Watching a rented video Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double & sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramagos novel explores the nature of individuality & examines the fear & insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter... ...

Ruby & Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They're identical & they do EVERYTHING together especially since their mother died three years earlier
- but they couldn't be more different. Bossy bouncy funny Ruby loves to take charge & is desperate to be a famous actress while quiet sensitive academic Garnet loves nothing more than to curl up with one of her favourite books. & when everything around the twins is changing so much can being a double act work for ever?
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On the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens codenamed SNOW is summoned to Berlin & appointed Hitlers chief spy in Britain. Days later he finds himself in Wandsworth prison betrayed by the wife he traded for a younger model & forced to transmit false wireless messages for MI5 to earn his freedom
- & avoid the hangmans noose. A vain & devious anti-hero with no moral compass Owens motives were status money & women. He mixed fact with fiction constantly & at times insisted that he was a true patriot undertaking hazardous secret missions for his mother country; at other times Owens saw himself as a daring rogue agent outwitting British Intelligence & loyal only to the Fatherl&. Yet in 1944 as Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day Hitler was caught unawares tricked into expecting the invasion across the Pas de Calais in a strategic deception played out by Owens & the double-cross agents of MI5. For all his flaws Agent Snow became the traitor who saved his country. Based on recently de-classified MI5 files & previously unpublished sources Double Agent Snow is the story of a secret Battle of Britain fought by Snow & his opposing spymasters Thomas Tar Robertson of MI5 & Nikolaus Ritter of the Abwehr as well as the tragic love triangle between Owens his wife Irene & his mistress Lily Funnell. The evocative fast-paced narrative moves from seedy south London pubs to North Sea trawlers from chic Baltic spa resorts to Dartmoor gaol populated by a colourful rogues gallery of double-cross agents.
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Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife majestic grasslands & sparkling water. However it is also home to rival safari operators fearsome crocodiles & disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti & is feeling rather tetchy herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle so will everything work out for the best in the end.. . ...

Just this once.. . Please let me get away with it just this once.. . Tobey wants a better life
- for him & his girlfriend Callie
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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong invasion force. The deception involved every branch of Allied wartime intelligence: the Bletchley Park code-breakers MI5 MI6 SOE Scientific Intelligence the FBI & the French Resistance. But at its heart was the Double Cross System a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty Committee so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a double cross. The key D-Day spies were just five in number & one of the oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian seducer a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming & a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers working from a smoky lair in St Jamess these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitlers army & helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety. These double agents were variously brave treacherous fickle greedy & inspired. They were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Double Cross Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Double Cross Judys Review I was both captivated & taken aback by Double Cross. Captivated by the sheer colourfulness & eccentricities of the small team of foreign double agents so carefully assembled by British spymasters; taken aback by their courage & determination in the face of a dangerous enemy
- an enemy who if the deception was discovered would deliver a ferocious rebuke. The shadow of torture & execution hovered close. There were only five D-Day spies & they were a strange bunch
- a bisexual Peruvian playgirl a tiny Polish fighter pilot a Serbian playboy a Spanish chicken farmer with an out-of-control imagination & a highly-strung Frenchwoman whose bizarre obsession with her pet dog almost capsized the whole enterprise. Macintyre is clearly very fond of them & as we are introduced into his undercover freak show we take them to our hearts as well. They were far from perfect human beings
- most were blatantly on the make happy to pocket wages from both sides; they could be two-faced sulky & infuriating
- but they were the beating heart of the most crucial intelligence operation of the"



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Alex Cross faces his most diabolical villain
- a serial killer with a hunger for celebrity Just when Alex Crosss life is calming
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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the ' Double Cross System' a team of double agents whose bravery treachery greed & inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais & Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong Allied invasion force. These were not conventional warriors but their masterpiece of deceit saved thousands of lives. Their codenames were Bronx Brutus Treasure Tricycle & Garbo. This is their story. ...

Exciting new magical adventure series for girls -- will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins? Antonia is a secret Silver Dolphin -- shes responsible for helping the creatures of the bay when their environment is threatened by responding to the call of her magic necklace. Its the start of the summer holidays & Jessica Antonias sister is becoming increasingly obsessed about catching up with her big sister. She covets Antonias necklace & cannot resist the temptation of borrowing it Antonia is distraught when she thinks its lost for ever: how will she hear the distress call of her dolphins without it? But they are not the only ones in need of her help! ...

A sampling of some of what is to be included this time around: surfing how-to rhythm sticks horseback riding tips April Fools Day history & pranks Japanese Tea Ceremonies a guide to making a labyrinth how to sing all about cowgirls & how to organize a croquet tournament. Just as packed with daring material as the original but twice as fun this book will be beloved by all fans of the original plus many new ones. ...