n the summer of AD 44, tense undercurrents amongst the tribe of nominally friendly Atrebatans are ready to explode into open revolt. It falls to Centurions Macro and Cato to provide aged ruler Verica with an army. With a scratch force of raw...
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Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier—elevating a popular genre with his...
GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER: FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY...
Times are getting hard in Texas. Lady Holt, a powerful rancher who moved there from England, has set her sights on taking over the whole state, and she doesn’t much care about the law…or folks’ lives. The next step in her plan is to get rid of...
They need all their wits to survive. But a language barrier could leave them dead in the water.
Anne-Marie Legrand is excited to begin her career as an au pair in Sweden. But when the young Swiss woman’s flight from Geneva is struck by...
“Hawke is a fast-paced adventure… truly an exciting read,” says Nelson DeMille. “Rich, spellbinding, and absorbing, Hawke is packed with surprises,” raves Clive Cussler. Readers beware, this stunning, high-caliber thriller is not...
Returning to Rome from a forced sabbatical, a Jesuit cardinal discovers that a dark force born of vengeance from an ancient religion has been unleashed against the world. Thrust into an end-game scenario, the cardinal joins with a dedicated team of...
‘A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time’ John le Carré
In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric...
A deadly relic. A lethal enemy. A fatal countdown.
When a crack team of Congolese and Belgian mercenaries steal an ancient relic with a deadly secret, Hawke and the rest of the ECHO team are offered the task of retrieving the stolen object.
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About ten years ago Mrs. Millar and her husband, writer Ross Macdonald, settled on the outskirts of Santa Barbara in a wooded canyon which was alive with birds and other wild creatures. Her book is first of all an account of their growing intimacy...