Spain is corrupt & on the brink of collapse. The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot & rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge & a source of anger. & as the blood flows Camara roars in on his motorbike... Camara is back in Valencia & in the old police headquarters the mood is tense as the chief hunts for cuts
- who will go, Camara or his friend Torres? The two men are flung into action investigating the suicide of an ex- bank clerk & the brutal murder of a young American woman. As the city erupts around them, their case takes them into the heart of the trouble.
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Spain is corrupt & crumbling. The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot & rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge & a source of anger. & as the blood flows Camara roars on his motorbike straight into the heart of trouble. Camara is back in Valencia, with his partner Alicia & his anarchist, marijuana
- growing grandfather Hilario. In the old police headquarters, the mood is tense, as the chief hunts for cuts
- who will go, Camara or his friend Torres? The two men are flung into action on seemingly separate cases, the suicide of an ex bank-clerk & the brutal murder of a young American woman. Around them the city is erupting into demonstrations & near riots. This dazzling new Camara novel
- constantly surprising, full of vivid characters
- exposes the dark underside of today's Spain. A powerful, gripping page-turner, it confirms Max Camara as the detective to watch, feeling the pulse of the moment. A series that just gets better & better. Each Max Camara novel is a treat to savour. (Mark Billingham). Conveys a wonderful sense of Spain...[ Webster] does for the country what Michael Dibdin did for Italy. (Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail). All great cities need a fictional cop, & now Valencia has one of the very best in Jason Webster's dope smoking Chief Inspector Max Camara. Step into his world of the corrida, corruption, & clouds of saffron & you'll be hooked. But if he offers you a roll-up. (Quintin Jardine).



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Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence & depravity that attended America`s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel & the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered & the market for their scalps is thriving. ...

Natural resources like oil & minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin & the Saudis spend resource money on weapons & oppression; militants in Iraq & in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization & ammunition. Resource-fueled authoritarians & extremists present endless crises to the West
- & the source of their resource power is ultimately ordinary consumers, doing their everyday shopping at the gas station & the mall. In this sweeping new book, one of today`s leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy & development
- & that puts shoppers into business with some of today`s most dangerous men. Wenar discovers a rule that once licensed the slave trade & apartheid & genocide, a rule whose abolition has marked some of humanity`s greatest triumphs-yet a rule that still enflames tyranny & war & terrorism through today`s multi-trillion dollar resource trade. Blood Oil shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, & by getting consumers out of business with the men of blood. The book describes practical strategies for upgrading world trade: for choosing new rules that will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, & better able to solve pressing global problems like climate change. Blood Oil shows citizens, consumers & leaders how we can act together today to create a more united human future.

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Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you `fix` people for a living
- terminally
- it`s hard to get close to anyone. Now

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A groundbreaking examination of a terrifying murder & its aftermath by the bestselling author of Hanns & Rudolf & The House by the Lake. In June 2006, police were called to number 9 Downshire Hill in Hampstead to investigate reports of unusual card activity. The owner of the house, Allan Chappelow, was an award-winning photographer & biographer, an expert on George Bernard Shaw, & a notorious recluse, who had not been seen for several weeks. Someone had recently accessed his bank accounts, & attempted to withdraw large amounts of money. Inside the darkened house officers found piles of rubbish, trees growing through the floor, &, in what was once the living room, the body of Chappelow, battered to death, partially burned & buried under four feet of paper. The man eventually convicted of his murder was a Chinese dissident named Wang Yam: a man who claimed to be the grandson of one of Mao`s closest aides, & a key negotiator in the Tiananmen Square protests. His trial was the first in modern British history to be held `in camera`: closed, carefully controlled, secret. Wang Yam has always protested his innocence. Thomas Harding has spent the past two years investigating the case, interviewing key witnesses, the investigating officers, forensic experts, & the journalists who broke the story, & has unearthed shocking & revelatory new material on the killing, the victim & the supposed perpetrator. It is a story that has been described in the press & by the leading detective as `the greatest whodunnit` of recent years: an extraordinary tale of isolation, deception, espionage & brutal violence, stretching from the quiet streets of north London to the Palace of Westminster & beyond. It is an explosive new work of non-fiction from an author working at the height of his powers. ...

` Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, & never had I been so utterly at my wits` end for a solution.`A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the `locked-room` scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations & delays, alibis reliant upon a timely train service no longer ring true, yet the railway detective has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the twenty-first century. Both train buffs & crime fans will delight in this selection of fifteen railway-themed mysteries, featuring some of the most popular authors of their day alongside less familiar names. This is a collection to beguile even the most wearisome commuter. ...

For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy
- a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed
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For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy
- a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed
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Winner of the Costa Children`s Book Award 2011. ”I ain`t afeared of nuthin.” Saba`s twin is golden. She is his living shadow. He is strong & beautiful. She is scrawny & dark. Nothing will separate them... Raised in isolated Silverlake, Saba is ignorant of the harsh & violent world beyond her home. But when her twin is snatched by black-robed riders, red rage fills her soul. How will Saba find him in a wild, scorching & lawless land? Racing across the cruel dustlands to find him, she can spare no one. Not even the boy who saves her life. She must silence her heart to survive. Blood will spill. Every step of Saba`s journey sizzles with danger in this futuristic thriller, which beats with a powerful, red-blooded heart. ”A shot of pure adrenalin. Exuberant, exciting & charged with emotion... If a better book for teenagers is published this year, I`ll be surprised.” The Times ” Has an elemental power, unfolding across achingly barren landscapes, full of blistering hotwinds & swirling clouds of orange dust.” New York Times ...