WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards & their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped & overstretched they found themselves in the most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was deeply dismayed by the way it was being resourced & conducted. Thorneloe was killed by an IED during Operation Panther's Claw the biggest operation mounted by the British in Helm&. Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written by Thorneloe which raise questions from beyond the grave that will unnerve politicians & generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost Major Sean Birchall commanding officer of IX Company & Lieutenant Mark Evison a platoon commander whose candid personal diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second World War had a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of leadership. Harnden transports the reader into the heart of a conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared to kill & die to ward off paralysing fear & watch comrades perish in agony. Given unprecedented access to the Welsh Guards Harnden conducted hundreds of interviews in Afghanistan England & Wales. He weaves the experiences of the guardsmen & the loved ones they left behind into a seamless & unsparing narrative that sits alongside a piercing analysis of the political & military strategy. No other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many levels. ...

Renowned crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of some of the most infamous inmates from around the world having corresponded with them & even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In this his latest book he presents six unforgettable prisoners & allows them to tell their stories as well as giving the details & background of their terrifying cases
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Some may call me a vigilante. I think Ive just got problems to fix. Right now Hunters big problem is a missing little brother last seen fleeing the site of a gruesome killing. Hunter needs the help of an old army buddy a whole lot of hardware & a trip to Little Rock Arkansas to fix this particular problem. A brutal encounter with some very nasty criminals leaves Hunter fighting for his life. & thats before he comes up against Americas most feared serial killer The Harvestman & his grisly souvenirs of death. But blood is thicker than water. & a lot of blood will be spilt.. . ...

Before he died Castor's fellow exorcist John Gittings made several calls asking for help & if Castor had answered them John might still be alive. So when a smooth-talking lawyer comes out of nowhere to claim the remains Castor owes it to John's unhappy ghost & even more unhappy widow to help out. If only life were that simple. A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of an American serial killer supposedly forty years dead & it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. He's also fighting a legal battle over the body
- if not the soul
- of his possessed friend Rafi & can't shake the feeling that his three problems are related. With the help of the succubus Juliet paranoid zombie data-fence Nicky Heath & a little judicious digging Castor just might have a chance of fitting the pieces together before someone drops him down a lift shaft or rips his throat out. Or not...

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Morse switched on the gramophone to play & sought to switch his mind away from all the terrestrial troubles. Sometimes this way he almost managed to forget. But not tonight.. . Anne Scotts address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morses smartest suit. He turned the corner of Canal Street Jericho on the afternoon of Wednesday 3rd October. He hadnt planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day -- as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation.. . ...

Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it werent true! Michaels parents are dead & he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer executor of his parents will.. . Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large & desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian & finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesnt mean alone as Michael soon realises that the house & its grounds harbour many secrets dead & alive & Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings & terror by the master of the genre Chris Priestley. ...

Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed h&. Karl believes its the work of an elusive serial killer but the police are claiming a simple vendetta between local criminals. Karl embarks on a nightmarish journey as he attempts to solve the mystery & soon hes suspecting Mark Wilson his detested ex brother-in-law. But as the winter days become darker Karl discovers that Wilson is more than a match for him when it comes to dirty dealing & even dirtier fighting as he battles to keep from becoming the next victim. ...

When three bodies surface in the garden of a rented house in North London forensics discover prints which link back to an unsolved crime that no one in the Metropolitan Police wants to remember. The prime suspect of the first case was an officer from the force but since no conclusive evidence was ever found the police closed ranks to prevent the media frenzy that would surely follow his discovery. Now as the past case begins to link unavoidably with the present DC Ebony Willis is sent to see if she can uncover the whole truth about their suspect
- Carmichael. But private & reclusive will Carmichael prove a tricky & all too fascinating subject for Ebony to get to the bottom of?
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A new arrival to Lakehurst village can only mean trouble for Reverend Nick Lawrence... The residents of the sleepy Sussex village of Lakehurst are abuzz with the news of the arrival of Gerry Harlington a flamboyant American actor & the new owner of Abbots Manor with his glamorous wife. The local dramatic society recruits him as their director for their new show but his ideas are met with violent protest from the amateur actors. So when a corpse is discovered after the grand opening night Reverend Nick Lawrence doesnt have to look far to find potential suspects... ...

Jack Ryan Jr. returns in Dead or Alive" the gripping new thriller from Tom Clancy. The world's number one terrorist is about to unleash a holy war. Only one agency one man can stop him... The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a sadistic killer known as the Emir. Mastermind of countless horrific attacks the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world. & he is about to unleash a monumental strike at the heart of America. But on the Emir's trail is intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. Following in his legendary father's footsteps he & his allies at the Campus are on a manhunt that will take them across the globe into the shadowy arenas of political gamesmanship in a race to prevent the fall of the West. " Dead or Alive" is the nerve-shredding second thriller in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series. " The Teeth of the Tiger" was the first. Praise for Tom Clancy: " Heart-stopping action.. .entertaining & eminently topical". (" Washington Post"). " Classic Clancy.. .well-constructed tension & realistic action". (" Short List"). " Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict". (" Sunday Times"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted on to " The New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Grant Blackwood a US Navy veteran spent three years aboard a guided-missile frigate as operations specialist & pilot rescue swimmer. He is the author of the " Briggs Tanner" series: " The End of Enemies" " The Wall of Night" & " An Echo of War". He lives in Colorado." ...