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Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy.

''A first-class crime thriller' CHARLES CUMMINGS. When Detective Balthazar Kovacs is called out before dawn to a brothel owned by his brother, he knows it can only be bad news.

General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead but the cyber attack he launched at the heart of the United States' nuclear defence network lives on. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country? Gen. MacQuerrie, chief of the Dreadnaught Section of the NSA and Morgana Broussard, head of the mysterious Meme, LLC, are convinced he is a traitor, and will do everything in their power to kill him.

Scotland has been a proudly independent country for centuries. But success has now turned sour. Malcolm Mackay's remarkable novel of crime and corruption is set in a brooding, rain-swept Scottish city that is compellingly different from the one we think we know.

In a Bridgerton-style Regency world, three people are caught in a web of passion and deceit.Fontainebleau in 1825 is a glittering international court, rich with intrigue, passion and simmering violence.

Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that dwell within.

The moment before the world changed and innocence was lost - Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers restores the full vibrancy of a lost history to his Nigerian homeland.