Adventure

John Buchan / The Island of Sheep

In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of...

Danielle Paige / Stealing Snow

Seventeen-year-old Snow lives within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. Deep down, she knows she doesn't belong there, but she has no memory of life outside, except for the strangest dreams. And...

Patrick O'Brian / Blue at the Mizzen

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in...

Kathryn Fox / Skin and Bone

The corpse of a young woman is found bludgeoned, frozen and burnt to death. Then the post-mortem reveals that she recently gave birth. And evidence suggests the baby may still be alive. Detective Kate Farrer must find the missing newborn if it's going to...

Tom Clancy / Power Plays: Cold War

Global stability and the New World order are in peril, and American businessman Roger Gordian, star of POLITIKA and SHADOW WATCH, must again mobilize the full resources of his multinatinoal corporation to counter the threat. Bearing all the hallmarks of...

Fletcher Moss / The Poison Boy

Poison boy Dalton Fly, a lowly food taster to the rich, has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine. But his mate is less fortunate, and Dalton wants answers. Who murdered his friend and what were they were really after? With the help of aristocratic...

Kieran Larwood / Freaks

The Freaks are a band of misfits, trapped in a nightly Victorian sideshow. There's Wolf-girl, Sheba, with her amazing sense of smell; Sister Moon, who can move at the speed of light; and Monkey Boy, ace climber and human stink bomb. But during the day,...

Andy McNab / Red Notice

Deep beneath the English Channel, a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris, taken 400 hostages at gunpoint - and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep. One man stands...

Sam Angus / Captain

It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at 15 he's not old enough to be a soldier either, and he's terrified of the...

Sean Hughes / The Detainees

John Palmer had never ventured far from the narrow-minded small town near Dublin where he was born and the cracks in his psyche are beginning to show despite his material success. But it is when John's childhood tormentor, Red, returns with a desire to...

Andy McNab / Avenger ( Boy Soldier Series)

Danny and Elena are now working for the Firm, desperately attempting to track down the vengeance-seeking Black Star before more 'Angels of Death' suicide bombers are despatched. Elena is the key to discovering the bomb-master's whereabouts as she has...

Andy McNab / Payback ( Boy Soldier Series )

In the high-octane sequel to Boy Soldier, seventeen-year-old Danny and his grandfather, ex-SAS explosives expert Fergus, are on the run again, with their cover in southern Spain blown. Encouraged by the mysterious Deveraux, they return to London to...

Patrick O'Brian / The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in...

Zizou Corder / Lee Raven Boy Thief

Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didn't mean to. Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thousands...

Anton Svensson / The Father

The emotional centre of the story is truly compelling... the sweep and scope are epic'The HeraldThe Father is an unforgettable, thrilling crime novel of how three brothers came to be Sweden's most wanted criminals, inspired by the unbelievable true story...

Gregg Hurwitz / The Nowhere Man

That rare thing: a sequel that rivals the original. The No. 1 Bestselling The Nowhere Man is a thrilling, pulse-pounding ride for readers and the hero of Orphan X...'An even more intense and harrowing thriller. The pace that never lets up' Daily MailHe...

Bear Grylls / Ghost Flight

THE BOURNE IDENTITY meets Indiana Jones - a debut thriller to take your breath away.A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.A lost warplane discovered in the...

Eva Ibbotson / A Company of Swans

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand...

Patrick O'Brian / The Ionian Mission

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in...

C.J. Box / Back of Beyond

Twilight falls on a cold, wet spring day in the mountains of Montana. A cabin smolders in the forest. In the remains of the kitchen, a table set for two; next door, the remains of a single body.Alerted by hikers, Detective Cody Hoyt is called to the...

Jules Hardy / Mister Candid

He's responsible for the deaths of many people. But everything I've learned about him makes me believe he's fundamentally a good person. Sounds crazy doesn't it? How can he be a good person?' For seventeen years the FBI have been hunting down a killer, a...

Bryan Forbes / The Endless Game

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

John A Lupton / Peter Black

Peter Black: The Trials Either way, the fate of Earth will be decided. Separated from his family and Claire Smith, the girl he deeply loves, Peter Black finds himself propelled center stage in a savage contest. Pitted against the evil Prince of Pillatar,...

John A Lupton / Peter Black: The Trials

Peter Black: The Trials Either way, the fate of Earth will be decided. Separated from his family and Claire Smith, the girl he deeply loves, Peter Black finds himself propelled center stage in a savage contest. Pitted against the evil Prince of Pillatar,...

Jack Higgins / Dark Justice

A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure When the...

Susan Howatch / The High Flyer

WHEN YOU LIVE THE DREAM, YOU LIVE THE CONSEQUENCES...Cool, blonde Carter Graham is a successful lawyer who believes she is well on the way to reaching all the goals listed in her glamorous life plan: first-class job, a stylish flat in the City of London,...

Andy Remic / Spiral

A world where nuclear warheads can be hidden in a briefcase ...A world where bio-plagues are held suspended in a teardrop ...On an Earth where conventional armies are powerless to defend against the devastation wrought by single assassins, the secret...

Susan R. Sloan / Act of God

A bomb destroys a medical centre in Seattle, killing over a hundred staff and patients. While no-one claims responsibility, the centre has been the target of anti-abortionists and the authorities are sure that pro-life campaigners are behind the attack,...

Jess Walter / Over Tumbled Graves

Spokane, Washington, a bustling city split by hurtling white-water falls. One afternoon a young woman's body is found buried in a riverside park - then a second body, then a third. Before the week is out Caroline Mabry is plunged into a full-blown hunt...

Susan Howatch / Call in the Night

Please come, Claire. Oh Claire, I'm in such dreadful terrible trouble I don't know what to do - Claire, you just have to come, please - I don't know what to do -' 'Gina listen! Where are you, for God's sake? What's happened? What - Gina - are you there?...

Phillip M. Margolin / The Undertaker's Widow

A novel of betrayal, blackmail and murder, set against the inner workings of the American justice system. The beleaguered Richard Quinn is a judge so ethical that he is willing to risk his own life to see that justice prevails in his courtroom.All of our...

Matthew Reilly / Area 7

From the bestselling author of Ice Station, another dizzyingly fast-paced adventure thriller featuring Shane Schofield. It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a...

Paul Adam / Genesis II

A group of eco-terrorists trash fields of GM crops and break into the laboratory of the biotech company who are conducting the trials. Several miles from the site of the field trial, an organic farmer, his family and his animals fall victim to a mutant...

John Twelve Hawks / The Traveller

What lies ahead is already here...America is a difficult place to live below the surface. But Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are trying to do just that. Since childhood, the brothers have been shaped by the stories that their father has told them about the...

Sabin Willett / The Betrayal

Centres on a female government official who unearths some very shady weapons deals and is subsequently betrayed by colleagues, friends and even her husband. This tale is full of twists and turns, corrupt government staff, murder and mayhem.All of our...

Kyle Mills / Free Fall

A top-secret FBI file - buried in an anonymous government warehouse since J Edgar Hoover's death - is missing. The unlucky student who uncovered it is dead, and now his ex-girlfriend is on the run, accused of murder. The only man everyone agrees can find...

Larry Bond / Vortex

In a world no longer dominated by two super powers, the theatre of conflict has shifted to the Third World - but with a deadly uncertainty never known before. The flashpoint is South Africa where a repressive regime has catapulted to power. The result is...

Robert Gregory Browne / Whisper in the Dark

When a violent and incoherent naked Jane Doe is found cowering in the street near the scene of a brutal murder, a pair of bloody scissors in hand, Detective Frank Blackburn is faced with a tough question: is she a victim or the killer herself? Determined...

Stephen Coonts / Wages of Sin

Stephen Coonts returns with a brand new thriller and a whole new kind of hero...Tommy Carmellini was the best burglar in the business. He was so good that most of his victims took weeks to find out they'd been robbed. But even the best slip up and they...

Gerald Seymour / The Contract

Discharged from the British Army in disgrace, Johnny Donoghue is eager to earn his redemption. His assignment is to slip into East Germany and arrange the defection of a top-flight scientist working on the Soviet missile systems.All of our books are...

Brad Meltzer / Dead Even

Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on...

Marianne Wesson / A Suggestion of Death

A caller asks lawyer Cinda Hayes a question she cannot answer on a radio show. Then Mariah contacts her again, desperate to unravel the meaning of her broken, violent memories. Cinda knows Mariah's case is tenuous at best, not one she should spend time...

Keith Ablow / Murder Suicide

John Snow is a brilliant inventor who has made millions from his genius in aeronautics. He has everything a man could desire: wealth, family and even a beautiful mistress. But he also has a brain disease, a rare form of epilepsy that threatens his most...

John Creed / The Sirius Crossing

Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. Suddenly, he has information that everybody wants and finds himself the quarry in a pitiless chase - with an old IRA friend, also in...

David Gibbins / Crusader Gold

Crusader Gold is the stunning follow up to 2005's bestselling debut Atlantis. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD 70 then carried to Constantinople. Now, nobody knows where it is. Some think it...

Craig Thomas / Slipping into Shadow

Set in Burma, where a vast holiday resort is being carved out of the jungle, this is a thriller and love story encompassing international politics, global finance and drug dollars - forces that threaten to destroy investigator Patrick Hyde and those...

Bill Fitzhugh / Pest Control

Bob Dillon dreams of a clean way of killing, leaving no harmful traces after the event. A whole raft of underworld hoods reckon that Bob's their man when they want to get rid of their enemies, and they simply won't believe him when he tells them that the...

Michael Ridpath / Trading Reality

Mark Fairfax is a young, successful trader in the City. His older brother richard is a genius, who has built one of the world's leading virtual reality companies. When richard is found dead in a Scottish fishing village, mark steps into his shoes. He...

Colin Forbes / (2 in 1) This United State

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Colin Forbes / This United State

Britain is in mortal danger. The Prime Minister has been assassinated. Is a giant power determined to absorb Britain into its own system? Enemies flood into the country and the noose is tightening. Who is running this gigantic operation?All of our books...

David Rice / The Pompeii Syndrome

Father Frank Kane, filming a TV series on 'Great Catastrophes in History', grows convinced that people on the verge of extinction, as in Pompeii, consciously ignore all the signs of their impending doom. In Ireland Garda Det-Sgt Stokes keeps encountering...

Taylor Smith / Guilt by Silence

When her husband and daughter are severely injured in a tragic accident, CIA officer Mariah Bolt becomes determined to learn how the accident is linked to the disappearance of five leading scientists. Original.All of our books are second hand, and while...