Killing Pablo charts the rise & spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar the richest & most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces & intelligence services to hunt down & assassinate Escobar. Killing Pablo combines the heart-stopping energy of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller & the stunning detail of award-winning investigative journalism. It is the most dramatic & detailed & account ever published of America's dirtiest clandestine war. ...

He watches. Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark & abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished seemingly into thin air. He waits. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. They Disappear. Days later Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her.. . ...

Detective Chief Inspector Billy Mc Cartney discovers a headless corpse in the scrubland close to Liverpool docks. The slaying carries all the hallmarks of a gangland hit
- a message from the underworld to snitches cops & rival gangs. One mile away a girl staggers into a run-down bar dazed & confused. The bars owner a career criminal called Shakespeare cannot get a word out of her. DCI Mc Cartney is all too well aware that the clock is ticking. The body was one Kalan Rozaki youngest brother of a notorious crime family
- except Kalan is no criminal. For almost a year his brothers have been under full-time Drug Squad surveillance as Mc Cartney slowly closed the net on their heroin trafficking. Mc Cartneys chief informant on the case is someone with insider knowledge of the Rozaki clans operation.. .their newly deceased baby brother Kalan. Mc Cartneys investigation into Kalans murder peels back layer after layer of a decades-long dynasty of drug smuggling. Each revelation plunges Mc Cartney back into the dark heart of an unsolved drug crime that weighs heavy on his soul. He wants to catch the Rozakis
- badly
- but he wants the shadowy men behind their drug empire even more. The closer Mc Cartney gets to Kalans killer the closer he comes to facing down a lifetimes torment.



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Roses mother & Joshuas father have disappeared. Police inquiries have gone nowhere & the case it seems is closed: Rose & Joshua have been told that the police believe their parents are dead. But Rose & Joshua still hold out hope that they are alive. Joshua is determined to follow up his own inquiries which

Includes:: working out the meaning of the cryptic notebooks
- the murder notebooks
- they have discovered. Then Rose is distracted by odd desperate messages she receives from Rachel a former best friend from her school followed by the terrible news that Rachel is dead. But perhaps Rachels death will provide one more piece of the puzzle about what has happened to Rose & Joshuas parents.. .A taut & pacy thriller in The Murder Notebooks series from an acclaimed writer for teens.



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Nothing will ever be the same again... In the heart of Philadelphias badlands Homicide Detectives Byrne & Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found & a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last each murder more brutal. & it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that a cold calculating & terrifyingly precise mind is at work. With very few leads & a mastermind who always seems to be one step ahead Byrne & Balzano are faced with challenges they could never have imagined as they race against time to hunt down their killer before its too late... ...

This title is shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction. David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas where 99 per cent of appeals are rejected. He knows his clients are guilty but he defends them because he believes murder is wrong. Henry Quaker is a quiet man charged with murdering his childhood sweetheart & their two children. All the evidence is against him: hes mentally unstable his gun is missing his sons blood was found in his car & hed taken out life insurance on his family immediately before their murder. But as Dow painstakingly pieces the case together he gradually becomes convinced that Quaker
- whose execution is just weeks away
- is actually innocent. This is the real story of Death Row; of corrupt lawyers judges who are hostile to the very idea of justice & executioners who rely on inmates for moral support. Killing Time" is a modern classic; both a searing & haunting memoir & a story that will have you holding your breath until the last page."

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More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But as expert Dr Paul Offit explains these untested therapies are ineffective expensive & even deadly. Now that homeopathic remedies are offered on the NHS it's clear that various therapies once considered alternative or complementary have become mainstream
- prescribed to burn fat shrink prostates alleviate colds reduce stress eliminate pain & prevent cancer. At the same time uptake of effective vaccines such as MMR has fallen
- a disturbing trend which in the case of the MMR has lead to a sharp rise in the number of measles cases. In ' Killing Us Softly' Paul Offit reveals alternative medicine
- an unregulated industry under no obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks
- can actually be very harmful. In ' Killing Us Softly' he exposes how: * Homeopathic asthma preparations & bogus cancer cures have replaced life-saving medicines. * Acupuncture needles have pierced hearts lungs & livers & transmitted viruses including hepatitis B hepatitis C & HIV. * Chiropractic manipulations have torn arteries. * Megavitamins increase the risk of cancer & heart disease-a fact well known to scientists but virtually unknown to the public. Using real-life case histories to back his argument Dr Offit shows us why any medical treatment
- alternative or conventional
- must be properly evaluated. ' There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works & medicine that doesn't.'





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On a tour of duty in the Helmand River Valley the Grenadier Guards faced the toughest challenge of their lives... Carrying out patrols in the most fiercely contested land in Afghanistan the Guards were under fire almost constantly. The summer of 2007 saw some of the most frequent & intense combat yet beyond what anyone could have predicted. Based in isolated forward operating bases their nearest reinforcements were often miles away down a track strewn with deadly roadside bombs. The Killing Zone" is an action-packed & authentic insight into the real Afghanistan. This is what its like to deliberately draw fire on your own position so that your mates can escape an ambush to experience the adrenaline rush of being the first in to clear a Taliban compound & to rely on skill loyalty & quick-thinking to survive in one of the most dangerous places on earth." ...

Badger's Drift
- a tranquil English village home to Miss Emily Simpson a kindly well-liked spinster. But when poor Miss Simpson
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Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Trippings sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didnt. Alexandra Cooper prosecuting the ex-CIA man knew she had her work cut out to convince the jury but before Paige could complete her testimony on the stand she is found dead
- strangled in her own apartment building just hours after shed confessed to Alex that she had had a relationship with another ex-CIA operative. While the accusation of rape against Tripping is dropped he has other charges to face not least abusing his own child. As Trippings defence team go into overdrive to keep their client out of jail Alex Chapman & Mercer set out to discover who so conveniently killed the woman who could have put him behind bars. As they peel back the layers of Paiges life they discover a decades-old vipers nest of robbery & double-dealing & discover that truth of the adage of money being at the root of all evil
- however old & respectable it might be.

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