Devil's Charge the second in The Civil War Chronicles Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker 'the Sharpe of the Civil War' fight for his honour. ' Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post England stands divided: king against Parliament town against country brother against brother. For Captain Stryker scarred hero of a dozen wars the rights & wrongs of the cause mean little. His loyalties are to his own small band of comrades
- & to Queen Henrietta Maria's beautiful & most deadly agent Lisette Gaillard. So when Prince Rupert entrusts him with a secret mission to discover what has happened to Lisette & the man she was protecting
- a man who could hold the key to Royalist victory
- nothing not false imprisonment for murder ambush a doomed siege or a lethal religious fanatic will stand in his way. A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year


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The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist & gamester called 'the Devil's Cub'. But when he is forced to leave the country Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister. & only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin. Georgette Heyer's wonderful characters & stories made her the undisputed queen of the historical romance & an international bestseller still loved today by a huge readership. ...

The psychic world will never be the same again Lucia Garza is trapped in a supernatural power struggle. To save a friend she agreed to work for sinister psychic organisation The Cross Society. But after a death threat that almost succeeds she's starting to think they want her out of the way. Forever. Worse as Lucia uncovers the society's most dangerous secrets she discovers that she's being used as a pawn between two warring paranormal factions. Caught in a battle no one can win Lucia's only choice could be to go against long-told prophecy to destroy both The Cross Society & its sworn enemies. But what are the consequences of defying destiny? ...

Clive Cussler's astounding Devil's Gate" sees the return of Kurt Austin & the NUMA team. Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships & planes... Nearby a Japanese cargo ship blows up without warning. Racing to help Kurt Austin & the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Soon they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator the creation of a weapon of terrible power a kidnapped CERN scientist & a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft & its precious cargo. As a terrifying & audacious plan to bring the world's major nations to their knees is set in motion only Kurt Austin
- the right man in the right place at the right time
- can stop it. With " Devil's Gate" UK number one bestseller Clive Cussler shows us once more why he is the grand master of adventure fiction. The ninth book in Clive Cussler's bestselling NUMA Files series " Devils' Gate" is a novel that will have readers gripped right to the last page. Kurt Austin hero of previous titles " Medusa" & " The Navigator" must avert a disaster of global proportions. Praise for Clive Cussler: " Clive Cussler is the guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " The Adventure King". (" Sunday Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" "the Dirk Pitt stories" (which started it all) "the Isaac Bell adventures" & "the Fargo series". The other titles in the "NUMA files" series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Lost City" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" & " The Storm". Graham Brown is the author of " Black Rain" & " Black Sun". A pilot & an attorney he lives in Arizona."

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July 1943. With North Africa secured the Allies launch an invasion of Sicily & the 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the van of the assault on the Italian beaches. Now B Company Commander Tanner's promotion has brought him fresh problems. Not only has his new Battalion Commander decided to make his life as difficult as possible but he & his men soon find themselves battling against some of the toughest troops in the Wehrmacht. In the bitter fighting that follows Tanner witnesses a new kind of warfare where the end will justify the means. Erstwhile outlaws the Sicilian mafia are supposedly on the side of the Allies but their real purpose is feathering their own nests. & it is not just the Mafia who are playing dirty. It soon becomes clear that in the quest to force Italy out of the war compromises & brutal choices need to be made
- choices where the lines between right & wrong have become horribly blurred. Forced to question the cause for which he has fought so long Tanner & his trusted sidekick Sykes find themselves embroiled in a fight that has become deeply personal where they have to use all their resolve skill & experience if they are to have any chance of survival.
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The Bermuda Triangle has cast a shadow over Sam & Niamh Cutlers' lives since their mother vanished nine years ago. Her whereabouts remains a mystery & every year they return to the Florida Keys with their father Matt who is obsessed with solving the haunting puzzle. But Sam is bored with lazing around by the pool while his father hunts for the truth. Craving excitement he & his friend Callum borrow" Matt's boat. At first it's great fun but when they find themselves marooned in a terrifying land the boys realise they too have fallen victim to the Triangle's mysterious effects. Can they find a way home or will they be lost forever?" ...

Sam & Callum are stranded in the strange parallel world having been pulled across by the dangerous energy of the Bermuda Triangle. Now they have found Sam's mum & joined her rebel group who are trying to stop the raptor species from creating even bigger holes in the fabric between the two worlds. Sam is still desperate to find a way home but how far will he go to get there? Meanwhile Niamh is trying to uncover the truth about the boys' disappearance. Convinced that her brother & Callum are alive despite the authorities suspicions it's up to her to solve the mystery before her father is convicted of murder. ...

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled shot through the head & thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject & culmination of Devils a title that refers the young radicals themselves & also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries with their naivety ludicrous single-mindedness & readiness for murder & destruction might seem exaggerated
- until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel however is beyond politics. Nikolay Stavrogin another product of rationalism run wild exercises his charisma with ruthless authority & total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime
- in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. This prophetic account of modern morals & politics with its fifty-odd characters amazing events & challenging ideas is seen by some critics as Dostoevskys masterpiece.

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In 1634 Urbain Grandier a handsome & dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried tortured & burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession & sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end & four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxleys vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious & sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world. ...

A military thriller based around the adventures of two young Fallschirmjager paratroopers during the early part of World War II. It is a fictionalised adventure based on the famous assault on the impregnable Belgian Fortress Eben Emael. Tall gangly Paul Brand is supported by his junior sergeant Unterfeldwebel Max Grun as he experiences his first action as a platoon commander in Poland September 1939. The mutual respect between the two comrades grows as they experience the sights & smells of battle at close quarters Following their success in Poland Paul Max & the platoon are sent to a clandestine camp in the foothills of the Harz Mountains to train for a secret mission. Confined to camp for six months they undergo intensive training for their next mission
- the subjugation of the Eben Emael Fortress. Two German secret weapons will assist them to complete their task; the first is the glider used for the first time to deposit troops directly onto a target & the second secret weapon is a new Hollow Charge Weapon capable of blasting through steel or concrete. On completion of their training nine gliders containing seventy two Fallschirmjager land on top of the fortress before the troops move in to the depths of the tunnels to finish the job. Over one thousand Belgian troops fail to stop them. This exciting fictionalised retelling of the assault on Eben Emael is written by an author with experience in army intelligence.
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