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May 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves & Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman DS Waters
- recently relocated from East London. While the force is busy dealing with a spate of local burglaries the body of fifteen-year-old Samantha Ellis is discovered in woodland next to the nearby railway track. Then a fifteen-year-old boy is found dead on Dentons golf course his organs removed. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is sent to investigate
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It's May 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves & Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman DS Waters
- recently relocated from East London. While the force is busy dealing with a spate of local burglaries the body of fifteen-year-old Samantha Ellis is discovered in woodland next to the nearby railway track. Then a fifteen-years-old boy is found dead on Denton's golf course his organs removed. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is sent to investigate
- a welcome distraction from troubles at home. & when the murdered boy's sister goes missing Frost & Waters must work together to find her.. .before it's too late.

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May 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves & Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman DS Waters
- recently relocated from East London. While the force is busy dealing with a spate of local burglaries the body of fifteen-year-old Samantha Ellis is discovered in woodland next to the nearby railway track. Then a fifteen-year-old boy is found dead on Dentons golf course his organs removed. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is sent to investigate
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Fatal Revenant Book Two of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant " begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant & her adopted son Jeremiah ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land's past she is forced to confront mysterious strangers legendary heroes & ancient evils & to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in Garroting Deep the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead forests she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil & her son's suffering. However her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. & she needs the aid of friends & allies who will turn against her if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old & new & harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas she strives toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising & all of her actions appear to serve her worst foes." ...
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After ten years of servitude Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of the maimed God-Emperor Jal-Nish Hlar his corrupt father. Jal-Nish holds the two sorcerous quicksilver tears Gatherer & Reaper & with them controls all of the Secret Art. All opposition having been crushed he has begun to remake the world in his depraved image. The only hope of overthrowing him lies in Nish whom the oppressed peoples of the world see as a messianic figure. They have named him the Deliverer for as Nish was dragged away to prison a decade ago he wildly promised to return & cast down his father. Unfortunately Nish is powerless & without allies. But worse his father wants Nish to become his lieutenant & become as corrupt as he is. Jal-Nish offers Nish everything he has ever desired & faced with the unbearable alternative of another ten years in prison he isnt sure he can resist the temptation. ...
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Fatal Shore

In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
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In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

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