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Shaun Clarke
Operation Millennium
Published November 1999 by Pocket Books at £17.99
and £6.99
ISBN: 0684860821
and 0671015923
A terrifying vision of millennial Britain
The year 1999 has brought millennium fever to Great Britain with widespread social breakdown and many 'no-go' areas run by a wide variety of paranoid religious and political movements. They are fanatical and violent. When someone starts letting off bombs and putting important members of society at risk, the SAS are brought in to break the groups.
Operation Millennium conveys the fevered neurosis which pre-empts Britain's surge into the new millennium.
Shaun Clarke has written many novels on the subject of soldiering and war. He has recently moved from County Cork, Ireland to Paris, France.
Joseph Garber
In A Perfect State
Pbk published December 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0671854674
Artwork by: Cover design & illustration: Blacksheep
The new thriller form the bestselling author of
'Vertical Run'
Red-eyed and jet-lagged, an American businessman arrives in Singapore, unaware that he
has been marked for assassination. Twice.
A world away in New York he was Jack Taft, Vice President, Logistics LBTech, Inc: a small
cog in the mighty wheel of international industry. A decent company man, an ordinary man,
and no hero.
But now, in the Big Brother Utopia of Singapore, he's suddenly become a fugitive pursued
by police whose orders read 'shoot to kill.'
He's been framed for a capital crime. The toughest cop in the land of very tough cops has
chosen him as personal prey. The mob has put a price on his head. Plenty of bounty hunters
want to collect. No way out, he's trapped on a tiny island whose every citizen wants to
see him hang. As does his own government. And still nobody has told Jack Taft what the
hell is going on....
Who's set him up? His boss? A Singaporean gangster? Or someone else - someone who just
might be his own girlfriend? Tall doesn't know who or why. Ah he knows is that from the
moment he checks into his hotel he's out of the world he knows and hurled into a living
nightmare where everyone is trying to kill him.
A firestorm of bullets set him on the run. A dozen hitmen confront him in the sheet. A
relentlessly lethal policeman stalks him through the swamps. Death is inches away. Unless
he can clear his name, he's not going to live long enough to see dawn. And the only way he
can do that is learn to do the one thing he's never been capable of.....learn how to fight
back....
Praise for Vertical Run:
(If ever a novel bristled with sheet intrigue and suspense it's Vertical Run.
Fast-paced thrillers don't get any better than this' Clive Cussler
'This highly satisfying, high concept mix of D.O.A and Die Hard, which tightens the
suspense screws mercilessly...stands as one of the most invigorating thrillers of the
summer' Publishing News
Joseph Garber was born in 1943 in Philadelphia. After a tour duty in the U.S. Army he took his undergraduate degree in philosophy in Tennessee. He has spent the balance of his career as a businessman, initially with AT&T and later with the international management consulting firm Boot, Alien & Hamilton. He is now a West Coast based mergers and acquisitions specialist and lives in California. Movie, rights for Joseph Garber's bestselling first novel Vertical Run sold to Warner Brothers in advance of publication for $400,000 and it will soon be released as a major motion picture produced by Jon Peters.
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Harold Schechter
Nevermore
Published October 1999 by Pocket Books at £16.99
ISBN: 0671798553
The secret history of Edgar Allan Poe, when he was a struggling young writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations and horrific visions.
Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, this tale taps into the dark genius of the legendary author and follows a labyrinthine path into the heart of a most heinous crime.
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