Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open...
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal...
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Lake Grant, a note points to suicide. But soon it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It`s a brutal murder. Former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton finds...
A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy`s special Art Crimes Department. Chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to...
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...
Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel — the story of one woman’s journey from suburban mom to award-winning all the joy, heartbreak, and challenges along the way. In...
Butcher & Bolt: 200 Years of Foreign Engagement in Afganistan
Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for more than 200 years. Foreign invaders have continually fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain. A century ago, the common sneer about how British soldiers...
Byzantium Endures, one of the first of the Pyat series of novels, Introduces one of Michael Moorcock`s most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century he...
"C" follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him....
Caesars Women (Masters of Rome)
"Caesar`s Women" is the story of Gaius Julius Caesar`s relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68BC. He comes prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum. But his victories are...
Rome`s leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This magnificent novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar`s...
With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare "Cakes and Ale" is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward...
Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Tales (Vintage Classics)
Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman...
Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother`s body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother`s effects she realises that the past she has always...
`One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era` - Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were...
