The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old she is violent aggressive & has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass... Cathy an experienced foster carer is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's challenging behaviour has seen off five carers in four months but Cathy decides to take her on to protect her from being placed in an institution. Jodie arrives & her first act is to soil herself & then wipe it on her face grinning wickedly. Jodie meets Cathy's teenage children & greets them with a sharp kick to the shins. That night Cathy finds Jodie covered in blood having cut her own wrist & smeared the blood over her face. As Jodie begins to trust Cathy her behaviour improves. Over time with childish honesty she reveals details of her abuse at the hands of her parents & others. It becomes clear that Jodie's parents were involved in a sickening paedophile ring with neighbours & Social Services not seeing what should have been obvious signs. It's clear that Josie needs psychiatric therapy but instead Social Services take Jodie away from her & place her in a residential unit. Although the paedophile ring is investigated & brought to justice Jodie's future is still up in the air. Cathy promises that she will stand by her no matter what
- her love for the abandoned Jodie is unbreakable.
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Special Agent Maggie O' Dell has seen a lot in her career & amidst the killers psychos & criminals she has hunted she's delved deep into the darkest most shockingly evil recesses of the human mind. But when a cool box filled with body parts washes up on the shore of Florida's Pensacola Beach even Maggie isn't prepared for what she is about to get into. While across the state people brace themselves against the onslaught of a hurricane advancing across the Gulf of Mexico Maggie begins the laborious process of tracking down the cooler's origins. Tracing the butchered corpse back to a missing persons case weeks earlier Maggie uncovers the gruesome network of an underground cadaver trade. Little does she know that things are about to take an even darker turn... ...

Things have been going too well for Daisy Lane. Her murdered lover Eddie Lane has left her comfortably off & his son little Eddie is adorable & a constant reminder of his father. The new man in her life South London gangster Roy Kemp looks out for her & is kind to little Eddie. But someone is watching Daisy's every movement like a predator choosing the perfect moment to pounce. He is a man with murder in his heart
- a man obsessed with Daisy & enraged that she turned to Roy Kemp for love instead of him. He plans to teach Daisy a lesson she will never forget. Set in 1966 DAMAGED GOODS re-acquaints us with several memorable characters from the previous books
- notably Daisy's friend Vera queen of her massage parlour & the best mate a girl ever had & Gosport policeman DS Vinnie Endersby who puts his job on the line for Daisy.

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The North-West Frontier 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone with dagger in hand to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment from Scotland Yard Joe is spending a fortnight with his old army friend James Lindsay commander of the front line fort at Gor Khatri. An uneasy peace is in operation with the Afghans but into this already-delicate situation is injected an ill-assorted group of visitors to the fort. After a skirmish which results in the death of a Pathan prince & the taking of hostages Joe & his companion James are given seven days in which to identify arrest & execute the killer before the frontier erupts into war. Drawing on all his courage & detective skills Joe must find out who the murderer is before more bloody deaths occur the legacy of a bitter feud with its roots hidden deep in the past. ...

It is the night of May 16th 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire each with a huge 9 000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reichs war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task a suicide mission: to fly low & at night in formationover many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters capacity & drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted he hadnt even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time which despite numerous setbacks & against huge odds became one of the most successful & game-changing bombing raids of all time. ...

In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation history by flying a high-risk low level nighttime attack against German hydro-electric dams vital to the Nazi armaments industry in the Ruhr Valley. A comparatively tiny part of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris four-month-long Battle of the Ruhr this one raid had an impact totally out of proportion to the small number of aircraft involved. It highlights the synergy of science & technology weapons development & production mission planning & practice & the unflinching courage in the execution of a highly dangerous bombing raid. Furthermore it established a legend that still resonates today. ...

They are the Nightwalkers mysterious beings who dwell in the shadows of our world & Damien the Vampire Prince is among the most powerful of them all. But one woman will tempt him with a desire unlike anything he has known & together they will face a terrifying relentless foe.. . As reigning Vampire Prince Damien has tasted every pleasure the world has to offer
- consorting with kings & queens & delighting in sensual adventure. Now tired of such pursuits he devotes his energies to protecting his people. The war between human necromancers & Nightwalkers has escalated & when the enemy makes a daring move kidnapping Syreena a Lycanthrope Princess Damien boldly follows. He succeeds in rescuing her but is unprepared for the erotic longing her lush sensuality awakens in him.
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With all the Seals' recent successes we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do but no one has even scratched the surface of how & why. The unique psychology behind it. Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy Seals
- some of the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield ideal warriors for the kinds of wars we are now fighting. With his years of action-packed mission experience Denver understands exactly how tomorrow's soldiers are recruited sculpted motivated & deployed. Now he takes you inside his personal story & the fascinating demanding seal training program he has overseen in recent years. He recounts his evolution from a young seal hopeful pushing his way through Hell Week into a warrior engaging in dangerous stealth missions across the globe & finally into a lieutenant commander directing the indoctrination requalification programs & the Hero or Zero" missions his graduating seals undertake. Packed with tales from his own training & missions overseas Denver details how the seals' creative operations became front & center in the global War on Terror eventually capturing & killing Osama bin Laden & how deployment of the seals is changing battlefields the world over. Through the course of his story you'll see why damn few make it & what it takes to become one of them."
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DAMN GOOD ADVICE (for people with talent!) is a look into the mind of one of Americas most legendary creative thinkers George Lois. Offering indispensable lessons practical advice facts anecdotes & inspiration this book is a timeless creative bible for all those looking to succeed in life business & creativity. These are key lessons derived from the incomparable life of Master Communicator George Lois the original Mad Man" of Madison Avenue. Written & compiled by the man The Wall Street Journalcalled "prodigy enfant terrible founder of agencies creator of legends" each step is borne from a passion to succeed & a disdain for the status quo. Organised into inspirational bite-sized pointers each page offers fresh insight into the sources of success from identifying your heroes to identifying yourself. The ideas images & illustrations presented in this book are fresh witty & in-your-face. Whether its communicating your point in nanosecond creating an explosive portfolio or making your presence felt no one is better placed than George Lois to teach you the process of creativity. Poignant punchy & to-the-point DAMN GOOD ADVICE (For People With Talent!) is a must have for anyone on a quest for success." ...

Damn him! he swore. There is no more harm in shooting him than a mad dog! The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummers Day in 1806
- shot & beaten to death his body set on fire & left smouldering in his own glebe field
- gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country. It was a strange & stubborn case. The investigation lasted twenty-four years & involved inquests judges & coroners each more determined than the last to solve Oddingleys most gruesome crime
- or crimes as it turned out. Damn His Blood" is a fascinating glimpse into English rural life at the beginning of the nineteenth century so often epitomised by the civilised drawing rooms of Jane Austen or the rural idylls of Constable. England was exhausted & nervous: dogged by Pitts war taxes mounting inflation & the lingering threat of a French invasion violence was rife particularly in rural communities where outsiders were regarded with deep suspicion. With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy " Damn His Blood" is a nail-biting true story of brutality greed & ruthlessness which brings an elusive society vividly back to life."


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