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Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong?Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts - with a wallet full of cash, a stash of coke and a serious thirst.Over a weekend soaked in the finest cask strength spirit, they meet young divorcee Molly, who Adam has a soft spot for, her little sister Ash who has all sorts of problems and Molly's ex-husband Joe, a control freak who also happens to be the local police. As events spiral out of control, they are all thrown into a nightmare that gets worse at every turn.A wild trip to the Scottish Highlands, Doug Johnstone's debut on the Faber crime list is a classic violent thriller, doused with black humour.

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SOFT TARGET is a chilling fictional story that takes the reader inside the hearts and minds of a violent terrorist cell. Based around the Terrorist Task Force the story is a rollercoaster ride of frighteningly real events across America and the UK. The story is the first of three that follow the lead agent John Tankersley, AKA, Tank. The plot has been described as worryingly good. Controversy and violence are never far away when Tank and the Task Force are around.

About the Author

Conrad Jones spent 12 years working for the biggest quick service restaurant brand in the world. On March 20th 1993 the IRA terrorist organisation bombed the shopping centre outside the restaurant he was managing that day. The experience fuelled an interest in the root causes of extremist terrorists and the reasoning why its perpetrators feel justified in taking innocent lives. That incident sparked the story of Soft Target.

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Soft Target 2 Tank- Conrad Jones The novel is the sequel to Soft Target . It is an action thriller following the Terrorist Task Force, who are based at Canning Place on the banks of the River Mersey. The Task Forces lead agent is called John Tankersley, nicknamed Tank. Part two follows a plot which involves the kidnap of a Saudi Princess, by a Russian exile, trying to force the price of crude oil to rise.. The Taskforce are brought in under the radar as an Islamic extremist cell is suspected of the kidnap and subsequent bombings. The incident causes international unrest as the price of crude spirals out of control. Tensions in the Middle East reach boiling point when the Saudis retaliate against an insurgent Terror Training camp in Syria.The nefarious terrorist Yasser Ahmed fromSoft Target, (a bin-Laden type character) had to go into hiding and has aligned himself with the Islamic Jihad in Chechnya. The Muslim struggle against the Christian Zionist invaders has brought him to the mountain region of Dagestan, where he finances and leads the Islamic rebels, Mujahideen. .Intrigue and espionage uncover the jigsaw pieces, which uncover the whereabouts of the Saudi Princess, and who took her. The book is packed with action as all roads lead to Kizlyar and a final showdown between Tank and Yasser Ahmed. The main characters from part one are present through part two.Soft Target` has achieved great reviews from readers on amazon.co.uk and on the American site too. Soft Target has been published by Authorhouse, and has been ranked inside the top one-thousand on Amazon. Part one starts at US tourist destinations, but is mainly set in Liverpool climaxing at a fictional semi-final derby game at Anfield

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Soft Target 2 Tank- Conrad Jones The novel is the sequel to Soft Target which was published January 5th 2008. It is the second of the Tank novels written by Conrad Jones. Conrad is 42 years old married to Ruth,and lives in Cheshire, England. On March 20th 1993 the Irish Republican Army exploded two bombs outside the restaurant that he was managing resulting in the death of two young boys, who were shopping for mothers day presents. The incident started a life time intersest in to what motivates terrorists, no matter what their cause. The shocking long term effects of such attacks on innocent people echo through time. Writing the Tank books has helped Conrad to understand the thought process that leads to such atrocities. Soft Target has achieved great reviews from readers on amazon.co.uk and on the American site too. Soft Target has been published by Authorhouse, and has been ranked inside the top one-thousand on Amazon. It attracted the attention of three BBC Radio stations, Six regional newspapers and a glossy magazine.

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Ia is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary.

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In his second collection of short fiction, Bruce Jones describes worlds in which things are askew, not quite right: a prostitute falls in love with a werewolf; a man loses his wife on a shopping trip and discovers that he's lost an entire life; a young girl who cannot speak screams hideously in a fog-enshrouded coastal house when she is forced to take her nightly bath; a businessman discovers his dream life in a sordid little porno shop.

Jones takes us places where most of us would rather not go, given the choice, but you have no choice with Jones's incredible collection of short stories, comparable to Stephen King in his scope and range, to Shirley Jackson in his understanding of the human (and inhuman) heart.

What could make a spirit fall from Arcadia, defy his creator and turn his back on his spiritual companions? Shayan, the Oracle of Humanity, has done the unthinkable. Learn what ails Shayan and has led to his evil descention into darkness. Shayan's quest to rule the world has prompted the inevitability of many of the worlds most horrific and historical disasters.

A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty and full of sharp and subtle observations.

Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they claim to be seeking, or are they actually trying to avoid it?

In St John's hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent. This is the work of an extraordinary writer.

'Not many novelists have a posthumous resurrection as striking as St John's...She was quite simply, a great Australian novelist...St John's touch is light, but like a cat paw can draw blood when needed...a delight.' Sunday Age

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Strikingly original. . . . De Jasay offers the most compelling account of what is wrong and dangerous about the state."

—Alan Ryan

The State is an idiosyncratic and brilliant analysis of modern political arrangements that views the state as acting in its own interest contrary to the interests of individuals and even of an entire society. As Nobel laureate James Buchanan has observed, Jasay subjects the state to a "solid, foundational analysis, grounded in an understanding of economic theory, informed by political philosophy and a deep sense of history." The results include a "devastating critique of the absurdities of modern welfare economics." Jasay traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into what he believes to be an "agile seducer of democratic majorities, to the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is today." Can, Jasay wonders, this seemingly inexorable expansion of the state be stopped? Or, "Is the rational next step [for the state] a totalitarian enhancement of its power?"

Anthony de Jasay is an independent theorist living in France. Jasay “believes that philosophy should be mainly, if not exclusively, about clarifying conclusions that arise from the careless use of, or deliberate misuse of, language. There are echoes here of  . . . Wittgenstein's later philosophy.” His books, translated into a half dozen languages, include Justice and Its Surroundings and Social Contract, Free Ride.

[source/credit line] I. M. D. Little in Ordered Anarchy, 2007

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Anthony De Jasay