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Set in 1950’s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up: a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack. When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee. Instead it is Lee’s brother, Julius, a thief and Korean War veteran – and someone she has only met once – whom she longs to tell, and who has struck a spark of promise and possibility inside her quietly ordered life. Julius has found himself in Las Vegas, where his gift for gambling leads him to a job patrolling the boards above the casino tables, watching through the cigarette smoke for chancers and cheats. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist and a man who shares Julius’s passions, and his secrets. As tourists gather on roof tops to watch atomic clouds bloom in the desert, Henry and Julius's love burns in the shadows – until one night Henry is forced to flee. Through the parks and plazas of Tijuana and the bars and beaches of San Diego, On Swift Horses mesmerisingly charts the journeys of Muriel and Julius on their separate quests for freedom, new horizons and love.

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….