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? ...

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre & a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume.. . Rand al' Thor the Dragon Reborn must fight on against the Dark One in a struggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex
- claiming the souls of friends & enemies alike. He has cleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the True Source so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesome potential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle against evil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies
- even among lifelong companions.

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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. ...

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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Brimming with complete confidence after her spooky display at the Halloween party & with love on the horizon Lily & her best friend Marsha decide to take on the bullies so they know she is not a girl to be messed with any more. But when they start picking on the younger girls instead Lily vows to stop them forever. Gripping sequel to the bestselling Crow Girl. ...

Crow Lake is that rare find a first novel so quietly assured so compelling & with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense at once that this is the real thing
- a literary experience to relish a book to lose yourself in & a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous slowburning story of families growing up & tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario where tragedy & hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centre stage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious & divisive. Orphaned young Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protegee her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. She thinks she's outgrown her family who were once her entire world
- but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.

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From its bravura opening onwards THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bachs Mass in B Minor & I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice Mc Hoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the Mc Hoan past present & future he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death sex drink God & illegal substances... ...