This is the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, through Israel's five wars, up to the present, with a new chapter updating the book through the Gulf War. Highly readable and exhaustively researched, it provides the [...]
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives for ever.[...]
She is a single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger, the daughter of a Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He is a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee. Meghan McCain an[...]
"Into the Black" begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world--they were the biggest "rock" band in the world, p[...]
Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John Rebus knows that his superiors would rather he let sleeping dogs lie. He knows [...]
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most hu[...]
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together [...]
Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big. As if this wasn't enough, there are TV cameras at hi[...]
Since 1986 the multi-role swing-wing Panavia Tornado has been the cornerstone of the RAF's jet fighter and bomber forces, designed to intercept Cold War Soviet bombers and drop conventional and nuclear weapons on invading Warsaw Pact forces. RAF Tornados have seen action in both Gulf Wars, over Koso[...]
The Tenth Karmapa Choying Dorje (1604-1674) was not only leader of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism but also famous as a great artistic innovator. One of the most original and eccentric figures in the history of Tibetan art, he combined different compositional and figural models as well a[...]
Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big. As if this wasn't enough, there are TV cameras at hi[...]
""You're not doing it right.""Michael Ian Black has been hearing these five words all his life. And now--on the eve of his fortieth birthday--he is finally beginning to wonder why. . . . As a husband and father living in the suburbs, Michael asks the question so many of us ask ourselves at one point[...]
A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]
A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed ?Johnny Bible.? And a reopened investigation that doesn't bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus's Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he's got to tie up the loos[...]
A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]
A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn t bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus s Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is riddled with trouble. Now he s got to tie up the loose [...]
In Rankin, you cannot go wrong. "The Boston Globe" A superior series. "The New York Times Book Review" Reading Ian Rankin] is like watching somebody juggle a dozen bottles of single malt without spilling a drop. "Kirkus Reviews" (starred review) Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh [...]
The final chapter of Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood s in-depth coverage of Metallica details the latter half of the band s extraordinary, decades-long career.The second volume of Metallica s definitive biography opens as the band breaks through to mainstream with its fifth album, "Metallica" (a.k.a.[...]
First entering service in 1960 with the US military, the F-4 Phantom remained at the forefront of US air power throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It saw extensive action during the Vietnam War as the principal air superiority fighter for both the US Navy and Air Force, as well as in the ground-attack a[...]