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Predator (Paperback)
Wilbur Smith; As told to Tom Cain
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LET THE HUNT BEGIN. HECTOR CROSS, ex-SAS officer, private security
expert, widower. His wife was taken much too soon, by a cruel man
with evil intentions. JOHNNY CONGO, psychopath, extortionist,
terrorist, the man who murdered Hector's wife. Cross wants him
dead. So does the US government. Congo is locked up on Death Row in
the most secure prison in the free world, counting down the days
until his execution. He's got two weeks. He wants out. He's escaped
before and knows he can again. Cross, still licking his wounds from
his last bruising encounter with Congo, is back and ready for work.
In the middle of the rough Atlantic stands oil supertanker Bannock
A. Terrorist activity in the area has triggered panic and there's
only one person they can trust to protect her. What is promised as
a cakewalk turns out to be much more, a mission that will test
Cross to his emotional and physical limits. But a life spent in the
SAS and private security has left Cross hard-wired for pain and as
he is thrown into the fire once more, he will not stop until he has
snared his prey. Hector Cross is Predator.
This edition of some five hundred recently-discovered poems by
Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland presents the largest
collection of 'new' seventeenth-century poetry since Traherne's
poems were published almost a century ago. Until the rediscovery of
these manuscripts, written between 1625 and 1665, Fane was known
only as a patron of Robert Herrick, and as the author of a slim
volume of poems, Otia Sacra (1648). This important body of
manuscript poetry establishes him as a significant early modern
poet. Fane's agonised and changing representation of an England
turned upside-down and back again, and of its everyday social as
well as political life, is meticulously annotated in this first
edition. It uses Fane's surviving account books and letters, as
well as a wealth of other contemporary information, to
contextualise his poems in a way rarely possible with other early
modern writers. The resulting text provides fascinating and
revealing insights for cultural and political historians, as well
as for all readers of English poetry. -- .
Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most
subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson
contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated
(like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines
these different strands so skilfully interwoven by Jonson, and
argues for a reassessment of "Poetaster" as one of the most
ideologically interesting of all early modern plays. The
accompanying explanatory notes guide the reader through the
personal and political illusions which gave the play its immediate
satirical impact. -- .
The first and only edition of Jonson's poetry aimed at a student
reader Each poem is introduced, historical and manuscript
information is provided, it is contextualised and annotated
throughout so easily accessible to the modern reader Modern
spelling and punctuation is used throughout, bridging the gap with
the modern reader Detailed and sensitive treatment of textual
authority and manuscript is given, opening up broader issues
surrounding the poetry
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The Survivor (Paperback)
Tom Cain
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Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. He's very
good at his job. But nobody's perfect. And one of Carver's targets
has got away. Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by
religious fanaticism. In Russia, the government have admitted they
no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase
nukes'. In Afghanistan and Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the
downfall of their hated enemies. In Texas, a dying billionaire
plots his own personal Armageddon. And Carver can do nothing to
stop them. He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel
Carver is a hard man to kill. When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium
from weeks of torment, he discovers that the woman he loves has
vanished. Somehow he must find the strength to track her down.
Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in
which the lives of millions are at stake. He must confront an
agonizing choice between his duty and his heart, and face the
ultimate sacrifice. As the clock ticks down to doomsday, who will
survive the final, explosive conflagration? In The Survivor the
worlds of fact and fiction collide in a thriller that grips from
the first page to the last.
This substantial collection of new includes contributions from
leading international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik,
Philip Edwards, Inga-Stina Ewbank, R.A. Foakes, G.K. Hunter,
Kenneth Muir, A.D. Nuttall, Brian Vickers and Stanley Wells. The
book's twenty five essays range over the whole field of Shakespeare
studies and deal especially with Shakespeare and his predecessors,
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Shakespeare in performance
(including film) and Shakespeare in relation to later literature.
Shakespearean Continuities is published in honour of the
distinguished Shakespeare scholar E.A.J. Honigmann, FBA, Joseph
Cowen Professor of English Literature at the University of
Newcastle, 1970-1989.
This substantial collection includes contributions from leading
international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik, Philip
Edwards, IngA-Stina Ewbank, R.A. Foakes, G.K. Hunter, Kenneth Muir,
A.D. Nuttall, Brian Vickers and Stanley Wells. The book's twenty
five essays range over the whole field of Shakespeare studies and
deal especially with Shakespeare and his predecessors, Shakespeare
and his contemporaries, Shakespeare in performance (including film)
and Shakespeare in relation to later literature. Shakespearean
Continuities is published in honour of the distinguished
Shakespeare scholar E.A.J. Honigmann, FBA, Joseph Cowen Professor
of English Literature at the University of Newcastle, 1970-1989.
'To proceed & beginne wth ye Coullers, Whitt ffor its Virgin
puritie is the most Excellent To proceed and begin with the
colours: white for its virgin purity is the most excellent, viz.
ceruse and white lead; both are subject to inconveniences, and are
thus prevented: the ceruse, after you have wrought it, will
tarnish, and many times look of a reddish or yellowish shine; the
white lead, if too much ground, wiull glister or shine, and if you
grind it too coarse will be unfit to work, and so unserviceable.
There is but one way to remedy, which is to lay them in the sun two
or three days before you grind them, which will exhale and draw
away those salt and greasy mixtures that starve and poison the
colours. ' Treatise on the Arte of Limning is one of the most
important documents in the history of English art. Published in
paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of
the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version,
extensively annotated. The substantial introduction explores the
history of the Treatise, the life of its author, its historical and
artistic context, and the technique of limning.The Treatise
combines elegance, information, personal forthrightness and
spirited observation.
"The Accident Man" returns in a heart-stopping race to prevent a
global holy war
Tom Cain's "The Accident Man" introduced Samuel Carver-a man hired
to make bad things happen-to rave reviews from critics and readers
alike. Now, Carver is back in a new adventure that takes him from
the war rooms of Washington, D.C., and the palaces of the French
Riviera to the Arctic peaks of Norway and the war-torn Serbian
countryside.
Carver finds himself lying broken and damaged in a Swiss
sanitarium after rescuing his lover, Alix Petrova, from her Russian
spymaster. But when Alix's former employers force her to leave him
and seduce an American military official, Carver emerges,
shockingly and violently, as his former self-just in time to
discover a Texas billionaire's messianic plot to destroy the world.
Breathlessly paced, international in scope, and featuring one of
the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's smashing
debut surprises the reader at every turn. A thriller that explores
the secret of Princess Diana's death, The Accident Man imagines the
man who may have killed her. For a certain sum of money, Samuel
Carver can arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile
crash, a fall from a window-anything can be made to look like an
accident. But when Carver is set up, betrayed, and pursued by the
very forces that hired him, he must execute his most daring feat
yet.
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Revenger (Paperback)
Tom Cain
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Ex-marine Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to worse people. He
is used to being in complete control. So when he finds himself
caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back
on his instincts and years' of training as the riot turns into a
battleground. Someone planned this riot for political gain and now
Carver - in the wrong place at the wrong time - looks like the
perfect scapegoat. Wanted by the police for murder, if he is to
clear his name he is going to have to find out who is really behind
these events. The truth will shock even Carver - and find him
pitted against a deadly enemy who knows all of Carver's secrets and
in a fight that will bring him face to face with a killer without
conscience. Set in a Britain in turmoil, with riots on the nation's
streets, the euro in crisis, and a political system in disarray,
Revenger is a classic Tom Cain thriller that once again rips its
story from the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers.
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Carver (Paperback)
Tom Cain
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves
around the financial world. Never before had such a large and
prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail so
quickly. It began a domino effect, hitting banks and economies
around the world. Theories abound as to the cause of the collapse -
the sub-prime bubble, bad management, even good old fashioned
greed. But what if it was none of the above. What if Lehman
Brothers had been brought to its knees by the deliberate and wilful
act of one man bent on a course of financial terrorism? Moreover,
what if it was only a dry run for a bigger and even bolder attack
on the financial capital of the world, the City of London? Samuel
Carver is about to find himself on the biggest mission of his life.
Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver Carver is a good guy who makes
bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops
mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in
his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance
mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the 'Consortium', a
black-ops British government outfit, or is it? Carver is called to
do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very
well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to
be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car
crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he
discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the
identity of the target's female companion, he knows one thing - his
life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he
can track down the real villains before they get to him. Combining
the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of
Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and The
Accident Man is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver
straight into the top rank of action heroes.
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