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Fast-paced radio dramatisations of six of Dick Francis's classic racing thrillers, plus bonus documentary.

A job in his old hometown ends halfway around the world in a blaze of gunfire. It was meant to be a simple job, but ended in a violent ambush and betrayal. Unwilling to let it be, Kane swore revenge against those responsible and the terrorist they helped into the country.

When Steel picks up a CIA asset with classified intel in the Bahamas, his team is hit hard and the mission blows up. A Russian Oligarch and a Russian SVR operative will stop at nothing to prevent Steel from delivering intel that will expose the criminality of a hundred powerful men. Fighting for his life, Steel asks for help from an old acquaintance - a reluctant cartel hitman. Worse, Steel's partner, Christie, has a family emergency and she has to leave Steel - but even Montana isn’t going to be safe.

Set sail with author Dustin McNeill as he goes behind the scenes of Captain Jake’s Amity Boat Tours! Adventures in Amity is the ultimate guide to the legendary attraction that once stood at Universal Studios Florida. The book contains over 30 new interviews with the ride’s designers, engineers, and skippers for unprecedented insight into its creation and operation. Hear the untold story of the Jaws ride for the first time ever from those who were actually there!

When Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career - and from her longtime boyfriend, who breaks up with her. With the podcast and TV show taking off, Mia’s career and life are finally starting to bloom again - when her uptight family makes an unexpected visit to Salem, to cast doubts on her passion and to urge her to return home.

In 1997 an angel fell to Earth. Dave Peters, and his sidekick in the San Francisco police squad, Danny, were right there at the time. Caught up in a supernatural war between good and evil, they had eventually tracked down the rogue entity and brought an end to its reign of deadly fire. But now the stakes had risen. It's 2002, and there's a demon abroad in London, a soul so corrupt and foul that Satan himself has recruited him from the legions of the dead. Only one entity in Heaven can counter his power - an Archangel, an angel of the highest rank.

The Reaper is on the hunt. In a deathtrap of an abandoned drug lab in Caracas, John Kane and a unit from SEAL Team Six, discover a new threat to the free world. Heroin flows out of Afghanistan into Africa and then to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Word comes down from On High; eliminate the cash cow funding the Taliban. With prejudice...Following the trail to a deserted island in the Arabian Sea, Kane unleashes hell on a group of drug runners only to uncover a shocking secret - China is a silent partner in the illicit operation.

There is a citywide epidemic of arson in San Francisco, and Detective Dave Peters and his partner, Danny, are on the case. But their routine investigation becomes more and more bizarre as the fires seem more and more spontaneous and impossible. An astonishing scenario emerges: The War in Heaven, which takes place outside of time, is still being fought. Sometimes a minor demon drops out of that war and into time, on Earth, to hide - masquerading as a human. Sometimes an angel is sent to Earth to destroy these evil beings. But an angel on such an errand may care nothing for human life.

No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; plucky, attractive young lovers; the logical level-headed doctor; some salt-of-the-earth townsfolk), by its end, you will have discovered it is not "just another horror novel".

When John "Reaper" Kane is forced to gun down a 14-year-old boy in self-defense, the combat-weary warrior becomes disillusioned with the endless cycle of blood and violence his life has become. He goes off-grid in the remote mountain town of Vesper Lake for a week of soul-searching, but when he steps in to help a young woman from being molested, his two-fisted interference finds him running afoul of the local sheriff.

A brutalized student. A gang-infested school. A vengeful teacher. After his star pupil, Rina Ogawa, is sexually assaulted in a school restroom, Edward Clifford sets out on a journey to find the truth and bring her attackers to justice. He finds himself delving head-first into the lives of his other students - lives filled with crime, violence, and hatred. What starts as a desperate attempt to achieve justice quickly sends Edward down the path of vengeance.... Who attacked Rina Ogawa? Can Edward bring her attackers to justice? Or will he take matters into his own hands?

Arkady Demitriev decided he needed to join the dots. There was something he was missing. Simmonds’ presence in San Sebastian was totally out of character with the mundane life he had led up to that point in time, that is apart from his adventure into local real estate, when he had gambled all on the throw of a dice. His men quickly located the vehicle, it lay in the dense tropical vegetation that lined the road, its roof submerged beneath about half a metre of stagnant water.

One man’s ability to travel in the astral realm leads to a terrifying discovery: powerful beings who manipulate lives and events for their own mysterious ends. It’s his, and our, first encounter with The Controllers, but far from the last. After listening to this collection of six tales - two of them brand-new - which take you from the past, through the present, and into the far future, you’ll understand just how little influence you have over your own destiny.

After briefly coming back into her life, Joyce's mother is now gone, for good. Murdered. Detective Luca knows he shouldn't work directly with a minor, but he’s a father, unable to resist the call for help. What he discovers is revolting, more disturbing than murder. A Killer Missteps is book eight in the stand-alone Luca Mystery Series. Buy this engrossing listen now.

It started off like any other day, but for the tourists, staff and workmen at Willerton Castle it will end in terror. Because a storm is coming, a storm like nothing anyone has ever seen. A storm that will herald an attack by creatures this world has never encountered before. Will any of them survive?

These stories were born out of a discussion on themed collections with the Canadian writer Claude Lalumiere. They are diverse in every way except that each one of them has a metal element at its heart. "The Maskmaker" was the first to be written, a story set in an early Venice and has gold as its theme. "Silver" comes next, but there follows tales of robots made of lead, cyborgs who are addicted to drinking mercury, aliens obsessed with shiny chromium, a nickel coin worth a fortune, and many others.

Olivia Glass, 34, turns her back on her life as a high-powered executive in Chicago and relocates to Tuscany, determined to start a new, simpler life - and to grow her own vineyard. Spring is in the air, and Olivia is beyond excited to finally debut her home-grown wine at a major wine festival. The festival draws people from all over Tuscany, and Olivia wonders if this will be her big break - until a customer, fighting over the last bottle of her wine, ends up killed. Can Olivia, stuck in the middle of it all, clear her name?

Fear of the dark. It's one of the most common phobias, especially when we're growing up. For teenager Lee Masterton, his deepest childhood fears are about to become a reality - because, not only will he discover that the things living in the darkness are real, he will also find himself in the middle of a war between them and the forces of light.

History student Alex Palmer is thrilled when his girlfriend, Claire Ryan, buys an apartment in Belle Vue Manor, formerly a Victorian lunatic asylum. But as Alex begins to discover the dark truth about the asylum's past, he, Claire, and their friend Marianne find themselves on a nightmarish journey. Each will face the deadly consequences of the evil that began with the construction of the first Belle Vue Manor by an aristocratic French émigré in 1789, as well as the cruelty and satanic practices that continued when it became an asylum for the insane.

The cabal has made its move with devastating efficiency. Bravo Team has been incarcerated for a UAV strike on an Ankara market; General Hank Jones has been framed for the murder of the president and is on the run with Scimitar and his men. Kane and his people have been abandoned in a Syrian war zone and have to find a way out before French mercenaries bury them amongst the rubble.