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18 The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'brian
mobi |eng | 1996-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX The grief and anxiety did not die away, but of necessity they receded, and as the Bellona worked her way, tack upon tack, round the Saints to regain ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
04_The Edge by Catherine Coulter
mobi |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Catherine Coulter

"Then why didn't Paul leave with her?" "I don't know. There's still no direct evidence against either of them. I thought about that, a lot. Something else I wanted to ...
( Category: Suspense February 9,2015 )
Sharpe 19 Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 9 Captain Peter d'Alembord sat in the drawing-room of the Cork Street house and felt acutely uncomfortable. It was not that d'Alembord was unused to luxury, indeed he had ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
26_Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
mobi |eng | 2002-04-28 | Author:Terry Pratchett

Tick There was not, surprisingly, a great deal of blood. The head rolled into the snow, and the body slowly toppled forward. “Now you killed—” Lobsang began. “Just a second,” ...
( Category: Humor & Satire February 9,2015 )
Sharpe 03 Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 6 Sharpe knew he was in an ox cart. He could tell that from the jolting motion and from the terrible squeal of the ungreased axles. The ox carts ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
03 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander logged on to Hacker Republice and saw that Plague was online. She pinged him. his email. You’ll have to send the material to a hotmail address.> Plague went ...
( Category: Murder February 9,2015 )
11 Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
mobi |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Tom Clancy

CHAPTER 18: CLASSICAL MUSIC THE BOUNCE-BACK SIGNAL arrived after midnight in Moscow, where it was printed up and walked to Mike Russell's desk by the night communications officer and promptly ...
( Category: Espionage February 9,2015 )
24 River God by Wilbur Smith
mobi |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Wilbur Smith

WE ENTERED THROUGH THE MAIN DOORWAY to the audience hall of the grand vizier's palace. Pharaoh paused at the threshold. Although the wound from Rasfer's sword was slight, I had ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense February 9,2015 )
13 The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'brian
mobi |eng | 1989-03-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX It was quite true: within two days of being immersed in eastern ways, climate, food, languages, faces, expressions, and forms of civility Fox was a different man, a ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
Ramage 18 - Ramage & The Dido by Dudley Pope
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

Ramagenodded. 'It seems a long time ago. I still don't know how we captured it!' 'I don't know about capturing it: the miracle was how we swayed up those guns ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
West of Eden 03 Return To Eden by Harry Harrison
mobi |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

CHAPTER NINETEEN They never discovered what was causing the trouble; had no idea at all how they could stop it. At first Kerrick’s fears proved unfounded. All of the hèsotsan ...
( Category: Contemporary February 9,2015 )
The Flashman Papers 01 - Flashman
mobi |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:George Macdonald Fraser

Notes 1 Lord Brougham's speech in May, 1839, "lashed the Queen … with unsparing severity" (Greville) and caused great controversy. 2 Lady Flora Hastings, Maid of Honour to the Duchess ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
19 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
mobi |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Michael Connelly

Twenty-nine I opened the Patrick Henson file on my desk and looked up the prosecutor’s number. I wanted to get this out of the way before I went to work ...
( Category: Murder February 9,2015 )
Ramage 17 - Ramage & the Saracens by Dudley Pope
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

"The Calypso will then disappear over the horizon: we don't want her presence to frighten off the Saracens. She will return every few days and look for a signal flying ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
Take Back Your Government by Robert A. Heinlein
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein

to you, Jim Swiftly has an agreement with Weather-vane. Here is an impasse; you won't caucus with Weather-vane on the list, Swiftly won't caucus unless he is on the list. ...
( Category: Democracy February 9,2015 )

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