Only a month after his arrest for planting bombs which killed three & mutilated scores in London in 1999, Nazi nailbomber David Copeland began a passionate correspondence with a delightful young English rose called Patsy. As he awaited trial, Copeland bombarded Patsy with letters detailing his disturbed background, crackpot beliefs & most intimate feelings. Through letters alone, he fell madly in love with his tender-hearted penfriend. But Copeland wasn't writing to the petite 20-year-old blonde of his imagination. His 'sweetheart' was in fact a burly 40-year-old nightclub bouncer called Bernard O' Mahoney, who in the past had used the same means to coax confessions from two child-killers. O' Mahoney's earlier hoaxes helped secure life sentences for these murderers & so too did his correspondence with Copeland when the letters surfaced at the nailbomber's Old Bailey trial. But the extraordinary tale of how O' Mahoney snared Copeland is only a small part of Hateland's larger, more remarkable story. For the book is primarily the narrative of O' Mahoney's own gradual transition from Nazi thug to Nazi opponent. It marks his public renunciation of the hate-filled world he left behind & of the racist misfit he once was. In Hatel&, O' Mahoney writes with unblinking honesty about the violence he inflicted upon others, & that which he was subjected to, during his time as a foot soldier of fascism. His frank analysis of his background, motivation & actions produces a disturbing self-portrait that offers a chilling but often darkly comic insight into many of the strange individuals who constitute Britain's fascist movement. Gradually disillusioned & ashamed
- partly as a result of his unexpected friendships with blacks & Asians
- O' Mahoney's decisive break with his Nazi past comes when he infiltrates.........

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In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind & boxed away, it's as if they have never been
- until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were na-ve & trusting, at husbands & their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second changes
- her are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on & can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.

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In these stories whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind & boxed away, it's as if they have never been
- until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naà ve & trusting, at husbands & their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances
- here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on & can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.

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Charles Sprawson
- himself an obsessional swimmer & diver
- explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water.

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Charles Sprawson
- himself an obsessional swimmer & diver
- explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water.

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High summer in Cuba, 1953, & Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex, & drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia & United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, & anyone looking to grab a piece of the action
- including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the United States of America. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble can't be far behind. Trouble, in this case, makes its entrance in the terrifically charismatic & silver-tongued form of a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The Caribbean is fast becoming a strategic Cold War hub, & Soviet intelligence has taken Castro under its wing. The CIA's response is to send the one man capable of eliminating Castro: the legendary gunfighter & ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, who proved his lethal talent in Stephen Hunter's previous bestsellers Hot Springs & Pale Horse Coming. In Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honour & duty don't apply, & where Earl's target seems to have more guts & good luck than anyone else in Cuba. Blending real-world figures into a lightning-paced narrative, Stephen Hunter once again proves himself the master of literary adventure & suspense.
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