Tom Cain

Dyret er tredje bok i den frittstående og actionfylte nåtidsserien om Hector Cross - en heseblesende og besettende actionthriller som fansen vil elske.Tidligere major i SAS, sikkerhetsekspert og enkemann Hector Cross skulle begynne et nytt liv, men havner i stedet i et vanskelig dilemma. Johnny Congo, psykopaten som drepte konen hans, har klart å flykte fra toppsikkerhetsfengselet hvor Cross fikk han innsatt. Hector kan ikke la ham unnslippe. Samtidig planlegger opprørsstyrker et terrorangrep på en oljeplattform i havet utenfor Angola. Det kan få katastrofale følger hvis ikke Hector griper inn. Nå står Hector overfor et nesten umulig valg. Og den brutale jakten blir tøffere enn Cross noensinne kunne forestille seg.«Wilbur Smith er en vår tids legendariske historiefortellere, og i Dyret er Smith i toppform … En intelligent, sofistikert thriller som suger deg inn i en verden der spillet er høyt og vinneren tar alt.» Nelson Demille

Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people. And one of Carver's targets has got away. Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism. In Texas, a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon. And Carver can do nothing to stop them.

Robert Herrick has long been one of the best loved of English lyric poets. Known through the centuries as the author of 'Gather ye rosebuds', he also wrote, as this new edition shows, hundreds of songs, epigrams and longer poems equally worthy of attention. Volume I of this new edition of Herrick's work contains Hesperides, Herrick's only published collection. As well as the commentary on Hesperides, volume II contains the fifty-nine surviving manuscript poems which can be firmly attributed to Herrick, and on which his reputation was based before 1648. It is an ambitious and original attempt to recover for the first time the history of Herrick's corpus of manuscript poetry, and to identify how his poems circulated, and who his copyists and readers were. By establishing the type of sources to which they had access and the nature and quality of the poems these sources contained, and through the histories of transmission that accompany every poem, this volume offers a significant body of evidence that deepens our critical understanding not only of Herrick's poetry, but of the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England. Where, as is often the case, a musical setting survives this is also printed, along with a commentary on the setting, in a form which is designed to encourage the performance of the lyrics.

So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on his instincts and yearsâ?? of training as the riot turns into a battleground. Someone planned this riot for political gain and now Carver â?? in the wrong place at the wrong time â?? looks like the perfect scapegoat.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Moreover, what if it was only a dry run for a bigger and even bolder attack on the financial capital of the world, the City of London?Samuel Carver is about to find himself on the biggest mission of his life.

Millions starve and opponents are flung in jail, while Gushungo and his cronies get rich on the country's rich natural resources. A powerful consortium of political and business interests offer Samuel Carver the job of enforcing regime change.

He is the most popular President in decades - which is why they want him deadWhen a people-trafficker dies a violent death in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car accident in San Francisco, both bear the hallmarks of a Sam Carver 'accident'. The only problem is Sam Carver no longer plays that game.

The Accident Man returns in a heart-stopping race to prevent a global holy war Tom Cain's The Accident Man introduced Samuel Carver-a man hired to make bad things happen-to rave reviews from critics and readers alike. Now, Carver is back in a new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., and the palaces of the French Riviera to the Arctic peaks of Norway and the war-torn Serbian countryside. Carver finds himself lying broken and damaged in a Swiss sanitarium after rescuing his lover, Alix Petrova, from her Russian spymaster. But when Alix's former employers force her to leave him and seduce an American military official, Carver emerges, shockingly and violently, as his former self-just in time to discover a Texas billionaire's messianic plot to destroy the world.

Breathlessly paced, international in scope, and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's smashing debut surprises the reader at every turn. A thriller that explores the secret of Princess Diana's death, The Accident Man imagines the man who may have killed her. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver can arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window-anything can be made to look like an accident. But when Carver is set up, betrayed, and pursued by the very forces that hired him, he must execute his most daring feat yet.

Meet the Accident Man, Samuel CarverCarver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the 'Consortium', a black-ops British government outfit, or is it?Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the identity of the target's female companion, he knows one thing - his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him.Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and The Accident Man is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes.

Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands so skilfully interwoven by Jonson, and argues for a reassessment of "Poetaster" as one of the most ideologically interesting of all early modern plays. The accompanying explanatory notes guide the reader through the personal and political illusions which gave the play its immediate satirical impact.