Political / legal thriller
Simon & Schuster In the Blood: A Thriller
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£23.19
Simon & Schuster In the Blood: A Thriller
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£16.14
Simon & Schuster Only the Dead: A Thriller
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£23.99
Atria Books ONLY THE DEAD
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£13.78
Simon & Schuster Denial
Book SynopsisA futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce.The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet’s fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent Nuremberg-like Toronto Trials convicted the most powerful oil executives and lobbyists for crimes against the environment. Not all of them. A few executives escaped arrest and went into hiding, including pipeline mastermind Robert Cave. Now, a Pacific Northwest journalist named Jack Henry who works for a struggling media company has received a tip that Cave is living in Mexico. Hoping the story will save his job, he travels south and, using a fake identity, makes contact with the fugitive. The two men strike up an unexpected friendship, leaving Jack torn about exposing Cave—an uncertainty further compounded by the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and a new romance with an old acquaintance. Who will really benefit from the unmasking? What is the nature of justice and punishment? How does one contend with mortality when the planet itself is dying? Denial is both a page-turning speculative suspense novel and a powerful existential inquisition about the perilous moment in which we currently live.
£13.59
Pocket Books Shadow of Doubt
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£9.89
Atria Books Edge of Honor
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£22.49
Simon & Schuster Savage Son: A Thriller
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£16.99
Pocket Books The Rule of Law
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£9.49
Simon & Schuster Near Dark: A Thriller
Book SynopsisINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “Fast-paced...pulse-pounding...supremely entertaining…His best ever.” —The Washington Times “This might be the single greatest thriller I’ve covered....It’s amazing!” —The Real Book Spy Scot Harvath returns in the newest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.The world’s largest bounty has just been placed upon America’s top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever—one that has already claimed the lives of the people closest to him, including his new wife—he’s going to need help—a lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Sølvi Kolstad. Just as smart, just as deadly, and just as determined, she not only has the skills, but also the broken, troubled past to match Harvath’s own.
£13.83
Atria Books Total Power
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£16.19
Penguin Adult Black Flag
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£8.54
Penguin Adult Without Sanction
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£8.54
Random House USA Inc The Reckoning: A Novel
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£15.30
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Feel the Bern: A Bernie Sanders Mystery
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£13.59
Vintage Espanol La gran estafa / The Rooster Bar
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£14.45
Random House USA Inc The Great Offshore Grounds: A novel
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national, individual, and collective—that drive and define us.On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of personal and professional dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except, instead of money, what their father gives them is information—a name—which forces them to come to grips with a long-held family secret. In the face of their new reality, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another, as well as their definitions of freedom. Moving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve, linguistic vitality, and undeniable tenderness.
£13.60
NeWest Press Image Decay
Book SynopsisIncludes author-curated discussion questions!Mark Lisac''s Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in that unnamed capital city east of the Rockies, where the Brutalist architecture of the downtown core reflects the body politic laid bare.When a cantankerous ex-government photographer seeks ownership of his prints, the powers-that-be are determined to prevent the release of certain sensitive photos. Set in the 1990s, this political thriller delves into questions of identity and memory, established power and its fears and secrets, old stock versus newcomers, belonging and alienation.Image Decay investigates the intricacies of political manipulation, personal anxieties, and how history must be seen to be confronted.
£12.79
Public Park Publishing The Awakening: and Selected Short Stories
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£15.97
The Sutherland House Inc. White
Book Synopsis“Brave, moving, and fierce, WHITE shows us the deep rot of a family’s white supremacist beliefs and a fearless daughter’s plan to infiltrate the racist groups she wants to bring down. Taut and compulsively readable, Aviva Rubin’s debut novel is as much a sharp psychological portrait of generational racism as it is an unflinching look at the realities and limitations of hope and change.” —Laura Zigman, bestselling author of Separation Anxiety and Small World"Every action humans take plants a seed. WHITE brilliantly explores the yield of such seeds—good, bad, and ugly. While hate can be cultivated and passed from generation to generation, it can also be dispelled when the right people come into our lives at the right times." —Arno Michaelis, author of My Life After HateSarah Cartell grew up in a White supremacist family, controlled by her grandfather whose beliefs and violence mark them a
£14.24
The Indigo Press Wonder Valley
Book SynopsisWhen a teenager runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that connects a cast of six characters who narrate Wonder Valley. There’s Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. There’s Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There’s Britt, who shows up at the commune harbouring a dark secret. There’s Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. And there’s Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts. Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city.Trade Review‘Pochoda is a master at homing in on the details of both exterior and interior landscapes and crafting characters so palpable that you can feel blood throbbing in their temples and rivulets of sweat evaporating off their necks.’ https://bookpage.com/reviews/21918-ivy-pochoda-wonder-valley#.XWffZehKjIW -- Thane Tierney * Bookpage *‘Wonder Valley is an epic novel told on a personal level . . . Each of the characters in this novel resonates with traits familiar to all readers, and yet every one of them is a unique individual . . . By focusing on those at the fringes of society, Pochoda effectively examines both the flaws and perfections of humanity at large.’ http://bolobooks.com/2017/11/wonder-valley-the-bolo-books-review/ -- Kristopher * BOLO Books *‘Pochoda’s novel is compelling . . . the author’s skill creates an experience of total immersion’ -- Lisa Alexander and Julia Lichtblau * The Common *‘It’s a California novel through and through: a collection of character studies drenched in enough sunlight to illuminate the harshest of truth . . . The ending is magnificently unexpected, almost ingenious, and the surprise factor sneaks up on you.’ https://ew.com/booksThe Common – Lisa Alexander and Julia Lichtblau 26th January 2018 ‘Pochoda’s novel is compelling . . . the author’s skill creates an experience of total immersion’ -- David Canfield * Entertainment Weekly *‘a dizzying, kaleidoscopic thriller that refuses to let readers look away from the dark side of Southern California.’ https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-wonder-valley-pochoda-20171110-story.html -- Michael Schaub * The Los Angeles Times *‘an ode to the misunderstood parts (and people) of California’ https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ivy-pochodas-wonder-valley-ode-misunderstood-parts-people-california -- Jane Gavduk * Interview magazine *‘In Wonder Valley, everything is fully realized. Especially the characters—first defined against the running man—and the setting—a portrait of Southern California that’s attentive to the harrowing issues of race and class but never embraces cynicism.’ https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/books/Structures-in-Service-to-WonderIvy-PochodasWonder-Valley-Harper-Collins-2017 -- Michael Natalie * The Brooklyn Rail *Genre Be Damned: Smith Henderson interviews Ivy Pochoda ‘a gripping, gritty, and deeply humane novel of flights and collisions, rich with the profound mistakes and redemptive urges of a wonderfully interlinked cast of characters’ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/genre-be-damned/ * The Los Angeles Review of Books *‘Pochoda’s novel is compelling . . . the author’s skill creates an experience of total immersion’ http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/wonder-valley-a-novel -- Fatima Azam * Washington Independent *‘Slowly, and with skill, Pochoda brings these characters together in a melancholy tale of people who have been bruised and abused by life . . . Pochoda gifts each of her characters with a rounded backstory and a sense of dignity that their circumstances have denied them.’ http://bookoxygen.com/?p=7999 -- Shirley Whiteside * Book Oxygen *
£11.69
Ember Press Quiver of Spies
Book Synopsis1989, London. Julia Dylan is running a successful security consultancy. When an eccentric academic disappears on his quest to find Spanish gold, Julia is hired to find him. Her husband Thomas, is stuck in MI6 writing reports no one will ever read. When he's suddenly sent to Turkey to find a consignment of hijacked Russian missiles, suspicions grow. Thomas and Julia find their paths leading to Madeira, it can't be a coincidence. Someone is pulling their strings, but why? Does the answer lie with a distinguished family of local wine merchants? Perhaps with a former MI6 officer working for the Americans in Panama? Or even with a retired Russian spy residing peacefully on the island? The peace cannot last. The Cold War might be ending, but its consequences are explosive.
£9.49
Amazon Publishing La octava hermana
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£8.99
Amazon Publishing Espías en fuga
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£12.47
Books on Demand Phönix im Eis
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£18.67
Books on Demand Persilschein
£15.68
Books on Demand Die Waffe
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£16.12
Books on Demand Vorbelastet: Justizkrimi
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£17.90
BoD - Books on Demand Beyond Fire
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£15.60
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Taliban in Texas
Book SynopsisJoey Torino is a man who has tired of the busy, and dangerous, life he has led, and has simply decided to opt out. He is done with all that-the pressures of doing something that someone else wants him to do, the risks of doing things he questions, resents, or even disagrees with. And he has managed to escape that life, quietly, without fanfare or animosity, and with just enough income to be able to live, in the northern forests of Maine, in the secluded, modest style he prefers. And he is happy in his simple life here.But then a message from his past arrives. Pen Highsmith has another difficult mission for him, and although those dangerous episodes in Russia are long past now, Joey's "special skills" are needed again.Joey faces a difficult situation, involving the Russians, a complicated low-key civil conflict, ancient suspicions and animosities, and a ruthless, relentless enemy, hidden in the mountains-in Afghanistan. And the monumental investments of the Wilde Oil company might be put at risk, under certain circumstances and in some situations.There are clear risks, and potential dangers, which have to be dealt with and surmounted, in a country, in a region, which is complicated and potentially dangerous. So Highsmith reaches out to Joey Torino.
£16.20
Bergli Books Ltd Swiss Democracy In A Nutshell
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£16.14
Next Chapter May It Please The Court
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£23.93
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El crimen de la Magistrada / The Magistrate's
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£17.56
Aiora Press Never Go to the Post Office Alone
Book Synopsis?Great historical events are never anonymous -- they sweep anyone in their path into the fray. Kevin Danaher, a foreign correspondent in Moscow, will discover exactly that, as he queues at the city's central post office one morning in 1989, waiting to send a fax to his newspaper in New York. How could he know that the beautiful East German woman standing in front of him was the means chosen by fate to throw him onto the stage of world history? With the Soviet Union collapsing and the Berlin Wall about to fall, this moment of history would change the world, and Kevin's life, forever. Stelios Kouloglou, himself a correspondent in Moscow at the time, blends fact and fiction in this compelling political thriller, as he guides us through the human side of history.Trade ReviewA witty, multilayered story ... for anyone who wants to know what Moscow was like in the twilight hours of Communism. - BRUCE CLARK / Times Literary SupplementNever Go To The Post Office Alone is a real political thriller in the fine tradition of John Le Carré. - Demosthenis Kourtovik / newspaper Ta Nea
£12.34
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Clear Line of Fire
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£5.96
Low Price Publications Beyond Twilight: A Thriller with Backlash of
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£28.12
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. La estratagema
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£21.99
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. Por ley superior
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£18.80
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Carta de un ateo guatemalteco al Santo Padre / Letter from a Guatemalan Atheist to the Holy Father
£22.65
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hermanos, enemigos / The Savages 2: The Spectre
£27.58
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La diabla en el espejo / The She-Devil in the Mirror
£21.49
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial En defensa de Jacob / Defending Jacob
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£15.20
Alianza La Hoguera
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£18.18
Aarluuk Press The Bolivian Girl
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£16.79
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Song of the Golden Sparrow: A Novel History of
Book SynopsisGuilty of the crime of sleeping on the job, the lowly yaksha Prem Chandra Guha, is banished to India on a punishment posting. During his stay here, he must write a sufficiently riveting history of the land of his exile. Prem Chandra arrives in India on the first dawn of her independence and fate brings him to Netarhat, an obscure town near the forests of Chhota Nagpur. It is here that he meets Manhoos, an orphaned urchin who repairs motor vehicles for a living, and his friend Mary, a feisty tribal girl from the nearby Santhal village.Assuming the shape of a common sparrow, Prem Chandra turns into an unobtrusive observer and follows the fortunes of Manhoos and Mary as they travel to Calcutta, and then to Rishikesh, Bangalore, Ahmedabad As they plunge from one adventure to another, a series of figures play key roles in their lives: the Naxal leader Charu Majumdar; Satyajit Ray, in his crisp dhoti and clipped accent; the ever-giggling Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; the powerful business magnate, Ameer Premji; and even a mysterious man with a 56-inch chest.
£14.99
HarperCollins India Bestseller She Wrote
Book SynopsisMaster storyteller Ravi Subramanian delves into the glitzy world of bestsellers, and uncovers a risky dalliance between a superstar novelist and his alluring protege.
£16.62
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Terror-Organisation: 'The Dawn of the True Islam'
Book SynopsisSamir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising. Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Siobhan from with the real IRA who co-operates with the terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam. This international Islamic terror-organisation has developed a secret weapon: a tiny poisonous ball that is capable of destroying all life with a few minutes in a certain room or building. Siobhan is going to test the secret weapon after her training in the desert of Lybia on the murderer or her grandfather, who was killed during Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. The murderer lives in the Algarve, Portugal. After a successful test the secret weapon is going to be used to commit terror attacks in Amsterdam, London and New York. The goal is to destroy the values of the Western World and to establish a Great Islamic Empire. Samir, who is apparently an excellent intern in a multicultural elderly home in Holland, is the contact person of the Dutch terrorcell (of the international Muslim terror-organisation) in Holland. On the inside he is a radicalised Muslim with a hurt ego. In the international Muslim terror-network he thinks he is taken seriously. Before Siobhan can test the secret weapon in Portugal she is abducted by the Israeli Mossad. She ends up in Israel. She can choose: either work with the Israelis to help in dismantling the international Muslim terror-organisation or she will be left on her own with all the consequences. In the meantime there are also terrorist attacks and threats in Amsterdam and London. It is bringing the two countries in a state of imbalance.
£15.26
The American University in Cairo Press Of Noble Origins: A Palestinian Novel
Book SynopsisThe Qahtan are a Palestinian family that claims to have originated in the Arabian Peninsula, descended from the family of the Prophet Muhammad. This connection has given its members a certain ascendancy in their society, and has influenced their cultural and political choices. The true test occurs when the Qahtanis, like other Palestinians, confront two enemies after the First World War: the British Mandate and the Zionist movement. Observing the gradual and increasing illegal Jewish immigration and land appropriation, the Palestinians come to realize they have been betrayed by a power that "fulfilled their promises to the Jews and reneged on their promises to the Arabs." Sahar Khalifeh brings to the forefront the inner conflicts of Palestinian society as it struggles to affirm its cultural and national identity, save its threatened homeland, and maintain a semblance of normalcy in otherwise abnormal circumstances.
£19.86
