Sword of Allah (48 page)

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MACMILLAN

David Rollins
ROGUE ELEMENT

The sickening groan of jet engines destroying themselves plunges Joe Light and his fellow passengers into everyone’s worst nightmare. The 747 is screaming towards earth. On board, sheer panic.

Indonesia claims it doesn’t know where the wreckage is, ASIS and the NSA discover otherwise. This is no tragic accident.

And there are survivors.

Sergeant Tom Wilkes is given a mission. He leads his crack Australian Special Air Services troops into the Indonesian jungle in a desperate covert battle to avert all-out war.

John Birmingham
WEAPONS OF CHOICE

The impossible has spawned the unthinkable.

A near-future military experiment has thrust a US-led multinational armada back to 1942. Right into the middle of the naval task force speeding towards Midway Atoll and what was to be a spectacular Allied triumph over the Japanese in the war in the Pacific.

In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the ripples have only just begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbour have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they’ve never encountered an African–American colonel or a female Australian submarine commander. While they embrace the armada’s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first-century sailors themselves far from acceptable.

Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realisation that the time-travellers themselves – by their very presence – have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first-century task force may also have made the trip…and might now be aiding the enemy forces.

What happens next is anybody’s guess – and everybody’s nightmare.

Tony Park
FAR HORIZON

Former Australian Army officer Mike Williams is trying to forget a troubled past – with a carefree existence as an overland tour guide in Africa. But then one day on the road, he receives word that the South African Police have some news for him.

A bloody and tragic run-in with ivory hunters in Mozambique the year before had left Mike’s world in shreds. But now the authorities are on the poachers’ trail and they need his help to catch them.

Tenacious English journalist Sarah Thatcher is along for the ride, and insists on becoming involved. Mike must choose between his duty to keep the tourists in his care safe and his hunger for retribution.

The murderous hunters and the innocent travellers are on a parallel journey through Africa’s most spectacular locations. Eventually their paths will cross and Mike will have his shot at revenge…but at what cost?

Matthew Reilly
SCARECROW

IT IS THE GREATEST BOUNTY HUNT IN HISTORY FIFTEEN NAMES

There are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the world – commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each.

ONE HERO
Among the names on the target list, one stands out. A Marine named Shane Schofield, call-sign: SCARECROW.

NO LIMITS
And so Schofield is plunged into a headlong race around the world, pursued by a fearsome collection of international bounty hunters – including the ‘Black Knight’, a notoriously ruthless hunter who seems intent on eliminating only Schofield.

The race is on and the pace is frantic as Schofield fights for survival, in the process unveiling a vast international conspiracy and the terrible reason why he cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to live…

He led his men into hell in ICE STATION. He protected the President against all odds in AREA 7. This time it’s different.

Because this time he is the target.

SCARECROW

Kathryn Fox
MALICIOUS INTENT

Dr Anya Crichton, a pathologist and forensic physician, finds work is sparse for the only female freelancer in the field. Between paying child support, a mortgage and struggling to get her business off the ground, Anya can’t yet afford to fight her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old son, Ben.

After her expert evidence helps win a high-profile court case, Anya is asked by lawyer Dan Brody to look into the seemingly innocent death of a teenage girl from a local Lebanese family. While investigating, Anya notices similarities between this girl’s death and several other cases she is working on with friend and colleague, Detective Sergeant Kate Farrer. All the victims went missing for a period of time, only to be found dead of apparent suicide in most unusual circumstances.

As Anya delves deeper, the pathological findings point to the frightening possibility that the deaths are not only linked, but part of a sinister plot. Nothing can prepare her for the breathtaking truth…