It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son...
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The Agency had turned Paul Kavanagh down for a job — because he thought too much. As Agent Dattner put it at the final interview, “we need a man with a short circuit in his brain so that the process of independent thought is bypassed.”
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A fair green planet will always be bait to the interstellar explorer-colonist type. But when a planet has some mysterious killer-characteristic—then it’s “sucker...
A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a...
Sucker for...
Sucker...
Anne Billson's debut novel is part horror story, part satire and has been praised by (among others) Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Carroll and Christopher Fowler, who in Time Out called it 'dark, sharp, chic and very funny'. It's set at the end of the...
Sucking daughter, bucking...
When an EMP wipes out Britain’s power grid, four strangers are forced to band together to survive.
The power’s out, the water’s gone and cars have stopped working. Two hundred miles from home, Annie soon suspects the cause, but accepting...