Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.An original analysis of one of Plato's most well-known and pivotal dialogues, this study is based upon the effort to think together the most manifest themes of the Symposium (the nature of eros and the relation between poetry and philosophy) with its less obvious but no less essential themes (the character of the city and the nature and limitations of sophistic enlightenment). Author Steven Berg offers an interpreta...

It is 1972 when Step Bronstad, a twenty-one-year-old from a Pacific Northwest logging town, finds himself in the throes of a country at war with North Vietnam. After he makes the decision to enlist in the Marines, Step has no idea his life is about to take a different and sudden turn.When Step is suddenly pulled out of a military health examination and into a meeting in a stark back room, he is confronted by two CIA officers who seem to know entirely too much about his criminal pas...

Pike Logan and the Taskforce are used to being the hunters. But in this explosive “thriller that really thrills” (Publishers Weekly) from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor, they are the hunted...Intent on embroiling the US in a quagmire that will sap its economy and drain its legitimacy, Russia passes a potential weapon of mass destruction to Boko Haram, an extreme Islamic sect in Nigeria. The Russian FSB believes the weapon, a relic o...

Nicholas Drummond, “a new son of Bond licensed to shine”(Kirkus Reviews), returns in the third Brit in the FBI thriller.Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, rush to stop the deadly bombings and cyber attacks of an environmental terrorist group. But when the organization is infiltrated by an international assassin, it will take help from fellow FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to stop something much bigger from going down...

✨ PRE-ORDER LAST CHANCE, THE NEW SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLER, OUT 31 JULY 2025 ✨READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SPIDER SHEPHERD SERIES'A terrific tale of terrorism' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Stephen Leather always delivers the goods' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'All too real, and simply unputdownable' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider is the new James Bond!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'My three favourite authors: Stephen Leathe...

Readers can't get enough of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd'I simply can't get enough of Spider Shepherd' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Spider Shepherd is the new James Bond' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This series just gets better and better' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Action packed, spine-chilling excitement' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A truly heart-racing read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as...

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him.Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out o...

Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action and suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon.For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England, but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirtee...

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard)FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYONE OF THEIR OWN IS DEAD.NOW IT’S TIME FOR REVENGE.On a mission to rescue a young American woman held by ISIS as a sex slave, one of the Delta Force’s Bravo Team is killed, betrayed by a mole within the Unit. As the team reels from the los...

Three page-turning action thrillers from the bestselling Spider Shepherd series: SOFT TARGET, COLD KILL and HOT BLOOD.Soft TargetWhen a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team. Facing men with guns is nothing new for the former SAS trooper, but it's the first time he's had to investigate his own. As Shepherd finds hims...

**A heart-pounding new standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather. '**He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real, and this is no exception' (Daily Mail on First Response)When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take h...

**To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi—and hope he can survive it—in this cutting-edge novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells’s career.Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable—passing messages to ISIS, alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole’s identity without alerting him, however, wil...