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.. . ...

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
- rather than thinking in terms of good & evil
- all of us instead lie somewhere on the empathy spectrum & our position on that spectrum can be affected by both genes & our environments? Why do some people treat others as objects? Why is empathy our most precious resource? & does a lack of it always mean a negative outcome? From the Nazi concentration camps of World War Two to the playgrounds of today Simon Baron-Cohen examines empathy cruelty & understanding in this fascinating & challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human.

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Tiny Bombs ; This Is Not Revolution Rock ; Underground Queen ; Summer Ends ; End Of The Night ; What The Argument Has Changed ; The Boy You Love To Hate ; The Last Thing I Should Do ; Interstate Five ; Atoms Dream In Technicolour ; A Miracle Of Science ...

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
- supposedly state-of-the-art
- had failed to warn the target of the incoming assault. A system on the verge of collapse... Unknown to anyone but the Israelis & the radars manufacturers the commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors within it contained a remotely accessible kill switch. A terrorist group who nearly have it in their hands... Now British Intelligence has discovered that the same switches are at the heart of every electronic device in the UK & US arsenal. It will take years to replace the components. So they must deactivate the man who controls them instead. & a soldier who wants to go down fighting... Ex-SAS deniable operator Nick Stone is tasked to find & kill him
- but this time hes not on receive. For once his life is under threat for another reason
- from within. & now he really is a man with nothing to lose...



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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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SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions in the full knowledge that if things go wrong the authorities will deny all involvement. In the first mission he is to serve as a commander of a hit team on a Black or 100 per cent non-attributable operation assigned to the SAW the Regiments ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing. His target is an Iraqi who defected to Libya after the Gulf War. The aim is to kill him & leave no clue to the identity or origin of the assassins. Returning to base Sharp finds he must also carry out a high-level political assassination on mainland Britain. If he fails his four-year-old son will die at the hands of the IRA. Trapped between opposing forces in a fight to the death he twists & turns through a nightmare maze desperately seeking some way of averting tragedy. Who will be hit the hardest
- Geordie Sharp or the British government?
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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. ...

This is the next space opera from the bestselling science fiction author. 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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Earths Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination. Thanks to Alan Saul the Committees despotic network is in ruins & its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But the ruthless Serene Galahad sees an opportunity to grab power. On Mars Var Delex fights for Antares Bases survival while the Argus Space Station hurtles towards the red planet. & Var knows whomever or whatever trashed Earth is still aboard. She must not only save the base but deal 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. PRAISE FOR THE OWNER SERIES: Playing like a turbo-charged mix of Total Recall & The Bourne Identity The Departure moves at Ashers usual bullet-speed pace SFX I had an absolute blast with this book.. .his work really does get better & better Falcata Times blog I simply couldnt stop reading until I reached the end Worlds In Ink blog ...