Simon Vance
1) Dr. No
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It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turning slightly inwards,...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1912, controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of and explanation for the tragedy. Some writers have drawn a picture of Scott as a bumbling incompetent, whose lack of experience and preparation condemned his men to their deaths. Aspley Cherry-Garrard's account The Worst Journey in the World...
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James Bond series volume 5
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The Russians wanted to liquidate James Bond-ace British secret agent-in a way that would embarrass England. So they lined up their best team to pull off the job! Tatiana Romanova-an alluring brunette seductress who looks like Garbo although her heart belongs to the State. Red Grant-a renegade Irish hired assassin, who likes to kill for kicks. Rosa Klebb-head of Otydel II, department of torture and death, a hideous woman with a lust for inflicting...
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"Move an inch and I'll kill you." It had been a girl's voice, but a voice that fiercely meant what it said. Bond, his heart thumping, stared up the shaft of the steel arrow whose blue-tempered triangular tip parted the grass stalks eighteen inches from his head. The girl was dressed in ragged coat and trousers. The beauty of her face was wild and animal, with a wide, sensuous mouth, high cheekbones and silvery gray, disdainful eyes. There was the...
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into...
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Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean? Life ashore on half pay, despite the joys of family life, is unlikely to satisfy a man of action such as Jack Aubrey. The sea calls to him. And so, when his friend, ship's surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders, Aubrey soon finds himself in command of a frigate and setting sail for...
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In this, the first of Patrick O'Brian's much lauded Aubrey–Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character. 1800. Napoleon Bonaparte is the biggest threat to peace yet seen. Newly promoted to command of his first ship, Captain Jack Aubrey, along with his crew, and new friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, must patrol a Mediterranean fraught with peril but rich with rewards. A glimpse...
9) Post Captain
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Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies? With the Treaty of Amiens, England is at peace. At least for now. . . Accompanied by his friend, ship's surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin, Captain Jack Aubrey has returned home to England and the life of a country gentleman. But their comfortable experience is cut short when Jack is made a pauper overnight. He flees to the continent, narrowly escaping debtor's prison, only...
10) Live and Let Die
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James Bond series volume 2
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When 007 goes to Harlem, it's not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr. Big, black master of crime, voodoo baron, and senior partner in SMERSH's grim company of death. Those he cannot possess, he crushes; those who cross him will meet painful ends. Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire. And her lover, James Bond. Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York's black underworld to...
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James Bond series volume 13
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Bond goes to the Caribbean and track down Francisco Scaramanga, who has built a deadly laser for the express purpose of killing. With his gold-plated Colt .45 and his deadeye accuracy, Scaramanga is deemed too deadly to live .James Bond-"twisted like a dying animal on the ground and iron in his hand cracked viciously…""Pistols" Scaramanga-professional assassin for the KGB and other criminal organizations. A paranoiac and sexual fetishist, he used...
12) Moonraker
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James Bond series volume 3
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Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate-this is the face of Hugo Drax, the mystery man behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent James Bond in his fiendishly clever hands! James Bond has less than four days to discover the secret motive that is driving the mysterious Hugo Drax to build Moonraker,...
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James Bond series volume 11
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In a closely guarded bastion of evil high in the Swiss Alps. Ernst Stavro Blofeld puts the finishing touches to a most fiendish plot involving ten beautiful and ingenuous girls…to a most diabolical plot for murder on a mass scale. Only one man can stop him and that man is Blofeld's archenemy secret agent James Bond. Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Service The superlative thriller that pits the secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE's archfiend...
14) Thunderball
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James Bond series volume 9
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Thunderball presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history. James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime-and thereby minutely upsets the plans...
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James Bond series volume 12
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James Bond is about to be cashiered out of Her Majesty's Secret Service. The British agent whose exploits have been followed by millions of readers around the world, who has thwarted such arch-criminals as Dr. No and Goldfinger, now finds himself on a last-chance mission. Sick with grief over the death of Tracy, his beautiful wife of a day, Bond has bungled two important assignments. As You Only Live Twice opens, Bond faces an unspoken ultimatum....
16) Casino Royale
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James Bond series volume 1
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Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors. The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service. Bond is...
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the eighth book in the series.
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates....
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the fifth book in the series. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard...
19) Freeze frame
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Enzo files volume 4
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Some cases are better left swept under the rug...
Forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been in France for many years, has rashly boasted he could solve seven classic cold cases written up in a bestselling book. He successfully solved the first three and now is facing the fourth. A promise made to a dying man leads Macleod to the man's study, which has been preserved for nearly twenty years by his heir. The dead man had left several clues
...20) Tigerheart
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Paul Dear has grown up listening to his father's tall tales of adventure, which his mother infuses with common sense. But not even his parents know that Paul spends his days chatting with pixies and other magical creatures that dwell unseen among the living. And, at night in his room, a boy beckons to Paul from the mirror to come adventuring. When sudden tragedy strikes his family, Paul knows he must seek the great hero of his time: the Boy of Legend....