An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation's history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. A ruthless and bloody-minded tycoon, Manson immediately hires an army of mercenaries and with this deadly crew behind him he sets out to topple the government and replace its dictator with a puppet president. But news of the discovery has reached Russia - and suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game. A game in w... View More...
A taut and twisty white-knuckle thriller from a new Scottish writer Former hot-shot lawyer Logan Finch settled into a new life for himself and his daughter Ellie, and has a blossoming relationship with Detective Constable Rebecca Irvine. But that relationship is put to the test when Irvine's old flame, drug-addicted rock star Roddy Hale, enters her life again-and there's also the small matter of a professional killer following her every move. Finch's client and best friend Alex Cahill, close-protection operative and ex-U.S. army special-forces soldier, hates babysitting celebrities, but maybe ... View More...
Forensic scientist Jack McCain in spacesuit and respirator, goes through the bedroom of a scientist who has died from ingestion anthrax, taking wipe samples until he finds what he's looking for - the spores of Bacillus anthracis, anthrax, clustering on the wrapping of a surprise gift chocolate. View More...
A transplant patient inherits more than just a heart from her unknown donor in this fast-paced espionage thriller from a novelist hailed by fellow writer Clive Cussler as 'a master of intrigue and adventure'. After brilliant Washington attorney Beth Convey suffers a heart attack during a high-profile trial, a transplant saves her life. When she recovers, she is shocked to realize that she has new abilities and tastes. Most disturbing are her violent, realistic dreams. The search for her donor's identity leads Beth to Jeff Hammond, a disgraced former FBI agent. Now a top Washington Post reporte... View More...
Set in Hong Kong and combines fiction with a factual background. Sing Deverill, the fabled White Crane, crosses paths with the evil Sampson Ching, overlord of the Yellow Dragon, a billion dollar organisation dealing in drugs and the trading of endangered animal species. Both Sing and her family are swept into Ching's net. As Hong Kong approaches 1988, modern business competes with ancient tradition as Ching's empire expands through Manila and the Sulu Sea to the world beyond. The author has written several books including the novels 'Henry Golightly' and 'The Second Sunrise'. View More...
The international bestseller that has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. The voice on the radio. The writing, red as blood. I kill . . . A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. The killer announces his heinous acts in advance with desperate phone calls and ties his crimes together with songs that point to his victims; he then mutilates them and removes their faces. Set in Monte Carlo and featuring an international cast of intriguing characters, the hunt for ... View More...
Laurel Fields, perfect wife of Dr Warren Fields, living in a perfect house in a beautiful town, is pregnant. But is the baby her husband's - or her lover's? One morning she returns home and finds Warren waiting for her. When she looks down from his unshaven face, she recognises the piece of paper lying on the coffee table - a letter from her lover Danny that she'd hidden inside a book. Then she sees the gun in her husband's hand. It's going to be a long day: for the Fields family, for Danny, for the police. Because this is not the only secret in town. View More...
When bestselling thriller writer Andrew Danner wakes up in a hospital bed with no idea how he got there, he is horrified to be told that he is responsible for the murder of his ex-fiancee. In the resulting celebrity trial, Drew is exonerated on the grounds of temporary insanity caused by a recent brain tumour. But he still has no idea if he did kill Genevieve, and is desperate to find out. Haunted by what appear to be his bizarre night-time actions - did he really cut his own foot with a knife? - Drew is shocked when another woman is discovered dead, murdered in the same way as Genevieve. Desp... View More...
When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing a massive cave beneath, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained squad of commandos are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong - and to follow up the detection of a vast underground reservoir. Accompanying the team is an assortment of researchers, including petrobiologist Aimee Weir. If the unidentified substance proves to be an energy source, every country in the world will want to know about it - some would even kill for it. Once i... View More...
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a sinister message from an unknown correspondent. Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been tak... View More...
Myron Bolitar might have a slightly dubious past, but he knows how to handle himself and is doing just fine as a sports agent. That is, until he meets Brenda Slaughter, one of the hottest female sports stars around. She's gorgeous, funny and single, and also seems to have mislaid her agent. But when her father disappears, and the Mob starts leaning on her, it soon becomes apparent that potent forces are at work and Myron is quickly plunged into a whirlpool of deceit and death. View More...
It began with a promise...2.17am: the phone rings on Myron Bolitar's nightstand; at the other end of the line is Aimee Biel ' a frightened teenager who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble. But Myron's help will not be enough. Stumbling from his Manhattan bed, he races down to pick her up from a cold street corner and take her back to safety. But ' against his better judgment ' she persuades him to drop her at an unknown address in the suburbs. This is a mistake that he lives to regret, for Aimee's final wave from a darkened porch is not the en... View More...
Matt Hunter's life has already been blown away once. At the age of twenty, he got into a fight outside a party and accidentally killed someone. That momentary lapse of reason cost him four years in gaol, and a small sliver of his soul. But when he got out he set about rebuilding his life. He carved himself a job as a lawyer and married a beautiful woman. The break in the road seems to have only made him a stronger person. However, when he receives a strange video message on his mobile phone and he realises that a very bad man is following him, his new existence is suddenly under threat. Why is... View More...
Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. Since its publication in 1499, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understand its many mysteries. Coded in seven languages, the text is at once a passionate love story, an intricate mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of arcane brutality. Paul Harris, Tom's roommate, has deeply personal reasons of hi... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles' In Casino Royale, the first of Fleming's 007 adventures, a single game of cards is James Bond's only chance to bring down the criminal network of desperate SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. But Bond soon discovers that there is far more at stake than money. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stoc... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. 'Private armies, private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause, how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From a View to A Kill * For Your Eyes Only * Quantum of Solace * Risico * The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests, Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men and the dark secrets they keep. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming ... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. 'You're stale, tired of having to be tough. You want a change. You've seen too much death.' In Fleming's seventh 007 novel, a private assignment sets Bond on the trail of an enigmatic criminal mastermind - Auric Goldfinger. But greed and power have created a deadly opponent who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in... View More...
At twenty-nine, Kate Denby believes she's finally carved out a safe and secure life for herself and her nine-year-old son. But the gifted scientist couldn't be more wrong... Deep in a genetic research facility, Kate is very close to achieving a major medical breakthrough. But there is someone who will stop at nothing to make sure she never finishes her work. Someone not interested in holding out hope, but in buying and selling death. Now Kate is waking up to a nightmare world where a dangerously unpredictable killer is stalking her...where the people closest to her are considered expendable...... View More...
Racing against time and hunted by rogue soldiers, mad scientists, and an organization that operates beyond the law, Jay Ryan is forced back into the spotlight in this heartstopping military thriller Former army interrogator Jay Ryan is enjoying the quiet life after leaving the military far behind-or so he thinks. But old habits die hard and he's quickly thrust back into the thick of things when a disgruntled scientist, backed by the Australian security industry, develops a weapon of mass destruction-a hybrid strain of Anthrax-to be used to create panic in a population apathetic to crime prev... View More...
Toll for the Brave is a classic tale of deception, treachery and murder. Where one man will fight to prove his sanity and innocence, whilst others strive to silence him for good. Betrayed by his lover, beaten and almost broken by his captors, Ellis Jackson escapes from the Viet Cong with is best friend James Maxwell St. Claire. Dodging bullets they finally break free from a living hell. Some years later, back in England, Ellis wakes to find himself holding a 12-bore shot gun surrounded by staring faces. In the other room his mistress, together with James, are both dead. Has Ellis Jackson... View More...