'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, still bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, murder miles becoming estate agents' dreams, accents changing, towers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and animals of varying exoticism roam free through its streets; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events. Views: 670
"Great characters and page-turning excitement!"The President's top counter-terror agent races to stop a Russian national from carrying out an attack on American soil.A bombing at a restaurant.A shooting at a soccer game.An explosion on a tour bus.Three separate incidents lead to an impending, deadlier terror attack on the United States.Travelling the globe, FBI Special Agent Aaron Hardy chases a man from his past...A virtual ghost.A man with no digital footprint.To prevent a nationwide calamity, Hardy is forced to rely on the last person to see the terrorist face to face.The assistance, however, comes with a perilous price tag.Out of options, Hardy leads his team on a dangerous mission to a crime-ridden, third world country.But the operation goes sideways from the start.And Hardy must find a way to make sure his teammates don't end up paying…The... Views: 670
It begins with a fading odor and darkness. Lights out, dark as night. Outside the college building, there are flames, lumps of metal and flesh, and no one moving. When Asher finds his car, he's surprised it works and he drives aimlessly, trying in vain for a radio station, any sign of life.Recovering his wits, he parks at a truck stop and loads up with things that might be useful. In the dark, someone runs into him and urges him to flee. The thought of maybe having to repopulate the world doesn't appeal to either of them — Asher is gay, and Sandy isn't sure what she/he/they are.Sandy knows a place they might hole up while the world dies around them. It's a cabin that belongs to a friend who might be there.Sandy's friend Wade turns up the next day when there's light, again. Are Wade and Sandy an item or just friends? Asher feels like odd man out, but survival is their first priority. Can relationships be sorted out, later? Views: 670
Ellen, Sue, and Tanya travel to Portland, Oregon where a local billionaire has promised to give them his current renovation project—a historical carriage house in the downtown area—if they can find his missing brother. As they dig deeper into a local legend, they soon fear that cause of the brother's disappearance is more sinister and more powerful than ghosts. Views: 670
