August, 1098. After countless battles & sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester & new enemies are massing against them in the Holy L&.

Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, has had enough of the crusade's violence & hypocrisy. He longs to return home. But when a routine diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realises he has been snared in the vast power struggles which underlie the crusade. The only way out now leads through the Holy City.

From the plague-bound city of Antioch to the heart of Muslim Egypt, Demetrios must accompany the army of warlords & fanatics to the very gates of Jerusalem where the crusade climaxes in an apocalypse of pillage, bloodshed & slaughter.



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August, 1098. After countless battles & sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester & new enemies are massing against them in the Holy L&.

Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, has had enough of the crusade's violence & hypocrisy. He longs to return home. But when a routine diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realises he has been snared in the vast power struggles which underlie the crusade. The only way out now leads through the Holy City.

From the plague-bound city of Antioch to the heart of Muslim Egypt, Demetrios must accompany the army of warlords & fanatics to the very gates of Jerusalem where the crusade climaxes in an apocalypse of pillage, bloodshed & slaughter.



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Every city has a stadium & every stadium has a story. In Sightlines author & self-confessed stadium addict Simon Inglis has pursued his obsession to bring us the weird & wonderful worlds of usherettes at the Houston Astrodome, competing architects in Australia, angry neighbours in Auckland & wistful groundsmen in Bombay. Watching live sport as a regular spectator is all very well, reckons Inglis. But stadiums are far more interesting because in a stadium, whether it be a cathedral of sport or a collection of sheds in the back end of town, you can tune in to the mood of a nation or a community. Starting out at Olympia, where it all began, & ending up in Sydney, venue for the 2000 Games, along the way Inglis encounters anarchic bacchanalia in Pamplona's bull-ring, meets priests at a Gaelic Football final in Dublin & Palestinian refugees living within a few metres of a British-built stadium in Beirut. & in an attempt to come to terms with his obsession he tries aversion therapy by visiting 26 Argentinian football grounds in one week, in the company of a football mad psychotherapist. It doesn't work. He has a great time. The perfect companion volume to his popular books on football grounds. Sightlines is full of insight, wit, anecdotes & characters from a world beyond the view of the ordinary spectator. Read it & you'll never look at a stadium the same way again ...

When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron & prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada & of the latest type of artillery
- & Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy & to discover the intentions of his growing force.

Without any British bases in the Mediterranean, & unable to show favour to old friends, Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy
- & during the weeks & months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather & French broadsides alike, Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake. A fleet, even a nation, could depend on his decisions &, when he places his squadron between the Nile & the power of France, he must accept the price of the challenge.





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When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron & prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada & of the latest type of artillery
- & Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy & to discover the intentions of his growing force.

Without any British bases in the Mediterranean, & unable to show favour to old friends, Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy
- & during the weeks & months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather & French broadsides alike, Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake. A fleet, even a nation, could depend on his decisions &, when he places his squadron between the Nile & the power of France, he must accept the price of the challenge.





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The answers are hidden among the grisly evidence, the common threads that link each devastating act. Sparked by a growing concern over the steady rise of signature murders, Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions & depraved motives of this breed of killer. From The Lonely Hearts Killer who haunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America, to the savage Midtown Torso Murders that stunned the NYPD, to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, & John Gacy, these are the cases-horrifying, graphic & unforgettable-that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. ...

The answers are hidden among the grisly evidence, the common threads that link each devastating act. Sparked by a growing concern over the steady rise of signature murders, Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions & depraved motives of this breed of killer. From The Lonely Hearts Killer who haunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America, to the savage Midtown Torso Murders that stunned the NYPD, to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, & John Gacy, these are the cases-horrifying, graphic & unforgettable-that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. ...

Significant Others, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the Tales of the City saga, is a cunningly observed class ...