Alistair MacLean's Unaco Ii, Borrowed Time

MILLER, HUGH

Literature & Fiction

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war. When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO.The Vale of Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth… and one of the most deadly. When Malcolm Philpott, head of UNACO, the United Nations’ Anti-Crime Organization, receives a tip-off from a local priest that the peace of the valley is being threatened by militant religious extremists and the suspicion of a highly organized drug-trafficking ring, he sends in two of his top agents, Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver, to investigate and question the priest further.But the priest is brutally murdered before they can arrive, and an ex-CIA-trained assassin, turned native, is the principal suspect. Suddenly Mike and Sabrina must undertake the lethal mission of infiltrating the murderous drug convoys and bringing the extremists under control before the volatile situation ignites and fans into an international blood bath.

Borrowed Time (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins

A US government official is assassinated, a list of names, all male, all German, is found and two men on the list are already dead. What is the connection? When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO.A young American government employee is murdered in cold blood on a London street. Her death is only the tip of a conspiracy that threatens the life of Andreas Wolff, the computer genius responsible for the security codes for ICON - the computerized criminal identification network. Malcolm Philpott, the enigmatic and powerful head of UNACO, recognizes the grave threat, and assigns his two best agents to the case.Sabrina Carver and Mike Graham must race from New York to London, Morocco and Berlin in their efforts to crack the lethal intrigue that threatens world security and has its roots in the final days of World War Two and the desperate plans of a dying madman.

Prime Target (Alistair MacLean’s UNACO)

An Eye for Business

HarperCollins, Publishers

The determined young Megan Roberts launches her nursing career in a small Welsh mining town and, with Dr. Timothy Morris's support, fights the poverty, disease, and superstition that threatens her patients' lives

Snow on the Wind

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

In 1934, Megan Roberts returns to her native Wales to care for Gwendolyn PUghes-Morgan, her seriously ill mentor, and works as a nurse in her industrial hometown, where she finds both painful memories and the promise of new love

Home Ground

When a series of letters sent to the police department indicate that the murder of a young Asian man was racially motivated, Detective Inspector Mike Fletcher has his doubts--especially when a second body is discovered

Skin Deep

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

An expert in forensic medicine presents sixteen cases drawn from scientific files all around the world to show how technology and forensic science combine to find the answers to many crimes that seem unsolvable.

What the Corpse Revealed: Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Entering domestic service as a parlor maid in 1905 at age thirteen, Megan Roberts, daughter of a Welsh slate miner, discovers her capacities for learning, caring, and perseverance and achieves, at last, her goal of becoming a nurse

The District Nurse

The victim was shot through the heart--but no bullet was ever found. In a case full of baffling twists, a gunshot wound to the heart leads to a brilliant investigator to one conclusion: a bullet designed to disappear... The skin was peeled from the victim's hands A beautiful woman almost gets away with murder because her victim cannot be identified. Then a forensic scientist leads police to the peeled skin from two boiled hands--and the fingerprints that will crack the case. The murder weapon was smashed to smithereens A man was killed by a blow from a bottle. Now, determined investigator carefully puts the pieces of glass back together to catch a kiler--and to carry out a crime of his own... What the corpse revealed Once detectives solved crimes with shoe leather and a gun. Now they use DNA samples, blood splatters, microbes and psychological profilings. This extraordinary book, through details drawn from some of the most baffling cases of the last fifty years, shows how a new generation fo real-life crime busters is catching stalkers, poisoners, mass murderers, and assassins--through the astounding art of forensic science.

What the Corpse Revealed

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

St. Martin's True Crime

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