Item category 1: Adventure

On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge...

It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a Crystal Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one.

Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take the...

Aust'n. Julie Guilford finds herself in poccession of a well-bred thoroughbred racehorse and together with her friends decide to race it. She is smitten with the new vet but they find themselves in a challenging relationship. Rory Duncan, Julie's uncle suddenly finds out about the horse and decid...

In the spring of 1843, nearly a thousand settlers gathered in Independence, Missouri, their wagons laden with dreams of Oregon's promised valleys. They came from all walks of life, farmers, carpenters, merchants, and artisans, each carrying generations of Eastern skills toward an uncertain Wester...

US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Offic...

WESTERNS. After finding himself in a coffin, on the way to Boot Hill, Clay Tulane wants answers. As he pieces together the story of how he got there with the help of local townsfolk Miss Winona and the boy Pocket, he finds himself drawn into a violent stuggle against local landowner, Marsden Rock...

Set against the backdrop of World War I, with western civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take them from the Polar North to the Mongolian deserts, through the...

November 1940. Lieutenant Daniel Nichols, a former pacifist turned crusader, is wounded taking part in the Royal Navy's carrier born air raid on the Italian Battle Fleet in Taranto. Six months later Sándor Braun, a British double agent, escorts a Japanese delegation around Taranto and discovers t...

Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville first met in 1914 at the Slade School of Art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have...

"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" -Pat Barker The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a Briti...

When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing a massive cave beneath, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained squad of commandos are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong - and to...

When a massive amount of gamma radiation is detected somewhere beneath the desert of Iran, the world begins watching. Is it a nuclear weapon, or something much much worse? Alex Hunter and his highly trained incursion team are dropped into the ruins of Persepolis but find nothing. No lab, no weapo...

Professor Matt Kearns, paleo-linguist, and a team of scientific and military specialists, rush to decipher the hidden secrets of a pair of ancient stones that prophesise the next great extinction on Earth. They soon discover that the ominous predictions are linked to a plague of unstoppable creat...

Deep in the jungles of Paraguay, petrobiologist Dr Aimee Weir is in trouble. She has found a unique microorganism in a natural gas deposit but it proves more destructive than anyone could have imagined. A contagion is attacking the camp and workers start to vanish in the night. Is it fear of cont...

'Somebody!' I half-sob and then, more quietly, 'Please.' The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I'm not going anywhere...Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do kn...

Western stories. The stage to Cooper's Creek was overdue. It had left Tombstone on time, called at Silverton, and then set out on the last leg with two passengers on board and money for the local bank. But it never arrived. It just vanished. Marshal Willard was a federal man and he soon stumbled ...

The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job...

'I wonder who chose the word 'glory',' murmured Arthur. 'You mean there's nothing very glorious about war.' The Major smiled. 'People expect words like glory. I do myself.' 'Oh, I'm not against it. There were glorious deeds performed.' The fields and gulleys of Gallipoli are thickly scattered wit...

As Ed Kane, former Texas Ranger, rode into his home town, he sensed tension. There was hate directed against the Conroys, an arrogant feudal clan terrorizing valley ranchers with bands of thugs. Kane steps into the feud when he defends Tommy McGee, ne'er-do-well and sometime rustler, against the ...

In pursuit of Squirrel Sally on his way back from Fort Liberty, the infamous Iron Eyes is bushwhacked by a pair of horse thieves who steal his thoroughbred palomino stallion. Leaving him for dead, the outlaws head on to the logging town of Bear Creek. What neither man knows is that Squirrel Sally...

Tracking down a wanted outlaw, Iron Eyes finds himself embroiled in the Indian wars. Badly wounded, he rides into Fort Liberty. Commanding office Colonel Brice Jay assumes that the bounty hunter is near death and takes a shine to the magnificent palomino stallion. When Iron Eyes recovers he finds...

"Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England-and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights. But his skills and know-how were really put to the test when he acce...

The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune -- and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. ...

WESTERNS. The Valeron code was simple: Trust in the Lord, but keep a gun handy. And when it came to harming one of them or their family, they had but one commandment: Thou shalt not get away with it! Rodney (Lightning Rod) Mason had a habit of getting involved in other people's problems. So when ...

The legend of Robert Fernald is narrated in three short novels. Fernald has been brought up by his uncle, with tales about the Wild West and the escapades of his father and Wild Bill. There has always been vagueness about which side of the law Fernald's father was on, but he left enough money for...

Three of Max Brand's finest short novels appear in book form for the first time. In The Low Dodger of Windy Creek, Sam Leader was falsely accused of murder, but makes a daring escape - and suddenly posses are on his trail. In Trail of the Eagle, Barney Dwyer helped Len Peary escape from jail, but...

This quartet of short novels opens with Night Ride: a peace meeting between the Navajos and the US Army ends in chaos. In Six-Gun Snare, parolee Dirk Hood has been convicted of killing his best friend but learns that the bullet could not have been fired from his gun. Raven Moore, the Queen of Rus...

Max Brand trio comprise the story of Tom Fernald, a poverty-stricken sheepherder whose smallholding is mortgaged to the unscrupulous money-lender Pete Visconti. Bill Ransome knows that Fernald has just negotiated the sale of a sheep herd and steals the money at gun point. Visconti feels only cont...

Western stories. In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, relentless manhunt that would m...