Harry Jackman is a British gunrunner based in Zambia. When he threatens to reveal British undercover operations in Africa, SIS agent Sam Packer is dispatched to Zambia to negotiate for his silence. But soon after Sam's arrival, Jackman is killed. With his last dying breath he tells Sam of five containers which he'd smuggled out of Russia a year ago under a corrupt Zambian diplomatic cover He fears this was the deadly nuclear-bomb making material 'Red Mercury' destined for Arab terrorists. Regretting his own involvement Jackman tells Sam to contact his daughter Julie.
Soon Sam is on a dangerous trail through London, Vienna and Eastern Europe sometimes aided and sometimes hindered by Jackman's suspicious daughter On his way he is forced to confront disturbing secrets about his father's naval past While Sam's own career as an agent is put on the line. Somehow everything is all linked to the recent upsurge of fascism in Europe and a nail-bomb attack on a Sikh community in London. It's a race against time as Sam hastens to discover who is at the centre of this potentially fatal racist conspiracy

Geoffrey Archer is the former Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent for ITN's award-winning News at Ten television programme. His work as a frontline broadcaster has provided him with the deep background for his bestselling thrillers.

What would have happened had America not dropped the atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War? How long would the US government have been able to hold onto the secret of one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century and retain its atomic weapons monopoly.?

In 1956, in a series of statements long since buried in obscurity, a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity - a force even more powerful that the atom.
And then they made an extraordinary prediction: a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of clean, fuelless propulsion, as well as transport systems - and weapons - beyond our imagination.
But of course it never happened.
Or did it? Forty years on, a chance encounter with one of the engineers who made that prediciton forces a highly sceptical aerospace and defence journalist, Nick Cook, to confront the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code - and has covered up ever since.
As Cook's search for the truth begins, it rapidly becomes clear that this time around America has learned from the mistakes of the past and is determined to hold onto its secrets.

Lindsey Davis' thirteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is set against the very real backdrop of the Roman Palace at Fishbourne.

Falco and Helena have escaped Helena's expensive mistake on the Janiculan Hill and house-swapped with Falco's father But they've left behind a nasty surprise. There's a corpse in the newly completed bathhouse and the contractors, Gloccus and Cotta, have fled to Britain.
As it happens, Britain is currently Falco's best employment opportunity. Frontinus, Governor of the Isle, wants Falco to sort out some problems he has got with a huge Imperial building project on the south coast. Perhaps it is there that Gloccus and Cotta have fled? With his burgeoning family in tow, Falco sets out to the land he swore he would never visit again not knowing that a string of murders and building site politics await him.

Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich. After an English degree at Oxford she joined the Civil Service but now writes full time. Lindsey Davis was awarded the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for her top- ten bestseller Two for the Lions. She was-recently voted as one of the top 50 authors in the Waterstone's Reading Survey and received the 1999 Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco.

Her new Falco bestseller.

Lindsey Davis' twelfth novel featuring roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the Roman spheres of poetics and banking. When a rich banker from an Athenian family becomes patron to a group of struggling writers and is then murdered Falco is sent in to investigate.

Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich. After an English degree at Oxford she joined the Civil Service but now writes full time. Lindsey Davis was awarded the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for her top-ten bestseller Two for the Lions.

Praise for Lindsey Davis:
'She brings Imperial Rome to life' Ellis Peters
'Davis' books make old Rome sound fun ... it is all so enjoyable' The Times 'Wonderful, great fun all round' Daily Telegraph

One Virgin Too Many
'Davis adroitly pulls off the trick of ensuring that her detective's anachronistically modern sensibility does not seem out of place in ancient Rome. The politics are, as usual, remarkably well handled and the sight, sound and smell of Rome is captured with even greater pungency than usual.' Publishing News
'Falco's lively narration of his adventure combines humour with sharp observation, making this one of the most entertaining books of the year' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Dallas, November '63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.

Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...
The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingling with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. Historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.

The news that a venerated teacher has been murdered and a lama is missing sends a unlikely band of outcasts into the remote northern reaches of the Tibetan plateau. Two old Tibetans travel to restore the spiritual balance disturbed by violent death. A Sullen resistance fighter races to battle a new foe. But Shan Tao Yun, former Beijing investigator and newly released from four years of prison camp, sets out to find justice.
In the dangerous borderlands of Western China, however, justice is elusive. Vengeful officials, soldiers, smugglers, secret Buddhists and the remnants of the proud Muslim clans all stand in the way of Shan's pursuit of a serial killer whose terrible motives lie buried in the Tibetan struggle.

Eliot Pattison's numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published on three continents. He is a world traveller and a frequent visitor to China. The Skull Mantra, his first work of fiction, won him the Edgar award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America.

The highly-acclaimed first novel in the Murder Rooms cycle