May 1941. At four in the morning a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa flies the flag of neutral Spain & is in Lisbon to load cork oak tinned sardines & drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric De Haan. She sails for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy & is involved in a secret mission. On board are a Polish engineer & British spy Spaniards who fought for Franco & Germans who fought against Hitler. For them this is a last desperate flight to freedom. ...

Juan Cabrillo & the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch". A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East
- & the crew of the Oregon may be the only people who can stop them... Juan Cabrillo & his expert team on the Oregon are used to working dirty dangerous jobs. While thwarting terrorist missiles Cabrillo & the crew stumble on pirates in the seas of China
- men who are more concerned with destroying ships with their Shock & Awe attacks than plundering their valuables. When the team grows desperate for all the information they can get one of Juan's best men risks everything to get closer to the truth. Soon the Oregon team will discover that the pirates are hiding a much more deadly power: an international conspiracy of slavery that will rock the very foundations of the world banks. Millions of dollars & thousands of lives are at stake
- & Juan Cabrillo is their only hope... Clive Cussler author of the bestselling " Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Trojan Odyssey" & co-author Jack Du Brul see hero Juan Cabrillo face pirates & international conspiracy in the third instalment of " The Oregon Files" adventures " Dark Watch". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Sacred Stone" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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Juan Cabrillo & the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch". A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East
- & the crew of the Oregon may be the only people who can stop them... Juan Cabrillo & his expert team on the Oregon are used to working dirty dangerous jobs. While thwarting terrorist missiles Cabrillo & the crew stumble on pirates in the seas of China
- men who are more concerned with destroying ships with their Shock & Awe attacks than plundering their valuables. When the team grows desperate for all the information they can get one of Juan's best men risks everything to get closer to the truth. Soon the Oregon team will discover that the pirates are hiding a much more deadly power: an international conspiracy of slavery that will rock the very foundations of the world banks. Millions of dollars & thousands of lives are at stake
- & Juan Cabrillo is their only hope... Clive Cussler author of the bestselling " Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Trojan Odyssey" & co-author Jack Du Brul see hero Juan Cabrillo face pirates & international conspiracy in the third instalment of " The Oregon Files" adventures " Dark Watch". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Sacred Stone" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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Dark Water" by Caro Ramsay is the third in the Anderson & Costello series. They call him Mr Click...A bitterly cold February in Glasgow. Hanging from a rope in the attic of a deserted tenement is the body of a criminal believed hiding out on the Costa del Sol these last ten years. His face has been hideously disfigured. Investigating officers DI Anderson & DS Costello believe the dead man to be a suspect in a decade-old case: the rape & attempted murder of a young student. & there are other similar cases on file. But what has happened to the dead mans accomplice Mr Click? Then with the discovery of another young woman who was brutally attacked detectives Anderson & Costello realise that this terrifying psychopath has started working once more. They must use every trick in the book to stop him. For Mr Click has developed a taste for killing. & to satisfy his lust he will kill again & again... Reissued with a stunning new package Caro Ramsays Anderson & Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most significant new series in the genre in recent years & Ramsays utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nations favourite Scottish cop duo. " Absolution" is the amazing opening to this stunning series. Subsequent titles include " Dark Water" & " Singing to the Dead". Fans of Ian Rankin & Val Mc Dermid will love this series. Praise for Caro Ramsay: " Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page". (" Guardian"). " Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb the dialogue crackles & the search for the killer has surprising twists & turns". (" Observer"). " Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax". (" The Times"). Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow & now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotl&. " Absolution" is her first novel which was shortlisted for the CWAs New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. This success was followed by two further DI Anderson & DS Costello novels " Singing to the Dead" & " Dark Water". The fourth book in the same series " The Blood of Crows" is also released this summer." ...

Mc Avoy lets his mind drift back to the chaos & bloodshed in the square. To that moment when the masked man appeared from the doorway of the church & looked into his eyes. Is there anything distinctive Sarge? asks Nielsen. Yes he says with the sudden sense that memory is important. There were tears in his eyes. DS Aector Mc Avoy is a man with a troubled past. His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves. When three seemingly unconnected people are brutally murdered in the weeks before Christmas the police must work quickly to stop more deaths. It is only Mc Avoy who can see the connection between the victims. A killer is playing God
- & Mc Avoy must find a way to stop the deadly game. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Dark Winter See David Mark talk about his book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Dark Winter Judys Review The Dark Winter is David Marks debut novel & very impressive it is. Mark has been a journalist for fifteen years; seven of them spent as crime reporter for The Yorkshire Post in its Hull office. The word is that its taken Mark years to convince a publisher that a crime novel set in Hull as opposed to London New York or Los Angeles will sell. That Quercus finally took him on is to its credit as this first novel is strong & compulsively readable. The Dark Winter is set in a bleak wintery Hull just before Christmas. Mark describes Hull colourfully as A city on its arse fighting recession & deprivation." The books protagonist is DS Aector Mc Avoy a gentle giant of a man deeply devoted to his little family. He is a man of honour & principle trying to keep his head down in a police department full of resentment rivalry & lies. It falls to Mc Avoy to investigate a serial killer who begins to murder a number of unlikely victims
- all of them linked only by the fact that they are all sole survivors of different tragic events from their pasts. These include the only man saved from the wreck of a sinking trawler a girl who miraculously escaped a massacre in Sierra Leone & a man who survived a domestic house fire that killed his wife & children. I loved it. Richards Review

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DS Aector Mc Avoy is a man with a troubled past. His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves. When three seemingly unconnected people are brutally murdered in the weeks before Christmas the police must work quickly to stop more deaths. It is only Mc Avoy who can see the connection between the victims. A killer is playing God
- & Mc Avoy must find a way to stop the deadly game.
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The past is always with us but sometimes we fail to recognise it for what it is.' These were Jair Ohmsford's final thoughts as he walked away from the carnage at Dun Fee Aran having destroyed at last the book of dark magic known as the Ildatch. Following this great event told in The Wishsong of Shannara Jair discovers that he can draw on a form of magic that allows him to transform into other living creatures both human & non-human. The magic is both powerful & seductive for Jair can feel himself wanting to remain in each new form that he tries. Jair sets out for the family home of Shady Vale seeking peace from the temptations of his unwanted gift. But fate has other plans for the heir to the elven magics of Shannara & the shade of the Druid Allanon sets him & his sister Brin on a new path. The way is perilous but Jair can provide protection with his new magical ability. Of course that may be the most dangerous path of all.. . ...

Like most families they had their secrets.. . And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard & her beautiful adored younger sister Eden were locked in a dark & bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors
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In the war against vampires mankind has only one hope: The Dark-Hunters. Ancient warriors who died of brutal betrayal the Dark-Hunters have sworn themselves into the service of the goddess Artemis to protect us. It's a pact with pretty good perks. Immortality power psychic abilities wealth & a cool wardrobe. But it comes with a few drawbacks: fatal sun poisoning & a new irreparable dental problem. But aside from the fangs & nocturnal lifestyle it's not so bad. Until Kyrian meets the most frightening thing imaginable. An accountant who's being hunted by one of the most lethal vampires out there. If Amanda Devereaux goes down so does he & no offense he doesn't want to die (hence the whole immortality thing). & he doesn't want humanity dead either which is a good thing for us since he & Amanda are all that stands between us & oblivion. Let's hope they win. ...