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Career criminals, Fred Ward and Fred Britten, plan a daring escape from the prison island. Major Logan Kidd, a veteran of the Afghan wars and commander of the prison garrison, is tormented by his part in the bloody Middle Eastern conflict. Suddenly, a new inmate is introduced to the island and all hell breaks loose. A deadly virus that turns the living into the hungry, flesh-eating undead sweeps the island. Soldiers and convicts must team up to fight this evil that has now invaded Cockatoo Island.

Hani doesn’t know what to make of it when the king starts honoring him, but he must still find the man who killed a foreign ambassador right under the roof of the Egyptian commissioner in Kumidi—a man whose past intersects bizarrely with Hani’s. And then, the queen of the new coregent has a special task for him which may involve dragging Hani’s 19-year-old daughter into court politics. He must find a way to see justice done and yet protect his family…and his conscience.

A classic children's book for young adverturers. When an old sea Captain named Billy Bones leaves behind a mysterious chest at Jim Hawkins' parents inn, Jim discovers a map to the legendary Treasure Island! Jim sets sail to Treasure Island with Long John Silver and his ragtag crew but can they...

Officer Joe Lawler and partner Mick Finnegan deal daily with code calls for drug overdoses, street crime, alleyway and hotel thefts in and around Las Vegas, but now a more sinister crime has come to town. The number of missing girls has exploded. The increase in human trafficking has become a veritable epidemic in what's known as 'Disneyland' for adults or 'Glitter Gulch'.

The body of a young woman is found – piece by piece. The ghastly mementos are being delivered to Detective Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Dr. Meredyth Sanger, signaling the beginning of a gruesome game. But who's playing it? Why? And how far will it go next? Arthur and Lauralie are an average couple--in every way but one. In the privacy of their isolated farm, they share a taste for the macabre. Utterly devoted to each other, they'll do anything--to anyone--to keep their love alive.

Their lives are blighted by a local crime family—a teenage girl raped, pregnant; a young man bullied and coerced; a prison officer threatened with his life for the murder of one their own. The young man they’ve controlled all his life has had enough when they threaten the girl he loves. He knows about their gun running to Irish paramilitaries. They make a mistake. It’s his chance to bring them down. It’s a dangerous plan which puts all their lives at risk.

Joe Lawler, retired veteran street-cop, has quit the cold rainy Midwest Chicagoland and relocated to the 115-degree summers and the mountains and deserts of Southern Nevada. And, oh yes, Glitter Gulch, the Las Vegas Strip, and it's 24/7 gambling, booze, sex, shows, lights and glitz. Lawler takes a part-time police gig, starting over in the Las Vegas suburbs, while awaiting a full-time job with Las Vegas Metro PD, or the Coroner's Investigators to come through.

Return to Eden speaks of a pilgrimage. A journey from the horrors and pain, inhumanity and fear of the now to what once was. That place from whence we were exiled to wander through a million wildernesses seeking redemption, seeking forgiveness, seeking love, and unable to endure any longer, where we wish to return. To go home. This is the pilgrimage of Suzanne and Jackie.

England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching weir, might feel, decided that too few had sweetly and honourably been called.

Dr. Jessica Coran faces the most terrifying challenge of her career when her professional adversary, a criminal court judge, is kidnapped by a deranged man with an unnatural instinct for revenge....

Some children still spent summer hopping in Kent. Our class went camping in Ashdown Forest, a change from the bomb sites. We had the cubs and brownies where we earned proficiency badges in a number of skills. On Sundays, the Lido was a short bus ride away. More of our relations now came from Ireland and our Christmas parties were exciting. Passing the scholarship meant losing friends but gaining new ones. Among my friends in the streets of Paddington, this meant I was an outsider once more - a mixed blessed.

The world has struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer storms has taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2020, it is in the grip of a new Ice Age, all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleashed...Chicago is in the throes of a deathfreeze.

A chance to delve into the minds of children and adults among the ruined streets of post-war London. The streets were our playground with not a car in sight, where we played all day.

A chance to delve into the minds of children and adults among the ruined streets of post-war London. The streets were our playground with not a car in sight, where we played all day.

After Owen throws the funeral ashes of Hailey over a stone circle in the Lake District, odd and disturbing events soon occur inside his home. An unexpected ally helps Owen face what or who is now inside his home and creating chaos. Before Owen can prevail and return to the stone circle for revelation, he or someone will have to decide just how much he needs to know about the past, his family and himself.

Marnie, a traumatized woman who just had a bad break up of the mysteriously dead boyfriend kind, finds herself in a hunt for whatever is lurking in the depths that enshrine the historic wrecked ship The Edmund Fitzgerald, lost long ago to the stormy waters of Lake Superior in a freak accident. Even Institutionalization won’t stop her from getting to the bottom of that lake and find out what killed her man and possibly what sunk the Fitzgerald.

Egyptian diplomat Hani must secretly obtain a Hittite bridegroom for Queen Meryet-amen, but Ay and the faction behind Prince Tut-ankh-aten are opposed--to the point of violence. Does the death of an artisan have anything to do with Ay’s determination to see his grandson on the throne? Then, another death brings Egypt to the brink of war… Hani’s diplomatic skills will be pushed to the limit in this final book in The Lord Hani Mysteries.

His legacy trashed, Fredrick took up the gauntlet. Full of resentment and a desire to get even, his step into stock market investments reaped far more than dollars. Never trust a certainty, someone in the dark is untrustworthy, his father's words unheeded as Fredrick forged on. Not wishing to fall into the same trap as his father, moving in circles unimagined, his close association with Sheikh Akeem reaped further dividends.

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

Chester Bryers knows a secret. He has kept it for decades but now, as he nears his final days, he is finally telling his tale. A tale of what really happened to the lost Franklin Expedition. A tale of cold vengeance, long planned and of the adventurer George Greener, who discovered a terrible truth. It is a truth that must not be known and by breaking his long silence, Bryers’ life may be coming to a swifter and more violent end than he imagined; because some secrets must be kept, and The Thin man is watching.