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Appointment With Venus
(Hardcover, New edition)
Jerrard Tickell; Introduction by Rosa Rankin-Gee; Illustrated by Edward Bawden; Cover design or artwork by Edward Bawden
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Here is a small fact - you are going to die.
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
The 10th-anniversary edition features pages of bonus content, including annotated manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.
When Kat Severn left university she had a choice, but instead of
following her father and brother into politics, she chose the other
family tradition and joined the military. Only a few months into
her first command appointment she is relieved from duty.
Unwittingly she has become a pawn in a fast-evolving political
game, with unknown adversaries seeking to undermine her father, the
prime minister of the early 22nd century Federation of America,
Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Whilst waiting to be
summoned for court martial, Kat's grandpa Jim gets her away from
unwanted media attention by sending her on a diplomatic mission to
New Zealand. With the principal warships of the Pacific Fleet
despatched on a senseless propaganda tour by new political masters,
the Federation cities of Nu Hawaii and San Angeles are suddenly
highly vulnerable when a mystery fleet arrives demanding their
immediate surrender. This time there is no choice for Kat.
Assembling a flotilla of small ships and reservist personnel, she
leads them in the most important mission of her career, and perhaps
her last!
In Alpha One Zero we follow the adventures of an MI6 field agent
embedded with the fierce Kurdish fighters at first in northern Iraq
and then in Syria. His task is to collect intelligence from all
quarters and forward it to London via Baghdad. This often involves
searching the bodies of dead Isis fighters whose bodies are wired
up to improvised explosive devices. He is partnered in this mission
by an agent from American SIS and later with a female agent from
the CIA. Each day of this long drawn out mission is filled with
danger some of it from unexpected sources. In war there is success
and tragedy sadly as almost equal partners, read on.
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Rogue
(Paperback)
Robert Cameron
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Discovery Miles 4 510
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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.
Action packed thriller for fans of Jack Higgins and Alistair
MacLean.
Daniel Godwin is determined to join the British Army to fight
against the Nazi scourge. His impetuousness leads him to having a
brief affair with the wife of a good friend and mentor who ran the
local cadet force. She bears a child. Initially guilt ridden he
marries her after hearing of his friend's death in northern France.
Another child is born. Having served in Palestine, luckily
surviving at Dunkerque and returning safely from North Africa he
joins the 1st Airborne battalion whose mission was to take the
bridge at Arnhem. Shortly before leaving England he receives a
letter which shocks him to the core. He became adamant he would not
return home and was taken prisoner in Oosterbeek. In the meantime,
back in the city of Bath, Robbie Goode, along with some old
acquaintances, unravels the mystery of a series of murders. Stella,
Daniel Godwin's wife is implicated, but why?
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The Passenger
(Paperback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Translated by Philip Boehm; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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Discovery Miles 3 600
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Assets
(Paperback)
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.
Meet Robert Cameron. 'Cam' trained as a covert military operator
for the British Army. A hardened ex-Special Forces veteran of
Sierra Leone and other major actions including UK counter-terrorism
operations. Now, with the military behind him, it seems Cam is
living a quiet life in the English Lake District but between
suffering flash-backs to his secret past that he would rather
forget, he is planning. But planning for what? He may no longer be
part of the covert world, but Cam still has his specialist skills
and training - he is also armed with an archive of undealt with
terrorist activists in the UK and their personal details and
whereabouts - He is ready to start his crusade. However, as he
discovers - a plan never survives first contact. Sterling is a real
page-turner of Cam's personal vendetta against terror and terrorist
recruitment - loosely based on real events, Sterling is a detailed
and fascinating insight into covert operations, and how the elite
forces train and work.
This short, diary-style novel, by a British army veteran chronicles
the difficulties faced by Tommy, a 23-year-old squaddie, as he
desperately tries to conquer post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- shell shock. His over-emotional responses to the stresses of
everyday life - post-office queues, a trip to Ikea, and his
relationship with his family and girlfriend - eventually lead to
alienation and suicidal urges. Told in the vernacular, with humour
and personal understanding, the story highlights the work of the
charity Combat Stress in rehabilitating returning troops. GBP1 from
the sale of every copy will be donated to the charity. Neil Blower
served for five years with the Royal Tank Regiment, taking part on
operations in Kosovo and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is studying
for a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of Salford. This is his first novel.
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