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A chronicle set both in the current day and in history about the
Beale treasure and the mysterious coded letters that hold the
secret of where it is buried.
Critical Race poses a controversial and disturbing version of the
origin of our computing technology. Based on the harrowing story of
Tom Harris, a spy sent by Churchill to monitor Nazi science, the
narrative follows a delicate thread of history as it weaves a
picture of intrigue and betrayal that joins the beginnings of
computer technology with the explosion of the first atomic bomb.
A collection of films featuring the Irish actor Liam Neeson. In
'Rob Roy' (1995), the Scottish hero Rob Roy (Neeson) borrows money
from the powerful Marquess of Montrose (John Hurt) in order to
provide for his MacGregor clan. However, Montrose's evil henchman
Cunningham (Tim Roth) has other ideas and is determined to stop Roy
getting his way. In 'Kingdom of Heaven' (2005), Orlando Bloom plays
a humble blacksmith who discovers that he is the son of a knight,
and travels to the Holy Land to fight in the crusades. In the
thriller 'Taken' (2008), Neeson stars as Bryan, a former CIA secret
agent living in the US who is obliged to resurrect the skills he
learned in his old job after his estranged 17-year-old daughter Kim
(Maggie Grace) is kidnapped by sex slave traffickers while
travelling with a friend in Europe. Finally, in 'The A-Team'
(2010), four Iraq war veterans, led by Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith
(Neeson), are on the run from the US military who suspect them of
committing a crime and set about trying to clear their names.
Becoming mercenaries and employing a wide range of uniquely
offensive skills mixed in with a healthy dose of eccentric
behaviour, Smith and his cohorts, 'Faceman' Peck (Bradley Cooper),
'Howling Mad' Murdock (Sharlto Copley) and 'B.A.' Baracus (Quinton
Jackson), set out to right the wrong done to them by any means
necessary - and some that aren't - all the while pursued by
military tracker Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel).
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Headshot
Martin Hancock
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R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Last Post
Martin Hancock
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R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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Mouth of the Wolf
Martin Hancock
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R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
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In the course pf human affairs, there is a fundamental conundrum.
How do you know that what someone else is feeling is genuine? In a
relationship, it is a matter of trust. But trust of what? Jessica
and Rob become ensnared by a paradox that places them both in an
impossible position. You trust someone, but trust is not enough.
This short play examines how love for somebody can be a
relationship's worst enemy. How love can be mistrustful while it
tries to accommodate the differences that exist between people. Rob
and Jessica become victims of their love for each other when a
secret has to be brought into the open. The insoluble situation is
blown apart when their close friends come for dinner, and what Rob
and Jessica learn is that, sometimes, the insoluble can be
resolved, but trusting someone else has nothing to do with it.
While out playing with his brother, eight-year-old Michael strays
onto a derelict farm. It would be the last thing he ever did. But
how did Michael die? Falling through the roof of an old shed? After
finding Michael's body, eleven-year-old brother Zack is in no
doubt: Michael was savaged to death by evil chickens. Is this just
the product of Zack's distressed mind, a random event, or is there
some cause and effect at play that nobody wants to be made public?
The thing about photography is that, sometimes, it captures an
accidental reality that was never the intention of the
photographer. The grinning idiot in the background, the unfortunate
reflection in a mirror. But what do you do when an old photograph
shows something in the background that challenges an accepted truth
about history? Fate drops just such a photograph into the lap of a
man who already owns another piece of the same jigsaw. Drawn by an
increasing obsession to solve the mystery of the old photograph, he
unwittingly uncovers a different kind of truth. A truth about what
it really means to live in a free democracy, and which has been
active for a hundred and fifty years: a truth that deals in
state-sponsored intimidation, blackmail and murder.
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Loop (Paperback)
Martin Hancock
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R585
Discovery Miles 5 850
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A manuscript written nearly 40 years ago tells of a journey that
one young man takes to become a teacher. But there has been a
personal cost. A dream destroyed along the way by a cruel careers
master. It takes one girl in a blue dress to make the boy
rediscover that dream and, for both of them, fulfil a destiny.
The stories of managers and record companies who ripped bands off,
are legendary. But what about those bands whose fiery arc to
stardom fizzled out? Bands that, having got a single into the
charts, failed to follow it up. What if the music had been more
important than the money? The Why was just such a band. But there
was something else. Not the lack of talent, nor the potential for
hit singles. Something that was much darker and sinister, and it
broke The Why up. Fifty years after they split up, lead guitarist
in The Why, Dave Waters, attempts to get the band back together.
One last shot at success. But a mystery concerning the death of
their manager, Monty Schneider, fifty years before becomes an
obsession. Was it just an accident? Or, was he murdered? And if he
was, who in the band was the murderer? What was the secret that
split up The Why?
Five rock musicians turn up at a village hall for a reunion nearly
fifty years after their one and only hit single. What could
possibly go wrong? But past enmities are not forgotten. What
transpires next exposes a secret that shocks them all. This short
play takes the lid off the price that was paid by the girlfriends
of rock musicians during a time that has been called the greatest
decade of musical creativity of all time. Was it a price worth
paying?
Lawrence Goodman wasn't looking for anything in life except to try
to deal with a growing disillusionment with his job. Lecturing in
Computer Science wasn't what it used to be. He was feeling like an
empty shell. But, into the void inside him dropped the Beale Diary.
One of life's small mistakes that ends up cascading dramatic
consequences. The diary put a match to the tinder wood of
Lawrence's own obsessive mind and life would never be the same
again. The big mistake was to write a book about it. This trilogy
follows Goodman as he becomes obsessed with uncovering truths that
don't appear in the history books.
While clearing out some old research material, Lawrence is faced
with the ghost of a murder, trapped in time on an old magnetic
tape. Something he'd missed before and now the old obsession rises
again. But in feeding the beast, he uncovers a horrible truth. His
previous research into the wartime relationship between IBM and The
Third Reich turned out to be only the beginning of a thread from
that grotesque time. A connection that stretches right into
everyone's life today. A secret that means that our privacy is dead
and nothing will ever bring it back to life again.
A chronicle set both in the current day and in history concerning
the infamous Beale treasure and the mysterious coded letters that
hold the secret of where it is buried.
Critical Race poses a controversial and disturbing version of the
origin of our computing technology. Based on the harrowing story of
Tom Harris, a spy sent by Churchill to monitor Nazi science, the
narrative follows a delicate thread of history as it weaves a
picture of intrigue and betrayal that joins the beginnings of
computer technology with the explosion of the first atomic bomb.
Getting a puncture is irritating at the best of times. But when
you're not sure how to mend it, the last thing you need is a
stranger turning up out of the blue and questioning your
self-belief. This short play poses some difficult questions
concerning the nature of belief in God. It is, in essence, a
dialogue between the past and the future, between the unknowable
and the knowable, the un-provable and the provable. The shadow cast
by faith over truth.
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