The explosive new thriller featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of Fire Hawk and The Lucifer Network.

Sam Packer has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, is under threat from a former prisoner-of-war, Peregrine Harrison, who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult. Packer can't believe that at the age of seventy-seven Harrison has the strength or will to exact revenge, but he reckons without Harrison's cult adherents, in particular a ruthless ex-SAS operative involved in drug smuggling in the Burma triangle.
Packer learns that Kamata will be hit while visiting a factory site in Burma and is flown out under cover to prevent a tragedy. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. The Burma Legacy combines Geoffrey Archer's immaculate research with heart-stopping action.

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 lengths would you go to when it comes to protecting your home? Would you tackle an intruder in the middle of the night if you caught them breaking into your house, and more importantly would you actually use physical violence if you thought your family was at risk?

This is just one of the issues raised in Hilary Bonner's gripping new novel A Moment Of Madness. As with all her previous books, Hilary Bonner has worked extensively with local police, legal and forensic experts while researching this book and again she has highlighted a topical and controversial subject. In this instance she was inspired by the Tony Martin case which hit all the front pages of the newspapers a few years ago. This was the farmer who shot a young man in the back when his home was broken into, and who was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. However, due to public outcry that he had only reacted in self-defence and he had a right to protect his property, his case was reopened and on appeal his sentence was much reduced. But should public opinion sway a jury, and should the police exert pressure on those involved if they need the 'right' result in a particular case?

Set in the Torquay and Exeter area of South Devon, A Moment Of Madness tackles these issue and more as pop idol Scott Silver is murdered in his Maidencombe home. Journalist John Kelly, based on the local paper, is onto the biggest story he's had in years. But will anyone really get to the bottom of this case and is there more to it than anyone first thought? Kelly is determined to find out.

"Sophisticated plotting and good writing lever this one above the usual run of heart-thumpers." Daily Mail
"Hilary Bonner is excellent at keeping you guessing" Daily Express

Flood is a devastating and compulsive thriller that reads like fact. The country has suffered floods on an unprecedented scale in recent years, but have we seen the worst, an inundation that threatens millions of lives? Doyle's vision is incontestable, backed up by over twenty-five years of research. Flood is the disaster novel of today. A storm rages over the north of Britain, a troop carrier founders in the Irish Sea, flood indicators go off the scale, the seas are mountainous and a spring tide is about to strike the East Coast. Air sea rescue and military personnel struggle to save lives all down the caost. The worst is yet to come. When the storm reaches the south the two forces of wind and tide will combine and send a huge one-in-a-thousand tidal surge up the Thames. But surely London is safe: the Thames Barrier will save the capital from disaster as it was intended to do? The river is a titanic presence by now, higher than anyone has known it, and the surge thunders towards the Barrier. Scientists begin to talk of the possibility of overtopping. Can fifty feet high gates be overwhelmed by a wave? Then there is an explosion the size of a small Hiroshima: a supertanker is ablaze in the estuary and most of the Essex petrochemical works are going up with it. The Thames catches fire and the wall of fire and water thunders towards Britain's capital. This is the story of what happens next, and the desperate attempts to save the capital from destruction.

It opens with a killing: an undercover cop is forced to witness the murder of his partner. A drug kingpin named Junior is the man who arranged the hit. Val Duran is the cop. The killing is the catalyst that sends Val on the run and Heartbreaker off and running.
Val ends up in Hollywood, doing stunt work in B-movies, but his real life is much more hazardous. When he meets Kyle, the perfect girl-next-door, his habitual protective paranoia is immediately undone. Which means he doesn't see Junior coming after him. And he doesn't notice how fast he's sinking into the morass of Kyle's deadly, dysfunctional family. Trying to help her, trying to keep her out of Junior's sights and himself out of Junior's line of fire, Val's life is moving either very close to a very bad end or, just as dangerously, very close to a small but very dazzling piece of paradise.

With its cast of edgy eccentrics, its non-stop action, its unexpected, seamless combination of the macabre, the romantic, and the absurd, Heartbreaker promises to be one of the most audaciously entertaining reads of the season - and Robert Ferrigno's next bestseller.

'I never miss a book by Robert Ferrigno.' Michael Connelly

A nightmare killer is loose in the land of dreams... A murder/robbery on a stretch of beach just south of Laguna. A gang killing in Santa Ana. A young woman gunned down taking out the garbage. A high school track star shot during a dawn workout. A cook killed after work. A computer salesman found dead in a parking lot. A half dozen murders in the last month unnoticed and unsolved. Like the note said.
An anonymous note to investigative reporter Jimmy Gage from someone calling himself 'The Eggman' claiming the killings and threatening to come after Jimmy.
Is it a hoaxer? The police think so, apart from Detective Jane Holt assigned to the case but pulled off it.
But Jimmy is driven to discover the identity of the serial killer no matter where the search takes him and it takes him right into the heart of danger.

After graduating with an MFA in fiction writing, Robert Ferrigno moved to Seattle, Washington where he tried teaching college students but gave up, and spent the next five years playing poker and working as a day labourer. His books have been published in ten countries. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and four children.

When Sloane, an unsuccessful painter but a successful forger, is released from prison after taking part in a high-profile art scam, he finds a letter from a woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. On her death bed she tells him that years ago she gave birth to a daughter - his daughter - Connie, from whom she has since become estranged. She implores Sloane to find her and make peace between them.
Sloane agrees - but when eventually he finds Connie she is locked into a highly charged relationship with Vincent Delaney, a man whom the police believe has killed once and will not hesitate to kill again. Initially rebuffed by Connie, Sloane has to decide whether to walk away or stay and fight for her. As the police dig deeper into Delaney's business affairs and begin to uncover underworld associations, so Sloane comes to understand the depths of violence which bind Connie and Delaney together. And the more Delaney feels cornered and under pressure, the more unpredictable and dangerous he becomes...

Acclaim for John Harvey:
`If the title King of Crime is to go to the male writer who is at the summit of his form writing some of the best crime fiction this side of the Atlantic, the crown is John Harvey's' The Times
`British crime fiction's most impressive series of the last decade' Time Out

Earl Swagger is back in a searing follow-up to the bestselling Hot Springs.

The Year is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer has come to chat with Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor, about a dangerous unknown - a prison for violent black convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, a place of many questions but no answers. Would Sam, a white man and a Southerner, be willing to investigate?
When Sam vanishes in the mists and swamps, his old friend Earl Swagger packs his gun and heads to Thebes where he discovers sinister secrets that go far beyond the prison walls. The whole town guards itself from nosy strangers with a private army of brutal, gun toting, Klan- type thugs and rednecks. After barely escaping, Earl vows to right things and reclaim Thebes from the throes of a sinister conspiracy. But first, he enlists just a little help from his friends.

Featuring the same fast-paced action and page-turning thrills that made Hot Springs a bestseller, Pale Horse Coming is a triumphant successor.

Stephen Hunter is the author of eleven novels, including Hot Springs, Time to Hunt, Black Light and Dirty White Boys. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Donna Leon's most powerful novel yet, as the murder of a young woman involves Commissario Brunetti in buried secrets dating back to WWII.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by her intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly is no longer simply Paola's student but Brunetti's case...
Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat. When she in turn is found dead, the case seems to be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...

"Do it, just f**ing do it." With those words, those six, stupid, semi-literate words, Gabriel O'Donnell sets in motion a sequence of events that will dominate the lives of two families for the next three generations, and which bring in their wake a series of murders, guilt, hatred and revenge. It is the East End of the early 1960s, an era of raw, violent crime, but times are good for the O'Donnells. They have the gambling, the working girls, and all the protection rackets well under their control. They are feared and respected. But then Harold Kessler, an old enemy of Gabriel's, actually has the impudence to think he can bring his family back to east London and just move in on the O'Donnells' businesses. Gabriel won't accept such liberty taking and sends his sons round to teach the Kesslers a lesson. But when the boys confront Kessler's son, Sammy, in the street, things go horribly wrong, and one of them accidentally shoots dead a seventeen-year-old girl. As the terrible realisation dawns that the girl is none other than Catherine - their own sister, who has been secretly seeing Sammy Kessler - the mayhem really begins. Things can never be the same again.