CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he’s still loyal – or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence...
The Future History of the Arctic
`For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine - these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which...
Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn\'t synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came...
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it....
The Garden of England from the Air
The counties of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, sometimes called the "garden of England", contain some of the most beautiful buildings and lush landscape this country has to offer, and seen from the air it attains...
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and...
