The evil in mankind had surfaced once again only this time it was deadly serious, the world had entered a new era.Worked on for years by various governments including her own, someone had made a breakthrough and it looked like the U.K. was going to be the Guinea pig.Sonic weapons that destroyed minds were a startling reality and Jane was staring at four of them. It was now a race against time to make sure they could never be used an...

In Scottish folklore there is one person within the community who serves as the keeper of oral traditions, lore and history. That person is known in English as the Shanachie, which is the translation for a Gaelic storyteller.I am no Shanachie but I do have a story to tell. It is not only the story of my life, how I lived it, what influenced it, the events and people that shaped it but also brings to life history and a way of life that I lived and feel should be told before I pop my...

They each thought the other was dead. Startling revelations bring back the conflict fought in the 1970s between a terrorist mastermind and a specialist government task force set up to eliminate one of the world's deadliest and most successful organisations.Long retired and enjoying a new life in the seclusion of a quiet Scottish countryside, the Colonel, with a new identity, is jolted out of retirement and resumes the search to bring the terrorist Dieter Schmidt to justice. Along t...

In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights not only from individuals who are on the front lines of drug policy in Canada...

Three New York Times –bestselling thrillers take IRA gunman Liam Devlin from WWII to the Cold War to a terrorist plot in Northern Ireland."A thriller writer in a class of his own." — Financial TimesIn The Eagle Has Landed, the inspiration for the film starring Donald Sutherland, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of Wor...

'With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . the novel is the most satisfying, subtle and compelling of his recent oeuvre' The TimesA counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary, Toby B...

How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, homophobia, crime and pollution stems from our view of how society is structured. From the dominant neoliberal perspective, social problems arise from individuals making poor choices. From a critical perspective, however, these social troubles are caused by structural social inequalities. Disparities in economic, social and political power — t...

STELLA RIMINGTON'S THE HIDDEN HAND IS OUT NOW'Races along at breakneck speed. Packed with insider information, this is not one to miss' M. W. CRAVENOne lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it.Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud.In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as Igor into Britain – and he's regretted it ever since. So w...

A taut psychological thriller from the bestselling author behind the popular Wire in the Blood TV seriesWhen career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like a clear-cut case. Broken-hearted at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself – good riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID.Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farlowe's enemies are being killed. And the horrific manner of the...

A mysterious terrorist group is killing other terrorists, IRA thugs and CIA and KGB agents, all in a bid to break the fragile peace process. Sean Dillon is the only man who can find them, if he can live long enough.No one is more feared than January 30: the mysterious terrorist group currently holding destructive and bloody reign over the world. Their targets are random, from all races and religions, their methods deadly. They are the enemies of peace and they are unstoppable....

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling historical mystery series.October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder on the stree...

It is high time to think sanely about marijuana.Reefer Sanity offers a solution to the long-had debate about marijuana—one that steers clear of policy extremes, challenges assumptions, and shifts the emphasis to education, intervention, and common sense.A former Senior Advisor in President Obama's drug policy offer, Kevin Sabet conscientiously examines the socio-economic consequences and the intractable "myths" concerning marijuana that essentially p...