In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060 — the setting for several of her most celebrated works — and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler’s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.
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I'm not a thief. I’m an innocent man,' shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous - very dangerous.
When Cal Dexter rents one of the Blue Lake Cabins, he finds $3000 - underthe floor! He doesn't know it, but it is the money from a bank robbery. A dead man's money. 'Do I take it to the police?' he thinks. But three more people want the money, and two of them are dangerous. Can Cal stop them?
Every day is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me, thinks Adam one boring Monday morning. But today is not the same. When he helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous.
