Decimus Rex reunites with his five friends to follow a message sent to them all from Teo
- a friend they know to be dead. It begs
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Decimus Rex & his four friends sail to China on the trail of the Golden Warrior & in search of Teo. But they are captured by the King of Yelang & imprisoned in his Water Maze? What connections does the King have with Slavious Doom & will they ever escape? ...

Having escaped the dreaded water maze the five friends now have a new enemy
- they are being hunted by three ninjas
- the most

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Our hero returns home expecting peace only to face his worst nightmare An old enemy has returned & will stop at nothing in his quest for power. But when he kidnaps Decimus parents & captures his friends Decimus is forced to go & face his only undefeated enemy yet. Is Decimus really the hero that everyone says or has his luck finally run out.. . ...

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943.. . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. & fast. The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped & the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers & seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target & give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At its head was a single aircraft six men & twenty-one thous&-pound bombs facing the hornet's nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. There would be no second chances.. . ...

In 2007 a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2
- XH558
- took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands

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The best of the three RAF jet bombers in the early years of the Cold War the Vulcan was designed as the Avro 698 & possessed fighter-like manoeuvrability at low level despite its size. First flown in August 1952 the Vulcan entered service in February 1957. Most were equipped to carry the Blue Steel st&-off missile but in 1966 around 50 Vulcans were re-deployed in a tactical low-level bombing role. Three flew during the Falklands War & the last Vulcans in service were used as aerial tankers until April 1984. This book examines the design of the Vulcan exploring the improvements made to its engine & its evolving combat role. The illustrations include many in-flight photographs & detailed colour profiles. This is a timely examination of a distinctive & ground-breaking aircraft. ...

This book supports busy practitioners studying on the Post-Qualifying Awards for Social Work with Adults. Fully updated to cover the latest legislation the material in this book is presented as a series of self-contained chapters written by different authors which takes the reader beyond pure facts & offers many differing & thought-provoking viewpoints. The text is packed with helpful tips & really encourages readers to engage with their client groups & to reflect upon practice in a more meaningful way. ...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep & there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact
- more or less
- despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile & outrageous crimes & criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment everything he knows about his city
- & himself
- will be a mere starting point. Hes put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand
- an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation & stays at its center traveling to Phuket Hong Kong Dubai Shanghai & Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that

Includes:: an aging rock star wearing out his second liver & the mysterious diabolical albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. & yet its closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife Chanya is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough-forget Buddha think jealous husb&-to cope with his very own compromised & compromising world? All will be revealed here in John Burdetts most mordantly funny propulsive fiendishly entertaining novel yet. Praise for John Burdett & his Bangkok novels: Cracking East meets West thriller introducing a half-Thai half-American cop whose Buddhist beliefs are as important as his forensic skills. Terrific". (" Observer"). "A fantastic new thriller with an avenging Buddhist cop as its central character". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Read this book savour the language
- its the last & most compelling word in thrillers". (James Ellroy). " Impeccably researched this is sometimes poetic often exotic & totally hardcore". (" Daily Mirror"). " Burdetts fever-dream mysteries set in Bangkok recast the police procedural as psychedelic peep show". (" The New Yorker"). " Burdett is purely & simply a wonderful writer". (The Washington Post Book World)."







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The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" offers a globetrotting Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry the banking industry & the governmental agencies that arent regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak & ruin our planet in the process
- a story that spans the globe & decades. For " Vultures Picnic" investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) & finance. Hes built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller
- a Swiss multilingual investigator a punk journalist & a gonzo cameraman
- to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill the Exxon Valdez & lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek & Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption failed legislation & most interestingly veiled connections between the financial industry & energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund World Bank World Trade Organization & Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon " Vultures Picnic" shows how the big powers in the money & oil game slip the bonds of regulation over & over again & simply destroy the rules that they themselves cant write
- & take advantage of nations & everyday people in the process."



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