In 1960s London, a female contract killer goes after a depraved aristocrat in a quest to save his trafficked victims . . . In 1961, George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. When Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they’re being supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Soon, Rina’s pursuit of the missing girls, and her efforts to save the innocent from slaughter, become increasingly perilous as she grapples with interwoven layers of corruption and betrayal—and tries to survive a confrontation with depravity . . .
A London-based female assassin runs into trouble on a mission in 1970s Mexico in this action-packed debut crime thriller. Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. When she wakes to discover her employer’s severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic mother. When a local gangster attacks her younger sister, Rina wreaks revenge. Innocence betrayed, Rina faces the brutality of the post-war London underworld—a world that teaches her the skill to kill . . . Praise for Harm “Hugh Fraser’s Harm is the perfect combination of action, mystery and intrigue. It also features some superbly constructed characters, who develop over the course of the story—which is a rarity in mystery novels.” —Benjamin Maio Mackay, actor “Go and buy it quick. It is very filmic and very taut.... This book will do you HARM because you won’t want to do anything else but sit down and get to the next bit fast. Fabulous.” —Celia Imrie, actress, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
A hit woman moves from London’s seedy criminal underworld into the realm of Cold War spies and targeted killings . . . London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer—and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. But when a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfill a contract, issued by an inmate of Broadmoor, he forces her into the equally deadly arena of the Cold War, with orders to kill an enemy agent. Now Rina must call upon all her skills, not simply to survive but to protect the ones she loves.
A learning aid, incorporating two CDs and a book, that uses the stories of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to both teach and improve English. It has been designed for those people who wish to improve their English by the tried and tested method of reading, hearing and understanding.
This volume contains the complete fairy tales of the legendary Brothers Grimm. A timeless collection of children’s stories inspired by German folktales, this wonderful compendium would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and it is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Jacob Grimm (1785 - 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786 - 1859) were German linguists, lexicographers, academics, and authors. Together, they are famous worldwide for collecting and publishing folklore during the nineteenth century. The stories of this collection include: “The Frog Prince”, “The Gallant Tailor”, “The Giant and the Tailor”, “The Little Farmer”, “The Golden Key”, “Sharing Joy and Sorrow”, “The Nail”, “Tom Thumb”, “Tom Thumb’s Travels”, “The Young Giant”, “Sweet Porridge”, “The Elves”, and many more. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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