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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care.
And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New York. But this is no ordinary clique - they have access to an underground portal that can transport them into the future. And what Skye discovers in the future is horrifying.
As society crumbles, Skye and Red race to figure out how to use their knowledge to survive the impending annihilation, they soon discover that the chaotic end of the world is the perfect time for revenge...
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Phoenix Island," which
reads like ""Lord of the Flies" meets Wolverine and "Cool Hand
Luke"" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the
CBS TV show "Intelligence."
With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body,
sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with
impulse control issues into a super-soldier. Forced into the
mercenary Phoenix Force group, he begins to fear he'll never
escape. Sent to a volcanic island to fight for them, he'll compete
in a combat tournament that awards teens with survival for
merciless brutality. But just when all looks lost, he spies a
friendly face...and possibly a way out.
An enthralling tale of courtroom drama, blackmail and high
adventure in Hong Kong in the last year of British rule, from the
bestselling author of Hold My Hand I'm Dying and Roots of Outrage.
Adventure, romance, political insight and dramatic locations -
ingredients that have established John Gordon Davis as a major name
in international adventure thrillers. Now he has added his own
experience as a lawyer in Hong Kong to create an action-packed
tale, filled with powerful courtroom scenes, set against the
dramatic background of a city preparing for political upheaval. Al
Hargreave, Hong Kong's Director of Public Prosecutions, is taking a
break in nearby Macao to recover from the collapse of his marriage
when he meets Olga, a beautiful Russian. Almost before he knows
what's happening, they are planning a new life together - the only
problem is that Olga's pimp has other ideas. Suddenly Olga is
snatched away, and Al is presented with an impossible dilemma.
Either he commits professional suicide by intentionally losing a
case against a Russian Mafia boss, or he gives up any chance of
happiness, and leaves Olga to suffer an unknown fate at the hands
of her captors in Moscow.
A Pope is dead; his successor has just survived an assassination
attempt; death is meted out in the South Atlantic with the
explosive fury of Exocet missiles; a disgraced banker is found
hanging under a London bridge; a row of US servicemen's coffins is
lined up in the Caribbean heat of Grenada ... The events at first
seem unconnected, but are linked by their shocking violence. And it
is these events that take Jack Morgan back to the Caribbean island
where the woman he was to have married, Anna Hapsburg, is fighting
for survival. Morgan has been drummed out of the Navy on trumped-up
charges, and Anna's husband, Max, is deeply implicated not only in
Morgan's fll from grace, but also in an international network of
shady deals that tie in with the recent events. Together, Morgan
and Anna uncover a deviously camouflaged trail that will lead them
to the rotten core of a worldwide conspiracy that goes to the top
of the seemingly respectable governments and religious institutions
...
The sins of the past come home to roost in the New South Africa in
the action-packed new novel from a master of the international
thriller. The bestselling author of Hold My Hand I'm Dying and
Roots of Outrage returns once more to the country he knows best -
South Africa - for his heart-thumping new thriller, filled with
political intrigue, courtroom drama and high adventure. Since the
historic 1994 elections brought in the New South Africa, Jack
Harker, a former operative for South African military intelligence,
has created a new identity for himself as a publisher in New York,
and a new life with writer and activist Josephine Valentine, who
knows nothing of his undercover past. But his world is suddenly
thrown into turmoil when he hears about the new Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, which offers amnesty to those who
confess to crimes committed during the dark days of Apartheid, and
prosecution to those who do not. If Jack tells the truth about
everything he was ordered to do in the service of his country, will
Josephine ever be able to forgive him? If he keeps quiet, will
former colleagues betray him? And will he even be given the choice?
His confession would implicate a lot of powerful people, and it
soon becomes clear that they will go to any lengths to ensure he
will never be able to testify.
A panoramic novel filled with adventure, passion, a cast of
unforgettable characters, and penetrating political insight. South
Africa - a land long ron asunder by age-old struggles fro freedom.
Now the apartheid era is brought vividly to life. Accused of
treason following an illicit affair with activist Patti Ghandhi,
journalist Luke Mahoney is forced to flee into exile. Only when
South Africa finally moves into a new era is it safe for him to
return - after long years of reporting on the racial oppression and
the bloodshed from beyond its borders. It is a time of momentous
change, uncertain optimism, fear and forgiveness. With
unforeseeable speed, the ANC is unbanned, Nelson Mandela is
released - and a ghost from Luke's past returns. Suddenly his new
life with Afrikaner academic Katrina de la Rey is thrown into
turmoil, as the violence ravaged country braces itself for the
first historic elections.
A heart-stopping adventure ... A chilling Nazi legacy in today's
Southern Africa. A month after the end of World War II, a U-boat
with a mysterious cargo founders off South West Africa's
treacherous Skeleton Coast. Two German Officers reach the surface
and battle their way to the shore, but the bloody struggle that
follows leaves one man murdered and the other facing a perilous
journey across the terrible, burning sands... Forty years later,
trawler captain James McQuade stumbles across the story, and the
thought of a submarine full of Nazi war gold sets his pulse racing.
Soon he uncovers startling evidence that the escaping German, a top
Nazi, survived the desert crossing and is now a leading member of
the South African neo-fascist group, the AWB. A simple salvage
operation rapidly escalates into an international manhunt, with
much more than sunken treasure at stake...
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Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
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He believes I can do no wrong.
Sadly, he's mistaken.
Celia, Juliette and Nadia are complete strangers with one thing in
common: they have all been wronged by Ellis Cobain. A wealthy
philanthropist on course for a knighthood, Ellis' public persona is
bulletproof - but lurking beneath this veneer is a sinister side that
only the women closest to him have seen.
When they meet at a boutique hotel on the Cornish coast, brought
together by the blind arrogance of their tormentor, they realise what
connects them and form a pact: to blackmail him and free themselves
from his grasp.
But when he is discovered the next morning, murdered in cold blood,
they are left scrambling. None of them knows who did it, and now they
must desperately cover their tracks.
Will they keep each other's secrets, now they are all implicated in his
death? Will one turn on the others, when any of them could be next?
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In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo's next thriller
Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the
secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate
Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death. When a young woman
is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate
Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael
Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold
years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who
would kill her so brutally? Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl
who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was--and those parallels dog
her. But the more Kate learns about Rachael's life, the more she's
convinced that her dubious reputation was deserved. As a child,
Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated
her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and
beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no
matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her
a lot of love and enemies aplenty--both English and Amish. As the
case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a
killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn't want Rachael's
past--or the mysteries she took with her to the grave--coming to
light. As Kate digs deeper, violence strikes again, this time
hitting close to home. Will Kate uncover the truth and bring a
murderer to justice? Or will a killer bent on protecting a terrible
past stop her once and for all--and let the fallen be forgotten?
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