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Pest Control

  • Publication date: 22/04/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788423208
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788423199
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Pest Control

Bill Fitzhugh

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Bob Dillon can’t get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he wants is success with his radical new, environmentally friendly pest-killing technique. So Bob decides to advertise.

Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into the wrong hands. Marcel, a shady Frenchman, needs an assassin to handle a million-dollar hit, and he figures that Bob Dillon is his man. Through no fault – or participation – of his own, this unwitting pest controller from Queens has become a major player in the dangerous world of contract murder.

And now Bob’s running for his life through the wormiest sections of the Big Apple – one step ahead of a Bolivian executioner, a homicidal transvestite dwarf, meatheaded CIA agents, cabbies packing serious heat… and the world’s number-one hit man, who might just turn out to be the best friend Bob’s got.

 

The Exterminators

  • Publication date: 22/04/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788423224
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788423212
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The Exterminators

Bill Fitzhugh

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All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a ten million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best friend, Klaus. Six years later, they’ve surfaced in Oregon where they are continuing to work on an all-natural means of pest control.

Bob and Klaus are using advanced gene sequencers to consolidate the perfect insectkilling traits into one deadly bug. All this serious DNA tampering is expensive and they’re running low on funds. But who will invest? The interested outfit turns out to be a front for an agency of the Department of Defense, and they want to enlist Bob, Klaus, and the bugs in the War on Terror.

Things go swimmingly until that Bolivian drug lord discovers he was conned: he offers twenty million to whomever kills Bob and Klaus. Some of the world’s best assassins descend on Hollywood and the weirdness reaches an apocalyptic level…

 

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Mrs Pollifax Unveiled

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  • Publication date: 25/11/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788423011
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422871
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Mrs Pollifax Unveiled

Dorothy Gilman

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Mrs Pollifax undertakes perhaps her most high-stakes mission of all.

After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, possibly murdered.

Masquerading as her worried aunt, Mrs Pollifax begins a determined search to find her, slipping through Damascus’s crowded souks, and trekking deep into the desert. Yet she is shadowed by deadly enemies, whose sinister agenda threatens not only Mrs P. but the fragile stability of the entire Middle East …

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Mrs Pollifax, Innocent Tourist

  • Publication date: 30/09/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 9781788423007
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422864
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Mrs Pollifax, Innocent Tourist

Dorothy Gilman

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Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan. 

The document encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein’s reign. Yet hardly are the two of them airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern intrigue begin to unwind. Mrs Pollifax’s seat neighbour is not the affable Arab businessman he pretends to be. 

For Mrs P. and Farrell to elude their pursuers in such a politically volatile country is no easy matter. In fact, it can be downright deadly.

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Mrs Pollifax and the Lion Killer

  • Publication date: 22/07/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788422996
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422857
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Mrs Pollifax and the Lion Killer

Dorothy Gilman

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The intrepid Mrs Pollifax is drawn into another nerve-racking mission.

In response to a desperate SOS, young Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs Pollifax joins her, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave risk.

On arrival they soon discover that Sammat has dangerous enemies. Rumors are springing up that he is a sorcerer who is responsible for a rash of shocking murders. So Mrs P. steps in, hunting for the source of the bloody terrorism that threatens them all…

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Mrs Pollifax Pursued

  • Publication date: 29/04/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788422988
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422840
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Mrs Pollifax Pursued

Dorothy Gilman

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The last thing Mrs Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding.

Kadi Hopkirk insists that she is being followed by two men in a dirty white van. Under the cover of darkness, Mrs Pollifax tries to drive Kadi back home, only to have a dark green sedan give them a run for their money and, she begins to suspect, their lives.

Ever resourceful, Mrs P. puts in a call for help to her CIA colleague, Carstairs, who installs them in a safe house. Before she knows it, a dash to safety expands into an assignment that leads to hair-trigger violence in exotic places…

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Love and Miss Harris

  • Publication date: 06/05/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788423070
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788423069
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Love and Miss Harris

Peter Maughan

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Titus Llewellyn-Gwlynne, actor/manager of the Red Lion Theatre, has lost a backer who was going to fund a theatrical tour – when unexpected salvation appears.

Their home theatre in the East End of London having been bombed during the war, The Red Lion Touring Company embarks on a tour of Britain to take a play written by their new benefactress into the provinces.

As they make their vagabond, singing way, they remain unaware that they leave behind in London a man consumed with thoughts of revenge. Revenge which follows them obsessively from town to town, ending in its final act before the last curtain.

This charming series transports the reader to a lost post-war world of touring rep theatre and once-grand people who have fallen on harder times, smoggy streets, and shared bonhomie over a steaming kettle.

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Mrs Pollifax and the Second Thief

  • Publication date: 04/03/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 178842297X
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422833
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Mrs Pollifax and the Second Thief

Dorothy Gilman

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This latest assignment for Mrs Pollifax seems a snap.

She just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell, a former CIA agent turned art dealer, anxiously awaits them.

But Mrs P.’s welcoming committee in Palermo includes a most unlikely CIA agent and several unseen enemies. With mysterious forces hot after them, she and Farrell scurry for safety to a fortified villa, where the chatelaine is almost as unnerving as the dangers she’s protecting them from.

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Mrs Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish

  • Publication date: 04/02/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788422961
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788422826
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Mrs Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish

Dorothy Gilman

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Mrs Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it’s a good thing…

All she has to do is to masquerade as his aunt while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco – and keep him from making an unpleasant ass of himself. But things quickly go wrong. Their first informant is killed, and Mrs Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says he is.

Still, she forges ahead, checking out suspicious informants, and coming to the conclusion that someone is an impostor and someone wants her dead.

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.

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Heart Seizure

  • Publication date: 20/05/2021
  • Paperback ISBN: 1788423267
  • eBook ISBN: 9781788423250
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Heart Seizure

Bill Fitzhugh

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Spence Tailor, a lawyer with an actual set of principles, loves his mama, Rose. Rose – with advanced cardiomyopathy and a rare blood type – is scheduled for a heart transplant.

But when the president’s heart craps out during a photo op three months before the national election, the White House chief of staff orders the FBI to seize the heart that was going to Rose – all in the name of democracy. But Spence isn’t about to let anybody steal what rightfully belongs to his mom.

So with the help of his reluctant older brother, they hijack the heart, inadvertently kidnap a beautiful cardiac surgery resident, and take to the road in a ‘65 Mustang – with all the president’s men in potentially murderous pursuit.

 

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