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500 pages and over 100 photo's

 

Featuring Portraits of Guilt by Jeanne Boylan - Endeavour by Peter Aughton - Trackers by Peter Haran & Icing on the Damper by Marie Mahood....

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Odd Man Out: My Life on the Loose and the Truth about the Great Train Robbery by Ronald Biggs

 

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Sometimes only the most hackneyed cliché will do: there's no getting away from it - Ronald Biggs is a legend in his own lifetime.

A member of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery, he has come to personify the notoriety, excitement and drama of what was the biggest and most daring crime in British history.

No one has run more rings round Scotland Yard , nor eluded more bounty hunters.

Today he lives in Rio de Janeiro as a law-abiding citizen but a fugitive from British justice.

 

Just after three o'clock on the morning of Thursday 8 August 1963, on a stretch of railway track in Buckinghamshire, sixteen men ambushed the Glasgow-to-London mail train.

Their total haul that night was £2,631,784 - worth over £26 million at today's rates.

 

Having made a successful getaway from the scene of the crime, Biggs - along with most of the other gang members - was subsequently captured; he received a thirty-year jail sentence.

But within fifteen months he had made a spectacular escape from Wandsworth Prison, and he has been on the loose ever since.

 

In 'Odd Man Out' Ronald Biggs speaks openly about the robbery and his years on the run, and for the first time divulges just how he has eluded justice for so long.

He also talks about his life now, in Brazil, where he remains a hero of popular mythology, courted by the music and film industries, the media and the whole nation.

His account is both revealing and highly entertaining; here is the tale of a man who is truly the quintessential lovable rogue of our time - and perhaps all time.

A rogue who remains, thirty years on, the odd man out.

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Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

 

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A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding factor in why Campania, for instance, has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years.

 

Saviano tells of huge cargoes of Chinese goods that are shipped to Naples and then quickly distributed unchecked across Europe. He investigates the Camorra's control of thousands of Chinese factories contracted to manufacture fashion goods, legally and illegally, for distribution around the world, and relates the chilling details of how the abusive handling of toxic waste is causing devastating pollution not only for Naples but also China and Somalia.

In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer, a waiter at a Camorra wedding, and on a construction site.

A native of the region, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to aid an eighteen-year-old victim who had been left for dead in the street.

 

Gomorrah is a bold and important work of investigative writing that holds global significance, one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.

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The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End. . . .

 

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This book is a window into the world of Danny Dyer - and he's seen more of the world than most so he's got one or two things to say about it.

 

Tackling such vital questions as 'Where have all the old school boozers gone?'

'Are there such things as ghosts?' and 'Am I middle class?' Danny shares his unique take on life with characteristic honesty and humour and reveals why it is that:

 

· What goes around comes around - he learnt the hard way

· You can take the boy out of the East End but you can't take the East End out of the boy

· Harold Pinter is a diamond geezer

· He told the media training expert to do one

· Science can prove that West Ham are the best football club in the world

· Him and Joanne are like a team - he's Paul Gascoigne, she's David Batty

· The human race isn't evolved enough for Twitter

 

So, hold on to your titfer, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

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The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and Its Astonishing Aftermath by Michael Griesbach...

 

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An instant true crime classic, this is the story one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

But two years after he was exonerated of that crime, and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven Avery was arrested for the exceptionally brutal murder of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach, who had gone missing several days earlier.

The Innocent Man had turned into a cold blooded killer.

Or had he?

This is narrative non-fiction at its finest.

A page-turning true crime thriller.

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Time of Death by Mark Billingham

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Time Of Death…

The Missing
Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and from which she long ago escaped. 
But this is a place full of Secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried.

The Accused
When it's splashed all over the press that family man Stephen Bates has been arrested, Helen and her partner Tom Thorne head to the flooded town to support Bates' wife ­ an old school friend of Helen¹s ­ living under siege with two teenage children and convinced of her husband's innocence.

The Dead
As residents and media bay for Bates' blood, a decomposing body is found. The police believe they have their murderer in custody, but one man believes otherwise. 
With a girl still missing, Thorne sets himself on a collision course with local police, townsfolk ­ and a merciless killer.

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Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell. . . . .

 

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A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, FOOLS AND MORTALS takes us into the heart of the Elizabethan era, long one of his favourite periods of British history.

 

Fools and Mortals follows the young Richard Shakespeare, an actor struggling to make his way in a company dominated by his estranged older brother, William.

As the growth of theatre blooms, their rivalry and that of the playhouses, playwrights and actors vying for acclaim and glory; propels a high-stakes story of conflict and betrayal.

 

Showcasing his renowned storyteller’s skill, Bernard Cornwell has created an Elizabethan world incredibly rich in its portrayal: you walk the London streets, stand in the palaces and are on stage in the playhouses, as he weaves a remarkable story in which performances, rivalries and ambition combine to form a tangled web of intrigue.

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Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides

by Christian G. Appy...

 

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In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation.

The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975.

 

The testimony in this book, sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, allows us to see and feel what this war meant to people on all sides - Americans and Vietnamese, generals and guerillas, policy makers and protesters, CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people.

 

A remarkable, eye-opening and essential read for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts.

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Harpoon by C.W. Nicol

 

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19th century Japan, where the thrust of the United States has opened a closed land.

For a brave and noble samurai warrior like Sadayori, this confrontation between East and West means making a choice between the old and the new, and fighting to the death for it. For a daring seaman like Jinsuke, it means entering the camp of the intruders to learn their ways, and being torn between the beautiful Japanese girl he has loved and left, and the American woman he cannot resist.

Here is the most magnificent saga since Shogun-an epic of the clash of cultures, alive with breathtaking adventure.

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Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon

 

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John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history.

As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970's with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save the Queen'. So revolutionary was his influence, he was even discussed in the Houses of Parliament, under the Traitors and Treasons Act, which still carries the death penalty.

Via his music and invective he spearheaded a generation of young people across the world who were clamouring for change and found it in the style and attitude of this most unlikely figurehead.

 

With his next band, Public Image Ltd (PiL) Lydon expressed an equally urgent impulse in his make-up, the constant need to reinvent himself, to keep moving. From their beginnings in 1978 he set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive in the 2010s. He also found time for making innovative new dance records with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield.

 

Following the release of a solo record in 1997, John took a sabbatical from his music career into other media, most memorably his own Rotten TV show for VH1 and as the most outrageous contestant ever on I'm a Celebrity…. Get Me Out of Here! He then fronted the Megabugs series and one-off nature documentaries and even turned his hand to a series of much loved TV advertisements for Country Life butter.

 

Lydon has remained a compelling and dynamic figure, both as a musician, and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, yet always heartfelt and honest statements, as a cultural commentator.

 

The book a fresh and mature look back on a life full of incident from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents who grew up in post-war London, to his present status as a vibrant, alternative national hero.

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson. . . . . .

 

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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters.

To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil.

To generals, it’s the sinews of war.

To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor.

But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress.

What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, with the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money?

What do banks do?

What’s the difference between a stock and a bond?

Why buy insurance or real estate?

And what exactly does a hedge fund do?

This is history for the present.

Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe, he delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

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The Killing Kind by M. William Phelps....

 

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She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer's first victim. Nor would she be his last.

 

The lush, green hills that mark the border of North and South Carolina are home to a close-knit community. When the savaged remains of high-spirited Heather Catterton and sweet-natured Randi Saldana were found and a local man was linked to their murders, residents were forced to face an evil in their midst. The killer was one of their own . . .

 

Danny Hembree was far from being an upright, law-abiding citizen. But he was part of the fabric of the local scene, devoted to his mother and sister. No one saw him as a remorseless killer who preyed on those who trusted him. When questioned by police, Hembree didn't just play cat-and-mouse and then confess. He bragged. Taunted. Laughed about his merciless deeds.

 

In The Killing Kind acclaimed, award-winning investigative crime journalist M. William Phelps delves into the background of Hembree's victims, bringing readers into their lives in intimate detail. With exclusive information from detectives and prosecutors, Phelps reconstructs the chilling clues that led to Hembree's arrest, and the media sensation surrounding his trial, mistrial, and ultimate conviction.

 

As the victims' loved ones attempt to heal, Hembree continues to widen the scope of his crimes from behind bars. M. William Phelps draws on interviews and correspondence with the serial killer himself, bringing readers into the mind of a murderer - and into the heart of a real-life story of bloodshed, tears, and the long road to justice.

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The Gun Room by Georgina Harding

 

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Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career.

The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war.

But what he has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees.

 

Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossom.

And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat of the summer.

 

Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past.

 

The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.

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The Big Bad City (87th Precinct #49) by Ed McBain

 

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In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind.

Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the front page.

She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station.

Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has a most unusual past.

Meanwhile, the late-night news tracks the exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves his calling card, a box of chocolate chip cookies, at the scene of each score.

And while the detectives of the 87th Precinct are investigating these cases, one of them is being stalked by the man who killed his father.

 

Welcome to the Big Bad City.

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Name To A Face by Robert Goddard...& others . .

 

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A sequence of extraordinary events over the past 300 years.

A chain of intrigue, deceit, greed and murder.

 

The loss of H.M.S. Association with all hands in 1707.

 

An admiralty clerk's secret mission thirty years after.

 

A fatal accident during a dive to the wreck in 1996.

 

An expatriate's reluctant return home ten years later. The simple task he has come to accomplish, shown to be anything but.

A woman he recognises but cannot identify.

 

A conspiracy of circumstances that is about to unravel his life. And with it, the past.

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The Last Brother by Andrew Gross.....

 

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From International Number One Bestseller Andrew Gross, The Last Brother is the thrilling historical novel about three brothers and the Mafia in 1930's New York.

Published in the USA as Button Man.

 

United by blood

1930s New York City. Three brothers grow up poor on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forces them to find work to support their family. Each brother takes a different path.

 

Divided by ambition

Twelve-year-old Morris Rabishevsky apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer with the aim of running the business. Sol, six years older, heads to accounting school but is forced to drop out.

Scarred by a family tragedy, Harry falls under the spell of the charismatic Louis Buchalter, who in a few short years becomes the most ruthless mobster in town.

 

Torn apart by conflict

Morris convinces Sol to go into business with him, but Harry can’t be lured away from the glamour, power and money of the mob.

As their business grows, Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that control the garment maker’s factories, setting up a fatal showdown that could bring them together or shatter their family forever.

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Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Cicero #1) by Robert Harris.....

 

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When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history.

The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres.

The senator is Marcus Cicero, an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium, supreme power in the state.

 

Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro, the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) was always by his side.

 

Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his, or any other, age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.

 

Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own, a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism, to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.

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Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon. . . .

 

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When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective.

He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know.

He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers, by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace.

There was always a trace, Gurney believed.

 

Except what if one day there wasn’t?

 

Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying once again to adjust to his country house’s bucolic rhythms when he receives a call about a case so seductively bewildering that the thought of not looking into it seems unimaginable, even if his beloved wife, Madeleine, would rather he do anything but.

 

The facts of what has occurred are horrible: a blushing bride, newly wed to an eminent psychiatrist and just minutes from hearing her congratulatory toast, is found decapitated, her head apparently severed by a machete.

Though police investigators believe that a Mexican gardener killed the young woman in a fit of jealous fury, the victim’s mother, a chilly high-society beauty is having none of it. Reluctantly drawn in, Dave is quickly buffeted by a series of revelations that transform the bizarrely monstrous into the monstrously bizarre.

 

Underneath it all may exist one of the darkest criminal schemes imaginable.

And as Gurney begins deciphering its grotesque outlines, some of his most cherished assumptions about himself are challenged, causing him to stare into an abyss so deep that it threatens to swallow not just him but Madeleine, too.

Desperate to protect Madeleine and bring an end to the madness, Gurney ultimately discovers that the killer has left a trace after all.

Unfortunately, the revelation may come too late to save his own life.

 

With Shut Your Eyes Tight, John Verdon delivers on the promise of his internationally bestselling debut, Think of a Number, creating a portrait of evil let loose across generations that is as rife with moments of touching humanity as it is with spellbinding images of perversity.

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The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas............

 

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At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.

 

This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap.

 

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue.

The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.

 

What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity, all the passions and conflicting beliefs that family can arouse.

In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of commitment and happiness, compromise and truth.

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Edmund Kemper: The True Story of The Co-ed Killer

(True Crime by Evil Killers #2) by Jack Rosewood

 

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American serial killer Edmund Kemper III stalked co-eds in California at the height of the era of peace and free love, dismembering his victims and tossing their body parts in remote areas around Santa Cruz.

 

As pieces of young women began washing up on shore and turning up alongside rural highways, female residents,

especially college students, were decidedly on edge.

 

A lust killer who savored the act of decapitating his victims and often used their severed heads for sexual pleasure, Kemper’s story is particularly twisted among historical serial killers.

 

Still, the true crime tale of Edmund Kemper is particularly fascinating, because the man many people called “a gentle giant” was a near genius whose cunning manipulation of others made him particularly depraved and dangerous.

 

This true crime story, a detailed biography of one of the most psychopathic serial killers of our time, shares some insight into the troubled childhood and awkward nature that led the American serial killer to take 10 lives, including those of six pretty coeds, his paternal grandparents, his calculatingly cruel mother and his mother’s best friend.

 

Among historical serial killers, Kemper is especially depraved, since he included necrophilia and cannibalism in his gruesome mix of sordid criminal activity.

 

Ultimately, Kemper’s murderous inclinations and urges to kill were satisfied after he bludgeoned to death his mother, a woman he’d hated since he was eight years old, and he turned himself in.

But if he hadn’t finally acted on his long-held fantasy to end his mother’s life, he might still be trolling California highways, getting away with murder.

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Playing with Fire by Kerry Wilkinson. . . .

 

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Those who play with fire are going to get burned...

 

Seven years ago Martin Chadwick set fire to a Manchester pub, not knowing a teenager was sleeping inside.

Chadwick’s release from prison is imminent, with journalists gearing up for a good old-fashioned media lynching.

With the victim’s father telling the papers he is out for revenge, DS Jessica Daniel is left to keep an eye on Chadwick and his fiery eighteen-year-old son.

 

If that's not enough to keep her occupied, a private investigator is doing a fine job sticking his oar in, it looks like there's a schoolgirl suicide ring in operation, her car is working a little too well, and the endless rain continues to pound her northern home.

 

Jessica's personal and professional life is in the balance giving her barely enough time to focus on the person in her midst seemingly intent on burning everything to the ground.

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The Double Game by Dan Fesperman...

 

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A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy.

For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career in journalism.

 

More than two decades later, Cage, now a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper into Lemaster’s pronouncement.

Spiked with cryptic references to some of Cage’s favorite spy novels, the note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that lead him back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, each instruction drawing him closer to the complex truth, each giving rise to more questions:

Why is beautiful Litzi Strauss back in his life after thirty years?

How much of his father’s job involved the CIA?

As the events of Lemaster’s past eerily and dangerously begin intersecting with those of Cage’s own, a “long stalemate of secrecy” may finally be coming to an end.

 

A story about spies and their Secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, duplicity and loyalty, The Double Game ingeniously taps the espionage classics of the Cold War to build a spellbinding maze of intrigue.

It is Dan Fesperman’s most audacious, suspenseful, and satisfying novel yet.

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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell...

 

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Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life.

But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.

 

For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics and their enemies.

But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves even the ones who are not yet born.

 

A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list, all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.

 

Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer who calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”

 

An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation.

His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure, it is fiction at its most spellbinding.

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