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Julia Presley mälestused emadusest ja abielust on veel värsked – ehkki saatus röövis talt mõlemad juba aastaid tagasi. Enda trööstimiseks peab ta Virsikuaia külalismaja ja laseb ajaloolisel ehitisel armastusest ning perekonnast tekkinud tühimikke täita. Elu on rahulik… kuni ilmub üks võõras mees väikese poisiga, kes tungib tema üksildasse maailma. Julia kahtlustab, et Eli Donovanil on rohkem saladusi kui emata poeg Alex. Ta pakub endassetõmbunud mehele tööd ja avastab inimese, kelle süda – sarnaselt tema omaga – vajab kokkulappimist. Ent kui nad leiavad juhuslikult vana kohvri voodri vahelt paki tolmuseid armastuskirju, rullub Julia ja Eli ees lahti kodusõjaaegne armastuslugu, mis esitab väljakutse vaadata otsa oma minevikuviirastustele, et tulevik võiks taas olla säravalt lootusrikas ja tervendav.

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.

Operating under covert Presidential directives, the elite black ops group known as Stony Man is bound by honor to risk the ultimate price to uphold freedom.Following a series of suicide bombing attacks along the U.S.-Mexican border, the relatives of a dead female bomber attack Able Team, descending from social to homicidal in a matter of seconds. Clearly these bombings are far more than random killings. Searching for an answer to the seemingly psychotic episodes, the black ops group discovers someone is controlling these people's minds with a new drug that leaves them catatonic or dead, after first giving them the extraordinary urge to kill. While Able Team follows leads in the U.S., Phoenix Force heads to investigate similar bombings in the Middle East. With numerous civilians already infected by the drug, they must eliminate the source before the body count of unwilling sacrifices mounts.

An undercover Seattle cop is in hot water after discovering that a U.S. senator and a Russian mob boss are in business together. But with his fellow officers on the senator's payroll, the detective has no one to trust and nowhere to hide–until he runs into Mack Bolan.While fleeing dirty cops who want to silence him, the police officer is nearly hit by Bolan's SUV. The desperate detective is shot and collapses. Bolan rescues the injured man and takes up his fight. But the killers are relentless and the warrior may be too late to save the two people who can tell him where the evidence has been hidden: the officer's wife and young son. Fired on at each turn and with the body count growing, the Executioner knows he must stop the corruption at the source–before more innocent lives are lost.