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A hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards the USA. As the hurricane passes through the Caribbean, it destroys everything it it's path. In Florida, a man is out in a fishing boat, unaware of the approaching disaster. His daughter, Ikemi, and her boyfriend must confront the hurricane in a desperate attempt to reach her father before it is too late.
2) Double cross
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A fast-moving international thriller set in Scandinavia, London, and southern Africa. A politician nearly dies in Stockholm, and secret agent Monika Lundgren chases the would-be killer. As she races across the world she meets a strange football team, a rock musician, and a madman with dreams of world power. From p. 4 of cover.
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"Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake, Hiro reads the man's text messages. What do they mean? Is the man really a businessman or is he a killer? Hiro thinks he knows, but in Berlin no-one listens to his warnings." -- back cover.
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Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old DC4 airplane turns into tragedy when the plane crashes in the Australian Outback, killing the co-pilot. Don and Judy's chances of survival seem slim as they struggle against sabotage, unscrupulous businessmen, and the inhospitable landscape.
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Whe the wife of a well-known surgeon dies suddenly in the emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. The police agree, but they suspect her! Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.
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Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group pf friends. But now he is dead and Detective Inspector Rod Eliot wants the answers to two simple questions. Was it murder? And if so, who was the murderer? From p. 4 of cover.
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Grand Central Station, New York in mid-July. It's early morning, but everyone is suffering in the heat. Private investigator Nathan Marley is on his way to another wasted day at the office. But a chance meeting with a homeless woman at the station and a surprise letter changes all of that. Marley starts a journey through parts of the burning summer city he has never visited.
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John is a successful TV producer with a happy family life. He wants to make a programme about the strange story of a hitch-hiker. Then he finds out that the story and things that have happened in his own life are very similar. He begins to worry about his wife and young child and that he may be going mad.
11) The big picture
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After taking a picture of a sumo wrestling star for his Tokyo newspaper, photographer Ken Harada soon finds out that someone wants his photograph very much.
14) How I met myself
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"One icy winter's evening in Budapest, a man runs straight into John Taylor as he walks home through the narrow streets. John falls over into the snow and looks up at the man's face. 'I felt very afraid. Because what I saw was me. My face looking down at me. My mouth saying sorry.' Who is the man, and how will John's life change?
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Cristina Rinaldi works for the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. She loves art and is happy with her life. Then one day she has a motorbike accident and can't remember some things. But there are two men who think she remembers too much, and they want to kill her before she tells the police what she saw.
16) Bad love
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Female detective Flick Laine meets handsome Dr. Jack Daly at a party. Four days later he is dead. It is up to Flick to find the killer.
18) Different worlds
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"In my world there are no birds singing. There are no noisy men working on the roads. No people leaving bars late at night shouting at each other. No babies crying." Sam is like any other teenage girl except that she was born deaf. Now she is in love with Jim, but are their worlds too different?
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These highly enjoyable stories offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include food, the media, immigration, student life, football hooliganism, inner-city problems, leisure activities, and the countryside. Well-observed, lively, and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century. From p. 4 of cover.
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