Robert Ryan
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The real history of World War II's most daring fighter squadron is the inspiration for this riveting novel of adventure and romance in the Far East. Three years after the liberation of Singapore, transport pilot Lee Crane is finally ready to leave. The Berlin airlift is on, and there's decent money to be made if you possess both your own plane and a practiced disregard for safety. One last drink with his Indo-Air fly buddies at the Long Bar in Raffles...
2) Nine Mil
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A hard-boiled tale of guns and revenge under the neon lights of Atlantic City. On a floating casino just off the New Jersey coast, two masked gunmen open fire. Their powerful Austrian machine guns shatter mirrors, crack fish tanks, and knock the grand chandelier from the ceiling. By the time the smoke clears, the men are long gone, but two clues remain: a rare weapon recovered from the swirling waters of the Atlantic and the fact that, in an inescapable...
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The legendary exploits of Lawrence of Arabia are the starting point for this captivating World War I suspense novel. As the future of Europe is being decided in the muddy trenches of the Western Front, Lieutenant Thomas Edward Lawrence is thousands of miles away, toiling in the map room of the British Army's general headquarters in Cairo. But the young intelligence officer has big ideas - none bigger than his vision of a unified Arabia free of its...
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Deep in England's green and pleasant land something evil lurks...
Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes' stalwart companion, is back home, fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields. The horrors of war weigh heavy on his mind, and now his task is to help rehabilitate soldiers suffering from the crippling effects of shell-shock.
But the war is not yet over and in one corner of England lies a secret, one that the establishment is determined...
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The true story of England's worst traitor is the backbone of this thrilling novel about love and deception behind enemy lines. Harry Cole's rakish charm carries him all the way from London's East End to Hong Kong, where he chauffeurs a local colonel - when he's not bedding the man's wife. With the Imperial Japanese Army about to spoil the fun, Harry quits the East, settling in France just before the Nazis take over. His timing might need a little...
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A stunning Dr Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock.
The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners.
With the Allied blockade, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel.
Watson, though, isn't so sure.
Something isn't quite what it seems and a creeping...
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A daughter's quest to find the father she never knew exposes deadly intrigue within the Italian Resistance in this spellbinding novel of World War II. On the occasion of his only daughter's first birthday, Australian bomber pilot Bill Carr writes her a letter. Later that day, he takes off on a mission over the mountains of Northern Italy and is never heard from again. Twenty years later, Lindy Carr arrives in Italy to find out what happened to her...
8) Underdogs
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A pulse-pounding thrill ride from the tunnels of Vietnam to a secret world underneath the sidewalks of Seattle. Seattle burned to the ground in 1889 and a new city was built on top of the old. A century later, the original Seattle remains: empty streets, crumbling sidewalks, and pitch-black passageways, twelve feet beneath the modern metropolis. When a stickup goes horribly wrong, Hilton "Rabbit" Babcock and his eight-year-old hostage, Ali, tumble...
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Based on actual events, an epic narrative of friendship, rivalry, and fast cars in occupied France. On a crisp autumn night in the twenty-first century, a car is pulled from the depths of an Austrian lake. A skeleton grips the wheel. Finally, an answer: William Grover-Williams, the premier English race-car driver of his generation and a hero of the French Resistance, met his end at the bottom of a mountain lake. Or did he? In the Roaring Twenties,...
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Three post–World War II adventure novels inspired by real events-from an acclaimed British author.
After Midnight: Ryan's novel, based on a true story, begins with a letter from Australian bomber pilot Bill Carr to his daughter on her first birthday in 1944. That same day, he takes off on a mission over the mountains of Northern Italy and is never heard from again. Twenty years later, Lindy Carr arrives in Italy to find out what happened to her...
11) Death on the Ice
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The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scott's quest for the South Pole is brought to sparkling new life in this adventure novel. It is one of the most famous quotes in the history of exploration: "I am just going outside. I may be some time." The story of how former cavalry officer Lawrence Oates came to deliver his brave last words, before walking bootless into a Antarctic blizzard so that Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the ill-fated Terra...
12) Trans Am
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Two all-American families are plunged into the nightmare of human trafficking in this spine-chilling noir. When he isn't playing softball or coaching Little League, Jim Barry is quizzing his five-year-old on batting averages. He is a persuasive ambassador for America's pastime, so much so that a foreign neighbor asks him to teach his son how to play. One tragic swing of the bat later, the boy is dead and Jim's whole world is reduced to an impossible...
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Three roller-coaster thrillers set in America-from a bestselling British writer.
Underdogs: Seattle burned to the ground in 1889 and a new city was built on top of the old. A century later, the original Seattle remains: empty streets, crumbling sidewalks, and pitch-black passageways, twelve feet beneath the modern metropolis. When a robbery goes horribly wrong, Hilton "Rabbit" Babcock and his eight-year-old hostage, Ali, tumble through the rotten...
14) The Sign of Fear
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A stunning Dr. Watson thriller from the bestselling author of Dead Man's Land, The Dead Can Wait and A Study in Murder.
The skies above London hum with danger. And in the Channel enemies lie in wait...
Autumn, 1917. London is not the city that Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes once bestrode like giants. Terror has come from the sky and Londoners are scurrying underground in fear.
Then a twin tragedy strikes Watson. An old friend, Staff Nurse...
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Love of country and love for a beautiful woman collide in this gripping World War II story inspired by real events. In the fall of 1938, a British executive is stabbed to death in an alley off Unter den Linden, Berlin's most famous boulevard. Missing from the crime scene and from Ronald Draper's hotel room are the papers of "utmost importance" that he claimed to be bringing home to England. Inspector Cameron Ross of the Metropolitan Police is sent...
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Everyone is familiar with the story of Jesus's Passion to varying degrees. What is not known in those three to four days are the events, circumstances, and attitudes of the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate. This is a story of fiction and is not designed as a defense of Pilate. It portrays the events from a Roman standpoint.
17) The Great British Heroes and Antiheroes Trilogy: Empire of Sand, Death on the Ice, and Signal Red
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Empire of Sand: The legendary exploits of Lawrence of Arabia are the starting point for this captivating World War I suspense novel. In the British Army's general headquarters in Cairo, a young intelligence officer, Lt. Thomas Edward Lawrence, must contend with a notorious German spy, Wilhelm Wassmuss. Local tribes are capturing British soldiers at the German's behest, and the War Office has sent an assassin. Lawrence must get Captain Quinn within...
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In this Cold War spy thriller based on actual case files, a beautiful young woman is willing to do whatever it takes to bring her sister home. In the darkest days of World War II, Laura McGill and her sister, Diana, were willing to go behind enemy lines on behalf of Britain's Special Operations Executive. They knew the risks and were willing to take them for king and country. What they did not expect was that their government would forget all about...
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Three World War II novels of intrigue and romance inspired by real events-from an acclaimed British author.
Early One Morning: In the Roaring Twenties, William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist were teammates and rivals on the Bugatti racing team. Locked in a fierce competition for the world championship, they also raced to win the heart of the gorgeous Eve Aubicq. Then the war changed everything-and nothing. As members of the British...
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An edge-of-your-seat caper based on one of the most sensational crimes in British history. In August 1963, a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London was forced to make an unscheduled stop. Led by a charismatic jewel thief, a gang of fifteen unarmed men boarded the train, incapacitated the driver, and made off with more than £2 million. Divided equally, it was more than enough money for them to disappear forever - if they could all keep...