The superb new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history – the national miners’ strike It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no(…)
A thriller which tells of Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne’s journey on board a clipper to Africa, where her aim is to bring hope and healing to the fever-ridden shores, while he is a lawless trader in human cargo.
From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery(…)
As the world around him burns with passion and death, professional hunter and guerrilla fighter Sean Courtney is trapped between his worst enemies, an overwhelming love for a woman, and his instincts to survive — and kill.
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser’s burgeoning(…)
This is the book, which marked Frederick Forsyth’s transition from journalist to author. A record of one of the most brutal conflicts the Third World has ever suffered, it has become a classic of modern war reporting. But it is more than that: it voices one man’s outrage, not only at the extremes of human(…)
It is 1667 and Sir Francis Courteney and his son Henry “Hal” Courteney are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa. They have a letter from Charles II sanctioning them to hunt down and capture enemy ships “beyond the line”.
A thriller which combines both combat action and romance to tell the story of a rich jet fighter pilot, who becomes involved in Israel’s war for national survival, after he falls in love with a beautiful Israeli writer.
From the peaks of Ethiopia’s Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests where the Nile rises, to the teeming streets of Taiwan and London’s city boardrooms, a man and woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption to save a people and a habitat from extinction.
When she returns from a self-imposed exile in Italy, journalist Lindsay Gordon finds her world turned upside down. The lover she thought would wait for her has found a new partner; an ex-lover has been murdered; and a former colleague has been jailed for the crime. But some disagree with the jury’s verdict and soon(…)
Your unquestioning obedience. You will be my man.’ Such is Manfred’s demand when he offers Rod Ironsides the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine. For Rod, ambitious and hard-living but totally gripped by the life of the mine, it is the chance of a lifetime. Manfred Steyner is neurotic and ruthless, a compulsive(…)
In the heat of a divided Africa two decades of dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. Only Isabella Courteney stands between her two brothers and the mutual destruction they have willed for so long.
Through shipwreck and hurricane, in the ice of the Antarctic to the coast of Africa, Nick Berg is a man fighting back against the ruthless ambition of an arch-rival who stole his wife and son and robbed him of an empire.
A thriller set in the age of empire, battle and conquest, about a man whose dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history.
Its 1952. Bitterly divided by the struggles of their native land, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of all South Africans, white and black alike. But revolution is in the air and Shasa Courtney finds he must choose between his ideals and the quest for power.
They were the most unlikely alliance East Africa had ever seen: O’Flynn and Oldsmith, the legendary gin-swilling elephant poacher and the overgrown schoolboy. Together they braved the terrors of savage Mozambique to make a private paradise, fighting only for family and fortune in the days before World War I. But when Germany’s shadow fell across(…)
A novel in which a passionate affair between a French aristocrat and Michael Courtney forces her to set out and seek a future for their unborn child in Africa, but first she must brave the terrors of war, shipwreck, fever and the vastness of Namibia before finding a home.
Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and retrieve a consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his men are bandits and guerrillas. A deadlier enemy is one of his own men.
A novel in which a man named Benedict inherits the family diamond company when his father dies, but part of the bequest is that he should destroy Johnny, his own foster brother. When Benedict sets out to fulfil his duty, Johnny finds himself surrounded by greed, vengeance and murder.
In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar’s worth of the world’s most valuable mineral, platinum. Now the only question is, how to get hold(…)
THE DEEP. THE DEADLY. THE DAMNED… For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier schools of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous(…)
There is a strong rumour in the Lake District that, contrary to popular belief, Fletcher Christian was not murdered on Pitcairn Island in 1793. Instead, he secretly returned to his native Cumbria. But the desire to tell his story burned bright inside him. And who better to entrust it to than his old schoolmate, the(…)
Vanessa ‘Michael’ Munroe deals in information – expensive information – working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As(…)
Exiled author, Craig Mellow returns to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by photographer, Sally-Anne Jay, he stumbles upon an ivory-poaching operation which masks the treacherous plot to sell the country he once fought for into slavery.