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  I returned the cash to the envelope and pulled out a few of the documents. Dottie’s old passport was back at the hotel. I would have to retrieve it at some point and give it back. Or destroy it.

  I grimaced as I caught sight of the name on the cover of the new passport. ‘Oh, very funny.’ I could just imagine the Colonel chuckling to himself as he scribbled it down. ‘“Mr R J Bland.” What kind of a name is that?’

  ‘I believe it is what you asked for, Monsieur.’ Lefranc smiled, peering across at the passport in my hands. ‘Where will you go next?’

  ‘I quite fancied Spain,’ I said. ‘See what the Dagos are up to.’ Perhaps they would know how to make a decent cup of tea.

  ‘The Colonel asks that you leave a forwarding address. He may have a job for you, Monsieur, in the very near future.’

  I put the documents down on the table. ‘Oh. What kind of job?’

  Lefranc took a sip of his coffee. His moustache was twitching a second time. ‘That you will have to discover for yourself.’

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  The Red Zeppelin

  “You’ll never get me up in one of those things. They’re absolutely lethal.”

  Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain.

  Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking out a pitiful existence on the Rock of Gibraltar. The offer of a job in the Americas provides a potential life line but there are strings attached. First she must prove her mettle to her masters in London and that means stepping on board the Richthofen before the airship leaves Seville.

  A cache of secret documents has been stolen from Scotland Yard and the files must be recovered if British security is not to be severely compromised. Hilary must put her life on the line to discover the identity of the thief. But as the airship makes its way across the Atlantic towards Brazil it becomes clear that nobody on board is quite what they seem. And there is no guarantee that any of them will reach Rio de Janeiro alive...

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  The Pineapple Republic

  Democracy is coming to the Central American Republic of San Doloroso. But it won't be staying long...

  The year is 1990. Ace reporter Daniel Parr has been injured in a freak surfing accident, just as the provisional government of San Doloroso has announced the country's first democratic elections.

  The Daily Herald needs a man on the spot and in desperation they turn to Patrick Malone, a feckless junior reporter who just happens to speak a few words of Spanish.

  Despatched to Central America to get the inside story, our Man in Toronja finds himself at the mercy of a corrupt and brutal administration that is determined to win the election at any cost...

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  The Gunpowder Treason

  "A dangerous disease requires a desperate remedy..."

  Robert Catesby is a man in despair. His father is dead and his wife is burning in the fires of Hell - his punishment from God for marrying a Protestant. A new king presents a new hope but the persecution of Catholics in England continues unabated and Catesby can tolerate it no longer. King James bears responsibility but the whole government must be eradicated if anything is to really change. And Catesby has a plan...

  The Gunpowder Treason is a fast-paced historical thriller. Every character is based on a real person and almost every scene is derived from eye-witness accounts. This is the story of the Gunpowder Plot, as told by the people who were there...

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  Murder At Flaxton Isle

  A remote Scottish island plays host to a deadly reunion...

  It should be a lot of fun, meeting up for a long weekend in a rented lighthouse on a chunk of rock miles from anywhere. There will be drinks and games and all sorts of other amusements. It is ten years since the last get-together and twenty years since Nadia and her friends graduated from university. But not everything goes according to plan. One of the group has a more sinister agenda and, as events begin to spiral out of control, it becomes clear that not everyone will get off the island alive...