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Thrillers (also Horror & War fiction)

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9781742373102

The Best of John Buchan : Three rip-roaring Richard Hannay thrillers :The Thirty-nine Steps / Greenmantle / Mr Standfast

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: John Buchan

Published by: Crows Nest Books

For thriller fans who have fought the Boche with Richard Hannay before, this collection puts you right back in the firing line, and for anyone who's used to seeing their secret agents weighed down by gadgets and gizmos, Hannay shows you how a real man survives with just skill, determination and sheer guts.
Long before James Bond was born, the man of action to whom His Majesty's Government turned when there was a devious espionage ring to be infiltrated, or an evil international super-spy to be brought to justice, was Richard Hannay. The most famous fictional creation of author, politician and statesman John Buchan, Hannay averted disaster for king and country on many occasions, in the process being hounded by ruthless villains from Scotland to the Swiss Alps and the wilds of Turkey. Together in this one volume are his three thrilling First World War adventures. In The Thirty-Nine Steps Hannay first becomes involved in the skulduggery ... more

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9780593060261

Long Time Coming

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NZ$ 39.00 each

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Author: Robert Goddard

Published by: Bantam Press

Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. He won’t reveal any of the details of his incarceration, insisting only that he is innocent of any crime.

His return should be of interest to no-one. But the visit of a solicitor with a mysterious request will take Eldritch and his sceptical nephew fromsleepy seaside Paignton to London, where an exhibition of Picasso paintings from the prestigious Brownlow collection proves to be the starting point on a journey that will transport them back to the Second World War and the mystery behind Eldritch’s imprisonment.

In 1940, he was personal assistant to a wealthy diamond dealer in Antwerp, whose collection of modern art was the envy of many. The subsequent disappearance of those paintings began a trail of murder and intrigue which was to have a catastrophic ... more

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9781847394620

Always the Sun

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NZ$ 27.00 each

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Author: Neil Cross

Published by: Pocket Books

What do you do when your son is bullied? How far will you go to protect him from those who seek to cause him harm?

Jamie is thirteen years old, an only child. His mother has recently died. He and his father Sam have moved to Sam's home town. A fresh start. An aunt to lend support. A new job for Sam, a new school for Jamie. But one day Jamie comes home, bearing the scars of every parent's nightmare. Something must be done...
So it begins.

First published 2004.

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9780330509909

Jackdaws

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NZ$ 28.00 each

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Author: Ken Follett

Published by: Pan Books

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail. From the master storyteller and best-selling author of "Eye of the Needle" and "Code to Zero" comes the new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. "Jackdaws" is an irresistible novel of the Resistance and of love, courage and revenge.

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9781847249951

Present Danger

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Stella Rimington

Published by: Quercus

MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents - her favourite activity - but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend. Attachments in the Intelligence Services are not encouraged: it seems her superiors know more about Liz's life than she thinks. In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their 'war'. Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity, with links to drug-running, arms-dealing and organised crime. With some help from Special Branch and a volunteer informant who seems to be legit, the Fraternity's leader is identified as a cold, calculating and ruthless American, hijacking the Cause for his own financial ends. It is a perilous group to become involved with. Especially if your ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780340992579

Under the Dome : A novel

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NZ$ 40.00 each

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Author: Stephen King

Published by: Hodder Paperback

Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he's ever conjured. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as 'the dome' comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet, teams up with a few intrepid citizens against the town's corrupt politician. But time, under the dome, is running out...UNDER THE DOME is King at his epic best and will capture a brand new readership as well as thrilling his existing fans.
Review: 'Spooky, mysterious, gripping and ... more

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9780007303663

The Law of Nines

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NZ$ 38.00 each

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Author: Terry Goodkind

Published by: Harper Collins

They watch you through mirrors…
'Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you're twenty-seven, and it's come to you.'
The skin of Alex's arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother....
Turning 27 may be terrifying for some, but for Alexander, a struggling artist in small-town Nebraska, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land in Maine should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him - and everyone he loves - into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence...
Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom?
In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of thriller.

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9780007323951

Dracula : The Un-dead

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt

Published by: Harper Collins

The official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family. The story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London's famous Lyceum Theatre. The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role. Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he's always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780099536994

The Associate

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NZ$ 27.00 each

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Author: John Grisham

Published by: Arrow Books

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good looking, has a brilliant mind
and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his
fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life.
One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley -- they have a deeply
compromising video of the incident that haunts him. The men make it clear to Kyle that he no longer owns his
own future -- that he must do as they tell him, or the video will be made public knowledge, with all the
unpleasant consequences.
What price do they demand for Kyle’s secret? Strangely, it is for Kyle to do exactly what any ambitious young
lawyer would want to do: take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world , a job that
is incredibly well paid and, with mammoth hours and outrageous billing, could lead to ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780330424981

Without Warning

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NZ$ 25.00 each

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Author: John Birmingham

Published by: Pan Australia

2003: In Paris, an assassin wakes from a coma. In Kuwait, American forces are assembled for their invasion of Iraq. In the pristine forest of the Cascades, a lone hiker watches a plane fly into the side of a mountain. And just north of the equator, a modern-day pirate, a rogue Tasmanian, is witness to the unspeakable. A wave of inexplicable energy has slammed into America - and destroyed it. In one instant, all around the world, from Cairo to Canberra, things will never be the same. Now, allied soldiers are fighting a war without command; a correspondent files a story for a newspaper that no longer exists. The line of Presidential succession is in tatters; the functioning remnants of government are in Pearl Harbor, Guantanamo Bay, and one desperate, isolated corner of the Pacific Northwest. Without Warning tells a fast, furious story of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality. Here is a world without its sheriff, its ... more

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9781847442673

Or She Dies

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NZ$ 38.00 each

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Author: Gregg Hurwitz

Published by: Little, Brown

First Patrick receives DVDs in the post. They show footage of him and his wife washing, dressing, going to work - all taken by cameras hidden in his house. Someone is out to get him. And then the emails start arriving: Tell No One Go Alone OR SHE DIES Patrick's life is turned upside down. Suddenly, this is a matter of life and death. He must follow the instructions on the email if he is to survive...

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780552159340

Taking of Pelham 123

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Author: John Godey

Published by: Corgi

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781869791797

Blood Bond

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Michael Green

Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd

What happens if your family is the last left alive? The Chatfield family - half living in the UK, the other in New Zealand - found out the stark realities of survival after a deadly pandemic swept across the world. Now escaping the repressive regime at Haver Hall in the UK, a group sails back to the southern hemisphere.Stopping in South Africa and then Australia, they are faced by unexpected dangers but also the hope thatthere might be other survivors. What awaits them in New Zealand, though, is even more challenging. And canthose left in the UK survive each other? An exciting page-turner that keeps surprising . . . up to the last page.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780718155278

The Defector

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Daniel Silva

Published by: Michael Joseph

Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is desperately trying to resume a quieter life in secluded Umbria with his new wife, Chiara, when shocking news reaches him. The Russian defector who recently saved his life in Moscow Rules has vanished without a trace. British intelligence suspect the defector was always a double agent, but Allon is convinced otherwise. To discover the truth and clear his name, he must go immediately to London - a decision that will prove to be the most fateful of his career.
There, Allon uncovers a deadly conspiracy, a plot laid by his old enemy Ivan Kharkov - Russian millionaire and arms dealer - to resurrect a network of death and bring the world to the precipice of a new confrontation, but above all to seek his revenge against Allon. In order to stop him, Allon must risk everything - his honour, his loyalty to an organization he has served since his youth, his new marriage ... even his life.
The Defector is ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780733624254

A Most Wanted Man

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NZ$ 30.00 each

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Author: John le Carre

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he?
He says his name is Issa.
Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents.

Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a ... more

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