????? ‘The best thriller I have read this year, just wow!’ Martha B.Meet Paterson and Clocks. London’s most outrageous detective duo.YOU WON’T WANT TO PUT THIS DOWN, PAGE AFTER PAGE OF ACTION, DARK HUMOUR, AND CLIFFHANGERS . . .Monday morning. 8.30 a.m. Chris Striker has seen it all. But nothing like this. He’s in charge of London’s Traffic Management System. Now he stares at his screen in horror. A woman deliberately steps into the path of an oncoming lorry at Tower Bridge. Killed on impact.At the same moment, a man steps in front of a bus on London Bridge. Two other people stare at their phones, then launch themselves into the rush hour traffic.Just who — or what — is controlling them?Something about Striker’s account doesn’t add up. Detectives Paterson and Clocks race to his flat — and find the place ransacked. A note is taped to the kitchen door. One word: Retribution.Paterson and Clocks are about to encounter their most powerful enemy yet. A sinister mastermind with a frighteningly long reach. Are they about to be thrown under the proverbial bus?Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, C.J. Grayson or Martina Cole.READERS LOVE THROWN UNDER THE BUS:????? ‘A proper page-turner. My mind is literally blown! Genuinely unputdownable.’ M.????? ‘Totally hooked. Unputdownable. The most powerful book in the series.’ Booklover Bev????? ‘Unputdownable . . . Fantastic!’ Jan T.????? ‘Full of surprises.’ Carol S.????? ‘It really sucked me in . . . Action-packed and thrilling.’ Katherina M.????? ‘Oh, wow! A few pages in and I’m riveted . . . Steve certainly knows how to grab a reader’s attention.’ Misfits Farm????? ‘Impossible to put down. A real page-turner.’ Phil R.????? ‘This book grabs you by the scruff of the neck and doesn’t let you go until the end . . . One of the best books of the year.’ Diane T.THE DETECTIVESDetective Superintendent Ray Paterson is a young and (thanks to family money) wealthy womaniser. He was recently widowed under tragic circumstances. He knows he’s weak when it comes to practical policing and struggles to find a place among his peers, desperate to be a good policeman and not just a ‘climber’.Detective Inspector Johnny Clocks is a foul-mouthed, working-class officer. He grew up surrounded by rogues and villains to become a first-class thief taker with the Met police. However, his childish attitude has short-circuited his career and he spends his days antagonising as many people as he can.THE AUTHORSteve Parker is a retired police officer who served for 20 years in numerous high-profile squads.

Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega-tsunami, with waves of more than 150 feet in height, would ravage Europe, Africa, and ultimately the East Coast of the United States, causing immeasurable loss of life and destruction . . .After Professor Paul Landon, the world's most prominent geophysicist, is found with a bullet in his head, it is discovered that Ravi Rashood—America's nemesis and the former SAS officer who is now the head of Hamas—has hatched a diabolical plot against the West: to fire a nuclear-tipped guided cruise missile—Scimitar SL-2, named for the curved sword of the Muslim warrior Saladin—into Cumbre Vieja.United States Admiral Arnold Morgan, the retired National Security Adviser, and the Pentagon know it's not a joke when Rashood, accompanied once again by his wife, the Palestinian Shakira, explodes Mount St. Helens. Morgan knows something even more horrific is to come.But stopping them won't be easy.Rashood and his Hamas crew are deep in the ocean, in an undetectable sub, which he managed to procure from Russia via communist China. Perhaps worse, a new President, a weak-willed liberal in the White House, worries about taking a stand. As the terrorists' deadline approaches, the newly implemented and unseasoned National Security team must consider the unthinkable. They must assume the daunting task of organizing a mass relocation of major population centers along the East Coast to safer ground.Morgan once again finds himself at the center of a desperate cat-and-mouse chase, battling his greatest enemy yet as he races against time to locate the silent underwater marauder and stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens.With his trademark authentic research and grasp of military hardware, geopolitics, and cutting-edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale.

“A genuine blockbuster . . . With this novel, Sean Flannery takes his rightful place along such masters as Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.” —Ed Gorman, Mystery SceneThe Cold War is over—followed by a deadlier menace than the world has ever known. Its codename: Operation Homeward Bound. Deep within the KGB, a dedicated fraternity conspires to restore the power of its fragmented homeland. Brutal, power-crazed, ruthlessly efficient, these renegade agents want nothing less than the destruction of the US.To insure its mission, this sinister coterie will use every weapon available. Torture. Murder. Even the family of a US security adviser.“Not only do Flannery’s spy thrillers have the ring of truth; sometimes they become the truth. Let’s hope Moving Targets remains fiction.” —Dean Ing, New York Times–bestselling author“Full of intriguing, fully drawn characters from both sides of the old cold war . . . [A] clever and thoroughly believable painting of interagency warfare, diverted loyalties, and political confusion in our time. Quite good.” —Kirkus Reviews

Chris Hamilton's life was perfect...for a while. He has a magnificent home in the country, his own business, a wonderful daughter and a beautiful girlfriend, Sophia. His recent trip to Texas resulted in the deaths of three men, and the discovery of a long ago hidden treasure, along with its attached bad karma. He had returned to Virginia unscathed before realizing the hardest part of the game was still being played out, now he had to find a why to keep what he had found!He soon discovers his past is not only close behind him, but has been watching him the entire time. Things he thought no one knew...someone did.Millions of dollars were now at stake and when mysterious letters start to appear he finds out, vindictive lovers, unscrupulous landowners, family members, employees and even his girlfriend know far too much.When two nefarious visitors from Texas appear, all his that happened in Texas take things from bad to worse.A storm has been brewing for a while, and when it hits, it hits hard!Everything from his past explodes and comes to a convoluted climax al at once, and he soon finds out that...Mysterious things happen when there is "Snowfall in Virginia."

SET IN THE REACHER UNIVERSE BY PERMISSION OF LEE CHILD Meet Jack Reacher's genetic duplicate. And the assassins determined to track him down... Rock Wahlman: Forty-one years old, United States Navy Master at Arms, E-8, retired.Grew up in an orphanage, recently discovered that he is the product of a human cloning experiment, an exact genetic duplicate of a former Army officer named Jack Reacher.Now someone wants all evidence of the experiment to be erased, which means that someone wants Wahlman to be erased.He's on the run, desperate to survive, desperate to learn the truth about why all this is happening...This collection includes:Dead RingerMoving TargetNo EscapeNote: While the name Jack Reacher and some of the supporting characters and story situations are used with author Lee Child's permission, the Jack Reacher character remains offstage in The Reacher Experiment thrillers.

A rich, atmospheric family drama based on the still-unsolved true crime case that launched the infamous missing children ‘milk carton’ campaigns of the 1980s. The disappearance of two paperboys sets off a devastating chain of events that will change their small Midwestern town forever . . . It’s August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy’s 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship—and a ticket out of their small Iowa town. Officer Dale Goodkind can’t believe his bad luck: another town and another paperboy kidnapping. But this time he vows that it won’t go unsolved. As the abductions set in motion an unpredictable chain of violent, devastating events touching each life in unexpected ways, Dale is forced to face his own demons. Told through interwoven perspectives—and based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings in the early 1980s—The Monsters We Make deftly explores the effects of one crime exposing another and the secrets people keep hidden from friends, families, and sometimes, even themselves.