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Book SynopsisJack Ryan Jr. stands alone against powerful enemies in this thrilling novel in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.   On a mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., meets his oldest friend, Seth Gregory. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared with funds for a vital intelligence operation. They say he’s turned and leave Jack with a warning:  If you hear from Seth, call us. Do not get involved.   Jack soon finds himself lost in a maze of intrigue, lies, and betrayal where no one is who they seem to be—not even Seth, who’s harboring a secret that harkens back to the Cold War. A secret that is driving him to the brink of treason....

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Book SynopsisAdmiral John “Black Jack” Geary may have saved the Alliance only to destroy it, in this thrilling and eagerly awaited continuation of the New York Times bestselling series, now in paperback.Geary believed in the Alliance. Even when he uncovered overwhelming evidence that the highest echelons of the government and fleet command were involved in secret programs and prison camps, he believed it was worth saving. And that his duty was to see that justice was served even though some factions feared that revealing the truth would cause the Alliance to crumble.But after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt when he brings evidence of the misdeeds to the capital star system, Geary realizes that some have decided the easiest way to make the Alliance’s problems disappear is to get rid of him. He finds himself ordered to undertake a perilous new assignment outside the reaches of human-occupied space while the Senate clashes over the evidence.<

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Book SynopsisJack Ryan, Jr., uncovers a secret that may threaten the United States and its president, Jack Ryan, Sr., in the latest thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Jack Ryan, Jr., is a man of action, and when he uncovers a terrorist plot to kill innocents he jumps in to thwart the evil plan. However, it turns out this attack was just a piece of a larger, more insidious plot designed to deceive the United States and paint President Jack Ryan into a political corner. Jack Jr. isn't about to let that happen, but his options are almost as narrow as his chances of getting out of this alive.

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Book Synopsis1795: Young warriors Nelson and Napoleon learn the art of war and the cost of fame . . .The third novel in this epic, thrilling series of war and villainy on the high seas, featuring Captain Nathan Peake. Seth Hunter''s brilliant series will enthral fans of Dudley Pope and Patrick O''Brian. ''Another slick nautical adventure in the Patrick O''Brian tradition . . . rousing naval battles, twisty plot, and muscular prose'' Publishers Weekly on THE TIDE OF WARNathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and their little toy soldier, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte.Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn, Nathan is sent to join another young glory-seeker, Captain Ho

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Book SynopsisSteve Range believes his friend Randy is a corpse in a desert grave - until he reappears in an Al Qaeda video, spitting extremist hate and challenging Range and Blackstone Six to a desert battle that will settle a vicious blood feud. But Range''s attention is drawn to a clue slipped in to Randy''s tirade, and he begins to wonder whether his old comrade-in-arms really has been turned by his captors. All he knows for sure is that he owes a debt to the man he left for dead. Range leads a team from Blackstone Six on a high-stakes rescue mission, but he soon finds that his elite band of operators are facing a desperate fight like no other, one in which old loyalties and friendships will be tested to the limit and beyond.

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Book SynopsisHe was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France''s armies in the Far East collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar, a captive commander in the very organization he is charged with eliminating. But his confessor is no saint: Tahar stands accused of indiscriminate murder. Lieutenant Andreani - who served with Degorce in Vietnam and revels in his new role as executioner - is determined to see a noose around his neck. This is Algeria, 1957. Blood, sand, dust, heat - perhaps the bitterest colonial conflict of the last century. Degorce will learn that in times of war, no matter what a man has suffered in his past, there is no limit to the cruelty he is capable of.Trade Review'Blackly brilliant ... its modern resonances go far beyond the francophone world' Stephen Poole, Guardian. * Guardian *'Ferrari's masterful narrative, shaped by a chilling wisdom, moves and unsettles in equal, unforgettable measure' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. * Irish Times *

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Book Synopsis1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to avoid his girlfriend, he gradually destroys his whole life. Then he meets Victorien Salagnon, an elderly artist and a veteran of countless wars. Together, they strike a bargain: Salagnon will teach the young man to paint and, in return, he wants his memoirs written down, a ranging, bloody life story of being a teenage résistant in Nazi-occupied France; of hunting rebels in Indochina and engaging in torture in Algeria; of the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless; of the killing fields on which the modern world is built.Trade ReviewBold, brave, magnificent. * Irish Times *Shock-and-awe virtuosity * Financial Times *A masterpiece. -- Frédéric Beigbeder * Le Figaro *Difficult to put down and impossible to forget * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisTom Clancy''s new Jack Ryan thriller, Command Authority, is available to pre-order now. Peter Telep''s Blacklist is set to reignite the globally successful Tom Clancy''s Splinter Cell videogame franchise. The return of agent Sam Fisher, as Commander of a new elite Black Ops team ''Fourth Echelon'' reporting directly to the President. His primary mission: to shutdown the rogue elements of his former ''Third Echelon'' team, now conducting a deadly, escalating countdown of terrorist attacks before they reach zero.Peter Telep''s entry into the Tom Clancy''s Splinter Cell franchise is sure to be a massive success, appealing to both thriller fans and the videogame fan-base who loved the Assassin''s Creed tie-in novels.Peter Telep is the New York Times bestselling author of over forty novels spanning many genres including film adaptations, medical drama, and military thrillers.

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Book SynopsisReal-life SEAL Don Mann brings all his insight to the next installment in the SEAL Team Six series, in which Crocker's team goes up against a narco-terrorist in South America.Trade ReviewDon Mann writes like a soldier talks - straight to the point. And he packs a mean punch. -- Chris Ryan, author of STRIKE BACK and KILLING FOR THE COMPANYA steady stream of action makes this a worthy entry into the burgeoning SEAL thriller genre. * Publishers Weekly *Action addicts will find... engaging hours of reading here. * Kirkus Reviews *Mann's sparse prose keeps the story crackling and he imbues the novel with authenticity thanks to his thirty years of service. * Suspense Magazine *

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Book SynopsisAn action-packed military thriller for fans of Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. Navy SEALs Crocker and Mancini are on a training exercise in Las Vegas when a moment of relaxation is interrupted by a violent altercation between hotel security and three businessmen claiming to be Chinese diplomats. They attempt to stop the fleeing businessmen, but soon realise that they may not be who they claim to be. That same night Las Vegas goes dark - someone has hacked into the Nevada Power Company system and shut down the entire city. As chaos reigns the businessmen make their escape. When Crocker and the rest of SEAL Team Six attempt to track them down, they find themselves drawn into a North Korean plot that combines cyber warfare and the theft of black market nuclear weapons. As darkness reigns, the squad is the last hope of preventing a conspiracy that could have catastrophic international consequences.Trade ReviewPraise for the SEAL Team Six series * : *Don Mann writes like a soldier talks - straight to the point. And he packs a mean punch. -- Chris Ryan, author of STRIKE BACK and KILLING FOR THE COMPANYSEAL aficionados and action addicts will find... engaging hours of reading here. * Kirkus Reviews *A steady stream of action makes this a worthy entry into the burgeoning SEAL thriller genre. * Publishers Weekly *Mann's sparse prose keeps the story crackling and he imbues the novel with authenticity thanks to his thirty years of service. * Suspense Magazine *The pace is relentless, and the inside knowledge of how the SEALs operate again gives this series its appeal...For action fans, Crocker continues to deliver. * Booklist *Reads like a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child - fast and clean. But there's more military structure, more politics and lots of action. * San Jose Mercury News *

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Book SynopsisOne of the Amazon Editors'' Best Books of 2018Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.''An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent.'' Observer''Gorgeous and devastating'' New York Times''Achingly relevant.'' GraziaTrade ReviewAn American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. -- Andrew Motion * Observer *'Gorgeous, devastating... As in his first novel, The Yellow Birds, Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters... lays bare the tremendous suffering on which our country was founded and demands its acknowledgment. But Powers also offers love and grace in these pages, and a prayer for redemption. * New York Times *A work of historical fiction that is as unflinching an examination of our capacity for cruelty and violence as his debut. . . Powers packs much into a relatively short work. . . there is no mistaking the intensity of his vision and his ability to conjure up scenes that stick in the mind. . . A novel that memorably illustrates not only the ways in which violence breeds further violence but also the unrelenting power of the past to shape the present. * Sunday Times *Powers's prose is lyrical. . . his evocation of slavery-era Richmond is powerfully achieved. -- Siobhan Murphy * The Times *The writing is beautiful and powerful. A Shout in the Ruins is confirmation, if it were needed, that Kevin Powers is a writer of rare talent. * FT *Ranging across time and following several characters whose lives become entangled by chance, family connection and conflict, Powers returns here - with similar, admirable compression - to themes he took up in his celebrated debut, The Yellow Birds . . . A Shout in the Ruins illuminates an entire lost era. -- Laird Hunt * Literary Review *A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one. -- Elliot Ackerman, author of Dark at the CrossingA daring voyage into and out of the darkest era in American history. * Observer *One of the chief rewards of this novel is that it speaks very much to the present through the generational interplay of its characters . . . It is told subtly and with great empathy: Powers once again demonstrates the precise eye for imagery and detail that is becoming the hallmark of his work. -- Elliot Ackerman * TLS *This troubling, stirring book is informed by Mr Powers's deep understanding of war's complexities, and of how people are broken and shaped by it. * The Economist *With a complex structure reminiscent of Faulkner, Powers adroitly weaves his narrative threads together with subtle connections that reinforce his themes of longing for coherence and the continuing effect of the past on the present. An impressive novel of slavery, destruction, and the arduous difficulties of love. * Kirkus *Achingly relevant. * Grazia *Possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut . . . This is a fine, relevant novel from a notable author. * BookPage *Contains moments that burn. * Daily Mail *Suitably unvarnished, but not without moments of beauty or deep emotion. A Shout in the Ruins brushes aside myth and romanticism for a clear-eyed look at America. * Shelf Awareness *Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth. -- Sarah Johnson * Bookli *Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel. -- Ron RashA masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth. -- Philipp MeyerThis second novel, set in Powers's hometown of Richmond, VA, probes the grip of traumatic memory in the aftermath of the Civil War . . . A masterly meditation on our unbreakable connection to a world predicated on cyclical violence. -- Joshua Finnell, Colgate University, Hamilton, NYPRAISE FOR THE YELLOW BIRDS: Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside * Guardian *A masterpiece . . . a classic. * The Times Books of the Year *A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. * Sunday Times *Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. -- Hilary Mantel * Guardian Books of the Year *A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. * Independent *Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. -- Ann PatchettKevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual. -- Damian LewisWritten with an intensity which is deeply compelling. -- Colm TóibínThis is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. -- Alice SeboldPowers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre. * Sunday Express Books of the Year *Nothing escapes the author's fanatical analysis and the observations are often startling and true * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisWhitney Terrell's remarkable novel of the Iraq War, The Good Lieutenant, literally starts with a bang, as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead - one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others of the casualties were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski. Pulowski is another story entirely - Fowler and Pulowski have been lovers since they first met at Fort Riley in Kansas . . . From this conflagration, The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspect informants and questionable intelligence, their very mission the consequence of a previous snafu in which an American soldier had been kidnapped by insurgents. We hear the voice of Lieutenant Fowler but also those of jaded career soldiers and Iraqis both innocent and not so innocent. Ultimately, as all these stories unravel, Terrell reveals what can happen when good intentions destroy, experience distorts, and survival becomes everything.Trade ReviewUnforgettable . . . a structure that works brilliantly, making for a memorable study of Fowler, whose pure intentions we see slowly corroded by combat . . . Terrell gets to the heart of how war changes people. * Sunday Times *[The Good Lieutenant] steadily infuses its characters with depth and humanity and lays out the dubious intelligence and errors that led them to catastrophe . . . Powerful and sometimes heartbreaking. * New Statesman *If only people read more novels like this one, told backward from a young woman’s experience in Iraq back to her innocence in the American Midwest, we might think twice about sending soldiers to war. -- Best books of 2016 * Boston Globe *A bitter, sly, heartbreaking story of well-meant but ill-fated intentions, and of a battlefield incident that wreaks havoc on the lives that converge, or end, there. * New Yorker *Devastating . . . Superb: [Terrell's] dialogue, his prose, the humane sorrow that suffuses his observations . . . Startlingly original . . . [The Good Lieutenant] might be the best work of fiction the Bush wars have produced so far. * Guardian US *An addicting epic about disaster and, more important, what leads to disaster * Washington Post *Whitney Terrell's The Good Lieutenant is a terrific exploration of courage, leadership, and loss, as experienced by American soldiers in Iraq . . . A stunning and heartbreaking testament to Terrell's genius and the nature of modern war. -- Gillian FlynnWhitney Terrell has unwound the myths of one of our most encrusted literary forms - the war novel - and remade it to be humane and honest, glowingly new and true. Terrell knows his facts on the ground, but this is emphatically, triumphantly, a work of imagination and literary ingenuity. This is brilliant, bold, heartbreaking storytelling for material that demands nothing less. -- Adam JohnsonHas the grand complexity of war embedded in its bones. It makes ingenious, compelling art out of those complexities. For that reason alone, its considerable graces are saving ones. -- Richard FordA wild Humvee ride of a novel that embeds us so deeply and so sympathetically in its beautifully realized characters that we can scarcely draw breath until their journey comes to its harrowing conclusion. Whitney Terrell has written a deeply moving work of fiction to set beside Phil Klay's Redeployment and Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds, with a singularity of vision uniquely its own. -- Joyce Carol OatesA stirring performance grounded in the hard realities of combat. The human beauty here is of the brutal variety-complex, dark, and impossible to forget. -- Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead Like all the best novels of war, Whitney Terrell's The Good Lieutenant lays bare the special misprisions, faulty intelligences, and colliding ironies that mark our most pitiable human endeavor. But the novel's brilliant masterstroke is its reverse narrative, which proposes an almost magical universe in which these exquisitely wrought figures, full of vulnerability, delicacy, and hope, gain a most amazing grace. This is an arrestingly ingenious achievement. -- Chang-rae LeeSo exhilarating in its tautly rendered, faultless reality, so timeless in its play of human emotion in extremis, The Good Lieutenant dazzles and shames us as it breaks our hearts. The Good Lieutenant joins the ranks of great war novels that explain, too late, why 'victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.' -- Jayne Anne PhillipsTerrell shows us how soldiers think and address one another with a stinging combination of military argot and pop culture references. * Publisher’s Weekly starred and boxed review *Whitney Terrell has been in his career both a great novelist and a great war reporter. In The Good Lieutenant he is both, and the effect is overpowering. One job of the reporter is to use facts to let us understand who these men and women are whom we ask to kill and die for us. One job of the novelist is to use imagination to explain the interior lives of others and the infinite nuances of life. It is extraordinary and rare that one writer can do both, but Whitney Terrell does, and masterfully. -- Arthur PhillipsThe Good Lieutenant is not the first novel written about the Iraq War, but [it is] one of the most unique and deeply felt. * Men's Journal *The Good Lieutenant’s impersonation of an onion being unpeeled works to powerful effect . . . For Terrell’s characters, war has determined that life itself is essentially unreliable. That he has turned this into fiction at once compelling and sensitive, dramatic and intelligent, is impressive indeed. * The National *

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Book SynopsisTHE SECOND EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM SAS HERO AND TV STAR, MARK 'BILLY' BILLINGHAM'Billy's really been there and done it. There's no substitute for experience' SEAN PENN'Matt Mason is an awesome character. Just the guy I would want to be by my side in an explosive situation' RUDY REYES'The characters are tough and the writing is tougher. A head-smashing assault of a thriller from a former SAS agent who has seen it all and done it all' THE SUN'A strong sense of jeopardy and the action does not lack fizz. If you want a quick, easy read that entertains throughout, Survive to Fight fits the bill' CRIME FICTION LOVER'Billingham's service as a former SAS officer brings an extra layer of verisimilitude' FINANCIAL TIMESMatt Mason is attempting to put the army behind him, building a life for himself training anti-poaching forces on a game reserve.He's looking forward to meeting up with his eldest child, Jo, who has graduated naval college and taken a summer job working on a billionaire's yacht in the Red Sea. But then he receives a call informing him that Jo's boat is missing, likely abducted by Somali pirates.Mason must call in favours from old contacts as he follows Jo's trail. She isn't the abduction target, she won't be worth the pirates keeping for long. But she is still Matt Mason's daughter, and she knows she needs to survive to fight.IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST IN THE NEW MATT MASON SERIES FROM AN AUTHOR WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE IT ALL, BILLY BILLINGHAM, CHECK OUT CALL TO KILL NOW!About the AuthorBilly Billingham spent 17 years in the SAS. He was responsible for planning and executing strategic operations and training at the highest level in locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and Africa, and has led countless hostage rescues. He later became a bodyguard to A list celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Sir Michael Caine, and Tom Cruise. Since 2015, Billy has been one of the lead presenters on the popular Channel Four series SAS: Who Dares Wins.Trade ReviewBilly's really been there and done it. There's no substitute for experience -- Sean PennThe characters are tough and the writing is tougher. A headsmashing assault of a thriller from a former SAS agent who has seen it all and done it all * Sun *Billingham's service as a former SAS officer brings an extra layer of verisimilitude * Financial Times *Bold, breathless and fiercely exciting. I read it in one sitting and by the end felt as if I'd travelled the globe and got to know a gritty, believable group of characters. A terrific page-turner. -- B.P. Walter, author of The Dinner Guest

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Book SynopsisWhen a modern woman inherits a Parisian apartment undisturbed since WWII, she discovers that it may hold the key to unraveling her cold great-grandmother's secret life -- a past of sacrifice during a mission to protect those she loved.1940, ParisAs the heiress to a wealthy Parisian family, Lise Allard grows up immensely privileged, but barely knowing her absentee parents. Instead, she finds her own sense of family among a close circle of friends. Yet when war breaks out and Paris is occupied, she sees her friends taken away one by one. Heartbroken, Lise vows that she will do whatever it takes to help defeat the Germans.2017, ParisWhen Aurelia Leclaire's great-grandmother passes away, the last thing Aurelia expects to inherit is a tiny Paris apartment untouched for over half of a century. But even more shocking is the massive collection of priceless jewelry and fine art secreted inside. When she discovers an unknown painting cherished by Lise, she realizes that it may be the key to unlocking her great-grandmother's story.Art appraiser Gabriel Seymour is contacted by a woman who claims to have found a painting by his great-great-grandfather. While unearthing its story, Gabriel and Aurelia discover a hidden cache of weapons, encrypted letters, and faded passport photos revealing intertwining family connections and betrayals from the past.

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Book SynopsisSergeant Nick Burch has returned to the crags of tribal Afghanistan seeking vengeance. Burch's platoon has one goal: to capture or kill an elusive insurgent, known as the Egyptian, a leader who is as much myth as he is man, highly revered and guarded by ferocious guerrillas. The soldiers of Burch's platoon look to him for leadership, but as the Egyptian slips farther out of reach, so too does Burch's battle-worn grasp on reality.Private Danny Shane, the youngest soldier in the platoon, is learning how to survive. For Shane, hunting the Egyptian is secondary. First he must adapt to the savage conditions of the battlefield: crippling heat, ravenous sand fleas, winds thick with moondust, and a vast mountain range that holds many secrets. Shane is soon chiseled by combat, shackled by loyalty, and unflinchingly marching toward a battle from which there is no return. A new enemy has emerged, one who has studied the American soldiers and adapted to their tactics. Known as Habibullah, a teenage son of the people, he stands in brazen defiance of the Ameriki who have come to destroy what his ancestors have built. The American soldiers may be tracking the Egyptian, but Habibullah is tracking them, and he knows these lands far better than they do.With guns on full-auto, Shane and Burch trek into the deepest solitudes of the Himalayas. Under soaring peaks, dark instinct is laid bare. To survive, Shane and Burch must defeat not just Habibullah's militia but the beast inside themselves.AND THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN BURNED reveals, in stunning, ruthless detail, the horrors of war, the courage of soldiers, and the fact that no matter how many enemies we vanquish, there is always another just over the next ridge.

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Book Synopsis"A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more, this latest from best-selling author Liu (Face) is a fascinating, irresistible marvel."—Terry Hong, STARRED Library Journal review "Liu's prose is masterful. A good choice for book groups and for readers who are unafraid to be swept away."—*Starred Booklist Review* "With a mesmerizing setting and transporting detail, Glorious Boy balances tropical beauty with raw, physical risk, and dives deep into grim truths about parental love and the power and limitation of language. This is a page-turner, sometimes violent but always revelatory. Readers won’t easily forget the trials this young couple faces, or the landscape that changes them all."—Five Star Review from The Seattle Review of Books What will it take to save Ty? This is the question that haunts Claire and Shep Durant in the wake of their four-year-old’s disappearance. Until this moment, Port Blair’s British surgeon and his young wife, a promising anthropologist, have led a charmed life in the colonial backwaters of India’s Andaman Islands—thanks in part to Naila, a local girl who shares their mysteriously mute son’s silent language. But with the war closing in and mandatory evacuation underway, the Durants don’t realize until too late that Naila and Ty have vanished. While Claire sails for Calcutta, Shep stays to search for the children. Days later, the Japanese invade the Andamans, cutting off all communication. Fueled by guilt and anguish, Claire uses her unique knowledge of the islands’ tribes to make herself indispensable to an all-male reconnaissance team headed back behind enemy lines. Her secret plan: rescue Shep and Ty. Through the brutal odyssey that follows, she’ll discover truths about sacrifice that both shatter and transcend her understanding of devotion.Trade Review"An absolutely gorgeous historical novel about ambition, culture clash, love, atonement, and one silent boy, set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule. So blisteringly alive, you feel the swampy heat and the bugs; so emotionally true, it grips at every page. Just magnificent and not to be missed." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Cruel Beautiful World"In Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu tears a forgotten footnote from the history books and brings it to life in an epic tale of a family caught in a clash of cultures and loyalties during World War II. Set in a penal colony on the remote Andaman Islands, Glorious Boy is the whirlwind story of vanishing cultures, unbreakable codes, rebellion, occupation, and colonization, all swirling around the disappearance of a mute four-year-old boy on the eve of the Japanese occupation of Port Blair. A stirring indictment of the brutality that humanity is capable of, Liu’s heartbreaking new novel of love, betrayal, and sacrifice is also a testament to how far we will go for the ones we love." —Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Shadow Child and Hiroshima in the Morning"No doubt Aimee Liu’s ambitious novel, Glorious Boy, will be praised, deservedly, as historical fiction, an adventure novel, even a ripping yarn, but the heart of this book is what it means to be a mother. Liu's sympathetic and complicated protagonist, Claire Durant, finds herself challenged when it comes to connecting with her atypical son, and the book asks us all to consider whose responsibility it is to be better with and to other human beings, especially those with whom we’re most intimate. How do we learn what isn’t instinct? How do we protect ourselves and others from our own best intentions? With a generous and exacting eye, Liu explores these questions and more, and we, lucky readers, get to go along for the ride." —Karen Shepard, author of Kiss Me Someone"The most memorable and original novel I've read in ages. Aimee Liu takes us into a set of islands—an entire world—most of us have barely heard of, and evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding. Here is the rare book, full of heart yet rich with research, that opens a door to a revealing piece of history that few of us knew existed."—Pico Iyer"A novel about family, communication, and colonialism in a rarely discussed sphere of World War II conflict." —Kirkus Reviews"A good choice for book groups and for readers who are unafraid to be swept away."—Starred Booklist review"Reminiscent of the tone and atmosphere of Somerset Maugham and George Orwell’s Asia-set novels, Glorious Boy is a Second World War story of adventure and loss, uniquely set in the Andaman Islands, one of India’s farthest flung territories....Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter theatres of the Asian half of the War."—Susan Blumberg-Kason, Asian Review of Books"...the thrilling story of one unstoppable mother on a quest to be reunited with her family.”—Madeline Diamond, Travel+Leisure "20 New Books to Gift This Mother's Day""As WWII intensifies, anthropologist Claire Durant waits with her family for the all-clear to leave the lush and sacred Andaman Islands, in this fascinating novel about the many, often unexpected dimensions of war." —Booklist, "Top 10 Historical Fiction of 2020""Glorious Boy transcends history and geography and gets to the heart of things."—Elizabeth Sulis Kim, The Los Angeles Review of Books"This lyrical narrative takes the reader on a sweeping emotional and physical journey, exploring themes of endurance, love, sacrifice, motherhood, guilt, and hope." —Susan McDuffie, Historical Novel Society"Glorious Boy is an exciting read, a family story that morphs into a high-stakes adventure." —The Washington Independent Review of Books"Liu's well-crafted plotline shows how courageous action brings hope. In lushly described scenes, Glorious Boy engages the reader while not providing the characters any easy paths to resolution." — Consequence Magazine"This novel tugged at my heart in all the right ways. I got teary explaining to my husband why I’d cried the night before, when I’d stayed up until two in the morning finishing the book. As her characters’ journey becomes increasingly fraught, Liu walks the emotional tightrope perfectly, never swaying into sentimentality but also never shying away from heartbreak." —Norah Vawter, Washington Independent Review of Books

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Book SynopsisIn 1959, a French Resistance hero investigates a murder in a small Breton town, while awaiting his own trial.

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Book SynopsisA raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Appleexamining the war after the war for US veterans: returning home.What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about warand the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful. That's when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nicegorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesn't dare tell her about the sheep he took care of on his first deployment, only to watch it get torn to shreds by a pack of wild dogs; or the naked, shivering Iraqi teenager his platoon detained after an IED blast. He needs to leave all that behind and become a new personthe kind who sticks around when Max gets pregnant.

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Book SynopsisFirst book in the Matt Rix Thrillers.Afghanistan, 2010, Matt Rix is the commander of Yankee Platoon, an Australian Special Forces Unit operating within the badlands of Uruzghan Provence. At the beginning of its six-month deployment, one of the platoon's vehicles is destroyed by a huge roadside bomb and a popular member of the platoon is killed. Objective Rapier, a shadowy Taliban commander, is identified as the most likely culprit, and Rix vows to pursue him across the troubled country until he is neutralised. But things are not at all what they seem. Rapier is always two steps ahead of Rix, who must first battle his own command's bureaucracy; contend with deceit from those who should be supporting him; and identify the betrayal that lead to Rapier targeting his platoon in the first place. In the end Rix is left with only one choice, follow the rules and survive Afghanistan, or gamble everything in an effort to beat Rapier at his own game.

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Book SynopsisA Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the vicious Northern dictator, Renard.Two survivors, Dyce and Vida, journeyed deep into the Southern terrains in search of a cure for Renard's chemical warfare. Now they find themselves scouring the Northern territories on a new and far deadlier pursuit; to eliminate Renard himself. Could Dyce and Vida unite a fractured America - and at what cost?This is the story of Dyce and Vida.This is the story of the Resistance and its last, desperate, stand.This is the story of North.Trade ReviewDark and beautiful and surprising. I loved it. * Lauren Beukes, author of Broken Monsters *North is fast paced, slick, and relentlessly bleak - though some hope is offered in the finale * Guardian, Book of the Month *South is an absolute blinder of a book. With its cracking pace, unforgettable characters, deliciously gruesome premise and you-won't-see-them-coming twists, if this doesn't make 'book of the year' shortlists, I will eat my Stetson. The Sisters Brothers meets The Stand, it's a post-apocalyptic genre game changer. * Sarah Lotz on South *There are echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand, plus graphic violence and heart-stopping action set pieces, but what lifts South above many recent examples of the subgenre is Owen's pared-down prose, slick narrative and the sensitive depiction of Dyce and Vida's relationship. * Guardian on South *

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Book SynopsisHeraklion, May 1941. On the north coast of Crete, the British forces are redeploying troops, ahead of a German invasion of the island. A brutal defeat in Greece has forced them to withdraw from the mainland, weakened and dejected. For Captain Bentley Paine, of the Yorks & Lancs Regiment, the planned assault is a chance to finally prove himself in this war, not least to his infuriating assistant, Corporal Hallmark. But when the attack begins at dawn, no one can be prepared for the death and bloody fighting that will ensue. As German paratroopers fire at will, victory is decided in a matter of days. But both sides will face devastating losses, in a game-changing campaign, that will become one of the most intense and horrific battles of the Second World War.Trade ReviewRobert Lofthouse writes with passion and a compelling eye for detail -- Major Justin Featherstone MC

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Book SynopsisWritten by a retired British soldier, Trouble at Zero Hour is a breathless and vivid story, dramatizing three of the key Allied operations that turned the tide of the Second World War.6 June, 1944, somewhere over the Normandy coastline: Robbie Stokes sits in a glider, his Bren resting on the floor between his outstretched legs. The nose lowers and the glider descends rapidly: ten minutes of stomach-churning twists and turns until suddenly the call goes up to 'BRACE'. The belly makes contact with the ground and the first Allied troops tumble out into occupied Europe.For new recruit Robbie Stokes it is the beginning of ten months of brutal and relentless conflict that take him from D-Day, via Operation Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem Bridge, to the Rhine Crossing and the final push for victory. Three operations that change the course of the war and test Robbie Stokes and his band of brothers to their limits. If they fail, then the Allied invasion fails. They must succeed through their longest days.Trade ReviewRobert Lofthouse writes with passion and a compelling eye for detail which is informed by his family connection with the operation - Major Justin Featherstone MC

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Book SynopsisAll reigns must end, All storms must pass. The crisis in Peking reaches its endgame as the Communists encircle the city. The future looks uncertain for all sides. Inflation is rampant, food is scarce. The battered Nationalist forces find themselves in a never-ending fight for resources, with corruption claiming what little is left. With Cui Zongshi dead, anything can happen. The old capital's few remaining brave souls do what they can to stem the chaos. Liang Jinglun and Fang Buting at the Central Bank resort to the last vestiges of their power to prop up a crumbling economy, while Fang Meng'ao has been tasked with securing transportation of important cargo to Tianjin. As Meng'ao and his devoted pilots take to the skies once again, they fly over the future leaders of China on the march. Plans must be made as the fighting draws to a close. Where will everyone land? And at what cost?

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