' You go to work & you may be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home & wonder if you'll be shot at the front door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK. This was the world inhabited by Richard Latham during his service with the Royal Ulster Constabulary by some to be one of the finest police forces in the world, its officers are looked upon by others as the evil storm-troopers of Unionism & the British Goverment. The RUC is now a force undergoing sweeping change in response to Republican demands, yet for 30 years it stood alongside the British Army in a war with Republicans that killed over 300 policemen & injured thousands more. For 14 years Latham, an Englishman, served as a police officer, both in England & in Ulster
- before transferring from the English Special Branch to the RUC in 1991. Deadly Beat is his raw & hardhitting story, giving a unique insight into the grim reality of policing Ulster. He charts the dedication & restraint of officers who witnessed their colleagues die, yet were obliged to play within the rules of the law. Rules so loaded in favour of the killer that comparatively few were brought to justice.
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A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna & Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance.

Early signs indicate that the killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his particular deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age.
To understand his behaviour, Liebermann must employ the latest developments in psychoanalysis & make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind.

Alongside the unfolding of this disturbing case, Liebermann must treat his own patients, including a man who claims to have seen his double
- the doppelganger of Germanic folklore
- an experience believed to be an omen of death. As Liebermann discovers more about this seemingly harmless man, he becomes convinced that his hallucinations are caused by a traumatic memory, buried deep in his unconscious. Could a mysterious dream hold the key?

As the investigations proceed, Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister secrets.








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A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna & Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance.

Early signs indicate that the killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his particular deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age.
To understand his behaviour, Liebermann must employ the latest developments in psychoanalysis & make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind.

Alongside the unfolding of this disturbing case, Liebermann must treat his own patients, including a man who claims to have seen his double
- the doppelganger of Germanic folklore
- an experience believed to be an omen of death. As Liebermann discovers more about this seemingly harmless man, he becomes convinced that his hallucinations are caused by a traumatic memory, buried deep in his unconscious. Could a mysterious dream hold the key?

As the investigations proceed, Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister secrets.








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A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age.

Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance. But to understand the killer's behaviour, Liebermann must make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind, tracking a monster whose modus operandi combines both exquisite precision & savage cruelty.

As the investigation continues, Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister of secrets...



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Violence is escalating, & spilling onto the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire

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Violence is escalating, & spilling on to the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her

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Glasgow, 1989. James Addison, aka Addie, has been a very busy man. Wanted for every type of crime for over a decade, there is only one hitch
- he has never been seen, let alone caught. So, who or what is Addie? Does he even exist? When a small-time moneylender pimp is shot down on a Glasgow street, it seems to be just another gangland murder. But not for Andy Grimes, overseer of much of the city's prostitution, drug dealing & protection rackets
- & the dead man's brother. When word leaks out that Addie is the killer, Grimes calls in his police allies & musters his troops. On the case is DCI Alex Birse, & old-time cop, as crooked as he is vicious. He has been after Addie for years & never got close. As the streets of GLaasgow heave with police & gangsters, over in Berlin the Wall in coming down. It is a time of great change, opportunity & uncertainty. Who is the American turning up in the city at all the right sites? CIA, vengeful ex-pat or just a very, very lost tourist? The link between the two cities is loot. Back in Glasgow, while pulling a scam on an old Jewish couple, one of Grimes' men, Angie the Gopher, finds a biscuit tin full of Bearer Bonds issued in Germany before the Second World War. Angie smells money, the bonds could be worth millions & he scuttles back to tell his boss. Now the chase is on. Who gets the Bonds? How much are they worth? Who perished along the way? For answers you'll have to rely on Addie. But who is he? The last line will reveal all....maybe.

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Do you have to be dead to be famous?

Stanley Buckle is a quiet sort of boy. Since his dad died, his closest friend has been

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When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, & has lost his appetite for research.

His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort & househusb&, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father, an ex dance musician who stubbornly refuses to move from the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.

But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction & social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman whose wayward & unpredictable behaviour threatens to destabilise his life completely.

Funny & moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a brilliant account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness & death, ageing & mortality, the comedy & tragedy of human lives.





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Only rarely does a TV show capture the public's imagination, & this has truly been the year of Deal or No Deal. With record-breaking ...