Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
This dictionary covers, in one volume, over 1800 of the most important deities and demons from around the world. From classical Greek and Roman mythology to the gods of Eastern Europe and Mesopotamia, from Nordic giants to Islamic jinns and Egyptian monsters, it is packed with descriptions of the figures most worshipped and feared around the world and across time. Fully cross-referenced and featuring two handy guides to the functions and attributes shared by those featured, this dictionary is the essential resource for anyone interested in comparative religion and the mythology of the ancient and contemporary worlds.
The Devil's Alternative
is a novel by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979. It was his fourth full-length fictional novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story several years in the future rather than in the recent past.
At 9a.m on 31st December a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. In the confusion, he escapes without being spotted. A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C. demanding $20 million. If no payment is made, the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again at 4p.m., 8p.m. and midnight. The mayor decides to pay up. But then a man is killed in a hit and run accident – his fingerprints match the prints on the note. With the brains behind the operation dead, there’s no way of stopping the gunman from killing again, and again, and again...
