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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer.

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One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award...

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher; or The Murder at Road Hill House, By Kate Summerscale.

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It is a summer's night in 1860. 
In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. 
Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep, at some point after midnight a dog barks.

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The Big Weird by Christopher G. Moore.

 

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The fifth novel in the internationally published Vincent Calvino series finds a beautiful American blond girl dead with a large bullet hole in her head.

Police to discover the body in the house of her ex-boyfriend.

A famous Hollywood screen writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide.

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The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden.

 

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In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures.

Idi Amin.

Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante.

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The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay

 

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It’s the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe.

Hundreds of people are going to the hospital with similar flu-like symptoms and dozens have died.

Investigators quickly zero in on the water supply.

But the question for many, including private investigator Cal Weaver, remains.

Who would benefit from a mass poisoning of this town?

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Fabrice Muamba: I'm Still Standing by Fabrice Muamba.

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Fabrice Muamba: I'm Still Standing is one of the books of the year. 
A life affirming tale of courage and triumph that will surprise, fascinate and ultimately inspire you. 
THEY say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. 

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Heroes by John Pilger.

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The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle East and Central America. 
They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great great grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering 'unlawful oaths'. 

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Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival in a Thai Prison by Andy Botts.

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Andy Botts began his criminal activities as a young 'car banger' in his native Hawaii before graduating to drug dealing and trafficking. 
After a number of successful and highly lucrative drug runs to Bangkok and Bali (though not without some chillingly close calls), Botts was betrayed by a close associate. 

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Company Commander by Russell Lewis.

 

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2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of 200 soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six month tour in the worst and most dangerous part of Afghanistan.

Living in a remote base and under constant threat of attack from all sides by the Taliban, they were on red alert 24 hours a day, seven days a week for every one of those six months.

In the War section at Canterbury Tales Book exchange

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Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

 

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During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios, or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity, dope dealing.

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The Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum.

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American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortress-like mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. 

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I heard you paint houses by Charles Brandt.

 

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I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran.

To paint a house is to kill a man.

The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors.

In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty five hits for the Mob,

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The Rooster Bar by John Grisham .

 

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John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.

 

Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place.

But now, as third year students, these close friends realize they have been duped.

They all borrowed heavily to attend a third tier, for profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs.

And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.

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Personal by Lee Child.

 

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You can leave the army, but the army does not ever leave you.

Not always.

Not completely, notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service, this time, for the State Department and the CIA.

Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light.

The bullet was American.

The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from over three quarters of a mile with total confidence?

Very few, but John Kott, an American marksman gone bad, is one of them.

After fifteen years stuck in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.

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Silent Witness by Richard North Patterson.

 

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It's 1967, Lake City, Ohio.

Sam Robb and Tony Lord are both in their teens, also best friends as well as great athletic rivals.

Twenty eight years later, Tony is a really high flier and a successful San Francisco attorney; Sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School.

Sam has never left home, Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life, the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone, even Sam, against him.

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The Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith, by Arthur J. Magida

 

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A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case says about the role of clergy in America.

 

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One Last Job by Tom Pettifor & Nick Sommerlad 

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One Last Job: the extraordinary life of Brian Reader, Britain’s most prolific robber, from the Krays to Brink’s-Mat and the Hatton Garden heist.

The iconic £14million Hatton Garden raid of 2015 has already entered criminal folklore. 
 

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Nightshade (Jack Nightingale #4) by Stephen Leather.

 

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The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl.

 

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Sweden's elite are under attack.

Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic and media hysteria, a task force has been created to catch the killer.

To his surprise, Detective Paul Hjelm, currently under investigation for misconduct after shooting a man who took the staff of an immigration office hostage, is summoned to join the new team.

 

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Broken Angels by Graham Masterton

 

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One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a bundle of rags floating in the Blackwater River.

 

It is the bloated body of Father Heaney.

His hands and feet are bound, and his neck bears the marks of garrotting wire.

Worse still, he has been castrated.

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The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne

 

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A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.

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The Fix by David Baldacci.

 

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David Baldacci's remarkable detective Amos Decker, the man who can forget nothing, was first introduced in the sensational Memory Man.

Now Decker returns in a stunning new novel....

 

The Fix

 

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters.

A man shoots a woman execution style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.