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From the author of The Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic dreamworld.When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is surreally transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that established him as one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed writers.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

The determined enemies of peace and democracy command the response of the covert action teams of Stony Man–on the front lines of a brutal onslaught against violence and terror across the globe.Off the books and off the record, the commandos of America's elite defense unit willingly put their lives on the line in the name of freedom. A long anticipated break in intelligence puts Stony Man on a rapid-fire mission to halt a massive terrorist attack in America's heartland. Able Team hits the streets of the Venezuelan capital, hunted by political death squads while working to sever Iran's increasingly powerful narco-pipeline to the States. Across the globe in Basra, Phoenix Force gets betrayed and burned in the hellgrounds–targeted, outnumbered and outgunned with men down. But Stony Man has been to hell and back many times before. They don't intend to fail now.