Considered the father of the spy thriller, bestselling author John le Carré brings the daring deeds and intricate details of international espionage to center stage. His leading man is George Smiley, sometime acting chief of the Circus (as le Carré's secret service is known): a troubled man of infinite compassion, yet a single-mindedly ruthless adversary.Through these three enormously successful novels (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People), Smiley stalks his opposite number, code-named Karla, the Soviet case officer who has been masterminding the Circus' ruin. The stage is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned, or bought.

    Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.

    In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment.Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi Germany.The time of cavalrymen has long since passed, but Josh finds himself thinking that the mindset still prevails. Though the weapons have changed, the men have not, and so he moves forward bravely, in his iron stallion. The awe-inspiring finale to the Goff war trilogy, perfect for fans of Alistair MacLean, Jack Higgins and Frederick Forsyth.

    Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people's, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he's taken a big risk: using £5 million to stud a champion racing stallion. When the resulting foals have birth defects, Tim is worried and decides that there may be something else going on at the stables. His suspicions are confirmed when one of those helping with the horses is murdered. Now it's not just about money, but about life and death. Determined to get to the bottom of why anyone would do this, Tim puts himself in danger's path to discover the truth . . . Praise for Dick Francis: 'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror 'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph 'The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman 'Francis writing at his best' Evening Standard 'A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever' Sunday Express 'A super chiller and killer' New York Times Book Review

    They never said that if he was caught he would be facing fifteen years in a gulag in the midst of a frozen tundra. It was supposed to be a simple handover and he never imagined that he would be caught. But when the unimaginable happens and he finds himself staring certain, inevitable death in the face. Holly has to find the strength to gather his resources to fight the camp's brutal regime in any way he can and with the limited means at his disposal. But life in the camps is not like life in the outside world. It is the place where dreams are brought to die. Like the eight hundred inmates of Camp 3, Michael Holly has a dream of living through this hell. But against the might of the Soviet state, is he strong enough to keep his dream alive?

    It was hailed as "oddball," "satiric," and a work of "unbridled weirdness." Over the years, the book has become a collector's item. Finally, the book has been returned to print by Warren Murphy's Ballybunnion Books.

    There was a storm and she sank almost immediately, taking with her not only Captain Herschell and all his crew but also the Captain's precious sextant from which he was never parted. Or so the Admiralty said at the time. And so his son John firmly believed. Until, forty years later, he was hailed to the Strathclyde Police H.Q. to identify the proceeds of a robbery; only to find among the loot his father's sextant in its immaculate rosewood box, burnished and polished -- and very definitely not resurrected from any watery grave. And so John and his girlfriend Fran set off in quest of the truth, to the isolated village of Laichy on its sea loch

    The explanation for that evolutionary step - the missing link - has never been found...until now.An earthquake rocks Yugoslavia, uncovering the ghostly subterranean world of the awesome Subrano Cave. Its amazing paintings and fossils chronicle the existence of an ancient, mysterious race. As the dawn of man is slowly pieced together by an international investigative team, they discover that this unusual tribe disappeared deep into the earth, leaving a trail of paintings along the banks of an underground river.When another earthquake seals the cave for all time, the trapped survivors who have been studying the cave paintings have no choice. There is only one possible way out - ad that is to follow a path taken 40,000 years ago. They must ride the underground river Styx, all the way to Hell...

    

    His bookie calls him Mr. Burroughs. His friends call him Digger. He changes his name more often than his underwear. Makes his job easier. Insurance snoop. Six-foot-two of muscle and brains, well oiled by generous helpings of Finlandia vodka.Now he's running roughshod over the smartset. Is the sudden death of a doctor's wife accident or murder? With a million-dollar insurance claim pending, Digger better find out.He'll start his snoop as a party crasher at a Hollywood funeral, where the only one who doesn't mind is the corpse. But then everybody else is a suspect!