Jack Ryan Jr. returns in Dead or Alive" the gripping new thriller from Tom Clancy. The world's number one terrorist is about to unleash a holy war. Only one agency one man can stop him... The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a sadistic killer known as the Emir. Mastermind of countless horrific attacks the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world. & he is about to unleash a monumental strike at the heart of America. But on the Emir's trail is intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. Following in his legendary father's footsteps he & his allies at the Campus are on a manhunt that will take them across the globe into the shadowy arenas of political gamesmanship in a race to prevent the fall of the West. " Dead or Alive" is the nerve-shredding second thriller in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series. " The Teeth of the Tiger" was the first. Praise for Tom Clancy: " Heart-stopping action.. .entertaining & eminently topical". (" Washington Post"). " Classic Clancy.. .well-constructed tension & realistic action". (" Short List"). " Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict". (" Sunday Times"). Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. His first novel " The Hunt for Red October" catapulted on to " The New York Times" bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it 'the perfect yarn'. Since then Clancy has established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism & authenticity intricate plotting & razor-sharp suspense. Grant Blackwood a US Navy veteran spent three years aboard a guided-missile frigate as operations specialist & pilot rescue swimmer. He is the author of the " Briggs Tanner" series: " The End of Enemies" " The Wall of Night" & " An Echo of War". He lives in Colorado." ...

Roe never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns but she never wanted to see him dead
- especially not dropped from a plane right
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Bones where there should be none & a chilling warning of an imminent killing challenge Detectives Ben Cooper & Diane Fry in their sixth novel. This death will be a model of perfection. The details will be precise the conception immaculate the execution flawless..." When a caller taunts the police with talk of a dead place & the threat of an imminent killing most think its a sick hoax. But Detective Diane Fry is sure theres a murderer at work. & when the voice calmly invites them to meet the flesh eater Fry fears it may be too late. Meanwhile her colleague DC Ben Cooper is investigating Derbyshires first case of body snatching entering the macabre world of those whose lives revolve around the deceased & their disposal. But does an obsession with death make for a killer? & what horrors will greet them when they finally find the dead place?" ...

There's a reckoning on the way.. .and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise but before she can investigate something else
- something even more dangerous
- comes up. Sookie's lover Eric Northman & his 'child' Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out what's going on. She can't sit on the sidelines when both her work & her love life under threat
- but as she's gradually drawn into their plans Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.


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There's a reckoning on the way.. .and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise but before she can investigate something else
- something even more dangerous
- comes up. Sookie's lover Eric Northman & his 'child' Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out whats going on. She can't sit on the sidelines when both her work & her love life under threat
- but as she's gradually drawn into their plans Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.


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The Spenders are Britains Favourite Family
- they are glamorous rich & very very famous everything that their celebrity obsessed
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Robinson is definitely one to watch
- Independent on Sunday". Every page here is readable & compelling
- " Washington

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Dead Ringer" is the latest crime novel from Mary Burton Americas Queen of Crime. Some Nightmares
- Beside each body the killer
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Camille wants to find the perfect boy with an athlete's body & a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party she kows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe her brilliant but strange best friend who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy Frankenstein-stylee. But can she make him love her? ...

A mother & her son have been executed in their home & fingerprint matches show their attacker died twenty years ago. But how can dead serial killers return to haunt the present? The answers lie in the darkest shadows of The Dead Room. When CSI Darby Mc Cormick is called to the crime scene its one of the most gruesome shes ever seen. But the forensic evidence is even more disturbing: someone watched the murder unfold from woodland behind the house
- & the killer died in a shoot-out two decades earlier. The deeper Darby digs the more horrors come to light. Her prime suspect is revealed as a serial killer on an enormous scale with a past thats even more shocking than his crimes thanks to a long-held secret that could rock Bostons law enforcement to its core. Is it possible to steal an identity? Or are dead men walking in Darbys footsteps? The line between the living & the dead has never been finer.
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