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The Satan Bug
978-1-4027-9253-3

Behind the locked doors of E block in the fortress-like Mordon Research Centre, a scientist lies dead, and a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished. When the first letter is delivered threatening to unleash the virus, special agent Pierre Cavell is given just 24 hours to solve the mystery of the break-in and prevent a plague-born apocalypse.

Where Eagles Dare
978-1-4027-9251-9

A team of British special forces parachutes onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their mission: To rescue a captured American general from the Castle of the Eagle before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans. As team members start to perish along the way, the true purpose of the rescue turns out to be infinitely more complicated.

Bear Island
978-1-4027-9255-7

As the
Morning Rose
ploughs through wintry Arctic seas toward Bear Island, the ship's doctor Christopher Marlowe is kept busy attending to the seasick passengers, a film unit being sent to make a film so secret that none of them knows much about it. As passengers and crew begin dying, he realizes that the
Morning Rose
has a murderer on board. Once on the island, Marlowe must contend against weather, terrain, and ruthless adversaries as events build to a brutal climax in the darkness of the Polar night.

Caravan to Vaccares
978-1-4027-9247-2

From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But at this year's gathering, people are mysteriously dying. Intrepid sleuths Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman join the caravan in order to uncover the truth behind the deaths, in the process revealing an international plot that the sinister Gaiuse Strome will stop at nothing to keep secret.

Force 10 from Navarone
978-1-4027-9249-6

The thrilling sequel to
The Guns of Navarone,
this book reunites members of the Allied team that silenced the giant guns of Navarone and sends them on a desperate bid to assist a ragtag group of Partisan forces trapped by two armoured divisions of the German army in the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia.

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