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Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith

Agent 6
Tom Rob Smith

Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
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February 2012 Book of the Month. Agent 6 is the third in Tom Rob Smith's trilogy about a former MGB agent, Leo Demidov. His stunning debut Child 44, set in Russia in 1953 won him the Galaxy New Writer of the Year 2009. The second The Secret Speech, again set in the 1950's, was equally gripping. In Agent 6 it is 1965 and Leo Demidov has a wife and teenage daughters - but can he stop his past life destroying his current one? Three decades. Two murders. One conspiracy. Who is Agent 6?

Siege - Simon Kernick

Siege
Simon Kernick

Format: Hardback - Released: 19/01/2012
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February 2012 Book of the Month. One of Britain’s top writers has in Siege created a real edge-of-your-seat race against time thriller. A top London hotel is being held hostage along with everyone in it by gunmen who are using ever more frightening methods to terrorise those inside. Will the hostages or the gunmen survive the night or will the hotel be blown apart? It’s non-stop action set over a very short time frame.

Pantheon - Sam Bourne

Pantheon
Sam Bourne

Format: Hardback - Released: 16/02/2012
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February 2012 Book of the Month. A truth unearthed by Jonathan Freedland, who writes under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, is the idea at the centre of this explosive WW2 thriller. While we thought we were fighting a morally repugnant enemy who believed in the ‘master race’ the idea behind it ‘eugenics’ was supported by some of the most influential British and American intellectual and political elite of the time. An unwitting Oxford don finds himself personally involved in this previously hidden aspect of WW2 when his wife and child are kidnapped.

Revenge of the Red Square - Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny

Revenge of the Red Square
Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny

Format: Paperback - Released: 12/01/2012
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A fast and furious comedy classic, Revenge of the Red Square is the hilarious sequel to The Golden Pig, and is a comic tour de force.

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion - Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion
Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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The latest instalment in the most famous thriller series of them all. Bourne is back, and this time the stakes are higher than ever... When Robert Ludlum died in 2001 we all feared the incredible character of Jason Bourne he created would not see another adventure but through the pen of Eric Van Lustbader he continues to thrill and excite. Visit Robert Ludlumn's author page on Lovereading to see all the Bourne books.

The Last Four Things - Paul Hoffman

The Last Four Things
Paul Hoffman

Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
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The Last Four Things is the second thrilling instalment in this remarkable blockbuster trilogy that began with the awesome The Left Hand of God. Paul Hoffman has crafted an epic narrative that will stand amongst the greats of heroic fiction. Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. These are the Last Four Things. Now there are Five. Meet Thomas Cale...

White Heat - M. J. McGrath

White Heat
M. J. McGrath

Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Nothing on the tundra rotted ...The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, experiencing Arctic life in the raw, but when one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances, the local Council of Elders in the tiny settlement of Autisaq is keen to dismiss it as an accident. Then two adventurers arrive in Autisaq hoping to search for the remains of the legendary Victorian explorer Sir James Fairfax. The men hire Edie whose ancestor Welatok guided Fairfax along with Edie's stepson Joe, and two parties set off in different directions. Four days later, Joe returns to Autisaq frostbitten, hypothermic and disoriented, to report his man missing. And when things take an even darker turn, Edie finds herself heartbroken, and facing the greatest challenge of her life ...

The Winds of Folly - Seth Hunter

The Winds of Folly
Seth Hunter

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance against the French. He establishes a British naval presence, harrying the French corsairs that swarm out of Ancona in Italy. While Nathan confronts the politics of 'intrigue, poison and the stiletto' in Venice, his mission is further complicated by the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte's aide de camp, Junot. Recognising Nathan as the 'American' who saved Bonaparte's life in Paris, Junot invites him to army headquarters where he unwillingly joins the French in a victorious battle against the Austrians. Meanwhile, in Venice, French troops move into the city and a new revolutionary government takes power. Nathan learns that Bonaparte is negotiating a peace deal with the Austrians - Britain's only remaining ally. Worse, the Spanish are about to ally with the French. Nathan returns to the Unicorn and rejoins Nelson for the decisive Battle of St Vincent against the entire Spanish fleet.

Prince - Rory Clements

Prince
Rory Clements

Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
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Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches and waits - and plots. Into this turmoil a small cart clatters through the streets of London, carrying a deadly load. It is the first in a wave of horrific bombing attacks on the Dutch immigrant community that will change John Shakespeare's life for ever. Driven on by cold rage, Shakespeare's investigations will take him from magnificent royal horseraces to the opulent chambers of Black Luce's brothel, from the theatrical underworld of Marlowe and Kyd to the pain-wracked torture cells of priest-hunter Richard Topcliffe, and from the elegant offices of master tactician Robert Cecil to the splintering timbers of an explosive encounter at sea. As Shakespeare delves ever deeper, he uncovers intricate layers of mystery and deception that threaten the heart not only of the realm, but of all that he holds dear.