In the stinking mud of a great tidal river, a body lies half submerged. Sir Tommy Best, adored British actor, has fallen to his death through a hole in the walkway above. The saintly Sir Tommy was friend to the starving & penniless, to kings & stars. He was also totally blind & reliant on his brilliant guide dog, Suzy. But she is nowhere to be found. It seems unimaginable that Suzy would have led him into danger, so is it murder? & where is she? When she finally turns up, it is only to deepen the mystery. She is stressed & tense & soon Chief Superintendent ' Fatso' & Detective Chief Inspector Ned realise that only one person in the force can possibly help. Kate, police dog handler extraordinaire, known affectionately as the Dog Tart, suggests they find Nick Parsons, who trained Suzy, in the hope that he can get the dog to lead them to the truth. The search for Nick Parsons culminates in a highly unusual plan, in which Ned will become blind for one night & with Suzy the guide dog, re-enact Sir Tommy Best's last fateful walk. The truth which they uncover is utterly horrible. ...

In the stinking mud of a great tidal river, a body lies half submerged. Sir Tommy Best, adored British actor, has fallen to his death through a hole in the walkway above. The saintly Sir Tommy was friend to the starving & penniless, to kings & stars. He was also totally blind & reliant on his brilliant guide dog, Suzy. But she is nowhere to be found. It seems unimaginable that Suzy would have led him into danger, so is it murder? & where is she? When she finally turns up, it is only to deepen the mystery. She is stressed & tense & soon Chief Superintendent ' Fatso' & Detective Chief Inspector Ned realise that only one person in the force can possibly help. Kate, police dog handler extraordinaire, known affectionately as the Dog Tart, suggests they find Nick Parsons, who trained Suzy, in the hope that he can get the dog to lead them to the truth. The search for Nick Parsons culminates in a highly unusual plan, in which Ned will become blind for one night & with Suzy the guide dog, re-enact Sir Tommy Best's last fateful walk. The truth which they uncover is utterly horrible. ...

In the stinking mud of a great tidal river, a body lies half submerged. Sir Tommy Best, adored British actor, has fallen to his death through a hole in the walkway above. The saintly Sir Tommy was friend to the starving & penniless, to kings & stars. He was also totally blind & reliant on his brilliant guide dog, Suzy. But she is nowhere to be found. It seems unimaginable that Suzy would have led him into danger, so is it murder? & where is she? When she finally turns up, it is only to deepen the mystery. She is stressed & tense & soon Chief Superintendent ' Fatso' & Detective Chief Inspector Ned realise that only one person in the force can possibly help. Kate, police dog handler extraordinaire, known affectionately as the Dog Tart, suggests they find Nick Parsons, who trained Suzy, in the hope that he can get the dog to lead them to the truth. The search for Nick Parsons culminates in a highly unusual plan, in which Ned will become blind for one night & with Suzy the guide dog, re-enact Sir Tommy Best's last fateful walk. The truth which they uncover is utterly horrible. ...

The Minister for Defence is blown to smithereens in his car on a lonely road in the Brecon Beacons, where he has a weekend hideaway. DI Ned Bale is on the crime scene within seconds, but neither he nor forensics can work out how on earth the crime was committed, let alone who did it, or with what motive.

That is until one fingerprint is found on one tiny fragment of the explosive timing device. The fingerprint of Ned Bale's closest ally in the Force, dog handler Kate Baker. But how on earth could her fingerprint be on a terrorist's bomb. Far away on bomb disposal duty in Afghanistan, Kate has to be questioned.

But Kate herself has become involved with someone extremely plausible, attractive & dangerous. The mystery which unravels through this gripping thriller is completely unexpected.



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To many people, simply leaving the comforting security of dry land an d stepping onto a boat can be a terrifying ordeal. & to deliberately journey 10-20 miles offshore into hostile, powerful waters before diving down into those waters seeking untouched, virgin shipwrecks
- often in the pitch blackness of deep water
- seems incomprehensible. For Rod Mac Donald, however it has been an all-consuming passion since he first started diving in 1982.
Into the Abyss charts the dramatic highs & lows of Mac Donald's diving career; one that has been packed full of incident, drama & excitement & has taken him to all of the great shipwreck sites of the world. From the sunken Japanese Fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon & Palau in the Pacific to diving into the third largest whirlpool in the world
- The Corryvwrecken Whirlpool off the west coast of Scotland
- Mac Donald's work has taken him on a spell-binding journey beneath the seas, one that is now remarkably chronicled in this enthralling collection of diving experiences. Along the way, the excitement, the successes & the near tragic failures are reflected upon, & Mac Donald urges readers to overcome some of Man's deepest fears as he takes them on a journey deep into the abyss in search of long lost shipwrecks around the world.




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Into the Bear Pit is the most talked about sports book for years. Throughout the summer of 2000, Mark James's inside story of the Brookline Ryder Cup was never out of the sports headlines & took up a lengthy residence in the upper reaches of the Sunday Times' bestseller list.
Fuelled by a media feeding frenzy, the controversy rapidly gathered enormous momentum & eventually led to James's resignation as one of Sam Torrence's assistants for the 2001 Ryder Cup at Belfry.
Read about Mark James's rocky relationships with Nick Faldo & Tony Jacklin & the infamous disposal of Faldo's good luck letter. Read about the extraordinary behaviour of American Players, wives, officials & spectators during the ' Battle of Brookline'.
Read the most explosive golf book ever published.


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Into the Bear Pit is the most talked about sports book for years. Throughout the summer of 2000, Mark James's inside story of the Brookline Ryder Cup was never out of the sports headlines & took up a lengthy residence in the upper reaches of the Sunday Times' bestseller list.
Fuelled by a media feeding frenzy, the controversy rapidly gathered enormous momentum & eventually led to James's resignation as one of Sam Torrence's assistants for the 2001 Ryder Cup at Belfry.
Read about Mark James's rocky relationships with Nick Faldo & Tony Jacklin & the infamous disposal of Faldo's good luck letter. Read about the extraordinary behaviour of American Players, wives, officials & spectators during the ' Battle of Brookline'.
Read the most explosive golf book ever published.


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Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure, leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken by Heather Mallender in the weeks before her disappearance. Desperately, obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life, he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue. The trail leads him back to Engl&, to a world he thought he had left for ever, & at every step of the way a new & baffling light is shed on all the assumptions that have made Harry what he is.

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Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure, leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder, Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken by Heather Mallender in the weeks before her disappearance. Desperately, obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life, he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue. The trail leads him back to Engl&, to a world he thought he had left for ever, & at every step of the way a new & baffling light is shed on all the assumptions that have made Harry what he is.

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