Can you ever leave the past behind? Dan Carter, his wife Sara and their two children are about to fly off on holiday when Dan finds his passport missing. Exasperated, he tells them to go ahead - he'll catch them up. Hours later he sees on a newflash that the plane has gone down over the ocean. After the first explosion of grief, questions start to haunt him. Was it an accident his passport disappeared? Did Sara have an agenda he was unaware of? Was he the intended target, following his spell in the security services? His instinct and training are the only things he can trust in his search for answers.

Just Watch Me

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Grimsdale, Peter

Thrillers & Suspense

Magna Large Print Books

Deep in a London archive, former film-maker Nick Roker stumbles across an image that will rewrite his past: the face of a man who shouldn't exist. It brings back recollections of a dream assignment in Sri Lanka, with a dream girl, which turned into a nightmare - an explosion that almost killed him and wiped out his memory. As the truth about that night unfolds, Nick finds himself at the heart of a conspiracy reaching the highest levels. With the enemy closing in, Nick is forced to question his version of events before his memories get him killed.

Perfect Night

Can you ever leave the past behind?    Dan Carter, his wife Sara and their two children are about to fly off on holiday when Dan finds his passport missing. Exasperated, he tells them to go ahead - he'll catch them up. Hours later he sees on a newsflash that the plane has gone down over the ocean. After the first explosion of grief, questions start to haunt him. Was it an accident his passport disappeared? Did Sara have an agenda he was unaware of? Was he the intended target, following his spell in the security services? His instinct and training are the only things he can trust in his search for answers.

Magna Story Sound

Battlefield 4

It's dark. It's twenty below freezing. And CIA operative Lazlo Kovic is on the North Korea border leading a joint US-Chinese mission that is going straight to hell. The US team are massacred and the Chinese guides flee. Kovic is the only survivor. On his return to base in Shanghai, his superiors in the CIA are suspicious of his miraculous return. But Kovic is looking for payback. He lost a lot of friends on that mission. So he puts together a crack team from the Chinese underworld - a hacker, an expert thief and a former-Olympic sniper - and begins to unravel a conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government, both Chinese and American. Here he discovers a deadly plot, one that will plunge the world into war ...

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Orion Publishing

Orion an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

When CIA operative Kovic is forced to go rogue, he must team up with one of the enemy in order to stop the world's biggest superpowers from going to war
Stationed in Shanghai, Kovic is the kind of field man the CIA doesn't have enough of. He's a chameleon, fluent in language and manners, the sort who can disappear in any crowd, but when called upon can do what has to be done with force and cunning. His bosses are wary of him, just as they are wary of the Chinese. How has he survived this long in Shanghai? Has he been turned? When a joint U.S.-Chinese mission to North Korea goes horribly awry and his entire team is killed, Kovic is under suspicion from both sides. How is he the only survivor? But Kovic is about to uncover a conspiracy that will make him everyone's enemy—a world-threatening situation that forces him to go rogue and play by his own rules. Admiral Chang wants to turn back the Chinese clock and put the military in charge—under him. But first he must make an enemy of America. And Kovic will find he's an unlikely pawn in Chang's master plan. Huang Shuyi, "Hannah," a rising star in the Ministry of State Security, has her own suspicions about America, but her patriotism will force her into making desperate choices for the sake of China's future—choices that could cast her as a traitor. With time running out, and with nobody heeding his warnings, Kovic must find a way to thwart Chang's master plan and prevent a devastating standoff between two of the world's most powerful nations.

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‘A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain’s cities after World War Two and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen ... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey down the fast lane. ’ Ben Collins, bestselling author of The Man In The White Suit and How To Drive ‘A wonderful glimpse "backstage" at the flamboyant mavericks and crazies who populated the British motor industry in the 60s.’ Alexei Sayle ‘ High Performance is a cracking read and an adrenaline-packed tribute to the time when British mavericks “blew the bloody doors off” the competition.’ The Sunday Times In January 1964 a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary Monte Carlo Rally . It was a stellar year for British cars that culminated in Goldfinger breaking box office records and making James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 the world’s most famous sports car. By the sixties, on road, track and silver screen the Brits were the ones to beat , winning championships and capturing hearts. Stirling Moss , Jim Clark and Paddy Hopkirk were household names who drove the sexiest and most innovative cars. Designers like John Cooper , and Colin Chapman of Lotus, dismissed as mere ‘garagisti’ by Enzo Ferrari , blew the doors off Formula One and grabbed all the prizes, while Alex Issigonis won a knighthood for his revolutionary Mini. The E Type Jaguar was feted as the world’s sexiest car and Land Rover the most durable. But before the Second World War only one British car had triumphed in a Grand Prix ; Britain’s car builders were fiercely risk-averse. So what changed? To find out, Peter Grimsdale has gone in search of a generation of rebel creative spirits who emerged from railway arches and Nissen huts to tear up the rulebook with their revolutionary machines . Like the serial fugitives from the POW camps, they thrived on adversity, improvisation and sheer obstinate determination. Blazing the trail for them was William Lyons , whose heart-stoppingly glamorous and uncompromising Jaguars propelled a bruised and bankrupt nation out of the shadows of war, winning the fans in Hollywood and beating ‘those bloody red cars’ at Le Mans . High Performance celebrates Britain’s automotive golden age and the mavericks who sketched them on the back of envelopes and garage floors, who fettled, bolted and welded them together and hammered the competition in the showroom, on the road and on the track – fuelled by contempt for convention.

High Performance When Britain Ruled Road

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‘A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain’s cities after World War Two and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen ... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey down the fast lane.’ Ben Collins, bestselling author of The Man In The White Suit and How To Drive 
‘A wonderful glimpse "backstage" at the flamboyant mavericks and crazies who populated the British motor industry in the 60s.’ Alexei Sayle 
‘High Performance is a cracking read and an adrenaline-packed tribute to the time when British mavericks “blew the bloody doors off” the competition.’ The Sunday Times\nIn January 1964 a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary Monte Carlo Rally. It was a stellar year for British cars that culminated in Goldfinger breaking box office records and making James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 the world’s most famous sports car. 
By the sixties, on road, track and silver screen the Brits were the ones to beat, winning championships and capturing hearts. Stirling Moss, Jim Clark and Paddy Hopkirk were household names who drove the sexiest and most innovative cars. Designers like John Cooper, and Colin Chapman of Lotus, dismissed as mere ‘garagisti’ by Enzo Ferrari, blew the doors off Formula One and grabbed all the prizes, while Alex Issigonis won a knighthood for his revolutionary Mini. The E Type Jaguar was feted as the world’s sexiest car and Land Rover the most durable. 
But before the Second World War only one British car had triumphed in a Grand Prix; Britain’s car builders were fiercely risk-averse. So what changed? To find out, Peter Grimsdale has gone in search of a generation of rebel creative spirits who emerged from railway arches and Nissen huts to tear up the rulebook with their revolutionary machines. Like the serial fugitives from the POW camps, they thrived on adversity, improvisation and sheer obstinate determination. Blazing the trail for them was William Lyons, whose heart-stoppingly glamorous and uncompromising Jaguars propelled a bruised and bankrupt nation out of the shadows of war, winning the fans in Hollywood and beating ‘those bloody red cars’ at Le Mans. 
High Performance celebrates Britain’s automotive golden age and the mavericks who sketched them on the back of envelopes and garage floors, who fettled, bolted and welded them together and hammered the competition in the showroom, on the road and on the track – fuelled by contempt for convention.

High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads

Science & Math

Simon Schuster(uk)

'Glorious...gripping and sometimes tragic' Robbie Coltrane 
The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans – the race they made their own. Le Mans, 1927. W.O. Bentley peered into the dusk. His three cars, which had led from the start, were missing. Two years running he had failed to finish. Once again he was staring into a void. Racing, his shareholders told him, was a waste of money. This race looked like being his last.\nW.O’s engineering skills had been forged on the Great Northern railway and in the skies of the First World War, where Bentley-powered Sopwith Camels took the fight to Germany’s Red Baron. Determined to build and race his own cars, he assembled a crack team from all strata of 1920s Britain, from East End boys Leslie Pennal and Wally Hassan to multi-millionaires Woolf Barnato and Tim Birkin, men in search of adventures to blaze their way out of the dark past.\nThey dedicated themselves to building the perfect road and racing car. In the hayloft above their workshop, the first Bentley was born and soon it was the car of choice for the fast-living upper classes. They raced at the fashionable Brooklands circuit and then set their sights on the fledgling 24 Hours Le Mans race. An audacious goal for a British car, yet the Bentley Boys rose to the challenge. But on that night in 1927, after the biggest crash in racing history claimed their cars, could they still pull it off and put British motor racing on the map?\nIn the 1920s, Bentley Motors burned brightly but all too briefly; yet its tale, filled with drama, tragedy, determination and glory still shines a century on.

Racing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

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Just Watch Me

Perfect Night

Just Watch Me

Just Watch Me

Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4

High Performance When Britain Ruled Road

High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads

Racing in the Dark: How the Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans