A hero can't always be good.. . Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands. Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs. But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot. With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice. Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed? ...

From Oliver Bullough the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted Let Our Fame Be Great a study
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Seven seconds. Thats all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends his team his reputation. Point man of the FBIs super-elite Hostage rescue Team Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leaders lair only to meet a high-tech custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows & the suspicions of colleagues Web tries to put his life back together. To do so he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush
- & find the only other person who came out of the alley alive.. .a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared. Acting on his instincts Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this time he may not survive the attack. In this extraordinary work Baldacci uses his unsurpassed storytelling skills to explore the essence of survival itself as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the.. .LAST MAN STANDING.
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As a small boy in Epping Forest Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britains Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents he was bright enough to get a scholarship to a direct-grant school but spent his holidays as a plumbers mate for his uncles to bring in some much-needed extra income. Yet he spent 13 years & 11 days in government including long & influential spells as Home Secretary & Foreign Secretary. This is the story of how he got there. His memoirs offer a unique insight into the complex sometimes self-serving but always fascinating world of British politics & reveals the toll that high office takes but more importantly the enormous satisfaction & extraordinary privilege of serving both your constituents & your country. Straws has been a very public life but he reveals the private face too & offers readers a vivid & authoritative insight into the Blair/ Brown era & indeed the last forty years of British politics. ...

It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that as the machine gun bullets whistled past & shells exploded he could maintain his own morale to lead a platoon keeping its discipline & cohesion in spite of desperate losses. Norman Collins the author of this superb memoir was this remarkable man. Using Normans own words Last Man Standing follows him from his childhood in Hartlepool to his subsequent service in France. The book also covers such shattering events as the German naval assault on Hartlepool in December 1914 when as a seventeen-year-old Norman was subjected to as big a bombardment as any occurring on the Western Front at that time. Normans love for & devotion to the men under his command shine out in this book & his stories are gripping & deeply moving. They are illustrated by a rare collection of private photographs taken at or near the front by Norman himself although the use of a camera was strictly proscribed by the Army. Most of the images have never been published before. ...

The Rough Diamonds are a close knit team. Kev Mc Govern their captain makes sure they work hard & play hard. Right now John OHara feels hes on the verge of losing everything. His family is about to break up. Hes dumbstruck when he finds out that his Mum is seeing his teacher & Dad...well the less said the better. John feels lonely & insecure; none of this is helping his street cred with the lads & worse still his form on the pitch is really suffering. ...

No one has given the extraordinary Thomas Young the all-round examination he so richly deserves
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They framed me. They abducted my wife. They took my child. I want him back. Sam Capra has one reason to live: to reclaim his baby son from the people who kidnapped him. Teaming up with a young mother whose daughter went missing he tracks his child across the country in a dangerous desperate race against time. From the internationally bestselling author of Panic The Last Minute is the most heart-stopping thriller of the year from 'one of the best thriller writers of our time' (Harlan Coben). ...

On a dark evening in November 1862 a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted ' No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II one of the most tolerant & likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent & doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad the end of both Mughal power & a remarkable culture. ...

To celebrate 100 years of DJing Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton have expanded & updated their classic account of the history of the disc jockey. The DJ was born on Christmas Eve 1906 when Reginald Fessenden became the first person to play a record over the radio. A century later & the DJ is the central figure in popular music. From these humble 'talking jukebox' origins to today's DJ superstars earning rock star salaries with a fanbase to match the history of the DJ is fascinating & unpredictable. The story of these unlikely cultural icons takes the reader through the swinging sixties through the sequinned revolution that was disco via hip hop & house to mass-market global domination. ...