The dreadful Diva sends her chevaliers to kidnap Riku, Saya's adoptive brother, from the Red Shield's ocean-liner headquarters. Finding a way to make Saya go berserk & turn into a nearly unstoppable killing machine, Diva intends to pit her against her own friends & those she seeks shelter with. ...

Provides an examination of Britain's relationship to America. Is it a 'special' relationship? & if so, what manifests that unique connection? Through an analysis of its various manifestations
- from James Bond to Winston Churchill
- this book asks what this relationship consists of.

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Presenting a broad cross-section of experiences from a variety of nationalities & from different services, this title examines how the legacy of the conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan may affect those who took part & indeed the world for many years to come. ...

A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains & successes of working for the London Ambulance service. Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on & blue lights flashing? Have you? & have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life? Or have you considered that the ambulance may be another 'maternataxi' ordered by a woman who can't be bothered to book a real cab & who then complains she can't smoke on the way to hospital? & that the medical technician inside might just be desperate to get back home from a busy shift, to have a cup of tea & catch up with his blog? Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 & his award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending & compassionate. It is never less than compelling. From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heartwarming to the terrifying, the stories Tom tells give a fascinating
- & at times alarming
- picture of life in inner-city Britain, & the people who are paid to mop up after it.

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A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O' Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted & Richard & Judy pick, ' Netherland'. Joseph O' Neill's grandfathers
- one Irish, one Turkish
- were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA & was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O' Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny & threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy. At the age of thirty, Joseph O' Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families & two charismatic but flawed men
- it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia & fear, of memories of violence & of fierce commitments to political causes.


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Details: Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger, the Barry Award & the Macavity Award. ' Darling, if
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A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash & three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office. What links these things & who controls what we know? With echoes of John Le Carre & 24, Alan Glynn has written another crime novel of & for our times
- a ferocious thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, & thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room political players, & the quick fix of online news.
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When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver

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When Mark Shilling ford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished & successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won. Did she lose on purpose? Was ...

The original vampire romance: go back to where the bloodlust began! ' Blood from last nights raid has hardly dried on my uniform, still the familiar craving builds in my belly, I long to wield my sword. I can feel the blade slicing through the air then skin then flesh then bone.'
- Captain Quincy Harker. When nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War I, he is haunted by nightmares
- not only of the horrors of battle, but of the brutal midnight exploits of his superior, Captain Quincey Harker. When Harker appears unexpectedly in England & lures John's sister, Lily, to Transylvania. John must confront the truth. Only the love of pure Mary can save him from Count Dracula's poisonous bloodline. But the line goes further than John & Mary can possibly imagine. A new seductive evil walks among the living.

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