The first of John Gardners novels featuring Ian Flemings secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world & start a global meltdown unless Bond can stop them... ...

Bond has lost his licence to kill. After he took revenge on the CIA agent who handed his friend over to the master criminal Sanchez M revoked his double 0 status & hes considered a rogue agent. With MI6 trying to bring him in & only the support of Q behind him Bond goes after Sanchez. Boarding his ship Bond tricks his way into Sanchezs inner circle & discovers the secret of his wealth. But Bond is walking a tightrope & it is surely only a matter of time before he slips.. . ...

The city of Lichfield in Staffordshire
- known for its three-spired cathedral & its famous son the great lexicographer Dr Samuel
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From when he first started working in January 1959 David A. Prosser has held all manner of jobs
- potato picking milking cows security
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Jane a brave & sensual Englishwoman is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis & Jean-Pierre. Love hatred & deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre & Jane marry & go to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Trapped between extremes of violence lust & danger Jane desperately tries to get out of the line of fire. Help comes unexpectedly from her husband's greatest enemy. They soon become the centre of the action as treachery seeks its prey. Follet builds the menacing tension to breaking point leading to a confrontation that echoes all our nightmares. ...

A blood-pumping white-knuckle sci-fi thriller of epic proportions It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living Zil & the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach & amid the flames & smoke Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most
- Drake. But Sam & Caine defeated him along with the Darkness.. .or so they thought. As Perdido Beach burns battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; & Sam against Drake. & the prophetess Orsay & her companion Nerezza are preaching that death will set them all free. As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate no one knows who they can trust.
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They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight. They say he steals from the rich & gives to the poor. They say hes part man part myth & mostly street-corner rumor. & they are wrong on every count. Only averagely tall slender & god-awful with a sword Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn & the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit & cunning. He steals from the rich
- theyre the only ones worth stealing from
- but the poor can go steal for themselves. What Locke cons wheedles & tricks into his possession is strictly for him & his band of fellow con-artists & thieves: the Gentleman Bastards. Together their domain is the city of Camorr. Built of Elderglass by a race no-one remembers its a city of shifting revels filthy canals baroque palaces & crowded cemeteries. Home to Dons merchants soldiers beggars cripples & feral children. & to Capa Barsavi the criminal mastermind who runs the city. But there are whispers of a challenge to the Capas power. A challenge from a man no one has ever seen a man no blade can touch. The Grey King is coming. A man would be well advised not to be caught between Capa Barsavi & The Grey King. Even such a master of the sword as the Thorn of Camorr. As for Locke Lamora.. .

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When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill & maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesnt his wife will be killed. ...

This volume is part of a series of novels plays & stories at GCSE/ Key Stage 4 level designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text

Includes:: an introduction pre-reading activities notes & coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing often compiled by the author.

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My tendency to make up stories & lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day & provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.
- Chelsea Handler from Chapter 10 of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang Its no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out dumbassness the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete & utter nonsense. Friends family co-workers
- theyve all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness & into behaving like total fools. Luckily theyve lived to tell the tales & for the very first time write about them.

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