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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
Clare Galbraith was working as a codebreaker for MI6 when she was
murdered. The police tell Tom, her partner, it was the result of a
robbery that went wrong. Then a newspaper journalist starts asking
questions and Tom is soon drawn into a search for the truth.
Together, he and the reporter find themselves caught up in the
dangerous world of secret agents and terrorists as they try to
uncover what really happened. At the centre of everything is the
coded message Clare left behind. Does it contain the answers they
are looking for and will they ever be able to crack it? This
exciting and fast-paced story is both a murder-mystery and an
action-packed thriller that will keep the reader guessing until the
very end!
FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND Hell
has unleashed a demon - and he's coming for you... Detective Chief
Inspector Ryan's worst nightmare has just become a reality.
Notorious serial killer The Hacker has escaped prison and kidnapped
one of his best detectives from her own home. His brutality is the
stuff of legend - Ryan lost his sister and nearly his own life
bringing the man to justice first time around. Can Ryan do it again
to save his friend? There's a nationwide manhunt underway but the
trail has gone cold and fear spreads like a virus. Ryan and his
team must find The Hacker before he takes another life - but are
they too late? The clock is ticking... Murder and mystery are
peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced crime whodunit
set amidst the spectacular Northumbrian landscape. "A literary
phenomenon" - Evening Chronicle "LJ Ross keeps company with the
best mystery writers" - The Times
In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
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The 20th Victim
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James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
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An Iraqi terrorist with revenge in mind, an al-Qaeda financed plot
and a British politican hell-bent on making the country suffer for
sins of the past. Into this mix is thrown an anti-terrorist team of
elite soldiers who must battle the threat from armed
insurrectionists, the Russian mafia, the police and their own
superiors if they are to save the country from a devastating
attack. Fate drops the problem into the lap of one lethal man who
is determined to exact a deadly revenge of his own.
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Juggernaut
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Desmond Bagley
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Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Africa. It
is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing
550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job - and
that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer
across an oil-rich African state. But when Nyala erupts in civil
war, Mannix's juggernaut is at the centre of the conflict - a
target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to
hide...
Twenty Twenty Eight is a fast paced adventure set against a
background of political speculation, in the near future, when oil
and energy resources are entirely depleted. The story focuses on
the inter-action between the various characters and their enduring
love for one another, when confronted by a totalitarian state in
near collapse; a state that is being forced into surrender by
subversive gangs taking over the cities. The action centres on a
group of people who stockpile food, arms and ammunition in a
disused lead mine in order to defend themselves against desperate,
half-starved hoards pouring out of the cities. Eventually they
realise their situation is becoming hopeless and decide to escape
the horror altogether. Heading across country to a small schooner
they sail away to what they believe will be a new Utopia. But what
awaits them is something just as ominous. In this fast paced but
wonderfully evocative novel David Greason Walker paints a
strikingly vivid picture of how our world could be in the not too
distant future. But he also applauds love, adventure and wide
exotic landscapes, giving hope for the future however arduous life
may become. The story also explores the part myth, part reality of
our modern world; the spectacle of a life we are supposed to
believe in, as opposed to the truth behind the spectacle!
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Migrations
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Charlotte McConaghy
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Stix
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Frederick H. Gray
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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.
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit
Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden
relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates
unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man
responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat
and mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of
high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at
the heart of the Syrian regime, bringing the pair under the
all-seeing eyes of Assad's spy catcher, Ali Hassan, and his brother
Rustum, the head of the feared Republican Guard. Set against the
backdrop of a Syria pulsing with fear and rebellion, Damascus
Station is a gripping thriller that offers a textured portrayal of
espionage, love, loyalty, and betrayal in one of the most difficult
CIA assignments on the planet.
'Beautifully written' S. A. Cosby Sometimes to find yourself, you
have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like
what you find. After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go
home, back to the one place where he'd once felt he belonged. But
that was a long time ago and now he has to face the life that he
chose to run away from: The Combine. The gang that his uncle now
leads, but which his father still runs from prison. Brutal,
unforgiving . . . family. Reunited with his childhood friend Callie
and tagging along on jobs with her and her boyfriend Pretty Baby,
Luke soon discovers that he might have a place back home after all.
When another gang try to encroach on their turf, The Combine and
Luke must go to war to save all that they know. But in trying to be
someone you're not, can you ever find out who you really are?
Family is everything and blood is love. Praise for Jordan Harper:
'When I say The Last King of California subverts the stereotypical
American Outlaw Mythos, it's the highest praise I can give it. No
one is thinking deeper about what crime fiction is than Jordan
Harper' S. A. Cosby 'Burns bright and fast' Peter Swanson 'Darkly
irresistible' Megan Abbott 'Urgent and beautiful' Lauren Beukes
'Fast-paced and gritty' Amy Engel 'Truly astounding' Robin
Wasserman 'Easily one of the best things I'll read this year.
Visceral and violent. An exploration o family and loyalty. Reads
like poetry. Bravo!' Chris McDonald '[A] gripping and emotional
journey . . . Authors paint pictures with words, and like the Mona
Lisa or Van Gogh's Sunflowers, some of their books are instant
masterpieces sure to inspire readers and elicit envy from fellow
wordsmiths. The Last King of California is simply that good. Jordan
Harper wields words like weapons . . . It is like poetry on the
page' BoloBooks Top Read of 2022 'Blistering, brutal, with a big
beating (black) heart, The Last King of California confirms Harper
as one of the finest writers of noir today, with what's easily a
best-of-the-year book' James. D. F. Hannah, Shamus-winning author
of the Henry Malone novels
She’s a murderer.
Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees – why else would his dead body be
found in her shed?
So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial.
Coming back to the remote coastal village where she grew up was a
mistake. She didn’t fit in then, and she doesn’t fit in now.
That day is such a blur, she can’t remember clearly what happened.
There is something she is missing, something important… She only knows
one thing. She is not capable of murder.
And the only one she can trust to help her out of this situation is
herself.
So she must fight. Against the odds.
For her life.
Beautifully written about prejudice, loneliness and fighting spirit,
this new book by Nicci French is shocking, twisty and utterly
compelling.
The new Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novel from Number One
bestselling author. 'We're going to murder people who need to be
murdered.' A group of vigilantes known only as 'The Five' are
targeting the worst of society - rapists, murderers and thieves -
and they use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by
those who they've killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities
and victims via the Dark Web. Soon, they are the most popular
figures on social media . . . but their motives may not be entirely
pure. After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers
and Lucas Davenport are sent to investigate. The killings are smart
and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection
to the victims, The Five are virtually untraceable. But if anyone
can stop The Five, it will be Davenport and Flowers. Praise for
John Sandford: 'One of the great novelists of all time' Stephen
King 'A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air' Daily
Mirror 'John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating
the gut-level shocks of a good thriller' New York Times Book Review
'John Sandford has the Midas touch' Huffington Post 'Delivers
twists to the very last sentence' Daily Mail 'Crime writer John
Sandford is one of the best around' Sun
***The Million-copy International Bestseller*** 'If you love The
Girl on the Train read Behind Closed Doors' Elle 'Twists our
expectations of the entire psychological thriller genre' Guardian
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and
wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like
them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's
difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some
might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers
the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she
doesn't work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so
slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.
Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie. PRAISE FOR
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: 'If you love The Girl on the Train read Behind
Closed Doors' Elle 'Twists our expectations of the entire
psychological thriller genre' Guardian 'The tension builds almost
unbearably' Good Housekeeping 'This outstanding debut novel will
leave you breathless' Bella 'This one is 2016's answer to Gone
Girl. 'Nuff said' Women's Health UK 'It took me just an afternoon
to read this book and by the end, my heart was pounding. If you
like fast and frantic stories, you'll love this' The Sun
'Brilliant, chilling, scary and unputdownable' Lesley Pearse,
bestselling author of Without a Trace 'Behind Closed Doors is an
intriguing, sharply gripping debut thriller' Lovereading 'Behind
Closed Doors is both unsettling and addictive, as I raced through
the pages to find out Grace's fate. A chilling thriller that will
keep you reading long into the night' Mary Kubica, bestselling
author of The Good Girl
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Assets
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Robert Cameron
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Two years after the Torness job Cam is sent on his next deadly
assignment. A rogue Iranian General has disappeared with an arsenal
of deadly chemical weapons and is threatening to unleash them on
his country's enemies. Joined by old friends and new, Cam must hunt
down and find this dangerous man before he holds to ransom the
counties of the Gulf of Oman and the surrounding states.
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