Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres leading first to disorentation & then to complete & irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor undercover narcotics agent is trying to find a lead to the source of supply but to pass as an addict he must become a user & soon without knowing what is happening to him he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring. ...

Substance D
- otherwise known as Death
- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys

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The ' Scanners' series of books have been consistent bestsellers being the UK's leading guides to receiving equipment employed by enthusiasts to monitor the short wave & VHF/UHF wavebands used by airfields maritime & rescue services & analogue & digital two-way private mobile radio systems. This new (seventh) edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications & the latest handheld & mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. It has been fully re-written & updated to include the latest UK radio frequency listings & call signs for airports maritime & emergency services & other professional organisations. The book covers the latest shifts in the hobby towards digital & PC- & tablet-controlled radio technology & illustrates the very latest commercial radio scanning equipment & accessories. Included are details of an increasing number of 'apps' for smartphones specifically for radio data decoding including programs for digital scanner communications decoding for which a smartphone can be linked to an existing scanner radio to decode. Other innovations include TETRA as used by police ambulance fire & rescue services & DMR modes such as Mototrbo. It is predicted that by 2016 fifty per cent of two-way radio communication in the UK will use digital modes. ...

This is the story of Margaret Catchpole born into a smugglers world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family & a friend of criminals Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall & she is sentenced to hang not once but twice. But she escapes the gallows & is transported with other convicts to Australia. A wonderful adventure story Scapegallows takes inspiration from the life of the real Margaret Catchpole. A woman who lived by her wits she was a slip-gibbet a scapegallows. ...

By chance two men
- one English the other French
- meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny

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A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity & spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile.. .A pirate city hauled across the oceans.. .A hidden miracle about be revealed.. . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoners journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people for the most astonishing beast in the seas & ultimately for a fabled place
- a massive wound in reality a source of unthinkable power & danger.
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In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis charismatic & highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recounts his remarkable life story & the history of the band itself. Raised in the Midwest he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie purveyor of pills pot & cocaine to the Hollywood elite. After a brief child-acting career Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. & plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. underground music scene. He formed the band with three schoolfriends
- & found his lifes purpose. Crisscrossing the country the Chili Peppers were musical innovators & influenced a whole generation of musicians. But theres a price to pay for both success & excess & in SCAR TISSUE Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate & band mate Hillel Slovak & his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. It is instead a compelling story of dedication & debauchery of intrigue & integrity of recklessness & redemption.
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1593. Queen Elizabeths trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead for two years... As plague sweeps through the streets & stews of London so suspicion & mistrust sweep through the court & government. No one feels safe. Even the celebrated swordsman adventurer & philanderer Will Swyfte must watch his back. It is when his best friend & colleague the playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a pub brawl that Will decides he must act. The murder has all the hallmarks of an assassination. But in going in search of Kits killer he discovers that there are those in positions of power & influence who are not what they seem... Against a backcloth of growing paranoia & terror Will detects the malign machinations of Englands hidden enemy the Unseelie Court. With these devils at his back the countrys greatest spy may find that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers arrayed against him. The choice is simple: uncover the true nature & intention of this vile conspiracy
- or face the executioners axe...
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BOOK FIVE: SHADOWS OF THE APT The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate & Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow the knee to her but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies & war machines. Only her consort the former spymaster Thalric knows the truth & now the assassins are coming & he finds his life & his loyalties under threat once again. Out beyond the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones. Praise for Shadows of the Apt: ' The Shadows of the Apt series is quite distinct mainly due to the insect-kinden & Tchaikovsky's fertile imagination' Sci Fi Now ' Epic fantasy at its best. Gripping original & multi-layered storytelling from a writer bursting with lots of fascinating ideas' Walker of Worlds ...

Khepri meets the Pharaoh Prince of Egypt for the first time one morning in the shadow of the temple walls & a friendship springs up between them. When Khepri discovers a terrible trap in the Pharaohs newly-built tomb designed to kill he knows he must warn the Prince. But how? For Khepri is just a small scarab beetle who scuttles along floors among roots & into baskets of figs. How Khepri saves the Pharaohs life & receives the highest honour of all is hauntingly told & dramatically illustrated in an original tale of ancient Egypt which

Includes:: an historical end note on tomb-building & the Pharaohs.

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