Summer 1940. Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris & millions of French civilians are on the run. Amidst the chaos two British children are being hunted by German agents. British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan. The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to win the war. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

Klong Prem prison Thail&. The Bangkok Hilton where 600 foreigners wait & rot among the 12 000 inmates. Amidst the tragic ruthless & forgotten one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the true story of drug smuggler David Mc Millans perilous break-out from Asias most notorious prison. After being arrested at Don Muang airport Mc Millan spent over a year in Klong Plem awaiting trial. He watched as the other foreign prisoners fell prey to disease violence & despair. Death appeared to be their only way out but he resolved that this would not be the end for him. Two weeks before a near-certain death sentence Mc Millan escaped never to be seen in Thailand again. In this gripping account he reveals the nightmare of existence in this infamous jail & explains how he made his hazardous jailbreak. ...

Peter Stevens was a German-Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933. He joined the RAF in 1939 & after eighteen months of pilot training he started flying bombing missions against his own country. He completed twenty-two missions before being shot down & taken prisoner by the Nazis in September 1941. To escape became his raison detre & his great advantage was that he was in his native country. He was recaptured after each of his several escapes but the Nazis never realised his true identity. He took part in the logistics & planning of several major breakouts including The Great Escape but was never successful in getting back to Engl&. After liberation when the true nature of his exploits came to light he was awarded the Military Cross. He then served as a British spy at the beginning of the Cold War before emigrating to Canada to resume a normal life. This is the story of a heavily conflicted young man alone in a world that is in the midst of destruction. He is afforded an opportunity to help his persecuted people to obtain a small measure of revenge. It is at once a sad yet uplifting tale of thankless & unheralded heroism. ...

Matt Seatons critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling & how that obsession was tamed. For a time there were four bikes in Matt Seatons life. His evenings were spent doing the miles on the roads out of south London & into the hills of the North Downs & Kent Weald. Weekends were taken up with track meets time trials & road races
- rides that took him from cold village halls at dawn & onto the empty bypasses of southern Engl&. With its rituals its code of honour & its comradeship cycling became a passion that bordered on possession. It was at once a world apart private to its initiates & through the races he rode in Belgium Mallorca & Ireland a passport to an international fraternity. But then marriage children & his wifes illness forced a reckoning with real life & ultimately a reappraisal of why cycling had become so compelling in the first place. Today those bikes are scattered sold or gathering dust in an attic. Wry frank & elegiac The Escape Artist is a celebration of an amateur sport & the simple beauty of cycling. It is also a story about the passage from youth to adulthood about what it means to give up something fiercely loved in return for a kind of wisdom.
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JOHN THOMAS STRAFFEN
- Britain's longest-serving prisoner
- was the first patient to escape from Broadmoor Hospital & be prosecuted

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Twenty-seven years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a 'complete control district ' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock through Shin a dark & secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. ' This is a story unlike any other' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea THIS EDITION

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Cathy was just sixteen & living on her own when she met a charming older man called Peter Tobin. She saw him as a knight in shining armour a man who made her feel safe. He saw a vulnerable girl whose troubled childhood made her the perfect victim. This considerate man who appeared so normal to anyone who met him became first controlling then violent & Cathy found herself trapped in a terrifyingly abusive marriage. Eventually for the sake of her young son she found the strength to escape & over the years managed to create a good life for her boy making sure he never had the memories of fear & daily trauma she had suffered. Still Tobin remained a threatening presence in the background. Then turning on the television set in 2006 she screamed with horror when a familiar face appeared on the news. Her ex-husband her sons father was a serial killer. Writing with complete honesty Cathy describes her marriage & how the past continued to haunt her until she stood in court a witness against the man who could so easily have murdered her too. Totally compelling Escape From Evil is the story of a woman who survived the worst nightmare of all. ...

Captured by slave-takers Decimus Rex is forced to endure a series of trials in the dreaded Arena of Doom. With his five cellmates Decimus faces a race over burning hot coals. He is then is forced into violent h&-to-hand combat with a fellow slave. Life cant get any more difficult than this...or can it? Will he ever be free? Or will he be subject to the cruel overlord Slavious Doom for ever? ...

Not long ago Luke & Lizzy Morris dared to spend one scary day at Horror L&. They thought that Nothing could lure them back but their travel plans are about to change... Who
- or What
- is summoning ordinary kids to Horror Land & trapping them there? Luke & Lizzy are determined to find out. They've gathered every clue & even launched their own secret website at Escape Horror L&.com. This time Luke & Lizzy are prepared to face any danger
- & any villain. Or so they thought.


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Legend tells of The Clan of the Scorpion four mighty meerkats who are armed to the teeth with ninja-know-how. They are sworn to protect the world from their longtime nemesis the Ringmaster... The Clan of the Scorpion are escorting their mentor Grandmaster One Eye to a Kung Fu Grandmaster Meet deep in the mountains of Chile when they are ambushed by a horde of enormous spiders
- the Trained Tarantulas of Santiago! But the eight-legged creeps are a cunning diversion & the Clan soon realise that Grandmaster One Eye has been katnapped! The Clan sets out to follow the attackers south all the way to a colossal mountain fortress in icy Antarctica
- but will they reach One Eye before the trail runs.. .cold?

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