As a British Army officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers, Toby Woodbridge twice deployed to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, and spent a total of eight months in the notorious District of Sangin. Employed as mentor to the Afghan National Police during his last tour in the town, Woodbridge spent over six months living, working, and fighting alongside members of that much maligned but critically important organisation, gaining a privileged view of their work and insight into their world. His experiences from those two tours provide the background for this unique perspective on the difficulties and dangers involved when working, living, …

As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all ... but then he found drugs. As his life descends into chaos and despair, Ben begins to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that other families could benefit. The result …

Newly promoted after successfully rising to the greatest challenge of her career, Angela Crossley finds herself once again facing evil head on, but this time her investigative insight is clouded by the burgeoning awareness of her increasing sensitivity to the paranormal. Newly installed at Scotland Yard, she s haunted by the past, even as her inexplicable dreams foretell events and crimes to come with terrifying accuracy. Her new department's first task is to look into patterns of criminal behaviour find the correlations between crime and criminal, victim and violation, pick up the trail and solve the unsolvable. The past, therefore, …

This informative book covers the pre-war WWII period to the 1990s, spanning the author’s experience of the rise of Nazism on the continent, his research, and his involvement in the planning of science and higher education in Britain. He gives a wry commentary on education and science in Britain, and describes his role in pressing for adequate funding for science, especially during the Thatcher era. He writes about some of the famous scientists he has met, and also of his disappointments facing a working scientist. This is not a rounded autobiography. Much of the book is concerned with Kellermann’s research …

In 1980, President Carter’s chances of reelection are destroyed by the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages held in Iran. In the aftermath, the Iranians claimed to have discovered nine U.S. bodies at the desert location where the mission disintegrated into panic and explosion, while the U.S. authorities claimed that only eight men were missing. Years later, an English monk, once an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland whose life was torn apart by a disastrous undercover operation that led to his parents’ murder, receives a U.S. tycoon’s deathbed confession that he was part of a sinister and successful …

The Path is the journey of a lifetime to self-discovery. It is the story of a group of international travellers who walk the Camino de Santiago, the ancient 800-kilometre pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to the remains of the apostle Saint James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Northern Spain. The group is made up of all ages, professions, and religious beliefs. They include a sex-obsessed British ex-army captain, a beautiful Danish businesswoman, a manic Austrian architect, a Welsh painter, a driven American priest, and a comic duo mother and daughter from Canada. The 35-day walk is tough and …