Robert Davies first went to China in 1988 as an overland backpacker &, after a hair-raising two months touring Pakistan, found himself in Kashgar, the fabled Silk Road city. Here his life was irrevocably changed when he fell head over heels in love with Sharapet, an Uighur lady who was already married with a ten-year-old daughter. Love made them blind to the bureaucracy they had to face, strong for the thousands of miles they had to travel to obtain permission to marry, & resolute against the rage of Sharapet's revenge-seeking ex-husb&. But Robert became involved in the trafficking of hashish. Arrested & taken 2, 500 miles across China to Shanghai, he was sentenced to eight & a half years behind bars in one of the largest, most overcrowded jails in Asia
- fighting against a corrupt system in grim conditions, with death a constant threat. He had suffered a legal process where law was merely a word & justice was as elusive as the holy grail & he believed the Chinese authorities had blatantly used him & other foreigners as propaganda tools.
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The protagonist, Sam Brave, is kidnapped by a gang of revolutionaries in retaliation for something bad that Sam did to them. If the revolutionaries are psychopathic, Sam is not the nicest guy in the world either. His imprisonment
- based on the Patricia Hearst case
- results in his taking on the coloration of his captors
- to an extent.


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Geography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their

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When Professor Calculus is kidnapped, Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever & avalanches. Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend. ...

When Professor Calculus is kidnapped, Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission, braving runaway train carriages, yellow fever & avalanches. Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend. ...

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Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force & maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men & women on the planet come to Jack daily
- & his staff of investigators use the world's most advanced forensic tools to make & break their cases. In L.A., Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion-dollar gambling scandal & the unsolved slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead, Jack pushes back & devotes all of Private's resources to tracking down her killer. & Jack doesn't have to play by the rules.
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Combines the diaries of four ordinary people
- Maggie Joy Blunt, Pam Ashford, Edward Stebbing, & Ernest Van Someren
- as

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Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed.

But Jack Morgan,

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Even the world's greatest detective agency sometimes finds itself in too deep...

Santosh Wagh quit his job as head

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