Sergeant Slack, a highly decorated Marine combat veteran and Master Drill Sergeant has a chance meeting in a Dulles Airport bar waitng for his flight with the Owner of the Washington football team. During the conversation, he tells the Owner of the team that they lack the desire to win and care more about their own reputation that that of the team. That piques the curiosity of the team Owner who asks the former drill sergeant what steps would he take. The drill segeant is direct but honest...

Cassidy is a legendary soldier in the Corps of Royal Engineers – courageous, fiery and full of Irish charm, he has been known to turn even Brigadier-Generals trembling and submissive. During his temporary absence from the plains of Flanders, he meets our narrator – a higher-ranking officer who is in awe of Cassidy’s formidable reputation – and during their break from action, they share incredible stories about life on the front.

The collected BBC Radio 4 crime dramas featuring Inspector Coleman and Sergeant AstorLike his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he's a movie buff, Coleman is no film star - he's a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred Astor, he sets about solving cases on two very different patches - rural Kirkcaldy and inner-city Southampton.Death Beach

The Ship Is Sinking The Enterprise And The World Warehouse Is Under Attack. Will Michael And Leila Find A Way Out Of The Trap The Authorities Set For Them, Or Have They Finally Bit Off More Than They Can Chew? Their Family Of Dogs Don't Have The Answers, But Still Give Encouragement And Support To Michael. This Is A Story Of Mobsters, Mafia, And Money. The Continuing Theft From The Us Department Of Defense, The Never-Ending Threat Against The Dunn's And Their Criminal Enterprises. The Read...

Pierre Naya was awarded the Military Medal for his extraordinary bravery and courage while serving as a medic in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in the Falklands War in 1982, when he worked heroically to help critically-injured soldiers, despite his own severe injuries, after the devastating bombing of the Sir Galahad. Pierre was a larger-than-life character, a ‘brave, charismatic, popular, yet humble man… who was revered as an iconic figure within our regiment’s history’ in the words of ...

Jacob (‘Jack’) Goldstein was mid-upper gunner in a Lancaster bomber when it was shot down by a German night-fighter during Bomber Command’s final WW2 mission to Nürnberg. It was the night of 16 March 1945, just a few weeks before the war ended. He was the only member of the seven-man crew to be killed. The title of the book derives from the simple entry ‘Shalom!’ that Jack’s widow, Sadie, poignantly wrote in the book of remembrance at the Dürnbach War Graves Cemetery where Jack is now buri...

From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect forfans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing."Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." PETER JAMESWhen a polar bear is sighted in a sleepy Icelandic fishing village, then shot dead by local policeman Constable Halldór, it ...

Did you ever wonder, 'How did I get here?' It's a question most people have asked themselves and usually ask when they wish they weren't there. Life led Michael Secli to the Battle of Khe Sanh in Viet Nam, 1968. History tells us a small band of Marines, seven miles from the Laotian border, along Route 9, the northern most road across Vietnam between the north and the south were outmanned yet were responsible for preventing the enemy from advancing. Did anybody really want to be there? The ...

It is deep midwinter. Six ambitious vice presidents of Labouchere Associates are gathered together at an isolated mountain lodge in New Hampshire's White Mountains for a weekend of corporate mind games. By Monday, one of them will become a Partner and earn at least a million a year. And one of them will be dead.The Partnership Track is a novella of about 20,000 words or 70 pages, with a fiendish twist. It will take less than two hours to read.Praise for Michael Ridpath's fi...

A novella featuring Detective Gunnhildur of Quentin Bates's Icelandic crime series. An atmospheric and chilling thriller perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man.It's the tail end of a hot summer when half of Reykjavík is on holiday and the other half wishes it was. Things are quiet until a man is reported missing from his suburban home . . .As Detective Gunnhildur 'Gunna' Gísladóttir and her sidekick Hel...

From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect forfans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing."Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncingthe Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." PETER JAMESIceland, 2010: Called to investigate a suspected homicide in a remote farmstead, Constable Páll is surprised...

"Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncingthe Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." PETER JAMESAn atmospheric novella set in the remote north of Iceland, featuring lone-wolf police sergeant Magnus RagnarssonIceland, midwinter: the days are fleeting, the nights endless and sergeant Magnus Jonson has been sent to an isolate...