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.

Michael M Baden & Marion Roach

The New Science of Catching Killers

In Body of Secrets, James Bamford discloses details of British co-operation with the NSA and Echelon how the organization behind the China Spy Plane Incident operates. revelatory new material regarding the secrets of the Cuban Crisis and the Six Day War.

In the popular imagination, the CIA is the largest and most feared security service in the world. In reality, it is overshadowed by an even more secret and powerful Organisation: the National Security Agency. From relatively small beginnings, co- operating with the British in breaking the Enigma code, the NSA has grown rapidly. It dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower and influence and is now capable of penetrating, monitoring and to some extent orchestrating life all around the world. Political secrets, commercial confidentiality and personal privacy are all susceptible to violation by the NSA; if American citizens have little enough protection against the Organisation, no-one else has any at all. Indeed, part of the price former partner Britain has to pay to gain access to information on common enemies is to allow NSA bases on its mainland. Body of Secrets reveals their location.

James Bamford first brought the NSA to public awareness in 1982 with his explosive bestseller, The Puzzle Palace. In Body of Secrets he reveals shocking new details about the inner working of the agency, gathered through unique access to thousands of internal documents and interviews with current and former officials. Unveiling extremely sensitive information for the first time, Bamford exposes the role the NSA played in numerous Soviet bloc Cold War conflicts and the Vietnam War. He also reveals the extent of the NSA's technological advances during the last fifteen years, shedding light on their continually expanding global surveillance systems, ranging from on-line listening posts to sophisticated intelligence-gathering satellites.
In a hard-hitting conclusion, Bamford warns that while the NSA's worldwide eavesdropping activities offer potential for tracking down terrorists and uncovering covert nuclear weapons deals, it also has the capability to listen in on personal communications and influence international trade.

The solution to the code at the beginning of each chapter of Body of Secrets is published on www.bodyofsecrets.com.

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.

The greatest philosophical mastermind turns detective in this witty a nd dramatic whodunnit.

Athens, 332BC - an unhappy city under the rule of the Macedonian 'barbarian' Alexander the Great.
In the midst of this unrest, Boutades, an eminent citizen, is found brutally murdered. Suspicion falls heavily on young Philemon, and, by Athenian law, his cousin Stephanos is elected to defend his name in court.
In desperation, Stephanos seeks assistance from Aristotle, his former mentor - and Aristotle turns Detective.
The young, inexperienced boy and the great philosopher form a classically uneven partnership. Their efforts culminate in the gripping trial scene when Stephanos uses all the powers of rhetoric and oratory instilled in him by Aristotle to clear his family's name of this bloody murder...

Margaret Doody is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of The True Story of the Novel and is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Review.

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.

LUCI - short for Light Ultra Chip Intelligence.
LUCI - a strike fighter for the 21st Century, invisible in the 400 to 700 spectrum of human vision.
LUCI - interactive with each individual pilot, programmed to override and correct human error.
LUCI - the computer game invented by twentyseven-year-old Cuban American, Maria Haymeyer, who has an I.Q. of 250, and once posed for Playboy's 'Girls of Mensa'.
LUCI - a warplane with a secret Doomsday mechanism, unknown to the people who have hijacked Maria's idea and plan a multi-billion deal with the Pentagon...
LUCI - it could spell Armageddon.

With thrilling pace, high-octane wit, and the cutting edge verisimilitude of a Michael Crichton, Chris Fox's fizzing debut reinvents the high-tech thriller genre.

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked up off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Because Detective-Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer - two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it's up to Resnick to put the record straight - and put the bastard where he belongs.
John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence of ten Nottingham-based Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was recently chosen by The Times as one of the ‘100 Best Crime Novels of the Century’. He is also a poet, dramatist and broadcaster.After living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he has now returned to London to live with his partner and their young daughter.

A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years. To a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who nearly brought his life to a premature end... and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover, putting paid to their marriage and leaving him with a psychic wound that still hasn't healed. Now with the look-alike robberies escalating in violence, Resnick fights to track the men down before they kill, just as he fights to stem the poignant memories that threaten to overwhelm him.
John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence of ten Nottingham-based Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was recently chosen by The Times as one of the ‘100 Best Crime Novels of the Century’. He is also a poet, dramatist and broadcaster.After living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he has now returned to London to live with his partner and their young daughter.

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It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, he is required to `repair in the first instance to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and reasonably assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron'. But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, and the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies, and the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.
For Adam, also, there is no peace. Lost in grief and loneliness, his uncle's death still unavenged, he is uncertain of all but his identity as a man of war. The sea is his element, the ship his only home, and a reckless, perhaps doomed attack on an impregnable stronghold his only hope of settling the bitterest of debts.

`One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' Sunday Times

When journalist Laurie Forbes turns up on Beth Ashby's doorstep, minutes after Beth's husband, political high-flier, Colin Ashby, has been arrested for murder, neither can even begin to guess the shocking and dangerous repercussions that have just been triggered in both their lives.
Beth attempts to escape from her shattered life by throwing herself into the kind of reckless high-living that seems destined for disaster, while Laurie finds herself being threatened, terrorised and even taken prisoner for what she knows. As the dangerous truth draws closer, Laurie realises that if she is to save Beth from those already preparing to destroy her, she must put her trust in hated rival journalist Elliot Russell and face up to a ghost from the past.

Silent Truths takes us on a compelling journey along the dark, decadent halls of power, into the depths of a tormented psyche, to the glittering, sun-splashed shores of seduction and intrigue, and finally to the terrifying truths behind the silence.

Kathy Reichs's outstanding fourth novel featuring Tempe Brennan.

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she is a key member of the disaster response team. The task that confronts her is a sickening one. Placing normal life on hold, she and her colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims.
Then comes a chance discovery that concerns her. A severed foot, away from the main crash site, and showing different signs of decomposition. But before she can make any progress, she is thrown off the job, with accusations of malpractice levelled against her.
Tempe must fight to save her professional standing. But she fears that, air tragedy aside, another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a conspiracy of silence, Tempe vows to bring justice for her mystery victim...

Critical acclaim for Kathy Reichs:
`Better than Patricia Cornwell' Sunday Express
`Completely engrossing ...Read this and you'll know why the word "chiller" was invented' Frances Fyfield

It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go down on their knees for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was such a gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater of Salcott St Mary? And why - and how - did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder... fraud... or simply some macabre practical joke?

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...