Deal : Thriller

It is the swinging Sixties and the height of the Cold War. Naomi Maitland is a junior officer at a top secret government department. She is also a talented singer who secretly dreams of a glittering career in show business. On a wet winter evening she goes for a drink with friends, then walks out of the door to disappear completely. Public opinion assumes she has defected to Moscow. Rik Sampson starts life as a piano tuner whose work brings him into contact with Naomi. But by the turn of the 21st century he has achieved minor celebrity status as...

FIVE STAR PBR BOOK REVIEW... Snowden impresses with his exceptional collection of eight deeply poignant stories in his latest. A decades-old unsavory act sets the stage for a hard-edged businessman’s transformation into a sympathetic person weighed down with guilt and shame in “Yesterday’s Giant.” Snowden’s prose is assured as he takes readers into a long-dead artisan glassmaker’s quest to fulfilling his wish in “Snowfall in Venice.” In “Never in Time,” a time travel tale with a dash of paranormal, Snowden traces a computer repair shop owner’s journey of longing and mystery as he sets on to free a beautiful, young...

The Burmese Spy Adventure Book follows the adventures of They Sein a Burmese teenager who becomes involved with the thought and mind police spying on his enemies and reporting back to the military. They Sein soon sees the errors of his ways however not before his so called friends have been imprisoned in the beastly Burmese jails. They Sein soon leaves his backwater life behind for a new life in Rangoon where he attends the British Cultural School. Here he leaves his old ways behind swayed by a visit to the school by Su Lin the democratic leader of Burma....