Tom Clegg
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Sharpe returns to England and is ordered to the North where he is to command the local militia in a troubled town. It is here that Sharpe faces an agonizing decision - whether to side with the town's corrupt gentry or to support his own kind, the rough and tough of the world who are abused by their superiors.
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The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. 'The Admiral' is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. 'The Admiral' is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord's...
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Based on a captivating true story of men taken to the edge of survival in the Persian Gulf War. An elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines to take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and they're surrounded by Saddam's army, their only hope is to risk capture in a desperate 185-kilometer run to the Syrian border!