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Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been killed questions remain. What exactly happened? Could 9/11 have been prevented? How & why did so much acrimony & misinformation arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center the Pentagon & a quiet field in Pennsylvania? & what has yet to be revealed? The Eleventh Day written with access to thousands of recently released official documents is updated for this edition
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Eleven Days

A fire rages through a sleepy West London square engulfing a small convent hidden away among the residential houses. When DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence. Its eleven days before Christmas and despite their superiors wanting the case solved before the holidays Carrigan and Miller start to suspect that the nuns were not who they were made out to be. Why did they make no move to escape the fire? Who is the eleventh victim whose body was found separate to the others? And where is the convents priest the one man who can answer their questions? Fighting both internal politics and the church hierarchy Carrigan and Miller unravel the threads of a case which reaches back to the early 1970s
and the upsurge of radical Liberation Theology in South America - with echoes of the Shining Path and contemporary battles over oil land and welfare. Meanwhile closer to home theres a new threat in the air one the police are entirely unprepared for...Spanning four decades and two continents Eleven Days" finds Carrigan and Miller up against time as they face a new kind of criminal future."
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A fire rages through a sleepy West London square engulfing a small convent hidden away among the residential houses. When DI Jack Carrigan & DS Geneva Miller arrive at the scene they discover eleven bodies yet there were only supposed to be ten nuns in residence. Its eleven days before Christmas & despite their superiors wanting the case solved before the holidays Carrigan & Miller start to suspect that the nuns were not who they were made out to be. Why did they make no move to escape the fire? Who is the eleventh victim whose body was found separate to the others? & where is the convents priest the one man who can answer their questions? Fighting both internal politics & the church hierarchy Carrigan & Miller unravel the threads of a case which reaches back to the early 1970s & the upsurge of radical Liberation Theology in South America
- with echoes of the Shining Path & contemporary battles over oil land & welfare. Meanwhile closer to home theres a new threat in the air one the police are entirely unprepared for... Spanning four decades & two continents Eleven Days" finds Carrigan & Miller up against time as they face a new kind of criminal future."

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Contemporary - Modern era design
Contemporary - A design reference to indicate post war modern design
Oil - A hydrophobic liquid with high carbon and hydrogen content. Has many variations including; cooking oils, petrochemical oils, essential oils.
police - Persons empowered to reduce civil disorder and enforce the law.
Fire - the release of energy through heat and light.
Small - something that takes up less space than normal.
Contemporary - An object that is living in the same time.
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