Böcker av Alexander McNabb

This is a ghost story. Krikor Manoukian is the proprietor of the run-down Dead Sea Hotel. His beloved wife Lucine has passed away, his daughter Araksi is mooning around in love with an unsuitable boy and Manoukian is in debt up to his eyeballs. The last thing he needs is a dead Englishman in one of his rooms, but that's just what he's got. Little does Manoukian know it but he's got the Englishman's ghost to deal with, to boot. When new guests start arriving and Manoukian's hotel fills up for the first time in years, he's delighted: less so when they all embark on a murderous hunt for the Englishman's valise. And if that's not all trouble enough, the Devil himself checks in and pitches Manoukian's fragile world into bewildering chaos. As the forces of good and evil mount their final battle through their unwitting human proxies, the fragile old hotel is shaken to its very foundations. And the ghosts in its walls learn the true meaning of fear.

Thirty years ago, Pat used to make bombs for the IRA. He doesn't want to do it again today... In a world where travellers are made walk barefoot through airport security in case there's a bomb in their heels and we're told 100ml of liquid is dangerous, what happens when a man capable of making bombs that weigh a tonne is torn out of retirement and forced to resume his old trade? Carnage. That's what. Pat O'Carolan has been a farmer these past thirty years, living on a remote smallholding with his ghosts and occasional visits from his beloved niece. When he's forced by Somali terrorist turned extortionist The Accountant to make a series of bombs using materials stolen from forgotten IRA caches, Pat joins the War on Terror as only he knows how.

When Paul Stokes runs out of choices, his only path is betrayal. The fragile peace is holding. Behind the scenes, the Israelis are competing for dwindling water resources as Jordan and Palestine face drought. Daoud Dajani has the solution to Jordan's water problems and is bidding against the British for the privatisation of Jordan's water network. When journalist Paul Stokes befriends Dajani's sister, Aisha, British intelligence agent Gerald Lynch realises Paul offers access to the man threatening to drain Israel's water supply and snatch the bid from the British. Blackmailed by Lynch into spying on Dajani, his movements seemingly linked to a series of bombings, Paul is pitched into a terrifying fight for survival that will force him to betray everyone around him. Even the woman he loves.

Ben Jonson is a doctor in Richmond, London. Life is peachy, perhaps the only cloud on his horizon is communicating with his incomprehensible housemaid. And then a roast chicken appears out of nowhere. Ben Jonson never wanted to save the world. But with no warning, no final demand and certainly no invitations issued, Ben finds himself racing against time, the Russian Mafia and spooks aplenty. Driven to near-insanity by auto-manifesting incongruities, Ben is launched into a journey across Europe in search of the source of his problems by the charismatic Lysander Cullinane, the head of a shadowy government agency that specialises in telling awful lies. Enter a catsuited blonde bombshell with a death fetish, a life insurance salesman on the run and some wickedly nasty Russians with very big guns. Add the world's most effective computer virus, an imperious old lady with a gimlet eye, England's most evil-tempered policeman and a dead man with a number of highly developed personality disorders. And then pop in a splash of sex worker with legs all the way up to the bottom of her basque. The body count rises hourly and Ben's on the run. But you can't escape space...