Taken
Robert Crais

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike - and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken and are now lost in the grey and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims, but on each other - buying, selling and stealing victims like commodities.  Fortunately, the kidnappers don’t yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two of them back, he himself is taken and disappears.  Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers…before it is too late.

The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the  Court of Elizabeth I
John Cooper

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries.  Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth’s Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her.  He ran a network of agents in England and Europe who provided him with information about invasions or assassination plots.  He recruited likely young men and ‘turned’ others. He encouraged Elizabeth to make war against the Catholic Irish rebels with extreme brutality, and oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen’s Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England’s history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened English state.

The Soldier’s Wife
Joanna Trollope

Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell.  But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope, if he can’t? How much, indeed, can Alexa, Dan’s wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfilment to serve his commitment to a way of life that demands everything not just of him, but of her and the children as well?  This novel takes a keen look at the home lives of the modern Army. What happens, these days, when love and a vocation collide, head on? 

Guantanamo: My Journey
David Hicks

Guantanamo: My Journey is an autobiographical account of David Hicks’s young adulthood, the years leading up to his incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, his time in detention and his search for a normal life following his release from prison in late 2007.  David Hicks says: “This is the first time I have had the opportunity to tell my story publicly. I hope readers find the book is not only a story of injustice, but also one of hope.”

Kill Shot
Vince Flynn

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians including his own girlfriend in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing - bullet by bullet.
His next target - a Libyan diplomat - should be easy. Prone to drink and currently in Paris without a bodyguard, Rapp quickly tracks the man down and sends a bullet into his skull while he’s sleeping. But in the split second it takes the bullet to leave the silenced pistol, everything changes. The door to the hotel room is kicked open and gunfire erupts all around Rapp.
When the news breaks that Libya’s Oil Minister has been killed along with three innocent civilians and four unidentified men, the French authorities are certain that the gunman is wounded and still on the loose in Paris. As the finger-pointing begins, Rapp’s handlers have only one choice - deny any responsibility for the incident and race to do damage control. Rapp has become a liability, and he must not be taken alive by the French authorities. But alone in Paris, on the run from the authorities and from his own employers, Mitch Rapp must prepare to fight for his life.