THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule begin to show, he will risk everything to gain her love or else her destruction. Clara Kalliam, the loyal traitor, is torn between the woman she once was and the woman she has become. With her sons on all sides of the conflict, her house cannot stand, but there is a power in choosing when and how to fall.
Protestant by inclination, Jane is a helpless pawn caught up in the scheming of her parents and the ambitious Duke of Northumberland. Their doomed plotting leads to heads rolling and the lighting of the first of many fires of Protestant martyrdom by Catholic Queen Mary. Jane Grey pays the ultimate price, with her head on the block - courageously refusing Queen Mary's offer of a reprieve if she embraces Catholicism. She was queen in name for nine days.
Told as it is from many different viewpoints, our sympathy is aroused for Jane and we share her dread and horror of an untimely death at the age of sixteen.
Hercules – Volume 2 – The Knives Of Kush
The stunning conclusion!
After an explosive showdown of thunder and lightning on the battlefield, Hercules and his companions are set to end Egypt's civil war. But even with a cunning plan to defeat Khadis, Lord of Lightning and the insurgent king Amenmessu, there still remains a traitor in the royal house of Seti Ii - and when the dust has settled on the grounds of war, Hercules will not rest until the spy pays for his or her crimes against the sovereign of Egypt!
For nearly half a century, John le Carre's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le Carre makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de-force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little Drummer Girl and as morally complex as The Constant Gardener, Our Kind of Traitor is signature le Carre.
Officially the Cold War is over. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on. A high-ranking Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, has been passing valuable information to MI6, but when suspicion falls on him, the time has come to get him out and more rides on this than one man's life.
