MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland & several heads of state will attend. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are mounting an operation to disrupt the peace conference in a way designed to be spectacular laying the blame at Syria's door. The source claims that Syrian Intelligence will act against the pair presumably by killing them. No one knows who they are or what they are planning to do. Are they working together? Who is controlling them? Or is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation? It is Liz's job to find out. But as she discovers the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake & the conference deadline is drawing ever closer. ...

This is the story of Martin Mc Gartland who worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA. Captured by the Provos he escaped & re-settled on the mainland but later discovered that he had been deliberately sacrificed by MI5. During his years in hiding he was arrested & taken to court many times. Eventually the Crown Prosecution Service advised by MI5 ordered his trial for attempting to pervert the course of justice. The jury found him not guilty but the court gave his name & new identity away. Mc Gartland travelled back to Belfast to try & discover why MI5 had attempted to organise his execution. ...

' We are the people our parents warned us about' is the motto of the Bandidos one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years Steve Utah was a Bandidos insider. He arranged the security of their clubhouses & electronic surveillance & counter surveillance. He 'cooked' ecstasy & meth for them. He was at meetings where interstate & overseas drug & weapons smuggling was planned. He saw stolen military weapons including deadly rocket launchers being sold. He witnessed vicious beatings helped dump corpses. He saw men executed in front of him. It all became too much & in an attempt to regain control of his life Utah resorted to the unthinkable: he rolled over to the Federal Police & told them all he knew about the Bandidos. He had intimate knowledge of every facet of the Bandidos' business in Australia & many aspects of their activities in North America. He literally knew where the bodies were buried. This shocking unflinching tragic story is Steve Utah's confession. He knows he is a dead man running
- that inevitably the Bandido code will be honoured & he will be silenced. But not before Utah gets his chance to wake readers to the looming threat in their midst
- the relentless rise of sophisticated organised crime networks inside outlaw motorcycle gangs & the apparent inability of the police & legal system to deal with it.

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When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a childrens home to live with her uncle in Cornwall she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncles spooky house.. . Why does her uncle Calvin Redfern forbid her to go to Dead Mans Cove? Whats the truth about Tariq the silent Indian boy who lives with the flamboyant Mukthars? Who is J? Who has left the message in a bottle for Laura to discover? Mysteries abound & who better to solve them than Laura Marlin ace detective? Accompanied by her trusty companion Skye a three-legged husky the dog shes always wanted Lauras adventures begin in this first captivating mystery winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. ...

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing! Sir George & Lady Stubbs the hosts of a village fete hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith Ariadne Oliver the well known crime writer agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen! Beware -- nobody is quite what they seem! ...

From the ashes of mass destruction... Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11 failed Brighton businessman & ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifeline: to shed his debts disappear & reinvent himself in another country. Six years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe & into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets & alleys of Brighton. A real page-turner & the cliffhanging conclusion left me eagerly awaiting DS Grace's next outing." (Daily Express). " Tense beautifully paced & excellent on police atmosphere & procedure." (" The Times")." ...

I want them to suffer & I want them dead... Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured & murdered. Now Detective Superintendant Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark & urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding & change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees
- she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her watching waiting & ready...
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In the February of the year of our Lord 1141 men march home from war to Shrewsbury but the captured Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis a young Welsh prisoner is & he is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter & Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice.. .and his heart. By good fortune it seems the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What none expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by Cupid's arrow. The sherrif's own daughter holds him in thrall & she too is blind with passion. Now regaining her father means losing her lover. But then the sheriff ailing & frail is brought to the abbey's infirmary & murdered there. Suspicion falls on the prisoner who only has his Welsh honour to gain Brother Cadfael's help. & Cadfael gives it not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul. ...

SOME WILL WAIT A LIFETIME TO TAKE THEIR REVENGE.. .A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. & millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace heading the enquiry rapidly learns there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. & they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands & will do anything absolutely anything to get it back. Within days Grace is racing against the clock following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton across Europe & all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922 chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed & another man's fury. ...

The fifth book in the bestselling Dan ' Spider' Shepherd series. Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast a grief-stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd. As the Muslim assassin closes in on his prey Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself. ...