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24 hours to nuclear war... the clock is ticking.North Korea,
increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, is led by an
absolute dictator with a major goal - to launch a nuclear war. And
they've made a deal. In exchange for effective missiles, they will
trade nuclear triggers to Iran. An exchange, if successful, that
will create two new nuclear powers. Dewey Andreas is ready to
retire from the CIA, but he's the only available agent with the
skills to get the job done. He has less than 24 hours to get to
North Korea, to stop the deal and to save the world. A pulsating
thriller from New York Times bestseller Ben Coes, perfect for fans
of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor. Praise for Ben Coes'Wildly
entertaining ... a heart-stopping thrill ride' Joseph Finder, New
York Times bestselling author of Suspicion and The Switch 'A
propulsive read with enough plot hooks, twists, and action to fill
five thrillers' Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times Bestselling author
of Agent in Place
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLERS
by
MICHAEL SHAARA and JEFF SHAARA
THE CIVIL WAR TRILOGY
GODS AND GENERALS
THE KILLER ANGELS
THE LAST FULL MEASURE
"Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift."--"The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! The U.S.S.
Discovery's specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump
great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To
do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the
recently revealed mycelial network, a subspace domain Discovery can
briefly transit but in which it cannot remain. After responding to
a startling distress call originating from within the network, the
Discovery crew find themselves trapped in an inescapable realm
where they will surely perish unless their missing mycelial fuel is
found or restored. Is the seemingly human man found alone and alive
inside the network the Starfleet officer he claims to be, or an
impostor created by alien intruders who hope to extract themselves
from the mycelial plane at the expense of all lives aboard
Discovery?
A well-crafted, gripping novel reminiscent in style of John Buchan.
Set in London and the Scottish Highlands during WWI this is a dark
tale of double-cross and deception. Melnikov is a complex man whose
inner conflicts parallel the tense twists and turns of the spy
mystery which unfolds. Will Melnikov outwit the sinister enemy spy
network? Can he summon the will and the wit to survive?
As the King of England wavers between duty and love, Sophie knows
that she must choose duty. The year is 1936 and the new King Edward
VIII wishes to marry American divorcee, and suspected German agent,
Wallis Simpson. Top-secret documents that the king must read and
sign are being neglected for weeks, and some are even turning up in
Berlin. And as Germany grows its military might with many thousands
of new fighter planes every year, Britain and its empire are under
increasing threat. Can Miss Lily's most successful protege, Sophie
Vaile, the Countess of Shillings, seduce the new king, prevent his
marriage to Wallis Simpson, and turn him from fascism? And if a man
can sacrifice his life for his country, should a woman hesitate to
sacrifice her honour? Based on new correspondence found in German
archives, Lilies, Love and Lies is a work of fiction. Or is it? In
the fourth title in the Miss Lily series, Jackie French explores
one of the most controversial events in history that saw the
unthinkable happen when a king chose love over duty.
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War takes no prisoners. It involves everyone - even children.Twin
brothers, Amed and Aziz, live in the peaceful shade of their
family's orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys'
grandparents, they become pawns in their country's civil war. Blood
demands more blood and, at the command of a local militant group,
either Ahmed or Aziz must strap on a belt of explosives and make
the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin works as an
actor in wintry Montreal. A theatre director gives him a role that
forces the young man to reconsider his decisions. Will Ahmed - or
is it Aziz? - release himself from the past?
In Kuwait, American forces are stacked up, locked and loaded for
the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent, a woman who
inhabits a twilight of lies and death, is close to cracking a
terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a forty-foot
wood-hulled sailboat, manned by a drug runner, a pirate, and two
gun-slinging beauties, is witness to the unspeakable. In one
instant, all around the world, for politicians and peasants, from
Gaza to Geneva, things will never be the same. A wave of
inexplicable energy has slammed into the continental United States.
America, as we know it, is gone. . . .
WITHOUT WARNING
Now U.S. soldiers are fighting a war without command or control. A
correspondent records horrors for no one. Washington is gone and
the line of succession is in tatters; the functioning remnants of
government are in Pearl Harbor, Guantanamo Bay, and one desperate,
isolated corner of the Northwest. For the jihadists, it's Allah's
miracle. For Saddam, it's a chance to attack. Iran declares war on
an America that doesn't exist-except in the hearts and souls of the
men and women who want it to.
In this astounding work of alternate fiction, John Birmingham
hurtles us into a scenario that is unimaginable but shatteringly
real: a world of financial ruin where a cloud of noxious waste-from
America's burning cities-darkens Europe, while men and women in
offices around the globe struggle to make decisions that cannot
hold and opportunists unleash their secret demons.
From a slick Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at
the right time to a hard-working city engineer in Seattle who
becomes his terrified city's only hope, from the cancer-stricken
secret agent to a drug runner off the Mexican coast and a U.S.
general in Cuba, Without Warning tells a fast, furious story of
survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality. The first
in an epic trilogy that will leave readers breathless and
astounded, Without Warning offers a world without its policeman,
its Great Satan, or its savior-as an unknowable future struggles to
be born.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS pull off a
daring prison break and escape from Communist-run Ethiopia alive?
In 1975, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, recently deposed in a
Communist revolution, is declared dead. In the hands of the brutal
army officer Mengitsu Haile Mariam, the country has descended into
chaos and bloodshed. Then an astonishing truth emerges. The Emperor
is being kept alive in prison by Mengitsu, but only until he
reveals the location of his billion-pound fortune. The British and
American governments will not tolerate a ruthless Communist
regime's acquisition of such wealth: it will destabilize the Middle
East and all East Africa. There is only one answer: kidnap the
Emperor. Three SAS soldiers are selected for this hazardous
mission, which is like nothing the regiment has ever tackled
before: to penetrate a remote desert fortress and then to escape
through arid highlands with a frail old man in tow. Only
extraordinary duplicity will get them in. Only acute tactical
expertise and merciless improvisation will get them out. And if
anything goes wrong, it will be as if they had never existed.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission, But can the SAS prevent Britain
descending into war-torn anarchy? Great Britain, 1995: With
terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and
a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are
stretched beyond their limit. And now a new threat is looming. A
fanatical right-wing movement is spreading into the UK. Using
terrorism and crime to fund its undercover activities, and a
frightening new drug to spur on its growing army to unprecedented
extremes of violence, it is threatening to turn Britain's towns and
inner cities into battlegrounds of anarchic brutality. In
desperation, civil authorities turn to the only men who might be
able to confront these fanatics on their own terms: the SAS. Guided
by a maverick undercover drug cop, they will be pitted against an
enemy as ruthless and deadly as any the regiment has faced. The SAS
are at war, and that war is just outside the window - a war on the
streets.
Continuing the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George
R.R. Martin's landmark series, this gorgeously illustrated special
edition of A Clash of Kings features over twenty all-new
illustrations from Lauren K. Cannon, both colour and
black-and-white, and a special foreword by Bernard Cornwell. The
Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead,
his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers
are set on a path of war amongst themselves. At King's Landing, the
head of Lord Eddard Stark rots on a spike for all to see. His
daughter Sansa is betrothed still to his killer's son Joffrey -
Queen Cersei's son, though not the son of her late husband Robert.
Even so, Joffrey is now a boy-king, Cersei is his regent, and war
is inevitable. In Dragonstone, Robert's brother Stannis has
declared himself king, while his other brother Renly proclaims
himself king at Storm's End - and Eddard Stark's fifteen year old
son Robb wears the crown of the north at Winterfell. A comet in the
night sky, red and malevolent, the colour of blood and flame, can
only be an omen of murder and war. Stannis's child Princess Shireen
dreams of dragons waking from stone. And a white raven has brought
word from the Citadel itself, foretelling summer's end. It has been
the longest summer in living memory, lasting ten years, and the
smallfolk say it means an even longer winter to come... The first
rule of war is never give the enemy his wish. But winter will be
the biggest enemy. From beyond the Wall the undead and Others
clamour for freedom, and from beyond the sea the long-dead Dragon
King's daughter hatches her revenge. Robb Stark will be exceedingly
lucky to reach adulthood.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to
storm a terrorist stronghold in the mountains of Pakistan? For
Captain Don Headley of the SAS, the police anti-terrorist exercise
on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another
training job. But in the grey suburban sprawl on the edge of London
another, far more sinister plot is about to unfold, a plot that
sees him dispatched on a hostage-rescue mission to the Indian
subcontinent. Under the patronage of inscrutable Intelligence chief
Sir Anthony Briggs, the operation reunites him with some of the
hardest troopers from Hereford, for only such a hand-picked team is
capable of storming a terrorist stronghold in the mountains of
Pakistan. And only the very best will have a chance of coming back
alive. Central to the mission is the mysterious Mr Sanji. It is at
the cost of precious lives that Don and his men will learn the
horrific secret of this world-weary old man - and understand that
the roots of the kidnap plot lie buried in the dying days of the
British Raj.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive the
Second World War, knowing that Hitler has torn up the rules of war?
Early 1944, and with the tide of the war flowing steadily against
the Germans, the SAS - born in North Africa as a strategic raiding
force behind enemy lines - is performing a similar role in the
Italian mountains and French forests. Here, after making common
cause with local partisans, they are cutting rail and road links
serving the frontline German armies. Hitler knows as much, and is
determined that the SAS will pay a terrible price for their
efforts. His infamous Commando Order decrees that any raiders
captured behind enemy lines, whether in or out of uniform, will be
summarily executed. Denied the safety net usually provided by the
rules of war, the SAS embark on each new mission knowing that it
will end either in success, or death.
The Assassination of the Chief Judge has pushed the Capitol to the
Edge. The Great Extermination has spread to all the land. The
casteless must be annihilated. Their only hope is the fallen
Protector Ashok Vadal. But Vadal is being held prisoner on the i
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS lead a civilian
population out of war-ravaged Bosnia to safety? Bosnia, 1993. A
small army of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, formed to defend the
isolated mountain town of Zavik and under the command of Reeve, a
renegade Briton, has begun mounting raids further afield in search
of food, fuel and medical supplies. All sides in the civil war are
enraged by its exploits; even UN mediators recognize the need for
its suppression. But there are only two people Reeve will listen
to: his ex-wife, and an ex-comrade in the SAS. The latter is
willing to lead a team into Zavik; the former has first to be found
- she is either trapped in Sarajevo or imprisoned in a Serbian
concentration camp. Rescuing her is only the beginning. The SAS
team will then have to traverse the mountainous war zone and force
their way into the besieged town. This will be difficult enough.
Fighting their way out of the war-ravaged territory with a convoy
of the sick, the old and the very young will be next to impossible.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS patrol escape
the deadly Malayan jungle alive? Malaya in the 1950s, and Communist
terrorists wage a bloody war against the country's estates and
rubber plantation owners. Chased into the interior by British Army
units, the guerrillas soon became experts at survival and evasion,
emerging from the jungle only to launch increasingly ferocious
attacks. On the recommendation of Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mad' Mike
Calvert, veteran of Burma's Chindit campaigns, 22 SAS is formed as
a special counter-insurgency force. Three years later they begin
their jungle patrols, learning how to survive for weeks at a time
in hostile terrain, often waist-deep in water, and under attack
from wild animals, leeches and poisonous insects. This
extraordinary campaign climaxes in a nightmarish two weeks in the
Telok Anson swamp tracking the troops of the notorious 'Baby
Killer', Ah Hoi. What the regiment experiences in the Malayan
jungle is both dreadful and unforgettable and will lay the
foundations for the SAS's legendary survival skills...
WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between
Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned
apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies
found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of
a bad batch of heroin, they're in the shadows, a chorus keeping
vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as
their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and
cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece
through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the
deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies;
Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who
discovers the body and futiley searches for his other friends to
share the news of Robert's death; Laura, Robert's daughter, who
stumbles into the junky's life when she moves in with her father
after years apart; Heather, who has her own place for the first
time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all
the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks,
hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by a stronger need, and
the havoc wrought by drugs, distress, and the disregard of the
wider world. These invisible people live in a parallel reality, out
of reach of basic creature comforts, like food and shelter. In
their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more
respect than they ever were in their short lives. Intense,
exhilarating, and shot through with hope and fury, Even the Dogs is
an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society - littered
with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption.
A burlesque epic in the tradition of THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK,
CATCH-22 exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented
logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that
soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting -
but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them
sane. With a cast of magnificently larger-than-life characters who
are rushed along at a breathless pace, for once this really is a
novel it's hard to put down. CATCH-22 was made into a film.
An Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker—and finds himself standing in blood and framed for the man’s murder.
The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and
reopened the Dark Portal. His brutal warriors once again encroach
upon Azeroth, laying siege to the newly constructed stronghold of
Nethergarde Keep. There, the archmage Khadgar and the Alliance
commander, Turalyon, lead humanity and its elven and dwarven allies
in fighting this new invasion. Even so, disturbing questions arise.
Khadgar learns of orcish incursions farther abroad: small groups of
orcs who seem to pursue a goal other than simple conquest. Worse
yet, black dragons have been sighted as well, and they appear to be
aiding the orcs. To counter Ner'zhul's dark schemes, the Alliance
must now invade the orcs' ruined homeworld of Draenor. Can Khadgar
and his companions stop the nefarious shaman in time to stave off
the destruction of two worlds?
Myke Cole, author of the beloved military fantasy Shadow Ops
series, debuts a new epic fantasy trilogy with The Armored Saint, a
tale of religious tyrants, arcane war-machines, and underground
resistance that will enthrall epic fantasy readers of all ages.
After witnessing a horrendous slaughter, young Heloise opposes the
Order, and risks bringing their wrath down on herself, her family,
and her village. She must confront the true risk that wizards pose
to the world, and weigh the safety of her people against justice.
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