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The Ring Of Terror - Bob Lee A rip-roaring adventure yarn, this is the story of Detective Chief Inspector Bill Chamberlain of New Scotland Yard and his battle against an international drugs ring led by an ex-KGB officer, a thoroughly unpleasant character completely devoid of any redeeming features at all. Chamberlain's hunt starts with a letter from an old colleague in Hong Kong; the action quickly switches from London to Hong Kong, then to Europe and the Middle East, all the while keeping up a breathless pace. It's an all-action book, carefully plotted and skilfully brought together. In Inspector Chamberlain Bob Lee has created a fascinating character: as cerebrally gifted as Colin Dexter's Morse yet calmer and with martial arts skills that would astound - and probably horrify - him. This is a genuine can't-put-it-down read! (about 60,000 words) Price: £4.75 Quantity:

The Dying Planet - Bob Lee It's the year 2015. A deadly virus, far worse than anything humanity has yet encountered, is sweeping around the planet but so far Australia remains unaffected thanks to its relative isolation. But Australia has a vast coastline and determined illegal immigrants could easily find their way ashore - how can the country keep itself free from infection? It can't. Tha narrator of this apocalyptic novel, decides that he must do something to keep his family alive and out of reach of the virus. He hatches a plan to acquire a boat and head north, as far north as he can go. This is exactly what he does and the book follows his incredible, dangerous journey towards his ultimate objective - Alaska. It is a grim description of what mankind could possibly do, and of the levels to which individuals can descend: at times gripping, at other times horrifying, this is a novel that could so easily become reality. It's worth reading for that reason alone, but it's also a captivating and enthralling story that more than adequately repays the time spent reading it. (about 45,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

All Bitter & Twisted - Ron Bennett 'All Bitter & Twisted' is a novel that really is all too believable. Because its author has over thirty years of service in the RAF to call upon the background is authentic and convincing: the attitudes of the characters to each other and to life outside the services will have readers totally convinced that what is being recounted is a true story. It is, though, purely a work of fiction. We have to stress that as certain famous landmarks meet a grisly end before the final acts of the novel are played out. The result of all the dramas the reader is taken through as the story unfolds is far from what anyone could expect; it is almost as shocking for the reader as it is for the characters themselves as the book ends. You will be left breathless, as we were. (about 58,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Tone - Ricky Roberts "Tone" is the story of Tony Barnes, ex-army and a petty criminal, and of those he associates with. Petty crime can sometimes lead to involvement with people whose criminal aspirations are somewhat higher - which is exactly what happens in this fast-paced and from time to time violent book. Set somewhere in North West England, it is an inventive and unusual story in which Tone himself remains a central character yet is no more than a catalyst; without him the story could not happen yet he takes no great part in the tumultuous events recounted. He is a figure who triggers changing emotions as the book moves on: at first he is merely unattractive, then becomes ar more so before events turn against him and he begins to attract sympathy, perhaps even pity. The same is not necessarily so of the other principal characters. Most have no redeeming features at all, but it is possible to feel for some of them as the book progresses; the main villain, and the most violent, will even attract a degree of admiration for his creativity and chameleon-like abilities. This is a book that captures the imagination from the outset and becomes less and less predictable as it moves towards its surprising conclusion a long, long way from its opening. Taken with Ricky Roberts's other books it shows the wide range of which he is capable as a writer; we recommend it highly. (about 24,000 words) Price: £2.50 Quantity:

The Black And White House - Bob Bridge Being born black in the southern States of the USA in the postwar years certainly did not represent a good start in life. Falling in love with a white girl, from a wealthy family, wasn't the wisest thing such a boy could do: making her pregnant was a good deal worse. But such was the lot of young Joshua Jenks. From such a beginning, though, Jenks moved up in the world, and quickly. He became a US Senator, having the ear of the President. It was to prove to be only the beginning of a life of intrigue and adventure. Street crime, hijackings, bomb plots, terrorism - all play their part as the plot moves along at a cracking, almost breathless, pace, keeping the reader guessing until the very end. Bob Bridge displays a sure hand again in "The Black And White House" as he develops his complex plot, just as he has done in his "Hell Bent" series. This book is excellent value for money. (about 60,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Murder - Bob Bridge Jim Bent had spent fifteen years in the Metropolitan Police Force, most of it in and around the seedier parts of London. And all he had to show for it were three broken marriages and, thanks to a robbery that had gone badly wrong, the remains of a bullet lodged in his back. Leaving the Force, because he reckoned it was a 'young man's game', he set himself up as a private detective with dreams of finding lost husbands and wives, and perhaps enjoying the odd discreet love affair. Perhaps he was tempting fate by setting up in the seedy patch he knew so well, but he didn't expect to be drawn into the twilight world of pimps, the girls who worked for them and the sadistic minders they employed. But that's just what happens. His first client wants her husband found, just like Jim's dreams. When the husband turns up dead, hanging in Jim's own garage, his dreams turn with astonishing speed into a nightmare of violence and death. "Hell Bent On Murder" necessarily contains descriptions of sexual acts and acts of violence. (about 43,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Blackmail - Bob Bridge The second volume in Bob Bridge's "Hell Bent" series, "Hell Bent On Blackmail" follows the career of private eye Jim Bent on another trawl through the seedy underworld of London. It follows on from "Hell Bent On Murder", but also stands alone as a complex amd compelling crime story. Fast-paced, racy, tortuous, this book is all these and more as it weaves in and out of London's clubland, the seedy streets of Soho, opulent country houses and the world of politics. On one level it is a terrific story that has been constructed with care to keep the readers guessing as parts of an intricate jigsaw gradually fit together, whilst on another level it is a masterful comparison of differing concepts of loyalty: the loyalty of brothers, of spouses and of true friends. The book contains certain passages that are not suitable for children. (about 51,000 words) Price: £4.00 Quantity:

Hell Bent On Revenge - Bob Bridge This, the third in the "Hell Bent" series, is another visit to the seedy underbelly of London. It weaves an intricate story that brings together a Polish seaman, a Chinese cook and an Italian family who run a pizza restaurant, showing the seemingly unlikely but ultimately entirely logical connection between these disparate elements. Jim Bent, the private detective around whom the series revolves, is hard pressed to keep up with the action as the body count grows and the finger of suspicion begins to point at a respected officer of the Metropolitan Police. After fighting his way through a series of misunderstandings and red herrings Jim is, when the final acts are played out, at home, asleep in bed: nevertherless, without his work the villain would have ended his days in luxury instead of spending years in prison. Lovers of crime drama will thoroughly enjoy the twists and turns as the story progresses and proves that even the best of us are subject to human fallibility. (about 45,000 words) Price: £3.50 Quantity:

Billy's Run - George Donald Billy Thomson was a drug user, a junkie. He was also in the employ of a Glasgow drug baron, Maxie McLean, and that was going to lead to his downfall. But Billy's demise was going to have some aftereffects. It was going to affect the life of the police officer who was chasing him at the time. It was also going to have a profound, but not necessarily wholly bad, effect on his junkie girlfriend, Angie, and his grandmother, who had raised him. Most of all, it was going to affect Maxie McLean because only Billy knew the whereabouts of a large, very large, sum of money belonging to Maxie, a sum earmarked for a big deal with another drug baron from England. Thus the scene was set for mayhem, but add into the mix a scheming wife and things become far, far more explosive. Exhibiting a thorough knowledge of police procedures, the book has a feeling of reality from the beginning which remains as the tension is cranked up, chapter by chapter. This is an exciting book from a writer of real talent and is more than worth its modest price. (about 87,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Charlie's Promise - George Donald "Charlie's Promise" is set in contemporary Glasgow and shows again the depth of the author's knowledge of police procedures. DS Charlie Miller has, it's accepted in the Force, a drink problem. Generally assigned to tasks that keep him as far away from the public as possible, a shortage of manpower when there is a suspicious city centre fire means that there is no alternative to putting Charlie in charge of the case. But there's a body, that of a 14 year old girl, an innocent victim of the fire. That, and the jibes of his fellow officers, stiffen Charlie's resolve to get his life and career back on track. Charlie faces another problem too - once he's identified the body and makes contact with the family he suddenly becomes of interest to Special Branch, as the family have connections with the IRA. As Charlie works through his investigation, helped by his increasingly sympathetic sidekick supplied by Special Branch, he trawls through a cast of odious characters, not all of whom are on the wrong side of the law. A fire, murders, a serial sex attacker and an apparently assaulted priest - are any or all of these connected? Can Charlie stay off the booze long enough to find out? As the tension is expertly cranked up in this excellently crafted novel towards its explosive climax it's almost impossible to read the words fast enough! (abour 106,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

A Question Of Balance - George Donald George Donald's third novel is again set in Glasgow, although it opens in the streets of Belfast at the height of the Troubles. It follows two friends, both ex-soldiers, in their police careers: the contrast between their relationship and that between two Glasgow crime syndicates is a constantly fascinating theme running behind the main action. That action focusses on the rivalry between those two syndicates. Duplicity, deceit and casual violence make this a fast-paced and exciting book to read, the body count rising as, in typical George Donald style, the tension grows inexorably. Entwined through the story and adding his own particular brand of menace is the enigmatic Harry Henderson, smart and gentlemanly on the outside, calculating, efficient and ruthless on the inside. Occasionally blurring the line between the bad guys and the good ones, 'A Question Of Balance' is crime writing at its best: reflecting real life with uncanny accuracy, it is highly recommended. (about 132,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Running Cold - Iain Brown Ex SEAL Forest Ranger, Dave Gilchrist, on a two week solitary patrol in a snow-covered Northern Montana National Park, is awakened in his tent by a light aircraft crashing close to his campsite near a small lake. In the dark he rushes to the wreck to find three dead occupants of the plane, which has the CIA logo on the side. He investigates the contents of a briefcase which he finds at the site and is horrified to read some of the documents within it and their implication for world peace. He reports the crash by radio to his Headquarters forty miles away then realises that if it is known that he has read the documents his life would be in danger. He panics, breaks camp and, taking the papers with him, heads north towards the Canadian border. The CIA find the papers are missing and they also panic and the chase to catch Gilchrist begins through a snow-encased Montana wilderness, in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Scenes alternate from the CIA, Forest Ranger Headquarters, the crash scene, the overland pursuit, and to Dave Gilchrist himself. There ensues a frantic manhunt through Montana and towards the Canadian border: who should Gilchrist trust, and who should he be wary of? Are the CIA closing in on him, or can he evade his pursuers? The tension mounts inexorably as the book heads rapdly towards its all too explosive climax. Skilfully written and executed, this book truly deserves to be called a thriller. (about 76,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

The Sanity Of Madness - Mary Lloyd In places graphically explicit but elsewhere surprisingly insightful, this is a story of crime and non-punishment. Imagine that the victim of a violent crime is a girl whose family are themselves involved in small-time crime. Imagine too that the perpetrator of that violent crime is acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of his barrister. What might the reaction of the victim's family be? They may feel anger towards that perpetrator, but that anger may be directed elsewhere too. In this quite singular novel that is what happens, setting in motion a chain of events that swing from violence through psychiatric breakdown to a final, emotional catharsis. (about 80,000 words) Price: £6.00 Quantity:

Weep Not The Widow - Mary Lloyd As one might expect from Mary Lloyd, 'Weep Not The Widow' is an unusually constructed book. Rather than being told as a narrative, the story of a major theft from an English country house unfolds in the form of a series of articles drawn from fictitious tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, from magazines and from transcripts of television news broadcasts. This approach leaves the reader to decide upon the accuracy of the 'reporting', and in turn upon the guilt or innocence of the young lady charged with the crime. It is a fascinating work that will exercise the mind long after the book has been read. (about 14,000 words) Price: £2.00 Quantity:

The Greater Evil (second version) - Torquil Cowan There are two versions of this book, of which this is the second, differing only in the way that they end. Both are set in New York, taking as their theme money-laundering and the use of bankers prepared to turn a blind eye to the sources of large foreign currency deposits. Both versions also tell a thrilling, fast-moving story in which the lifestyles of the wealthy, built upon the profits of illegal activities, are compared to those of the law enforcers. That may be an unfair comparison, but as the body count grows - rapidly! - the balance swings inexorably the other way. In the second version the two anti-heroes again meet their deserved destiny together but the acts they perform and those which affect them so profoundly are purely criminal in nature. This version does not feature terrorism in its story, as the first does, but the ending is no less explosive. (about 103,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

The Greater Evil (First Version) - Torquil Cowan There are two versions of this book, of which this is the first, differing only in the way they end. Both are set in New York, taking as their theme money-laundering and the use of bankers prepared to turn a blind eye to the sources of large foreign currency deposits. Both versions also tell a thrilling, fast-moving story in which the lifestyles of the wealthy, built upon the profits of illegal activities, are compared to those of the law enforcers. That may be an unfair comparison, but as the body count grows - rapidly! - the balance swings inexorably the other way. In the first version the two anti-heroes meet their deserved destiny together as the terrible events of 9 September 2001 unfold just a few blocks away: amid the unfolding carnage, do a few extra bodies really matter? (about 103,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Murder Forgotten - Michael Raine After a particularly violent storm one night Chelford Manor's carefully tended gardens suffered at nature's hand: trees and shrubs were uprooted, to Lady Bessington's distress. Although the gardens were now the responsibility of the National Trust she felt the damage keenly; much more so when a body was discovered among the roots of a flattened wisteria. That raised questions in which the local police took a keen interest: who the corpse was, how long it had been under the wisteria and, most importantly, how had it come to be there. The fact that the back of the skull had been crushed by a blunt object was discovered quickly; it took a little longer to discover that the body had been in the ground for some thirty years. The whole Bessington family gave the impression that while they were prepared to help the police in their enquiries there was only so much they were prepared to say. Lady Bessington could, at 82, use her advanced years as a means of avoiding searching enquiries. Her daughter Pamela was, though, just as obtuse. Of the sons, Robert had died from the consequences of a car crash, Philip was a concert violinist of international reknown and rarely in the country whilst Jack, well, Jack wasn't a son of the family at all and anyway had disappeared. What ensues is a challenging case for Detective Inspector Hambley, taxing his intellect and ingenuity to the limit as he tracks down the link between his corpse and a murder in Soho thirty years later and pieces together the roles played by Lady Bessington and her family in the circumstances surrounding both murders. It is a captivating and compelling story by a superb writer: it is highly recommended. (about 64,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Aligram - Michael Raine An art dealer is murdered; it is a crime that has no apparent motive, at least until that murder is swiftly followed by another, this time of a museum curator. The young reporter covering the murders quickly realises the two crimes are connected and that the murderer is searching for something specific. What that something might be is, at first, not at all clear. That reporter's interest in the case sets in motion a chain of events that will take him to Italy, in company with others, and to the wilds of the Middle East against his will before his life returns to normality. It is a chain of events, driven by religious dogma, that threatens many lives, his own included, and claims many along the way as it becomes clear what the mystery object being sought for actually is. Before long the Israelis, in the form of Mossad, and a ruthless terrorist organisation are involved; the body count rises inexorably as the pursuit gains pace and spreads overseas. This is an exciting story, one that makes the reader want to know what happens next from beginning to end. It is peopled with characters who are ordinary, eccentric, devious, violent, or indeed combinations of any or all of these facets. It's an unusual, quite brilliantly crafted story that stands in marked contrast to Michael Raine's other work whilst being well up to the standard we've come to expect from a very clever writer. We recommend this book very highly indeed: it does contain strong language in places. (about 82,000 words) Price: £5.00 Quantity:

Target Singapore - Braid Anderson When Colonel Chris Teo of the Singapore Military Intelligence was given the brief to set up a new organisation, he was of course intrigued. This new force had been set up to investigate and, hopefully, stop the recent spate of terrorist activities that had been plaguing Singapore and its surrounding neighbours. With Iain Brodie, Thumbs Green, Angie Patel and other soldiers recently trained by the British SAS-SBS, Chris Teo began uncovering a web of intrigue that went far beyond a few isolated bombings and shootings. It came to light that a new, deadly form of the HIV virus had been developed and was being carried by high-class call-girls who then sold their ‘favours’ to political leaders all over the world. Not only that, a General Election was looming in Singapore and there was a plot brewing to assassinate the President. Meanwhile, Teo’s soldiers, now called ‘Brodie’s Brats,’ were beginning to make their presence felt, and the brains behind the bombings were starting to get worried. At the same time, a new French nuclear submarine was heading towards the Malacca Straights with a deadly payload and instructions to launch… This rip-roaring read by Braid Anderson is an absolute cracker from beginning to end and will keep the reader enthralled from the first sentence. It’s highly recommended…no, it’s very highly recommended. (about 137,000 words) Price: £5.75 Quantity:

Body Language - Liam Leddy Set in Glasgow and bearing all the hallmarks of the author's lifetime of familiarity with the streets of the city, the book is written in the language that is common in those streets. Sometimes, for those of us not familiar with the accent, it's necessary to stop and think about what's being said but that's all part of the attraction of this brilliantly crafted novel. It bears what we've come to know as the Liam Leddy hallmark - truly unexpected twists and turns, outcomes that don't just merely surprise but which are truly stunning and the sort of controlled writing of a master wordsmith. The language employed by the characters in the book is from time to time strong, but that's how it is in any town or city, not just Glasgow. It adds to the gritty realism of a truly fine piece of crime fiction which we recommend very strongly indeed. (About 97,000 words) Price: £5.75 Quantity:

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