Alex Lakes day job is all about helping people especially children. She cares about them passionately & does everything in her power to rescue them from those who mean them harm. When the case of three-year-old Ottilie Wade comes to her attention Alex finds herself completely unable to detach from the child the way she should. She feels an overpowering need to make a real difference in little Ottilies life but no one is prepared to believe that Ottilie is in danger. In the end Alex makes a decision that has consequences for her her family & Ottilie
- consequences that no one least of all Alex could have foreseen.
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What if you knew a child was in danger
- & no one believed you? Alex Lake's day job is all about helping people especially children.
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The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war & the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French Resistance. He also shows how agents were able to travel across France how they set up transmitters & contacted their British headquarters for orders & how they arranged airplane pick-ups & deliveries of supplies. His account sheds light on the views of both the Resistance fighters facing torture at the hands of the Gestapo & their besieged French countrymen. He notes the tensions within the different command centres in particular between the French leader-in-exile Charles de Gaulle & his British counterparts who were all eager to control the efforts of the Resistance. Cowburn gives fascinating general lessons in the art of spying from establishing a worthy target to executing an operation but also tells the full story of his own sabotage operations including the effective destruction of cylinders for thirteen locomotives in the dead of night. As in so many operations mistakes were made which could have led to numerous arrests. In this case the details of the operation had accidentally been left on a blackboard in the school where they had planned the raid but were luckily scrubbed out by the headmaster's wife. On another occasion Cowburn snuck itching powder into the laundry of Luftwaffe agents to cause a disruption. This new edition contains an Introduction by M.R.D Foot & a Foreword by Sebastian Faulks.A top 500 Amazon title!! ...

Deception blackmail murder & revenge
- these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain from Mauritius
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Llewelyn Moss hunting antelope near the Rio Grande stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies several kilos of heroin & a caseload of cash he faces a choice -- leave the scene as he found it or cut the money & run. Choosing the latter he knows will change everything. & so begins a terrifying chain of events in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? ' No Country for Old Men is a severed head & shoulders over anything else written in America this year' Independent on Sunday 'A Western thriller with a racy plot & punchy dialogue perfect for a lazy Sunday' The Times '[ An] utterly absorbing chilling tale.. . One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction' Herald 'A fast powerful read steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' Financial Times ' It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' Independent ...

Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake
- double agents & honey traps against the KGB
- are murdered. Bond must find the others

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When he was only nine years old Satish Kumar renounced the world & joined the wandering bortherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen he became a compaigner for land reform working to turn Gandhis vision of a renewed India into reality. Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell he undertook an 8 000-mile peace pilgrimage walking from India to America without any money through mountains deserts storms & snow. It was an adventure during which he was thrown into jail in France faced a loaded gun in America
- & delivered packets of peace tea to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. In 1973 he settled in England taking on the editorship of Resurgence magazine & becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological spiritual & educational ventures. Following Indian tradition in his fiftieth year he undertook another pilgrimage: again without any money he walked to the holy places of Britain
- Glastonbury Lindisfarne & Iona. Written with a penetrating simplicity No Destination is an exhilarating account of an extraordinary life.

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Lizzie hasnt realised that shes dead yet. She cant understand why everyone is ignoring her when all she wants is a little sympathy? She has been in an accident after all. Next day at work she meets two spirits whove been sent to break the news. ...

No Easy Day" by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere a first-person account of the planning & execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. " No Easy Day" puts readers inside the elite handpicked twenty-four-man team known as SEAL Team Six as they train for the most important mission of their lives: the SEALs were going after bin Laden. From the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter that threatened the mission with disaster to the radio call confirming their target was dead the SEAL team raid on bin Laden's secret HQ is recounted in nail-biting second-by-second detail. In " No Easy Day" team leader Mark Owen takes readers behind enemy lines with one of the world's most astonishing fighting forces in the only insider's account of their most spectacular mission. Praise for " No Easy Day": "" No Easy Day" amounts to a cinematic account of the raid to kill Bin Laden: you feel as if you're sitting in the Black Hawk as it swoops in". ("NY Times"). "A blistering first-hand account". (" The Sun"). Mark Owen is a former member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad Pakistan on 1 May 2011 which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist mastermind's hideout where he witnessed bin Laden's death. Mark Owen's name & the names of the other SEALs mentioned in this book have been changed for their security. Kevin Maurer has covered special-operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times spent a month in 2006 with special-operations units in east Africa & has embedded with US forces in Iraq & Haiti. He is the author of four books including several about special operations." ...

Following on from his highly successful autobiography A Bloody Good Winner" Dave Nevison gives a no holds barred account of life on the road betting on the top racetracks in Britain & the adventures that go with it. This nuts & bolts account of his progress or otherwise starts at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival & ends with the final Flat race of the year the St Leger at Doncaster. His avowed aim is to make a GBP 1 million & every week there will will be a detailed account of the bets how they are doing & the emotional highs & lows that go with it." ...