of statistics it set high standards for the subject, and became a well-respected reference. This edition has been carefully updated and extended to include the most recent terminology and techniques in statistics. Significant revision and expansion from an international editorial board of senior statisticians has resulted in a comprehenisive reference text which includes 30% more material than previous editions. Ideal for all who use statistics in the workplace and in research including all scientists and social scientists, especially in law, politics, finance, business, and history, it is an indispensable reference.

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Buy Cambridge Instead.......2006-09-10

If the 6th edition has the same LACK of clarity in its definitions as does the 5th edition, you're wasting your money. "The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics" by B.S.Everitt is as marvelous as the Oxford version is awful. Compare for yourself: Pick a couple of stat terms and compare the definitions in "O" with those in "C." Note: I just bought the 3rd edition of "Cambridge," but it seems little different from the wonderful 2nd edition.

Don't buyt it........2005-08-14

This is not a good tool book for the statistician. Since there are many wrong explainations of statistical terms. Furthermore, it is too wordy for a student to understand it. But I like the author includes many biographies of famous statisticians. Anyway! you can something better than this one.

Some Value for New Terms and Bibliography.......2005-03-17

This dictionary has been compiled by an international committee to serve the needs of professional statisticians and is a revision of the 5/e which was published by Longman in 1990. The changes consist of a couple hundred terms dropped and a couple hundred added, plus an extensive bibliography. Old entries appear unchanged. Coverage of recent terms is good and the bibliography points to more detailed descriptions. I'm unimpressed with the book for three reasons. First, there are no figures, which I find very helpful in other references. Second, the style of writing doesn't appear to be suited to either students or professionals. The definitions are generally too terse and jargony for students, yet rarely have equations and details, limiting their value to advenced users. Finally, the type is ugly. The 5/e looked much better.

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