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Never Go Back

Harry Barnett thought he
had left his military
career behind, so he is
startled when two figures
from his past turn up on
his doorstep after fifty
years. An old friend has
organised the reunion to
end all reunions: a
weekend in the Scottish
castle where the
ex-comrades took part in
a psychological
experiment many years
before. They haven't seen
each other since. As they
set off on their
all-expenses-paid jaunt
to Aberdeen, the old
friends are in high
spirits. But the cheerful
atmosphere is quickly
shattered by the apparent
suicide of one of their
party. When a second
death occurs, a sense of
foreboding descends on
the group. It appears
that the past is coming
back to haunt them, a
past that none of them
have ever spoken about.
Their recollections are
all frighteningly
different. So what really
happened? Then when one
of them uncovers an
extraordinary secret, he
becomes convinced that
they will never leave the
castle alive...

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The Ares Decision

With U.S. intelligence
agencies wracked by
internal power struggles
and paralyzed by
bureaucracy, the
President is forced to
establish his own
clandestine group -
Covert-One - selected
from the very best
operators America has to
offer. It is only
activated as a last
resort, when the threat
is on a global scale and
time is running out. In
Northern Uganda an
American Special Forces
team is wiped out by a
group of normally
peaceful farmers. Video
of the attack shows even
women and children
possessing almost
supernatural speed and
strength, consumed with
a rage that makes them
immune to pain, fear,
and all but the most
devastating injuries.
Covert-One's top
operative, Army
microbiologist Colonel
Jon Smith, is sent to
investigate the attack
and finds evidence of a
parasitic infection that
for centuries has been
causing violent insanity
and then going dormant.
This time, though, it's
different. The infection
is purposely being kept
alive and the director of
Iranian Intelligence is
in Uganda trying to make
a deal for a biological
weapon to unleash on the
West. As Smith and his
team are cut off from all
outside support, they
begin to suspect that
forces much more powerful
than the Iranians are in
play forces that can be
traced to Washington
itself.

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The Presidents Daughter

The Presidents
daughter has been
kidnapped by Jewish
terrorists. With the
world watching, Sean
Dillon is called in to
find her, before the
Commander-in-Chief is
forced to make a decision
which could rip the world
apart. Twenty years ago a
young war hero saved a
life, and began a
passionate affair. Now,
that young war hero is
President of the United
States, and a souvenir
from his past, a
beautiful daughter that
he never knew existed,
surfaces as the first of
many secrets to be kept
from public knowledge.
But someone, somewhere,
has uncovered the truth.
The girl is seized by
religious zealots, and
unless the President
complies with their
demands, her execution
is certain. Yet if he
gives in, the Middle
East will ignite in war.
He calls in the only men
who can help: Sean Dillon
and Blake Johnson, two
notorious specialists,
who will do whatever it
takes to find the
President's daughter. But
with time running out,
can they get to her
before a desperate father
makes a truly momentous
decision, one the whole
world will regret?

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Prime Minister Boris

Enter a world of
political
counterfactuals,
twenty-two examinations
of things that never
happened but could have.
In this book a collection
of distinguished
commentators, including
journalists, academics,
former MPs and special
advisers, consider how
things might have turned
out differently
throughout a century of
political history from
Lloyd George and Keynes
drowning at sea in 1916
right through to Boris
Johnson becoming Prime
Minister in 2016.
Scholarly analyses of
possibilities and
causalities take their
place beside fi ctional
accounts of alternate
political histories and
all are guaranteed to
entertain and make you
think.

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A Devil Is Waiting

The mesmerizing new Sean
Dillon thriller of
murder, terrorism and
revenge from the Sunday
Times bestselling author.
Fresh from his mission in
THE JUDAS GATE to seek
out and eliminate one of
al Qaedas most
valued agents, a traitor
responsible for countless
soldiers? deaths in
Afghanistan, Sean Dillon
is back in a blistering
new adventure. The
American President, on a
planned visit to Europe,
is entertained by the
British Prime Minister on
the terrace of the House
of Commons. On the same
day, London born Mullah
Ali Salim makes an
impassioned speech at
Hyde Park Corner accusing
the President of war
crimes, objecting to his
presence and offering a
blessing to anyone who
will assassinate him.
Dillon, Major Ferguson
and Daniel Holley are
called into action,
helped by a new recruit,
Intelligence Corp Captain
Sara Gideon, a war hero
in the Afghan conflict,
whose specialty is Pashta
and Iranian. They quickly
find themselves trying to
handle a massive upsurge
in terrorism from enemies
near and far, all with
links to al Qaeda. As a
Sephardic Jew from a
wealthy and ancient
English family, Sara
will find herself at the
heart of the firestorm
when she is swept into
the heart of the terror
organisation. Though
their leader may be gone
the threat remains as
terrible as ever, and
though Dillon and company
may have won the first
battle with al Qaeda,
they will learn the war
is far from over. A devil
is indeed waiting and the
assassination plan is
only the beginning?

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The Fall Of The Blade

'Liberty, equality,
fraternity' cry the
revolutionaries as they
spill the blood of the
aristocracy into the
streets of Paris. The
rumble of the tumbrils
strikes fear into the
hearts of the once rich
and powerful. For one
young noblewoman, a
simple act of charity
from years before could
be the only thing that
can save her. This
gripping new addition to
the My Story series is a
fascinating glimpse into
the Reign of Terror

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Boris - The Rise Of Boris
Johnson

A fully updated edition
of Gimson's 2006
biography, with new
material covering Boris's
years as Mayor of London.
His distinctive
appearance ('Like a
haystack on a bicycle'),
befuddled manner and
ready wit have assured a
high media profile and a
large fanbase with the
general public. In 2008
he was elected Mayor of
London with over 1
million votes, the
largest personal mandate
of any UK politician. In
this, the first and most
authoritative biography
of Boris, Andrew Gimson
investigates Boris'
twin-faced dilemma -
politics or entertainment
- and asks how deep his
political ambition runs.
Boris has transcended his
class, education and his
various occupations
(Mayor of London,
Conservative MP for
Henley-on-Thames,
Conservative spokesman
for Higher Education,
columnist on the Daily
Telegraph, motoring
correspondent for GQ,
novelist, TV presenter)
to become a paradoxical
character - the old
Etonian who fascinates
teenagers as well as
grandparents, the
classical scholar who is
also a TV quiz-show
contestant. Despite being
a comic actor of genius,
he is not just an act and
Andrew Gimson's biography
covers all facets of this
complex individual. There
is his exotic Turkish
ancestry, his place
among five siblings, his
competitive relationship
with his father Stanley,
the distinguished
university career, his
five years as a
journalist in Brussels,
his first failed venture
into politics ('I fought
Clwyd South - and Clwyd
South fought back'),
overseeing the Spectator
during the David Blunkett
affair and the Liverpool
editorial fiasco which
led to Boris' sacking
from the shadow cabinet,
his exile and return
under David Cameron, his
two marriages, four
children and love
affairs. Interviewing
Boris' contemporaries,
his family and his
detractors, Andrew
Gimson has created a
fascinating and amusing
portrait of this unique
man of our times.

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Hate My Life In The British
Far Right

What do you do when
everything you know and
believe in crashes around
you in a hail of fists
and boots, flying chairs
and broken glass? And not
just once, but seemingly
every time you leave the
house? When it seemed
that no one was
listening, that Matthew
Collins was just another
white face from a council
estate, and that there
was nowhere else to go
and nothing else to do,
the violence and racism
of the far-right offered
him an alluring escape
from the mediocrity of
school, work and
boredom. In 1980s
Britain, the belligerent
sentiments of a few
hundred lonely white men
went almost unnoticed,
but this tiny minority
had grand designs.
Ignored and marginalised,
and fuelled by alcohol
and violence, they built
a party that would go on
to hold seats in council
chambers across England
and in the European
Parliament. Hidden behind
those large Union Jack
flags were individuals
Collins included
seemingly prepared to
bomb and kill to make
their violent dreams a
reality. But what do you
do when you realise that
the burning hatred,
vehement patriotism and
thirst for confrontation
that haunts you from the
playground to the pub to
the ballot box stems from
your own insecurities and
isolation? The answer?
You switch sides.

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