Captain Thomas Forsyths tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home to his mother
- a racehorse trainer & the First Lady of racing
- Tom discovers the training business is on the edge & facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different but just as deadly battlefield where his military skills are tested.. .kill or be killed?

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Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra. He seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only a reporters swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours presumed kidnapped Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London Dublin & Kabul
- the brutal city where governments terrorism & big business collide. Caught in the crossfire Stones nightmare is only just beginning
- for the hunter has suddenly become the hunter...

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Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When shes not digging up bones or other ancient objects she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives alone but happily so in a bleak marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea & Norfolks vast skies with her cats & Radio 4 for company. Shes a salty character
- quirky. When a childs bones are found in the marshes near a dig that Ruth & her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones & DCI Harry Nelson who called on Ruth for help is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy whos been missing presumed dead for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever since
- odd letters with references to ritual & sacrifice & including"es from the Bible & Shakespeare. Then a second girl goes missing & Nelson gets another letter
- like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer? Is it a ritual murder linked in some way to the site near Ruths remote home? Then one of Ruths cats is killed & clearly shes in danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries.. .


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As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition becoming one an elite group of officers the reality of covert work turned his life into a nightmare. To catch criminals Christian bought & sold drugs with taxpayers' money been beaten up arrested at gunpoint & barricaded in a pub by a gang of marauding gypsies
- all in a day's work. At one stage he was running almost a dozen mobile phones to keep track of his different identities & had so many aliases that he nearly forgot who he was. He put his life on the line for the job but was to find that being the 'best of the best' wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The pressure became so intense that he even contemplated suicide. Crossing the Line is a visceral gripping account of what it really takes to be an undercover cop. It exposes how the Met conducts its business behind the scenes & reveals the harsh realities of modern covert police work.
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At journeys end would a new life begin? When Liane crossed the Atlantic & arrived in Europe the future seemed bright & beautiful. Only the image of a face haunted her new life in France. Then the Second World War sent her on a fateful crossing leaving her husband far behind. Suspended between two worlds Liane was swept into a passionate affair a bright brief moment of total happiness. Would the voyage seal her love for ever or leave her stranded on the shores of heartbreak & despair? ...

Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion. Together in one bumper volume Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver provides the ultimate aid for tracking down those final solutions. The Lists section contains more than 100 000 words & phrases listed both alphabetically & by number of letters under category headings such as Volcanoes Fungi Gilbert & Sullivan Clouds Cheeses Mottoes & Archbishops of Canterbury. As intersecting solutions provide letters of the unanswered clue locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick & easy. The lists are backed up with a comprehensive index which also guides the puzzler to associated tables
- e.g. when looking for Film Stars; try Stage & Screen Personalities. The Solver section contains more than 100 000 potential solutions including plurals comparative & superlative adjectives & inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names place names technical terms compound expressions abbreviations & euphemisms. Grouped according to number of letters
- up to fifteen
- this section is easy to use & suitable for all levels of crossword puzzle. At the end a further 3 000 words are listed by category along with an index of unusual words.


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Crosville Motor Services was one of the most important regional bus operators that ultimately became part of NBC. Its services dominated all of North Wales from Holyhead eastwards as far south as a line from Aberystwyth to Oswestry as well as Cheshire the Wirral Peninsula & southern Merseyside. The company was formed as the Crosville Motor Co Ltd on 27 October 1906 in Chester by George Crosland Taylor & Georges de Ville initially to manufacture cars but was to commence operating buses two years later. Taken over by the Tilling Group 20 years later Crosville was to be nationalised along with other Tilling operators in 1948 & thus became part of the National Bus Company in 1969. As a Tilling Group operator the company's fleet was largely formed of Bristol/ECW models although there were odd exceptions & after 1969 the NBC's buying policy determined that vehicles such as the Leyland National would dominate. This volume covers the period from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s. It focuses on the transition from Tilling Group operator through the era of the National Bus Company to the period immediately prior to Privatisation. The photographs in the book have generally not been published before & are accompanied by detailed captions. ...

Crow was Ted Hughess fourth book of poems for adults & a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it he found both a structure & a persona that gave his vision a new power & coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate almost funny story in which natural forces & creatures mythic figures even parts of the body act out their special roles each endowed with its own irrepressible life. With Crow Hughes joins the select band of survivor-poets whose work is adequate to the destructive reality we inhabit. ...

A tale about the nature of evil & the power of love. It centres on a dark angel who literally rises from the dead to avenge a gang of thugs who brutally killed him & his fiancee on the eve of their wedding. This is the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie The Crow"." ...

Lily dreads going back to school after the summer
- will the bullying this year be as bad as the last? Hiding away from reality
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