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Hired to orchestrate a fatal accident in a Paris tunnel, hired killer Samuel Carver finds himself targeted by the forces that hired him when the job goes terribly wrong, a circumstance that compels him to execute the most daring feat of his career. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

Suspense fiction. The Accident Man is back . . . but this time he has competition. Sam Carver has a rival, a copycat assassin using his modus operandi to organise fatal àccidents''. Hounded by suspicion, forced to clear his name, and to protect his reputation as the best in the business, Carver must go head to head with the challenger in a deadly game of cat and mouse. It is a game that will draw Carver further and further away from safety and deep into a international conspiracy of truly global consequences. He will also discover that the hardest assassin to stop is one who is prepared to sacrifice his own life to take out the target.

A follow-up to The Accident Man finds a broken Samuel Carver pursuing his lover, Alix, in an adventure during which he uncovers a messianic Texas billionaire''s plot to trigger an international holy war by reactivating stolen Soviet nuclear bombs.

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. Now, beaten, tortured and left to die, Carver discovers that the woman he loves has vanished. His hunt to find her takes him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake.

Wanneer een mensenhandelaar gewelddadig aan zijn eind komt in Dubai en een gangster een fataal auto-ongeluk krijgt in San Francisco, dragen beide ''ongelukken'' de signatuur van Sam Carver. Maar Carver zit niet meer in het vak. Daarom willen zijn vroegere contacten bij MI6 weten wat er aan de hand is. Iemand wil Carver op zijn eigen terrein verslaan door ''s werelds prominentste doelwit te treffen, de president van de Verenigde Staten. Carver heeft al zijn intelligentie nodig om deze gevaarlijke tegenstander te elimineren...

Fact inspires fiction once more in the action-packed new thriller from the author of The Accident Man

This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick''s large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation of all fifty-seven known surviving copies of Hesperides. In addition it includes a much needed new biography, covering the suicide of his father, his apprenticeship as a goldsmith-banker, and his subsequent career in Cambridge, London, and Devon. It provides a survey of Herrick''s fluctuating critical reputation-from ''the first in rank and station of English song-writers'' to ''trivially charming''-and a detailed reconstruction of the original printing and publishing, just after the first Civil War, of a book which was the first ''Complete Works'' to be published by an English poet. There is also a newly ordered sequence of Herrick''s letters from Cambridge, his only surviving prose. An extensive commentary on Hesperides is placed in Volume II so that readers can use it side by side with the poems if they wish. The commentary gives new translations of Herrick''s hundreds of classical allusions, and quotes his equally numerous Biblical ones, both of them far more extensive, and frequently far more playful, than has hitherto been realised. It also notes many parallels between Herrick''s work and that of contemporaries, especially Jonson, Shakespeare, Burton, and John Fletcher, and his habit of echoing or quoting himself, a tendency which reinforces the strong sense of Herrick''s persona dominating the collection. Full explanations are given of contemporary personal, political, and cultural references.

Früher war Samuel Carver einer der besten Geheimagenten der Welt, heute arbeitet er ausschließlich auf eigene Rechnung - und auch nur, wenn es ihm passt. Doch dann wird Carver plötzlich erpresst: Entweder er tötet einen prominenten Milliardär, oder London wird Ziel eines Anschlags. Carver bleiben nur fünf Tage, um das Schlimmste zu verhindern ... beTHRILLED - mörderisch gute Unterhaltung!

Er hat noch nie einen Fehler gemacht. Bis heute ... 00.19 Uhr. Ein Mercedes fährt vor dem Ritz in Paris ab. 00.25 Uhr. Der Wagen verunglückt in einem Tunnel. 03.37 Uhr. Drei Menschen werden für tot erklärt. 03.38 Uhr. Samuel Carver begreift, dass man ihn reingelegt hat. Samuel Carver ist ein Killer. Für geheime Regierungskreise lässt er Terroristen und Verbrecher von der Bildfläche verschwinden. Samuel glaubt, im Auftrag der Gerechtigkeit zu handeln - bis zu dem Tag, als er in Paris ein Attentat verüben soll. Er kennt die wahre Identität seines Opfers nicht und tappt in eine Falle. Als bekannt wird, wen er tatsächlich getötet hat, verbreitet sich die Nachricht rund um den Globus, denn es ist ein Mitglied der englischen Königsfamilie. Und plötzlich ist Samuel Carver der meistgesuchte Mann der Welt ... Der fulminante Auftakt der explosiven Action-Thriller-Reihe - für Fans von James Bond, Jason Bourne, Clive Cussler oder Lee Child. Der nächste Auftrag für Samuel Carver: Survivor. beTHRILLED - mörderisch gute Unterhaltung!

Samuel Carver hat einen besonderen Job: "Er heilt die Welt von üblen Krankheiten. Diktatoren, Massenmörder, Mafiabosse - keiner ist vor ihm sicher." Seine Methode: diskrete Liquidation. Als er den Auftrag erhält, ein entführtes Mädchen im afrikanischen Malemba wiederzufinden, stört er mit seinen Nachforschungen unversehens die Kreise eines übermächtigen Gegners. Denn das Mädchen befindet sich in der Gewalt des skrupellosen Diktators Gushungo. Dieser verfolgt einen perfiden Plan und wird sich von niemandem davon abbringen lassen. Gushungo beschließt daher, seiner Sammlung eine neue Trophäe hinzuzufügen: Samuel Carvers Kopf ... Ein neuer Auftrag für Samuel Carver: Collapse. beTHRILLED — mörderisch gute Unterhaltung!

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail so quickly. It began a domino effect, hitting banks and economies around the world. Theories abound as to the cause of the collapse - the sub-prime bubble, bad management, even good old fashioned greed. But what if it was none of the above. What if Lehman Brothers had been brought to its knees by the deliberate and wilful act of one man bent on a course of financial terrorism? Moreover, what if it was only a dry run for a bigger and even bolder attack on the financial capital of the world, the City of London? Samuel Carver is about to find himself on the biggest mission of his life.

Als Johnny Congo op weg naar zijn executie ontsnapt, besluit ex-Navy SEAL Hector hem te zoeken. Als Hector vervolgens ook wordt ingezet om een olietanker te bewaken tegen terroristische aanslagen verkeert hij plotseling in levensgevaar. Hector moet voor de dreigende Angolese kust vechten tegen angstaanjagende demonen uit zijn verleden, terwijl hij bloeddorstige nieuwe vijanden maakt. Lukt het hem de gewelddadige strijd te overleven?

Ex-marine Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to worse people. He is used to being in complete control. So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on his instincts and years'' of training as the riot turns into a battleground. Someone planned this riot for political gain and now Carver - in the wrong place at the wrong time - looks like the perfect scapegoat. Wanted by the police for murder, if he is to clear his name he is going to have to find out who is really behind these events. The truth will shock even Carver - and find him pitted against a deadly enemy who knows all of Carver''s secrets and in a fight that will bring him face to face with a killer without conscience. Set in a Britain in turmoil, with riots on the nation''s streets, the euro in crisis, and a political system in disarray, Revenger is a classic Tom Cain thriller that once again rips its story from the headlines of tomorrow''s newspapers.

I think we all wish we knew then what we know now. In this book, I''m sharing personal stories: my struggle with an incurable and devastating childhood disease; a job ending injury; suicide attempts during years of depression and the loss of my wife. Then finding God again, creating Friends of Santa and reuniting with my first love. I hope that others will learn from my mistakes and be inspired by my perseverance. The next time your problems seem overwhelming, just look up to God for his wisdom and trust him to take care of your complete needs.

They murdered his wife. They destroyed his future. Now they have to pay. Hector Cross, ex - SAS officer, private security expert, widower. His wife was taken much too soon, by a cruel man with evil intentions. Johnny Congo, psychopath, extortionist, terrorist, the man who murdered Hector''s wife. Cross wants him dead. So does the US government. Congo is locked up on Death Row in the most secure prison in the free world, counting down the days until his execution. He''s got two weeks. He wants out. He''s escaped before and knows he can again. Cross, still licking his wounds from his last bruising encounter with Congo, is back and ready for work. In the middle of the rough Atlantic stands oil supertanker Bannock A. Terrorist activity in the area has triggered panic and there''s only one person they can trust to protect her. What is promised as a cakewalk turns out to be much more, a mission that will test Cross to his emotional and physical limits. But a life spent in the SAS and private security has left Cross hardwired for pain, and as he is thrown into the fire once more, he will not stop until he has snared his prey.

Een Britse supergeheim agent moet internationale terroristen uit de weg ruimen, maar tot zijn schrik ontdekt hij dat in de auto die hij in 1997 in Parijs moet laten verongelukken de Prinses van Wales zit.

At F.A.D.E labs, New Kansas, Dr Katsu Ahiro an astute scientist, creates a device which could provide clean, unlimited renewable energy. In a separate department within F.A.D.E labs Dr Mary Willis-Scott is working on nine different fully grown adult clones using the AB negative blood type. Shortly after both were complete, the energy device was tested, but something went wrong. The experiment, erased all life on earth without the AB negative blood type, leaving only 0.6% of the population scattered across the world. It also left numbers of the population with mutations, some terrible and some amazing. John Test was one of the clones created and released into the New Kansas population before the experiment and lost his wife and daughter in the incident. Wracked with grief for his loss John turns to bounty hunting in order to try and forget, but ends up on a mission to stop the now mad Dr Ahiro from recreating the device and destroying the rest of the population. Along the way John meets and old and new friends, best friend and ex marine Marko, deranged hyper skilled mute Valeria and an omnipotent being the Bright Scribe. Can John and his team fight their way through insurmountable odds and save the world?