Fourteen years ago four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene
- a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers Nico Ketty Ed
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On 23 October 2009 British couple Paul & Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles. Their yacht Lynn Rival was recovered six days later by naval forces abandoned off the central Somali coast. After the attack Paul & Rachel were taken first onto a previously hijacked merchant ship & then to Somalia where they were held for over a year enduring threats & intimidation while their captors tried to extort millions of dollars from their family. In this remarkable book the Chandlers recount their terrifying ordeal revealing the inspiring & poignant story behind the dramatic headlines. At the heart of their survival was their unshakeable belief in each other & their determination to survive making Hostage an unlikely love story; for Paul & Rachel death at times seemed preferable to being separated. ...

When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro US Navy SEAL on secondment is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught & her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella though is not the holy man he seems & Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen.. . When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op' Kathryn returns home to America only to be manipulated by a priest & secret IRA godfather into playing a political role in the negotiations for Hank's release. Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands. ...

Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPDs SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family & then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy affluent suburb but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men fleeing a robbery burst into a home & take the family hostage. For Talley the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isnt just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LAs renegade Mafia family
- & they dont want the police involved...
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Introducing UNACO -- the United Nations Anti Crime Organisation -- an elite team of agents who battle the world's deadliest criminals. When the mission looks impossible the world calls upon UNACO. The most ingenious criminal in the world has come up with his most spectacular exploit to kidnap the mother of the president of the United States & hold her & the Eiffel Tower to ransom. He hires for his team: / a top weapons expert who can steal & use the newest most secret military equipment / the best cat burglar who can scale any heights / a man whose extraordinary strength & ingenuity will conquer any obstacle. Faced with this audacious crime of the century the world's top politicians can only turn to UNACO & its team. ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The Hostile Hospital
- There are many pleasant things to read about but this book contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper unnecessary surgery heartshaped balloons & some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.
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Let's face it we'd all love to have the perfect body but not if it means starving ourselves & feeling miserable all the time! There are a million ways to lose weight & countless books selling the secret to skinny but what if you want more than thin thighs & a size 6 waist? Inside Hot Healthy Happy you'll find a nutritional psychological & spiritual toolkit that will enable you to: wake up each day with enough energy to follow your dreams; have flawless skin & nails to die for; have a period without needing painkillers & chocolate bars; connect to & trust your inner wisdom; feel happy & confident despite facing drama in the Twittersphere. In Hot Healthy Happy The Food Psychologist & nutritional therapist Christy Fergusson shows how science makes you sexy & invites you to active the life & the body you want. Discover the cutting-edge 21-day formula she used to overcome a myriad of health conditions & become the definition of hot healthy & happy! Now it's your turn to eat drink & think your way to self-love & skinny jeans. ...

Sam Mac Kenzie is a fire fighter who knows no fear. Theres no one waiting for him at home no reason not to risk it all. Out of the blue the only woman hes ever loved
- the same one who ground his heart to dust ten years ago
- shows up begging him for help. Diannas sister is in big trouble somewhere in the rugged Colorado Rockies & hes the only person Dianna knows with the skills to track her sister down. Working together on their quest they soon realise theres a killer on the loose & his true target isnt Diannas sister.. .its Dianna herself. Using his extreme outdoor skills Sam needs to track down the killer before he loses the woman he loves forever.

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' Jack is a fount of knowledge & the expert on hot beds. When I visited his allotment & saw how advanced & healthy his crops were it proved to me that these ancient old systems still work a treat & are just as relevant now
- if not more so
- than they ever were.' Joe Swift garden designer & TV presenter The ancient method of growing vegetables in hot beds used by the Victorians & by the Romans harnesses the natural process of decay to cultivate out-of-season crops. Jack First has revived & modernised this remarkable technique & produces healthy vegetables at least two months earlier than conventionally grown crops. This practical illustrated guide has everything you need to understand how to use this highly productive low-cost year-round eco-friendly gardening system. Straightforward explanations & diagrams show how you too can grow early veg without fossil-fuel energy or elaborate equipment. With just stable manure (or alternatives) a simple frame & a small space to build your bed you can be harvesting salads in March & potatoes in early April.

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The fourth book in the bestselling Dan Spider Shepherd series. Dan Spider Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when youre an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq thrown into a basement & threatened with execution Shepherd has to decide whether his loyalties lie with his country his career or his friend. Shepherd & his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been abandoned by the Government & that officially nothing is being done to rescue him. & with the execution deadline only days away Shepherd knows that the only way to stop his friend being murdered is to put himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world
- Baghdad.
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