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From the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.Bigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage, Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather observatory, a kite big enough to penetrate the heavens, carrying instruments to track the great storms that scour the land. He is distracted from his labours when he meets a native Aleut woman, a stitcher of furs, whose muteness calls up in him an almost unbearable longing. Her ferocious self-containment begins to seem to him more and more animal – and yet the more her silence pushes him away he burns to possess her. And when she disappears, he begins to believe he'll die if he never sees her again…An incendiary tale set against the sear and haunting landscape of the Great North, THE SEAL WIFE merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.

If seconds count and justice demands rapid response and swift action against enemies prepared to unleash terror and mass murder, the covert agency known as Stony Man is the President's last means of delivering answering blows that conventional law enforcement cannot.When bureaucracy gets tangled in its own red tape, the cyber warriors and commandos of Stony Man cross the lines to keep America safe.A Russian nuclear submarine inexplicably runs aground near Seattle, and Stony Man prepares for the worst. But the worst is unthinkable when the true nature of the war game reveals a disenfranchised army of ex-Spetsnaz troops–rabid hard-liners exacting revenge for the lost honour of the once mighty Soviet war machine. Spreading mega death in the form of a mysterious biological agent, they await the final strike in their Black Sea stronghold. Stony Man is more than ready to engage….