There are people who don't exist, people who live outside the realms of normal society. They keep us safe. We should never hear about their activities. If we do, something has gone terribly wrong. The Assets are one such covert organisation, a highly trained counter terrorist unit. An international force, tasked with hunting down and exterminating the enemies of the free world. However, they are still only human. No man is exempt from the pressures of combat. Anyone can break. Anyone can go Rogue.Now they must hunt one of their own.

In 'The Guardians' we follow the reactions of the British Government to the attacks in Paris on the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket. Their concern, of course, is of repeat attacks in Great Britain and, in particular, on the vulnerable junior Government ministers who do not have police protection. With each Government department anxious not to increase its spending, providing extra protection would be costly. It is decided to recruit recently-retired members of the armed forces, mainly with the rank of sergeant and with active front-line experience in Afghanistan. Fifty would be initially required, with a reserve of another fifty, all placed on a twelve-month contract that could be extended.

NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER
 
NOT EVEN SCARPETTA…
 
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again.

The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds.
 
Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta’s past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next…

Dave Stubbs continues his employment as an assassin with the government on deniable operations. Unfortunately because of this, his marriage is starting to go down the pan. His boss, after considering all the options, decides to give him a six-month release from all contracts so that he can get his marriage back on tracks. Once the six months is up, and his home life is back on keel, he is asked to train a suitable replacement to do his job for when he is retired. Unfortunately this doesn't go to plan. Dave now returns to deniable operations with a vengeance and even becomes a soldier for a period of time. The word "Assassin" probably comes from the Arabic word 'Hashshashin', meaning hashish eaters. Assassins have been around for thousands of years and probably long before the first Crusade in 1080. They were once members of the Nizari (Shia Islam) sect of Ismaili Muslims and were militant fanatics reputed to use hashish (marijuana) before going on murder missions. This has not really been proved in any history book. So take this statement with a pinch of salt. Assassins have been responsible for the murders of: Julius Caesar, Thomas Beckett (the Archbishop of Canterbury), Lord Mountbatten, John F Kennedy and WPC Yvonne Fletcher, a police officer on duty outside the Libyan Embassy in London. And, many, many more influential people over the years. Assassination in law, is the premeditated murder of a person.

In 'The Call for Duty' we follow the adventures of an MI6 agent in Afghanistan, the Ukraine and a number of Middle East countries where a life is cheap and often rather short. The agent is Mark Taylor, a former Royal Marine who, for a good deal of the time is tactically embedded with a Universal News team which is partly a front for a CIA operation. Death and destruction are their companions as they follow the instructions of their governments in reporting the result of their policies in these areas of conflict. Despite having a healthy contempt for all politicians, the agents' loyalty to their country is never in question nor is their sense of duty, read on.

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.

They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.

That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy.

Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners.

Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?

Ani FaNelli is the woman who has it all: the glamorous job, the designer wardrobe, the handsome and rich fiance. But behind her sharp edges and meticulously crafted facade lies the darkest of pasts.

When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling and violent incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley school, she hopes it will be an opportunity to prove how far she's turned her life around since then. She'll even let the production company film her lavish wedding, the final step in her transformation. But as the wedding and filming converge, Ani's past threatens to come back and haunt her. And as her immaculate veneer starts to crack, she is forced to question: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for - or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

Luckiest Girl Alive is an audacious, page-turning debut thriller that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and Jodi Picoult.

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.