The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots & the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid & Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene Harry builds a picture of corruption & intimidation with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case & breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail
- a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA & even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat & he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf alone & without backup if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.
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Who could enact such a deadly design lurking behind the scenes? As book holder & stage manager of theatrical company Lord Westfields Men Nicholas Bracewell is accustomed to solving problems. So when he discovers the naked corpse of a man while crossing the Thames by boat one night he becomes determined to unravel its mystery. After several attacks on the companys members Nicholas begins to suspect a connection
- could these apparently accidental events be part of some hidden design? When Lord Westfields Men are asked to stage one of their comedies at the Nine Giants in Richmond Nicholas must put aside his worries & focus on the play. But as the attacks become more sinister culminating in a grisly death Nicholas is under increasing pressure to prevent more disaster.. .
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Dan Starkey the ducking & diving hapless investigator takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock & self-styled peoples champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy
- but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour & then sent back with a warning note he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia Dan has finally given up on journalism & is now providing a boutique bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jacks son
- & very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs pursued by jealous husbands unscrupulous property developers & vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...

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Nine lives is a tale of this magnetic figures progression from hunter to filmmaker to conservationist. It is also the remarkable story of a lifelong affair with nature. In Nine lives Varty narrates the adventures trials mishaps & triumphs of his extraordinary life from hunting lions at the age of twelve & teaching the orphaned lion cub Shingalana how to hunt for food to spending last moments with the badly mauled Mother Leopard
- whom he had been following & filming for years
- before she crawled into a termite mound to die. He reveals the secrets behind his close relationships with certain big cats & invokes the terror of his own narrow escapes from death including a dangerous encounter with crocodiles & a near-fatal helicopter crash. Captivating often humorous & deeply moving Nine Lives is a passionate account of a life lived to the full by a man driven by an intense love of the wild.

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A cats nine lives are full of adventure & excitement & none more so than Montezuma the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning & proud while establishing his kingdom but to Matthew hes always loving & adorable. ...

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was & how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing & a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime & its violent unravelling twenty years later. I admire her novels.. .she has great fertility of invention ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail Ruth Rendell ...

A full cast dramatisation of Sayers suspense classic featuring the elegant intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Wimsey & his man Bunter are drawn into a series of intriguing incidents when stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St Paul. A grotesquely disfigured corpse is found in the churchyard... ...

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One of Britain's most popular novels George Orwell's dystopian tale Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. ' It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia he discovers that life does not have to be dull & deadening & awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover & circle overhead Winston & Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent
- even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101..." Nineteen Eighty-Four" is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything & everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. The novel also coined many new words & phrases which regular appear in popular culture such as ' Big Brother' 'thoughtcrime' 'doublethink' & ' Newspeak'. " More relevant to today that almost any other book that you can think of". (Jo Brand). " Right up there among my favourite books...I read it again & again". (Margaret Atwood). George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was an accomplished social political & literary commentator & essayist known for his non-fiction works " The Road to Wigan Pier" & " Homage to Catalonia". His most famous novels " Animal Farm" & "1984" have influenced a generation of twentieth century political satirists & dystopian novelists. This edition of Orwell's seminal novel is introduced by Professor Peter Davidson."
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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- Akasha Classics Akasha Publishing. Com
- It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks

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