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Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed. Called "weapons of opportunity", they met the enemy at closer quarters and with greater frequency than any other type of surface craft. Among the most famous PT commanders was John F. Kennedy, whose courageous actions in the Pacific are now well known to the American public.

The Sabbat War is a savage Imperial crusade, cutting a bloody, burning path across a vast swathe of the Imperium's lost territory. On the front line, the stalwart regiments of the Astra Militarum, including the valiant Tanith First-and-Only—better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts—confront the relentless menace of Chaos, the Archenemy of Mankind. There is, and ever will be, only war.

Detective Jack Knox is faced with a troubling case when a woman’s body is found on a beach near Edinburgh. Police match her to missing persons, because her personal effects have been swept out to sea. When she is finally identified, the victim’s last known movements are investigated. She was courted by a man who proves elusive, having evaded surveillance cameras. He has covered his tracks well. Was this her killer?

DI Jack Knox is called in to investigate a high-profile case. A local distiller’s daughter has gone missing, and when he receives a ransom note, his fears that it is a kidnapping are confirmed. Knox decides to take a serious risk to capture the abductors, but the stakes could not be higher. The father is wealthy and well-connected. If Knox’s gamble goes wrong, he’ll have hell to pay. Meanwhile in the prequel story, 'Labyrinth', the body of an attractive young woman is found in woodland on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill.

When DI Jack Knox investigates his past, he discovers a long list of old flames. Quite the lothario, the victim left several pining women and jealous husbands in his wake. There is no shortage of suspects. So, who put an end to the gigolo’s antics? Meanwhile DS Mason, Jack Knox’s fiancée and colleague, has problems of her own. Someone has vandalised her car and flat. She fears it is a disgruntled customer of Edinburgh’s finest, looking for revenge.

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team has to split up when a young woman, the daughter of a prominent figure, goes missing from the city centre. Suspecting she has been kidnapped, the search heads from Edinburgh to the Scottish Borders. Will the detectives find her abductor in time?

DI Jack Knox's Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a residential street. The detective splits the under-resourced squad and follows up the murder himself, quickly establishing that there is no shortage of individuals who would have wanted the man dead. The victim had secured private investments for NewTech, a video games company that fell foul of copyright law. A lot of serious people lost serious money. Whilst Knox treads on eggshells and traces the finances, the rest of the team focus on the rape.

A student meets an untimely demise when she falls from Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park. Was she pushed? Whilst DI Jack Knox is picking through the lies of the victim's friends, he is called upon to help the narcotics division on the other side of the city. A drug dealer is dead and the squad is setting up a deadly sting. But without Knox and the clout he has among the criminal fraternity, they're unable to move against rival gangs.

• Tanner, a newly mustered-out army ranger, hitchhiking home… • Bridger, a man with knowledge of a high-level conspiracy, who offers him a lift… • Two contract killers, who pursue Tanner and Bridger, with intent to eliminate… So begins Fireflash, a breathtaking action thriller which introduces Matt Tanner, an ex-army ranger caught in the middle of an astonishing intrigue. For Bridger is the guardian of something the hunters are desperate to get hold of, a flash-drive containing evidence of a planned act of sedition — a plan to assassinate the president. The action moves to Las...

After wrangling with his conscience, a priest approaches Edinburgh police and reports that a man confessed to killing a young woman. During a passionate petting session with the girl, he flipped and strangled her. Following a hunch that the victim could be a missing Canadian tourist, DI Jack Knox scrambles his team to track him down. Yet their only lead is the confession, and they have little other information to go on.

Northern Texas, July, 1878: ex-cavalrymen Amos Kane and Luke Fisher end a hard, three-day ride when they reach the frontier town of Buffalo Falls. The town is a busy railroad spur where cattle are shipped north and where cowmen get paid and take a few day’s break before returning south. Within weeks, Buffalo Falls will receive two large cattle drives, and the Farmer’s Mercantile Bank in the town is expecting an unusually large and secret cash shipment: 50, 000 dollars. Amos Kane and Luke Fisher arrive in the town hoping to get taken on as drovers, but are offered the positions of ...

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” — Winston S. Churchill. 9 May, 1944: Eisenhower and other Allied chiefs have succeeded in convincing the Nazis that the invasion of Europe will come at the Pas-de-Calais (Straits of Dover). When Lieutenant-General Charles McKinney is captured after his plane is downed in the sea off the west coast of England, however, the most closely-held secret of the war is in danger of falling into German hands, threatening the success of Operation Overlord, the forthcoming assault on Normandy. For ...

Berlin, 19 April, 1940: Max Tanner, foreign correspondent with an American news media organization, arrives in the Nazi capital. His arrival coincides with a period known as the ‘Phoney War,’ or ‘Sitzkrieg’ as it is known in Germany. A Wehrmacht attack on France and the Low Countries has yet to take place, and meantime the two top intelligence organizations at the heart of Nazi Germany are caught in a web of intrigue and deception. A high-ranking group of Wehrmacht and Kriegsmarine officers, known as ‘The Black Orchestra’, is determined to see Hitler’s conquest of Europe fail....

Kansas, 1874: Jack Carter and Tom Ramirez ride south into Indian Territory on the trail of a man who has stolen Carter’s most treasured possession — an item he is determined to recover at all costs. But Carter and Ramirez’s journey is difficult and fraught with danger; the Nations harbor any number of fugitives from the law. Overcoming a gang of petty desperadoes, their trail leads to a man engaged in larceny on a far grander scale. Salt Fork Indian agent Willard Armstrong is selling supplies intended for the Comanches in his charge, forcing hundreds of Indian women and children to ...

Paths to Victory: a World War II novel All over Europe, groups of courageous freedom fighters fought their underground war to resist the Nazi occupiers. They made a real nuisance of themselves ... carrying out raids, helping stranded Allied airmen to avoid capture, and attempting to get them back to England to fly again. Victory was their aim — and they knew it would not be easy. As well as the obvious problems, there was always the added threat of danger when those they set out to help were not quite what they claimed to be ... Paths to Victory is a riveting, action-filled WWII thriller ...

Ardennes, Belgium, 11 December 1944: Rookie infantryman Eddie Kyle is sent to join a forward unit just 12 miles from the enemy front line. He and his buddies are told that the area is regarded as a quiet zone, since US and British Generals believe the Germans are entrenched behind the Siegfried Line — their defensive wall — awaiting an Allied attack. Unknown to the top brass, however, the Germans are massing on the other side of the Ardennes with the intention of attacking on 16 December — an action that will become known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler plans to break through the ...