John Steeles explosive Geschichte der Paramilitärs in Belfast greift auf die dreißig Jahre alte düstere Geschichte einer langen Reihe von Gräueltaten zurück, mit denen die IRA, die INLA, die Ulster Volunteer Force und die Ulster Defence Association sich gegenseitig bekämpften. Jackie Shaw kehrt nach Belfast zurück, um an der Beerdigung seines alkoholkranken Vaters teilzunehmen, findet aber schnell heraus, dass seine Vergangenheit ihn einholt. 1993 fand ein schrecklicher Bombenanschlag auf ...

John Steele left his family and home at the tender age of 16 to join the Royal Navy. In a select branch of only 200 he subsequently qualified as the youngest Clearance Diver at that time. He then moved on to a life as a commercial oilfield diver and for 22 years worked in the unforgiving depths of the North Sea and Persian Gulf. In 2004 a new industry was opening up. After an intense re-education he secured a job with one of the largest private security companies working with the reconstru...

John Steele left his family and home at the tender age of 16 to join the Royal Navy. In a select branch of only 200 men he subsequently qualified as the youngest Mine Clearance Diver at that time. He then moved on to a life as an oilfield commercial diver and for 22 years worked in the unforgiving depths of the North Sea and the Persian Gulf.In 2004 a new industry was opening up and following an intense period of re-education he secured a job with one of the largest private securit...

John Steele left his family and home at the tender age of 16 to join the Royal Navy. In a select branch of only 200 men he subsequently qualified as the youngest Mine Clearance Diver at that time. He then moved on to a life as an oilfield commercial diver and for 22 years worked in the unforgiving depths of the North Sea and the Persian Gulf.In 2004 a new industry was opening up and following an intense period of re-education he secured a job with one of the largest private securit...

A slender, angry account about a man who takes control, takes vengeance, takes over, and keeps on taking.

The first three books in Stuart Field's 'John Steel' series of crime thrillers, now available in one volume!Steel And Shadows: When former British Special Forces agent John Steel arrives in New York to find the person in a photograph after his family's brutal murder, he joins forces with NYPD detective Samantha McCall investigating a triple homicide. What seems like the work of a serial killer becomes a web of deceit with mercenaries, shadowy informants and ghosts ...

"Superb . . . the best one-volume economic history of the United States in a long time and, perhaps, ever." — NewsweekIn this illuminating history, John Steele Gordon tells the extraordinary story of the world's first economic superpower. He shows how the American economy became not only the world's largest, but also its most dynamic and innovative. Combining its English political inheritance with its diverse, ambitious population, the nation was able to de...

Books 4-6 in Stuart Field's 'John Steel' series of crime thrillers, now available in one volume!Blood And Steel: Detectives John Steel and Samantha McCall investigate the murder of a young woman and the disappearance of another, which becomes personal when they discover the victims' connection to one of their own. With time running out and an old enemy resurfacing, will they make it out alive?Maltese Steel: John Steel is asked by CIA Sectio...

In the sixth book in Stuart Field's thriller series, John Steel is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse as he hunts for a methodical killer known as The Sentinel.Helping an old friend in the CIA to hunt down the serial killer, Steel soon realizes that the culprit is sending them postcards with clues to his next victim. Digging deeper into the lives of the previous victims, it seems that the only thing that is constant is that all cards are addressed to him, Detective John Stee...

Over the years everyone has probably heard the expression "a picture paints a thousand words." Every month between September 2011 and February 2015 the author wrote a short story (or wordascope) of about a thousand words based on an image that he had found on his many and varied wanderings across the blasted heath of the World Wide Web. This book is a collection of the 42 short stories (plus a few bonus pieces) which resulted from this endeavour. The stories vary in length from 800 to 2,50...

After a young woman is found dead in her apartment, Detective John Steel is brought in. A British cop working with the NYPD, he is a man with unique talent for finding trouble and winding up his partner, Detective Samantha McCall.Soon, another woman goes missing, and the duo must find out why. But there is a cost: the dead woman is the girlfriend of one their own, and the missing woman may have something the killer wants.As the clock ticks, the investigation runs deeper and...

The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the great obelisk was finished in 1884 and remains the tallest stone structure in the world at 555 feet. The story behind its construction is an intriguing piece of American history, which a...