And when he discovers that he is transporting something altogether different, he has to fight to land with his life intact.

    A seductively beautiful woman, and the dream of a perfect escape… Many lives had been sacrificed for the Irish cause, but legendary freedom fighter Colum O’Mare, ageing and critically illl, was ready to gamble once more for a last devastating strike. Which is why Sean Rogan, soldier of the Irish Republican Army gets all the help he needs to break out of a mainland security prison. An escape into a nightmare beyond anyone’s control…

    Written in poetic prose, the narrative is as evocative as the other volumes and transports the reader to ages gone by, to the hillocks and forts of Chitradurga.

    The all time classic.Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive. The place is the focal point of many mysterious disappearances. Even the unimaginative Highland Police Sergeant seems to be acting a part. But why?This story is Alistair MacLean at his enthralling best. It has all the edge-of-the-seat suspense, and dry humour that millions of readers have devoured for years.

    This is the sequel to Hosa Hagalu, that saw Bharamappa Nayaka, ascend the throne of Chitradurga. The present volume narrates how the peace seeking Bharamappa Nayaka is driven to war due to the political upheaval of the time. The fauzdar of Seerya, a feudatory of the Mughals, seeks to subdue Chitradurga by threat of force and is rebuffed by a proud Chitradurga. Ultimately, Seerya has to extend an arm of friendship in order to take on militant Maratha bands that are looting and terrorising the countryside. The armies of Chitradurga effectively rout the wayward bands. Elements of hindu-muslim unity and a romantic tale of a muslim singer and a French soldier are woven into the narrative.

    One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn’t around a lot; he keeps disappearing on “business trips.” McCorkle, his partner, wisely doesn’t ask questions; he knows Padillo has a second job—he’s a (reluctant) US agent. But McCorkle is ready to answer a call for help from Padillo, and he joins his friend in a blind journey with no inkling of what they will encounter at the turn of each dark and dangerous corner.

    The Connie wasn't safe to fly farther, and the nearest parts for repairing it were in Miami. Stallings decided he'd tie the big plane down on the sheltered side of the hangar, fill the tanks for ballast, and hope the plane would ride out the storm safely. With the plane well anchored, its captain, crew, and the airfield staff flew out ahead of the storm in a DC-3, to the mainland and to safety. Meanwhile two Civilian Air Patrol pilots, who had been on a rescue mission over the water searching for some men adrift in a rubber raft, realized that the wind was increasing and that they had better head for land. The nearest land was Tres Santos. When the CAP pilots arrived at Tres Santos, they found the airfield deserted: only the giant Constellation was there... which was bewildering. Then they were approached by two of the islanders and a priest—who begged them to fly a very sick man and a badly burned little girl out of the storm's path to the mainland and a doctor. The CAP pilots knew that men whose only flight experience and training had been in one-engine planes could not possibly handle anything the size of a Constellation. They protested—said they couldn't do it. But it seemed to be a matter of life and death. Foolhardy and dangerous though they knew the attempt to be, they finally agreed to try to fly the big plane out. They didn't know its condition—and one of them certainly didn't have any idea what his passenger list was like. Desperately they began the terrifying task of getting the Connie up into the air to outrace the hurricane. John Ball (who has flown many air rescue missions himself) knows what he's writing about—and his exciting novel lets the reader share a pilot's experiences with unusual immediacy.

    As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.

    Minister without Portfolio, and de facto commander of the Sultan's armies, Arcane is all things to all men. No one knows with certitude—until the end—the origin and history of this dark adventurer.To its last surprises, this narration of guerilla war, iron ambition, and vengeance displays a sardonic humor at work in the shadow of fatality.