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There're odd things afoot in Thornaby, again. Rips in the very fabric of time are leaving bewildered people hours out of sync with their lives, and Lawrence gets mugged by cavemen. Then there's the strange nightly rumblings beneath the town - some say it's the sound of a ghost train...More importantly, for Arthur at least, is the fact that he still hasn't got off with Gwen. Arthur and Lawrence embark on an adventure more perplexing than any of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's - can their detective ancestry (or something) help them crack the case? ... Read more

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It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor-sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years, man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted..."The effectiveness of the gruesome set pieces and brilliant finale are all its own" - "Sunday Times". ... Read more

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Maizie and her husband, Sam, run the Paris Hotel in Coverack, Cornwall, but when World War II starts Sam joins up and leaves Maizie to run the hotel. Struggling to keep the hotel going, Maizie is further troubled when she takes on Rosemary and Bobby, two evacuees from Plymouth but after a difficult start the children settle in and Maizie, who wants a family, enjoys their company. Her happiness is further enhanced with the arrival of the attractive Christain Le Gall, a French soldier wounded at Dunkirk, who comes to stay at the hotel whilst on leave. But this happiness doesn't last - the explosion of a bomb causes physical and emotional devastation and Maizie discovers that Sam, a rough man who beats her, has also been abusing Rosemary. Maizie, torn between her duty as a wife and her love for Christian, realizes she is unable to leave Sam and tells Christian she is unable to run away with him. Christian, heartbroken, returns to France. But Maizie, now pregnant, still loves him. Will she find happiness again? ... Read more

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Good book set in World War Two Cornwall
Maizie Blackare is a woman living in Cornwall, running the family hotel while her husband Sam is in the merchant navy. Christian Le Gall is stilling recovery wounds he recieved at Dunkirk. He decideds to travel to the Hotel Paris where he meets Maizie and dispite her being married these two lonely people fall in love.
"Wild Strawberries" by Emma Blair, is different to the location, but the story line is pretty much the same. As before Ms. Blair gives good the reader a good pace to the book that holds the reader interest. The characers and plot are interesting,wanting the reader find out what happens in the end. Overall "Wild Strawberris is a good book that Ms. Blair fans or newcomers will want to read. ... Read more

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Maggot's gran is upset when her fiance, the explorer Jack Dash, stands her up at the altar. All she can find at his farm is the last bucket of mushrooms he picked with the words "help me" carved on the side. Maggot is suspicious as Jack has also left behind his treasured African spitting-pot. ... Read more

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In the flamboyant Twenties, Englishman William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist were fierce rivals racing their elegant Bugattis on the glittering European race circuits. Not only is the World Championship in their sights, but they have both fallen for the sensuous charms of the extravagantly beautiful Eve Aubicq. But when war breaks out, everything changes. Paris is in the iron-grip of German occupation and Robert and William join the Special Operations Executive to help the French Resistance undermine the brutal occupying regime. Their missions involve utmost courage and daring in the face of the horrors of war. Based on a true story of British covert activity and the French Resistance during the Second World War, this is a gripping novel of heroism, self-sacrifice, love and betrayal. ... Read more

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A Superb gripping read
This book was just excellent.I could not put it down and got very involved with the characters.A compassionate, enthralling novel which is based on a true story.This made it even more enthralling.It is based during WW2 but whether you love or hate war books you will love this book. ... Read more

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"Breathless action ...Explosive stuff" was the "Mirror's" summing up of Matthew Reilly's third - and previous - novel "AREA 7", the second to feature his unstoppable new protagonist, Captain Shane M. Schofield, USMC - a legend for our times. Lieutenant 'Scarecrow' Schofield first burst across international consciousness with Reilly's second novel "Ice Station", an extraordinary tour-de-force from a young Australian author still in his mid-twenties. He is now a best-seller in every continent. A keen movie-goer, this author aims for filmic speed of pace, a rip-roaringly original story, non-stop action and thrills and adventure, with all of these in exotic settings. His ongoing ambition is to reinvent what he already does so brilliantly - and take the action thriller up to the next level. ... Read more

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The black rats return
This is the third book in Herberts Rats trilogy (The Rats being first and Lair second) and this time a new twist is added to the story: a nuclear holocaust.

The first few chapters are very gripping and brilliant as the book starts out wit London being hit and destroyed by 5 nuclear bombs. Few lucky survivors manage to stay alive by getting to shelters of the London Underground before they are distroyed the the bombs and their devistating aftermath.

Once the bombs are over and all has settles, some people return to the streets or come out of hiding, only to succumb to the horrific effects of radiation poisoning as after the bombs highly radioactive nuclear ashes fall and the streets wont be safe for at least four weeks.

Culver is protected by a partically falling building from the damage by the bombs and manages to get into a governemnt shelter - along with a blind government agent who he happened to be with at the time - in the little time they have before they radioactive ashes fall to earth.

However, our survivours are not as lucky as they think as they find themselves being brutally attacked and killed by killer black rats, who have lived underground since the events of Lair, but now that their home has bee invaded they are back with a vengeance. Now nowhere is safe Culver and the other survivours as they cannot go above ground for the radiation and are trapped with the Rats underground.

I really loved this book and didnt want it to end. Even though it's almost 500 pages it is a quick read as it's so addictove you find it very difficult to put down.

Reccomended to fans of the rats books, James Herbert, or horror in general.

LotsaRats In Post WW3 London!!!They're Pretty Scary Too!!!
Once again James Herbert delivers the goods in this novel about Post World War 3 London. The author introduces the reader to Alex Dealy, the Civil Servant and loner Steve Culver who take refuge in an underground Nuclear Fall Out Shelter.All is well at first in this microcosm of Society which exists in the Shelter but tensions soon arises between individuals as they all have different expectations of what their lives should be post WW3.What is even worse is that is appears that 'Super Rats" have taken over the streets of London which is discovered when a group of survivors leave the safetyof the Shelter to explore whatis happening at street level. This novel is compulsive reading for anybody who likes their Horror well written and believable.

Herbert's best book never - a masterpiece!
This is James Herbert's best book ever and one of the best horror novels ever written. WWIII erupts over London and the survivors hide below the destroyed capital and away from the radiation. But below, the huge, mutant rats wate for them. Man's final struggle with these killers is the basis for this awesome novel. The action, suspense, gore and horror is incredible. What a book!

Great Story by a Horror Classic Author!
This book was such a great guilty pleasure to read, I didn't want it to end. A nuclear attack on London forces survivors to take refuge under the streets in the subways and fallout shelters, little do they realize...there are large mutant flesh eating rats searching for food!. Scary/gory (B) movie fun ensues. Flawed in parts but great in others, what a powerful beginning!, hooks you in the first few pages and moves along like a freight train to it's shudder inducing climax.

Rats Trilogy goes out with a winner.
Domain is a truly disturbing Cold War era disaster thriller.WWIII breaks out and, in a spine tingling opening, London is flattened by a nuclear bomb.As survivors as well as the walking dead (i.e. those suffering from the slow death of radiation poisoning) struggle out of the rubble, the giant rats once again arise to feed.

In this final entry in the rats saga, bestselling British horror novelist James Herbert expertly combines the then popular post apocalyptic survival yarn with the standard rats action for a truly awesome read.His vignette narrative style is perfectly suited for the location hopping that the epic scope of the story calls for.One chapter in particular, concerning a survivor in a sealed off bomb shelter with a most unwelcome cat for a companion, has been reprinted as a short story in several horror anthologies.Even if you have not read the previous entries, and, considering that the rats themselves are the only returning characters, you don't need to, any fan of action laced horror will find something to enjoy here.Herbert was at the height of his game with this novel and I give it my highest recommendation. ... Read more

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A "Blake's 7" science-fiction adventure in which Avon and his crew decide to make one last planetary raid. If they take over the wealthy planet Syndexia, they could negotiate with the Federation, gain protection and settle down. But they discover that Servalan, their arch-enemy, is ahead of them. ... Read more

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Secretly funded by Moscow, out of the savagery of the Paris barricades was born the most sinister of all the terrorist groups of the 1960's. The challenge for Nick Ryder of Special Branch is to find and infiltrate the cell. From the author of REQUIEM and DECEIT. ... Read more

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Hackneyed plot
I have been fascinated by Clare Francis after following her round the world sailing feat and subsequent battle with chronic fatigue syndrome.I thoroughly enjoyed her first book Night Sky but found Red Crystal to be far fetched and hard to generate any empathy for the characters.Am currently reading Deceit and find this very slow going.I wish she would go back to writing about sailing. ... Read more

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In this sequel to Alistair MacLean's "Navarone" books, Mallory, Miller and Andrea are sent on Operation Storm Force - a mission through occupied France to a supposedly neutral Spain, to disable the "Werwolf" U-boats. The Storm Force have less than six days to locate the submarines and destroy them. ... Read more

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Continuing the Navarone adventure
I have read this book several times, after noticing it in a book shop, the title Navarone caught my eye, as I realised Alistair McLean is actually dead. Sam LLewelyn has carried on the adventures of Captain Keith Mallory, Dusty Miller, and Andrea Stavros of the SOE, through another European theatre of war, the pyrenees of France and Spain, it naturally led on from Force 10, set in Yugoslavia, into another mission, this time to track down two 'Wulfe'(Wolf) class German submarines, damaged by allied bombs and subsequently taking refuge in supposedly neutral Spain and the SOE team's job to destroy them.The adventure that ensued is probably the closest anyone could get to Mclean's style of writing, the characters were brought back to life and the plot as intelligently thought out as McLean's.I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am currently trying to find a new copy as mine was stolen.I believe that any McLean fan would enjoy this story as much as the originals.

Do not try to imitate something so great as MacLean!!
Imagine the thrill you must feel, picking up a new book by your favorite authou now long gone. You open the book, but after the first chapter, you are utterly disappointed.Sam Llewelyn has abused the good name and memory of Alistair Maclean to his own profits by trying to imitate one of the worlds greatest writers in crime and suspence.There are no points in the book, they are never shocking like the finalé in "Where Eagles Dare", and there is no suspence, since all they do are run from Germans.And to make the Germans shoot people just to get some sort of effect is also abusing the way MacLean wrote his novels. Stay away from this book, but if you want to read the horror to yourself, pleace, borrow it on the library, so you don't have to spend money on that attrap. ... Read more

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Saint Saga #20
Three novellas, from the time just before WWII when the Saint was still living in London at Cornwall House.

"The Miracle Tea Party" details what happens when Simon opens a packet of tea he has chanced upon, and finds it stuffed full of fifty pound notes.

"The Invisible Millionaire" has him investigating a murder mystery.

And finally, we have "The Affair of Hogsbotham".I've never met anyone named Hogsbotham (although my grandmother apparently went out with someone -- fortunately not my grandfather -- named Shufflebotham).Nonetheless, the pronouncements of a character of this name ("and with a face to match", according to Simon) are what lead the Saint unexpectedly into the third adventure, involving a bank robbery.

Patricia Holm and Simon's faithful manservant Orace figure prominently, having of course both been with him since the very first Saint adventure, Meet the Tiger.And for those who have (perhaps) wondered what happened to some of the other characters in that opus: a close reading reveals that the "moribund aunt" that Pat has to meet in the last story can only be Aunt Agatha.

I find myself re-reading the middle story less often than the others (although I'm not quite sure why), but the other two are well up to the usual Charteris standard of this period.

P.S. For a list of -- and discussion of -- all Charteris's Saint books, see my So You'd Like To... Guide.

3 Rollicking Stories typical of the Saint
The Miracle Tea Party -- classic Saint and Teal
The Invisible Millionaire -- classic Hoppy Uniatz
The Affair of Hogsbotham -- Simon and Patricia

Copyright 1938, this is a fun set of stories about the irreverent hero that is so much more fun than any TV or Movies made of Saint stories.Somehow Charteris is at his best with the short or medium-length Saint stories, and these are typical. ... Read more

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The battle between Satan and human beings began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day. Running conflicts between Christians and the dark lords perfected the skill and cunning of mankind’s most dreaded enemies as the pages of history steadily advanced. The endless acts of madness and insanity that broadcast themselves through everything from the major media to neighborhood conversations continually reveal that Satan and his demonic legions have indeed crowned themselves in the knighthood of evil.

The imminent emergence of the third Elijah and the dwindling time that precedes the Second Coming of Jesus will escalate the battle to its climactic conclusion. Your survival will largely depend on your ability to learn to battle the evil monstrosities that will seek the destruction of all mankind—an ability that can only come through the knowledge provided by God. Neutrality and indifference will not protect you. In the years that remain prior to the Second Coming of Jesus, nature and many human beings will seemingly go insane as the evil ones throw every last desperate punch. It will indeed be a time of fear and dread such as has never been seen in the history of mankind. ... Read more

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The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating off-spring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to "The Lair". Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh ...'Not for the nervous' - "Daily Mirror". ... Read more