At 10.47 one Friday morning, successful LA psychiatrist Jerry Lomax answers a phone call that sends his life into freefall. The caller gives no name. What he wants are the confidential psychiatric records of one of Jerry's clients, a hard-nosed former LA County district attorney named Emily Ford, who is about to get the President's nomination for US Attorney General. Emily Ford has revealed a secret to Jerry Lomax in the course of their doctor-patient sessions, a secret which, in the hands of her enemies, could be devastating.
Jerry Lomax is bound by his ethics to refuse the caller's request. Except he can't refuse, not when he is presented with a cold and callous ultimatum. The caller has taken something of Jerry's, something Jerry holds very dear, and if he doesn't hand over the papers by 10 p.m. that night, Jerry will have to live with the consequences.
So begins Campbell Armstrong's taut and fast-paced new thriller, which pits one man against an unassailable enemy - time. Deadline will make you fear your own shadow, suspect your closest friend, and leave you breathless and alone.

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically mutilated and dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome. When a post-mortem examination reveals a singular, horrific signature linking the victims, officers realize that they are on the trail of the most dangerous offender known to the force: a sexual serial.
Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing both hostility within the force and echoes of his past in this, his first case with AMIP. He is tortured by the knowledge of a death long ago that he might have prevented. Now, as he employs every weapon forensic science can offer, he knows he has only limited time before this chaotic, sadistic killer strikes again.
In an astonishing debut, Mo Hayder has written a novel of frightening and raw intensity which ranks alongside the very best in the genre.

Critical acclaim for Birdman:
"Treading the grisly path blazed by Thomas Harris with Red Dragon, promising newcomer Hayder crafts a blood-curdlingly creepy thriller... her graphic imagination knows no bounds.' Publishers Weekly
'..a remarkably good first novel...a first-class thriller. Here is an author to watch for in the future.' Publishing News
'Next year's big - but deserved - hype, Mo Hayder, has movie-star looks which conveniently coincide with a first-class shocker of a novel.' Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian

Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage, forgotten war between Kurdish guerrillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength.
In brutal, no-quarter combat, Peake can bring to the fighting the skills he has learned as a marksman. If he is to survive, he must turn that marksmanship into a killing weapon, learn to deal out random death at long distance, and help the guerrillas to reach their goal - the city of Kirkuq.
From Baghdad, Iraq sends Major Karim Aziz, who travels with the reputation of being the most dedicated and professional sniper in Saddam's army.
For both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsession. It will take only one shot, echoing in the mountains and valleys, to settle the score

A Line in the Sand:
'Brilliantly written and deserving of the Booker Prize.' Mail on Sunday
'A classic ... may be his best yet.' The Times

. Barry and Cheryl were famous. Desperately poor, living in I a tower block with their children, they were possibly the most famous family in the country. Their fame came not from success or glamour, but from the attentions of a television company, who had made them the subject of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Cheryl was prepared to do anything to be a media star. She thought the public loved her and, indeed, for a while it seemed that the nation had taken this gutsy, poverty-stricken couple to its heart. But then it all starts to go horribly wrong. Her three children go missing. Have they been abducted? Murdered? Or is there some even more sinister explanation?
In this electrifying novel Gillian White lays bare the horrors that can arise when ordinary people's lives are transformed into the stuff of tragedy.

Unhallowed Ground:
'An atmosphere of real menace and a shocking climax,' Sunday Telegraph
The Sleeper:
'An excursion to Barbara Vineland ... Gillian White handles her gruesome ingredients with control and intelligence,' Independent on Sunday