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The Nowhere Man
£9.99He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children’s home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves. One day, however, his luck ran out. Ambushed, drugged, and spirited away, Evan wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him. As he tries to piece together what’s happened, testing his gilded prison and its highly trained guards for weaknesses, he receives a desperate call for help. With time running out, he will need to out-think, out-manoeuvre, and out-fight an opponent the likes of whom he’s never encountered to have any chance of escape. He’s got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him. Or die trying.
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Bad Soldier: Danny Black Thriller
£7.99A migrant boat battles through the rough Mediterranean. Its passengers are desperate, starving and scared. They are also being ruthlessly targeted by the SAS. Islamic State militants are smuggling themselves into Europe using these boats. Only by locating such men before they make it into the UK can they stop them committing their acts of terror on British soil. When one of these migrants reveals plans for a sickening Christmas Day atrocity in London, SAS operative Danny Black is tasked with infiltrating the most dangerous theatre of war in the world: Islamic State heartland.
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The One Man
£7.99A career-defining book from Andrew Gross, which journeys from the darkest days of humanity to the heart of the US intelligence service.
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Snakehead
£7.99A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror, and find out why. Detective Li Yan – an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell – has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal labourers. Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians and migrants in Beijing, Washington and Texas – posing multiple countries one, very singular, threat.
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A Hero in France
£8.99Spring 1941. Britain is losing the war. But the fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women – young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and military heroes – run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain. In Rouen and Orleans, in secret hotels, and on the streets, they prise open Europe’s sealed doors to lead British fighters to freedom.
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Destination Unknown
£8.99A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist?
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Passenger to Frankfurt
£8.99A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen?
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She Died Young
£7.99London, 1956. A young woman has been found dead a hotel in King’s Cross. Broke her neck falling down stairs, the death certificate says. But Fleet Street journalist Gerry Blackstone thinks there’s more to it than meets the eye.
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Shadow Kill
£16.99Strikeback hero John Porter is here united with SAS antihero John Bald on a mission to Africa. They are sent to Sierra Leone to track down a British man, a former major in the regiment and advisor to the president, who has has gone missing – and there’s a dead Russian in his flat. What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone’s diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil – and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster and the Kremlin.
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Thirty Nine Steps
£4.99John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. Buchan was in 1927 elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ and other adventure fiction.
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The Unfortunate Englishman
£8.99This is a thrilling portrait of 1960s Berlin and Krushchev’s Moscow, centring around the exchange of two spies – a Russian working for the KGB, and an unfortunate Englishman.