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'I start asking questions. How do you do this? How do you get away
with it? How much money do you make from it? Who supports you? Who
resists you? And what happens to the people who resist you?' Scam
City's Conor Woodman goes undercover to meet the world's dodgiest
dealers. Creeping through the lawless backstreets where the black
market thrives, he intentionally falls for scam after scam, from
back-alley dice games to counterfeit cash. Woodman's risky and
occasionally reckless reporting exposes how crooks dupe their
unsuspecting victims time and time again. A dark adventure through
cities as diverse as Mumbai, Bogota, New Orleans, Barcelona and
London, The Scam Hunter is a shocking reminder of who really runs
the world's biggest metropolises. A truly electrifying read.
Previously published as Sharks: Investigating the Criminal Heart of
the Global City.
THE SECOND EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM SAS HERO AND TV STAR, MARK
'BILLY' BILLINGHAM 'Billy's really been there and done it. There's
no substitute for experience' SEAN PENN 'Matt Mason is an awesome
character. Just the guy I would want to be by my side in an
explosive situation' RUDY REYES 'The characters are tough and the
writing is tougher. A head-smashing assault of a thriller from a
former SAS agent who has seen it all and done it all' THE SUN 'A
strong sense of jeopardy and the action does not lack fizz. If you
want a quick, easy read that entertains throughout, Survive to
Fight fits the bill' CRIME FICTION LOVER 'Billingham's service as a
former SAS officer brings an extra layer of verisimilitude'
FINANCIAL TIMES Matt Mason is attempting to put the army behind
him, building a life for himself training anti-poaching forces on a
game reserve. He's looking forward to meeting up with his eldest
child, Jo, who has graduated naval college and taken a summer job
working on a billionaire's yacht in the Red Sea. But then he
receives a call informing him that Jo's boat is missing, likely
abducted by Somali pirates. Mason must call in favours from old
contacts as he follows Jo's trail. She isn't the abduction target,
she won't be worth the pirates keeping for long. But she is still
Matt Mason's daughter, and she knows she needs to survive to fight.
IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST IN THE NEW MATT MASON SERIES FROM AN AUTHOR
WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE IT ALL, BILLY BILLINGHAM, CHECK OUT
CALL TO KILL NOW! About the Author Billy Billingham spent 17 years
in the SAS. He was responsible for planning and executing strategic
operations and training at the highest level in locations including
Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and Africa, and has led countless
hostage rescues. He later became a bodyguard to A list celebrities
such as Brad Pitt, Sir Michael Caine, and Tom Cruise. Since 2015,
Billy has been one of the lead presenters on the popular Channel
Four series SAS: Who Dares Wins.
BOOK TWO IN THE SERIES, SURVIVE TO FIGHT, IS AVAILABLE NOW! THE
FIRST IN A BRAND NEW SERIES FROM SAS: WHO DARES WINS STAR. A
country in turmoil. A rescue mission gone wrong. A hero on unlike
any other fighting to save a broken world. Matt 'Mace' Mason is
deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming
embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at
the strings of the local political scene is not only the local
warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak
Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who
controls a whole international network to her advantage. As well as
his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female
CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford. Together they will need to
prevent an attack that would spark a regional war and create the
largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen. DON'T MISS
THE FIRST IN THE NEW MACE MASON SERIES FROM AN AUTHOR WHO HAS BEEN
THERE AND DONE IT ALL, BILLY BILLINGHAM. About the Author Billy
Billingham spent 17 years in the SAS. He was responsible for
planning and executing strategic operations and training at the
highest level in locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, South
America and Africa, and has led countless hostage rescues. He later
became a bodyguard to A list celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Sir
Michael Caine, and Tom Cruise. Since 2015, Billy has been one of
the lead presenters on the popular Channel Four series SAS: Who
Dares Wins. Of the lead line-up, he is the only one with a genuine
SAS career.
THE SECOND EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM SAS HERO AND TV STAR, MARK
'BILLY' BILLINGHAM 'Billy's really been there and done it. There's
no substitute for experience' SEAN PENN Matt Mason is attempting to
put the army behind him, building a life for himself training
anti-poaching forces on a Kenyan game reserve. He's looking forward
to meeting up with his eldest child, Jo, who has graduated naval
college and taken a summer job working on a billionaire's yacht in
the Red Sea. But then he receives a call informing him that Jo's
boat is missing, likely abducted by Somali pirates. Mason must call
in favours from old contacts as he follows Jo's trail. She isn't
the abduction target, she won't be worth the pirates keeping for
long. But she is still Matt Mason's daughter, and she knows she
needs to survive to fight. IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST IN THE NEW MATT
MASON SERIES FROM AN AUTHOR WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE IT ALL,
BILLY BILLINGHAM, CHECK OUT CALL TO KILL NOW! About the Author
Billy Billingham spent 17 years in the SAS. He was responsible for
planning and executing strategic operations and training at the
highest level in locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, South
America and Africa, and has led countless hostage rescues. He later
became a bodyguard to A list celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Sir
Michael Caine, and Tom Cruise. Since 2015, Billy has been one of
the lead presenters on the popular Channel Four series SAS: Who
Dares Wins.
Why the world's poor continue to lose out in the global market --
and what can be done about it.
How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds'
worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave
the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that
big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And,
if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward?
In Unfair Trade""Conor Woodman traces a range of products back to
their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is
losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who
are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US
well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the
developed world's insatiable demand for tin means for local miners.
And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly
visits the country's burgeoning rubber plantations, established to
supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer
goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the
best way to create a fairer world -- and suggests a simpler but
potentially far more radical solution.
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