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James Swallow is a British author. A BAFTA nominee and a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 best-seller, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and video games. His writing includes the Marc Dane series of action thrillers, the Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels, and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who, 24, Stargate, 2000 AD and many more. He lives and works in London. In 2022, Capstone Pictures acquired film rights for the Marc Dane series. Novels & novellas The Marc Dane series Nomad (2016), audiobook (2016) Exile (2017), audiobook (2017) Ghost (2018), audiobook (2018) Rough Air (Novelette) (2019) Shadow (2019), audiobook (2019) Rogue (2020), audiobook (2020) Outlaw (2021), audiobook (2022) Stand-Alone novels Airside (2022), audiobook (2023) Dark Horizon (2023), audiobook (2023) The Sundowners series Ghost Town (2001) Underworld (2001) Iron Dragon (2001) Showdown (2001) Warhammer 40,000 Deus Encarmine (2004) Deus Sanguinius (2005) Faith & Fire (2006), partwork edition (2017), audiobook (2018) Red Fury (2008) The Blood Angels Omnibus (Collected edition of Deus Encarmine, Deus Sanguinius and the short story Blood Debt) (2008) Black Tide (2009) The Book of Blood (Collected edition including Heart of Rage and the short stories Crimson Night and Blood Debt) (2010) Bloodline (Chapbook) (2010), reprinted in Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus, 25 For 25, Hammer & Bolter #23 (2012), The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two (2013) and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (2018) Hammer & Anvil (2011), partwork edition (2018), audiobook (2019) Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus (Collected edition of Red Fury, Black Tide, Heart of Rage, Bloodline and the short story Redeemed) (2012) Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus (Collected edition of Faith & Fire, Hammer & Anvil, the short story Heart & Soul and an adaptation of Red & Black) (2017) Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (Collected edition of Deus Encarmine, Deus Sanguinius, Red Fury, Black Tide and additional short stories) (2019) Sisters of Battle Collection (Limited collected edition of Faith & Fire, Hammer & Anvil, an adaptation of Red & Black and the short stories Heart & Soul and Iron & Bone) (2021) The Horus Heresy The Flight of the Eisenstein (2007), reprinted as Collector's Edition (2012), audiobook (2013), partwork edition (2018) Nemesis (2010), audiobook (2015), Collector's Edition (2016) Fear To Tread (2012), audiobook (2012), Collector's Edition (2015), partwork edition (2018) Vow of Faith (2016), reprinted in Garro: Weapon of Fate (2017) Garro: Weapon of Fate (Collected edition, including Vow of Faith and adaptations of Oath of Moment, Sword of Truth, Burden of Duty, Ashes of Fealty, Legion of One and Shield of Lies) (2017), audiobook (2017) The Buried Dagger (2019), audiobook (2019) Garro: Knight of Grey (2023), audiobook (2023) Star Trek Star Trek: Terok Nor - Day of the Vipers (2008) Star Trek Myriad Universes - Infinity's Prism (features novella Seeds of Dissent) (2008) Star Trek: Titan - Synthesis (2009) Star Trek - Cast No Shadow (2011) Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Stuff of Dreams (2013) Star Trek: The Fall - The Poisoned Chalice (2013) Star Trek: Titan - Sight Unseen (2015) Star Trek - The Latter Fire (2016) Star Trek: Discovery - Fear Itself (2018), audiobook (2018) Star Trek: Picard - The Dark Veil (2021), audiobook (2021) Star Trek: Coda - The Ashes of Tomorrow (2021), audiobook (2021) Doctor Who Peacemaker (2007), audiobook (2008) Stargate Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon (2006) Stargate SG-1: Relativity (2007) Stargate Atlantis: Nightfall (2009) Stargate Universe: Air (2009) 24 Deadline (2014), audiobook (2014) 2000AD Judge Dredd: Eclipse (2004) Rogue Trooper: Blood Relative (2005) Judge Dredd: Whiteout (2005) I Am The Law: The Judge Dredd Omnibus (Collected edition including Eclipse) (2006) Deus Ex Icarus Effect (2011) Fallen Angel (Novelette) (2013) Black Light (2016) Hard Line (Novelette) (2016) Splinter Cell Firewall (2022), audiobook (2022), radio adaptation (2022) Dragonfire (2023), audiobook (2023) Watch Dogs: Legion Day Zero (with Josh Reynolds) (2020), audiobook (2021) Tannhäuser Enigma (2013) Dark Future Jade Dragon (2006) Other tie-in fiction The Butterfly Effect (2004) Ghost in the Shell (with Abbie Bernstein) (2017) Short fiction Original fiction Snowblind - Silent Night (2002) Target Market - Full-Throttle Space Tales Volume 3: Space Grunts (2009) Screen Burn - Game Over (2015) Toy Soldier - Mech: Age of Steel (2017) Warhammer 40,000 Crimson Night - Inferno! #38 (2003), reprinted in What Price Victory (2004), The Book of Blood (2010) and Sons of Sanguinius (2021) Wings of Bone - Inferno! #40 (2004), reprinted in On Wings of Blood (2019) Relics - Inferno! #43 (2004) Blood Debt – The Blood Angels Omnibus (2008), reprinted in The Book of Blood (2010) and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (2018) Heart of Rage - The Book of Blood (adaptation of audio drama) (2010), reprinted in Victories of the Space Marines (2011), Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus (2012), Space Marines: The Omnibus (2013) and Sons of Sanguinius (2021) The Returned - Legends of the Space Marines (2010), reprinted in Space Marines: The Omnibus (2013) and There Is Only War (2013) Redeemed - Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus, reprinted in Hammer & Bolter #16 (2012), The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two (2013) and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (2018) Honours - Games Day UK 2012 Official Programme, reprinted in Black Library Advent Calendar 2012 (2012) and Sons of Sanguinius (2021) The Fury - Space Marines: Angels of Death (2013), reprinted in Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (2018) and Sons of Sanguinius (2021) Vigil - Space Marines: Angels of Death (2013) Dante: Lord of the Host - Lords of the Space Marines (2013), reprinted in Sons of Sanguinius (2021) The Sanguinor: Exemplar of the Host - Lords of the Space Marines (2013), reprinted in Sons of Sanguinius (2021) Reflection in Blood - Black Library Advent Calendar 2014 (2014), reprinted in Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus (2018) Red & Black - Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus (adaptation of audio drama) (2017), reprinted in Crusade + Other Stories (2017) Heart & Soul - Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus (2017) Iron & Bone - Sisters of Battle Collection (2021) The Horus Heresy The Voice - Tales of Heresy (2009), audiobook (2015) Liar's Due - Age of Darkness (2011), reprinted in Lupercal's War (2022), audiobook (2011) Lost Sons - Black Library Weekender 2012 Anthology Volume One (2012), reprinted in The Silent War (2016), Lupercal's War (2022), audiobook (2017) All That Remains - The Imperial Truth (2013), reprinted in War Without End (2016), audiobook (2017) Gunsight - Death And Defiance (2014), reprinted in War Without End (2016), audiobook (201.... 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  • Betrayal synopsis, comments

    Betrayal

    Stewart Binns

    'Brilliant. An explosive thriller with true authenticity' Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy January, 1981. They're undercover in Belfast.Determined to put an end to a w...

  • Wide-Eyed and Legless synopsis, comments

    Wide-Eyed and Legless

    Jeff Connor

    A fastpaced, flyonthewall story of courage, endurance, bungling, rows and cheating in sport's greatest marathonIn 1987, the Tour de France was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It w...

  • Zero synopsis, comments

    Zero

    Marc Elsberg

    A GUARDIAN THRILLER OF THE MONTH'[Exposes] the dark underbelly of social media giants' societal control via the manipulation of data. Elsberg is nothing if not prescient; this is a...

  • Scorpion Trail synopsis, comments

    Scorpion Trail

    Geoffrey Archer

    Alex Crawford has been out of MI5 and the combat zone for twenty years, but now fate has thrust him back into the front line.Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders ...

  • Nightfall Berlin synopsis, comments

    Nightfall Berlin

    Jack Grimwood

    'Noteperfect, multilayered, rugged as a T34 tank. Grimwood is about to become your new favourite thriller writer' IndependentA tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that dro...

  • Mr Majeika on the Internet synopsis, comments

    Mr Majeika on the Internet

    Humphrey Carpenter

    Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet biza...

  • A Planet for the President synopsis, comments

    A Planet for the President

    Alistair Beaton

    This is a story written over a decade ago.Before Fake News, or Alternative Facts, or even social media.It told the story of a nottoodistant future, which really was not too distant...

  • Operative 66 synopsis, comments

    Operative 66

    Andy McDermott

    EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.'Operative 66 is an actionpacked thrill ride...twists and turns t...

  • Ghost Target synopsis, comments

    Ghost Target

    Andy McDermott

    EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES.The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.Alex Reeve known as OPERATIVE 66 is a former specialops soldier a...

  • Freefall synopsis, comments

    Freefall

    Adam Hamdy

    ONE RULE. TRUST NOONE.Adam Hamdy's debut PENDULUM was called 'one of the best thrillers of the year' by JAMES PATTERSON. This pulseracing read is perfect for fans of Lee Child and ...

  • Democracy synopsis, comments

    Democracy

    Henry Adams

    An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, ...

  • Eden in Winter synopsis, comments

    Eden in Winter

    Richard North Patterson

    Two months after the suspicious and muchpublicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's character to suture the deep wounds bo...

  • Battleground synopsis, comments

    Battleground

    Chris Ryan

    You wake up in a dark room with no idea where you are. You are gagged and forced into a waiting truck. You have done nothing wrong. What would you do? Fourteenyearold Ben travels t...

  • All That I Have synopsis, comments

    All That I Have

    Laurent Joffrin

    On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator codenamed Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had d...

  • Burning Angels synopsis, comments

    Burning Angels

    Bear Grylls

    A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood.A jungle island overrun by rabid primates escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone.A massive se...

  • Island Reich synopsis, comments

    Island Reich

    Jack Grimwood

    AN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the awardwinning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow'I...

  • My Name Is Nobody synopsis, comments

    My Name Is Nobody

    Matthew Richardson

    'PROOF THAT THE SPY GENRE IS FLOURISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY' Guardian'I know for certain that there is a mole somewhere within the intelligence services . . . His codename is Nobo...

  • The Charlie Moon Collection synopsis, comments

    The Charlie Moon Collection

    Shirley Hughes

    Charlie gets into all sorts of sticky situations when his seaside summer holiday turns into a missing jewellery mystery and detective Charlie finds himself in the middle of a mudd...

  • Pendulum synopsis, comments

    Pendulum

    Adam Hamdy

    'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' JAMES PATTERSON, bestselling author.A photographer is mysteriously targeted for death in this whiteknuckle ride deep into a terrifying cons...

  • Voices from Gettysburg synopsis, comments

    Voices from Gettysburg

    Allen C. Guelzo

    The voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed, heard its din, trembled in its crash, struggled with its a...

  • Rogue Asset synopsis, comments

    Rogue Asset

    Andy McDermott

    EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.'A writer of almost cinematic talent' DAILY EXPRESSAlex Reeve was...

  • Vortex synopsis, comments

    Vortex

    Chris Ryan

    When Ben Tracey sets out with his cousin to spot hen harriers a protected bird of prey he doesn't expect to stumble upon a secret operation. But renegade researchers are using a ...

  • The Saints of Swallow Hill synopsis, comments

    The Saints of Swallow Hill

    Donna Everhart

    Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as awardwinning author Donna Everhart's latest novel immerses readers in its unique settingthe turpentine camps and pine forests of the...

  • Aftershock synopsis, comments

    Aftershock

    Adam Hamdy

    FEAR IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON.Adam Hamdy's first PENDULUM novel was called 'one of the best thrillers of the year' by James Pattersonand chosen as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. AFTE...

  • Shadow Hunter synopsis, comments

    Shadow Hunter

    Geoffrey Archer

    One renegade captain threatens disasterHMS Truculent is a nuclearpowered, hunterkiller submarine, and one of the most deadly weapon systems in the world. Phil Hitchens is its disti...

  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro synopsis, comments

    The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

    Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais

    A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (173299) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro triumphant successes tha...

  • My Little Eye synopsis, comments

    My Little Eye

    Stephanie Marland & Stephanie Broadribb

    'This book is AMAZING!!!' Goodreads 'Gripping, what a concept and a thoroughly chilling read! The way the characters evolve and draw you in is spellbinding. Exploring the complexi...

  • Plays Political synopsis, comments

    Plays Political

    Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw

    While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are p...

  • The Carrier synopsis, comments

    The Carrier

    Mattias Berg

    The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue Mission Impossible meets the Hunt for Red October "What should a thriller do to rise above the ranks of the clichéd? It does no h...

  • Pollyanna Grows Up synopsis, comments

    Pollyanna Grows Up

    Eleanor H. Porter

    Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as ...

  • Arctic Sun synopsis, comments

    Arctic Sun

    Jack Grimwood

    THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH‘Strange alliances, personal vendettas and Cold War conspiracies build to a bloody climax in the snow’ The Times Thriller of the Month‘This is a pro...

  • Run synopsis, comments

    Run

    Adam Hamdy

    JAMES PATTERSON called Adam Hamdy's debut PENDULUM 'one of the best thrillers of the year'. Now meet John Wallace, the lead of PENDULUM in this exclusive novella, perfect for fans ...

  • The Insider synopsis, comments

    The Insider

    Matthew Richardson

    The thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's most exciting new spy writerA Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a Londo...

  • Flash Flood synopsis, comments

    Flash Flood

    Chris Ryan

    Ben's on a trip to London to meet his mum. But an accident at the Thames Barrier, combined with a tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm and suddenly his trip turns into some...

  • Curse the Day synopsis, comments

    Curse the Day

    Jude O'Reilly

    'Starts off like a fired bullet and never lets up. A sheer delight' DAVID BALDACCI Michael North is a dead man walking. Can he survive long enough to uncover the truth? T...