Constantinople 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders
- the streets awash with blood. Modern day Istanbul: an
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Masonic secrets are of great interest to a wide audience
- whether Freemasons or not. The popularity of Dan Browns books has shown
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Clive Cussler author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Black Wind" & co-author Craig Dirgo put hero Juan Cabrillo to the test once more in the second " Oregon Files" adventure " Sacred Stone". Tens of thousands of years ago: a fist of stone punches through the Earths atmosphere & falls on the snowy wastes of Greenland
- its deadly secret waiting to be found by man... The discovery of a radioactive meteorite in Greenland sends Jan Cabrillo & the crew of his hi-tech ship Oregon
- in Iceland to seize a nuclear weapon from terrorists
- on a second rescue mission: to retrieve the dangerous stellar object before someone unlocks the terrible properties it holds. Unfortunately Cabrillo is too late to prevent a fanatical group from spiriting the orb away. Now Cabrillo & his team aboard the Oregon have two problems: preventing the detonation of a nuclear bomb in London on New Years Eve & getting their hands on the meteorite before a madman uses it to start World War III..." Impossible to put down...a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster". (" Big Issue"). " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the Isaac Bell adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Dark Watch" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first the mysterious sky-stone seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence & murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading knights a wicked manor-lord of Devon a group of radical young kabalists the dying King Henry III & a band of travelling players. But treachery discord & violent death follow for all who seek to possess it. ...

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT OF SCOTT MARIANIS NEW NOVEL THE ARMADA LEGACY In the seventh bestselling Ben Hope conspiracy thriller the action shoots back in time to the days of Jesus Christ
- & a buried secret that has staggering implications for the world as we know it... Returning to the UK to try to sort out his stormy personal life Ben runs into two old friends. Simeon & Michaela were once his fellow students at Oxford
- now they are The Reverend & Mrs Arundel. Ben senses that Simeon is deeply troubled & frightened but before the truth can emerge about his secretive research project concerning a mysterious ancient sacred sword both he & Michaela are killed out in a devastating road crash. Convinced that his friends deaths were no accident Ben is propelled on a global quest from the UK to France the Holy Land & America to unlock the enigma of the sacred sword. At every step he is pursued by ruthless agents of the sinister organisation that will stop at nothing to acquire it. In the course of his investigations Ben will discover an incredible secret not just about the history of Christianity but about his own past.. .

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Growing up in Hanoi Haiphong & Saigon Mai Elliott loved listening to the stories told by her parents & other relatives about their parents & grandparents. She found these tales fascinating
- some funny some tragic. She knew one day she would tell their stories & she has in her book The Sacred Willow. In The Sacred Willow Mai tells the story of her family over four generations from the 19th century to the present. She takes us back to the vanished world where her great-grandfather Duong Lam rose from poverty to become a mandarin at the imperial court. She tells of childhood hours spent in her grandmothers sil shop
- & of hiding while French troops torched her village watching blossoms from the trees torn by fire flutter like hundreds of butterflies" overhead. She reveals the agonizing choices that split Vietnamese families while her father loyal to his mandarin heritage served the French colonial regime her eldest sister joined the Communist guerillas & vanished for years into the jungle. Finally Mai traces her familys journey through some of the most harrowing events of recent times
- the fall of Saigon the exodus of the boat people & the re-education camps endured by those who were left behind. Writing with insight & compassion Mai Elliott weaves a narrative with the richness & colour of a historical novel. Haunting heartbreaking & inspiring The Sacred Willow wo;; fprever cjamge pir imderstamdomg pf Vietnam & our role in it."


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Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton; even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched afternoon.. . Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman a gaping hole where her heart has been brutally removed & three rune marks etched into her skin. The marks bear an eerie resemblance to carvings Tora has seen all over the islands & she quickly uncovers disturbing links to an ancient legend. But as Tora investigates she is warned by the local police her boss & even her husband to leave well alone. & even though it chills her to the bone to admit it.. .something tells her their concern isn't genuine. ...

The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting hungry predators with rotten flesh & ravaged minds. Small Sam & his unlikely ally The Kid have survived. They're safe with Ed & his friends at the Tower of London but Sam is desperate to find his sister. Their search for Ella means Sam & The Kid must cross the forbidden zone. & what awaits them there is more terrifying than any of the horror they've suffered so far.. . ...

The Sacrifice is the fourth gruesome & horrifying book in Charlie Higson's brilliant zombie series. The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting hungry predators with rotten flesh & ravaged minds. Small Sam & his unlikely ally The Kid have survived. They're safe with Ed & his friends at the Tower of London but Sam is desperate to find his sister. Their search for Ella means Sam & The Kid must cross the forbidden zone. & what awaits them there is more terrifying than any of the horror they've suffered so far... Lord of the Flies with zombies". (Rick Riordan creator of the Percy Jackson series). Charlie Higson is the bestselling author of Young Bond & creator of The Fast Show. It is perfect for bloodthirsty fans of Darren Shan & 28 Days Later." ...

Afghanistan 2008. A Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. Knowing this man holds information vital to the ongoing conflict the CIA bring in Ryan Drake & his elite Shepherd team to find & rescue their lost operative. But nothing is what it seems & within hours of arriving in the war-torn country Drake & his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord & the ruthless leader of a private military company. & lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to settle old scores. ...