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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
Nikki Quintero, an agent from the Colombian National Police Special
Operations Command arrives in London and informs the National
Security Agency that two Colombian assassins are on their way to
London to murder an English police officer in revenge for him
thwarting their attempted importation of a vast quantity of cocaine
into the UK some months earlier. The National Security Agency
quickly identifies John Ridge as being the policeman at risk and
with Ridge's help put in place a sting operation designed to lead
to the arrest of the people involved in the conspiracy to murder
him. Working closely with Nikki Quintero, Ridge soon becomes
distracted from the operation by Nikki, who has other things on her
mind. Once again, Ridge's supervisors seem unwilling to assist him
and spend their time trying to get him suspended from duty. Ridge,
out jogging one evening, is confronted by the giant Colombian
assassin lying in wait for him at the end of the Brighton Pier. A
violent confrontation takes place between the two men on the pier
where there can only be one winner. The situation then gets worse
when Ridge discovers that his family is at risk, when they are held
hostage by Mateo Garcia. Can Ridge beat the odds stacked against
him and rescue his family before Garcia exacts his revenge?
Andy Baker is an advertising executive from Manchester in London on
business and staying in the Four Freedoms Tower. Khalid is an
Islamic extremist and member of Al-Qaeda, who is planning on
conducting a suicide bombing in London. The two men get into the
lift early in the morning and the lift breaks down. The story
follows both men's reaction to their situation and each other.
When a young female jogger goes missing in Pembleton Woods
Torreston Police pull out all the stops to find her. The only clue
they have is the name Gil written in Lucy Hancock's diary, but who
is this mystery male that nobody appears to know and nobody has
seen? Tension rises when a second woman goes missing and like Lucy,
she works at an estate agents. Time is running out for the women
but DCI Love and her team working long and arduous days are not
about to give up the hunt.
Red Ink is a gripping thriller, originally released in 2013. Set in present-day Johannesburg, it has a distinctly local flavour and brings the city to life through all its contrasts and contradictions.
When public relations consultant and ex-journalist Lucy Khambule – young,
beautiful and ambitious – receives an unexpected call from Napoleon
Dingiswayo – a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The Butcher by the media –
her life takes a dramatic turn. Dingiswayo wants Lucy to tell his story. Intrigued
by Dingiswayo’s approach, Lucy decides to take this opportunity to fulfil her
life-long dream of writing a book, but it comes at a cost she could never have
imagined.
After their initial contact, Dingiswayo becomes an all-too-obliging subject and
Lucy soon discovers that her choice of topic is not for the faint-hearted. Soon
after meeting him in Pretoria’s notorious C-Max Prison, Lucy’s world is turned
upside down by a series of violent and disturbing events.
Dingiswayo is behind bars, but Lucy begins to suspect that the brutal attacks
may have something to do with him. Who is this frightening man, and what
motivates him? As Lucy learns that there is more to Dingiswayo’s story than the
police have uncovered, she is forced to decide what price she is willing to pay to
pursue her dream.
Red Ink is a gripping thriller. Set in Johannesburg, it has a distinctly local flavour
and brings the city to life through all its contrasts and contradictions.
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The Quiet
(Paperback)
Barnaby Martin
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R385
R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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A mother's love can be deafening . . .
Isaac is Hannah’s entire world. She knows that her son is gifted, and that those gifts make him vulnerable. To keep him safe, she spends every waking moment by his side. If she lets her guard down, lets him out of her sight, lets him show what he’s capable of, he will be taken from her.
When the Soundfield arrived twenty years ago, the world changed with it. Now, people are forced to live at night due to the deadly heat of the day, food and water are scarce, and everyday life is punctuated by the constant and disconcerting hum from the Field. A brilliant scientist, Hannah spent her early career working on the enigma of the Soundfield, looking for answers; now, resigned, she has focussed all her energies on keeping Isaac living, not just alive.
To do so, she will have to lie to the people she knows and hope she can trust the ones she doesn't. Because the only thing more dangerous than her lies, is the truth of what she has done.
Lucy Masters has just completed her PhD and is heading out to the
Himalayas to climb some of the world's most challenging mountains.
An assassin stalks a man whose company has developed a
revolutionary new social media application. Harry Parker, an
ex-Gurkha Army officer, is on leave between development contracts
in Nepal. One of the City's most successful hedge fund managers is
about to make his biggest ever fortune. Though they don't know it
yet, the lives of these very different people come together in the
most unexpected way. Add in a young and very beautiful emerging
artist, a sociopath ex-special forces 'fixer' and an ambitious
Police commissioner and the stage is set for a dramatic adventure.
From the mountains of Nepal and the Tors of Dartmoor to the streets
of London and Edinburgh, the story that unfolds will grip you from
the first page.
On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather
for a much-awaited family reunion.
Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how
to split his petrochemicals empire between his three children.
Shalini, the fragile mother, who longs to see her family healed.
Myra, the eldest daughter and golden child, who, unbeknownst to the
family, is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Aseem, the son and supposed heir, who must choose between his wife and
his family.
Aisha, the fun-loving youngest daughter, who is tired of being treated
like a child.
And Zoe, the outsider whose #Instaperfect life is built on a foundation
of lies.
Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder.
This is the story of a courageous woman who lived at the time when
the industrial revolution was developing in Lancashire. After the
early death of her husband she took on the task of managing his
ironworks in addition to bringing up a large young family. During
this time a charismatic preacher arrived whose influence swept
through Ashton-under-Lyne which he said was to be 'the New
Jeerusalem' the place where the 'Shiloh', a messianic figure, was
to be born. Hannah had to cope with his impact on her family and
this she did with tough Lancashire grit and humour. Her indomitable
character and strong conviction of right and wrong makes this story
a riveting read.
GANGLAND BOSS ZANDER FINN DISAPPEARED AFTER THE BRUTAL MURDER OF
HIS SON. He fled to London, seeking salvation by walking away from
his money, his career and his legacy. But when his old
second-in-command Malky Maloney tracks him down, Finn knows he must
return. Both his real family and his crime family face an
existential threat from Albanian mobsters hellbent on taking
control of the Scottish underworld and the forces of law and order
determined to inflict their own retribution. Finn's fight for
survival is a rollercoaster ride of brutality, misplaced loyalties
and the utterly unexpected. The road to redemption is perilous -
and paved with blood.
For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly
puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels
that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine.
Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit
possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into
it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most
comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to
Maine and to Dr. Malin Hatch, owner of the island. While the
treasure hunters have their reasons for mounting this assault - $2
billion in gold - Hatch has his own motives to join them. For
Hatch, whose brother died on Ragged Island thirty years before, the
only escape from the curse is through the black swirling waters and
bloodstained chambers of the Pit.
In 1532 Francisco Pizarro, the leader of the Spanish Conquistadors,
arrived by sea in the land of the Incas with a small army to
subjugate the region and send what riches he found there back to
Spain. Pizarro and his two brothers were fearsome warriors, and his
first act was to capture the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa and demand a
ransom of twenty-four tons of gold. The ransom was paid, but
Pizarro strangled the Emperor anyway. The most prized and revered
object the Incas had was a solid-gold statue of Inti the Sun god,
seen by the Inca people as the giver and supporter of all life. It
had to be protected from the Spanish looters and so twenty young
men and two high priests from the temple in Cuzco spirited away the
one-ton solid-gold statue to a place of safety. Later, one of the
surviving high priests left a series of clues and it is here,
almost five hundred years later that our story begins."
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Stix
(Paperback)
Frederick H. Gray
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R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A helter-skelter ride of emotions that takes the reader through an
18-month period that drastically changes the life of a 10 year-old
boy in 1950s England. Living in a city but having the nature and
mind of the countryside, his story will have you laughing and
crying from one chapter to the next. From the terror of an escaped
bull to a girl with 'Kingfisher eyes'. Can a 10 year old boy be in
love with a beautiful Welsh teacher who wears tight skirts,
stockings and high heels? Can a father's love withstand the
cruellest of life's blows? And what happened to the missing girl?
Laughter, fear, humiliation, love and despair, Stix meets them all.
Squadron Leader Leonard is an enthusiastic Arabic student eager to
win the hearts and minds of the Arabs in the wake of the disastrous
Anglo French foray on the Suez Canal during the 1956 confrontations
with Egypt. The mountains of Lebanon and the indomitable wit of its
heterogeneous people provide a spirited refuge for his advance
Arabic studies. Iraq leads a false trail creating an elusive
immutability as a dependable British Ally. Aden is the prelude to
his work in the field but also the portent of an ominous future.
His final destination further East presents soul searching
challenges when he finds his core values tested to the limit in a
peasant rebellion against their depraved ruler. It is in this
setting that he is tripped up in an ambush where his dramatic
riposte leads him to the relentless sequel of trial by Court
Martial.
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