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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J Jacobs

A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A P Wavell

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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Lee Child

Andrew Child

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher. Shortlisted for Book of the Year - The British Book Awards. 
 
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. 
 
Not going to happen. 
 
The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether 
he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. 
 
As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . 
 
And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side. 
 
Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can.

The Sentinel

(Jack Reacher 25)

Tom Bradby

Kidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows she's in trouble. But the spy offers her conclusive evidence that the British PM is a live agent working for Moscow. Kate's holiday quickly becomes the start of her next mission. 
 
With proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, the evidence seems bulletproof. But it seems that there are key people at the heart of the British Establishment who refuse to acknowledge the reality in front of them.

Double Agent

From the bestselling author of Secret Service

Owen Matthews

'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL 
 
'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH 
 
'Enthralling' FINANCIAL TIMES 
 
'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 
 
1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here dedicated scientists and technicians are building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see - three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. 
 
But days before the bomb is to be tested, a young physicist is found dead. His body contains enough radioactive poison to kill thousands. The authorities believe it is suicide - they want the corpse disposed of, the incident filed and forgotten. But Moscow is alarmed by what's going on in this strange, isolated place. 
 
And so KGB major Alexander Vasin is sent to Arzamas to investigate. What he finds there is unlike anything he's experienced before. His wits will be tested against some of the Soviet Union's most brilliant minds - eccentrics, patriots and dissidents who, because their work is considered to be of such vital importance, have been granted the freedom to think and act, live and love as they wish. For in Arzamas, nothing can be allowed to get in the way of the project. Not even murder . . . 
 
Intricately researched, cunningly plotted and brilliantly told, Black Sun is a fast-paced and timely thriller set at the height - and in the heart - of Soviet power from the acclaimed author of An Impeccable Spy. 
 
What readers are saying: 
'Woven around real events, people and places, it's genuinely terrifying stuff' ***** 
 
'The twists and turns and intrigue kept me on tenterhooks' ***** 
 
'Brings alive one of the most fascinating periods of Soviet history' *****

Black Sun

Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed Soviet thriller

Karen Cleveland

THE HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED TO KNOW 
 
A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has, than anyone ever will. 
 
You go into your son's bedroom. It's the usual mess. You tidy up some dirty plates, pick up some clothes, open the wardrobe to put them away. 
That's when you find it. 
And you realize a horrifying truth... 
Your own son might be dangerous. 
 
Keep You Close is the chilling, relentless new thriller from the bestselling author of Need to Know.

Keep You Close

The heart-pounding thriller from the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Need to Know

Frank Gardner

‘It grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath out of the reader’ DAILY MAIL 
 
‘Outstanding’ SUNDAY TIMES 
 
‘Breathless action’ THE TIMES 
 
Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . 
 
They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose objective is to transform their country into a nuclear-armed nation, and so seal its domination of the Middle East. 
 
Britain’s intelligence agencies know something is up. Someone on the inside is ready to hand over information - but the rendezvous with SIS officer Luke Carlton goes bloodily wrong . . . 
 
Then MI6 sees an opportunity to recruit an individual with unique access to the IRGC hardliners. Luke is chosen to reel them in. Going into Iran undercover is dangerous enough, but then there’s a killing and a kidnapping and the British government is presented with a shocking ultimatum. 
 
With time running out, it seems only Luke can stop a cataclysmic new war in the Gulf . . . 
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Readers love Ultimatum: 
 
***** ‘An action-packed thriller . . . very authentic’ 
***** ‘A real page turner . . . thrilling adventure’ 
***** ‘Gripping page turner that keeps you glued to the story’

Ultimatum

Married for ten years. Four children. She thought she knew her husband better than anyone. 
She was wrong. 
 
‘Heart-poundingly suspenseful and heart-wrenchingly insightful’ J.P.Delaney, author of The Girl Before 
 
‘This compulsive, clever thriller will have you reading long into the night’ Red 
 
**** 
 
You get to work. Make a coffee. Turn on your computer. 
 
Your task: break into a Russian criminal's laptop and find proof that he's concealing five deep-cover agents - seemingly normal people living in plain sight. 
 
You’re in. Five faces stare back at you. 
 
One of them is your husband. 
 
**** 
 
‘An immensely satisfying story with serpentine twists and turns’ Daily Mail

Need To Know

'You won't be able to put it down!' Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Robert Goddard

‘Is this his best yet?...Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting’ Lee Child 
 
WHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN? 
 
High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of mysterious background, currently acting as housesitter. 
 
The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable – and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn’t know it’s there. She’s too busy being on the run from life, from a story she thinks she’s escaped. 
 
But her remote existence is going to be threatened when people come looking for the house’s owner, rogue pharma entrepreneur, Jack Harkness. Soon people with questionable motives will be asking Blake the sort of questions she can’t – or won’t - want to answer. 
 
WILL THE PANIC ROOM EVER GIVE UP ITS SECRETS?

Panic Room

Andy McNab

Tough, resourceful, ruthless - as an SAS trooper Nick Stone was one of the best. Now he's back on the streets, working for British Intelligence as a deniable operator. It's the dirtiest job in a very, very dirty world. 
 
Andy McNab's blistering Nick Stone thrillers are bestsellers whose landscape is so compellingly close to the truth that they had to be vetted by the Ministry of Defence, and could only be published as fiction. . .

Betrayed and left for dead high in the Alps, Nick Stone is in trouble. The blood on his hands tells of a head wound he can’t see and his foggy memory confirms it. He knows only one thing for certain – someone, somewhere wants to kill him. And they think they’ve succeeded. 
 
Stone wants revenge, but the only person who can help him is a seven year old boy. Not much protection in the pursuit of a gang of faceless men who trade in human misery. But this run-of-the-mill close protection task is about to become Stone’s most personal mission yet. 
 
Payback is top of Stone’s agenda. The fuse has been ignited – but who really holds the detonator?

Detonator

(Nick Stone Thriller 17)

'Stone is a deceptively complex action hero' Mail on Sunday 
'Like his creator, the ex-SAS soldier turned über agent is unstoppable' Mail on Sunday 
'McNab's first-hand army experience shines through this pulsating adventure' Daily Express 
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When SAS come under attack, there's only one man to call... 
 
When a young trooper is shot dead at the SAS's renowned Killing House, Nick Stone is uniquely qualified to investigate. 
 
Less than forty-eight hours later, he finds himself in the telescopic sights of an assassin bent on protecting a secret that could strike at the heart of the establishment - the establishment that Stone has, in his own maverick fashion, spent most of his life fighting to protect. 
 
Isolated and under perpetual threat, he is propelled across Europe in a desperate quest to uncover the truth behind a terrible chain of events that began with a young man haunted by the screams of his brutally murdered friend. 
 
DOWN TO THE WIRE, the latest Nick Stone thriller, is available now.

For Valour

(Nick Stone Thriller 16)

Victoria Lamb

A gripping historical thriller set in Tudor England during the reign of Elizabeth I. 
 
Lady-in-waiting Lucy Morgan is once again torn between her dangerous attraction to William Shakespeare and her fierce loyalty to Queen Elizabeth I. 
 
But England is facing its gravest threat yet. The Spanish have declared war, and Elizabeth finds herself attacked by sea – and by Catholic conspiracy from within her own court. Master Goodluck goes undercover, tasked with discovering the identity of this secret assassin, leaving his ward Lucy not knowing if the spy is alive or dead. 
 
Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth is growing old in a court of troublesome young noblemen, while Lucy is struggling to love a man whose duties lie elsewhere. 
 
When the final challenge comes, these two women must be ready to face it. But there is one last surprise in store for both of them …

Her Last Assassin

Roger Hobbs

'Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child 
 
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I make things disappear. It’s what I do. This time I’m tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash. But I only have 48 hours, and there’s a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. 
 
He’ll have to find me first. They don’t call me the Ghostman for nothing... 
 
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‘Brilliantly clever, gripping and action-packed. Utterly original and bound to become a big-budget movie.' SUNDAY MIRROR 
 
‘Quite astonishing . . . Mature, impeccably researched and written with supreme panache, it moves like a black mamba and is every bit as deadly. Fierce, taut and with an intensity that burns the lungs’ DAILY MAIL 
 
‘Full of authentic detail, seedy locations and a high corpse count, it keeps you hooked until the very last page' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
 
 WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 
 
‘Fast-paced and exciting, I read it from cover to cover in a couple of days’ 
 
‘Highly imaginative. A real page turner’ 
 
‘Fast-paced, original, and strongly characterised’ 
 
‘Unputdownable’ 
 
‘A thriller that grips from start to finish’ 
 
‘Tight story, great writing, interesting characters’ 
 
‘Outstanding’

Ghostman

A gripping and action-packed thriller

The Wide World series sees James 'Max' Maxted, war pilot and man of action, searching for answers about his father's death, and finding all the danger and adventure he should have waved goodbye to at the conclusion of the hostilities of WW1. What will Max find at the end of the road?

1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and opportunists have also gathered in the city and the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation. So, when Sir Henry Maxted falls from the roof of his mistress’s apartment building in unexplained circumstances, their first instinct is to suppress all suspicious aspects of the event. 
 
But Sir Henry’s son, ex Royal Flying Corps ace James ‘Max’ Maxted, has other ideas. He resolves to find out how and why his father died – even if this means disturbing the impression of harmonious calm which the negotiating teams have worked so hard to maintain. In a city where countries are jostling for position at the crossroads of history and the stakes could hardly be higher, it is difficult to tell who is a friend and who a foe.And Max will soon discover just how much he needs friends, as his search for the truth sucks him into the dark heart of a seemingly impenetrable mystery.

The Ways of the World

(The Wide World - James Maxted 1)

Terry Hayes

'A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense' The New York Times 
'Simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time' David Baldacci 
'An all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. Great nail-biting stuff' Robert Goddard 
'The plot twists and turns like a python in a sack... Visceral, gritty and cinematic' The Times 
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The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time to save America from oblivion. 
 
A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED. All of her identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. 
 
A FATHER PUBLICLY BEHEADED. Killed in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. 
 
A SYRIAN BIOTECH EXPERT FOUND EYELESS. Dumped in a Damascus junkyard. 
 
SMOULDERING HUMAN REMAINS. Abandoned on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. 
 
PILGRIM. The codename for a man who doesn't exist. A man who must return from obscurity. The only man who can uncover a flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. 
 
The much-anticipated, heart-racing new thriller from Terry Hayes, THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST, is available now. 
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Praise for Terry Hayes 
 
'Clever and compulsive' Sunday Mirror 
'Huge ambition and even huger talent' Stav Sherez 
'Compelling and wildly inventive storytelling' Chris Ewan 
'Hayes brings well-refined storytelling chops to the enterprise' Kirkus

I Am Pilgrim

The bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick

Manda Scott

The Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott brings Ancient Rome to life in this memorable tale of treachery, espionage and violence. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Robert Harris and Conn Iggulden. 
 
"Superior in almost every way...one of the most entertaining "Roman" novels I have read...Head and shoulders above the crowd" -- Simon Scarrow 
 
"Intricately woven, cleverly plotted. Miss this at your peril!" - Ben Kane 
 
"Excellent series - each book was a joy to read - final book kept you guessing right up until the end" -- ***** Reader review 
 
"A superb and exciting read, finished at 3am, and which I cannot recommend enough..." -- ***** Reader review 
 
"There's only one way in which I could say Manda Scott's work is predictable: every time I pick up a new Scott book, I can guarantee it will be new, refreshing, fascinating and totally different from anything that's gone before." -- ***** Reader review 
 
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ROME ON A KNIFE EDGE. A TRAITOR IN THE MIDST. 
 
Rome: AD69. The Year of the Four Emperors. Three Emperors have ruled in Rome this year and a fourth, Vespasian, has been named in the East. 
 
As the legions march toward civil war, Sebastos Pantera, the spy whose name means leopard, returns to Rome intent on bribery, blackmail and persuasion: whatever it takes to bring the commanders and their men to Vespasian's side. 
 
But in Rome, as he uses every skill he has ever learned of subterfuge, codes and camouflage, it becomes clear that one of those closest to him is a traitor, who will let Rome fall to destroy him. 
 
Together the two spies spin a web of deceit with Rome as the prize and death the only escape.

Rome: The Art of War

(Rome 4): A captivating historical page-turner full of political tensions, passion and intrigue

These spy thrillers set in Ancient Rome follow Sebastos Pantera and his return from the cold of a mission in Britannia to spy for Emperor Nero. Rome is burning, and only Sebastos can save it.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott, a captivating, stirring and breath-taking historical adventure full of honour, loyalty and bravery. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Robert Harris and Conn Iggulden. 
 
"A tale that shines like the Eagle at its heart. I suspect that no one else writes like M. C. Scott. I'm certain plenty wish they could." -- GILES KRISTIAN 
 
"Enthralling...Gladiator meets Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in a baroque landscape." -- ROBERT LOWE 
 
"Compulsive reading" -- ***** Reader review 
 
"Truly consummate, well-written historical fiction" -- ***** Reader review 
 
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THEY ARE KNOWN AS THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED... 
 
Throughout the Roman Army, the brutal XIIth Legion is notorious for its ill fortune. For one young man, Demalion of Macedon, joining it will be a baptism of fire. And yet, amid all of the violence and savagery of his life as a legionary, he will come to love the Twelfth and the bloody-minded, dark-hearted soldiers he calls his brothers. 
 
But during the punishing Judaean campaign, the Hebrew army inflict a catastrophic defeat upon the legion - not only decimating their ranks, but taking away their soul - the eagle. 
 
There is just one final chance to save the legion's honour - to steal it back. To do that, Demalion and his legionnaries must go undercover into Jerusalem, into the very heart of their enemy. 
 
Recovering their pride is paramount but discovery will mean the worst of deaths...

Rome: The Eagle Of The Twelfth

(Rome 3): A action-packed and riveting historical adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat

From bestselling author MC Scott, a heady, fast-paced and exciting historical adventure full of religious and political tensions, passion and intrigue. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Robert Harris and Conn Iggulden. 
 
“As exciting as Ben Hur, and far more accurate…” – The Independent. 
“A gripping tale…” – Daily Mail. 
“I was totally engrossed…” – Reader review. 
 
AD 64: Rome is burning. Only one man can save it. 
 
The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome and feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn. 
 
The Spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the Roman Legions is ordered to stop the impending cataclysm. He knows that if he doesn’t, his life – and that of thousands of others – is in terrible danger. 
 
The Chariot Boy: Math, a young charioteer, subject to the wiles and schemes of the Emperor and the Spy. 
 
Who will win this game, where death stalks the drivers – on the track and off it.

Rome: The Emperor's Spy (Rome 1)

A high-octane historical adventure guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat…

Ex-SAS trooper Nick Stone is extremely highly trained. Clever, ruthless and very effective, it is no surprise that he is hired by British Intelligence. On deniable operations - one of the most dangerous lines of work. 
 
Sarah Greenwood is beautiful, intelligent and cunning - and the only woman Stone has ever truly opened up to. But now he has been ordered to hunt her down. 
 
Hotly pursued through the American wilderness, Stone finds himself at the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse. He must get to the heart of a terrifying conspiracy theory to which only Sarah holds the key. But will he manage to before the tension reaches boiling point?

Crisis Four

(Nick Stone Thriller 2)

Frederick Forsyth

AN UNWINNABLE WAR 
 
Cocaine is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. It causes misery, poverty and death. And slowly its power is spreading... 
 
A MAN ON A MISSION 
 
Ex-CIA special ops, Paul Devereux, intellectual, dedicated and utterly ruthless, is given what seems like an impossible task: Stop the drug barons, whatever it costs. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He must assemble a team equal to the lawless men who control this deadly trade. 
 
AN UNTHINKABLE SOLUTION 
 
Up to now the drug cartels have had it their way. Up to now, the forces of law and order have played by the rules. That is about to change. Those rules no longer apply... and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier...

The Cobra

A pulse-pounding drug cartel thriller from the master of storytelling

OPPORTUNITY 
 
Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it should have been the perfect, victimless crime... 
 
DOUBLECROSS 
 
But when the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down... 
 
PAYBACK 
 
Stone's quest for revenge becomes a terrifying journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and a beautiful Russian investigative journalist unwittingly hold the key...

Exit Wound

(Nick Stone Thriller 12)

A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war. Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black &amp; Decker drill, then shot through the head. And Nick Stone - ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - is next on the killer's list . . . 
 
In his most daunting mission yet, Nick Stone must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear.

Brute Force

(Nick Stone Thriller 11)

A collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer. 
 
A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy; a drug smuggling heist on an international flight where the Knock pit their wits against the smugglers; a brural urban murder, where a brilliant QC decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling justice; an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of the Old Masters - each story is a remarkable tour de force. 
 
And above all here is a brilliant novella, 'Whispering Wind', which begins with the single survivor of Custer's Last Stand at the battle of Little Big Horn. Then follows the rescue from rape and murder of a Cheyenne girl and a flight across the mountains and forests of the West, ending in a savage present-day manhunt in the wild lands of Montana.

The Veteran

Thriller Short Stories

'One of his best works for a long time' Sunday Times 
'Another strong performance by a writer who know exactly what he's about' Publisher's Weekly 
'A cunningly constructed action thriller . . . the story is terrifying and timely and grips you to the end' Daily Telegraph 
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From the world-renowned, bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Fox 
 
It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. 
 
Social and moral order has collapsed. The only rule is imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. And a visionary patriot whose voice rises above it all: Igor Komarov. 
 
It is in to this world that former CIA agent Jason Monk is plunged. Drawn out of retirement by the CIA's desperate bid to halt Komarov's meteoric rise, he must slip back in to Russia undetected and carry out a covert mission that the world depends on. With Komarov set to win the next election, Monk discovers a secret document that is smuggled in to the British Embassy in Moscow. Named The Black Manifesto, it reveals Komarov's horrifying and deadly secret agenda. 
 
With many Western leaders persuaded that Komraov can lead his country into a new age, and the election looming, time is running out. . .

Icon

The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective . . . 
 
The Negotiator unfolds with the spellbinding excitement, unceasing surprise and riveting detail that are the hallmarks of Frederick Forsyth, the master storyteller.

The Negotiator

From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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