Killing Charlie charts the extraordinary rise & spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson the most powerful villain to emerge from the ultimate British crime of the twentieth century: the Great Train Robbery. Wilson moved on from armed robbery to become an all-powerful figure in the drug underworld. But his life of greed & corruption would eventually end when his rivals decided to wipe him off the face of the earth
- with the tacit approval of Spanish British & US drug enforcement agencies. Killing Charlie is a roller-coaster ride through five decades of London's gangland including a long spell on the Costa del Crime & forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Meticulously researched it pulls the reader into Wilson's bizarre sordid crime-filled world
- one that took him from the mean streets of south London to even harsher prison corridors & from a quiet life in small-town Canada to the heated manic cocaine-fuelled Costa del Sol. Containing interviews with many of Charlie Wilson's former associates Killing Charlie also reveals how Wilson was feared by many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; & how he desperately tried to 'retire' only to discover the inevitable
- that gangsters never rest in peace.


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The chillingly brilliant read from the bestselling authors of Catch Your Death. Contains exclusive new & updated material. Doesnt love always feel this way? Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together? So Alex stalks her on Facebook & finds out where she lives buys her presents using her own credit card & sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house reads her diary & secretly listens to her while she takes a bath. Isnt that what all lovers do? But when a love rival appears on the scene Alex has to take drastic action & soon a young woman lies dead after tumbling from the roof of her house. Now there is no-one standing in the way of Alex & his true love. But someone is watching Alex too & he is about to discover that there is a thin line between love
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An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novel These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera & an action-adventure movie. The first hit man came after me at home which should be against the rules. Then there was a second & a third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake preternatural expert & vampire killer extraordinaire is worth half a million dollars. Dead not alive. So whats a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf & a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail its not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible human or otherwise. But Im beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one... ...

The winter before he was sixteen amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact & sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. Pup's older sister Dolly is manically obsessed with her birthmark believing it is responsible for her status as a social outcast. She becomes pathologically transfixed by Pup's dabbling in magic desperate to believe he has occult powers that can cure her disfigurement improve their lives & kill their stepmother. As Dolly's obsession grows a young mentally disturbed Irishman lurks just around the corner inseparable from his sharpened set of knives... In this intense & deeply disturbing novel Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession delusions & murderous fantasy with dazzling virtuosity. ...

Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn & Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby & soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign 1314 held up by Scottish fans & not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The battle is also commemorated in Scotlands unofficial national anthem The Flower of Scotland. Battles fought on Scottish soil include those of the Scottish Wars of Independence those occasioned by the English Civil Wars & the Jacobite Rebellions. This book tells the stories of these battles & many others fought in Scotland from the Roman victory at Mons Graupius in AD 83 to the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden Moor in 1746. ...

ABSOLUTE POWERTOTAL MADNESSONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP ITIn the Regiment you might swear allegiance to Queen & country. But its your mates you take the bullets for. & your mates you kill to protect. So when Chet uncovers corruption at the very highest levels of power its Luke he wants to tell. Only Lukes got his hands full in Iraq. Which leaves Chet very much on his own. Just him the girl the war-mongering Prime Minister
- & a lethal assassin...
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On a rainy night in Denton Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods
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A multiple rapist is on the loose a woman reports that her baby has been stolen & someone is trying to blackmail the local supermarket by poisoning some of the stock. When two young girls are reported missing the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As DI Jack Frost staggers exhausted from case to case something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent's office but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once & for all? ...

Detective Carson Ryders reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta constructing his crimes to hit Carsons weak spot. Hes coming to get you... After a humiliating encounter with a cop Romanian immigrant Gregory Nieves launches a vendetta against the Mobile Police Department Alabama. Nieves cant fight a department so he selects one man who symbolizes all men in blue: Carson Ryder the MPDs specialist in bizarre & twisted crimes. Carson has never seen a killing spree like this one: Nothing connects the victims the murder weapon is always different & the horrific crime scenes are devoid of evidence. It almost seems hes being taunted. Even laughed at. Carson doesnt know it yet but he is caught up in a sadistic game of life & death. & there can only be one victor... ...

Killing Giants" unveils practical strategies for overtaking larger competitors in any market looking at companies like that started out small but quickly dominated by using their opponents size to their advantage. Baidu has beaten Google at search in China & the Boston Beer Company took on Budweiser with Sam Adams Boston Lager. Stephen Denny shows how even behemoths like Nike & Coca Cola are susceptible to small even tiny competitors because of their size. Using a range of fresh case studies he explains how by taking a fresh approach you can carve out a larger chunk of any marketplace." ...