After being overpaid to trace an elusive scallywag called Wayne Dilthey, Irish becomes embroiled in the shadier affairs of the Way of the Cross, an aggressively expanding Melbourne megachurch with tendrils in both local and foreign government.
Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
The remaining two novels follow Cowperwood in Chicago and to London through a series of shady deals, love affairs, and intrigues until, after his death, his empire collapses and his life is seen to have been meaningless.
Minami's investigation evolves into a quest made up of equal parts honor, duty and venality, a quest that affords him a clear and unwanted view deep into the catacombs of police corruption, the shadier side of affairs in the emerging "new Japan" and his own crumbling mental state.
As it turned out, the groundbreaking study that "Bigfoot insiders" (that's a thing you can be) had promised would prove the existence of the long-thought-to-be-bullshit ape-man turned out to be a shady, self-published affair by a Texas veterinarian who believes Sasquatch contains things like "Angel DNA".
I had expected big-ticket items: an affair, a shady business deal, addictions — that kind of thing.
All due credit to Nick Hornby for fleshing out Lynn Barber's short, offhand memoir into a feature-length film, but this piquant 1960s comedy drama about a sixth former's affair with a shady older man isn't quite as earth-shattering as its award-laden international success might lead you to believe.
Given his father's legendary "powers of denial" and his own guileless nature, Ron Reagan adds, the Iran-contra affair — with "its shady characters with murky motives, its architecture of internal betrayal" — would, in any case, have been "a perfect example of the sort of mess Dad was ill suited, at any age, in any condition, to anticipate, head off, or reckon with once it blew up in his face".
I expected big-ticket items -- an affair or a shady business deal, something along those lines.
Some people suspect the Romney returns hide more information about offshore tax shelters or dealings with companies whose affairs can be portrayed as shady.
Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel under President Clinton, died July 20 , 1993Official cause of death: Suicide Another read: Foster had intimate knowledge of the Clintons' financial affairs, so if there were any shady dealings that they wanted to cover up, they could have offed him.
