Robert Harris
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Political correctness. Gender differentiation. Black lives matter. Riots. Democracy under fire. Loss of civil rights. Social media out of control. Metaphorically lobotomizing our children. Socialism. Failing education systems. Flourishing crime. The human plague. The sixth mass extinction of bio-diverse life. A serving U.S. President who trashed the Constitution by encouraging people to storm the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., resulting in six...
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SERIAL KILLER OR SECRET SAVIOUR? Even after all this time, there are still certain people operating within the fields of criminal investigation and criminal psychology who argue about whether serial killers are actually a product of nature versus nurture, or perhaps a bit of both for those who can't quite make their minds up and like to sit on the fence. But what if they're all wrong? What if some serial killers aren't born with bad wiring and homicidal...
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For Robert, life has never been easy. Growing up, he faced many hardships. Raised by a drug-addicted mother, separated from his siblings and thrown in the foster care system at the age of seven, only to be introduced to abuse and crime that turns his world upside down in ways that he couldn't imagine. Full of anger and trying to escape from a troubled past, at the age of thirteen, Robert discovers that his mother was murdered by a drug dealer, which...
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No city in England can match Gloucester's passion for the game of rugby. The streets are festooned in cherry and white on match days and that famous cry of 'Glaw . . . sterrr' can be heard far beyond the club's Kingsholm ground.
This book illustrates what makes Gloucester Rugby Club so special. It features revealing and humorous interviews with some of the greats (including, to name but a few, Mike Teague, Andy Deacon and Ian Smith), historical...
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"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses...
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September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
8) Conclave
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2016.
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"The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth."--Dust jacket.
10) Dictator
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Cicero trilogy volume 3
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2016.
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"There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage - and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator...
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Cicero trilogy volume 1
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
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305 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the ancient Roman orator from his beginnings as a young lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.
12) The second sleep
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2019.
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1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history...
14) The fear index
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2012
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"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--
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Cicero trilogy volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
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2010
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x, 340 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear thourgh a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome's leader: elected by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival camps, the patricians and populists. There is also a...
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Artie Conan Doyle mysteries volume 2
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One day Arthur Conan Doyle will create the greatest detective of all - Sherlock Holmes. But right now Artie Conan Doyle is a twelve-year-old Edinburgh schoolboy with a mystery of his own to solve.
Artie and his friend Ham are hired to investigate a series of suspicious accidents that have befallen world-famous magician, the Great Wizard of the North. It seems someone is determined to sabotage his spectacular new illusion.
When the huge mechanical...
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Set during World War II in London, a thrilling murder mystery where the world's greatest detective must uncover the truth behind a seemingly impossible series of high-profile assassinations.
London, 1943.
Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source...
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Sherlock's war volume 1
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Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.
London, 1942.
A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...
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Artie Conan Doyle mysteries volume 3
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One day Arthur Conan Doyle will create the greatest detective of all - Sherlock Holmes. But right now, Artie Conan Doyle is a twelve-year-old Edinburgh schoolboy with a mystery of his own to solve.
Artie and his best friend Ham are investigating the strange case of the Scarlet Phantom, an invisible jewel thief who seems to walk through walls and disappear at will. But there's a rival detective on the case, a paranormal investigator who claims that...
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June, 1940. Richard Hannay has returned.
As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into duty. In Paris, an individual code named "Roland" has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only Roland knows the secret of the 31 Kings, a secret upon which the future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans overrun the city. On a hazardous...