In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam. A routine mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant ...

Award-winning food writer Stefan Gates has travelled the world to investigate how people cook, eat & survive in extreme conditions for the acclaimed BBC television series Cooking in the Danger Zone. He drank radioactive wine with babushkas in Chernobyl, ate fat-tailed sheep with Taliban warlords in Afghanistan, yak ...

The streets of modern-day London are hectic, multicultural, & difficult to read if you are a white-collar, middle-aged man. Keith is a social worker who, following a brief affair with a colleague, finds himself living alone in a flat a few streets away from his wife, Annabelle, & his teenage son. His domestic problems, allied with growing tensions at work, profoundly undermine his peace of mind. Keith attempts to take refuge in a long-cherished writing project & turns his attention to the plight of his ageing father, but for the first time in his life he feels extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.
Annabelle met Keith twenty-five years ago at university, & she watches the man she married
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The streets of modern-day London are hectic, multicultural, & difficult to read if you are a white-collar, middle-aged man. Keith is a social worker who, following a brief affair with a colleague, finds himself living alone in a flat a few streets away from his wife, Annabelle, & his teenage son. His domestic problems, allied with growing tensions at work, profoundly undermine his peace of mind. Keith attempts to take refuge in a long-cherished writing project & turns his attention to the plight of his ageing father, but for the first time in his life he feels extremely vulnerable as a black man in English society.
Annabelle met Keith twenty-five years ago at university, & she watches the man she married
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Surely there has never been a woman more sensual, more irresistable, than svelte dancer Chloe Dubois. She is a heady combination of innocence & sultry seduction, & Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career, his friends, even his integrity, such is her power over him.
But who is this temptress & what does she want? Is it just love? David's ex-Sumo bodyguard, Sato believes Chloe will cause havoc in their ordered lives, & turns up information on her that is far from pretty. The warning signs are there, but it is already too late for David, who is under her spell & besotted. Will this unrepentant temptress overturn her wild ways & accept the opportunity to change her life for the better, or will the dark family secrets of her past resurface & destroy them both?
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Surely there has never been a woman more sensual, more irresistible, than svelte dancer Chloe Dubois. She is a heady combination of innocence & sultry seduction, & Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career, his friends, even his integrity
- such is her power over him.

But who is this temptress & what does she want? Is it money, prestige or just love? David


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Surely there has never been a woman more sensual, more irresistible, than svelte dancer Chloe Dubois. She is a heady combination of innocence & sultry seduction, & Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career, his friends, even his integrity
- such is her power over him.

But who is this temptress & what does she want? Is it money, prestige or just love? David


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