Epub (my comversion)M15 Operations 1945-1972The history of this book is as exciting as its subject. The High Court Justice of Great Britian issued an injunction against its publication. The officers of MI5 acted in concert against it. But as had been the case with Soviet moles deep in their own apparatus--Burgess, MacLean, Philby, Blunt--it was too little, too late. The American publishers had spirited a copy to New York. Nigel West details the failures of British Intelligence to detect Soviet spies in its own ranks, a failure he contends continues to this day. Case by case, THE CIRCUS shows how post-war intelligence services were riddled by spies who compromised Western secrets, gave the Soviets advantages worth billions of dollars and years of time, and contributed markedly to the West's problems of defense.

From New York to Los Angeles, kill squads were murdering career criminals and psychopathic killers. The public welcomed these "executions" of rapists and murderers whom the courts had failed to imprison. Silencing critics with death, the death squads blew away outspoken media stars, Black nationalists, Communist agitators... all int he guise of law and order. But the truth was that the squads were working for the enemies of America. Democracy had ruptured, spilling out chaos. The president responded with his own squad of death-dealing hotshots — Mack Bolan's Able Team!

A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean's oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air's oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrialist J.E. Gelstrom is furiously empire-building. The US/USSR military have abandoned nuclear weapons for a better deterrent--environmental warfare. Marine biologist Gavin Chase teams up with Detrick's daughter Cheryl to gather facts & alert the public. The climate warms, the protective ozone layer thins, equatorial regions become uninhabitable. The military, led by maniacal Major Madden, unleashes environmental weapons while retreating to secret, sealed labs to breed mutants able to survive anaerobic conditions. Eventually the dying Gelstrom has a change of heart & gives funds to Chase & friends who work desperately to reverse the ecological transformation. Hoyle's ear for American dialog is nonexistent. His narration is sluggish, weighed down by self-conscious message-mongering. But the apocalyptic premise here is plausible. In the final 100 pages his morbid imagination propels matters to a tensely absorbing conclusion.--Kirkus (edited)

The worst-case scenario has come to pass: a nuclear strike has crippled America. Gangs, looters, and vandals have seized the streets. The decent few can only pray for a leader to protect them. Luckily, one of the survivors is Ben Raines. Rebel mercenary, retired soldier, and tireless patriot, Raines is searching for his missing family in the aftermath of this devastating war. His relentless pursuit through the ruined cities of the west unites him with the civilians of the Resistance forces. They become his recruits for a revolutionary army dedicated to rebuilding America. Then comes the final outrage: an armed attack by government forces. With the fate of America’s New Patriots hanging in the balance, Raines vows—government be damned—to survive, find his family, and lead this once great nation out of the ashes.

Television newscaster Sandy Broderick seems to be the type of guy who has it all: good looks, good hair, a deep voice, and great ratings. Unfortunately, he's also got a son who, more often than not, tends to find himself in the sort of trouble that only someone like private eye Amos Walker can fix. Walker takes the case, with two objectives: find Bud before all the drugs and women make for a fatal combination; and keep Bud's actions from ruining Broderick's sterling reputation. What Walker finds, though, is more than he bargained for -- in a case that tests this terrific P.I. to his very limits.Review"Estleman's intriguing, frequently malignant or low-life characters are richly drawn, truly three-dimensional. Mystery aficionados compare his prose to Ross Macdonald's and Raymond Chandler's. As a Macdonald fan, I can testify this writer does that master one better".-- FORBES From the Inside FlapThe Bookcassette® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full, unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes, you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores.

“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland. Composed in the style of Renata Adler’s celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist’s eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.From BookforumPitch Dark is murky—not in a turgid sense, but clouded, rather, by troubled reflections, ambivalence, regrets. The weather of Pitch Dark is chilly. Secondary figures are fraught with shadowed histories. Incidents and asides illustrate a hapless, estranging condition of things. —Gary Indiana Review“Intense. . . brilliant. . . A mood, dark and sinister, grows steadily and a tight kind of suspense is created. . . For those who would like to know where fiction is headed, it’s somewhere in this aggressive, provocative direction.”—*People*“Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler’s gift for language and observation. . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions.”—Michiko Kakutani, *The New York Times*“Nobody in this country writes better prose than Renata Adler's.”—John Leonard, *Harper's*From the Trade Paperback edition.

You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next-stop THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE — where demonic tyrants of the past live again to terrorize a man who carries the seeds of their hate into the present. — where evil perches on a plane wing taunting the psychic who dare not believe his eyes—and still hold on to his mind. — where the power to control the world rests in the fantasy-fraught imagination of a lonely child. — where the joys of eternal youth are offered to those who remember childhood and are not too old to dream.

Tarl Cabot, seeking the monsters from the Steel Worlds, found himself among the cruel savages who rule the vast Barrens. Though himself enslaved, he stood with his comrades and masters against a coming onslaught. For the Kur had united the enemies of the tribe that held Cabot, and death and destruction were unleashed. Out of the plains came riding hordes of feud-driven braves, from the skies came a host of maddened tarn-riders, and even among the slave girls held by the blood brothers here was a devilish treason. BLOOD BROTHERS OF GOR is one of the great John Norman epics. It is a long novel of constant action, told in depth and detail, of a struggle fought for the fate of a world where strong men clash and beautiful women await their victors.

Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But every night when Amy goes into the attic to check on the dollhouse, it is flled with an eerie light and the dolls have moved again! Are the dolls trying to tell her something? Are their movements connected to the grisly murders of her own great-grandparents? In a spine-chilling climax, Amy and her sister unravel the secrets of the petrifying dollhouse murders.

Thirteen-year-old Nita Callahan finally finds a way to get back at the notorious school bullies, Joanne and her gang, when she discovers a library book on the art of wizardry. She hardly dares to believe the book's claim that she too can become a wizard if she's willing to take the Wizard's Oath and undergo the danger of a wizard's initiation, the Ordeal. But to her astonishment and delight, her new Wizard's Manual is telling her the truth. While practicing her first spells, Nita meets Kit Rodriguez, another young wizard, and starts working with him to find a solution to her bullying problem. Cover for mass-market paperback edition of So You Want To Be a Wizard What they get, though, doesn't look much like a solution. Kit and Nita suddenly find themselves dealing with a "white hole" named Fred, who's arrived on Earth with an urgent message regarding the mystical Book of Night with Moon. The Book is missing…and has to be found quickly if dire things aren't going to start happening to the Earth. It's not long before the search for the bright Book leads Nita and Kit to a deadly alternate Manhattan, where they encounter man-eating helicopters, vicious packs of killer cabs, and the terrible wolflike perytons, which attack them at every turn. Despite the danger, Kit and Nita are determined to rescue the Book of Night with Moon from the lair of the dragon who presently possesses it. But can they keep it out of the clutches of the Lone Power, the ancient darkness cast out long ago from the heart of the worlds?…

Suder, Percival Everett's acclaimed first novel, follows the exploits and ordeals of Craig Suder, a struggling black third baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In the midst of a humiliating career slump and difficulties with his demanding wife and troubled son, Suder packs up his saxophone, phonograph, and Charlie Parker's Ornithology and begins a personal crusade for independence, freedom, and contentment. This ambitious quest takes Suder on a series of madcap adventures involving cocaine smugglers, an elephant named Renoir, and a young runaway, but the journey also forces him to reflect on bygone times. Deftly alternating between the past and the present, Everett tenderly reveals the rural South of Suder's childhood -- the withdrawn father; the unhinged, protective mother; the detached, lustful brother; and the jazz pianist who teaches Suder to take chances. And risk it all he finally does: Suder's travels culminate in the fulfillment of his most fanciful childhood dream.LSU Press

To See the Daisies...First(Loveswept #43)One moment Ben Garrison felt that his life was headed nowhere; then a woman wearing only an oversized trenchcoat, who had no idea who she was or where she belonged, changed everything! Ben named her Sunny for the open, loving way she faced the world head on, and he basked in her reflected light, warming himself in her sparkling laughter. She freed his heart from its confinement, and most of all she opened his eyes. But the lovers weren't lost to an uncaring world... for Sunny's life was threatened by a man from the past she couldn't recall....

Independent space trucker Jake McGraw, accompanied by his father Sam, who inhabits the body of truck itself, his "starrig," picks up a beautiful hitchhiker, Darla, and a trailer-load of trouble. One of the best of the indies, Jake knows a few tricks about following the Skyway, which connects dozens, or maybe hundreds, of planets. Nobody knows how many and nobody really knows the full extent of the Skyway and much of it remains unexplored. But, somehow, a rumor gets started that Jake has a map for the whole thing and suddenly everybody wants a piece of him: an alien race called the Reticulans, the human government known as the Colonial Assembly, and a nasty piece-of-work called Corey Wilkes, head of the wildcat trucker union TATOO. No matter what Jake does, no matter how many twists and turns he makes, he can't shake any of the menaces on his tail. The Starrigger series, continues with Red Limit Freeway and concludes with Paradox Alley.