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At the height of its New Year revels, luxury ocean liner Poseidon is capsized by a massive tidal wave caused by an undersea earthquake. A handful of survivors must fight for their lives against appalling odds, struggling through the entrails of the stricken vessel in a nightmare race to get to the hull, the only part above water, before the ship sinks. Faced with rising water, panic, desperation and the death throes of the liner, they must do whatever they can to survive and make to the rescue they hope is coming. Front and back cover shows scenes from Irwin Allen's 1972 film of the same name; this is not a novelisation of the film - it is the original text of Gallico's 1969 novel. -
Tony: Patrick Dennis
$70.00Tony makes an impression wherever he goes - he knows all the right people, wears all the right clothes, is seen in all the right places and is always in the society columns. Yet there are some odd stories also circulating...a messy divorce case...blackmail and Mob involvement...a very peculiar wedding...He's a rogue, a rascal and a reprobate. Patrick Dennis tells a good story and has a sly dig at society pretensions and the cult of so-called celebrity at the same time. -
The building of a road to link the Sudan with Southern Transjordania, part of which crosses the Sinai Peninsula, is being sabotaged. The local natives are being supplied with weapons and ammunition to stop construction and Cedric Collington of the Foreign Office wants help in finding out who the smugglers are and how the guns are getting into the country. Air Commodore Raymond sends Worrals and Frecks to Alexandria to investigate. Drug smugglers, shady gun and ammunition deals, mysterious strangers and desert sheiks all play their roles in the adventures of the two heroines. -
Three miles deep in the Atlantic lies a cargo to tempt the brave and the foolish: gold and atomic secrets. The diving-support ship, the Eventyrer, is positioned right over it with a Russian-built submersible - the Crab - ready for launch. Despite the ship's compliment of skilled technicians, only one man aboard is capable of operating the Crab's claws - its exterior manipulators: Mark Jaeger, an estate agent from Brighton. His girlfriend Lucy works for the tycoon financing the operation and when Mark is 18,400 feet down on the ocean floor in pitch darkness and an ambient sea pressure of four tons per square inch, those two will be up in the sunshine enjoying a much closer relationship than usual between employer and employee. Mark has his own reasons for taking the place of a professional pilot and there's a rival French team ready to step in if this lot back off. But in the thrill and adventure of the dive, will they forget that to reach the ocean bed is only half the journey? Cover art by Paul Wright. -
Cl;int Cannon, sergeant, Special Air Services Regiment and his partner in killing, Jimmy Horse, sergeant, Green Berets, knew that not all soldiers are heroes. Many just do the best they can. But few, even among the thousands and thousands, showed cowardice. Certainly not one who wore, proudly and aggressively, the bars of a Captain. Not eve, in the eyes of these two killers, when strung up with a large stone tied to his testicles. But this Captain was spilling his guts to Charlie and then he had to be stopped. Book II in MacDonnell's Vietnam War sequence. -
My Friends VI. The island of St, Jago is volcanic - in more ways than one. Events there do not merely happen, they erupt. The arrival of Martha's Aunt from New York proved to be an 'event'. At first this self-centred old hag settles into the pattern of idle life available to rich visitors to the Peak Hotel in Jago Bay. And it takes a little time for Scots ex-pat Janet and Twice to realise that although she is the aunt of her friend Martha, she is also a disaster. With the unerring accuracy of the chronically inept, Martha's Aunt sparks drama in the lives of those around her and in particular, in Linda Lee's beauty parlour and in the 'Solace In The Sun' religious establishment run by the dubious Dr. Arias. Janet and Twice are, of course, up to their necks and their friends Sir Ian, Sandy MacLean and other characters at the Paradise Plantation make contributions to the the mayhem of varying usefulness. -
Rome, AD 70. August, and it's sweltering. For Marcus Didius Falco, tough private investigator, the summer holds few prospects other than spying on the senators' faithless wives. Then Falco meets the young, beautiful Sosia Camillina when he saves her from the attention of two idiot thugs, an encounter which seems to open new horizons. Then the appearance of a stolen silver pig - a silver-bearing ingot of lead - leads Falco to a plot to overthrown Emperor Vespasian. A murder swiftly follows and Falco finds himself in Britain, disguised as a slave in order to find out how, and by whom, the ingots are smuggled. -
The sequel to The Three Miss Margarets. Having ruled their tiny Southern town with a velvet grip for decades, the sight of the formidable Miss Margarets - Li'l Bit, Maggie and Peggy - gathered on a porch is a sign that's all with the world, even if they are in the company of the notorious Laurel Selene McCready, a wild child from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Miss Peggy dies and leaves her entire fortune to Laurel, the townsfolk are in an uproar. Not only has the no-account girl become the wealthiest landowner in town but she's inherited its biggest employer - Garrison Gardens - and a whole heap of trouble. As Laurel struggles with the sudden responsibility for her home town's future and the shady's lawyer's attempts to strong-arm her into signing over power of attorney, she stumbles across a dark secret concerning the former first lady of Garrison Gardens and her own pt suddenly becomes clear.
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Book V in the Bless Me, Father series.It's Father Neil's second year at the parish of St. Jude and life is as hilarious and chaotic as ever. Mrs. Pring may be marrying Billy Buzzle, the bookie from next door; Mother Superior threatens to denounce Father Neil for flirting with a policeman's wife; there are the animals overrunning the church, much to Father Duddleswell’s chagrin, as a new donkey is followed by a fresh litter of kittens...and Father Duddleswell, wondering if he would've been better off becoming a Rabbi, learns that a bomb dropped ten years ago, is about to blow up...
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