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His eyes are pale and expressionless. His intent is deadly. The Far Away Man kills with an antique; an 1891 single-shot target pistol. A single shot i...
Not even the dead can escape the Resurrection squad. A Chinese coffin surfaces in Hong Bay. Wrapped in a shroud, a headless body drifts out from under...
The rapid response team arrived too late. They stormed the bank by the book: used shaped explosives to blow open the doors, entered with guns at the r...
The victims were shredded in a storm of glass. There was nothing the truck driver could do. The van was driving on the wrong side of the motorway, at ...
A terrorist has declared war on Hong Kong. It starts with mysterious gunfire in the harbour. Then come the atrocities: bombs, snipers and an ominous t...
Batman is throwing up in one cell, while the Green Slime keeps escaping from another. Constable Yan is locked in combat with the Incredible Hulk – o...
A planeful of passengers dead from cyanide poisoning. Twelve bodies riddled with bullets in the sewers of Hong Kong. And one evil genius who outwits t...
Postman Lawrence Shang was watching a film called The Axeman of Shanghai when his life abruptly ended. Carpet trader Edward Peng was enjoying The Last...
One last chance for justice. Charlie Porter, the head of Hong Kong’s anti-triad unit, has been murdered. He was DCI Harry Feiffer’s lifelong frien...
What kind of maniac would massacre a zoo? Every animal in Yat’s children’s zoo has been killed with a machete and a crowbar. Not even the toothles...
What killed every policeman in Fade Street Station? Their six mutilated bodies were found in the basement, lined up like wine bottles, and there are g...
In the seamy Hong Bay district of Hong Kong, crimes of every shape and size were commonplace. But not letter bombs. Not till Mr Leung and Mr Ramaswamy...
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“An inspired poet of the bizarre” – New York Times Book Review Out of the mist-enshrouded sea a wooden raft drifts slowly into shore on Hong Bay...
Every attack makes the traffic flow faster. Isandula Street is flooded when a bomb destroys a water mains. On General Gordon Street, hidden explosives...
North American’s Bastard Stepchild that Saved the Eighth Air Force
During World War II, the United States Army Air Corps was led by a cadre of officers who believed implicitly that military aviation, particularly fast...
The West in 1834
Nothing real could possibly be so terrifying. The victims were old, rich and powerful. Men who had experienced everything life has to offer. Yet whate...
A work highly critical of the Crusades....
An Integrated Approach
Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, Treating Sexual Offenders provides a guide to the assessment, treatment, and...
The first in Marshall's unforgettable, classic series of police procedurals – suspenseful and hilarious in equal measure. Yellowthread Street is the...
An Elementary and Practical Treatise : Containing the Purchase, the Improvement, and the Management of Landed Estates
Metabolic and Clinical Aspects
Essential reading for candidates for the MRCPath examination and similar postgraduate examinations in clinical biochemistry. The book gives an overvie...
This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English-spe...
Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, comma...
A Tale for the Nursery
Unable to feed his seven sons, a poor woodcutter decides to leave them in the forest to die but Hop o' my Thumb, the youngest and smallest, finds a wa...
Appendix
With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, t...