Richard Mariner and his wife, Robin, are in the Indian Ocean on the trial voyage of a high-tech sailing boat designed, built, and owned by two Vietnam veterans, ‘Doc’ Weary and Sam Hood, when they encounter a burning freighter.
She has been...
The war with the machines has ended… and only the children remain.
They are born and bred in cold, clinical, sterile compounds. Machines watch over them, educate them, raise them into docile, compliant slaves for the new world order. But Zina...
Presents the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. From the tragedy of Coriolanus, to the Punic...
3 Aug 1935 - 11 Aug 1935
"MIDNIGHT at the Casino" is the first chapter heading in this strange story of international intrigue wherein 'planes flit by night to secret landing-grounds and lightless launches nose their way up narrow creeks in a low...
No Jolly Roger, no cannonballs whining across the Caribbean seas, no shrieking rabble of half-dressed, bearded cut-throats tumbling into the ship; none of these heralded the arrival of the Nylon Pirates. For they were the pirates of the...