After six years behind bars Chet Bennett is once again a free man. But it doesn't end here. Chet has to find and deal with the people who set him up as the fall guy. Festering for six long years, it has become a bitter obsession; he has to find them and mete out his own justice before he can move on. But six years is a long time and the forty million, still missing from the heist, could have taken the perpetrators a very long way. They could be anywhere in the world. No matter, Chet is pre...

Maddox: As a freshman at BBU, I have my pick of parties and girls, but I still feel pretty stressed and unfulfilled. I can't stand my moronic teammates on the swim team, and devoting so much of my time to swimming is starting to take a toll on me. I'm over everything, until I get paired with this socially awkward dweeb named Ren Suzuki in one of my classes. He follows me around like a puppy and wants to show me off to his weird friends. I feel protective over him, like I'd fight anyone who...

This book contains a comprehensive guide to fishing in British Columbia, with a chapter on tuna fishing at Santa Catalina. The chief purpose of this book is to give some idea of the habits and peculiarities of the rainbow, and the sport which it affords in its native haunts. The author spent some twelve years in the interior of the country, and fished a great many of its numberless lakes and streams - and thus writes from a wealth of practical experience. The chapters of this volume includ...

Delaney is content—if not happy—living a half-life, until someone tries to assassinate her.When Delaney is rescued by a handsome stranger, Drew seems to be her savior—until she wakes up in his house where he has her daughter and knows far too much about her. The strange sensations she experiences when he’s near might be a warning…maybe he’s the real danger. Fear and anger mix with passion and soon Delaney’s not sure what’s real.Drew doesn’t know how to tell...

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds...

While investigating what appears to be a series of tit for tat racial attacks in the back streets of Norwich, Theo Stern is asked to help in the search for gangster, Benny Lyle, said to have been kidnapped from his London home.But there is something cynically methodical about the Norwich attacks and Lyle is recently reported to have been seen in Norfolk's tiny Georgian town of Holt. So are the Norwich attacks simply retaliatory and has Lyle really been abducted? Stern has his doubt...

Within these pages you will find twenty-five short stories. You will find each different, each hopefully a pleasant little read. Some involve ghostly goings on, others a little detective work and still others are a tad goofy; just a little nonsense with something, hopefully, to raise a smile. When taking that welcome break, cup of tea or coffee in hand, this is a little book which can literally be dipped into at any point for a ten minute relaxing read.

It's 2006 and a group of university students enter into a reckless dare which culminates in the death of one of them. A formal investigation classifies the death as being accidental.Fast forward to 2014, and the remaining students who took part in that dare, now each residing in various UK towns, one even in Australia, are being sought out and one by one brutally murdered. But what, after all this time, has sparked the killing spree and who is responsible? In one of the most involv...

Theo Stern's old friend, jazz musician, Steve Arnold hits Sheringham. But jazz is the last thing on Stern's mind when he finds that his friend is involved in a sinister tangle of violence and death.A brutal killing on a cross channel ferry and the arrival of a jazz musician to perform in a sleepy seaside town.Two totally unconnected events?So thinks private investigator, Theo Stern. But sinister happenings indicate otherwise and Stern finds himself ...

A former Intelligence agent disappears and private detective, Theo Stern, is asked to investigate. A woman is found brutally killed, her neck viciously broken, and MI5 agents threaten Stern, warning him off the case. As an ex-London copper, Stern doesn't threaten easily, but when he is callously driven off the road and almost killed his resolve is tested to the extreme.

The slaying of a foreign diplomat and a London cabby bequeathed £250,000 by a mother he hasn't associated with for years.Unconnected incidents? So it seems, but when Frank Barnes, asks where and how his mother died he is drawn into a dark, frightening world where nothing is as it seems.

n anonymous, threatening telephone call demanding information or face the consequence, is not the way Theo Stern likes to start his day. And, worse, the caller refuses to specify the information required, saying only that all would be revealed in time. Stern must decide; is the threat genuine or just a crank getting off on anonymous calls?The question is answered for him when Annie, the love of his life, is abducted and more calls are received, each taunting, the demands specific. ...