A race against time and his own terrible injuries brings Martin Shane back to the dark Northern city. Seven years after the diabolical, bloody war that almost destroyed his life. An eternity of living without memory. Until a freak accident allows the past to come rushing back. Now Shane needs to know who betrayed him. And look in his eyes as he dies...But as he starts to stalk his old comrades, he finds himself uncovering a nightmare trail of blackmail, extortion - and finally murder. A trail that leads straight back to the beautiful woman who seems destined to capture his heart...
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole.
Mysterious accidents start happening to jockeys, one man is found shot dead, while another is found with a broken leg. When Robb Finn begins investigating, he finds himself caught up in a world of violence and twisted envy.
Named after a frog, Manduka has spent his entire life being scorned by everyone around him. So he decides to pretend to be a wise astrologer, and get people to respect him. His plan works beyond his wildest dreams. Now Manduka finds himself in a different kind of fix: people are actually expecting him to make accurate predictions Worse, the king himself is asking Manduka's prophecies! The story of Manduka is taken from the Kathasaritsagar, the eleventh century Sanskrit classic by Somadeva.
Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next—is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
