The modern racing yacht is awash with onboard instruments and electronics giving enormous amounts of data. But few people fully understand how to get the most out of all the information at their fingertips, let alone make it useful for the team to enable them to win races. But ace navigators, Mark Chisnell and Gilberto Pastorella, do – both have worked with professional sailing programmes all over the world – from America's Cup to Maxi, ORC / IRC and one-design fleets. In Mastering Data to...

What will you do...?The Sniper is a sensational short story (12,000 words or about 36 pages) featuring the central character from Mark Chisnell's 'Janac's Games' thrillers; The Defector and The Wrecking Crew.An empty clearing in the Vietnamese jungle in 1969. An explosive, complex and compromised war rages to the north and south, to the east and the west. Two men come to the clearing with a simple task in mind – to kill a man. A man who wants to visit his girl.A sim...

Our access to knowledge is extraordinary, much of it available through a smartphone that rarely leaves our side. The problem is no longer finding information; it's sifting it for the good stuff. Facts are often distorted by laziness or incompetence, and truths are sometimes twisted or hidden for financial gain, or to evade the consequences of mistakes or failures.It doesn't help that we – as human beings – have trouble discerning truth from untruth, and fact from fiction. There is ...

Have you ever dreamed of sailing around the world?If so, it probably wasn't like this...'Big pressure on you,' yelled hoarsely.Then more urgently, 'Big gust!' A curse. 'Thirty-eight knots, still building. Big pressure, look at the goddam speed! You wanna blow it!''No, I've got it! I've got it. Ease! Ease!'The winch drum howled. The boat had shaken herself at a frequency that shouldn't have been physically possible for something that size, and then taken...

If Dragon Tattoo's Mikael Blomkvist and the Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen could have a love-child, she'd probably be a lot like Sam Blackett...Sam had given up her Manhattan job, and her cute apartment in Brooklyn. She'd abandoned her astonished boyfriend to the charms of ESPN, and flown off into a new dawn to chase her dream of becoming an investigative journalist.Three months later, alone in a soulless internet café, she's facing some cold, hard facts; she's unpublished,...

Sam Blackett is back and in more trouble than ever before...Sam Blackett has moved on from her adventures in the Himalayas, and moved on from her relationship with Pete. Fortunately, things are going a little better with her journalism, and she's in Shanghai working on a commission for the Boston Globe.If only she hadn't treated herself to dinner at the five star Peninsula Hotel she might even have got it finished and published - but she did, and so Roger Ravert died in her...

Janac's back, and there will be games - so what will you do when it's them... or the woman you love?Drug baron Janac has unleashed a reign of terror in the South China Sea to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks an old cargo ship on an evil night off the Indonesian coast, it seems he has also found the perfect victims to exploit with his psychotic games.Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are sharing a last voyage before the arrival of th...

So, you think you'd like to sail around the world?Imagine sunsets across calm oceans, cocktails at cosy anchorages, landfalls in amazing new places....And then imagine something else, imagine taking part in one of the planet's last great adventures. Imagine the story of an incredible race, ripping and roaring through the seven seas. Imagine a tale of endurance, deprivation, fear and courage, a story of winners and losers, those who made it and those who did not. Imagine 'Sp...

'An excellent drug-smuggling thriller.'The Bookseller.'This is a remarkable thriller – chillingly violent, full of tension and with a very original ending.'Publishing News.Will Martin Cormac turn his back on his ruthless past as a currency trader, a major city player, and do the right thing? Not when he's looking for answers in a succession of sleazy dives...One night, Cormac gets caught trying to chat up the bar owner's girlfriend and soon needs rescu...

The dogs of war are howling as a new generation of brutal, authoritarian leaders tighten their grip on power… and begin to look beyond their own borders.In Europe, Adolf Hitler orders the German Army back into the Rhineland – forbidden territory since the slaughter of the Great War ended in 1918.It's a challenge to the democratic European nations, but no one is willing to pick up the glove thrown down by Hitler's regime. The French Army stays in their barracks, while the ar...

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.

In the Colorado mountain town of Glenwood Springs not far from Aspen artist/photographer Gwyn Sanders discovers a cryptic letter her sister Kelly left behind. The victim of a deadly hit and run Kelly reveals she was sexually involved with her sisters boyfriend and is scared for her life. Both Gwyn and her remaining sister Linda have since married their boyfriends so either of their husbands could be guilty of murder. The sisters received a large inheritance before meeting these men and kno...