The Crusader’s CrossThe gripping new Ben Hope thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller. THEY THOUGHT HE WAS AN EASY TARGET. THEY THOUGHT WRONG. Its a snowy, peaceful Christmas at Le Val, the rural haven that is home to ex SAS soldier Ben Hope and his associates. With most of the team away for the festive holiday, Ben, recovering from an accident, is one of the skeleton crew guarding the compound. Thats when a ruthless Corsican crime gang, knowing that Ben is injured and

The long absence has always been the subject of suspicion

000km from his pregnant wife and the birth of his first child

sought-after restaurant All Time

Steering away from abstractions

where poetic verse explores the dark corridors of the human psyche with searing intensity

What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs

all I dream about

and wonder-filled life

they escape the drudgery of their work by reading novels in a secret hideout

For those who are spiritual but not religious

“Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail

The All-Female Militia Fighting ISIS: Embed with Cicek Mustafa Zibo and the thousands of women in an all-female militia in Syria