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Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam’s outstanding debut novel. It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden 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. 2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man.

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox – hero of The Alexander Cipher Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. On the trail of a Dead Sea Scroll, Knox stumbles across an ancient temple being surreptitiously excavated by evangelical Christians outside Alexandria. A chase ends in tragedy with the death of Alexandria's senior archaeologist, and Knox the chief suspect. Meanwhile, Knox's partner Gaille Bonnard is baby-sitting a television crew around the ancient city of Amarna, home of the multiple mysteries of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Kidnapped by rogue soldiers, her time fast running out, she sends Knox a message hidden in a hostage video, pleading with him to come to her rescue. But Knox has problems of his own, under arrest on suspicion of murder, locked in a police cell half a country away. And the only way for him to find and save her is to crack one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world.

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find – the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk, he’s found dead in a hotel room; and an out-of-control policeman puts Petitier’s onetime protégé Augustin Pascal into intensive care, then later accuses him of Petitier’s murder. Only Augustin’s two closest friends, Daniel Knox and Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence. However, rumours of the fleece’s rediscovery have spread, and. ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Dan Knox has it, and slowly moves in for the kill…

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.

A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.

The city of Coventry has a rich and varied history. It has been one of the most important cities in England since the Middle Ages, when it first grew rich on the cloth trade and silk spinning. In the industrial age, Coventry became known for watchmaking and the skilled workforce later made the city a centre for bicycle, car and aircraft manufacturing. It was targeted for aerial bombardment in the Second World War and in a massive air raid on 14 November 1940 much of the historical centre of the city was destroyed as well as a large swathe of its housing and industrial buildings. The city was rebuilt after the war and its regeneration today has been recognised by the award of UK City of Culture 2021. Celebrating Coventry chronicles the proud heritage of Coventry, its important moments and what draws so many to this diverse city today. Its architectural heritage includes Sir Basil Spence’s new St Michael’s Cathedral, built in the ruins of the old cathedral, medieval buildings that survived the Blitz, and Spon Street, where many of Coventry’s historical buildings have been relocated. Many famous names in industry have made Coventry their home, including a roll call of the British motor industry – Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley, BSA, Jaguar, Humber, Hillman, Lanchester, Riley, Rover, Singer, Standard and Triumph – as well as Courtaulds in the textile industry, Massey-Ferguson tractors, and Armstrong-Whitworth aircraft manufacturers. Culture and the arts have always played an important role in the city, from the medieval Coventry Carol to the Two Tone music phenomenon, and famous names associated with Coventry include not just Lady Godiva but George Eliot and Joseph Paxton. Illustrated throughout, this fascinating book offers a marvellous and refreshingly positive insight into Coventry’s rich heritage, its special events and important moments. Celebrating Coventry will be a valuable contribution to the history of the city and provides a source of many memories to those who have known it well.

Spiral Mirror is a science fiction thriller and passionate love story based on tapes recorded by a college professor, Karl Grayland, while trapped at the foot of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 as it is about to erupt. This event brings him into the jaws of death for the love of two women: Laura Russell, a young attorney who on their journey to Seattle reveals to Karl that she is pregnant with his child; and Ariel, a sprite of a girl whom they rescue along the way only to be lured by her to Mt. St. Helens on that fateful day in May. With the web of time shredded by the convulsing mountain, Karl, led by Arial, is thrust through a magic mirror fifty years into a future in which mankind's fate comes to rest squarely on him. He learns from his captors how he in a spectral guise can invade the minds of their rivals and control or destroy them at will. Karl soon discovers that his godlike powers come with a compelling need to deploy them. While on the attack, Karl finds a dying Laura and a daughter he never knew, and enlists them to help his captors protect the Spiral Mirror and with it access to all human history. Only after his bloodlust is spent, leaving untold death in its wake, does Karl come to grips with the enormity of his deeds and what it truly means to be human. After learning the true purpose of his ordeal, Karl is returned home by his captors where he and Laura must again face the Mountain's mighty blow.

Trainspotting is a very popular hobby, but for boys 'of a certain age' nothing can replace the heady days of train-watching and number-taking in the age of steam. This book captures in it, a hugely nostalgic collection of photographs to transport you back to those far-off days of 'cops' and 'cabs'.

My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life.The book begins with an introduction to his family of four and the large extended family he grew up with. Many childhood memories surround that family which includes the story of starting a newspaper at a very young age with his brother, Bert, and selling out as they distributed them on their bikes.As he gets older, Dr. Adams takes the reader through his service in the Kansas National Guard as well as his days at the University of Kansas. He continued his education at Columbia University receiving a PhD and becoming a Professor of Political Science for 34 years at William Jewell College in Liberty MO.But all work and no play is NOT how Dr. Adams lives his life - he also taught Ballroom Dancing for 43 years, led and played in several bands over the decades, was involved with many women who made such an impression there's a whole Chapter dedicated to them, and invented Board games including 102 variations of checkers and 26 variations of Chess.Dr. Adams also shares his experiences with depression and the Messianic Complex as well as his views on aging, religion, and politics.You will find this book interesting, educational, funny and sad but what you won't be...is bored

My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life.The book begins with an introduction to his family of four and the large extended family he grew up with. Many childhood memories surround that family which includes the story of starting a newspaper at a very young age with his brother, Bert, and selling out as they distributed them on their bikes.As he gets older, Dr. Adams takes the reader through his service in the Kansas National Guard as well as his days at the University of Kansas. He continued his education at Columbia University receiving a PhD and becoming a Professor of Political Science for 34 years at William Jewell College in Liberty MO.But all work and no play is NOT how Dr. Adams lives his life - he also taught Ballroom Dancing for 43 years, led and played in several bands over the decades, was involved with many women who made such an impression there's a whole Chapter dedicated to them, and invented Board games including 102 variations of checkers and 26 variations of Chess.Dr. Adams also shares his experiences with depression and the Messianic Complex as well as his views on aging, religion, and politics.You will find this book interesting, educational, funny and sad but what you won't be...is bored

A breathtaking thriller which weaves history and religion with action, adventure and apocalypse...