In the Rocky Mountains a horrible massacre ensues. Bodies are found purposefully positioned to form two symbols. One man recognises the warning behind the gruesome murders: Painter Crowe director of SIGMA has seen these symbols before & knows the deaths were a personal threat. One of the victims was his beloved cousin. Crowe joins forces with Commander Grayson Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal that has been manipulating American history. But can he discover the truth before it destroys all he holds dear? The truth lies hidden within the ruins of a cursed lost colony
- a place known only as THE DEVIL COLONY.
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Nobody
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- does this stuff better than Rollins LEE CHILD Deep in the Rocky Mountains a gruesome discovery
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Bens under a curse that will kill him unless he sells it on to someone else. Can he bring himself to do it? While he hesitates the body count rises... Spellbinding horror Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant struggling & dyslexic readers. ...

There was a crooked man & he walked a crooked mile He made a crooked deal & he blew a crooked pile He dug a crooked hole. & he sank the crooked isle & they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile. The Devil I Know" is a thrilling novel of greed & hubris set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram in the form of a mysterious testimony it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides
- by a grotesque builder hes known since childhood on the one hand & a shadowy businessman hes never met on the other. Caught between them as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth it follows Tristrams dawning realisation that all is not well. From a writer unafraid to take risks " The Devil I Know" is a bold brilliant & disturbing piece of storytelling."
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This is an award winning first novel that immediately established Mosley as a great American writer. Los Angeles 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friends bar he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Daphne Monet a blonde beauty with a reputation. In the sleazy fearful city Easy must rely on his instincts not just to solve the case but to save his life. ...

The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century & the shifts in religious political scientific literary economic social & moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family & their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery bigamy a scandal novel & a tyrannized wife all set against a backdrop of violently competing local factions rampant religious prejudice & the last conviction of a witch in Engl&. Spencer Cowper was accused of murdering a Quaker & his brother William had two illegitimate children by his second wife. Their scandalous lives became the source of public gossip much to the horror of their mother Sarah who poured out her heart in a diary that also chronicles her feeling of being enslaved to her husb&. Her two sons remained in the limelight. Both were instrumental in the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell a firebrand cleric who preached a sermon about the illegitimacy of resistance & religious toleration. His parliamentary trial in 1710 provoked serious riots in London. William Cowper also intervened in 1712 to secure the life of Jane Wenham whose trial provoked a wide-ranging debate about witchcraft beliefs. The Cowpers & their town are a microcosm of a changing world. Their story suggests that an early Enlightenment far from being simply a movement of ideas sparked by great thinkers was shaped & advanced by local & personal struggles. ...

Playing with fire! Drusilla Bennetts job from hell will soon be over. Ready to take her life back & walk away from the devil
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When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old it transformed his life. Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep & by sixteen he was working in his first restaurant. White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country such as Albert Roux Raymond Blanc & Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen developed his own style & then struck out on his own. At Harveys in Wandsworth which he opened in 1987 he developed a reputation as a stunning cook & a rock 'n' roll sex god of the kitchen. But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant & his temper was legendary as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay & Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him. He eventually opened several more restaurants won every honour going & then realised that it still wasn't enough. Here Marco takes the reader right into the heat of the kitchen with a sharp-edged wit & a sizzling pace that will fascinate anyone brave enough to open the pages of this book & enter his domain. ...

The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893 & its amazing White City was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization & of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham the driving force behind the White City the massive visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals & gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair
- & his own devilish charms
- to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics infighting personality clashes & Chicagos infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earther Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the Worlds Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace a gas chamber a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men toegther with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters including as Buffalo Bill George Ferris Thomas Edison & some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City are brought to life in this mesmerizing murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America & set it on course for the twentieth century.

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Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest Wallflower once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives Evie has approached the rake Viscount St Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastians reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maidens good name. Still Evie appeared unchaperoned on his doorstep to offer her h&. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse. But Evies proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after their wedding night. She will never become another of the Viscounts discarded broken hearts
- which means Sebastian will have to work harder at his seductions.. .or surrender his own heart for the first time in the name of true love.
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