The Sniper, the Shopkeeper and Sami
The Sniper, the Shopkeeper and Sami

Author: Geoff Daplyn

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published: 2021-05-21

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1782228462

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A suicide bombing in Jerusalem brings Medad, a 20 year old Israeli Defence Forces sniper and Hani, a young Palestinian shopkeeper, into each other's lives. Their lives will become deeply intertwined in a peace process. Ayshaa, Hani's wife, wants a different life for her little girl Rena and begins working with other Palestinian organisations to empower women with the risk of religious and cultural tensions. As the story unfolds, there is the inevitable role for Chuck, the American diplomat; Abd Alraheem the Palestinian traitor; Larry the CIA contact, Angra Mainyu, the Iranian 'diplomat' based in Lebanon and Sami, the teenage blogger from Gaza. A well connected, yet shadowy Israeli hard right wing group also begin to take matters into their own hands to even up the odds, as they see it. What will Hamas do? Who will win? Who will lose? Who will survive?

Sullivan’s Scoop
Sullivan’s Scoop

Author: Geoff Daplyn

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1787920593

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Sullivan, a newsroom hack, gets a tip off that gets his adrenalin racing. He can smell a story. He and his more steady colleague, Janice, begin investigating. It’s an astounding story, a scoop. Their editor, Porter, is not convinced until harrowing stories begin to emerge, and then even he has to admit something is seriously wrong. A young boy’s suicide takes the investigation into deeper water, but all is not going smoothly in the newsroom. Janice begins to outpace Sullivan, provoking his jealousy. When he sees his editor, taking Janice out on a date, it threatens not only the relationship, but the scoop. Sullivan is arrested and, in his attempt to clear his name, engages in phone hacking which uncovers even more fraudulent activity.

Just The Three Of Us
Just The Three Of Us

Author: Geoff Daplyn

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published: 2023-12-06

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1787920402

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A young couple have been working with the British mission in Kabul. In the chaos of the airlift, Omed and Esin are left behind. Anxiety builds when Esin confesses she’s pregnant and is compounded by Taliban fighters searching for ‘collaborators’. They have no time at all to make their escape down Route 1, the notorious Highway to Hell, towards Iran. The journey is fraught with danger not just to life, but to their relationship especially when Omed meets the attractive Kayla, a Syrian lady who is also on the refugee trail. What does she really want? Besides smugglers demanding extortionate amounts of money which the couple haven’t got, they encounter betrayal, abandonment, abuse, drowning, racially inspired mobs, adultery, deception, and baby snatching. How can they possibly care for their baby daughter? Can they find a smuggler to take them over the Channel? Will their relationship survive?

The Man Who Nearly Had It All
The Man Who Nearly Had It All

Author: Geoff Daplyn

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1782229787

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M stays in the shadows serving an unscrupulous dictator, biding his time. He's loyal but who isn't? A canny operator, he knows all the political tricks of the trade and more. Once he sees the way the wind is blowing, he pulls together a cabal of traitors who, as soon as the Boss is pronounced dead, launches a campaign of nationalist disruption and disinformation. Everyone who wants power needs an army preferably backed by a major power. Russia is willing. However, two of his henchmen rebel, dismayed by the military and its vicious onslaughts on innocent civilians. In return they are mercilessly hunted down, surviving bombardments, sieges, mass slaughtering and a hit man. An unlikely heroine turns out to be their saviour.

The Sniper
The Sniper

Author: Kuo-Li Chang

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1487008589

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Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying thriller about a special-forces sniper and a seasoned homicide detective who get caught up in a criminal conspiracy that involves the highest levels of power. Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is handed a curious case: a naval officer has been found dead in his hotel room. While it is immediately apparent to Wu that the officer has been murdered, the military insist it was suicide and want the case closed with no questions asked. Soon, however, more high-ranking officers turn up dead, and Wu realizes he has a full-blown conspiracy on his hands. Meanwhile in Italy, Alex, a young Taiwanese sniper, ex-Marine, ex–French Foreign Legion, and currently a fried-rice chef in Manarola, is called back into service. Ordered by his handler to assassinate a high-level Taiwanese government advisor in Rome, he soon finds himself on the run, hunted across Europe by his old brothers-in-arms.

What I Heard About Iraq
What I Heard About Iraq

Author: Eliot Weinberger

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 178960995X

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The Iraq War has unleashed such a torrent of opinion - impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism - that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rehtoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the voices of the war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists to damn themselves in their own words. This pocket-sized volume is vast in scope, a work unlike any other you have read on Iraq, which finds an unexpected eloquence in its refusal to join in the facile grand-standing and selective amnesia of so much contemporary commentary.

Sakamoto Days, Vol. 1
Sakamoto Days, Vol. 1

Author: Yuto Suzuki

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1974725863

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Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He’s running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit...out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can’t refuse: return to the assassin world or die! -- VIZ Media

The Great War for Civilisation
The Great War for Civilisation

Author: Robert Fisk

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 1415

ISBN-13: 0307428710

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A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.

The Terrorist Prince
The Terrorist Prince

Author: Raja Anwar

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997-11-17

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781859848869

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Murtaza Bhutto, 1954-1996, political leader from Pakistan.

Stray Dog of Anime
Stray Dog of Anime

Author: B. Ruh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1137437901

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Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .