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Ah so good!, 30 Aug 2014

This is Douglas's latest book featuring his lucky series character Jamie Saintclair, and it once again uses
clandestine goings-on in WWII as a launchpad.

A top Jap Admiral and the great secret he�s protecting are in a plane that ditches into the Solomon Islands in 1943. In the here and now Jamie winds up on the case, albeit indirectly, when an Aussie
billionaire sets him off on the trail. Once again, Germans are involved, and the hunt for a shrunken head leads him to Berlin and Tokyo and all points in between, where clues are leading inexorably towards a potential cataclysm.

Mix Indiana Jones into the Da Vinci Code and you get many hours of pure, thrilling… Read more

A thought-provoker, 30 Aug 2014

WHAT do you want? Drugs, maybe? Sicko porn? A way to meet like-minded suicidal types? Deal in
virtual currency? Have someone topped? Start a war? You don�t have to go far to do any of these things. Just boot up your computer, log on and away you go.

Well, not exactly. You need special software and a certain know-how to enter the Dark Net, but not that much. Jamie Bartlett has delved in and met users and abusers behind the shadowy cyberwalls to reveal a world that is at once liberating and disturbing. In the name of freedom from state interference people can do pretty much as they please, which would be a good thing if there weren�t so many victims of what anyone in the real… Read more

Gotta hand it to him..., 30 Aug 2014

If you like your historical fiction bloody, political and factually accurate � but especially bloody � Douglas Jackson is your go-to man.

His one-handed Roman warrior Valerius is back in the thick of war and intrigue in this latest outing, set in the latter days of the Year of Four Emperors, 69AD. Saved from a grim death for desertion, he�s put to work in support of the general the legions in the east have decided should be emperor, Vespasian.

Trouble is, that once again puts him at odds with the latest emperor in Rome, his pal Vitellius, a complex slob whose heart�s in the right place but whose destiny is in the wrong one. Valerius has to walk on eggshells as he… Read more