One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon Rose reflects could have ended in mere tragedy but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose something passes between them
- something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism threaten the love of his wife Clarissa & drive him to the brink of murder & madness.
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Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good or for evil...A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge...A young boy without a voice
- whose five-hundred-year-old story is about to explode in the twenty-first century... Set in present-day Oxford & Germany at the dawn of printing one magical book sets two boys worlds alight
- bringing them unimaginable danger excitement & power... Skeltons brilliant literary debut this work is powerfully gripping a perfect magical read for teenagers & adults alike.

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This title is the epic disturbing story of how the FBI is Americas real secret service. Such creatures of passion disloyalty & anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once". (President Woodrow Wilson 1919). The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy & freedom yet throughout the last century it has used secret & lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A. " Legacy of Ashes" Tim Weiner has now written the first full history of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.s own files " Enemies" brilliantly brings to life the entire story from the cracking of anarchist cells to the prosecution of the war on terror. It is the story of Americas war against spies subversives & saboteurs
- & the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar Hoover who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years. He was not a monster but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by fear force & fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts it. Reviews: " Truly impressive...[" Enemies"] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiners stature". (Keith Lowe " Sunday Telegraph"). "A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiners truth is wilder even than Ellroys fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBIs first 100 years using only the Bureaus documents & oral testimony most of which has never been seen". (David Blackburn " Spectator"). " An outstanding piece of work even-handed exhaustively researched smoothly written & thematically timely... This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.s intelligence-gathering operations from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden". (Bryan Burrough " New York Times"). " Extensively researched admirably understated yet terrifically entertaining". (Boston Globe). " Important & disturbing... Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing even stunning failure in which the bureaus lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence...[he] has done prodigious research yet tells this depressing story with all the verve & coherence of a good spy thriller". (" New York Times Book Review"). About the author: Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the " New York Times" where he has reported from Afghanistan Pakistan Sudan & fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington DC where he covered the C.I.A. & the Military
- the latter topic being the subject of his " Blank Check: The Pentagons Black Budget". He is the author of the bestselling " Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" which won the 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction."

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Free from jail Lieutenant John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole
- they want bloody revenge & are prepared
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Jonathans father Doctor Mordecai is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too as the Emperor Titus believes that they can find the mysterious enemy who seeks Romes destruction. Can the friends prevent disaster? & what is Jonathans secret mission? ...

The Enemy" is the first audiobook in heart stopping thriller adventure series by Charlie Higson & read by Paul Whitehouse. When the sickness came every parent policeman politician
- every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed confused & hungry. Only children under fourteen remain & theyre fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. & so a gang of children begin their quest across London where all through the city
- down alleyways in deserted houses underground
- the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there
- alive?"



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Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's the world's deadliest assassin locked in an uneasy alliance with the CIA. & he has a list: three names three victims. But with each name he crosses off the game grows far more complex
- & far more lethal. With a woman to protect & a conspiracy to unravel the perfect assassin is now the perfect target. Zooming from Moscow to London to Washington loaded with suspense twists & sex appeal The Enemy is a high-octane thrill ride for fans of Lee Child & The Bourne Identity. ' Jack Reacher meets Thomas Crown' Simon Kernick ' Echoes of Jason Bourne.. .each plot twist is unexpected & well-timed' Daily Mail
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As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again but her company is mostly raw & untrained. Unfortunately Bolitho finds himself under a commodore who is no match for the French admiral Lequiller whose powerful squadron uses guile & ruthless determination to elude him & vanish into the Atlantic. Hyperion as part of a small British force gives chase the desperate voyage taking them from the Bay of Biscay's squall to the heat of the Caribbean
- & for each mile sailed & every battle fought Bolitho finds himself being forced into the ever more demanding role of strategist & squadron commander.
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Superpowers & conspiracy collide in this unmissable action-packed sci-fi thriller sequel to Meteorite Strike" & " Alien Storm". Sarah & Robert Williams are no ordinary brother & sister. With superhuman powers originating from the mysterious Fall Virus that left thousands of others in a coma the two are now working with government agency HIDRA & other superhuman kids to find a cure. The powerful alien that first sent the virus to Earth known only as The Entity is ready to attack again determined to bring humanity under its control for good. It is being aided by Sarahs arch-enemy Major Bright & malicious software expert Marlon Good who have their own plans for world domination
- but the key to their plans is 14-year-old Hack & his technology-manipulating powers. Before Sarah & her friends can get Hack to safety Major Bright abducts him & uses his power to create an army of alien spider-robots that will be able to spread the virus across the world. Wave after wave spiders are launched in a lethal attack on London. Can the superhuman team stop the disaster or have they finally met their match? This is the final chapter in the mind-blowing trilogy of mesmerizing heroes superpowers & non-stop action by critically acclaimed author A.G. Taylor."
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This is the sensational inside story on how professional punter Patrick Veitch overcame adversity to take the bookmakers for over GBP 10 million in an eight year period. Veitch studied maths at Cambridge alongside becoming a major league punter. A comfortable life as a professional punter looked assured until his world was torn apart. He was the victim of an extortion attempt by a dangerous criminal who would subsequently be tried twice for murder & later convicted of attempted murder. Veitch was forced to flee & go into hiding returning to Cambridge to testify in a bulletproof jacket with police protection. With his tormentor behind bars Veitch took on the bookmakers on a greater scale than ever before. Over the following eight years he would come to be known as the bookmakers' public enemy number one as he & his followers relieved the bookmakers of colossal sums. ...