No good deed goes unpunished When a police raid in Edinburgh goes horribly wrong the only silver lining for Inspector Tony Mc Lean is a discovery that could lead to a long-lost girl from his early days on the beat Haunted by the mystery of what happened to her Mc Lean begins to dig into a case he thought long buried But the shadows of the past are soon eclipsed by crimes in the present as a series of strange & gruesome deaths shock the city As Mc Lean's investigation draws him ever deeper into the upper echelons of Edinburgh society it will not only be his career on the line
- but his life as well Praise for James Oswald ' The new Ian Rankin' Daily Record ' Oswald's writing is in a class above' Express ' Creepy gritty & gruesome' Sunday Mirror
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Think about the most wretched day of your life Maybe it was when someone you loved died or when you were badly hurt in an accident or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it No imagine 4000 of those days in one big chunk In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking & was sentenced to life imprisonment The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats & cockroaches are the only nutritious food & where the worst punishment is the khun deo
- solitary confinement Thai style Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime but he endured & survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination This is not his plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy It is an essential read heartbreaking fascinating & impossible to put down
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' For almost all my life I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid' Peter Woolf's life of drinking drug-taking & thieving had begun before most people leave school 384 pages 8pp colour Woolf Peter ...

On the night of May 16 1943 nineteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron took off from their base near Lincoln in Great Britain & headed for the heart of German industry in the Ruhr The squadron’s task was to destroy the dams that controlled the reservoirs feeding Germany’s war engine In the words of aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis the mastermind behind the operation “power is dependant on the supply of natural stores of energy such as coal oil & water If their destruction or paralysis can be accomplished THEY OFFER A MEANS OF RENDERING THE ENEMY UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF CONTINUING TO PROSECUTE THE WAR” The Lancasters had been modified to carry a most unusual ordnance codenamed Upkeep It looked more like a petrol barrel than an explosive device but the painstakingly engineered & tested outer layer cushioned a volatile mine designed by Wallis to bounce over torpedo nets & kiss the lip of the dam its backspin carefully devised to hug the dam rather than ricochet on impact Upkeep was supposed to plunge down along the wall like a depth-charge detonating halfway down The concussion would crack the structure & the water’s mass held back by the dam would push open the crack creating a breach in the wall The dam would be destroyed Eight of the Lancasters would not return that night but the two primary targets of the Möhne & Eder dams were breached letting loose a combined torrent that measured nearly half a million tons of water & taking the lives of over 1200 German civilians & military personnel Measured in civilian casualties it was the most lethal night of the bombing campaign thus far although later missions would dwarf its casualty list Measured in terms of industrial disruption the raid cut the region’s electrical power for several hours & severely reduced its water reservoir It was not a decisive blow but it was successful nonetheless Had at least one other dam been breached it could have been devastating This is your challenge can you match 617’s success? Can you surpass it? ...

During prohibition gangsters grew rich on our vices & rivalries between criminal organizations resulted in open war But unknown to the masses a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels using greed gluttony lust & other sins to fuel a more lucrative trade mortal souls Enter Eddie a mortal who lost his soul long ago Caught in the middle of competing demonic families any other human would&ve gotten the ax long ago But Eddie&s got a special talent that keeps him on his feet One man&s curse is another man&s gift THE DAMNED is hard-boiled noir with demons & the team behind THE SIXTH GUN is bringing it back with new colors a new format & a new ongoing tale of tommy guns & hellfire ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on David Peace&s book The Damned United portrays the tempestuous 44 days that forthright Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) spent as manager of Leeds United After alienating the side&s star players & a string of awful results & Cloughie& was given the boot but that&s just half the story! Brian Clough was one of a kind In 1974 Clough was already a renowned figure just as much for his dynamic personality as for his fantastic managerial ability Having led Derby County to the first league victory in their history Clough left in a cloud of controversy & after a brief spell at Brighton found himself in the Leeds United hotseat after Don Revie&s departure for the England job What followed was the most incredible 44 days of football management! Commentary with Director Tom Hooper Michael Sheen & Producer Andy Harries& Perfect Pitch The Making Of The Damned United& Featurette& Creating Clough& Michael Sheen Takes on & Old Big Head& Featurette& The Changing Game Football In The Seventies& Featurette& Remembering Brian& Featurette Cloughisms Deleted Scenes Actors Michael Sheen Jim Broadbent Timothy Spall Joseph Dempsie Stephen Graham Colm Meaney Martin Compston Maurice Roëves Brian Mc Cardie & Elizabeth Carling Director Tom Hooper Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hard of hearing ; English ; Hindi Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football & the turmoil of the game's most charismatic & controversial manager from the bestselling author of GB84 & Red or Dead In 1974 the brilliant & controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision he accepted the position of Leeds United manager A successor to Don Revie his bitter adversary Clough was to last just 44 days In one of the most acclaimed British novels of recent years
- subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen
- David Peace takes us into the mind & thoughts of Ol' Big ' Ead himself & brings vividly to life one of football's most complex & fascinating characters

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THE DAMNED PRODIGAL SONS is the third volume of the fan-favorite series by the award-nominated creative team behind THE SIXTH GUN you won’t want to miss! Years of playing every side in a world of Prohibition-era crime & violence spearheaded by demonic crime families Eddie’s unfortunate gift of never staying dead may have reached its limit While he seeks out their mother in the afterlife Eddie’s cursed brother Morgan has tried to keep them both out of the hands of those are determined to make sure Eddie stays dead this time around About the Author Cullen Bunn is the writer of comic books such The Sixth Gun Helheilm & The Tooth for Oni Press He has also written titles including Harrow County (Dark Horse) Uncanny X-Men & Deadpool & the Mercs for Money (Marvel) Cullen claims to have worked as an Alien Autopsy Specialist Rodeo Clown Pro Wrestling Manager & Sasquatch Wrangler He has fought for his life against mountain lions & performed on stage as the World’s Youngest Hypnotist Buy him a drink sometime & he&ll tell you all about it Brian Hurtt is an artistwriter who has spent most of his career working on collaborative creator-owned projects His first such collaboration was in 2006 when Brian teamed with writer Cullen Bunn to create the Prohibition-era monster-noir cult classic The Damned A few years later the two teamed up again to create The Sixth Gun—a weird-west epic supernatural fantasy Brian also contributes to the popular webcomic Table Titans in which he is the writer & artist of the stories " Whispers of Dragons" & " Road to Embers" Brian lives & works in St Louis Missouri Bill Crabtree&s career as a colorist began in 2003 with the launch of Image Comics’ Invincible & Firebreather He was nominated for a Harvey Award for his work on Invincible & he went on to color the first 50 issues of what would become a flagship Image Comics title He continues to color Firebreather which was recently made into a feature film on Cartoon Network Godland & Jack Staff Perhaps the highlight of his comics career his role as colorist on the Oni Press series The Sixth Gun & has since been described as “like Christmas morning but with guns” ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From ' Lemmy' filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk The Damned The long-ignored pioneers of punk The Damned started out as trailblazers on London s 70s punk rock scene being the first British punk band to release a single the immortal New Rose in 1976 They were the first of their band s genre to release an album & the first to tour the United States performing to sell out crowds where they left a lasting musical legacy However the critical adoration lavished on contemporaries like The Clash & Sex Pistols always eluded them Shot around the globe over three years the film charts the band's complex history & infighting It captures the band on a world tour & follows its estranged former members striking out on their own anniversary tour With contributions from Chrissie Hynde Mick Jones (The Clash) Lemmy & members of Pink Floyd Black Flag Depeche Mode the Sex Pistols Blondie & The Buzzcocks Actors The Damned Lemmy Chrissie Hynde Mick Jones Billy Idol Directors Wes Orshoski Language English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Katie Taylor is the perfect student She's bright & funny she has a boyfriend who adores her & there are only a few months left of school before she can swap Banktoun for the bright lights of London Life gets even better when she has an unexpected win on a scratch card But then Katie's luck runs out 256 pages Holliday S J I ...