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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
Jeffrey Archer's first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less,
is page-turning tale of fraud, revenge and determination as four
men stop at nothing to get back what was stolen from them. One
million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of
shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza
and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a
Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don -
find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the
wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of
Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed
lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for
exactly what they lost - not a penny more, not a penny less.
When the UK's favourite breakfast TV presenter dies live on air in
front of millions of viewers, the nation is left devastated.
More devastated still when it becomes clear that her death was not an
accident.
The evidence points to one culprit: celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks.
But junior barrister Adam Green is about to discover that the case is
not as open-and-shut as it first seemed.
And although her angelic persona would suggest otherwise, she was not
short of enemies in the glittery TV world . . .
Can Adam uncover the truth?
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Hired Guns
(Hardcover)
Paul Salamoff; Illustrated by Ana Teresa Rivera
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R736
Discovery Miles 7 360
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Critics are raving about this deliciously chilling new thriller
from Scandanavian crime-writing sensation Camilla Lackberg.
Named by major media outlets, such as "USA TODAY," "The New York
Times," and "The Washington Post," as a main successor to Stieg
Larsson, Swedish author Lackberg is on the rise. Her new novel,
which "The Washington Post" has already named as one of their "Ten
Books We Love This Year" and praised as "richly textured and
downright breathtaking," continues the story of local detective
Patrik Hedstrom and his girlfriend, Erica Falck, the beloved
crime-solving duo whose first child has just been born. But while
they celebrate this new life, a suspicious drowning claims a little
girl they knew well. As the murder's implications widen, Patrik's
investigation threatens to tear apart the rural fishing village of
Fjallbacka, where a secret lurks that spans generations.
A deeply satisfying third installment in her internationally
bestselling series, "The Stonecutter "will establish Lackberg for
the U.S. audience once and for all. As "USA TODAY" says, "If you
haven't yet read the equally entrancing "Ice Princess" and "The
Preacher," what are you waiting for?"
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The Actor
(Paperback)
Chris Macdonald
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R270
R197
Discovery Miles 1 970
Save R73 (27%)
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At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his
controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he's given the performance of a
lifetime, and he almost believes it might be worth the cost.
Because Adam subscribes to "the method". It's the secret that the
world's greatest actors swear by - digging into their darkest, most
personal traumas to bring a role to life.
And Adam's greatest trauma is worse than most. Losing his mother when
he was just a boy. A forced choice between the success he craved and
the girl he loved. And that night back in drama school, the night of
Adam's darkest secret, when everyone knows about the dead body, but
nobody suspects the truth.
And then he gets a message: someone knows. And if they tell, everything
Adam's worked for will come crashing down.
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Unity
(Hardcover)
J D Becket; Edited by J.J. Marshall, M L Darlow
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R634
Discovery Miles 6 340
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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns
to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker
Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America
and the conflicting forces at its heart-a bold, moving drama of
hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town
families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then
the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now
Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely
atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To
drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral
rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the
truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the
paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange
and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors,
organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the
drilling-until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their
lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are
increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the
national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and
cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms
from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island
nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the "strippins,"
haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a
dispatch from a forgotten America-a work of searing moral clarity
from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and
necessary book.
Killer twists. Heroes to believe in. Trust Baldacci. Memory man FBI
agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to
investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and
her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in
Florida from international bestselling author David Baldacci.
Things are changing for Decker. He's in crisis following the
suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a
personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with
the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos
knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.
As darkness falls, evil comes to light . . . Judge Julia Cummins
seemingly had no enemies, and there was no forced entry to her
property. Close friends and neighbours in the community apparently
heard nothing, and Cummins' distraught ex-husband, Barry, and
teenage son, Tyler, both have strong alibis. Decker must first find
the answer to why the judge felt the need for a bodyguard, and the
meaning behind the strange calling card left by the killer. Someone
has decided it's payback time.
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