It was just a bit of fun a local legend. The Devils Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones & whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. It was a harmless game for kids
- & nobody ever died from a game. But its not a game to Bryan. Hes seen the Dark Man because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. Hes tried to tell himself that it was his imagination that the Devils Footsteps are just stones & the Dark Man didnt take Adam. But Adams still gone. & then Bryan meets two other boys who have their own unsolved mysteries. Someone or something is after the children in the town. & it all comes back to the rhyme that every local child knows by heart: Thirteen steps to the Dark Mans door wont be turning back no more...
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Clive Cussler author of the best-selling Dirk Pitt" novels " Crescent Dawn" & " Treasure of Khan" & co-author Paul Kemprecos place their hero Kurt Austin at the centre of a tangled web of conspiracy & ambition in " Devils Gate" the ninth novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships & planes... When Kurt Austin & the NUMA team set out to rescue a Japanese cargo ship from a gang of ruthless pirates they are immediately plunged into a mystery. For after the pirates scuttle the ship they fought so hard to take their own corsair suddenly bursts into flames mid-getaway. As Austin & the team investigate this curious turn of events they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator the creation of a weapon of terrible power a kidnapped CERN scientist & a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft & its precious cargo. As a terrifying & audacious plan to bring the worlds major nations to their knees is set in motion only Kurt Austin
- the right man in the right place at the right time
- can stop it..." The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). 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 "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the Isaac Bell adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA files" series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Lost City" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" & " The Storm"."

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On September 11 we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon. A nuclear warhead disappears. A chilling broadcast follows. A country waits in fear. Yet the broadcast deceives. & with the worlds eyes fixed on America the true target is dangerously exposed. Agent Brooke Chandler senses the decoy & raises his concern. His superiors are not prepared to listen. Unless he can convince them one cataclysmic flash of light will signal a dark new dawn of civilization. ...

1593: The dreaded alchemist black magician & spy Dr John Dee is missing... Terror sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth for in Dees possession is an obsidian mirror a mysterious object of great power which legend says could set the world afire. & so the call goes out to celebrated swordsman adventurer & rake Will Swyfte
- find Dee & his feared looking-glass & return them to London before disaster strikes. But when Will discovers the mirror may help him solve the mystery that has haunted him for years
- the fate of his lost love Jenny
- the stakes become acutely personal. With a frozen London under siege by supernatural powers the sands of time are running out. Will is left with no choice but to pursue the alchemist to the devil-haunted lands of the New World
- in the very shadow of the terrifying fortress home of Englands hidden enemy the Unseelie Court. Surrounded by an army of these unearthly fiends with only his sword & a few brave friends at his back the realms greatest spy must be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice
- or see all he loves destroyed.




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It is 1958 & the Sputnik satellite has taken a dog up into space; back on earth five-year-old Andy has a new sister Elaine
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Its a living hell... Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones has spent most of her short life in & out of Paediatrics Hospital. Cassie is persistently seriously ill & when no amount of testing can identify the cause her doctor is lead to a disturbing diagnosis
- Cassies mother could be making her daughter deliberately sick. Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to make an independent assessment of the Jones family. But Alexs attempts to find the answers & save a young girls life will reveal a terrifying circle of corruption abuse & murderous hatred.
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Amidst the myth & folklore of Tavistock one tale above all others strikes fear into the hearts of the town's inhabitants
- that
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When Devil the most infamous member of the Cynster family is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby he astonishes the entire ton by offering his hand in marriage. No one had dreamed this scandalous rake would so tamely take a bride. As society's mamas swooned at the loss of England's most eligible bachelor Devil's infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date. But Honoria wasn't about to bend to society's demands & marry a man just because they'd been found together unchaperoned. No. She craved adventure. Solving the murder of a young Cynster cousin fit the bill for a while but once the crime was solved Honoria was set on seeing the world. But the scalding heat of her unsated desire for Devil soon had Honoria craving a very different sort of excitement. Could her passion for Devil cause her to embrace the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart? ...

In this gripping tale of passion politics & conflict King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor & three eldest sons when they enter into a rebellion against him. Aligning themselves with Henry's most bitter enemy King Louis of France their treacherous actions will have devastating consequences as they bring about the downfall of a brilliant man & a powerful empire. In Devil's Brood" the compelling story of Henry & Eleanor's once great love affair is explored in an uniquely vivid way. What twists of fate turn love to hatred? What points of principle & ambition cause these two icons to struggle for power leaving their family tragically divided & their turbulent marriage finished in all but name? Sharon Penman's glorious trilogy reaches its spellbinding conclusion." ...

It is springtime France's Perigord a time of beauty & calm. But not for Bruno chef de police of the small town of St Denis. A woman's body has been found on a boat bearing signs of a black magic ritual. Bruno has too much on his plate as it is
- mediating a domestic abuse case that needs careful handling & a dodgy local development proposal that seems just too good to be true. But a murder case must take precedent & the roots of this one lie buried deep in the past
- linked to a chateau above a bend in the river to the reclusive old woman who lives there & to the secret hidden in the Devil's Cave.

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