Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave Years before this part of the city was all open hills & Erlendur & his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow who has lain peacefully buried for decades Things are never that simple Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family his case unearths many other tales of family pain The hills have more than one tragic story to tell tales of failed relationships & heartbreak; of anger domestic violence & fear; of family loyalty & family shame Few people are still alive who can tell the story but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play As Hannibal " The Cannibal" Lecter Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured quick-witted uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong His performance marked him as a major star in America & the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture Director (Jonathan Demme) Actor (Hopkins) Actress (Foster) & Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris) ...

An FBI trainee A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes & a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr Hannibal Lecter monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane for insight into the deadly madman she must find As Dr Lecter invites her into the darkest chambers of his mind he forces her to confront her own childhood demons as the price of understanding an unspeakable tuition he exacts to teach her how the monster thinks & time is running out ...

A stunningly repackaged edition with a new introduction from the author to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Thomas Harris's legendary Hannibal Lecter bestseller Now fans of the new Sky Living TV series Hannibal can read the book that launched a legend SEEN THE FILM? NOW READ THE BOOK THAT LAUNCHED A LEGEND FBI trainee Clarice Starling walks down the state asylum's deepest keep through the moans & whispers of the criminally insane She is here to meet the monster in the final cell He knows she is coming She finds Dr Lecter reading the Italian Vogue He looks up looks into her His gaze seems to pulse in her head but she is only hearing her heartbeat He listens to it too MEET HANNIBAL LECTER ...

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Nick Stone has always kept his job as ex-SAS trouble shooter at arms' length from his home life Life just got very personal To stop his cover being terminally blown he must follow a trail that begins in Triad-controlled Hong Kong 544 pages Mc Nab Andy ...

Written by television producer Mark Askwith & drawn by R G Taylor (Sandman Mystery Theater) Silencers is a compelling look at spies coming to terms with the changing face of espionage in the new world order When the newest recruit to the Silencers is murdered his death triggers a mission of betrayal & revenge ...

In December 2016 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic " Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two & a half minutes to midnight the latest it has been set since 1952 the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test But a group of scientists-geologists engineers & physicists-has been fighting to turn back the clock Since the dawn of the Cold War they have advocated a halt to nuclear testing their work culminating in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty which still awaits ratification from China Iran North Korea-and the United States The backbone of the treaty is every nation's ability to independently monitor the nuclear activity of the others The noted seismologist Lynn R Sykes one of the central figures in the development of the science & technology used in monitoring has dedicated his career to halting nuclear testing In Silencing the Bomb he tells the inside story behind scientists' quest for disarmament Called upon time & again to testify before Congress & to inform the public Sykes & his colleagues were for much of the Cold War among the only people on earth able to say with certainty when & where a bomb was tested & how large it was Methods of measuring earthquakes researchers realized could also detect underground nuclear explosions When politicians on both sides of the Iron Curtain attempted to sidestep disarmament or test ban treaties Sykes was able to deploy the nascent science of plate tectonics to reveal the truth Seismologists' discoveries helped bring about treaties limiting nuclear testing but it was their activism that played a key role in the quest for peace Full of intrigue international politics & hard science used for the global good Silencing the Bomb is a timely & necessary chronicle of one scientist's efforts to keep the clock from striking midnight ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The central characters in the story are father & son a baronet & his deceased war-hero offspring The grief-stricken baronet builds a memorial to his son&s honor--whereupon sonny boy turns up very much alive & very much of a jerk The drama (or rather melodrama) arises from the father&s efforts to preserve the honor of the family name This is another of director Lance Comfort&s compact compelling film noir-ish programmers of the 1940s ...

The centrepiece of ' Silent Highway' is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London It is written as a sequence that looks at history & the present from Pocahontas's voyage to the arrival of the ' Windrush' bringing immigrants from Jamaica the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi & the ' Marchioness' disaster via the Fire of London & many incidents in which the river has been spectator or participant Howell's mix of verse styles & skill with cameos ensures that interest never flags In other poems he demonstrates his pleasure in avoiding the predictable & in writing on a wide variety of subjects Among the many poems of place in which he excels are some disturbing descriptions of modern Britain; in the final section poems inspired by a winter spent in Brazil he has surprises in store such as the witty (and true) poem ' In Praise of Shopping' ...