Devils Of Dubai

"The two female detectives were on holiday in the vibrant city of Dubai. Suddenly a murder happened—that of the most important leader of a business conglomerate owned by an Indian family. They were almost cajoled into accepting the case. Despite a thorough investigation by Dubai police, little progress was made. Then, all of a sudden, another murder occurs. The involvement of a professional killer was obvious. Yasho and Raji moved all over the city, deploying their unique methods of investigation. But then, at each juncture, shocks and scares greeted them. They then travelled to Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the UAE. Disguised in burqas, they met a key person, a lady, at the crowded Grand Mosque. Will she be able to provide them with any vital information? They ultimately had to face a resourceful and ruthless group of tech-savvy, professional criminals propped up by a major Russian oil company. They discover the fascinating details of oil well drilling and the tendering process. The theme is based on recent events in the context of global oil turmoil. Will Yasho and Raji be able to thwart the sinister plans of the organisation filled with ex-KGB agents? A relentlessly engaging story built around a unique theme in which a series of mysteries unfold and deliver page-turning tension to the reader. A must-read for fans of detective fiction. The author of ""The Mystery of the Genes,"" a fabulous action thriller, has written yet another addictive novel. "

Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.

Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword 2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200 bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual characteristics in their design, usage and history.

THE CITY THAT CHEATING BUILT This reality-based thriller is a dark and disturbing chronicle of exploitation, rape, torture and murder, set against the backdrop of an empire of Government organized abuse, run by the Sheikh of Dubai. Carl Snyder opts to use Dubai to launch the greatest scam ever concocted by a bank. When uncovered by Al, a customer who threatens to expose it, Snyder forces him and Tatiana, his lovely girlfriend, into hiding. Dubai is flipped over, and its nauseating underbelly is exposed to reveal a coterie of abusers operating a police state, using false-front institutions to fool the world, while selling drugs, laundering money, supporting terrorism, hosting criminals and committing heinous crimes against humanity. But, hidden inside this chronicle of horror is a surprisingly tender love story, recording the fierce loyalty of lovers battling terrifying odds to establish the supremacy of good over evil, while Snyder, determined to silence them forever, plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the question faced by former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone. When President Danny Daniels is nearly killed in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the murder—only to find himself at odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. Racing across the nation and taking to the high seas, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt must break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves—one powerful enough to make the Commonwealth unstoppable. Don’t miss Steve Berry’s short story “The Devil’s Gold” and an excerpt from The King's Deception in the back of the book.

In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to a cavernous coffeehouse in Calcutta, the drinking spot for two of India’s three Nobel Prize winners ... from Parisian salons and cafés where the French Revolution was born, to the roadside diners and chain restaurants of the good ol’ USA, where something resembling brown water passes for coffee, Allen wittily proves that the world was wired long before the Internet. And those who deny the power of coffee (namely tea-drinkers) do so at their own peril.

DI Alex Randall and coroner Martha Gunn search for a missing child, but their investigation is compromised by local superstitions and beliefs In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, up the remote Burway in the early hours of the morning, tragically loses control of her car and crashes into the valley below. Tracey is rushed to hospital, but where is Daisy? She has vanished, provoking an intense police search of the area around the Devil’s Chair, land that is rife with legends and strange stories of witchcraft, sorcery and unexplained disappearances. Detective Inspector Alex Randall, the senior investigating officer, soon admits to coroner Martha Gunn that he is baffled by the case. Alex and Martha must sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality in their search for answers.

A group of the world’s elite minds – the cutting edge – were brought together for a mysterious quest: the dodecathlon. While on the hunt for the Devil’s Mirror, a rival ‘edger’ swooped in and stole their victory. The mirror revealed a devastating apocalyptic future. Just as all hope was lost, a woman named Aurora appeared, claiming to be behind everything…