It is May 1969 & MI6 double agent Paul Dark stands alongside mourners at the funeral of Sir Colin Templeton; the former head of the organisation the man he knew simply as Chief -- & the man he killed in cold blood. Dark has got away with it evading the attentions of both his fellow British spies & the KGB operatives to whom he long ago pledged loyalty. But that precarious security is about to be shattered launching Dark back into the heart of an international conspiracy & making him a target for both exposure & assassination. Desperate to escape his predicament Dark gambles everything on one last throw of the dice exposing his Soviet handler to the British. But before long he finds he has no choice but to go on the run again taking him to the labyrinthine backstreets of Rome. The race is on to stop a deadly plot that dates back to the early years of the Cold War. The second part of the Paul Dark trilogy & sequel to the critically acclaimed Free Agent Free Country is another sweat-soaked Sixties-set spy thriller in the tradition of Len Deighton & Frederick Forsyth. ...

Free Fall tells the brutal engrossing story of the Second Chechen War through the eyes of a young Russian Soldier. Nicolai Lilin was trained as a sniper in an unorthodox Russian Special Forces regiment called the Saboteurs. This hardened & close-knit band of brothers operating beyond the control of military code faced mercenary fighters anti-personnel mines & torture of the most extreme kind. Free Fall offers a snipers-eye view of one of the most controversial wars in living memory. It is unflinching unforgiving & unputdownable. ...

Jockey Pat Vincent has ambitions to become a wealthy sporting hero. But he knows his dreams will never be fulfilled so he's devised a brilliant new scam which if he doesn't get caught is guaranteed to make him rich. Pat's girlfriend Zoe is starting her second full season as an apprentice jockey. She has a chance of becoming champion apprentice if she's not sidetracked by the disaster of her sister Harriet's unhappy marriage... Along the cliffs in Somerset a man walks his dog. Every day Andy Burns
- Pat's partner-in-crime Harriet's tortured husband
- wrestles with his demons. But Andy would be better off keeping his thoughts on the ground
- it's a long way down to the beach below.


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Elvis Cole is just a detective who cant say no especially to a girl in a terrible fix. & Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance Mark Thurman is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit but Jennifer is sure hes in trouble
- the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves the office Cole & his partner the enigmatic Joe Pike are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs corrupt cops & conspiracies of silence. & before long every cop in the LAPD is gunning for a pair of armed & dangerous killers
- Cole & Pike.

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Joe Pickett recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon
- a devious but down-home politico
- has a special request one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay Mc Cann a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in a far-off corner of Yellowstone. After the murders Mc Cann immediately turned himself in at the nearest ranger station. Seemed like a slam-dunk case for law enforcement
- except that the crimes were committed in a thin sliver of land with zero residents & overlapping jurisdiction the so-called free-fire zone. Mc Cann has taken advantage of an obscure loophole in the law: neither the state nor the federal government can try him for his crime. The worst mass murderer in Wyoming history walks out of jail a free man. Governor Rulon sensitive to the rising tide of public outrage wants his own investigation into the murders & will reinstate Joe as a game warden if he'll go to Yellowstone without portfolio A to investigate. Joe happy to get his badge back even under these circumstances agrees. It quickly becomes clear to Joe that Mc Cann is deeply involved with some illegal activity taking place in the park
- something tremendously lucrative & unusually dangerous. As Joe & his partner Nate Romanowski search for the key to the murders they discover that it may be hidden in the rugged terrain of the park itself."



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Birminghams parks are a gift that has been passed on to us thanks to the efforts of four distinct groups. The first comprises generous upper class & upper middle class philanthropists of a variety of backgrounds & beliefs. The second embraces preachers like George Dawson & Robert Dale who propounded the Civic Gospel. The third is the Council. In its early years & with a few honourable exceptions like Alderman Cutler it was dominated by councillors with a miserable attitude to civic life. Thankfully they were eventually replaced by dynamic councillors who enthusiastically took up the Civic Gospel so as to provide municipal facilities for Birminghams people. The fourth group was a hardy & resourceful band of working-class activists who were resolved to improve life for their fellows. Together these groups succeeded in providing free parks for the people. They have left us a wonderful legacy that we should cherish. ...

Today Vince Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston) revered for his prescience & authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected politician has been long circuitous & sometimes very painful. In this memoir he tells that story for the first time. Free Radical is a candid book written with wit & great insight. Vince Cable's life story is a long way from that of a conventional career politician. His book is as compelling as it is timely. ...

Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! Tilly can't believe she's going to the
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The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brains motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used f MRI data to show that some conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet). Clearly findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of ones actions. The question of free will is no mere curio of philosophy seminars. A belief in free will underwrites both the religious notion of "sin" & our enduring commitment to retributive justice. The Supreme Court has called free will a "universal & persistent" foundation for our system of law. Any scientific developments that threatened our notion of free will would seem to put the ethics of punishing people for their bad behaviour in question. In Free Will Harris debates these ideas & asks whether or not given what brain science is telling us we actually have free will?" ...

The vast majority of human beings are unknowingly under the blinding sway of glamour illusion & maya on planet earth. Glamour in ones emotional body illusion or delusion in ones mental body & maya in ones vital or etheric body When the individual is caught up in these three delusions one experiences negative emotional reactivity victim consciousness misunderstanding of ideas & thoughts & uncontrolled impulses forces & energies streaming through the seven chakras. All of this delusion is the result of the individuals free will allowing the negative egos fear-based separative thinking to guide ones life. When the individual becomes guided by the light of the soul & later the Spirit & thinks with the spiritual Christ/ Buddha Mind the personality mind emotions & physical body become naturally aligned with Divine Will characterised by freedom peace pure knowledge wisdom love & bliss. There is no longer the illusion of free will. ...