‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile – originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead – and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin and he is ...

Some lines can't be crossed. Some battles can't be avoided.Merry Tamlin thought she could leave her past behind. For five years, the former special forces operative has been hiding in the shadows of Cowbridge, working security at the Blue Moon—a seedy nightclub where the rules are simple: stay detached, avoid trouble, and never look back.But when an old comrade begs for her help to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Merry is forced to confront the part of herse...

Carefree–Deep Despair–New LifeI thought country-club living at home in Long Island during college, with no job or accountability, was the perfect life. Then came a trip to Africa during the Congo revolutions in a small search and rescue plane with my pilot uncle. I faced imminent death four times, and a girl I arranged to go on the other plane died. That started a 9-year downhill spiral.Back in the States, it was one illness and surgery after another, and two more knocks on...

Some Things Can't Be Traded.In Cowbridge's neon-lit alleys, survival is its own currency. Merry wants nothing more than to get through another shift as security at the Blue Moon Nightclub—but when Leanna hires her as a bodyguard for a job in Newbridge, she's dragged into a nightmare she can't ignore.The Grinders are more than a street gang. They're predators, carving up the desperate and vulnerable for profit in a ruthless organ trade. What starts as a simp...

Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by...

In this updated second edition:Carefree Deep Despair New LifeI thought country-club living at home in Long Island during college, with no job or accountability, was the perfect life. Then came a trip to Africa during the Congo revolutions in a small search and rescue plane with my pilot uncle. I faced imminent death four times, and a girl I arranged to go on the other plane died. That started a 9-year downhill spiral.Back in the States, it was ...

"Right across your forehead are written two words.""What words?""'Kill me.'"When her flatmate inherits a house whose owners always die within days of signing its deeds, the government's occult investigator Liz Sanford goes into action.There, she finds a supernatural plot that threatens the whole future of mankind.Who killed arch-occultist Valentyne Delgado?What creature lurks in the dark outside?And, when it comes down to it, is there a...

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Some lies can't be tolerated.All Merry Tamlin wanted was a night off. Just one.But while she's gone, a lethal designer drug is smuggled into the Blue Moon, leaving a body in its wake. When that doesn't close the club, the man behind it escalates matters.Now Damien is behind bars. Merry, injured, exhausted, and very much not a lawyer, is the only thing standing between the nightclub which has become the center of her world and the power of the Orbitals.She ca...

Peter Pouley is a very ordinary man who is tricked into becoming the main suspect of a drug related double murder. He escapes arrest, witnesses another murder and avoids being killed by the birth of the monster inside himself. This alternate ego develops its own strengths and behaviours, and grows stronger when there is any form of stress.After the murders of his ex-wife and his son, Peter cannot stop the monster from seeking revenge. He targets the detective who is heading the hunt...

Some Chains Must Be Broken.After years of keeping her head down and her conscience quiet, Merry Tamlin takes one last job - a data heist inside a Nexus agri-facility on the fringes of the grid. But what should be a clean extraction unravels into a moral reckoning when she discovers what's really being harvested: people.Cut off from allies, hunted by corporate kill teams, and forced to lead a breakout through fire, forest, and collapsing tunnels, Merry and her crew ...