'I don't want to know your reasons. I don't care. Think of me as a bullet. Just point.' Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, before New York became a burnt-out shell. Now the wealthy spend their days tapped into virtual reality; the rest have to fend for themselves in the streets. Now there's nothing but garbage. So he became a hit man. He doesn't ask questions, he works quickly, and he's handy with a box-cutter. When he...
It's a case of espionage, skullduggery and serious unpleasantness And it's also Gerald's first official government assignment. He's hunting down a deadly saboteur, and time is quickly running out. Old enemies and new combine forces to thwart him. Once again, innocent lives are on the line. He needs his friends. He can't do this alone. But Princess Melissande and Reg have troubles of their own. With the help of Monk Markham's brilliant, beautiful sister, they've opened a one-stop-shop witching...
A Bid for Fortune; or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta (Esprios Classics)
by Guy Boothby
Star Wars (Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi) (Star Wars: Jedi Academy)
by Kevin J. Anderson and Heike Carrasco
An exciting roller-coaster adventure set five thousand years before the birth of Luke Skywalker! Brother and sister GAV AND JORI DARAGON PLAYED THE HIGH-STAKES GAME OF HYPERSPACE EXPLORING, HOPING TO FIND THEIR FORTUNES. Imprisoned by the distrustful Sith after accidentally discovering the fabled Sith Empire, they owed their release to the evil Naga Sadow. NOW, SEPARATED from Gav, Jori heads back to the Republic, unaware of the tracking device attached to her ship by the Sith, which will trigger...
On an earthlike planet ruled by the Elite, a rite called "the Gleaning" is used to select suitable spouses for those of merit. Nico Stamford is a member of the Geisha class. Though he has been trained for marriage all his life, becoming a healer and a priest in the process, all he wants is to cook and open a restaurant. Instead he becomes a candidate for the ritual. He hopes the Goddess will look kindly on him and eliminate him before the final choices are made. Alex DeVrie is a member of the Wa...
Human Nature (Pax Britannia: Ulysses Quicksilver) (Pax Britannia)
by Jonathan Green
Red in Tooth and Claw! The Whitby Mermaid has been stolen from Cruickshank’s Cabinet of Curiosities and consulting detective Gabriel Wraith is on the case. And he’s not the only one, for wherever there is a mystery to be solved, Ulysses Quicksilver is never far away. What does the theft of the mermaid have to do with the mysterious House of Monkeys? And what of the enigmatic criminal known as the Magpie? Ulysses embarks upon an adventure that takes him to Whitby where the mermaid was supposedl...
Veridon, City of Cog, is about to be rocked by a conspiracy taking in the highest levels of the Council, the Church and its founding families. Heart of Veridon marks the start of a superb new trilogy from an exciting new trilogy from an exciting new author, set in an exotic fantasy world
Unnatural History (Pax Britannia: Ulysses Quicksilver) (Pax Britannia)
by Jonathan Green
Action and adventure in a new Age of Steam! In two scant months the nation, and all her colonies, will celebrate 160 years of Queen Victoria's glorious reign. But all is not well at the heart of the empire. It begins with a break-in at the Natural History Museum. A night watchman is murdered. An eminent Professor of Evolutionary Biology goes missing. Then a catastrophic Overground rail-crash unleashes the dinosaurs of London Zoo. But how are all these events connected? Is it really the work of...
THREE NOVELS STARRING THE LAWMAN OF THE FUTURE Dredd vs Death: Judge Dredd teams up with Judge Anderson – co-star of the 2012 movie Dredd – to investigate a trail of carnage left by a cult obsessed with Judge Death, who believes all life is a crime. Kingdom of the Blind: Judge Dredd hits the streets as senior Judges gather for a treaty signing, just as a notorious crime boss prepares to step out of the shadows and seize control of the city. The Final Cut: Dredd uncovers a grisly series of mur...
MEGA-CITY ONE: A POWDER KEG WAITING TO BLOW There isn’t a moment when tensions aren’t running high and the City isn’t ready to crack. But there’s something new going on, something bad. It’s open war in the streets, block vs block. It’s a Block war. It’s Block Mania, and no one is immune, not even the Judges.
When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book. But the bleak Fenn House is a lonely and sometimes uncomfortable place to spend the winter. And the strangest thing is that Theo's new novel seems to be writing itself - and heading in an unplanned direction. Theo finds himself describing a young boy called Matthew who...