What is the connection between the resignation of SAS Captain Peter Skellen and his recruitment by the People's Lobby, a radical Libyan-backed terrorist group? What role will he play in a plan to hold VIP's hostage in London...
Adventure stories
- Author:FOLLETT, JamesSummary:
- Author:Rose, SimonSummary:
The massive explosion in which Eleanor Chamberlain died at her research laboratory was seen as a tragic accident. Or was it the perfect crime? Two years later, Jake and Lydia discover a mysterious camera, capable of taking pictures of...
- Author:BAGLEY, DesmondSummary:
Denison awakes one morning wearing another man's pyjamas and another man's face. Hair-raising adventures when the balance of power between East and West is in danger.
- Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women, priceless treasures and scandalous...
- Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
- Author:FUNKE, Cornelia CarolineSummary:
Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
At the height of the Cold War an agent is sent to Germany and meets Anna Hartmann. She is a dancer in a strip-club, a suitable lover but also a killer. Germany is experiencing a resurgence of Nazism and the agent is ready to die for...
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
Story of the search for the ancient African city of Oper, lost for over 2,000 years.
- Author:AIKEN, JoanSummary:
On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
This novel is a sequel to "When the lion feeds" and follows Sean Courtney through the Boer War and its aftermath.
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
In Melbourne, a young woman abandons her baby girl, wrapped in a shawl. The only clue to the baby's origin is the shawl's motif which links her to an ancient rock painting in the Kimberley of WA.
- Author:ANDREYEV, Leonid NikolayevichSummary:
The Seven Who Were Hanged depicts the fates of five terrorists foiled in their attack and two common peasants who have received death sentences. These condemned men are awaiting their executions by hanging. In prison, each of the...
- Author:JUNGER, SebastianSummary:
It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high - a tempest created by such a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm".
- Author:DiCamillo, KateSummary:
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him...
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
In 1941 there are rumours that the Japanese may invade New Zealand. George's mother decides to send the family to their bach on the east coast of the Coromandel. The children decide that to survive they need to fend for themselves...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
Britain is still an Empire and India still her loyal subject when Carnehan and Dravot set out for the wild northern passes "to be kings."
- Author:TOLKIEN, John R. R.Summary:
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all &#...
- Author:Rotstein, AdiraSummary:
Presenting both of Little Jane Silver's piratical adventures in one special bundle! Little Jane Silver is the granddaughter of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on her parents' ship, she vows to become a real pirate. As...
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
Craig Mellows undertakes a secret mission and the chance to return home to Zimbabwe. Under cover of writing a book he investigates ivory poaching and suspected Russian involvement to overthrow the government.
- Author:INNES, HammondSummary:
Ian Ferguson discovers that the death of his father was triggered by an SOS from the leader of a geological expedition in Labrador, supposedly killed in a plane crash. He treks to the desolate north of that country to unravel the...