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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A UK B format (130mm x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. The title was first published in the UK in 2006.In nice condition for age. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to extremities and there is a reading crease down the front cover adjacent to the spine. Page 17 has a crease across the top right hand corner. The third book in the Odd Thomas series. SYNOPSIS: "ODD THOMAS IS LOOKING FOR PEACE. Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still. As ever, where Odd Thomas goes, strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him - as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again seebodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, suggesting horror to come. But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?" Packed weight 400gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH      .

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. This paperback is a reprint edition from 1986. Some tanning to pages and to insides of covers. The covers are showing signs of wear. Two-inch long crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover. Reading crease to spine, which is also slanted. The rear cover is rather grubby. Fourth book in the Stainless Steel Rat Series. SYNOPSIS: "Slippery Jim di Griz - the Stainless Steel Rat - is still recovering from his efforts to save his beloved Angelina from the notorious Interstellar Internal and External Revenue when he is called upon to perform the impossible. Saving the galaxy. But can he pull it off? The galaxy is being attacked by every kind of alien race - untold billions of tentacled, slimy, green, clawed mutations - and time is running out." Packed weight 230gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A UK B format (130mm x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. The title was first published in the UK in 2006. In nice condition for age. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear. Age tanning to pages. The third book in theOdd Thomasseries. SYNOPSIS: "ODD THOMAS IS LOOKING FOR PEACE. Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still. As ever, where Odd Thomas goes, strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him - as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again seebodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, suggesting horror to come. But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?" Packed weight 400gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH      .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a copy of the Arrow edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. Some tanning to pages. Reading creases to spine, which is also slanted. SYNOPSIS: "It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was this gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St Mary? And why - and how - did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder. or fraud. or simply some macabre practical joke?" Packed weight 260gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. Faint reading creases to spine. Age tanning to pages. Clockwork Century Book One. SYNOPSIS: "Sixteen years ago, gold brought hordes to the frozen Klondike. Fanatical in their greed, Russian prospectors commissioned Dr Leviticus Blue to create a machine to mine Alaska's ice. Thus the Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine was born. But the Boneshaker went awry, destroying downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas. Anyone who breathed its fumes turned into the living dead. The devastated city is now walled in to contain the blight. But unknown to Briar, His widowed mother, Ezekiel is going in. His quest will take him into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive." Packed weight 420gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback originally published in 2018, this is a later undated edition with a 2 to 10 number sequence indicating a second printing. Covers showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. Reading creases to spine. Book One in the Arc of a Scythe series. SYNOPSIS: "WHAT IF DEATH WAS THE ONLY THING LEFT TO CONTROL? In a perfect world, the only way to die is to be gleaned by a professional scythe. When Citra and Rowan are chosen to be apprentice scythes, they know they have no option but to learn the art of killing. However, the terrifying responsibility of choosing their victims is just the start. Corruption is the order of the day and Citra and Rowan need to stick together to fight it. Then they are told that one of them must glean the other." Packed weight 400gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. This is a US mass market paperback. The covers are very worn; rubbed along the edge of the front cover adjacent to the spine. Badly creased adjacent to the spine on the rear cover and reading creases to spine. Covers are generally grubby. Age tanning to pages and to insides of covers. A Digit book #607. SYNOPSIS: "Waiting, quiet and as dangerous as a timber-wolf, Vickery heard another faint slither of foot on stone. a dark shape flitted past the lighted shop front on the opposite side of the street and vanished into a doorway. Vickery's heart gave one gigantic lunge, and a wolfish smile creased his face. He fired at the shadows and the brilliance of the exploding charge threw everything out in the street into garish highlights." Packed weight 150gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK paperback (B format 130mm x 198mm) with a single number 1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. The covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. Age tanning to pages. Book One of the Downside Ghosts. SYNOPSIS: "The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen and constantly attack the living. The powerful Church of the Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, protects the population and reimburses those harassed by the deceased. Consequently, many false claims of hauntings are made, from those hoping to profit. Enter Chess Putnam, a tattooed, free-wheeling witch and ghost hunter, with a real talent for nailing fraudsters or banishing the dead. But she's also keeping a dark secret from her Church employers : a little drug problem that's landed her in very hot water." Packed weight 345gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. A UK edition B format (130 x 198mm) paperback with a single #7 as the number sequence indicating a 7th printing. Some light tanning to pages and minor scratches to rear cover. Unread. Third Book in the Jimmy Coates Series. SYNOPSIS: "Jimmy Coates seems like an ordinary boy, but he's not. He's genetically engineered to grow into the perfect government assassin. Speed, strength and deadly instinct - it's all in his blood. He has to fight not to kill. while his government fights to kill him. With his family torn apart, and his life in danger, Jimmy seeks refuge in the USA. But this time the enemy is inside his head." Packed weight 340gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. This is a 15th printing (1964). Heavy age tanning to pages making them very brown but still readable. The insides of the covers are also heavily tanned. The covers are very creased, a little grubby, and there is rubbing to edges. Reading creases to spine which has a slight slant, and has elements missing at the foot of the spine. The front cover and the first few pages have become detached from the text block (about 1cm in length from the bottom of page edges). Film-tie in covers. Unabridged. SYNOPSIS: "James Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal." Packed weight 240gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Softback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dustjacket. Reprint. This is a mass market paperback in very good condition for its age. The Coronet version was originally published in 1995 - this is a later printing with a 10 9 8 number sequence indicating an 8th printing. Age tanning to pages making them rather brown, but the book remains eminently readable. Reading creases to spine. A Miss Silver mystery. SYNOPSIS: "Maud Silver is taking a short holiday. Accepting an invitation to see her old school friend, Cecilia Voycey, appears to be the ideal break. But no the quiet restful time she had in mind." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a first printing of The Flamingo Classic Series paperback edition with a full 1 to 9 number sequence. Age tanning to pages. The covers are a little grubby. Small bump at the head of the spine. Appears unread. SYNOPSIS: "Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown, to join in a friendly cricket match - little knowing that he is letting himself in for the desperate game of his scandalous career. If he had known what lay ahead, Flashman would never have taken up cricket seriously. " Packed weight 320gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a copy of the Arrow edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. Some tanning to pages. Covers showing some slight signs of storage wear to the extremities. SYNOPSIS: "A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posting as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. the stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull of this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life.   Packed weight 280gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A US paperback edition re-issued in 2005. This is a later, undated printing of that re-issue. Some age tanning to pages. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. The photo makes the covers appear a brighter green than they actually are. Appears unread. SYNOPSIS: "You can take the boy out of the mountains, but. At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travellers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. The settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences Bendigo is forged into a man. But when some years later he travels to New York to reclaim the love of Nano, his childhood sweetheart, Bendigo finds it a struggle to reconcile the lights and glamour of the theatre and the tough life of Wyoming and the pull of the community he helped to build." Packed weight 340gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a stated First Hard Case Crime Edition June 2013. The covers are showing some signs of wear to the extremities. some chips to the top edge of the front cover and some minor creasing to top of rear cover. SYNOPSIS: "College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart, But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life - and what comes after - that would change his world forever." Packed weight 410gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. A US paperback edition originally published in this edition in 1996. This is a later, undated printing. Age tanning to page. The insides of the covers are very heavily tanned. On the rear cover, a small patch of laminate (half-an-inch x quarter-of-an-inch) is missing where a label has been removed. The book is tightly bound and square. SYNOPSIS: "When Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone were dashing young officers in Paris, they had both fallen in love with the same woman. But now they are men in exile in one of the harshest territories of the American West, and Paddock has made a choice that will plunge both men into a battle for their lives and souls. While Paddock leads his company of soldiers in pursuit of a Bannock war party that has massacred one of his patrols, Kilrone is left to guard a fortress full of women and children. And in a matter of hours Kilrone knows that Paddock's choice was wrong, fatally wrong. Fuelled by a white man's greed, the Indians are aiming for the fort - and Kilrone?s fight will be to the end." Packed weight 210gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback. The covers are showing some signs of wear to the extremities and there are some indentations on the front cover. Some light tanning to pages. SYNOPSIS: "It's 1981, and the nation is going Eurovision-crazy. A young band, Things Fall Apart, are the British hopefuls with their catchy hit, Let's Be Famous. Despite their energetic performance, Europe is unimpressed. Null points to the UK. But the band don't let go of their dream, and they persevere to become one of the most famous boy-girl pop acts of the eighties. From the innocent early days to the K-Tel Greatest Hits CD and their last ugly fight in the Blue Peter Garden - this is their story, warts and all." Packed weight 450gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition paperback (First Printing) A format sized (110x178mm).  Unread.  Minor bump at head and tail of book spine.  Age tanning to pages. SYNOPSIS:  "It begins with a haunted house. Tony former street kid protegee of Henry Fitzroy has moved out of Fitzroy's home and is now a production assistant on tv show Darkest Night -  a fictional show about a vampire detective. How's that for irony?" Packed weight 390gms.  IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single #4 as the number sequence indicating a 4th printing of this edition. Some tanning to pages. Covers showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. Book 4 in Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Series. SYNOPSIS: "Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more sinister than ever. Terrifyingly, with each new incarnation the technology he can use to build a new human race - which he will control - is vastly improved. His first monster, Deucalion, has spent two hundred years trying to kill his evil creator. When the new Frankenstein clone, Victor Helios, starts work on some grotesque creations, financed by an enigmatic billionaire, Deucalion is drawn to a small Montana town. A spectacularly advanced race of monsters is about to be unleashed on the world. Even if Deucalion can bring Helios down, it may be too late." Packed weight 450gms. IN STOCK RADY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. Some age tanning to pages. Unread. Book Five in the Jimmy Coates Series. SYNOPSIS: "Jimmy Coates seems like an ordinary boy, but he's not. He's genetically engineered to grow into the perfect government assassin. Speed, strength and deadly instinct - it's all in his blood. He has to fight not to kill. while his government fights to kill him Should Jimmy risk his family to prevent a war? The choice is simple. The decision is deadly. Who will survive?" Packed weight 470gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  UNREAD.  Age tanning to pages.  A very minor production fault affects the top left-hand corner of the rear cover and the top left-hand corners of the last half dozen or so pages (the pages have not been cut properly and are slightly narrower than the other pages). The text is not affected. SYNOPSIS:  "Jonah Wish is facing the impossible: a code he can't crack. When your boss is a master criminal and your friends are an elite group of thieves, life is never straightforward. But the discovery of a sinister ancient text, the Bloodline Cipher, plunges Jonah and the team into a deadly mystery." Packed weight 400gms.  IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A UK B format trade paperback (130 x 198 mm). The title was previously published in the USA as Dimiter.First published in this edition by Piatkus in 2011. This is a later, second printing also dated 2011. Age tanning to pages. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities and there is a crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover. SYNOPSIS: "THE REDEMPTION opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence, he maintains an eerie silence though subjected to unimaginable torture. He escapes - and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American 'agent from hell'. The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of unusual characters. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling, inexplicable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax." Packed weight 400gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a first printing of The Flamingo Classic Series paperback edition with a full 1 to 9 number sequence.  Age tanning to pages.  The covers are a little grubby. Stain on rear cover.   Appears unread. SYNOPSIS:  "Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown, to join in a friendly cricket match - little knowing that he is letting himself in for the desperate game of his scandalous career.  If he had known what lay ahead, Flashman would never have taken up cricket seriously. " Packed weight 320gms.  IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback. The title was originally published in 1941 by Michael Joseph. This is a re-issue by Moonstone. Read once very carefully. SYNOPSIS: "After attending a burial in an old country churchyard, Superintendent Mallett and his friends are struck by the sight of two elderly ladies, regally dressed in black and accompanied by their uniformed chauffeur, placing an elaborate wreath on a graveyard's most imposing monument. The vicar confirms that the Misses de Boulter of Chetwode Lodge have placed fresh flowers on the tomb of their father and brother every week for the last fifty years. In the opposite corner of the churchyard lies the small, neglected grave of one Mary Dazill. In flashbacks, we learn how everything goes wrong in the lives of the two sisters when their father brings the enigmatic Mary home and proposes to marry her. Soon, murder ensues." Packed weight 330gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first US mass market edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated First Avon Boks Printing September 1997. Covers are showing some signs of wear to the extremities. Heavy age tanning to pages and to insides of covers. First book in the Rachel Porter Series. SYNOPSIS: "STOMPING THROUGH THE SWAMP. A failed New York actress, Rachel Porter figured that any new career would be an improvement - until she became a wildlife agent and found herself stuck in the steamy Louisiana bayous, chasing poachers and fending off mosquitoes the size of Central Park pigeons. Rachel's first major assignment for the New Orleans Fish and Wildlife Service has brought her to the infamous French Quarter, to deal with a dead alligator chained to a bathtub - not far from an equally dead stripper. But when Rachel discovers that an o.d. of ingested heroin-stuffed condoms - and not the five bullet holes in the gator's head - was the true cause of its demise, the inquisitive agent finds herself perilously caught up in both murder investigations. And with killers, cops, neo-Nazis, drag queens and crooked politicos on her case, it'll take more than Big Apple sass to get Rachel out of the Big Easy. alive." Packed weight 270gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback. Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities. Age tanning to pages. SYNOPSIS: "Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true - he has built the "Fevre Dream", the finest steamship to sail the Mississippi. Abner hopes to race the boat some day, but his partner is making it hard for him to realise his ambition. Joshua York put up the money for the "Fevre Dream", but now rumours have started about the company he keeps, his odd eating habits and strange hours. As the "Dream" sails the great river, it leaves in its wake one too many dark tales, until Abner is forced to face down the man who helped his dreams become reality" Packed weight 420gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH.

Soft cover. Condición: Poor. No Jacket. This is a Penguin paperback from 1961. The title was first published in 1930. The book is in poor condition. Slant to spine. The covers are very grubby and there is a crease across the top and bottom corners of the front cover and the top left-hand corner of the rear cover. The covers are scuffed and chipped and have generally seen better days. The front cover is stained on the centre panel. Age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable. It looks like the book may have been damp/wet at some point as there are water marks to the first few pages at the leading edge and there is some staining to the bottom of most of the pages (see photo). Please note: The photos make the covers look more white and clean than they actually are. The white panel is very yellow. SYNOPSIS: "A mangled body lying on the floor and a severed head staring from the centre of the empty room was what the police found in a closely guarded room in a Paris gambling house. Police had watched the doors, the window could not have been entered, and there were no secret passages giving access to the room. yet a criminal had entered that room, committed the murder, and escaped, all within the space of ten minutes, without leaving a clue and without being seen by anyone." Packed weight 225gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A first UK edition B Format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. In good condition for its age but the covers are showing signs of wear to the extremities. Reading creases to spine and a faint half-inch crease across the top right-hand corner of the front cover and across the bottom of the rear cover. SYNOPSIS: "A story of first love, a love that draws on ancient and mythic forces. A love that leads Ella, Orpheus and Claire to the Gates of Death and Beyond." Packed weight 320gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A UK paperback edition originally published in this edition by Arrow in 1977.This is a later undated printing with a 12 to 18 number sequence indicating a 12th printing. The book is in very good condition for its age, but is showing some signs of wear to the covers. Quite heavy age tanning to the pages but the book remains eminently readable. Faint reading creases to the spine and a slight fading in colour on the spine. SYNOPSIS: "Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis had finally cracked. Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madame Ny, had all taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he?Maybe it would have been easier to take if he really had been mad." Packed weight 190gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH  .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A UK paperback edition originally published in this edition by Pan in 1986.This is a later undated printing with a 13 to 19 number sequence indicating a 13th printing. TV tie-in version. The book is in very good condition for its age, but is showing some signs of wear to the covers and reading creases to spine. Quite heavy age tanning to pages but the book remains eminently readable. SYNOPSIS: "Mikhail Kelly's credentials were impeccable. Russian mother, Irish father hanged by the British. He could split an apple - or a head - across a large room with a handgun. And his special talent was acting. The KGB gave him the perfect part. assassin. For more than twenty years, Cuchulain has created chaos and fear in Ireland by targetting those opposed to terrorism on both sides of the border. But Cuchulain's time is almost up. The one person who can identify him is Tanya, beautiful daughter of a KGB general. And the one person who can persuade her to defect is Liam Devlin - poet, scholar and IRA gunman. retired. Hunted by the combined forces of British Intelligence, the IRA and the KGB itself, Cuchulain prepares to hit the most prestigious target of all." Packed weight 220gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH  .