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THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARET'S LIFE, EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. 'A Royal fairy tale' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the saddest love stories of modern times' The Scotsman 'One afternoon, at Windsor Castle, when everyone had gone to London for some ceremony, we talked, in the red drawing-room, for hours - about ourselves. It was then that we m...

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New York, 1995 Cop Callum Burke arrives in New York from Hong Kong, drafted in as part of an international investigation into organised crime. With the handover of Hong Kong to China only a couple of years away, gangsters are moving their operations out of the territory and into New York ahead of the looming deadline. Burke's experiences with East Asian crime and the Triads' links to the Irish Mob make him the perfect man to send in undercover...

A shining accomplishment. A classic' New York Times'Ranks among the outstanding air memoirs of the war' Max Hastings On an August morning in England in 1943, a group of American airmen were told that before the day was out they would deliver the blow that would win the war.Flying the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress, their mission was to destroy the industrial facilities that kept the Nazi war machine in business - Schweinfurt's ball-bearing fac...

With the Battle of Britain won, Winston Churchill and his military chiefs now faced an even more fearsome challenge in the Battle of the Atlantic. Thwarted in his plans to invade, Hitler decided instead that he would starve Britain into submission. Operating in conjunction with U-Boats, long-range Condor aircraft attacked allied shipping far beyond the range of any land-based fighters.To counter the Luftwaffe threat, RAF and Fleet Air Arm volu...

When Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. The sheer scale of the crime and desolation was unlike anything he had seen before. He was hooked, and returned whenever he could. Over dozens of visits, he got to know the people - cops, reporters and gang members as well as ordinary Detroiters trying to live their lives in peace - and formed deep bonds with them, which led him into places and situations no wr...

IF YOU LIKE WILBUR SMITH AND TOM CLANCY, YOU'LL LOVE SOMEWHERE OUT THERE' ROWLAND WHITEMax Seager was the best there was. His skills sharpened in the midst of a brutal African civil war, he was at once a policeman, soldier and detective - a tracker of men. He thought he'd left that life behind him, but then he learns that his particular expertise is required again.Two teenage girls have been abducted and are being held to ransom, hidden deep w...

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines meets Le Mans. Hugely entertaining. And deadly serious' Rowland White, Author of Vulcan 607It was the greatest international competition of its day - a thrilling, globe-trotting, high speed air racing series that married cutting-edge technology with astonishing skill, bravery and danger.Duelling at 400 mph just a few feet from sea surface left pilots little margin for error. For over a decade, as ...

Some secrets are worth killing for...Jack Winter was once an idealistic and brilliant news reporter who broke the biggest stories around. But after wrongly blaming himself for a young girl's murder he changed sides and began killing stories for the rich and powerful, protecting them from exactly the kind of journalist he used to be.When a new client drags Jack into a lethal world of corruption and long-buried secrets, he finds himself wishing ...

In early 1969, word reached London that the little Caribbean island of Anguilla had become a hotbed of rebellion and a haven for gangsters.Such flagrant disregard for the rule of law in one of Britain's last remaining overseas outposts could not be allowed to stand.Her Majesty's government acted decisively, despatching a force of three hundred paratroopers and commandos backed by warships, helicopters and fifty of the Metropolitan Police's fin...

Book 4 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET'SNIPER ONE MEETS HEART OF DARKNESS' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607When a group of missionaries get caught up in bloody African civil war London is forced to act. For the men of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, it should be a quick in and out. A nice clean operation. But what awaits them will test them like never before. And, facing overwhelming odds, this time the skill and raw courage of...

what will remain is a war novel born out of the author's own experiences of serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan. It consists of a series of distinct but closely interwoven stories told against the backdrop of the conflict: fragments of memory, sorrow and hope that build like impressionistic brushstrokes upon a canvas to create a profound and essential tableau of modern war and its place in society. Steeped vividly in the sun, sweat a...

Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy and fun ways to make the world a better place. Funny, honest and ab...

YOU HAVE TEN DAYS TO RESPOND…'A lifetime spent fighting other people's wars had earned John Winter a comfortable early retirement.But when the CIA seizes his money, they quickly realise that their former employee is not a man you want to try to push around.When the former combat pilot and SAS man turned gun-for-hire gives Langley a deadline for its return, the Agency think it holds all the cards.An F-4 Phantom jet fighter, an audacious plan to...

John Winter thought his flying days were over. But when his new life falls victim to dirty, distant war, Winter's unique skills, honed over years in the military, mean someone's going to pay.The CIA black ops wing is only too happy to let a former British combat pilot, SAS man and mercenary with nothing left to lose make sure they do.Sent on a covert, deniable mission to South America, Winter faces a ruthless and powerful enemy. Success or fai...

MAJESTIC STORYTELLING ... A TOUR DE FORCE' John Templeton SmithOctober 1940: a raiding party of elite soldiers arrives in the middle of Nazi-occupied France on a deadly mission.But these are not troops from Britain's new commando units. They are modern-day Israeli special forces operators armed with sophisticated 21st-century weaponry.Dispatched eight decades into the past by a genius physicist who stumbled across the secret of time travel, th...

A CAPTIVATING DEEP DIVE INTO THE STRANGE WORLD OF LATEX-SPORTING SUPERHEROES WHO FIGHT CRIME. WEIRDLY FASCINATING AND FASCINATINGLY WEIRD' John SweeneyWhen police officer Michael Matthews first hears about America's Real-Life Superheroes, he is skeptical - but also intrigued.Deciding to investigate this mysterious community of cape-wearing, weapon-carrying men and women, he discovers that they really do prowl the streets and alleys of American...

New and updated edition of the classic expose of the life of the founder of Scientology

Getting caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time never stopped John Winter from doing the right thing.But when a covert mission unravels with fatal consequences, the SAS man decides he's had enough.Forging a new life as a pilot-for-hire, Winter wants to put his violent past behind him. But his former enemies have tracked him down.And the arrival of the US army to provide protection for an upcoming US Presidential visit has provided them ...

To his followers, L Ron Hubbard was a war hero and spiritual leader who served his country with distinction in World War II, suffering terrible injuries in the line of duty before miraculously healing himself with his revolutionary mental techniques - Dianetics and Scientology.RON THE WAR HERO examines the truth behind the legend and asks some awkward questions. What if there were no injuries? What if Hubbard was not, in fact, a war hero at al...