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A must-read thriller from Dean Koontz -- the worldwide bestseller of over 400 million copies. RELENTLESS is a pulse-pounding page-turning race to the finish. It looked like just a bad review. But perhaps it was a death threat! Being a writer is a dangerous business. When Cubby Greenwich receives a scathing review for his latest bestseller by the feared & therefore revered critic Shearman Waxx he is determined to take no notice of it. But Fate carries him right into Waxxs path. What began as an innocent & unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy but a ruthless sociopath & now he is intent on destroying Cubby & everything he holds dear: his home his wife his young son & every hope he had in the world. The terror has only just begun & it will be relentless! ...

This story is set in the December of 1815. Adam Bolithos orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majestys frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns he is required to repair in the first instance to Freetown Sierra Leone & reasonably assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron. But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships by the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies & by the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers which threatens to ignite a full-scale war. For Adam also there is no peace. Lost in grief & loneliness his uncles death still unavenged he is uncertain of all but his identity as a man of war. The sea is his element the ship his only home & a reckless perhaps doomed attack on an impregnable stronghold his only hope of settling the bitterest of debts. ...

With its deep roots & global scope the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change sometimes measured & predictable sometimes drastic & out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism took shape centuries ago starting with a handful of isolated changes in farming trade & manufacturing in early modern Engl&. Astute observers began to notice these changes & consider their effects. Those in power began to harness these new practices to the state enhancing both. A system generating wealth power & new ideas arose to reshape societies in a constant surge of change. The centuries-long history of capitalism is rich & eventful. Approaching capitalism as a culture as important for its ideas & values as for its inventions & systems Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to this most potent creation of mankind from its origins to the present. ...

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Their god is War. & every god needs his Devil. The Religion. Malta 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is unleashed on the doomed island as the Turks do battle with the Knights. The Knights call themselves The Religion. The Turks call them the Hounds of Hell. Back in Sicily the beautiful rich Carla pines for her bastard son lost in the bloody inferno across the water. Enter Mattius Tannhauser
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