These essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self. That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a book of masocriticism as well as about masocriticism.
There was another scream and another and then a terrible cry went up all along the ghats ... panic spread along the riverbank as people rushed to get out of the water. A lethal chemical spill kills thousands of pilgrims worshipping at a sacred Indian river. George Sansi is enticed by a dangerously seductive Government Minister to investigate the atrocity. An unscrupulous industrial tycoon will stop at nothing to cover his tracks ... The enigmatic George Sansi returns in a spellbinding novel of political intrigue, corporate greed and fierce passions.
The Falklands gave him a taste for killing. Northern Ireland gave him a reason to turn traitor. The IRA gave him the chance to kill again. The Traitor's Contract offers non-stop action when Jack Halloran, a brilliant war hero, turns traitor. After a brutal attack on his counter-intelligence organization, Halloran knows he's being hunted. It's fight or flight and Halloran never runs. Teaming up with a rogue IRA boss, he enacts a terrorist attack that will shake the world to its core.
Where there's drugs, there's violence ... A sleepy community on the Indian coast, Goa is a paradise for the international hippie brigade, drawn by the golden beaches and endless supply of cheap dope. Goa is used to a certain manageable level of brutality, used to mellowing its impact in a haze of pot smoke. Lately, though, the ugliness has gotten worse. Professionals have moved in on the drug trade, and even the sweetest smoke can't cover the stink of corruption that's pouring from the highest levels of local government. George Sansi, the half-Indian/half-English cop from Bombay (who debuted in Season of the Monsoon), thinks he's seen about the worst the world can offer. But when he gets a call to help clean up Goa, he finds himself unprepared for the grimly dark side of paradise.
Sometimes you have to fight terror with terror. One last atrocity tips the balance of global sanity as Middle Eastern fanatics mount a merciless Christmas Eve assault on Heathrow Airport. But from out of the carnage rises a crack anti-terrorist squad led by Lynch: cool, unflinching and utterly deadly. Together they form an audacious plot to take the tactics of terror back to the heart of the ultimate terrorist state. Their target is a man who's held a submachine gun to the head of Western democracy for over a decade. His assassination is their mission. The land of his lunatic regime is their territory. And his name is Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
When drug dealer and conman Frank takes well-healed Jacob for a ride, Jacob becomes determined to get his own back. By chance, Jacob meets Oswald, a flamboyant friend of Frank, whose aim is ultimately to exploit Jacob. But the wily Jacob uses him as a stepping stone to Frank, as the two play a dangerous game to ensnare each other.
Thriller featuring George Sansi. A lethal chemical spill kills thousands of pilgrims worshipping at a sacred Indian River. Sansi is invited by a Government Minister to investigate the tragedy. The author's other publications include 'The Contract' and 'The Ganja Coast'.
Great Britain does not negotiate with terrorists. Shock waves are felt throughout the world when members of the IRA hijack the royal yacht Britannia with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on board, demanding the removal of British troops from Northern Ireland within seven days. With the support of a Middle Eastern terrorist group and a British traitor, the hijackers stand off against British and American naval forces, while the British government agonises over the choice before them. Time is running out fast, and tensions in Belfast, in the British government and among the hijackers quickly reach their limit. As the pressure mounts, British and American special forces come together to pull off a spectacular rescue attempt that has only one chance to succeed.
This was done by someone who enjoys killing ... "I've seen crimes of passion, I've seen dismemberment, decapitation and sexual mutilation before. But not like this. Not with this kind of ... wilful savagery ..." The body of a young actor is pulled out of a lake near Bombay's Film City. Before dying he had been hideously mutilated. Beyond recognition. Beyond belief. When another mutilated corpse is found, Inspector George Sansi must face the unspeakable truth. A psychopath who kills at random ... and for pleasure. The only thing Sansi is certain of is that the killer is a white man. And that he will kill again. Racing desperately against time, Sansi finds a clue in the past and uncovers a trail of gruesome murders that began over half a century before – a trail still warm with the blood of countless victims. But how could a murderer return from the past to begin killing all over again?
In the not too distant future, the world will be held hostage by the ultimate weapons: diplomacy and international law. With an increasing population and dwindling resources, an ebola-like virus may be used by China as a weapon or an economic stimulus. As a rising start in China's communist party is orchestrating a transfer of natural resources from the Russian Far East, a hemorrhagic virus with the ability to change forms appears in central Asia. With the U.S. Government races to contain the economic fallout of the Chinese bargain, the National Security Agency discovers that the two events may be related. Political maneuvers ignore rights and wrongs and a stalemate creates escalating military confrontations. With air forces in flight and ships naval ships within striking distance of their respective targets, the U.S. and China match wits and the face of victory is as unexpected as the battle itself.
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