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May 2016
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Thriller / suspenseThe Unwanted
by James Mckenna
Fed up with habitual criminals using prison as a temporary hotel? Directus Iurisdictio has an ancient alternative. Sean Fagan of SOCA is sent undercover to investigate the dark structure of a secret network that executes habitual criminals, dishonest MPs, greedy bankers and spying policemen. Aided by Victoria Lawless of MI5, Fagan allows himself to be enticed by two beautiful sisters to join a medieval judicial system whose tentacles stretch from street to Government, a judicial system which saves the country billions and cuts the crime rate to near zero. Discovering criminals on a national scale have died or vanished without trace, Fagan realises a powerful and organised force is executing the most ancient system of social retribution. Finding Fagan is a spy and not a potential recruit, Directus Iurisdictio order his immediate execution. Knowing the secret order has infiltrated police, the SIS, Whitehall and Government, Fagan has nowhere to turn and only his own skills to extract him from certain death.
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FictionJuly 2016New King Palmers
by Peter Cowlam
Winner of the 2018 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction. Set in the late 1990s, in the months up to and after the death of Princess Diana, New King Palmers is narrated by its principal character Humfrey Joel, a close friend of Earl Eliot d’Oc. The earl’s ancestry is bound up with the Habsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. D’Oc is a member of the British Privy Council and a close friend of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. In the months preceding Diana’s death, he commissions a young theatre professional to develop a play. The play’s theme is constitutional issues surrounding Prince Charles, with the heir’s interests served by UK withdrawal from the EU, before it becomes a federal superstate. The commissioned play is called New King Palmers, and d’Oc maintains rigorous editorial control over it. When d’Oc’s death shortly follows Diana’s, Joel is named as d’Oc’s literary executor, with the task of bringing the play to the English stage. Supposedly written into the text is an encoded message from the British Privy Council on behalf of the House of Windsor, addressed to the stewards of the EU. When news of this leaks out no one in the British literary and theatrical worlds believes it. In fact most come to see Earl d’Oc as an invented character behind which Joel shields himself, when his own motives are themselves sinister. So sinister, an MI5 spook is put on the case. Available at Amazon and other online retailers.
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Thriller / suspenseApril 2014The Uncounted
by James McKenna
Detective Inspector Sean Fagan of SOCA investigates the Agency, a criminal fraternity trafficking illegal immigrants. Trapped in a wretched world of modern slavery and barbaric killings, Jelena, an illegal from Kosovo dreams of freedom, but violent forces which shaped her adolescence still dominate her life. Jelena is given to an Islamic terror cell as a disposable chattel and finds herself locked in a luxury flat with millions of virus contaminated bank notes. Death seems certain until events reunite her with Gavrilo, the boy she had known and loved when both were adolescents. As Fagan closes, a bomb containing enough Anthrax to kill thousands is unwittingly carried by Gavrilo into Central London. Fagan and team desperately search as the timing device ticks to detonation.
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Thriller / suspenseApril 2014The Unseen
by James Mckenna
Next time you switch on your computer are the unseen waiting to enter your mind, or are they already there? DI Sean Fagan investigates the ritual murder of three young women and finds link between each victim and the world's most popular computer game, Princess Kay-ling. When police high-tech units examine hard drives taken from the murder victims' PCs, traces of subliminal psychotic induction are found. This induces victims to trust and obey characters from the game. These characters then order the women to remote places or use this trust to gain entry into their homes. When a fourth woman is murdered in Ireland, Sean realises he hunts a serial killer capable of global influence. He also discovers the Government is aware and observing, When his own young daughters become involved, nightmare encircles him.
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August 2020The Doors of Eden
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The world is stranger and more dangerous than they’d thought. Lee’s best friend Mal went missing four years ago on Bodmin Moor, when the pair were chasing rumours of monsters. Now Mal is back, but where has she been? Who is she working for? When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the investigation leads MI5’s Julian Sabreur deep into terrifying new territory, where he clashes with mysterious agents of an unknown power. Julian’s only clue is some grainy footage of a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Khan’s extradimensional research was purely theoretical, until she found cracks between our world and parallel earths where monsters live. These cracks are getting wider every day, who knows what might creep through? What will happen when those walls come crashing down?
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FictionJune 2016The Chechen Assassination Plot
by Antony Tobias
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS this is a tale of International espionage, illegal arms, love, deceit and murder. It's 1993 and the Russian state of Chechnya is threatening independence. Russia's oilfields are in Chechnya and the Russians are desperate to keep hold of them. Self- proclaimed Chechen President Dudayev sends Mikhail Kaynskov and his brother to London as Ambassadors, to seek recognition for an independent Chechnya. They are also commissioned to buy arms from a corrupt MOD official to defend Chechnya against Russia. Kaynskov has unlimited funds, a passion for high living - and prostitutes. The KGB blackmail two Armenian petty criminals, Gregor and Rostya to go to London and carry out a mission for Russia, to put a stop to Chechnya's plans. KGB Agent Vee kills Kaynskov's London contact, takes his place and establishes Gregor and Rostya as the Ambassadors' assistants. MI5, under the watchful eye of Andrew Harrigan and The Foreign Office are aware that British involvement could end in another cold war so follow developments, merely monitoring the situation. The Armenians fail to abort the arms deal. Agent Vee receives instructions from the KGB and orders the Armenians to eliminate the Ambassador. Unwillingly, Gregor and Rostan carry out the murders. Through a mixture of incompetence and greed the bodies are discovered in a cardboard packing case by the delivery driver and the Armenians are arrested. Whilst on remand Gregor becomes suicidal and tries to persuade his lawyer, Leon Chainey, to arrange a deal with MI5 in exchange for information about the KGB. He knows that if the KGB find out they will kill him so Chainey arranges for him to be moved to Belmarsh high security prison for safety. In Chechnya the situation worsens, Dudayev - desperate for arms, sends more 'diplomats' to London and a hit man called Vasler to avenge the deaths of his Ambassadors, the Kaynskov brothers. But Vasler does not stop at the killers. This bizarre trail of events are subsequently unveiled through the London courts of justice and the news media. Meanwhile in Chechnya a war with Russia develops, which continues to this day.
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Thriller / suspenseMarch 2017Deadly Game
by Matt Johnson
Reeling from the attempts on his life and that of his family, Police Inspector Robert Finlay returns to work to discover that any hope of a peaceful existence has been dashed.Assigned to investigate the Eastern European sex-slave industry just as a key witness is murdered. Finlay, along with his new partner Nina Brasov, finds himself facing a ruthless criminal gang, determined to keep controlof the traffic of people into the UK. On the home front, Finlay’s efforts to protect his wife and child may have been in vain, as an MI5 protection officer uncovers a covert secret service operation that threatens them all...Picking up where the bestselling Wicked Gameleft off, Deadly Gamesees Matt Johnson’s damaged hero fighting on two fronts. Aided by new allies, he must not only protect his family but save a colleague from an unseen enemy ... and a shocking fate
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Espionage & spy thrillerOctober 2012Countdown to Doomsday
by Brandon Rolfe
The UK's entire security network is mounted in an ultimate Red Alert deadline operation to avert cataclysmic disaster on a national scale. Islamic terrorism is poised to deliver its fiercest blow. The wrath of Allah let loose upon infidel Christians will be the mother of all holy chastisements -- in divine retribution for the mass slaughtering of Muslims by the demonic Western imperialists. An almighty and truly divine purging of the infidel worshippers -- that they be righteously smote down and cast into deep damnation to join their Devil. Zealous militants, the Jahidi, are sent forth on a holy mission that will wreak havoc across the country and send foreboding shock waves of the power of Islam throughout the Western world. Allah akbar! (God is great!).In a deathly race against time, MI5 and MI6 have the do or die task of thwarting this horrific doomsday threat -- their effort must succeed -- or it will be their last.
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2012Ears of the Wolf
by Brian Viner
Pelops is a Spetnatz-trained commando. This former East German soldier is hired by MI5 in a plot to ‘bury’ a failed military project. He allows no one to stand in his way and tell the tale. Marty Rebel is an insurance litigation investigator. Driving ambition and Celtic obstinacy compel him to seek answers to unheeded questions regarding the death of the assassin’s latest victim. A martial arts expert, he cowers in no man’s shadow; but he is pitted against an adversary aware of his every move. Mixed fortunes misdirect bullets meant for him, and then he survives his first one-on-one confrontation with Pelops. But Marty cannot halt his opponent’s rampage, nor determine its objective. The attention of Domino, an EEC-funded anti-terrorist group, is attracted. With these experienced, armed allies, Marty wages mortal battle; in pursuit of Pelops, from the Essex coast to the winter mist on the Channel Islands waters. Marty is determined to exact retribution – the assassin is hell-bent on survival…
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FictionReplica
by Lexi Revellian
REPLICA is a fast-paced thriller/romance you will find hard to put down.Beth Chandler, bright, attractive but unassertive, is accidentally replicated in a flawed experiment at the government research institute where she works. A second Beth comes into being, complete with all her memories. To Sir Peter Ellis, MI5 chief, the replica is an embarrassment that must be hushed up and disposed of. Overhearing him, Beth Two goes on the run. With no official existence, homeless, penniless and pursued by Sir Peter's agents, she has to find the inner strength and aggression to survive on icy London streets. Meanwhile the original Beth, unaware of what has happened, becomes romantically involved with Nick Cavanagh, the spec op she believes is there to protect her. In fact, he's hunting her double. Nick refuses to face his moral doubts about Beth Two - as far as he's concerned, it's not his problem. As events unfold, and the situation grows more complicated, he has to decide whose side he is on.
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Thriller / suspenseMarch 2003The Hostage
by Duncan. Falconer
When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton, SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA, his colleague is as good as dead.;But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro, US Navy SEAL on secondment, is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught, and her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella, though, is not the holy man he seems, and Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan, a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen ...;When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op', Kathryn returns home to America, only to be manipulated by a priest and secret IRA godfather into playing a political role in the negotiations for Hank's release. Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history, one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2014Abu Hamza: Guilty
The Fight Against Radical Islam
by Réda Hassaïne & Kurt Barling
This is an original story of how Abu Hamza, a relatively insignificant man became an international threat to peace. Recently, thousands of fighters have travelled from Europe and even the United States to support the new incarnation of IS in Iraq. What can be done to stem the flow? It is a battle of ideas the West is losing amongst a significant number of people in search of an alternative identity to the one they grew up with in the UK, Europe or the USA. One of the pressing questions for all of us is will this end up in more violence coming back home? Abu Hamza: Guilty follows an historical timeline. Starting in 1988, it helps the reader track the resurgence of Islamism in Algeria after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War. Réda stood for election as part of the radical Islamic party and fell out with them. _x001C_He was then blackmailed by the security services as the Algerian state clamped down on the Islamists._x001C__x001C_ Arriving in London, Réda continued spying for the French and Algerians, at the same time building a relationship with MI5. He was feeding powerful information to the police and secret services but no one appeared to be doing anything about it. Whilst Réda became more frustrated, Hamza became more powerful in the Al Qaeda network, acting as Europe’s Al Qaeda recruiter at Finsbury Park Mosque in North London. Eventually, after a battle which cost him his health and his marriage, Réda gave evidence which helped get Abu Hamza extradited to the US in 2012. The story culminates in the New York trial earlier this year which actually drew on some of the evidence presented as an eye-witness account in this book. Abu Hamza: Guilty – The fight against radical Islam provides the back-story and context to one of the highest profile terrorism cases in the United States in 2014. It reveals why in January 2015 Abu Hamza was sentenced to life imprisonment in one of America’s toughest jails. View book on Libri website
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March 2022More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
A Personal Narrative
by Chaloner Grenville Alabaster. Edited by David St Maur Sheil, Kwong Chi Man, and Tony Banham
More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British officials during the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at the Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. During his internment, he managed to keep a diary of his life in the camp in small notebooks and hid them until his release in 1945. He then wrote his wartime journal on the basis of these notes. The journal records his day-to-day experiences of the fall of Hong Kong, his time at Stanley, and his eventual release. Some of the most fascinating extracts cover the three months immediately after the fall of Hong Kong and when Alabaster and his colleagues were imprisoned in Prince’s Building in Central and before they were sent to the camp, a period little covered in previous publications. Hence, the book is an important primary source for understanding the daily operation of the Stanley Internment Camp and the camp’s environment. Readers will also learn more about the daily life of those imprisoned in the camp, and C. G. Alabaster’s interaction with other prisoners there.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMusic against walls in the Arab-Israeli conflict
by Ana Arambarri
With an agile, precise and sustained style Música Contra los Muros explores the influence of music on the human being in extreme circumstances. Different choral voices immerse the reader in the geopolitical labyrinth of the Middle East and tell a true and little-known story: that of famous musicians who canceled all their commitments and voluntarily traveled to Israel to encourage their compatriots who were fighting at the front. Against this backdrop, suggestive narrative threads are woven: the passionate romance of the pianist Daniel Barenboim with the cellist Jacqueline du Pré during the Six Day War; the account of Israeli soldiers, whose voices were censored for forty years, forced to participate in a war in which they did not believe; or the torn lives of thousands of Palestinians who, since the occupation, lost the right to a decent and dignified life. Hand in hand with a narrative strategy that recalls the New Journalism that emerged in the sixties, a reconciliation proposal is offered: the case of the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, made up of Arab, Israeli and Palestinian musicians, shows that thanks to music, coexistence is possible. Edward Said, a Palestinian thinker and philosopher, asked himself: Who knows how far we are going to be able to change the thoughts and convictions of these young people thanks to music? The energy of this interrogation continues to challenge the possibilities of the present, while confirming the success of an experience as unusual as it is fascinating.
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FictionOctober 2019Sealed With A Death
by James Silvester
The vaunted Red Mako, the new symbol of Brexit Britain, is about to launch to a fanfare of political grandeur, but not all are convinced it was worth the price. Barely escaping a botched mission with her life, Lucie Musilova is assigned a low profile case to regain her superior's trust. All across the country, women have been disappearing who each have something in common: all are European nationals, and all have been ignored by a disinterested media and a politically restrained police force cut to the bones. When a body is discovered and the case grows ever more personal, Lucie finds herself entwined in the seedy worlds of international defence contracts and government sanctioned prostitution as she fights corruption and far right violence to uncover the truth. But with her mentor injured and assassins on her tail, Lucie must use all her wits to avoid becoming the final seal in a deal for the country s very soul.
