The Death Ray" is the story of teen outcast Andy an orphaned nobody with only one friend the obnoxious-but-loyal Louie. They roam school halls & city streets invisible to everyone but bullies & tormentors until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes heart pounding soaked in sweat & finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. Indeed he can & as he learns the extent of his new powers he discovers a terrible & seductive gadget
- a hideous compliment to his seething rage
- that forever changes everything. " The Death-Ray" utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre
- origin costume ray-gun sidekick fight scene
- reconfiguring them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. With subtle comedy deft mastery & an obvious affection for the bold Pop Art exuberance of comic book design Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the darkness of the human psyche."



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The New World 1545... Vanquished by the Spanish Empire little remains of the Aztec & Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object an artifact so powerful
- so deadly
- that it was known throughout the Americas as the death relic." Yucatan Peninsula present day... When Maria Pelati's research team disappears in Mexico Jonathon Payne & David Jones embark on a perilous mission to find the missing archaeologists. The duo quickly finds a link between the group's work & its recent disappearance. Following the clues left behind the pair try to solve one of the darkest mysteries of the new world but their quest for the relic might cost them their lives."

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' Good job you didn't turn on the lights.. .' A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient prosecutor Derek Nicholson brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless
- Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind. For Hunter there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police but the method is unlike anything he's ever seen before. & what could the hidden message be? Just as Hunter & his partner Garcia reckon they've found a lead a new body is found
- & a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first & second victims all the progress they've made so far goes out of the window. Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with the confident Alice Beaumont Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the investigation.. .before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.

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' Good job you didn't turn on the lights...' A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient prosecutor Derek Nicholson brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless
- Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind. For Hunter there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police but the method is unlike anything he's ever seen before. & what could the hidden message be? Just as Hunter & his partner Garcia reckon they've found a lead a new body is found
- & a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first & second victims all the progress they've made so far goes out of the window. Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with confident investigator Alice Beaumont Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the puzzle.. .before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.

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A murder committed on paper safely within the confines of a novel is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world is something else entirely... Frank Fons is a very successful crime writer. His novels famed for their visceral descriptions of violent death have made him a household name. But now someone is copying his crimes. For Frank what once seemed a clever intriguing plot twist has suddenly become a terrifying blood-spattered reality. In the novel a redhead who was scared of water is drowned. In the mirror-image of the real world she has become an ex-girlfriend chained & left to die at the bottom of the harbour. A corrupt police-officer tortured to death becomes a contact who dies with fear in his eyes. Someone is taking Franks fiction & using it to destroy his life. The writer must become the detective. In fiction the bad guy always gets caught but in real life there is no such guarantee. Fear becomes real. The knife cut hurts like hell. Our narrator may not survive. No-one is promising you a happy ending. For Frank what had once been a game is now a matter of life & death. ...

In Europe a train carrying a deadly cargo has been hijacked. When the mission looks impossible the world calls upon UNACO. Somewhere in Europe a train is carrying a deadly cargo of plutonium-IV packed in six reinforced steel kegs. But one of the kegs has been damaged! A unit of UNACO is sent to track down the kegs
- & find out how & why the plutonium was stolen in the first place. Agents Sabrina Carver Mike Graham & C.W. Whitlock find themselves up against a powerful conspiracy of interests including a sinister arms dealer & a highly placed business magnate. Then comes the most frightening discovery of all. Only five of the kegs contain plutonium. The contents of the sixth keg could have catastrophic results for the whole of Europe for generations to come. & time isnt on their side!
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The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 & whose members later experienced the worst kind of hell as POWs of a cruel & bestial enemy. Following the Japanese invasion of Malaya the Regiment fought a brave & resolute rearguard action all the way down the Malayan Peninsular & onto the so called impregnable fortress of Singapore. Held in the highest respect by comrades & foe alike this former territorial cavalry regiment fully deserved its Royal Artillery moto
- Ubigue
- 'everywhere'. In the years that followed the Gunners slaved suffered an d died on the infamous Burma Railway in copper mines of Formosa & camps throughout the Far East. More men of the Regiment died as POWs than fell in action. They should not be forgotten. Included is a full nominal roll which allows the reader to identify the camp/s where each individual Gunner was held. A Roll of Honour provides the date place & cause of death & place of burial/commemoration of the Regiment's casualties.

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The autobiographical account of the authors climb up Mount Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for the final climb when a devastating storm hit Everest leaving eight climbers dead. This is a look at all that happened on the mountain that day. ...

Deaths Excellent Vacation: A selection of new & original tales of Paranormal R&R by some of the most popular writers in the Urban Fantasy genre! It

Includes:: a new Sookie Stackhouse (the series which inspired HBOs TRUEBLOOD) story by Charlaine Harris as well as short fiction by: Jeff Abbott; L.A. Banks; Jeaniene Frost; Christopher Golden; Chris Grabenstein; Toni L.P. Kelner; Katie Mac Alister; A. Lee Martinez; Sharan Newman; Lilith Saintcrow; Sarah Smith & Daniel Stashower

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Deaths Excellent Vacation: A selection of new & original tales of Paranormal R&R by some of the most popular writers in the Urban Fantasy genre! It

Includes:: a new Sookie Stackhouse (the series which inspired HBOs TRUEBLOOD) story by Charlaine Harris as well as short fiction by: Jeff Abbott; L.A. Banks; Jeaniene Frost; Christopher Golden; Chris Grabenstein; Toni L.P. Kelner; Katie Mac Alister; A. Lee Martinez; Sharan Newman; Lilith Saintcrow; Sarah Smith & Daniel Stashower

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