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The countdown to midnight begins on a winter dawn. In Maryland, welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site: a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. Their mission: to unleash 35 megatons of nuclear doom in a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it.

Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him.

With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft.

It is the final years of the 18th century, but a world which few would recognise. The people of Europe shelter in small islands of safety, havens from the enchanted wilderness - the strange boundless forests people call the Tumble. It is across this demon-haunted landscape that the low-born officer Taliesin must lead his men, caught up in the deadliest of intrigues while fighting wars for a noble class which despises him. With vicious murderers from the worst gutters in the Realm marching behind him, and the forces of the most powerful nations of the mainland arrayed against him, the odds ...

In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again. Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets - determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people's betrayal.

This engaging audiobook pulls together the individual strains of self-care, spirituality, and common sense. It is a one-stop "bible" to give social workers and other professionals an uncomplicated, easy to hear resource that empowers them to manage and maintain their well-being through personal responsibility and self-care.

In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London's seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill - he ripped with a butcher's glee - and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.

Because sometimes, insanity and genius are indistinguishable... Agatha Witchley used to be a spy in the Cold War, but now she's locked up in the UK's premier maximum-security mental institution. She believes that the ghosts of the celebrity dead visit her padded cell and whisper the world's secrets in her ears. Which is a big problem for the British government, because she's the only one who can help them when an American billionaire is murdered in London in one of the strangest killings yet. The Home Secretary needs the case locked down and solved before the entrepreneur’s death ...

Stephen J. Hunt, award-winning publican and the founder of Hunt Hospitality, turns his 30 years of buying, renovating, and selling pubs into an accessible, practical guide on how to turn a poorly performing business into a highly profitable one. From the early days of formulating an idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, you'll discover the wisdom, practical tools, and tips you need to take control over your business, turn it around, and live the life you've always wanted.

So, dear reader, you thought Spiderman and Iron Man was the ultimate team-up? Or Captain America and the Hulk, perhaps? No! Such paltry partnerships were long before authors Charles Dickens and Stephen Hunt teamed up together to bring the world the steampunk adaptation of A Christmas Carol. This tome imaginatively entitled 'A STEAMPUNK Christmas Carol ... the fantastical adaptation no-one asked for, yet everyone somehow desperately needed. Yes, this - spoilers - classic tale of a grumpy miser's Xmas-related redemption has been recast in the Jackelian Kingdom, a far-future steampunk Earth ...

BURNING ANGELS (Book 2 of The Vigil series). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she ...

Algo espeluznantemente terrorífico viene por aquí... La comandante Adella Vega, de la Armada de la Alianza -también conocida como Flota del Infierno-, está atrapada en el extremo más perruno de la galaxia cumpliendo su deber de castigo con los perdedores, ladrones y pedantes de la Flota. Adella pensaba que eso ya era bastante malo. Hasta que gran parte de su sector quedó a oscuras. ¿Se dirige ahora hacia ella algo grande, malo y especialmente desagradable? ¿Y qué tiene que ver su predicamento con la capitana librecambista Lana Fiveworlds, su desvencijada nave Gravity Rose y su ...

El futuro es hermoso... ¡pero no para todos! Ash debe escapar de su país destrozado por la guerra, huyendo hacia la mítica Europa, o enfrentarse al asesinato a manos de un brutal señor de la guerra local. El único problema es que pocos sobreviven a las horribles manadas de voraces máquinas de caza que recorren la despoblada zona fronteriza. Pero su peligrosa odisea puede merecer la pena. En esta Europa del futuro, nadie pasa hambre ni es pobre. La delincuencia está prácticamente abolida y todo el mundo puede perseguir sus sueños, sean cuales sean sus pasiones. Pero cuando se tiene ...

Cuando Eleanor Lythe fue invitada a asistir a un baile de arte benéfico con el resto de sus hijos de la casa, no estaba segura de qué esperar - pero ser alimentada por vampiros semi-inmortales, mordida y convertida en esclava de su malvada raza, ciertamente no lo era. Por suerte para Eleanor, la Vigil - la rama encubierta del Servicio Secreto de los EE.UU. creada para luchar contra las fuerzas de lo sobrenatural - está a mano para curarla y protegerla. Pero, ¿para qué clase de vida? Mientras Eleanor lucha por dominar sus nuevos poderes, se da cuenta de que en la lucha de la humanidad ...

Cuando la capitana Lana Fiveworlds consigue un lucrativo contrato para llevar a un grupo de rudos ladrones de tumbas entre los mundos de civilizaciones extinguidas hace mucho tiempo, espera un viaje fácil para su inadaptada tripulación a bordo de la nave Gravity Rose. Al fin y al cabo, esas desafortunadas especies alienígenas perecidas murieron a causa del cambio climático, las guerras atómicas, los impactos de cometas, las plagas y las eyecciones masivas de llamaradas solares hace miles, si no millones de años. Entonces, ¿qué puede salir mal? Saquear unos cuantos planetas fallidos ...

Horacio, el mayor cobarde de la galaxia, lo tiene fácil en la América del siglo XX. Horacio, un adulador muy apreciado en la corte del Rey de la Tierra, vive en un paraíso diseñado genéticamente donde hay un esclavo cultivado en cuba esperando alrededor de cada columna de mármol con un racimo de uvas para dejar caer en su boca de diseño tan perfecto. Por desgracia para Horacio, la inteligencia artificial que gobierna la gran masa de la humanidad esparcida por las estrellas tiene otros planes para este seductor irresponsable. Si alguna vez te has preguntado cómo es posible que el ...

Estamos en los últimos años del siglo XVIII, pero en un mundo que pocos reconocerían. La gente de Europa se refugia en pequeñas islas seguras, refugios de la naturaleza encantada, los extraños bosques sin límites que la gente llama el Tumble. Es a través de este paisaje endemoniado donde el oficial de baja cuna Taliesin debe liderar a sus hombres, atrapado en las más mortíferas intrigas mientras lucha en guerras para una clase noble que le desprecia. Con asesinos despiadados de las peores alcantarillas del Reino marchando tras él, y las fuerzas de las naciones más poderosas del ...

Captain Lana Fiveworlds might be flying with the same motley crew of misfits, but her problems are all-new. Lana believes that a demanding and difficult client on board her beloved starship - the Gravity Rose - is the sum of her woes. But that was until she has to emergency ditch inside a star system which holds a full range of deadly secrets. There are the murderous intentions of the local government with its slave-owning aristocracy to contend with, not to mention the ruthless rebels trying to overthrow the regime. And then there's the moon-sized unknown alien vessel that jumps into the ...

Something shockingly scary this way comes? Commander Adella Vega of the Alliance navy - aka Hell-Fleet - is stuck at the dog-end of the galaxy on punishment duty with the Fleet's losers, thieves, and pedantic pen-pushers. Adella thought that was bad enough. Until large portions of her sector just went dark. Is something big, bad, and particularly nasty now heading her way? And what does her predicament have to do with the free-trader captain Lana Fiveworlds, her rickety ship, Gravity Rose - and its misfit crew? Sadly, all their troubles are about to collide and multiply in the most horrific...

When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she comes to realise that in humanity’s struggle against the darkness, the wrong...