Napoleon stood before a stormy sky. In his hand was a scroll, & on that scroll were characters. Etruscan characters. Reporter Jake Wosley has seen things he never thought possible. After stumbling across secret documents showing Winston Churchills interest in the ancient Etruscan civilisation, his life changed forever.

Now he lies in hiding in Thail&, trying to put the past behind him. When a letter arrives, featuring genuine"es from Napoleon about fate & destiny, he has no idea who its from but knows he is no longer safe. & when Jenny, his former lover & confidant reaches out to him, in terrible danger, Jake has no choice but to come to her aid. Unearthing secrets many want to get their hands on, can Wosley evade Washington & MI6? & if he really has discovered the key to foretelling destiny, what happens if this knowledge falls into the wrong hands...?

The gripping sequel to Foretold by Thunder, The Napoleon Complex journey to Sierra Leone, Israel, Egypt, Austria, Tanzania & Burundi, & peers back into the smoky Westminster drawing rooms of leading Victorian statesmen, taking the reader on a fast-paced & thrilling adventure.



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Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 was the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. He was just twenty-eight when he invaded Egypt & it was an episode which contained in embryo many seminal events in his later life. This work looks at his epic military victories & his declaration of himself as emperor. ...

Napoleon Xylophone is set to become a hero with a walking disability. When adventure comes knocking, Zam doesn't let his disability get in the way of fighting the changelings, wytes & gargoyles that come to life in the underworld beneath Newcastle. ...

Haythornthwaite brings his reputation as a leading Napoleonic historian to bear on the examination of all parts of the French army: the cavalry, infantry, artillery, Imperial Guard, staff & supporting services. Napoleon's innovations & tactics are described, from Austerlitz to Waterloo, demonstrating the reasons for his success & decline. ...

Napoleon's Polish Lancers of the Guard were unique in their appearance & in their loyalty. This book reveals their varied & colourful uniforms as well as their long & loyal service for the Bonaparte cause. It provides an insight into the fighting li ...

Napoleon is the brilliant military strategist who also laid the administrative & judicial foundations for much of Western Europe. This title explores six areas that constitute the core of what made Napoleon a great leader: Audacity, Vision, Empathy, Strategy, Logistics, & Tactics ...

Contrary to popular belief, narcissists do not love themselves or anyone else. They are unable to accept their true self, relying instead on a fixed mask that hides an inability to feel. This title explains how feelings & emotions can be restored, & the integrity of the self regained. ...

Details: Narcissus & Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character.
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Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices & ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl & mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters & eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric & utterly original prose. ...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona's examination of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past & also to the present-day voices of its patients. ...