The Nowhere Men 2

There are fates worse than death.

Winner of The Times British Sports Book Award 2014. A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick. This is something special”. Another boy is 8, going on 28. His name is Jack Wilshere. The referee, an Arsenal scout, spirits him away from Luton Town. A young goalkeeper struggles on loan at Cheltenham Town in League Two. His name is Jack Butland. Within months he will be playing for England. Welcome to football’s hidden tribe. Scouts are everywhere yet nowhere, faceless and nameless, despite making the informed decisions worth millions. Award-winning sportswriter Michael Calvin opens up their hidden world, examining their disconnected lifestyles, petty betrayals and unconsidered professionalism of men who spend long, lonely hours on the road.

A young man in Birmingham, in the sixties, escapes the humdrum mundanity of life through fantasies, tries to find himself, and finally escapes his dead-end lifestyle by gaining a place at a university.

Based around a billion-dollar drugs-and-arms deal between the American and Russian mafia, this story unlocks a secret underworld of corruption, vice and greed.

Includes 7 free chapters of HELLBENT, the latest in the international bestselling Orphan X series. Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can —He will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage but they don’t know who they’re dealing with—or that they’ve trapped themselves inside that cage with one of the deadliest and most resourceful men on earth. Continuing his electrifying series featuring Evan Smoak, Gregg Hurwitz delivers a blistering, compelling new novel in the series launched with the instant international bestseller, Orphan X.

Who is THE NOWHERE MAN? Marty Frost is a man with a past. Several of them! A small-time conman with a long list of aliases. He specializes in charming and romancing the idle rich, particularly bored housewives with large expense accounts. But when he meets Christina Scott, he gets more than he bargained for. Christina’s husband is a vengeful man and when he discovers their affair events rapidly spiral out of control. Now Marty is on the run, desperate to stay out of James Scott’s clutches and to stay in one piece. Escaping London, Marty survives a devastating train crash. Switching identities with a victim of the accident, Marty believes he is home free. But Michael Rhodes was himself on the run. A man with a terrible secret to tell and a cabal of powerful, dangerous men on his trail who will stop at nothing to silence him. Now, Marty is Michael and he’s no longer running from a jealous husband—he’s running for his life!

An intimate journey through John Lennon's final years. Including photos of Lennon and family.