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      • Health & Personal Development
        August 2022

        MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians

        A Real-Life Secret Agent Reveals How to Live Safer, Sneakier and Ready for Anything

        by Red Riley

        MI6 SPY SKILLS FOR CIVILIANS teaches readers how to master the skills of James Bond to excel in every area of their lives. Inside they'll find dozens of real secret agent skills detailed and explained, often with step-by-step illustrations to clarify how they’re done. Sections covered include surveillance on foot and from a vehicle, safe travel tips, dead letter boxes, brush contacts, self defense basics, intelligence gathering, subterfuge, insertion and extraction techniques and more!

      • Son of Escobar: First Born

        The murders, the hidden millions and MI6's secret. The real truth about my father

        by Roberto Sendoya Escobar

        THE MURDERS, THE HIDDEN MILLIONS, AND MI6'S SECRET. THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT MY FATHER. After a secret mission led by an MI6 agent to recover a hoard of stolen cash culminates in a bloody shootout, from which Pablo Escobar escapes, only the distressing cries of a baby can be heard. That baby is Roberto Sendoya Escobar, eldest son of Pablo Escobar, and this is his long-awaited autobiography.  In a bizarre twist of fate, the MI6 agent takes pity on Roberto, and eventually adopts him. Pablo Escobar tries, repeatedly, to kidnap his son. Flanked by his trusty bodyguards, the child, unaware of his true identity, is allowed regular meetings with Escobar and it becomes apparent that the British government is working covertly with Escobar in an attempt to control the money laundering and drug trades. ​Life becomes so dangerous, however, that Roberto is packed off to an English public school. Many years later, as Roberto’s adopted father lies dying in hospital, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of the 'Escobar Missing millions' the world has been searching for! The code is published in this book for the first time. Roberto Sendoya Escobar lives with his wife in a remote finca on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca under his adopted name of Phillip Witcomb. He works as an acclaimed fine artist, and his work sells for many thousands of pounds. He plans to donate a substantial percentage of profits from this book to charities which benefit young people.

      • Fiction
        September 2022

        The Last Case of Journalist Cronina

        by Anastasiia Pika

        Aliona Cronina is a young Ukrainian journalist who started working in a highly censored publication, fully controlled by its Russian sponsor. During Euromaidan, she realized that she can no longer be a detached witness to the events and wants to fight Kremlin propaganda and reveal the truth to people. Aliona will build a brilliant career: IT journalist, Ukrainian parliament employee, MI6 intelligence agent — and she will try to thwart the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022.   The novel consists of four parts, each chapter corresponding to a case file the heroine takes on. The novel is not just about modern Ukrainian history in 2012–2022; it is primarily about the development of Ukrainian journalism and democratic society. The author seeks to answer the question of why neither censorship, nor Putin’s propaganda in the Ukrainian media, nor the attempts to suppress Ukrainian revolutions by force, nor even forced emigration and war can make a dent in Ukrainians’ inner strength and perseverance.

      • Thriller / suspense

        NOBODY WINS

        A Mick Murphy Key West Mystery

        by Michael Haskins

        Mick Murphy has to find his cousin Cecil Fahey, an ex-IRA gunman, to answer questions about Cecil's  involvement with forged art. The quest takes him from tropical Key West, Florida, to smoggy Los Angeles, crowded New Jersey and Dublin, Ireland before returning to the tropics. Along the way his life is threatened by British SAS soldiers, MI6 agents, Cuban gunmen and to survive he must figure out who his friends are and why so many different people want Cecil and him dead.

      • SON OF ESCOBAR: FIRST BORN

        by Roberto Sendoya Escobar

        Pablo Escobar was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever seen. He became one of the ten richest men on the planet and controlled 80 per cent of the global cocaine trade before he was shot dead in 1993.This is the long-awaited autobiography of his eldest son, Roberto Sendoya Escobar.His story opens with two helicopter gunships, filled with heavily armed Colombian Special forces personnel led by an MI6 agent, flying into a small village on the outskirts of Bogota in Colombia. The secret mission to recover a stolen cash hoard, culminates in a bloody shoot-out with a group of young Pablo Escobar's violent gangsters. Several of the men escape, including the young Escobar.As the dust settles in the house, only a little baby is left alive. His distressing cries can be heard as his young mother lies dead beside him. That baby is the author, Roberto Sendoya Escobar. In a bizarre twist of fate, the top MI6 agent who led the mission, takes pity on the child and, eventually, ends up adopting him.Over the years, during his rise to prominence as the most powerful drug lord the world has ever known, Pablo Escobar tries, repeatedly, to kidnap his son. Flanked by his trusty bodyguards, the child, unaware of his true identity, is allowed regular meetings with Escobar and it becomes apparent that the British government is working covertly with the gangster in an attempt to control the money laundering and drug trades.Life becomes so dangerous, however, that the author is packed off from the family mansion in Bogota to an English public school. Many years later in England, as Roberto's adopted father lies dying in hospital, he hands his son a coded piece of paper which, he says, reveals the secret hiding place of the 'Escobar Missing millions' the world has been searching for!The code is published in this book for the first time.

      • Crime & mystery
        June 2015

        Age of Kill

        by Simon Cluett

        One sniper. Six targets. Six hours. Or London burns. ""I want you to kill for me. Six people; on the hour, every hour. Miss a deadline, people will die. Call the police, people will die. Any deviation or delay, people will die."" Disgraced MI6 sniper Sam Blake initially dismisses the call as a hoax until the first shot in a random killing spree is fired. Sam is plunged into a desperate cat and mouse chase across London. With the clock ticking and the odds stacked against him he becomes an unwilling assassin, forced to kill in order to protect not just hundreds of innocent civilians, but his own daughter, who has been kidnapped by the psychotic terrorist who calls himself Jericho. As the police and security services close in, Sam must unravel the conspiracy, unmask his nemesis, and save the one person in the world he truly loves."

      • Espionage & spy thriller
        October 2012

        Countdown to Doomsday

        by Brandon Rolfe

        The UK's entire security network is mounted in an ultimate Red Alert deadline operation to avert cataclysmic disaster on a national scale. Islamic terrorism is poised to deliver its fiercest blow. The wrath of Allah let loose upon infidel Christians will be the mother of all holy chastisements -- in divine retribution for the mass slaughtering of Muslims by the demonic Western imperialists. An almighty and truly divine purging of the infidel worshippers -- that they be righteously smote down and cast into deep damnation to join their Devil. Zealous militants, the Jahidi, are sent forth on a holy mission that will wreak havoc across the country and send foreboding shock waves of the power of Islam throughout the Western world. Allah akbar! (God is great!).In a deathly race against time, MI5 and MI6 have the do or die task of thwarting this horrific doomsday threat -- their effort must succeed -- or it will be their last.

      • Thriller / suspense

        Wolf by the Ears

        by Lexi Revellian

        When Tyger Rebel Thomson starts working for a Russian oligarch, she could be on her way to the life of her dreams – assuming, that is, she lives long enough to get there. Grisha Markovic is a man with enemies. He’s loathed by the Kremlin, under observation by MI6, involved in acrimonious litigation over a Siberian gold mine, and rumoured to possess an explosive dossier containing details of a massive Russian tax fraud. Grisha is impressed with Tyger’s intelligence; he takes a fatherly interest in her and makes her his personal assistant. This could be the break she has been hoping for. But after a mysterious driver tries to run her down, she begins to suspect that the death of his last PA may not have been an accident…

      • Fiction
        January 2014

        The Unsinkable Herr Goering

        by Ian Cassidy

        Contrary to what the so-called history books tell you, Hermann Goering, Hitler's Deputy, Head of the Luftwaffe and second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, did not leave this world courtesy of a cyanide tablet secreted in the heel of his jackboot minutes before his appointment with the hangman. The truth is far more bizarre. THE UNSINKABLE HERR GOERING is a monumental debut novel by Ian Cassidy. It follows Goering, a man blindsided by hubris, on his attempted escape – from both Germany as well as from the Allies – and the inept men of mettle who put a stop to it. It is a hilariously depraved story of of villainous villains, slightly less villainous heroes, bad behavior (and even worse beer), and uncomfortable underwear. Not since A Confederacy of Dunces has a book brought to life such audaciously flawed characters. It gets so much wrong, yet so much right.

      • Humour

        I Kinda Spy

        by David Alexander

        SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS When a threat emerges that's too big for the CIA, too dangerous for MI6 and too frightening to contemplate, there's only one secret agent who can prevail against it. When he joins forces with a talented group of covert action operators, this impossible mission becomes just another day in the spy business. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A global superthriller that pits masters of espionage and mandarins of supercrime against each other in a winner-take-all fight to the finish. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A deadly terrorist organization threatens global security and a deep black espionage agency tasks its most capable operative with a do-or-die assignment. An international criminal cartel bent on getting its hands on a multibillion dollar payoff and will stop at nothing to suit its ends, opposes him with the hand-picked elite of the world's foremost assassins. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS "This thriller has more action, more adventure, more plain everything you want to read in a thriller, than any ten similar reads I could name. Read this exceptional thriller by David Alexander today." SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALSUrbane yet action-packed, stylish yet hard-hitting, I Kinda Spy is a spy story that plays for keeps.

      • Thriller / suspense
        April 2014

        The Uncounted

        by James McKenna

        Detective Inspector Sean Fagan of SOCA investigates the Agency, a criminal fraternity trafficking illegal immigrants.  Trapped in a wretched world of modern slavery and barbaric killings, Jelena, an illegal from Kosovo dreams of freedom, but violent forces which shaped her adolescence still dominate her life.  Jelena is given to an Islamic terror cell as a disposable chattel and finds herself locked in a luxury flat with millions of virus contaminated bank notes.  Death seems certain until events reunite her with Gavrilo, the boy she had known and loved when both were adolescents.  As Fagan closes, a bomb containing enough Anthrax to kill thousands is unwittingly carried by Gavrilo into Central London.  Fagan and team desperately search as the timing device ticks to detonation.

      • MY COUNTRY AFRICA

        by Andrée Blouin

        My Country, Africa chronicles, in her own eloquent words, the extraordinary life of Andree Blouin, a pivotal figure in Africa’s struggles for independence, who became chief of protocol to Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba. In an absorbing and intensely personal account, Andrée traces her evolution from rebellious schoolgirl to "black pasionaria.” Possibly the only woman to emerge a leader of the liberation movements of the 1950s and 1960s, she was at times branded a courtesan and a witch. Slander, expulsion, even attempts against her life did not deter her while she was embroiled in the events that led to the assassination of Lumumba. She won world acclaim as the Madame de Stael of the African Independence Movement as she fought to teach her humiliated and resigned countrywomen a new sense of pride and dignity.

      • Historical fiction
        February 2014

        The Doksany Legacy

        by Quentin Cope

        The Doksany Legacy It’s the winter of 1987. Mohsen Raza, merciless head of Iran’s feared Revolutionary Guard hunts millionaire oilman Declan Doyle, whose personal undertaking to deliver the Geneva Project … a vital offshore oilfield installation in the Persian Gulf, crucial to the survival of an Iranian economy, weakened by the war with Iraq … has proven worthless. Englishman Doyle, desperate to escape Raza’s retribution and save his company, makes a frantic last throw of a set of dice loaded heavily against him. Evading Raza’s forces he flees the tiny Arab state of Abu Nar, feverishly bent on seeking the truth in a dying man’s story of Nazi treasure, one great enough to finance and complete the Geneva Project, saving him from a possibly agonising end at Raza’s hands. With nail-biting action from the start, Doyle’s frantic escape from his Iranian hunters leads him through dangerous, unpredictable Mujahideen-controlled Pakistan, onward to Northern Europe and finally to the Arab enclave of Dhofar, a desolate place that holds the key to possibly saving his life … a life spent cheating and ruled by greed for which he knows, inevitably, a price must be paid. What Doyle cannot know is his chequered past and discovery of much sought after Nazi treasure, has set other hunters on his trail … and Mohsen Raza may not end up being the very worst of them. The Doksany Legacy … the much-anticipated sequel to Quentin Cope’s highly successful action and adventure novel The Geneveh Project, is an un-put-downable tale of stark terror and final retribution for a lone, desperate man fleeing some of the most feared adversaries in the world … until finally forced to face the ultimate legacy of his own past.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        Music against walls in the Arab-Israeli conflict

        by Ana Arambarri

        With an agile, precise and sustained style Música Contra los Muros explores the influence of music on the human being in extreme circumstances. Different choral voices immerse the reader in the geopolitical labyrinth of the Middle East and tell a true and little-known story: that of famous musicians who canceled all their commitments and voluntarily traveled to Israel to encourage their compatriots who were fighting at the front. Against this backdrop, suggestive narrative threads are woven: the passionate romance of the pianist Daniel Barenboim with the cellist Jacqueline du Pré during the Six Day War; the account of Israeli soldiers, whose voices were censored for forty years, forced to participate in a war in which they did not believe; or the torn lives of thousands of Palestinians who, since the occupation, lost the right to a decent and dignified life. Hand in hand with a narrative strategy that recalls the New Journalism that emerged in the sixties, a reconciliation proposal is offered: the case of the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, made up of Arab, Israeli and Palestinian musicians, shows that thanks to music, coexistence is possible. Edward Said, a Palestinian thinker and philosopher, asked himself: Who knows how far we are going to be able to change the thoughts and convictions of these young people thanks to music? The energy of this interrogation continues to challenge the possibilities of the present, while confirming the success of an experience as unusual as it is fascinating.

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        Sealed With A Death

        by James Silvester

        The vaunted Red Mako, the new symbol of Brexit Britain, is about to launch to a fanfare of political grandeur, but not all are convinced it was worth the price. Barely escaping a botched mission with her life, Lucie Musilova is assigned a low profile case to regain her superior's trust. All across the country, women have been disappearing who each have something in common: all are European nationals, and all have been ignored by a disinterested media and a politically restrained police force cut to the bones. When a body is discovered and the case grows ever more personal, Lucie finds herself entwined in the seedy worlds of international defence contracts and government sanctioned prostitution as she fights corruption and far right violence to uncover the truth. But with her mentor injured and assassins on her tail, Lucie must use all her wits to avoid becoming the final seal in a deal for the country s very soul.

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