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The British government's crisis committee, known as Cobra, meet in emergency session after a jihadist terror cell strikes at the heart of the United Kingdom, causing massive loss of life. The Heathrow attack is soon followed by coordinated atrocities around the world, creating an atmosphere of fear unprecedented since 9/11. Cobra calls upon a unit of former Special Forces to track and eliminate the terrorists responsible as the country grinds to a halt. 

Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces operatives return to Britain in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf conflict to discover an increasingly corrupt judiciary. Smirking miscreants walk free whilst the innocent suffer. Aided by a Scotland Yard informant, the trio embark on a brutal, covert crusade to rid Britain of its nefarious untouchables. Drug dealers, pedophiles, and various other lawbreakers are targeted as the morgues fill and the courts empty.

While the hunt for the former SAS trio continues across Britain, a wave of pro-vigilantism is whipped up by the duplicitous UK media. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan's world is thrown into turmoil when his partner is inexplicably shot by one of the ex soldiers. As she clings to life, the vengeful copper learns that the elite killers have spread their net to include resurgent terrorists, a strategy that leads to mayhem on the streets of the UK. Unknown to even his comrades, the unit leader plans one final devastating act of revenge.

Pre-War Europe, May 1939. A couple meet and fall in love on a Parisian street. Max is a British Territorial Force soldier and Zia is a Jewish girl from the South of France. Zia's grandmother is a wealthy socialite, privy to a dark secret that can harm the Nazi leadership. After Zia is kidnapped by the Gestapo, Max is hospitalized. He wakes to find no trace of his beloved, who he had planned to marry in England. The Red Cross suspects that she was trafficked across the border and delivered to Sachsenhausen concentration camp at Oranienburg, not far from Berlin, on the night of May 26, 1939.

We live in a stressful world, preoccupied with so many work, relationship, and finance-related anxieties. We all need an outlet. This is a collection of clever quotes, final words, and assorted sayings of some of the smartest people who have ever lived. It is a reference book to browse through when your spirits are low.

This fictional account of the rise of a Hitler-like figure is something that might not be too far off the mark. Be careful what you wish for. There was a consensus of thought that after the catastrophic loss of life resulting from the depravity of the Nazi era that no such ideology could darken our world again.

Detective Mickey Rourke is called to a late night homicide in Queens, New York. The scene resembles a slaughterhouse. The sole victim had been torn apart. A distraught elderly neighbor informs Rourke that the victim was a serial killer—the victim? She then asks the NYPD detective to look "behind the walls" of the apartment. What is found within sickens a shocked and petrified populace.

Anne has gathered Julian, Dick, George and, of course, Timmy, together for a last nostalgic jaunt in the countryside together before grown-up responsibilities take the four cousins off in different directions. It's only natural that they find their way onto Kirrin Island for a look around, as this might be the last time they're here together as a group. They are planning just to spend the night there and come home the next day, perhaps with a little exploring in the dungeon for old time's sake. But that night they hear the country has gone into lockdown. They are not allowed to leave.

The Five have gone on their greatest adventure yet - to become an even better team! They are booked into an exciting hotel right next to the jolly motorway services, where the nice (if somewhat nervous and sweating and depressed) man teaches them a number of exercises that will make them work better. But wait! Who's been sneaking messages through the hotel dumb waiter about secret assignations? Is there a smuggler's plot afoot? Or is Shelly from Production shagging Postroom Luke?

Julian, Anne, Dick, George and Timmy are all feeling really rather rum, and it's been going on for days. Nothing seems to work, and with their doctors mystified, they're driven to trying out various expedients to cure themselves. Julian goes online to self-diagnose that he's got pancreatic cancer, bird flu and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Anne decides that the old methods are the best and decides to have herself exorcised - which proves to be an awful lot of bother for everyone, and such a mess.

Bringing up a baby would surely be kid's play for The Five. How hard could it possibly be?! When the doorbell rings one Saturday afternoon, the last thing the Five were expecting to find on their doorstep was a baby... But the Five are next of kin to Cousin Rupert and his wife, so when they find themselves in a spot of bother and are destined for a short spell behind bars, Anne, Dick, George and Anne are the first port of call. First, it's the fear and the tiredness that kicks in.

Five old friends set about this simple task and find all of a sudden that: the days are longer; they get to see each other for who they really are; the empty laughter of ordinary conversation is so much harder to fake. Yes, they're saving money and losing weight, but the world itself seems to take on a slow, dreary inevitability. Soon they begin to snap at each other, and then fight - until they begin to wonder, have the Five at last found the challenge that will defeat them?

It is the night of the referendum and the Five have retired to Kirrin Island to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine, fed up with the rancour of public debate. George is firmly a 'remainer', whilst Julian, who is in the 'Brexit' camp, is tolerated on the grounds that Anne cannot bear to go camping without him. (Timmy, largely apolitical but not keen on cats or rabbits, joins them too.) The night is tempestuous in more ways than one.

Here is a very funny, very silly collection of questions and answers taken from this column, none of which has any basis whatsoever in fact. This is a must for all those who relish a heady mixture of shaggy-dog stories, toilet humour, and utter lack of insight.

He was born into an ancient powerful dynasty and, through no fault of his own, became one of the most recognisable men on the planet. His life was a constant barrage of press intrusion and manipulation. Until finally, he demanded that it stop. In order to get the privacy he so craved, he has written a frostbite-and-all book that goes deep inside the castle walls and exposes every shouting match, fist-fight, betrayal, teddy bear, awkward hug and tear-stained wedding rehearsal for the world to feast their eyes on.

Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over, and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are keen to hone their physiques for the summer holidays. All it will take is a bit of effort and willpower...and pulling together as a team. What could possibly stand in their way? True to form, the path to the body beautiful is less straightforward than they hope!