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Soar along on a clever girls flight of fancy in a whimsical ode to free spirits inventiveness...and flying pigs. Zephyr is a girl who loves aeroplanes. She draws pictures of them makes them out of paper builds them out of rubbish
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War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Armys CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia Puller is called to investigate & soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed it quickly becomes apparent that theres much more to this case than they had first thought. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems & nothing can be taken at face value. When Puller & Cole discover a dangerous situation in the making Puller finds he must turn to the one person who can help avert certain catastrophe. A person he has known all his life. In a breathtaking rollercoaster race against time Cole fears for the community in which she was raised & Puller knows he has to overcome the enemies of his country to avoid far reaching disaster. But in the end you cant kill what you cant see is coming.. . ...

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We have always struggled to explain why some people behave in the most evil way imaginable while others are completely self-sacrificing. Is it possible that
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A code which will jam every item of military hardware from Kabul to Washington... On 5 September 2007 Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar
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Earths Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul the Committees network of control is a smoking ruin & its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum & scrambling from the wreckage comes the ruthless Serene Galahad. She must act while the last vestiges of Committee infrastructure remain intact & she has the means to ensure command is hers. On Mars Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base while the Argus Space Station hurls towards the red planet. & she knows whomever or whatever trashed Earth is still aboard. Var must save the base while also dealing with the first signs of rebellion. & aboard Argus Station Alan Sauls mind has expanded into the local computer network. In the process he uncovers the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development the possibility of eternal life & a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight. But Earths agents are closer than Saul thinks & the killing will soon begin. ...

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When the beautiful 20-year-old daughter of a Moldovan businessman goes missing from her university British Intelligence will do anything in its power to track her down. Only one man is skilled and ruthless enough for the job - but for the first time in his life Nick Stone doesnt want to play ball...FACT: On 5 September 2007 Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar - supposedly state-of-the-art - had failed to warn of the incoming assault. FACT: Unknown to anyone but the Israelis and the radars manufacturers the commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. But what is the raids mysterious connection with the missing student? What is the secret to Britains security to which she unwittingly
holds the key? And when ex-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find and abduct her why is he not on receive? I stared at the tiny shadow on the scan. It was hard to believe that this little f****r was going to kill me. Id always imagined it would be something bigger the diameter of a fist a rifle butt or a 7.62. Dying like this? It felt so...pedestrian. I tried to smile.I always wondered what a death warrant looked like. Does it have a use by date? As Nick walks from the Harley Street clinic hes become a man with nothing to lose. And he wants to go down fighting...

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When the beautiful 20-year-old daughter of a Moldovan businessman goes missing from her university British Intelligence will do anything in its power to track her down. Only one man is skilled & ruthless enough for the job
- but for the first time in his life Nick Stone doesnt want to play ball...FACT: On 5 September 2007 Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Syrian radar
- supposedly state-of-the-art
- had failed to warn of the incoming assault. FACT: Unknown to anyone but the Israelis & the radars manufacturers the commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. But what is the raids mysterious connection with the missing student? What is the secret to Britains security to which she unwittingly holds the key? & when ex-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find & abduct her why is he not on receive? I stared at the tiny shadow on the scan. It was hard to believe that this little f****r was going to kill me. Id always imagined it would be something bigger the diameter of a fist a rifle butt or a 7.62. Dying like this? It felt so...pedestrian. I tried to smile.I always wondered what a death warrant looked like. Does it have a use by date? As Nick walks from the Harley Street clinic hes become a man with nothing to lose. & he wants to go down fighting...

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