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They tried to assassinate him. Big mistake. A secret organization controls the world from the shadows. Danny Pearson just became their biggest threat. A simple favour in Vienna. Pick up a package, get out clean. But when Danny arrives, a lethal Chinese assassin is already there—and he's not leaving witnesses.

Five million alive. Three million dead. That is the contract put on Sam Pope's head by the vengeful Dana Kovalenko, the sister of crime boss Andrei Kovalenko, who Sam killed three years ago.

For Trent Rivera, being off grid is a way of life. Recently arrived in Spain, the ex-soldier passes his days digging swimming pools and pouring concrete on Costa del Sol construction sites. His evenings are spent keeping himself to himself; it’s an existence that suits him perfectly. But Trent Rivera doesn’t go looking for trouble. It finds him....

After stepping back into his war on organised crime, Sam Pope travels to East Anglia. Following the path of an illegal firearm, Sam sets his sights on the person flooding the streets with guns and drugs. Slaven Kovac. A ruthless ex-mercenary with a brutal stranglehold on the weapon's trade, Kovac is on the cusp of removing his benefactor and ascending to the throne as one of the most powerful criminals in the UK. As he and Sam prepare to go to war, an undercover police officer finds himself on the front line, and in a desperate situation.

After serving as the Chef d'État-Major des Armées for the French Military, Pierre Ducard is riding a wave of momentum towards the French presidency. With the election a few weeks away, the president in waiting heads to the UK on a publicity mission with only one cloud hanging over his head.

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course! The Mistro family has a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a 600-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail...well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.

Nigel Foxton was jailed for the murder of three women. Not only was the evidence damning, but during the trial, he changed his plea to guilty. Case closed...or was it? It’s almost 20 years later, and Meredith is being taunted with more victims murdered in the same way. Foxton claims he is innocent and wants to appeal, and Meredith has to prove they jailed the right man.

On the surface, John Meredith appears to have it all. He’s blessed with good looks and a successful police career, and he’s never short of female attention. But is everything as it seems? What lies beneath the smooth, confident exterior? Is he a man who has simply plastered over the cracks of a dysfunctional childhood, betrayals, and heartbreak? Can he allow anyone close or will they see the joins and the damaged person that he really is?

Meredith is impatient to get back to work following his illness, but has a few matters to sort out, and a wedding to attend before that happens. The wedding is ruined when Meredith is arrested and his half brother turns up with a body in the boot of his car. The investigation reveals that Patsy and Amanda are being stalked and are in the sights of a sadistic killer. It seems an old adversary is trying to ruin Meredith’s life before he wipes out everyone Meredith cares about.

DCI John Meredith has one day left in the job when his friend Ben Jacobs is arrested for murder. According to the numerous witnesses in the nightclub where Jacobs works, Jacobs stabbed Aiden O’Brien in a motiveless attack. Meredith believes all is not as it seems and is determined to prove his friend’s innocence, even if it means letting down Patsy Hodge, allowing the secret intelligence service to call the shots, and ignoring his increasing ill-health.

Meredith and Hodge are stranded up a mountain with two dead bodies and a murderer on the loose, Christmas is put on hold until they can catch the killer. John Meredith has been coerced into joining a group of friends, in a castle on top of a mountain, for the Christmas holiday. His irritation at being dragged away from home soon dissipates, as he relaxes in the picturesque surroundings, enjoying the company of good friends. Even the sudden snowstorm is accepted without complaint; it will be a white Christmas. But then Patsy Hodge discovers a dead body in the salt box.

When Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy uncover the existence of a sixth Eden Relic—The Eden Crown—hidden somewhere in history, their destiny becomes clear: they need to find it to stop Emerson Drake and the Wraith from unleashing an apocalyptic attack on mankind, an assault that would wipe out half the world's population.

The Woodsman pub and campsite is under new management, with new staff and improved facilities. The old gang, plus some additional characters, return by invitation to check it out, and the adventures begin: retaliating against marauding motorbikes in the middle of the night, enduring a bike tour to hell and back, watching Tel and Sophie jumping from a plane and witnessing Tel having some sort of nervous breakdown, fighting against the tyranny of Liv’s father and soon-to-be ex-husband, and almost losing a vastly expensive ring.

A group of strangers pitching up on a Cotswold caravan site is looking for rest and relaxation but instead encounters starvation, sleep deprivation, dehydration, motor bikers, drunken yummy-mummies, the police, shredded feet, unexpected nakedness, curries, the great loo run, and a line dancing barbecue. Oh, and the creepy guy in a tent at the bottom of the field. It's a camping trip like no other and it will change all their lives.

Andy Field brings together history, science, psychology, queer theory, and pop culture with his love of urban life and his own experiences—both as a city-dweller and as a performance artist—to forge creative connections: walking hand-in-hand with strangers, knocking on doors, staging encounters in parked cars. In considering twelve different kinds of encounters, from car rides to video calls to dog-walker chats in the park, Field argues "that in the spontaneity and joy of our meetings with each other, we might find the faint outline of a better future."

Trixie was within yards of her mother and other shoppers in a busy supermarket, yet no one witnessed her disappearance. Trixie had died within hours of being taken, her body discovered two days later.

Ten years through his new life living 32 years in the past, Jason’s world is simply perfect. After surviving the calamitous events of the late 1970s, life couldn’t be better–surely nothing could spoil it now–or could it? The third book in the time travel series of the extraordinary life of Jason Apsley.

Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues, and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to defect to the West.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

Five months through his new life 42 years in the past, Jason's world in 1977 is simply perfect. After taking his second chance he's now no longer the miserable, opinionated bugger of his previous existence in 2019. Can life get any better? But will that one fateful day turn his new awesome life upside down? Jason's traveling companion on the day he died in 2019 appears on his doorstep in 1977. How could this happen?