MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a trouble-making gunrunner is shot down in front of him on a lonely road in Zambia. As life slips from his grasp the arms smuggler whispers a heart-stopping warning to Sam: a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder.[...]
Children of Lucifer explores the historical origins of Satanism, the "anti-religion" that adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. Ruben van Luijk traces its development from a concept invented by the Christian church to demonize its internal and external[...]
This title comes from the bestselling author of "The Atlantis Code". A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind. Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of an[...]
This installment of the Modesty Blaise adventures finds Modesty and faithful friend Willie Garvin trying to get to the bottom of another of Seff's evil plots. When it is discovered that a disturbed young man named Lucifer has the ability to foresee the death of those around him, Seff recruits the bo[...]
In the beginning...Three brothers - Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer. Royalty. Archangels. United in devotion to their father and all his works.But when Lucifer learns of their father's latest creation - a new race, fashioned from crude matter and yet made in his image - he is consumed with resentment. [...]
In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young woman's casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins.
From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city's mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, [...]
With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life s dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami or inward at struggles with the self, these poems[...]
From the acclaimed author of "Snow Angels" comes a new novel featuring Inspector Vaara. Inspector Kari Vaara has left the Arctic Circle and returned- reluctantly-to Helsinki, where headaches and sleeplessness plague him. But he must work through the pain. He has two cases on his plate: the brutal mu[...]
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the t[...]
While searching the Sahara for the long-lost tomb of an apostle, archaeologist Finn Ryan and photographer Virgil Hilts stumble upon clues to a decades-old murder and an ancient Roman medallion bearing the name of a fallen archangel, a discovery that forces them to run for their lives. Original.[...]
This thought-provoking work by a physicist and popular science writer explores the origins of asymmetry from the molecular level to that of the universe at large. His cosmic "tour" ranges from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson and ongoing research at Switzerland's CERN l[...]
What happens to us when we die? Oblivion, or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves. But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, he wonders if he's got it all wrong. This book pre[...]
A portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the five senses, telling his version of the Bible, and discovering what it's like to be human - in the shape of a suicidal writer called Declan Gunn living in Clerkenwell.[...]
Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from the occult world to help turn the tide of war. What begins as a mission to understand Hitler's supposed astrological advice soon becomes more bizarre, w[...]
The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts. These often times serve as images of good versus evil, or order versus chaos. Flat and narrowly myopic literal readings of the bible that at times lacks for imaginatio[...]
Dr. Thomas Lourds, internationally-renowned linguist and archaeologist, has just arrived in Istanbul to lecture at the University. But before he even leaves the airport, Lourds is kidnapped and finds himself fighting for his life--and for all mankind. Deeply hidden somewhere in the city is an ancien[...]