From Leif G W Persson- a new critically acclaimed novel cantered
around the unsolved
murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's
August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of
Criminal Investigation in Sweden has opened the files on the unsolved murder of
Prime Minister Olof Palme. With his retirement quickly closing in, Johansson
forms a new group comprised of a few trustworthy detectives who doggedly wade
through mountains of paperwork and pursue new leads in a case that has all but
gone cold despite the open wound the assassination has left on the
consciousness of Swedish society. Yet the closer the group gets to the truth,
the more Johansson compromises the greater good for personal gain, becoming a
pawn for the private vendetta of a shady political spin doctor. Falling
Freely, as If in a Dream is due to be published in October 2014.
A bomb goes off in down town San Francisco. Twelve people
are dead. But this is no ordinary target. This target exists on the fault line
where sex and money meet. Daniel Madsen is one of a new breed of federal agents
armed with a badge, a gun and the Bureau's latest piece of technology. He's a
fast operator and his instructions are simple: find the bomber - and before he
strikes again. In order to understand what is at stake, Madsen must plunge into
a sleazy, unsettling world where reality and fantasy are indistinguishable,
exploitation is business as usual, and the dead hand of corruption reaches all
the way to the top. There's too much money involved for this investigation to
stay private... Skinjob is by Bruce
McCabe and is due to be published in June 2014.
Personal is by Lee
Child and is due to be published in August 2014. Jack Reacher walks
alone. Once a go-to hard
man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the
army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French
president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can
find him. This new heart stopping, nail biting book in Lee Child's number-one
bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to
London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.
Camp Bastion: SAS trooper Tom Buckingham finds himself in
deep trouble for taking down a renegade Afghan soldier. Instead of being
proclaimed a hero, he's made a scapegoat for the incident and drummed out of
the regiment. On his return to Britain, disillusioned and embittered, Tom's
unique services are quickly snapped up by charismatic entrepreneur, Vernon
Rolt, a powerful billionaire with political ambitions, very few scruples and a
questionable agenda. With riot on the country's streets, a government in
disarray and a visit from the American president imminent, there has never been
a better time to make a play for power. But, as Tom will soon discover, in the
affairs of state, hidden forces are always at work and he is quickly drawn back
into the covert world of intelligence and Special Forces which he knows so
well. He will have to decide where his loyalties lie and who his real friends
are, if he is to intervene in a spiralling sequence of events which involve terrorism,
insurgency and, ultimately, assassination...
Fortress is by Andy McNab and was published in May 2014.
Jacob Underwood is not like other people. He has Cotard's
Syndrome. He believes he is dead. Which makes his job as a hired assassin
neutralising 'problems' for DBG, a massive multinational corporation, very
simple. He carries out the task - and feels nothing. Now DBG has such a
problem. A key employee, Emily Buchanan, has disappeared, taking with her a
fortune and priceless information which could destroy the company. Jacob must
track her down. In previous assignments, he had worked with cold logical
precision, but this time he has to confront a threat that he first must
understand before it destroys him. Sparks is by John Twelve Hawks and is
due to be published in October 2014.
'
I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so
bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though -
a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me.
Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is
different...' The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It
is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In
occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany.
In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter,
and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and
restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker
hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a
force far beyond their understanding. Into this arena steps a nameless British
assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and
planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests
on a single kill in the morning…. A Kill
in the Morning is by Graeme Shimmin and is due to be published in June 2014.
Happiness is Easy is
by Edney Silvestre and is due to be published in July 2014. Olavo
Bettencourt is an important man, a man
of spin. With Brazil adjusting to the new idea of democracy, his PR firm holds
the balance of power in its hands. Which has also made Olavo very rich, if not
very popular. Loathed by his trophy wife and mired in a web of political
corruption that spreads from Sao Paolo to Switzerland, Israel and New York,
Olavo is an obvious target for extortion. And what better leverage can there be
but the kidnapping of his only son. Except that the child on his way home from
school in Olavo's armour-plated car, intent on his colouring book as the gang
closes in...He's not Olavo's son.
When a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment's
renowned Killing House, Nick Stone is perfectly qualified to investigate the
mysterious circumstances more deeply. He has just returned from Moscow - still
trying to come to terms with the fact that his girlfriend and baby son are
safer there without him - so combines an unrivalled understanding of the
Special Forces landscape with a detachment that should allow him to remain in
cover. But less than forty-eight hours later, a second death catapults him back
into the firing line - into the telescopic sights of an unknown assassin bent
on protecting a secret that could strike at the heart of the establishment that
Stone has, in his maverick fashion, spent most of his life fighting to protect.
And now the clock is ticking, Stone hurtles from the solitude of a remote Welsh
confessional to Glencoe - whose shadows still whisper of murder and betrayal -
and on to Southern Spain, in an increasingly desperate quest to uncover the
truth about a chain of events that began in the darkness of an Afghan hillside,
and left a young man haunted by the never-ending screams of a friend the Taliban
skinned alive. For Valour is by Andy McNab and is due to be published in October
2014.
Vanishing Games is by Roger Hobbs and is due to be published in
March 2015. A ship carrying a fortune in emeralds is high jacked on the China
seas in a brilliant plan masterminded by Ghostwoman Angela. The plan falls apart when it turns out,
unbeknownst to her, that the ship was carrying a second cargo, far more
valuable than the gems. In serious
trouble, Angela calls on her former pupil, the Ghostman sometimes known as Jack. Together, these two experts need to find a way
to disappear with both treasures. Hunting them down is an army of gem
smugglers, and, to complicate matters further, an exceptionally dangerous
mercenary named Laurence – whose mysterious employer will go any length to see
his secret cargo returned.
Winter, 1141. The villagers on the Cambridgeshire Fens are
caught in the middle of the ongoing war between King Stephen and Empress
Matilda when a group of horsemen come thundering through their land and snatch
one of the children, Em. Mercenary Gwil
has lost his horse and crossbow in the attack. Finding shelter in a ruined
church for the night, he stumbles across Em. Clutched in her hand is a
rolled-up scroll. Traumatised by her ordeal, Em refuses to speak, so Gwin names
her Penda. Trying to find the rest of
his mercenaries, Gwil and Penda arrive at Kenniford Castle in Oxfordshire.
Sixteen-year-old Maud is being forced into marriage to the vulgar John of
Tewing - a necessity for Maud to retain her castle and to put the vital
crossing over the Thames into the hands of King Stephen’s supporters. The
situation is precarious; with Matilda desperate to regain her position as
monarch, Maud must prepare her castle for several sieges. When news of Gwil and
Penda's arrival spreads – and their archery skills observed in the garden – the
pair are invited to stay. More
disappearances, rapes and murders of young girls continue as Gwil continues his
search for the monk who abducted the young girl. But Penda’s past remains a threat, and there is little Gwil can do to prevent
it from catching up with her. For the scroll contains something vital – the
cost of which none of those close to Penda could ever have imagined… Winter
Siege was started by the late Ariana Franklin and finished by her daughter
Samantha Norman. It is due to be
published in October 2014.
Ruthless is by
Cath Staincliffe and is due to be published in October 2014.A blaze at an
abandoned chapel on the impoverished Walton Estate turns out to be more than
just arson when the body of a man who has been shot twice is discovered in the
ashes. For the Manchester Metropolitan police team it's the start of a
gruelling and complex case that exposes the fractures and fault lines of a
community living on the edge. DC Rachel Bailey, recently married, is trying to
come to terms with her new status and deal with the fallout from her chaotic
family. She throws herself into work but her compulsion to find answers and see
justice done leads her into the deepest jeopardy. DC Janet Scott's world is
shaken to its foundations when death comes far too close for comfort and she
finds one of her daughters on the wrong side of a police investigation. DCI
Gill Murray's ex Dave, a Chief Superintendent, crashes back into her life, out
of control and bringing chaos in his wake. Gill attempts to get Dave to face
the truth of his situation, and to stay the hell away from her, but things are
about to get a whole lot worse. And then a second building goes up in flames...
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