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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
One of the most thrilling novels of the sea to have been written,
Let Not the Deep tells the story of a tumultuous night in the
storm-ravaged seas off the Scilly Isles. The freighter Caledonia is
carrying not just a cargo of steel plate, but also a group of
schoolboy passengers on an educational trip. When she suffers an
engine breakdown in a terrifying hurricane, the cargo is bound to
shift, and the need for rescue is all the more urgent since one of
the boys is the son of the Prime Minster. To the volunteers on the
Maeve Corrigan, the Scillies Lifeboat, it makes no difference at
all that the eyes of the world's news media are following their
every movement. Their sole aim, along with the RAF helicopter crew
scrambled to the stricken vessel, is to save lives. It falls to
John Nichols to command the Caledonia in this horrifying crisis.
With the cargo shifting, the Caledonia foundering and the storm
exploding around him, the night is very long indeed. Let Not the
Deep is a story of cowardice and courage, of deeply felt emotion
and powerfully realized drama.
From the author of The Devil's Advocate comes a psychological
thriller of unimaginable evil. In The Dark Andrew Neiderman again
combines page-turning suspense with supernatural elements. Los
Angeles psychiatrist Grant Blaine's biggest worry should be whether
or not his stunning wife, Maggie, will make full partner at her law
firm. But his new patient, Jules Bois, pervades his every thought.
Despite Bois' delusional boasts of being a master manipulator of
evil and death, Grant finds him fascinating, brilliant - and
inexplicably privy to his own childhood secrets and adult
fantasies. Soon, his marriage begins to crumble under Bois' vile
influence, and with each session, Grant feels his authority as a
doctor slipping from his grasp... Maggie is extremely scared of
Bois' hypnotic grip on her husband. As a criminal defence attorney
she wants to respect the sanctity of doctor/patient privilege, but
she can't ignore Bois' horrifyingly detailed knowledge of recent
deaths in the news. With much more than her marriage at stake,
Maggie knows she must call upon all her resources to battle a man
who seems to want to possess her husband mind, body and soul...
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The Centre
(Hardcover)
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift
Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language
school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a
secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of
'great works of literature,' but instead mostly spends her days
subtitling Bollywood movies, living off her parents' generous
allowance, and discussing the 'underside of life' with her best
friend, Naima. Anisa's mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, only adds to
her growing sense of inadequacy with his savant-level aptitude for
languages, successfully leveraging his expansive knowledge into an
enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu with native
fluency practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his
secret. Adam begrudgingly tells Anisa about The Centre, an elite,
invite-only program that guarantees near-instant fluency in any
language. Skeptical but intrigued, Anisa enrolls-stripped of her
belongings, contact with the outside world, and bodily autonomy-and
emerges ten days later fluent in German. As Anisa enmeshes herself
further within The Centre, seduced by all that it's made possible,
she soon realizes the true cost of its services. By turns dark,
funny, and surreal, and with twists page-turning and shocking, The
Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London, and
New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language,
translation, and appropriation with biting specificity, and
ultimately asking: what is success really worth?
Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the rest of the Jewish community, and after his uncle is arrested on Kristallnacht, he leaves Germany for New York City with only his mother’s wedding ring to sell for survival.
While attending an evening course at Columbia in 1941, Nathan notices a recruitment poster on a university wall and decides to enlist in the military and help fight the Nazi regime. To his surprise, he is quickly selected for a special assignment; he is trained as a spy, and ordered to report to the Manhattan Project. There he learns that the Allies are racing to develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis, and a German theoretical physicist is hoping to defect. The physicist was a friend of his father's, and Nathan's mission is to return to Berlin via France and smuggle him out of Europe.
Nathan will be accompanied by Dr. Allison Fisher, a brilliant young scientist who can speak French; he travels to her lab at the University of Chicago for a crash course in nuclear physics, then they embark on their adventure. Nathan and Allison soon develop feelings for one another, but as their relationship deepens they move ever closer to their dangerous goal. Will they be able to escape Europe with the defector and start a new life together, or will they fail their mission and become two more casualties of war?
An Affair of Spies is an action-packed tale of heroism and love in the face of unspeakable evil. Author Ronald H. Balson has applied his unmatched talent for evocative and painstakingly authentic storytelling to the high-stakes world of espionage and created his most thrilling novel yet.
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Solo
(Paperback)
William Boyd
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R456
R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday,
James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters
to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African
nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond
to quash the rebels threatening the established regime. Bond's
arrival in Africa marks the start of a feverish mission to discover
the forces behind this brutal war--and he soon realizes the
situation is far from straightforward. Piece by piece, Bond
uncovers the real cause of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagined.
Moving from rebel battlefields in West Africa to the closed
doors of intelligence offices in London and Washington, this novel
is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted story full of
memorable characters and breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
of power and how it is wielded--a brilliant addition to the James
Bond canon.
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Exodus-b
(Hardcover)
Morgan Plantz
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R468
R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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An exciting new thriller, introducing Francesco Patrese, FBI expert
on religious crime, for fans of Richard Montanari and 'Messiah'.
When Pittsburgh homicide detective, Franco Patrese, and his partner
Mark Beradino are called to a domestic dispute at the lawless
Homewood estate events quickly spiral out of control. With two
dead, Patrese believes he's got his killer - but things aren't
always as simple as they seem. On the other side of town, the
charred body of Michael Redwine, a renowned brain surgeon, is found
in one of the city's most luxurious apartment blocks. Then Father
Kohler, a Catholic bishop, is set alight in the confessional at his
Cathedral. But they are just the first in a series of increasingly
shocking murders. Patrese's investigation uncovers high-class
prostitution, medical scams and religious obsession, but what
Patrese doesn't realise is how close to the case he really is - and
how it will take a terrible betrayal to uncover the truth.
A curator of ancient documents, Dr. Jack Gould travels to Moscow at
the urgent request of a friend to translate the verse on a recently
unearthed parchment. Jack realizes with a sickening chill that what
he is reading are the radical thoughts of Jesus, written in his own
hand. Now he is caught in a terrifying crossfire--his only choice
is to uncover the truth.
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State of Terror
(Paperback)
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
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A Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller! 'A rip-roaring,
brilliant page-turner, but it's also timely, cheeky, important and
wonderfully, courageously provocative. What great fun!' - James
Patterson 'Smart and fast and twisty, State of Terror is a
dazzlingly unpredictable political thriller. I loved it' - Kathy
Reichs State of Terror is a compelling and critically acclaimed
international political thriller co-written by Hillary Rodham
Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple
award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist. Take a
ringside seat in the high-stakes world of international politics .
. . After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new
administration has just been sworn in. Secretary of State, Ellen
Adams, is determined to do her duty for her country. But she is
about to face a horrifying international threat . . . A young
foreign service officer has received a baffling text from an
anonymous source. Too late, she realizes it was a hastily coded
warning. Then a series of bus bombs devastate Europe, heralding the
rise of a new rogue terrorist organization who will stop at nothing
in their efforts to develop their own nuclear arsenal. As Ellen
unravels the damaging effects of the former presidency on
international politics, she must also contemplate the unthinkable:
that the last president of the United States was more than just an
ineffectual leader. Was he also a traitor to his country?
________________________ Praise for State of Terror: 'Clinton and
Penny are each a force on their own - put together they are
unstoppable' - Karin Slaughter 'This is as close as you'll get to
being in the White House Situation Room with a secretary of state.'
- The Times 'Fast-paced and packed with insider knowledge.' - Daily
Mail 'The perfect political thriller . . . a glimpse into the world
of our most powerful politicians.' - Ann Cleeves
A pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller featuring forensic
psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's
speciality is the psychological autopsy - an investigation into a
person's life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental,
suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological
autopsy on a living person - one with a suspect memory who can't be
trusted to participate in his own medical care - she knows all her
skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an
aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is
behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got
anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Jo finds herself
racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can't help
Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues
arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent
code-named "Slick", a kidnapping, and a secret partnership gone
horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanan's addled mind may hold the key to
preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San
Francisco. With time running out, she will have to get deeper into
the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth
emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city - and
herself.
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