![]() ![]() Nick initially sees Brian as a pawn to be played in his case, but he keeps getting glimpses of a different man behind the slow, simpleminded mask. When he's assigned to bring Brian's boss to justice, he intends to use anything and anyone it takes to do that. He isn't closeted, but he isn't out at work, and there's a wild, angry side to him that he's managed to keep hidden until now. Nick Rugo's job is to protect and serve the people of Minneapolis as an undercover cop. Although he pretends not to know what he's really doing, each Find takes its toll, and he's trapped in a life he hates, losing touch with his true self. But to keep that safety, Brian has to use his Finding talent to track down the boss's enemies. His brother and sister got all three of them off the streets and into a cushy life, under the protection of a dangerous criminal. Tracefinder Book One What could an undercover cop and a drug lord's pet psychic have in common? Brian Kerr has spent years hiding behind a facade of mental slowness. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The men had no cinemas, no music, no radios, no ‘entertainment’ of any kind, and they never met women or children as the soldiers did behind the lines in France. ![]() ‘It was in some ways,’ Herbert says, ‘a curiously happy time.’ It is a strange remark, but one feels one understands it very well. With marvellous rapidity the men removed themselves to another plane of existence, the past receded, the future barely existed, and they lived as never before upon the moment, released from the normal weight of human ambitions and regrets. Gallipoli swallowed them up and made conditions of its own. There can be no fair comparison with the relatively comfortable lives of the soldiers in the second world war, or even with the lives of these men themselves before they enlisted. It was ghastly but it was not yet petty or monotonous. With the mere cataloguing of the Army’s miseries a sense of dreariness is transmitted, and this is a false impression at this stage life on the peninsula was anything but dreary. “Yet it seems possible that one can make too much of the hardships of the soldiers at Gallipoli, or rather there is a danger of seeing these hardships out of their right context. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also stirred an intense, reckless attraction. The mistaken delivery has put them both in grave danger and in a desperate race to unearth a traitor. ![]() Major Langley Stanhope, an intelligence officer and master mimic known as the Magpie, needs to retrieve the code book that has fallen into Amanda’s hands. So when an adventure literally drops into her lap, in the shape of a mysterious book, she intends to make the most of it-especially if it brings her closer to a charismatic stranger. A life that, if she were honest, has become more than a trifle dull. Since then, Amanda has lived a simple, quiet life. Married at nineteen, she dutifully provided the Earl with an heir and a spare before his death three years ago. Opposites attract more than trouble in the latest captivating Regency romance from Susanna Craig.Īmanda Bartlett, widowed Countess of Kingston, is a woman beyond reproach. ![]() |