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Sheepdogs
TWO MISFITS.ONE MISSION.ZERO BACK-UP.WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?'You know Slow Horses - now meet the Sheepdogs . . . glorious . . . hilarious' SUNDAY TIMES'A rollicking military-adjacent adventure . . . replete with jet-setting paramilitary types, secret meetings at the highest level of government and firefights, with some rough sex and women in peril added for good measure' WASHINGTON POSTSkwerl and Cheese are down on their luck after being screwed over by the US military. Skwerl used to work for the CIA's elite paramilitary wing until he was unceremoniously fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a legendary Afghan pilot also formerly employed by the CIA, is stuck working the graveyard shift at the local gas station.Armed with a ton of unique and not obviously useful skills for peacetime living, both are recruited into a shadowy network of so-called 'sheepdogs' working jobs for an anonymous dispatcher.Their first mission? To repossess a luxury private jet stranded on a remote Ugandan airfield. Their fee: a cut of the jet's $5 million value. But nothing about the job adds up. Their contact vanishes. Their handler's motives are suspect. And when the women in their lives get involved - one pregnant wife and one dominatrix - the stakes skyrocket overnight.From the jungles of Kampala to the glitz of Marseille, Sheepdogs is a sly, hilarious, action-packed thriller introducing an instantly iconic spy duo. Operating in the moral grey zone between predator and prey, this is a wild ride through the absurd underworld of war and intelligence.'Skwerl, Cheese, Dickhead Mike, the White Russian - these characters are totally addictive. I couldn't put Sheepdogs down. A thriller and comedy in one, it's a wild ride' HARLAN COBEN'Sheepdogs is the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. With a perfect blend of action and humor, I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down until I'd finished . . . an absolute gem of a novel' KEVIN POWERS
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Antihero
THE INCREDIBLE ELEVENTH BOOK IN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN-X SERIES - GUARANTEED TO THRILL YOU FROM PAGE ONE . . . Praise for the Orphan X series'Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense' HARLAN COBEN'Feels like a missile launch' DAVID BALDACCI'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD'Weapons-grade thriller writing' GUARDIAN'An immensely entertaining adventure' THE TIMES'Makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint' THE SUN'The action never stops' EXPRESS---Two problems: A tech-billionaire whose psychological crisis could have catastrophic implications for the global order. And the abduction of vulnerable young woman, Anca, seized from the New York City Subway, held, hurt, then discarded like trash.One solution: Evan Smoak, a former black ops assassin codenamed Orphan X, now dedicated to helping the desperate with nowhere else to turn.But saving the world from a powerful man who has lost his mind while pursuing justice for an innocent survivor will test Evan like never before. Especially when complicated by Anca's inconvenient insistence that he show some measure of mercy to the men who abducted her.Because if the world's greatest assassin cannot kill, then this mission just got a whole lot more daunting and dangerous.As lethal threats mount, Evan may have to choose between upholding a higher code . . . and his own life.
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Clown Town
The Thriller for Our Chaotic Times (Slough House Thriller 9)The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron
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The Collaborators
An exhilarating debut spy thriller, packed with explosive action and up-to-the-minute tradecraftA brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA in this electrifying, globetrotting spy thriller.
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Slow Horses
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 1)The first book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)
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Midnight and Blue
The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller - 'Unmissable' (Mick Herron)The highly anticipated brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin
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Dead Lions
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)Dead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)
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Fight Me
A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes
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Hotel Ukraine
The final Arkady Renko novel, from one of the undisputed masters of the political thrillerThe riveting final Arkady Renko thriller, for fans of Robert Harris, Ken Follett and Philip Kerr.
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The Missing Family
Fiendishly serpentine and utterly compulsive – I am a huge fan of the Raker mysteries
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Sheepdogs
TWO MISFITS.ONE MISSION.ZERO BACK-UP.WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?'You know Slow Horses - now meet the Sheepdogs . . . glorious . . . hilarious' SUNDAY TIMES'A rollicking military-adjacent adventure . . . replete with jet-setting paramilitary types, secret meetings at the highest level of government and firefights, with some rough sex and women in peril added for good measure' WASHINGTON POSTSkwerl and Cheese are down on their luck after being screwed over by the US military. Skwerl used to work for the CIA's elite paramilitary wing until he was unceremoniously fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a legendary Afghan pilot also formerly employed by the CIA, is stuck working the graveyard shift at the local gas station.Armed with a ton of unique and not obviously useful skills for peacetime living, both are recruited into a shadowy network of so-called 'sheepdogs' working jobs for an anonymous dispatcher.Their first mission? To repossess a luxury private jet stranded on a remote Ugandan airfield. Their fee: a cut of the jet's $5 million value. But nothing about the job adds up. Their contact vanishes. Their handler's motives are suspect. And when the women in their lives get involved - one pregnant wife and one dominatrix - the stakes skyrocket overnight.From the jungles of Kampala to the glitz of Marseille, Sheepdogs is a sly, hilarious, action-packed thriller introducing an instantly iconic spy duo. Operating in the moral grey zone between predator and prey, this is a wild ride through the absurd underworld of war and intelligence.'Skwerl, Cheese, Dickhead Mike, the White Russian - these characters are totally addictive. I couldn't put Sheepdogs down. A thriller and comedy in one, it's a wild ride' HARLAN COBEN'Sheepdogs is the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. With a perfect blend of action and humor, I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down until I'd finished . . . an absolute gem of a novel' KEVIN POWERS
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April in Spain
A Strafford and Quirke Murder MysteryIrresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.
€ 13,95