Jonathan Oliver

A mysterious terrorist group is killing other terrorists, IRA thugs, and CIA and KGB agents, all in a bid to break the fragile Northern Ireland peace process. With the carnage mounting the Prime Minister authorises a special investigation to hunt down the terrorists. Sean Dillon is the only man who can find them - if he can live long enough.

From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens's favourite way of killing his characters? When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost? Why is Dickens's trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud?

In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality and brilliance on full display.

In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world. Now the ultimate confrontation is drawing near. The diary and its explosive revelations of a secret wartime meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt will destroy the US President Jake Cazalet, unless undercover enforcer Sean Dillon can find it first...

London, 1856: A deadly act of terror on the Thames leads William Monk into a treacherous world where the powerful seek to buy justice, and no one is safe. It is a time of progress, with the Empire's interests expanding and the Suez Canal nearing completion. Many people stand to gain - and to lose - as the world rapidly changes.

Dissolute, disenchanted Dmitri Olénin decides to join the Army as a cadet and is despatched to the Caucasus. There, he is transformed by seeing how the indigenous people live in harmony with nature, how their lives have more meaning than those of the superficial social elite in Moscow, and he finds a new sense of self and purpose. But nothing is ever quite that simple...

Recently arrived in Athens in 1869, photographer Godwin Tudor is fascinated by landowner Edgar Brooke, his beautiful estate, and his capricious daughter. Finding himself drawn into a dangerous political conspiracy, Godwin tries to play the diplomat, but the events prove far more devastating than he can imagine. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

Sean Dillon seeks to help American White House security insider, Blake Johnson, to avenge the death of his ex-wife. The daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman, Jack Fox.

On the day the US President is entertained by the British Prime Minister, a fanatical mullah offers eternal paradise to anyone who will assassinate him. Sean Dillon is rushed into action, helped by new recruit, Intelligence Corps Captain and Afghan war hero, Sara Gideon. Though bin Laden may be gone, the threat remains as terrible as ever. A devil is waiting for them, and the assassination plot is only the beginning.

On his death everyone is surprised to discover that the MD of Wainwright Enterprises is wealthier than expected. One of his beneficiaries discovers financial irregularities in the firm's accounts, but doesn't involve the police until the company accountant is murdered! X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo, ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds, is guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn’t do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.

Born in the United States but separated since they were boys, twin brothers Max and Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when World War Two broke out. Max was one of the Luftwaffe’s most feared pilots, Harry was a Yank ace in the RAF…Now, the machinery of war has set in motion an intrigue so devious, so full of danger, that they will be forced to question everything they value: their lives and ultimately their loyalties.

The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans … and to fulfil a secret mission so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies. Sequel to 'The Guns Of Navarone' (3331)

The Presidential motorcade enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. The ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable - as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times....

The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk – a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic.

It is 1636 - the height of the Thirty Years' War, one of the bloodiest and most destructive conflicts Europe has ever seen. As the campaigning season begins, the Spanish armies swell out of the Artois region of the Netherlands - flooding into King Louis XIII's France. The sleepy border village of Dax-en-roi stands in their way.

Helmand Province, Afghanistan: a convoy edging its way towards a deserted mountain village is hit by a roadside bomb. But not all the Taliban voices heard on the battlefield are Afghan - some are British. Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down, and then a familiar, deadly face makes a dramatic reappearance. Before long, Dillon will learn that this Judas has al-Qaeda on his side...

As Paul Craddock recovers from his Boer War injuries, he starts to plan a new life. As soon as he is able he invests all he has in a remote but beautiful estate in Devon, determined to make something wonderful of the place and to be at the heart of what is most real and most important.  Book 1 of series

When Robert Reckless is sent what appears to be a copper puzzle box he has no idea that his life is going to changed dramatically.

In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the “Prime Minister’s private army,” receive a warning from a new leader of al-Qaeda, who calls himself simply the Master. Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake.

An airliner crashes in the polar ice cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive. But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer – the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?

The year is 1944. Just outside Delhi, a British Dakota crashes, destroying a clandestine treaty signed by Lord Mountbatten and the Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung. Years later, a deathbed confession from a Mafia kingpin reveals the answers to untouched secrets about the treaty. The hunt is on for Sean Dillon, who must expose treacheries and colossal truths and risk everything he loves in an explosive and thrilling quest for justice.

In this revised edition, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has taken into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and all the social and political unrest that has ensued.

The thesis of this book is that the work of reimagining is as great as it was in 1945 and will happen either by accident - and thus badly - or deliberately. Welby explores the areas in which values are translated into action, including the traditional three of recent history: health, housing and education. To these he adds family; the environment; economics and finance; peacebuilding and overseas development; immigration; and integration. He looks particularly at the role of faith groups in enabling, and contributing to, a fairer future. When so many are immobilized by political turmoil, this book builds on our past to offer hope for the future, and practical ways of achieving a more equitable society.

When a young woman falls to her death the only people with her are her four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. Twenty years later someone is intent on letting them have their just deserts.

London, 1869: The body of a man is found near the dockside of the River Thames. Commander William Monk is called when it is revealed that the man was shot in the back. As his investigations lead him into the murky world of smuggling and forgery, Monk is forced to confront his own forgotten past. It soon becomes clear that a bitter enemy is back for revenge. With his life and career in danger, can Monk discover the truth before it is too late?

The year is 1173. King Henry's efforts to crush his rebellious sons ignite bloody border skirmishes throughout the land. It is a time of triumph for mercenary Josceline de Gael, bastard son of the king's most trusted ally. But when his heart is conquered by the lovely Linnet de Montsorrel, their love will find its greatest challenge as an enemy from beyond the grave threatens all they hold dear.

Agatha Christie is preparing to board a train, preoccupied with the devastating knowledge that her husband is having an affair. She feels a light touch on her back, causing her to lose her balance, then a sense of someone pulling her to safety from the rush of the incoming train. So begins a terrifying sequence of events - for her rescuer is no guardian angel, rather he is a blackmailer of the most insidious, manipulative kind.

In the inky depths beneath Thunder Point, a diver discovers a German U-boat sunk in American waters just after the Second World War. Inside is final proof that Martin Bormann escaped Hitler's bunker with the most explosive secrets of the Reich. For the sake of national security, the U-boat must be destroyed. Sean Dillon, assassin, gun for hire, is about to be made an offer he cannot refuse....

On December 31st 1942, an Atlantic convoy has reached the deadly 'gap', where it cannot be protected by aircraft. The white flash they see at midnight means only one thing - a German torpedo. That New Year is etched forever on the memories of the survivors.

One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a captured American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.

Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson.