It is 1807 and portrait painter Charles Corday, charged with the murder of a Countess he was in the process of painting, has only seven days to live. Political pressures make it expedient for the Home Office to confirm his guilt. The man...
Set in a remote corner of Wiltshire, Mordon research centre is not a pretty place. From the surrounding road you come to double fences of barbed wire. They are 15 feet high, sloping at the top, and patrolled at night by armed guards with...
Ancient Rome, 130 years after Christ but still two centuries before Christians achieve state recognition. Caesar Hadrian is the ruler of a vast Empire at the height of its wealth & power. One of "the five good emperors", Hadrian dominates a...
It was true — it was all true — and we were never meant to be there.
In December 2018, Ben Cartwright, former Special Forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers, followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of...
Extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the world, and baffled scientists are unable to discover the cause.
The most powerful hurricane in history approaches New York, while at the same time atmospheric rivers flood Las Vegas.
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When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks Ajax and his crew have been making...
This is the first of Dennis Wheatley's famous historical series in which appears the young man who was afterwards to become Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent: Roger Brook.
The scene is the England of George III and the France...