Mario Puzo's first acclaimed novel before his creation of the international bestseller The Godfather". This is an astounding story of corruption & betrayal. Hardened by the brutality & desceration of three long years of war Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy to find the woman who accepts the rage & cruelty of the world around her. In Germany where the bitter aftermath of war is everything apparent American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Mosca now faces a different kind of war one in which he must make a fateful decision
- between love & ambition passion & greed life & death..."
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The two figures had been on the bridge. He had grasped hold of her. To save her or to push her? Inspector William Monk is still feeling his way in a new post in the Thames River Police & knows he must solve the mystery to gain the respect of his men. Soon both he & Hester find themselves powerfully involved in the story of the dead woman Mary Havilland & her quest to vindicate her father found dead two months previously. An engineer working for the Argyll Construction Company James Havilland was convinced a major disaster would happen in the tunnels where London's desperately needed new sewer system was being built. Maddened by his obsession he'd apparently shot himself. Mary had never accepted that & now she was dead too. Was it chance or something more sinister? ...

Today I shot the girl I love. GCSEs are over & sixteen-year-old Imogen is looking forward to a perfect lazy English summer. But her world is turned upside down by three refugees all hiding from life. Anthony is fourteen already an outcast bullied & shunned by his peers. Farid is an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who has travelled across continents seeking peace. & Gordon Craig is a bitter lonely man. She knows all of them but she doesnt know how dangerous they are. Being part of their lives could cost Imogen her own. Supercharged with tension & drama Alan Gibbons novel is about what happens when the fabric of normality is ripped apart exposing the terrifying dark beneath. ...

The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. In this sixth DS Logan Mc Rae thriller Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder... Everyone deserves a second chance. Richard Knox has served his time so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes in the past he was a violent rapist but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him & make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan Mc Rae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police
- the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years
- supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'. Only things are about to go very very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump's golf course is bringing to the Granite City whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. & Richard Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet...

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Events take an unexpected turn in this ninth awesome foray into the worlds of the Demonata... The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness & he's powerless to resist. Kernel has already been to hell & back. Now he's about to go further... ...

Carpathians are an immortal race of beings with animal instincts & the ability to shape shift. Every Carpathian male is drawn to a life mate: a woman
- Carpathian or human
- able to provide the light to his darkness. Without her the beast within slowly consumes the man until turning into a vampire is the only option. Mikhail Dubrinsky Prince of the Carpathians fears he cant protect his people from the extinction of their species
- a fate that has become the wicked prayer of his enemies who plot to slaughter all Carpathian females. Mikhails lifemate Raven & their daughter Savannah are both vulnerable to the encroaching evil but all is not lost. In this desperate season Carpathians from around the world are gathering to join their strengths their souls & their powers. But so too are their adversaries uniting
- hunters vampires demons & betrayers
- bringing untold dangers into the fold of the Carpathian people.




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Carpathian vampire hunter Julian Savage is powerful but tormented. But he has one last duty to fulfill before he gives himself over to the dawn & certain death. He has to warn the famous singer Desari that she is being targeted by vicious human vampire hunters who will stop at nothing to hurt those they believe are vampires. But when Julian hears Desari sing he realises she is the woman he has always sought
- his lifemate. Desari is most definitely Julian's match but she has great powers of her own. & she is not happy when a mysterious stranger enters her mind & begins giving her orders!
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Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader
- fuelled by hate incapable of forming normal human relationships unwilling to debate political
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From award-winning historian Mark Mazower Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century" retells the story of a century of division charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away & the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division & bloodshed on an unprecedented scale as liberal democracy communism & fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. " Dark Continent" radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century. " Original thought-provoking iconoclastic". (Frank Mc Lynn " Irish Times"). " Fascinating & forceful". (Martin Gilbert " Literary Review"). " Mazower leaves us in this wonderful book with an account of our century that anyone who takes an interest in Europes present & future will enlarge their mind by reading". (John Keegan " Daily Telegraph"). " There are few who can walk with A.J.P. Taylor. One is Mark Mazower.. .a tour de force". (Alex Danchev "TLS"). " Combines narrative verve with wise & humane analysis. For anyone who wants to know how Europe came to be the way it is in the years since 1900 this is the work to provide the answers". (David Cannadine Observer Books of the Year). Mark Mazower is the author of " Inside Hitlers Greece" " The Balkans" which won the Wolfson Prize for History " Salonika: City of Ghosts" which won both the Runciman Prize & the Duff Cooper Prize & " Hitlers Empire"." ...

A classic tale of espionage secret missions & exotic locations which out-Bonds Bond from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. Eight job advertisements. Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required. Eight scientists to fill them. Applicants to be married with no children & prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries. One criminal mastermind. Eight positions filled. Eight scientists
- & their wives
- disappear. Completely. One secret agent to stop him. Advertisment no.9. Sydney Australia. Fuel specialist required. Looks like a job for John Bentall...

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