The Striker is the sixth novel in Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell series. It is 1902 & a bright inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines he is witness to a terrible accident. & it begins to become clear that the trouble doesn't stop with the men he's looking for. Much bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big. Given exactly one week to prove his case Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known men of staggering ambition & cold-bloodedness.. .who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way. In The Striker we meet Isaac Bell early in his career in an adventure that would show him just how dangerous & exciting his chosen profession would turn out to be. From the master of adventure & action & creator of the Dirk Pitt Adventure series comes The Striker the sixth exciting installment in the Isaac Bell detective series. Following The Thief & The Race The Striker is another nail-biting action-packed historical thriller from Top 10 bestselling author Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: Cussler is hard to beat". (Daily Mail). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). " The Adventure King". (Daily Express). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures most recently Medusa; the Oregon Files such as The Silent Sea; the highly successful Fargo adventures; & the Isaac Bell series which begins with The Chase. This is the sixth book in The Isaac Bell Adventures; other titles include The Wrecker The Spy The Race & The Thief all of which are available from Penguin." ...

Nat has grown up travelling around the world with his Dad. Hes played football everywhere theyve lived & honed his skills on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now they are settling back at home in Engl&. Then at a community day at his favourite football team Hatton Rangers currently struggling at the bottom of the Premiership Nats talent is spotted by the clubs scout. To his & his fathers amazement he finds himself talking to the manager about a place on the first team squad. There is just the little detail of his age
- hes big for 13 but surely they cant get away with him posing as a 16-year-old the minimum age for a professional player? But the clubs veteran striker takes an immediate dislike to Nat & warns him off trying to get a place on the team. Nats suspicions are aroused & soon he begins to think there is something more to Hatton Rangers poor performance & a local reporter begins to have suspicions about Nat. What seems like every boys dream is quickly confronted by the tough reality of the world of professional football in this superbly exciting thriller.
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Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life but his father wants him to give up football & work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy. ...

Novelist satirist poet photographer painter alchemist & hellraiser
- August Strindberg was all these & yet he is principally known
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Taklamakan desert 1895: a new Pompeii has come to light & with it two remarkable artefacts found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh & star
- covered in strange inscriptions feather-light & cool to the touch. Svalbard 1897: on the skerried islands of Svalbard a hydrogen balloon is readied for a polar voyage. Publicly it is a patriotic attempt to put Sweden in the lead of the race to the North Pole. Privately the three men on board have another objective. But S. A Andree Knut Frankel & Nils Strindberg will never be seen alive again. Falun Sweden 2011: 260 meters under the earth in a long-flooded mineshaft a divers torchbeam plays over a mouldering corpse with a fist-sized hole in its forehead. Skeletal fingers clutch a metal amulet. It is the key to the annals of a secret history so deeply buried that the few who knew of it though it lost forever. Until now...
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John Williams is indisputably one of the most accomplished & celebrated musicians of his generation. A master of the classical genre he has been pivotal in bringing the guitar to a wider audience with the group SKY & through collaborations involving the music of South America Africa & jazz. The product of unprecedented cooperation from Williams his family friends & professional associates Without Strings is the first telling of the fascinating life of a world-renowned musician & equally the story of a man & the making of his identity. John Williams might never have come to the guitar allowing his extraordinary talent to blossom without the foresight ambition & subtle discipline of his father & teacher Len Williams & to a lesser extent his mother Melaan. Williams has almost certainly exceeded any dream his father dared have for him as a classical guitarist. But while fulfilling that ambition did he also in his own quiet way rebel against the authoritarian nature of his father? As it tells Johns story this book challenges its readers to consider the influence of his father for good & ill as it contributed to making John Williams the successful complex & compassionate man he was to become. ...

For three Las Vegas women the Strip is an adults-only playground a neon-splashed boulevard where excitement seduction & betrayal never go to sleep: Kristin Fox
- the bestselling writer of controversial & sexy bestsellers who hungers for passion outside the pages of her money-making fiction. Jennifer Payne -- the insightful marriage & family therapist who has an answer for every relationship problem except the one happening in her own bedroom. Billie Shelton -- the casino showroom headliner who has been saved remade & quietly shattered by a darkly obsessive Svengali husb&. & they share one magnificent man: Cam Lawford the ultimate stud-for-hire who has gone from roaring crowds in sports stadiums to willing & generous women in luxury hotels. But who knew the business of sex & satisfaction could be such a dangerous game? J.J. Salem lays bare the high-octane glamour & gritty reality of a world where lovers & gamblers play to win. THE STRIP is a wild wicked & gloriously promiscuous novel that will keep you up all night.
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Gregor Jack MP well-liked young married to the fiery Elizabeth
- to the outside world a very public success story. But Jacks carefully
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Make notes & jot down your daily thoughts in this &8220; Stripe” A4 Notebook. The book features lined perforated paper allowing you to tear out the pages to A4 size. The pad features a wiro-bound spine meaning you can turn the pages over with ease. ...

This is an updated edition of the electrifying biography about four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars & champions of synth pop/rock. This groundbreaking book features in-depth interviews with founder member Vince Clarke engineer-cum-producer Gareth Jones
- who together with Mute Records founder/mentor Daniel Miller
- played a pivotal role in shaping Depeche Modes unique sound over theyears latter-day producer Mark Bell & contains never before seen interviews with Miller & the band members themselves. With additional input from pivotal suynth pioneers Gary Numan John Foxx Karl Baros (ex-Kraftwerk) & Thomas Dolby this is a unique portrait of a band that almost lost control when their lives went off the rails singer Dave Gahans herion addiction nearly killed him & musical mastermind Alan Wilder left for good. Their story is brought right up to date with details of Dave Gahans solo success their album sales that top 70 million copies & their record breaking stadium concerts.

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