Download E-books City of Ice: A Novel PDF

By John Farrow

A faculty child in a Santa Claus swimsuit is tortured, murdered, and left striking from a meat hook on Christmas Eve--a present meant for one specific cop.
        
Reminiscent of Smilla's feel of Snow, this gripping debut mystery set in bone-chilling midwinter Montreal good points the most compelling new heroes to emerge in crime fiction: Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars. an excellent philosopher, an eccentric who follows his personal principles, this old-style cop is beleaguered via the virulent crime wave that has engulfed his urban. whereas political uncertainty over separatism has broken Montreal's social and fiscal existence, equipped crime has been speedy to make the most. The Russian Mafia, rival motorbike gangs, and infiltrators from the CIA are engaged in violent turf wars, whereas the police force--teeming with corruption--struggles to maintain the town secure.
        
Even Cinq-Mars, whose lovely arrests have made him an area hero, looks to were compromised. How has he controlled to penetrate Montreal's felony elite? who're his informants and the way do they gather their great wisdom? And who's the younger woman American operative he turns out so desirous to store from the clutches of the mob?
        
Against the backdrop of occasions in brand new headlines, John Farrow constructs a vibrant tableau peopled with home-grown and overseas criminals, every one struggling with for a section of this frozen urban, the place dynamite and chain saws became the guns of selection. Taut and well timed, urban of Ice dazzles with its complicated plot and grittily learned characters; it is a suspense learn that is tough to place down, most unlikely to put out of your mind.

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Download E-books False Friends PDF

By Stephen Leather

The 9th e-book within the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd sequence.

The so much sought after guy on this planet is lifeless.
Now these dependable to him search revenge.

When military Seals music down and kill Osama Bin weighted down in Pakistan, it really is seen there has been a traitor at the inside of. After the fake buddies are printed to be British scholars, Malik and Chaudhry - former Islamic fundamentalists recruited through MI5 - they develop into objectives themselves.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd needs to educate the pair the way to continue to exist undercover with al-Qaeda last in. yet Spider isn't really used to taking part in the handler. And with the road among mentor and buddy commencing to blur, and a terrorist plot placing hundreds of thousands of lives at stake, can he guard each person earlier than it is too late?

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Download E-books The Visitation PDF

The sleepy, jap Washington wheat city of Antioch has turn into a gateway for the supernatural—from sightings of angels and a weeping crucifix to a self-proclaimed prophet with an superb message.

The nationwide media and the curious all flock to the little town—a nice boon for neighborhood company yet no longer for Travis Jordan. The burned-out former pastor has been attempting to disguise his earlier in Antioch. Now the entire international is headed to his yard to discover the Messiah, and within the procedure, each religious assumption he has ever held could be challenged. The startling mystery in the back of this visitation eventually pushes one guy right into a supernatural war of words that has everlasting consequences.

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Download E-books Sole Survivor: A Novel PDF

By Dean Koontz

#1 NEW YORK instances BESTSELLER

The airplane crashed suddenly. 300 and thirty humans died. No clarification. No survivors. Now one guy who misplaced every thing that evening is ready to find the solutions he must move on along with his life—or the conviction to ultimately finish it.
 
Crime reporter Joe chippie misplaced his spouse and daughters within the crash of Flight 353. Aching from his loss, Joe is not able to paintings, imagine, or do whatever yet grieve, and look ahead to his personal loss of life. Then Joe meets Rose, a girl who claims to be the crash’s sole survivor. yet ahead of Joe can probe extra, the elusive Rose slips away and Joe is left with haunting, terrifying questions: If Rose lived throughout the crash, is it attainable his relations can have survived it, too? Did the professionals conspire to conceal what rather occurred that evening? Joe’s look for the reality will shatter him like not anything has before—and strength him to query every thing he thinks he understands approximately existence and demise.

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Download E-books A Coffin for Dimitrios PDF

By Eric Ambler

An opportunity stumble upon with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads secret author Charles Latimer right into a global of sinister political and felony maneuvers in the course of the Balkans within the years among the realm wars. Hoping that the occupation of the infamous Dimitrios, whose physique has been pointed out in an Istanbul morgue, will motivate a plot for his subsequent novel, Latimer quickly reveals himself stuck up in a shadowy net of assassination, espionage, medications, and treachery.

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Download E-books The Creed of Violence PDF

By Boston Teran

Mexico, 1910. The panorama pulses with the strength of the approaching revolution, an environment wealthy in chance for a felony corresponding to Rawbone. His fortune arrives around the haze of the Sierra Blanca within the type of a truck loaded with weapons.

But Rawbone’s plan spins opposed to him, and he quickly unearths himself on the Mexican-American border and within the arms of the Bureau of research. he's provided an opportunity for immunity, yet provided that he consents to continue along with his scheme to bring the truck and its items to the Mexican oil fields whereas less than the command of Agent John Lourdes. Rawbone sees no different alternative and has the same opinion to the deal—but he fails to acknowledge the genuine id of Agent Lourdes, a guy from deep inside his past.

Set opposed to a backdrop of intrigue and corruption, The Creed of Violence is a saga concerning the scars of abandonment, the greed of battle, and America’s heritage of international intervention for the sake of oil.

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Download E-books Only When I Larf PDF

By Len Deighton

The 3 self belief tricksters - blokes and a chicken - had a mode that earned them millions.

Silas was once the chief, slick and confident – yet disenchanted. Bob was once the junior companion, eager for the open highway the place pickings have been wealthy and the residing was once effortless. And Liz, Silas’ mistress, was once… in among. Theirs used to be a integrated love triangle with its personal rewards… and its personal dangers.

In big apple those con-artists do a ‘business deal’ worthy thousands. yet again in London Silas’ plan to bilk an emergent African country misfires. Then Bob takes over the working of the operation – and Liz. A Beirut financial institution is their goal and every member of the trio will get what she or he merits – each one with a twist of lemon.

This new reissue incorporates a foreword from the canopy clothier, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a new advent via Len Deighton, which bargains a desirable perception into the writing of the story.

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Download E-books Sword of Honor PDF

IN THE EPIC ancient NOVEL SWORD OF HONOR, DAVID KIRK maintains THE SAGA OF MUSASHI MIYAMOTO, the best SWORDSMAN IN jap historical past, AS HE trips TO the traditional urban OF KYOTO TO struggle FOR HIS lifestyles AND HIS IDEALS.

Having survived the cataclysmic conflict of Sekigahara, which proven the powerful Tokugawa Shogunate, younger Musashi Miyamoto travels via Japan decided to proclaim his revolutionary epiphany that the “way of the samurai,” the traditional code that binds warriors to their masters, should be abolished.
     But in the course of the conflict Musashi insulted an adept of the robust Yoshioka tuition, and a cost has been wear his head. Musashi is attracted to Kyoto, area of the Yoshioka, pushed via anger and likely that he'll deal a crushing blow to the conventional samurai dogma by destroying the college. Musashi will study, in spite of the fact that, that the capital of the kingdom is rife with intrigue and power uprising opposed to the newly confirmed executive, a fight into which he unwittingly enters.
     Among different outcasts, Musashi will locate the price of his unbelievable ability with the sword weighed opposed to the deep crafty of manipulative Lords, and needs to make his reckoning with the Yoshioka, the way in which of the samurai, and eventually his personal nature. purely then will he have the capacity to take one step in the direction of turning into the clever previous sage who wrote The publication of 5 Rings.
     Sword of Honor seamlessly blends meticulous study, spell binding motion sequences, and a using narrative to carry this remarkable determine to lifestyles.

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Download E-books Unmanned: A novel PDF

By Dan Fesperman

From the generally acclaimed writer of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, well timed, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, increasing global of drone warfare.
          
Not very some time past, Darwin Cole used to be an F-16 fighter pilot. He was once a family members guy. He used to be on most sensible of the realm. Now? He’s a washout inebriated with a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Air strength, dwelling on my own within the Nevada barren region and haunted through a picture beamed from one in every of his final missions as a “pilot” of a Predator drone—a harrowing shot of an Afghan baby working for her life.
            
When Cole is approached by way of 3 reporters attempting to discover the identification of the potentially rogue intelligence operative who referred to as the pictures in Cole’s ill-fated challenge, Cole reluctantly concurs to group up with them.
           
But in our surveillance tradition, even the good intentioned are at risk of locate themselves less than scrutiny, operating for his or her lives, specially while the path they’re following ends up in the very center of that culture—in intelligence, within the army, and one of the unchecked inner most contractors who stand to learn richly from the advancing expertise . . . now not simply to be used “over there,” yet for here, instantaneously.

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Download E-books The Spoilers / Juggernaut PDF

By Desmond Bagley

Double motion thrillers via the vintage event author set within the center East and Africa.

THE SPOILERS

When movie mogul Robert Hellier loses his daughter to heroin, he announces struggle at the drug pedlars, the faceless overlords whose greed offers the area with its lethal pleasures. London drug expert Nicholas Warren is termed upon to organise an excursion to the center East to trace down and wreck them - yet with 100 million funds' worthy of heroin at stake, Warren understands he'll need to use tools as lethal as his prey…

JUGGERNAUT

It used to be no traditional juggernaut. Longer than a soccer pitch, weighing 550 lots, and relocating at simply 5 miles consistent with hour, its activity - and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to maneuver a massive transformer throughout an oil-rich African nation. but if Nyala erupts in civil warfare, Mannix's juggernaut is on the centre of the clash - a objective of ambush and risk, without strategy to run and nowhere to hide…

Includes a different bonus - the home of the Lions, a narrative written completely for Desmond Bagley's Christmas condo site visitors within the 1960s.

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