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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Andrew Towning
Jake Dillon, in his inaugural adventure thriller, is brought into the headquarters of Ferran & Cardini under the pretense of investigating a Cabinet Minister's sunken cruiser and its compromising cargo. At the bottom of the English Channel, not far from Sandbanks, Jake and his team find more than they bargained for! Entwined within the brief of keeping the Cabinet Minster's reputation intact is a dangerous operation to pass off a deal with the Sicilian Mafia. Jake puts his life on the line once again to go beyond the call of duty to protect more than just a minister's public image! While based in Sandbanks Jake's investigations bring him face to face with a generation of hate-fuelled revenge, greed and international drug deals that operate under a covert cloak of respectability. Calling in favours and using the best of his well-established contacts Jake starts to see beyond the brief. Partnered with his highly able colleague Vince Sharp and also seemingly 'landed' with agent Fiona Price, who has her own agenda that unfolds with every turn of this action-packed novel, Jake makes progress that unnerves even his stony-faced employers. The action bounds by land and sea, the length of the UK to the Balearics and Africa... Can the drug barons in Dorset force Jake's hand and how long will it take before the stench of blackmail and murder cloud every lead, leaving the ex-army intelligence officer wondering who he can trust within his undercover lair - if in fact anyone? This epic thriller sees the true colours the KGB, greed, the Sicilian Mafia, international drug cartels, the Bosnian conflict, duplicitous forgery and ultimately blackmail at the highest level!
From the Author of, 'The Constantine Legacy ', Shroud of Concealment and The Chimera Code. Andrew Towning once again brings together an action packed cliffhanger that moves at a relentless pace! This second edition (re-proofed and edited) of Dead Men Don't Bite is composed with intrigue, suspense and larger-than-life characters. Dead Men Don't Bite, sees Jake Dillon recalled back to London after a covert operation in Cuba by his stalwart boss, Edward Levenson-Jones. The order has come from former Prime Minister, Sir Lucius Stagg because an international crisis is looming. The wreck of a World War Two Nazi U-boat has been discovered in a subterranean cavern on the treacherous northern coast of the Channel Island of Jersey. It's exact location remains a mystery, as the man who made the discovery is deliberately mowed down on a crossing by a hit and run driver, leaving him in a deep coma. In the U-boat is Nazi gold bullion and the Spear of Destiny along with other long forgotten secrets. The Spear - a mystical spearhead, that has been chronicled throughout history, which Hitler believed bestowed upon him the power to be undefeated in battle. Dillon works tirelessly against the clock to find the U-boat, but French billionaire Hugo Malakoff wants to stop Dillon recovering the spear for H.M. Government, he wants to claim it and its untold powers for himself. Malakoff is a fanatical fascist, obsessed by power and the deluded vision of a New World Order. Sweeping from London to Jersey and back with ever-growing momentum, Dead Men Don't Bite brings together a remarkable set of heroes and villains in the most desperate struggle of their lives. It is a complex, brilliantly executed story of highly-explosive secrets, wartime betrayal and extreme danger above and below water.
Strip back the first engaging layer of Powder Diamonds - and find yourself immersed in yet another stratum of dark drug dealings on an international scale. Dillon confronts an old demon that pushes him towards answers that some, on both sides of justice, may not want him to answer A lover of old, an unsatisfactory verdict of misadventure and today; enter two dealers who have the UK cocaine market in their pockets. From a Hong Kong prison, half of the deathly pair is released to return to Sandbanks on the UK's beautiful south coast. Just one last deal? Maybe? Literally But even thugs have conscience and emotions it seems when the consignment reveals unexpected cargo. Mid-level operators wreak chaos and bloody death throughout Europe as the deal speeds towards an international catastrophe. Where are the secrets coming from that are making their way into North Korea?It is up to Dillon, his Swedish side-kick, and the team at Ferran & Cardini, old and new, to stop the influx of white poison onto UK streets, to save the lives of the kidnapped in darkest Dorset and to expose the international corruption that has seeped in from the very top...Dillon's past, his emotions and an unstoppable desire for the truth navigates his edge-of-life journey through this latest assignment, and puts Dillon face to face with international espionage, duplicitous drug deals, kidnap and sexual encounter... Gripping, only as one would expect from Towning
The Cutter: The Sixth in the Jake Dillon Series of Crime Thrillers
Andrew Towning
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Towning has taken ex-army intelligence officer Jake Dillon to a new level in The Cutter, the sixth in his Dillon crime thriller series."Dillon is summoned from a year-long sabbatical by new head of Ferran & Cardini International operations, Brodie Stevens, he is pushed to extremes of emotion and endurance in a fight for justice and truth, the bloody picture of beauty and greed that can only be painted by a black conflict diamond.Thrown into a living nightmare of theft, lies and torture by an incestuous web of diamond dealers, each with far more to hide than just their invisible sources and ill-gotten bounty. Back in 2000 the mutilated bodies of two eminent diamond cutters are found in their respected Venice gallery. An unspeakably heinous crime had been committed - what of the motive, what of the murderer? Dillon's pain palpable, and failure - a failure that cost his closest ally her life.Today Jake Dillon is called by Stevens to the scene of the torture, murder and meticulous mutilation of a London diamond merchant. Should he take on the lost battle of 15-years ago, or walk away? The only prize Dillon understands is justice and retribution - his methods unorthodox and unforgiving. From London and Venice to New York, Sierra Leone and Sandbanks Dillon hunts for the truth and the prize that he has waited fifteen years to claim."
Tide Runner: The Seventh in the Jake Dillon Series of Crime Thrillers
Andrew Towning
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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The seventh exciting assignment in the Jake Dillon Crime Thriller series. A contract killer is executed by garrotte, his body thrown into the English Channel from the boat transporting him to the UK. A Guernsey man whose complicity is driven solely to get enough money together to send his seriously ill daughter to Switzerland for life saving treatment. A billionaire who disappears into thin air but is held captive at his chateau in the Bretagne area of northern France. An Italian Interpol officer on the trail of corruption and murder who has romantic aspirations for Dillon.From Poole Harbour to the British Channel island of Guernsey. Dillon embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous assignments of his career. He discovers that his targets are no small-time criminals but ruthless men trafficking people, who will stop at nothing to protect a sinister secret and their fanatical fascist conspiracy to overthrow the British Government.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew passed over the city of Homestead, Florida, and changed the lives of the residents that lived there. Wayne Stover, a thirtysomething single man, was caught up in the category 5 hurricane. Thankful for his life being spared, Wayne wants to give back to the community. He also wants the change in the air to bring change to him. His life's pattern is as a journeyman philosopher, he is unable to focus his desire and talents to achieve anything productive. Wayne finds out that there are many lessons and perils to learn on the rooftops repairing the damage from the hurricane. Wayne has a burning feeling inside him that he was meant for something significant. His privileged upbringing and wide experiences as an American youth growing up in Europe should not be wasted. He is tormented by the thoughts of his father's wishes for him. Wayne's father is a great and accomplished man Wayne loves and respects as a mentor. However, he is unable to please his father. It is written in the Bible that Andrew approached Jesus and asked Jesus to teach him. Jesus said, "Come with me, and we will change the world." That is all that Wayne wants, in some small way to change the world.
Andrew Watson was the first black footballer in the UK. Find out how he reached this position and what life was like for professional footballers in 1870 in this biography of the sportsman by Adam Sunderland. Collins Big Cat Progress books are specifically designed for children at Key Stage 2 who have a Key Stage 1 reading level, giving them age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence and fostering positive attitudes towards reading.Text type: A biographyCurriculum links: History, P.EThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
By "the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time" (New York Times), the critically acclaimed and most concise biography of Andrew Jackson that takes a comprehensive look at the political, personal, and military life of the seventh president of the United States.
"A revelation. No one will ever view Andrew Wyeth's apparently tranquil works the same way again after reading this vivid and astonishing portrait of the turbulent, driven man who paints them. Richard Meryman has written a wonderful book." - Geoffrey C. Ward At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his identification with people marginalized and misunderstood -- all which have made him an American icon. In the process, his realist works in watercolor and tempera, including the famous "Christina's World," have gained him a special and secure niche in the history of American art. The book is a portrait of obsession -- how single-mindedness has affected Wyeth's relationships and transformed his world into a realm of secrecy and fervid imagination. Those who read this book will never look at Wyeth's work as they did before. It reveals the artist's dark depths, as well as the ruthless, angry, child/man fantasist who paints the basic brutalities of existence -- death and madness --that vibrate eerily beneath his pictures' calm surfaces. Richard Meryman's narrative is almost novelistic, with its larger-than-life characters and subplots: the tragedy of C.C. Wyeth; Betsy Wyeth's campaign for independence and individuality; the byzantine 15-year-long drama of the Helga paintings; the eccentric and creative Wyeth clan; and the idiosyncratic land and people of Maine and Pennsylvania. Based on 30 years of research, frequent visits and countless conversations with the artist, his family, friends, admirers and critics, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life is the only book about the man and the artist that gets behind his carefully guarded screen, tells the full story of his life and reveals his complex personality and the motivations for his paintings.
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists—in what will prove to be the biography of the season.Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public—a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism—Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma.Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.With a trove of new material—unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain—Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this facinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can.