Ambitious Australian lawyer, Lindsey Regan, wants to get her client out of Guantanamo prison and back to his family in Australia. He claims he was beaten and tortured somewhere abroad until he confessed to a terrorism plot. He also claims he briefly escaped his captors during a refuelling stopover at a Scottish airport. ...
Will Robie und Jessica Reel sind die zwei todlichsten Auftragskiller der US-Regierung. Wahrend ihrer gefahrlichen Missionen in Ubersee halt ihnen ein Mann zu Hause den Rucken frei: Blue Man, ihr Fuhrungsoffizier bei der CIA. Als Blue Man im Heimaturlaub spurlos verschwindet, machen Robie und Reel sich sofort auf den Weg nach Colorado. Dort, in dem kleinen Kaff Grand, sto?en sie rasch auf gewaltbereite Hinterwaldler. Im Hintergrund jedoch zieht e ...
Debut novel from young Palestinian feminist writer.An illuminating story of a young Palestinian of Christian background living in Israel, regularly crossing the border into the Occupied Territories. ...
Vera is a nurse from Sweden who, while delivering a dangerous birth in the Colombian jungle, makes contact with indigenous people who give her a wholly different outlook on life. A traumatic experience takes her home, her life in pieces, just like the world as she now sees it. Her quest to put her life back together becomes tied up with her vision of a more sustainable world.She meets the corporate heir to a company specializing in luxury travel ...
It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West. Aided by Anne Chaffey, an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back t ...
It’s not easy to have enemies <i>everywhere</i> … but con artist Max O’Brien is a man of the world. Read all three of Max's adventures in this special ebook collection. <br/> <br/> <b><i>The Kashmir Trap</i> – Book #1</b> <br/> Professional con man Max O’Brien is on the run from police when he learns that his diplomat nephew has been assassinated in New Delhi. Eleven years ...
A country to kill for … The career of Claire Marcoux, a young naval officer, threatens to come crashing down after she orders the ship under her command to return fire on a boat that she was supposed to rescue. The quiet life of Daniel Ritter, a new professor in a new town, is turned upside down when the celebrity entrepreneur he was unexpectedly invited to meet is found murdered. Thrown together by chance, Claire and Daniel discover that they ...
Con man Max O’Brien gets pulled into a grisly conspiracy while investigating his lover’s murder. Distraught by the murder of Tanzanian lawyer and ex-lover Valeria Michieka and her daughter Sophie, Max O’Brien travels to Tanzania to track down those responsible. What starts as a fight for justice quickly becomes entangled with the persecution of albinos in the East African state. Thought by some to have supernatural powers, many albinos find t ...
2019 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery – Finalist Private investigator Dan Sharp finds himself caught up in a political murder. When the husband of a Queen’s Park aide runs off to escape his gambling debts, private investigator Dan Sharp is hired to track him down. As the city’s political landscape verges on the bizarre – with a crack-using mayor and a major scandal looming – Dan finds himself pitted against a mysterious figure known for ...
