*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday TimesThe inside story of the UK’s response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday TimesFailures of State recounts the extraordinary political decision...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday TimesThe inside story of the UK’s response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday TimesFailures of State recounts the extraordinary political decision...

For years, Filio Amorosa has had one goal, and only one goal: getting back to Mars.All that matters is finding out what happened on her mission there, and why she can't remember any of it. But when she finally discovers the truth, it blows her whole world apart.Meanwhile, on Earth, Agatha Devenworth and Pano Hofer have a new mission: Travel from the Human Foundation's secret underground base to New York to uncover what the enemy is plotting. Can they find a...

What if suddenly you could no longer see the sun? Or the stars? What if the world sank into darkness?Off the coast of Sulawesi, an Indonesian fisherman named Putra Buring Bule nets a strange object from the depths. A few days later, Earth falls into total darkness: an unknown phenomenon blocks out the sun and the starry sky, and the world descends into chaos.In the midst of a collapsing civilization, CIA agent Rodea Stone is sent to Sulawesi to retrieve Put...

The Archimedes system is in flames.There is nothing but death and destruction between the fleets of the Union, the Earth Protectorate, and the Locusts.While Pascal fights for survival on DeGaulle's orbital ring, his SenseNet message reaches the colonies.Alpha is not unaware of his ruse and soon decides it's time to reshuffle the deck.Meanwhile, aboard the battleship UNS WizKid, Jeremy, Macella, Felicity and Walter try to keep their Diplomatic Conclave passen...

All the pieces are in place...It's time. Alexander Moreau, supervisor of Bismarck and head of the Human Corporation, and the mysterious Neuromorph ask for the final game—a game Pascal Takahashi is only too happy to play.But this game no longer follows any rules, and the stakes are higher than ever.In the midst of a dying colony, Jeremy and his crew must join Pascal in finding a way to set the course for humanity's future themselves before others do. For beneath the ...

A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end—an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history. It describes in detail the core Samurai philosophy of Bushido—"the way of the warrior"—a complex code of conduct embracing ideals of honor and loyalty that continues to govern the Japanese way of life today.Historian Jonathan L...

“The book that reminds you exactly what’s wrong with FIFA” (Esquire UK): This meticulously reported account by two award-winning, investigative journalists at Britain’s The Sunday Times explains how the 2022 World Cup was secured for Qatar—a key element in the ongoing, international FIFA controversy.When the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with shock and disbelief. How had a country with a...

In 2018, Canadian archaeologist Ron Jackson makes a mind-boggling discovery in Antarctica - right before disappearing without a trace, leaving behind only his controversial theory that humans have lived on Earth far, far longer than we think they have.Decades later, in 2042, when Jackson's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, an unlikely pair of investigators, Agatha Devenworth and Pano Hofer, begin investigating whether her death might be connected to Jackson...

It's been 20 years since the first manned mission to Mars discovered a human fossil on the Red Planet.Now, the democracies of the West are buckling under a new crisis emerging from Russia: 10,000 liberated Builders, now fully grown and no longer protected by the UN, are forced to flee. One country is ready to receive the descendants of Xinth: the Special Administrative Region of South Africa, where a lone Builder, Hortat, is running for president. The situation is ...

Humanity's only colony in the distant Archimedes system is in turmoil ...Contact with Earth has been lost for generations and mysterious waves of disappearing colonists have been shaking the five moons for decades.When a wormhole suddenly appears in the middle of the system, the Union Navy faces an ancient danger from the darkness of deep space.A merciless war erupts, and Jeremy Brandt, captain of the UNS Concordia, is sent through the wormhole to confront the myste...

Pascal, Jeremy, and the survivors of the UNS Concordia have arrived at their destination: Earth …Everything is different than expected. The mystical home of mankind is anything but the warm bosom of their ancestors, and the power is no longer with humanity.Pascal and Jeremy quickly realize that they didn’t reach Earth for no reason, and that they are mere pieces on a chessboard. The real players are moving them back into position.The mission? Dangerous. The chances ...