Now, twenty years later, Sloan’s life is unraveling. Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. One of the best UK writers working today' - Steve Cavanagh Show book

'Howard Linskey is a powerhouse storyteller of exceptional skill. 'Linskey delivers a flawless feel for time and place, snappy down to earth dialect dialogue mixed in with unrelenting violence and pace' - Times 'One of the single most dramatic events of the Second World War, Linskey makes the mission of Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik impossible to put down' - Northern Echo Ungentlemanly Warfare is a captivating historical thriller about a pivotal and dramatic event from the Second World War. Harry Walsh is ruthless, unorthodox and ungentlemanly. If Walsh fails, there is no prospect of allied victory in Europe. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend and trapped in a loveless marriage, Harry Walsh is close to burn out when he is ordered to assassinate the man behind the ME 163 Komet, Hitler's miracle jet fighter. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar.' (from Wikipedia)Ī soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman, Captain Harry Walsh is SOE's secret weapon. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that 'queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. Summary The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860.

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