When a new family moves in next door, Joe's mum explains that they are asylum seekers. Joe hears that they are silence seekers, especially as Mum adds that they need peace & quiet. When he sees a young boy from the family sitting disconsolately on the steps, Joe decides to help him find a quiet place in the noisy & chaotic city. ...

The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, & she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm ...

After two high-risk missions, CIA special agent John Wells is a man living on the edge. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams, but he knows he has no time for rest. He has made many enemies, & the world never stays quiet for long.

But what happens next shocks him to the core. He & his fiancee Jennifer Exley are targeted by assassins sent by a psychotic arms dealer out for revenge. Among the dead & wounded is Exley, who is gravely injured. When Wells discovers the assailants are Russian, he immediately leaves for Moscow to seek vengeance. What Wells finds there is far from what he expected.

A plan of terrifying consequences has been set in motion



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After two high-risk missions, CIA special agent John Wells is a man living on the edge. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams, but he knows he has no time for rest. He has made many enemies, & the world never stays quiet for long.

But what happens next shocks him to the core. He & his fiancee Jennifer Exley are targeted by assassins sent by a psychotic arms dealer out for revenge. Among the dead & wounded is Exley, who is gravely injured. When Wells discovers the assailants are Russian, he immediately leaves for Moscow to seek vengeance. What Wells finds there is far from what he expected.

A plan of terrifying consequences has been set in motion



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Identical twins, Charlie & Cass have taken sides & quarrelled when their parents split up. Charlie is staying with Gran for the summer holidays. She explores the area, & in trespassing in the grounds of the local stately home, Cleremont Park, she starts to see ghosts. The apparitions always do the same thing when she sees them
- & as she learns more about the history of the place, it becomes clear that they are re-enacting events leading to a hidden murder. She finds that she must work with her twin, & make friends with the boy currently living in the house, in order to battle with the curse on the Cleremont family.
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Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking & farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.

*SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights & the true cost of

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Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking & farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy.

*SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights & the true cost of

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The way we are governed is changing. Government has less & less power to influence how we live our lives, while the private sector has more power than ever to control what we do & what we think. Yet the business pages of the newspapers still come as a supplement, while the activities of governments dominate the front pages & the headlines. To understand the new world in which we are living, we need to learn to challenge long-held assumptions about the nature of power in society; The Silent Takeover isl be an essential guide to that new understanding as we enter the 21st century: a time in which we can no longer rely on politicians
- of whatever stripe
- to meet our needs; a time in which business, rather than political parties, offers the way forward; a time in which we can make more of an impact through our pockets than we have ever done through the ballot box.

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