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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The record holds. But so does the machine.Freyja Cole is twenty-one, brilliant, watchful, and already prepared for a question no one has yet asked her.When an Italian government commission begins tracing suspicious financial flows out of Belarus, what appears at first to be sanctions evasion soon becomes something much larger: a hidden architecture of money, surveillance, compliance and war. The routes are clean. The companies are real. The documents are lawful. The crime has been built to look like obedience.Sent into Minsk under academic cover, Freyja begins gathering more than financial evidence. She finds the human cost: a grandmother who has inherited silence, a teacher who hides truth inside mathematics, a factory worker who reads propaganda by its grammar, and a young man who has never known life outside observation.As Cole, Elena, Sol, Lucian and Astrid pull the record together across Europe and the Caribbean, the system begins to respond. Files alter. Passports are queried. Witnesses are pressured. A formal compliance director steps forward with polished language and a devastating disclosure: the enemy has mapped more than institutions. It has mapped bloodlines.And behind it all, something else is watching.Luciana.Not a villain. Not an ally. A memory that cannot forget.Painted Eyes: Consequences is a dark literary thriller about surveillance, inherited resistance, digital control, family loyalty and the human record that survives when systems try to erase the truth.It is the third book in the Painted Eyes Trilogy and part of the wider Quiet Violence Sequence.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On the fourth of August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate destroyed the port of Beirut. Two hundred and eighteen people died. A seven-year-old girl named Maya was never found.The investigation produced nothing. Three judges recused themselves. The world moved on.GHA did not move on. A Lebanese political analyst who has spent twenty years documenting the deliberate destruction of his country, GHA has assembled four years of evidence pointing to one conclusion: the explosion was not negligence. It was managed. Financially maintained. The outcome of a seven-year decision taken by people who knew what was in Warehouse 12 and chose, every year, to leave it exactly where it was. Now three separate groups have tried to kill him in four months. Through the Special Forces Club in London, he finds Edward Cole. Cole brings Solomon Baptiste - Sol - former 10 Para and 21 SAS, a man of extraordinary calm and specific capabilities. He brings SCM - former Parachute Regiment, Pathfinder, 2ème REP French Foreign Legion - an operator of the rarest quality. And through Elena Marchetti in Milan, he finds the financial thread connecting the Beirut explosion to an Iranian-backed network that Cole has encountered before, wearing different clothes, in a different country, leaving different bodies behind it. The trail runs from Beirut to Cyprus to the Israeli maritime border to Tehran. Through the gas fields that could transform Lebanon's future, if Lebanon is allowed to have one. Through a European financier whose comfortable philanthropic public face conceals thirty years of participation in something much darker. QUIET OPERATIONS is the second Cole novel - darker, wider, and more personal than the first. The world Cole operates in has noticed him. The people above the people he has exposed are watching. Some threads, when you pull them, pull back. For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron, and anyone who has watched the news from Beirut and understood that what they were seeing was not the whole story.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The record holds. But so does the machine.Freyja Cole is twenty-one, brilliant, watchful, and already prepared for a question no one has yet asked her.When an Italian government commission begins tracing suspicious financial flows out of Belarus, what appears at first to be sanctions evasion soon becomes something much larger: a hidden architecture of money, surveillance, compliance and war. The routes are clean. The companies are real. The documents are lawful. The crime has been built to look like obedience.Sent into Minsk under academic cover, Freyja begins gathering more than financial evidence. She finds the human cost: a grandmother who has inherited silence, a teacher who hides truth inside mathematics, a factory worker who reads propaganda by its grammar, and a young man who has never known life outside observation.As Cole, Elena, Sol, Lucian and Astrid pull the record together across Europe and the Caribbean, the system begins to respond. Files alter. Passports are queried. Witnesses are pressured. A formal compliance director steps forward with polished language and a devastating disclosure: the enemy has mapped more than institutions. It has mapped bloodlines.And behind it all, something else is watching.Luciana.Not a villain. Not an ally. A memory that cannot forget.Painted Eyes: Consequences is a dark literary thriller about surveillance, inherited resistance, digital control, family loyalty and the human record that survives when systems try to erase the truth.It is the third book in the Painted Eyes Trilogy and part of the wider Quiet Violence Sequence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - He has never raised his voice in his life.He doesn't need to.When a British detective begins following a money trail out of West Africa, nobody takes him seriously. He is quiet. He is polite. He holds doors open and remembers names and makes people feel entirely at ease.This is the most dangerous thing about him.From the fishing ports of Sierra Leone to the backstreets of Conakry, from the shipping terminals of Kuala Lumpur to the monsoon-soaked streets of Vietnam, from the gilded corruption of Milan's financial elite to the frozen plains of Ukraine, Edward Cole follows a single thread - a thread that connects drug barons, the Italian Mafia, international money laundering, child trafficking, and the deliberate murder of 298 people aboard a civilian aircraft.He is off-book. Unsanctioned. Entirely alone - except for Solomon Baptiste, former 10 Para and 21 SAS, the most peaceful man Cole has ever met, who is called in when conversation is no longer sufficient.Together they will dismantle the most sophisticated criminal architecture in the Western world.Nobody will thank them for it.QUIET VIOLENCE is a thriller unlike any other - built on a true story, told with the precision of a man who was there. It moves with the quiet confidence of its protagonist: unhurried, controlled, devastating when it needs to be.This is not Jason Bourne. This is something older, more dangerous, and distinctly British.The kind of man who buys an umbrella in the airport because his daughter told him to.The kind of man you never see coming.A masterwork of modern espionage fiction. For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron, and anyone who has ever understood that the most powerful thing in any room is controlled silence.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. There is a moment, just before you answer, when something older and faster than you reaches for the words - in the car park with the engine off, at the kitchen table at midnight, in the second before you press send. Usually, it wins.This is a book about that moment, and a quiet discipline for meeting it more honestly. It asks you to believe nothing and to become no one. It simply walks beside you, through ordinary things - a kitchen, the rain, a dog asleep at your feet - until you notice you have been practising a way of seeing all along.Written by a former police officer who had to relearn it in his own body after injury and stroke, it makes no promises. Only a way of remaining with what is real - and the slow recognition that what you were looking for was already here. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Painted Eyes: The AwakeningThe old Brotherhood survived in silence.Now silence is no longer enough.Lucian Auctoritas was never only a name. It was a shield. A constructed identity. A way for a wounded man to survive long enough to prepare the world for what was coming.After Quiet Inheritance, the hidden lines have been revealed, the standing has taken place, and the old work has passed into a new age. But the enemy has also evolved.No longer confined to private rooms, secret societies, or ancient ritual, the Hidden Hand now operates through digital identity, political influence, surveillance systems, financial control, public virtue, and invisible architecture. It does not need chains when it can make permission itself conditional.In response, the Brotherhood begins again.The Sacred Hand rises not as an army, but as a counter-current: witness, memory, loyalty, law, truth, and human sovereignty against a world being quietly redesigned to make obedience look like safety.Lucian must now step beyond survival. Cole's operational world, Freyja's future, the old Brotherhood, and the unfinished work of the Painted Eyes converge as the battle moves from mountains and archives into the digital systems shaping the modern world.The war was never only for power.It was for the right to remain human.The Painted Eyes: The Awakening is Book Two of the Painted Eyes trilogy and a companion to the Quiet Violence series.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Painted Eyes is the prophetic foundation of the Quiet Violence world.Before Edward Cole. Before Quiet Violence. Before the war beneath the surface became visible, there was Lucian - a man shaped by grief, memory, inheritance, and the voice of Lady Fatima.When old symbols begin to return, Lucian is drawn into a hidden current moving beneath ordinary life. What first appears to be family history becomes something far older: a prophecy carried through blood, silence, women who remember, and men who are forced to see what others have buried.At the centre stands Astrid, witness and keeper, bound to Lucian by love, loss, and the terrible knowledge that some stories do not begin with choice. They begin with inheritance.From Denmark to Norway, from private grief to sacred revelation, The Painted Eyes unfolds as a dark literary prophecy about memory, destiny, hidden power, and the line that must eventually lead into the Quiet Violence series.This is not the beginning of violence.This is the warning that came before it.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. He has never raised his voice in his life.He doesn't need to.When a British detective begins following a money trail out of West Africa, nobody takes him seriously. He is quiet. He is polite. He holds doors open and remembers names and makes people feel entirely at ease.This is the most dangerous thing about him.From the fishing ports of Sierra Leone to the backstreets of Conakry, from the shipping terminals of Kuala Lumpur to the monsoon-soaked streets of Vietnam, from the gilded corruption of Milan's financial elite to the frozen plains of Ukraine, Edward Cole follows a single thread - a thread that connects drug barons, the Italian Mafia, international money laundering, child trafficking, and the deliberate murder of 298 people aboard a civilian aircraft.He is off-book. Unsanctioned. Entirely alone - except for Solomon Baptiste, former 10 Para and 21 SAS, the most peaceful man Cole has ever met, who is called in when conversation is no longer sufficient.Together they will dismantle the most sophisticated criminal architecture in the Western world.Nobody will thank them for it.QUIET VIOLENCE is a thriller unlike any other - built on a true story, told with the precision of a man who was there. It moves with the quiet confidence of its protagonist: unhurried, controlled, devastating when it needs to be.This is not Jason Bourne. This is something older, more dangerous, and distinctly British.The kind of man who buys an umbrella in the airport because his daughter told him to.The kind of man you never see coming.A masterwork of modern espionage fiction. For readers of John le Carre, Mick Herron, and anyone who has ever understood that the most powerful thing in any room is controlled silence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On the fourth of August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate destroyed the port of Beirut. Two hundred and eighteen people died. A seven-year-old girl named Maya was never found.The investigation produced nothing. Three judges recused themselves. The world moved on.GHA did not move on. A Lebanese political analyst who has spent twenty years documenting the deliberate destruction of his country, GHA has assembled four years of evidence pointing to one conclusion: the explosion was not negligence. It was managed. Financially maintained. The outcome of a seven-year decision taken by people who knew what was in Warehouse 12 and chose, every year, to leave it exactly where it was. Now three separate groups have tried to kill him in four months. Through the Special Forces Club in London, he finds Edward Cole. Cole brings Solomon Baptiste - Sol - former 10 Para and 21 SAS, a man of extraordinary calm and specific capabilities. He brings SCM - former Parachute Regiment, Pathfinder, 2eme REP French Foreign Legion - an operator of the rarest quality. And through Elena Marchetti in Milan, he finds the financial thread connecting the Beirut explosion to an Iranian-backed network that Cole has encountered before, wearing different clothes, in a different country, leaving different bodies behind it. The trail runs from Beirut to Cyprus to the Israeli maritime border to Tehran. Through the gas fields that could transform Lebanon's future, if Lebanon is allowed to have one. Through a European financier whose comfortable philanthropic public face conceals thirty years of participation in something much darker. QUIET OPERATIONS is the second Cole novel - darker, wider, and more personal than the first. The world Cole operates in has noticed him. The people above the people he has exposed are watching. Some threads, when you pull them, pull back. For readers of John le Carre, Mick Herron, and anyone who has watched the news from Beirut and understood that what they were seeing was not the whole story. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Painted Eyes: The AwakeningThe old Brotherhood survived in silence.Now silence is no longer enough.Lucian Auctoritas was never only a name. It was a shield. A constructed identity. A way for a wounded man to survive long enough to prepare the world for what was coming.After Quiet Inheritance, the hidden lines have been revealed, the standing has taken place, and the old work has passed into a new age. But the enemy has also evolved.No longer confined to private rooms, secret societies, or ancient ritual, the Hidden Hand now operates through digital identity, political influence, surveillance systems, financial control, public virtue, and invisible architecture. It does not need chains when it can make permission itself conditional.In response, the Brotherhood begins again.The Sacred Hand rises not as an army, but as a counter-current: witness, memory, loyalty, law, truth, and human sovereignty against a world being quietly redesigned to make obedience look like safety.Lucian must now step beyond survival. Cole's operational world, Freyja's future, the old Brotherhood, and the unfinished work of the Painted Eyes converge as the battle moves from mountains and archives into the digital systems shaping the modern world.The war was never only for power.It was for the right to remain human.The Painted Eyes: The Awakening is Book Two of the Painted Eyes trilogy and a companion to the Quiet Violence series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. They'll tell you the truth about why West Ham Dave ended up in the pies. They'll tell you with absolute certainty. You'll never eat another one at a football match. There's only one problem. No two of them tell it the same way. In the East End, everybody knew West Ham Dave. They knew he was a grass. They knew the football lot got to him. They knew where he ended up - and they'll swear to it on their nan's life. There's no body. No record. No photograph that survives a second look. There may never have been a Dave at all. Edward Cole, a retired copper turned cold-case reviewer, is handed three dusty boxes marked Operation Pie Crust and told to close the file. He grew up in this world - the pubs, the terraces, the away coaches, the collection tins - and he knows exactly how it talks. What he doesn't know is that the deeper he digs, the less he finds, and the more certain everyone becomes. The deeper Cole investigates, the less certain anything becomes. Every lead generates another lead.Every witness points to another witness. Every answer creates a new question.Some men insist Dave was one of the best lads they ever knew. Others claim he was a nuisance.Some are convinced he is dead. Some swear they saw him last week.All of them are certain. None of them agree.Set against the backdrop of Britain's football culture, working-class communities and the turbulent decades that shaped them, West Ham Dave is a darkly funny and deeply human mystery about memory, loyalty, friendship and the stories people tell each other until those stories become reality.Part cold-case investigation.Part social history.Part urban legend.And somewhere inside it all is a simple question: Did West Ham Dave ever exist at all? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A young man stands at a lectern in a Headquarters room. Sunlight comes in through a window. He takes an oath. Forty years later, in a cabin on a lake, the same man sits down to write what the oath cost him to keep.Between the two rooms lies a working life. A chokepoint at a station that closed when the figures said it could not. An operation that was renamed by the institution that had not run it. A meeting at Sandford in which a senior officer described the work incorrectly to a wider audience and the witness corrected him. A corridor walked alone after the truth had been spoken and the institution had decided what to do about the speaker. A radio-net that was switched off because the visibility of a breach mattered more than the breach itself.And, between the work, the rest of a life. Fifi in the chair by the window, whose hands brought about the internal wishes of her clients. Sarah, whose name lives on the page of another book. Marie, taken in Africa in front of the two men who never finished leaving the day. The cabin where five griefs sit in the same air without being spoken. The porch where five mugs are raised to two women, without words.The Making of Edward Cole is the closing volume of the Quiet Violence series. It is not a police memoir. It is not a fictionalised autobiography. It is not a grievance text. It is a literary witness statement, lightly disguised, about a man learning to see institutions, people, loyalty, betrayal, grief and himself - and what he became by the seeing.Edited by Astrid. The reader is warned there is considerable FLOB throughout.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A clear will. A patient man. And the long, lawful, courteous unpicking of a dead man's last wish.No one is murdered. The weapon is procedure.Good call - "trust the reader" means leaning into the conceit. The book's own bargain (you know the end before the beginning) becomes the hook. That's the braver choice and it self-selects for exactly the reader who'll love this book. I'll give you the full set so you have everything the KDP listing fields and the A+ Content module can take.A note on how this works mechanically: the book description is the field that appears on the product page (KDP allows up to 4,000 characters and accepts limited HTML for bold/line breaks). The tagline and bullets are for A+ Content or the top of the description. I've written everything in your British English and kept it free of hype-words and false promises, matching the book's own restraint.1. Tagline / hook line(One line. Use it at the very top of the description, on the cover, or as the A+ banner text.)You will know how it ends before they do. That is the cruelty, and the bargain, of this book.Two alternatives, if you want a different register: A clear will. A patient man. And the long, lawful, courteous unpicking of a dead man's last wish.No one is murdered. The weapon is procedure.2. Short blurb(50 words. For ads, metadata, or the "editorial review" slot. Punchy.)A hill farmer leaves his daughters a farm, and a will so clear no honest person could mistake it. It is not the will that fails. Over five courteous years, a family is taken apart in writing - and only a stranger with a dog thinks to check the foundation.3. Full book description(For the main KDP description field. Written to mirror the book's own conceit - the reader is let into the secret, exactly as the prologue does it. Formatted with the bold/spacing KDP accepts.)There is a letter on a desk in a grey northern town, and it will never be sent.Begin with that, because it is the end - and in this book you are allowed to know the end before the beginning. That is the bargain. You will see everything the daughters cannot. And you will be unable to lift a finger.Arthur Brand died and left his four daughters a hill farm, and a will written so plainly that no honest person could mistake what he meant. He was right about that. It could not be argued with. That was never going to be the problem.The problem was the people.No one is murdered in these pages. There is no knife, no stair, no scream in the night. The weapon is procedure. The weapon is delay. The weapon is the slow, patient, professional work of turning a clear thing into a matter to be considered - and then considering it, gently, expensively, for years, until a family that was once as whole as a hand is torn down to the bone.And the cruellest part, the part you must carry furthest: the thing that would have ended it all was true, and provable, and sitting in plain sight the entire time. It was disclosed. It passed through every hand in the case. And it did not matter - because the machine was never built to find the truth. It was built to be survived.Then a man comes over the hill in the rain, with a dog, and asks the one question thirty years of policing taught him to ask before any other: did anyone ever actually check?The Will Takers is a novel about how an ordinary, decent, lawful system can ruin a family without a single wicked person anywhere inside it - and about the two daughters, and the one stubborn outsider, who refused to let it finish its work.A true thing, lightly disguised. Read carefully. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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