In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war," when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. Historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, "A Japanese naval victory in April 1942 would have given Japan total control of the Indian Ocean, isolated the Middle East and brought down the Churchill government." War in the Far East had erupted with the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, followed in succession by Japanese drives on the Philippines, Indochina, the Java Sea and Singapore. Seemingly unstoppable, the Japanese now had a vast new empire, and having crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, turned their sights on the British Eastern Fleet based at Ceylon. Occupation of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) would not only provide the Japanese a springboard into India but control of the essential convoy routes to Europe and the Western Desert. And aside from the British Eastern Fleet, the Indian Ocean lay undefended. So far the Japanese had suffered no significant losses and the question on everyone's lips was how soon the enemy would appear off India. In April 1942 a Japanese fleet led by six aircraft carriers, four battleships and 30 other ships sailed into the Bay of Bengal. After the war, Churchill said that potential disaster was averted by the actions of one pilot, Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall, who in his Catalina flying boat spotted the Japanese warships massing some 350 miles from Ceylon. He was shot down by a Japanese Zero but not before sending a brief radio message back to his base. This gave the island's defense forces time to prepare. In the ferocious battles that followed, the British lost a carrier, two heavy cruisers and many other ships; however, the Japanese eventually turned back, never to sail against India again. John Clancy, whose father survived the sinking of HMS Cornwall during the battle, tells the story of this dramatic but little known campaign in which a major Allied catastrophe was only narrowly averted.

Many parts of Britain are renowned for the 'chocolate box' quality of their pretty villages, but rarely do people include Swale in North Kent, a delightful rural area known as the Garden of England. Swale extends from Rainham in the west to Faversham in the east, Maidstone in the south to the Isle of Sheppey in the north, covering an area of some 280 square miles. It takes its name from the waterway which separates the Isle of Sheppey from mainland Kent. This book highlights many of the small villages, hamlets and settlements that are scattered throughout this area, which was once renowned for its diverse agricultural practices. But this traditional 'village life' lifestyle is fast disappearing. Swale's villages, like others all over the country, are now but a shadow of their former selves due to changes in agricultural practices. This book offers a taste of how country life once was, compared with how it looks today.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Herne Bay has changed and developed over the last century.

An essential Physiology and anatomy book that guides the raser through basic structure and function of the body systems to more complex issues of clinical disorder and healthcare practice.

What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous business of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the 'War on Terrorism'? And how can the United States recruit spies in its struggle against Islamic fundamentalists' acts of anti-Western jihad? Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience, Hitz, one of the nation's leading experts on intelligence, answers these questions and more, as he gives readers a fascinating, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the intriguing world of international espionage. This is a must read for fans of Tom Clancy and John le Carre.

I 1970 er John Kelly tilbake i USA etter spesialoperasjoner i Vietnam. Han forelsker seg i en kvinne som har tilhørt en narkotika-bande i Baltimore. Da hun blir drept, innleder han en jakt på liv og død etter medlemmene i narkotikabanden. Dette vekker politiets interesse for Kelly. Samtidig jakter Pentagon på ham. De trenger ham til en aksjon i Vietnam for å redde ut en gruppe amerikanske krigsfanger.

Verdens fremste eksperter på tekniske og militære ressurser blir konfrontert med en global krise i en av Tom Clancys mest rystende thrillere. John Clark, også kjent som CIA-agent fra Ryan-bøkene, er nyutnevnt leder av antiterrorgruppen Rainbow. Sammen med sine nærmeste medarbeidere gjør han en grusom oppdagelse: En amerikansk gruppe miljøfanatikere, ledet av toppsjefen for et farmasøytisk konsern, vil befri jorden for mennesker ved å sette ut et robust pestvirus på OL-stadion i Sidney i år 2000! Kun et par tusen aktivister skal overleve i en luft-tett leir i Kansas. Oversatt av Henning Kolstad.Tom Clancy (f.1947) er opphavsmannen til sjangeren "teknothriller". Siden debuten, Jakten på Rød Oktober (1986), har han stadig imponert med sine omfattende kunnskaper om moderne våpensystemer, teknologi og terrorisme.

Kjærlighet, hevn, narkotikabander og amerikanske krigsfanger i Nord- Vietnam er ingredienser i denne boken fra verdens mestelgende krimforfatter. Året er 1970: John Kelly er tilbake i USA etter et marerittaktig spesialoppdrag i Vietnam. Han blir forelsket i en kvinne som har tilhørt en narkotikabande i Baltimore, og da hun blir drept, starter et nytt kapittel i Johns liv. Kelly sverger hevn, og innleder en jakt på liv og død på medlemmene i narkobanden. Samtidig planlegger Pentagon en høyrisiko-operasjon i Nord-Vietnam for å redde ut en gruppe amerikanske krigsfanger. Til oppdraget trenger de John Kelly, men Kelly har sitt eget oppdrag. Det er duket for kamp. Tom Clancy (f.1947) er opphavsmannen til sjangeren "teknothriller". Siden debuten Jakten på Rød Oktober (1986) har han stadig imponert med sine omfattende kunnskaper om moderne våpensystemer, teknologi og terrorisme.

John Clark er nettopp utnevnt til sjef for en internasjonal spesialenhet som skal motarbeide terrorisme. Han er utålmodig og vil komme i gang. Men når det viser seg å bli altfor mange oppdrag, blir han mistenksom og spekulerer på om det er en sammenheng mellom de mange hendelsene, eller om han blir testet. Imidlertid hadde han aldri kunnet forestille seg den trusselen som terroristene viser seg å utgjøre.

After fighting for their country and their lives at Waterloo in 1815, Sergeant Major Daniel Sibson and his lifelong friend Corporal Ralph Masters return to their hometown of Hastings hoping for a heroes' welcome. However, they return to find a very different Hastings from the one they had left. In their absence, smugglers now ruled the town and everyone was in on it, except the resident magistrate, Sir John Rutherford. With no money, jobs or shelter and Ralph injured from his time at war, Daniel and Ralph join the smugglers' gang to make ends meet, but would their conscience get the better of them, or would Daniel's love for the daughter of the vicious gang leader, Dobson, prevail? With Sir John on a mission to stop Dobson and return order to Hastings, what would become of Daniel and Ralph? Would their friendship withstand these testing times and would they survive this battle?

A brilliantly constructed thriller that parks a punch like Semrex explosive

Under flera år har Jack Ryan Jr och hans kollegor fört en hemlig och effektiv kamp mot terroristerna som hotar västvärlden. Den absolut farligaste av dem är Emiren. Denne sadistiske mördare har iscensatt de dödligaste attackerna i västvärlden och lyckats undkomma rättvisan varenda gång. Men nu är Jack och hans medhjälpare honom på spåren och deras människojakt tar dem runtom i världen från maktens korridorer i USA till Söderhamn i Sverige. Tillsammans med de två senaste tillskotten i gruppen, John Clark och Ding Chavez, är Jack Ryan Jr och hans kusiner, Dominick och Brian Caruso, fast beslutna om att fånga Emiren död eller levande. Efter åtta år återvänder Tom Clancy till den värld han kan bättre än någon annan en värld full av politik, makt och terror."Tom Clancy, mannen som i praktiken uppfann genren, visar återigen att han tillhör den absoluta toppen." - Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

<p><b>INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . . </b></p><p><b>Jack Ryan Jr. returns in <i>Locked On</i>, the gripping thriller from Tom Clancy. </b><br>****<br><b>The Ryans - father and son - are fighting on two fronts . . . </b></p><p>When a deadly terrorist alliance creates the potential to blackmail any world power into submission, it's got to be stopped before it is too late. That's just the trigger Jack Ryan Jr needs to take his work for shadowy intelligence agency The Campus from the back room to the sharp end: black ops.</p><p>Meanwhile, his father, Jack Ryan Sr, campaigning for re-election as US President, is up against a privately funded vendetta to discredit him. Caught at the heart of the conspiracy is former Navy SEAL, John Clark. And Ryan Sr soon discovers that being his friends could have deadly consequences. </p><p>With the breakneck speed and military action scenes that have made him the premier thriller writer of our time, Tom Clancy delivers a novel of high-tech warfare in which the enemy within may be even more devastating than the enemy without.</p><p><i>Locked On</i> follows the gripping <i>Dead or Alive</i> and <i>The Teeth of the Tiger</i> as the explosive third novel in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. series.</p><p><b>Praise for Tom Clancy:</b><br>'Truly riveting, a dazzling read'<i> Sunday Express</i><br>'A brilliantly constructed thriller' <i>Daily Mail</i></p>

TOM CLANCY'S MILITARY LIBRARY THE WORLD NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR TAKES YOU TO THE FRONT LINES, WHERE THE U.S. ARMY MEETS THE U.S. AIR FORCE They are America's front line - serving proudly in forward areas around the world. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is a formidable combination of manpower and firepower. Now, Tom Clancy examines this elite branch of Amerika's armed forces. With pinpoint accuracy and a style more compelling than any fiction, the acclaimed author of Executive Orders delivers a fascinating account of the Airborne juggernaut - the people, the technology, and Airborne's mission in an ever-changing world. AIRBORNE includes: . Two Tom Clancy "mini-novels"-real world scenarios involving the Airborne Task Force. Airborne's weapons of the twenty-first century, including the Javelin anti-tank missile, the hypersonic LOSAT fire supportsystem, and the Comanche Stealth Helicopter. Eighteen weeks: Life in an Airborne Alert Brigade. Exclusive photographs, illustrations, and diagrams PLUS: An in-depth interview with the incoming commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, General John M. Keane.

One chanter, three drones, three regulators, thirteen keys, too many near-extinctions to mention and 300 years of heroes: that, with a frisson of fairies on moonlit knolls, is the Irish uilleann ('ill-in') pipes. The Wheels Of The World presents an epic tale of triumph and survival, where the soulful heart of a nation has been kept alive across ages by a slender thread of guardians - blind men, eccentrics, self-aggrandisers, noble heroes, bloody-minded revivalists and at least three people compared to Jimi Hendrix. Uilleann piping is Ireland's equivalent to the story of the blues in America, save that here the trail of legends and lore is richer and deeper by far. It is the sound of 18th-century blues - a microtonal virtuoso machine wielded by misfits and geniuses, often one and the same. This is the story of a continuum, from John McSherry, a 21st-century icon, backwards in time through Paddy Keenan, Liam O'Flynn, Finbar Furey, Seamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Johnny Doran, Leo Rowsome and Patsy Touhey - at the dawn of recorded sound - and thence to find a litany of unrecorded legends before them.It is also a snapshot of professional Irish traditional musicians, after the gold rush of the late 20th century, keeping calm and carrying on.

Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggresive challenge from the Chinese government as the G20 Summit approaches. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands. It seems that Premier Zhao is determined to limit Ryan's choices in the upcoming negotiations. But there are hints that there's even more going on behind the scene. A routine traffic stop in rural Texas leads to a shocking discovery--a link to a Chinese spy who may have intelligence that lays bare an unexpected revelation. John Clark and the members of the Campus are in close pursuit, but can they get the information in time?

Vivid characters and first-rate storytelling are the hallmarks of good popular fiction. "Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction" is a new A-to-Z resource that covers those contemporary authors and works that have enjoyed commercial success in the United States but are typically neglected by more 'literary' guides. Written by literary scholars, this invaluable resource provides high school and college students with everything they need to know to understand the authors and works of American popular fiction. The coverage includes: Tom Clancy, "The Da Vinci Code", John Grisham, "The 'Left Behind' books", Elmore Leonard, James Patterson, "The Silence of the Lambs", Nicholas Sparks, and more.

In this riveting insider's account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction. Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal,The Great Gamecontrasts fictional spies created by such authors as John Le Carr?, Tom Clancy and Joseph Conrad with their real-life counterparts from Kim Philby to Aldrich Ames. Drawing on his thirty year career with the CIA, Frederick P. Hitz shows that even the most imaginative authors fail to capture the profound human dilemmas raised by real-life cases. Engaging and insightful,The Great Gameshines a fascinating light on the veiled history of intelligence.

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear in works written by some of the most widely-read authors of the last fifty years: the idea of love within a New Economy (Danielle Steel), the role of government in scientific inquiry (Michael Crichton), entangled political alliances and legacies in the aftermath of the 1960s (Tom Clancy), the restructured corporation (John Grisham), and the blurred line between state and personal empowerment (Dean Koontz). To address the current crisis, this book examines how the changed character of American liberalism has been rendered legible for a mass audience.