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Killing For The Company
From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and hit TV show Strikeback. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his sixteenth novel and it is full of all his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.2003. Invalided out of the SAS Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security, on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, a peace campaigner, eavesdropping on a meeting the Group is holding with the British Prime Minister. The Group's interests include arms manufacture, and what Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the Prime Minister to take his country into an illegal war. Could this possibly be true? Somebody believes that this is a secret that needs covering up, because Chet and the girl are attacked. Hunted down, they go into hiding, and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.Nearly ten years later tension is reaching breaking point in Jerusalem. The now ex-Prime Minister is working as a Middle East peace envoy. As the city descends into anarchy and rival armies are poised to turn it into a battlefield, Chet's best buddy, Luke, is part of a team tasked by the Regiment with extracting the ex-Prime Minister.At the height of the battle Luke discovers a conspiracy far more devastating than any arms deal.
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Storming Heaven
Punished for his maverick Ways, FBI agent mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C. to a sleepy southwest office where he's got one last chance to play by the rules. But that's not going to happen, not when he's on a case that may be too hot even for his unorthodox talents to handle. A local millionaire and his wife are brutally murdered Jennifer, their teenage child and sole heir, is the prime suspect and she's gone missing. Beamon sets off on a trail that takes him from the Utah Mountains, through the labyrinthine headquarters of a cult-like Church, into the shadowy, interlocking boardrooms of a powerful high-tech communications empire
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50 Ways to Get Along With Absolutely Anyone
Happy relationships are the key to joy in our lives. But, as most people know, this does not always seem possible.Chuck Spezzano, the master of relationship advice, offers a vital book of principles to enable you to get along with anyone and transform the problem areas of your life. These timeless principles are combined with simple and practical exercises that help you bring out the best in all of your relationships. The book can be read day-by-day or simply opened at random to discover your inspiration for the day.Chuck's kind-hearted yet challenging essays guarantee to transform your best enemies into your best friends and make your life easier and happier.
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Gardern Of Beasts
Paul Schumann corrects God"s mistakes. His first hit was revenge for his father"s murder - but then he found he had a talent for it. Now, he"s been offered theultimate job. One final target, and he can retire. Only his client isn"t the mob. It"s the US government. And if he succeeds, he could change the course of history.Jeffery Deaver"s breathtaking new thriller adds an epic twist to his trademark pace and suspense. Schumann"s mission will take him to the Berlin of Hitler"s Olympics, where danger and betrayal lurk everywhere. It"s a cat-and-mouse chase, with Schumann both cat and mouse, a man who thinks he has nothing to lose .
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The Vanished Man
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot
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Twisted
In 'Beautiful' a former supermodel's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The only thing that will end the nightmare is his death. Or her own. The award-winning 'Without Jonathan' introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she was married, with a man she found through the Internet. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is going to meet is killing a woman on the other side of town... <br>And in the brand new 'The Christmas Present' we discover a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before. Instantly gripping and impossible to put down, this collection of short will take your breath away time and time again.
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Wine & War
In the vineyards, wine caves and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country, winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life. This collection offers true stories of the vignerons who sheltered Jewish refugees in their cellars and of winemakers who risked their lives to aid the resistance. They made chemicals in secret laboratories to fuel the resistance and fled from the Gestapo when arrests became imminent. There were treacheries too, as some of the nation's winemakers supported the Vichy regime or the Germans themselves and collaborated.
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Sleep No More
Mallory Gray-Candler was the quintessential Southern Belle who loved John with a seething passion that threatened to destroy them both. Yet despite his infatuation, he ended the affair. Sometime later she was found raped and murdered on a New Orleans pier. Two days after meeting Eve, John sees her again at a cocktail party. This time she squeezes his hand and says 'You weren't wrong about what I said, it's me John.' Exactly who is Eve Summerij And how doe she know so much about John's past with Mallory Gray-Candler.
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Mistress of Justice
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's pre-eminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant and very private man, Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know - including a plenitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer...