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Andy Lane

  • Andy Lane
April 17, 1963
Young Sherlock: Night Break
Snake Bite
Torchwood
Young Sherlock Holmes. Knife Edge
Young Sherlock: Stone Cold
Awol. Last Boy Standing
  • Awol. Last Boy Standing

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Special Agent Bex arranges to meet teenage Kieron in a caf to tell him that she can't risk his life any more. She parks her car and seconds later it blows up, scattering flaming wreckage everywhere. She needs to get Kieron out of danger's way--but just as they get to the flat, it too explodes. Bex is forced to face the possibility that someone wants to kill her team, but whoever it is doesn't know about Kieron. That may be their only saving grace. But how were the explosions managed? And who wants them dead?

    Awol. Last Boy Standing
    4.0
  • Following his last thrilling adventure Sherlock Holmes has been sent to live in Oxford to focus on his education. But something strange is happening in the university pathology labs. Body parts are being stolen from corpses and are being posted one by one to an address in Wales. What can these sinister goings-on mean, and what message is someone trying to send? In an attempt to find out, Sherlock travels to Wales and finds himself in an isolated manor house where strange things have been happening. Can he get to the bottom of another baffling mystery? Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

    Young Sherlock: Stone Cold
    4.2
  • Young Sherlock Holmes is in Ireland to solve his sixth intriguing mystery Something sinister is afoot in the house in the west of Ireland in which Sherlock is staying. There are frightened whisperings among the servants and the house's owners are clearly scared. But who - or what? - has terrified them so much that nobody will speak out? Young Sherlock must bring all his powers of deduction to unravelling his greatest mystery yet. Another fast-paced, brilliantly plotted adventure as teenage Sherlock investigates a new crime and comes up against a fresh crop of sinister, clever criminals.

    Young Sherlock Holmes. Knife Edge
    4.2
  • Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai.

    Snake Bite
    4.1
  • Young Sherlock: Night Break

    • 296 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Sherlock's mother has died, his father has disappeared in India and his sister is acting strangely. The Holmes family seems to be falling apart, and not even brother Mycroft can keep it together. But while Sherlock is worrying about all of this, a man living nearby vanishes in his own house while Sherlock and Mycroft are visiting. Where did he go, and what is the connection with a massive canal being built in Egypt? The answer will rock the world, and tear the Holmes family apart!

    Young Sherlock: Night Break
    4.1
  • Young Sherlock: Fire Storm

    • 344 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    Sherlock Holmes's friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. A clever clue points Sherlock to Scotland. He is lead into a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers and a man who claims he can raise the dead. Before he knows it, Sherlock is fighting for his life as he begins to work out out what has happened to his friends. Will he be fast enough to save them?

    Young Sherlock: Fire Storm
    4.1
  • The Babylon File

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    J. Michael Straczynski's epic space opera Babylon 5 is unusual in that the science fiction show comprises a single story evolving over five years. This volume provides a broad overview of the tale as well as examining the minutiae of each episode. There are detailed plot synopses, a guide to the station that gives the series its name, a history of the Babylon 5 universe, and a lighter look at the characters. The book also quotes some of the show's more humorous dialogue. There is an introductory essay by the programme's creator, and an enlightened discussion of the series' influences, themes, and the famed story arc.

    The Babylon File
    4.0
  • When Sherlock's brother id discovered holding a knife and leaning over a corpse, it seems a clear-cut case of murder. But Sherlock isn't so sure. -- Jacket flap.

    Young Sherlock Holmes : Black Ice
    4.0
  • Young Sherlock: Red Leech

    • 340 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    Sherlock Holmes knows that adults keep secrets. But he didn't expect to find the world's most famous assassin living in Surrey when he's meant to be dead. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk everything to discover it for yourself. So begins an adventure that will lead Sherlock to America, to the centre of a deadly web - where life and death are cheap, and truth has a price no sane person would pay...

    Young Sherlock: Red Leech
    4.0
  • Lost Worlds

    • 356 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    The first in a bang-up-to-the-minute new series from the bestselling author of Young Sherlock Holmes. Callum Challenger is a boy with a mission: to track down supposedly mythological creatures and capture their DNA. But while Callum and his friends want to save these beings, an aggressive pharmaceutical company wants to wipe them out. In this fast-paced, high-tech story, Callum and a group of misfit mates – a computer hacker, a freerunner, an ex-marine and a girl with a chip on her shoulder – criss-cross the globe, desperately trying to stay one step ahead of their enemy.

    Lost Worlds
    3.9
  • Originators (Netherspace #2)

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    "It’s plausible, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining” Publishers Weekly on NetherspaceIt's half-way through the twenty-first century.Contact with alien races was made forty years ago, but communication turns out to be impossible. We don't share a way of thinking or common sensory inputs with the aliens, let alone a grammar. But there is trade, done on a basis of putting things on a table and taking them off again until agreement is reached. There is no obvious pattern to the trades. Alien anti-gravity technology was traded for a bicycle tyre. Human science has become fixated on understanding alien technology – with little success. We can learn what it does and how to operate it. We don’t know how it works – or how to fix it. The world may be a better place but it's no longer our own. We may be colonizing the stars, but we're dependant on inexplicable alien Faster-Than-Light technology. This is controlled by aliens we call the Gliese and is the only constant trade: FTL engines for human beings, any age or condition, as long as they're alive. We don't know what happens to them, but rumour says they are taken to a Nirvana where all illnesses will be healed. Their families are also very well compensated. Interstellar immigration and trade are central to the world's economy. There is no shortage of volunteers.

    Originators (Netherspace #2)
    3.3
  • 1868 England. Sherlock Holmes, age 14, unexpectedly summers with Farnham relations and befriends orphan Matt. Why does a dark cloud float from a corpse covered in red boils? Sherlock fights, runs, gets caught, drugged, whipped, ordered killed; defending bystander is fatally knifed. Americans logical tutor Amycus Crowe and daughter Virginia in well-fitting breeches help.

    Death Cloud
    3.8
  • BREAKING: Lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris, The Throne, comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts? Nicholas Madden is one of the best actors of his generation. His personal life is consistently a shambles, but he'll always have his art--and The Throne is going to be his legacy. Then his costar walks off the runway and into rehearsal. The role of a lifetime is about to be sunk by a total amateur. Chris Lavalle is out, gorgeous and totally green. He has thousands of Instagram followers, a string of gorgeous exes and more ad campaigns to his name than one can count. But he's more than just a pretty face, and The Throne is his chance to prove it. If only Nicholas wasn't a belligerent jerk with a chip on his shoulder and a face carved by the gods. Eight weeks of filming, eight weeks of 24/7 togetherness bring Nicholas and Chris closer than the producers had dared to dream. Chemistry? So very much not a problem. But as The Throne gets set to wrap and real life comes calling, they'll have to rewrite the ending of another love story: their own.

    Eight Weeks in Paris
    3.7
  • Torchwood: Slow decay

    • 250 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    When Torchwood track an energy surge to a Cardiff nightclub, the team finds the police are already at the scene. Five teenagers have died in a fight, and lying among the bodies is an extraterrestrial device. Next morning, they discover the corpse of a Weevil, its face and neck eaten away, seemingly by human teeth. And on the streets of Cardiff, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary hunger is attacking people and eating her victims. The job of a lifetime it might be, but working for Torchwood is putting big strains on Gwen's relationship with Rhys. While she decides to spice up their love life with the help of alien technology, Rhys decides it's time to sort himself out -- better music, healthier food, lose some weight. Luckily, a friend has mentioned Doctor Scotus's weight-loss clinic...

    Torchwood: Slow decay
    3.7
  • The World of Austin Powers

    • 120 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    The World of Austin Powers is the ultimate companion for Austin Powers fans. For the first time in our cryogenically altered universe, you will be invited to take a peek into Austin's World, up-close, behind the scenes and very very personal. From the moment of his inception as an International Man of Mystery, to his flirtation with Felicity Shagwell in The Spy Who Shagged Me, and now getting foxy with Foxxy Cleopatra in the latest film, this is the ultimate guide to the Powers universe. There has never been a man quite like Austin (or Dr Evil, for that matter) and there has never been a book quite like this. The World of Austin Powers will be a visual celebration of all things Powers. The book will contain over 350 exclusive stills and photographs taken from all three films and will feature concept artwork of Austin's famous gadgets and Shag Pad; cross-sections of Dr Evil's Underground lair, cutaways of their vehicles and weapons; and not forgetting of course, such memorable characters as Mini-Me, Vanessa Kensington and Fat Bastard. Plus some fantastic dress-up Austin and Felicity paper dolls The book will tie-in with the release of the third Austin Powers film and following the

    The World of Austin Powers
    3.3
  • From Cardiff, Wales, the Torchwood team fights aliens. Captain Jack Harkness, from UK BBC Doctor Who TV series leads Gwen Cooper, and Toshiko Sato to a monster in a bathroom, a mystery at an army base, and stolen nuclear fuel rods. Meanwhile, Owen Harper vanishes from the hub, when a Second Reality game leads him to an ex-girlfriend.

    Another Life
    3.5
  • Netherspace

    • 379 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Matches the high notes of [Frederik] Pohl (Gateway) and Peter Watts (Blindsight) while adding enough new ideas to sing its own dissonant song. B&N; SFF blog A dark look at what could be hiding in space waiting for us to let our guard down. - Booklist A tense, provocative story, which puts a truly original spin on the idea of intergalactic interaction. It's plausible, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining as it sets the stage for future installments and even more questions. - Publishers Weekly A unique world that happens to be familiar, great character development, a fun change for the human race, and fast pacing leaves this as one science fiction book that you'll want to pick up! ScienceFiction.com One of the best original science fiction novels I've read. Alien races are again beyond the understanding of mankind and I couldn't be happier. Highest possible recommendation. SciFi Pulse

    Netherspace
    3.3
  • Practical Conservation

    Site Assessment and Management Planning

    An Open University coursebook, this covers the assessment of the value of a piece of land and planning its long-term management. Emphasis is placed on maintaining areas of high value, enhancing others, creating new conservation areas where possible, and integrating all with land use policies.

    Practical Conservation
  • The Jephthah Inheritance

    Reflections on the Sacrifice of the Church's Children on the Altar of Evangelism

    • 248 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Exploring the parallels between biblical sacrifices and modern-day sacrifices made by missionaries and church workers, the book delves into the justifications and flawed theology that drive these choices. Andrew Lane critically examines the emotional and spiritual toll on families, highlighting the policies that often prioritize evangelism over the well-being of children. Through this insightful analysis, he sheds light on the painful consequences of misplaced priorities within the Christian community.

    The Jephthah Inheritance
  • Rätsel und Herausforderungen stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser fesselnden Erzählung. Die Protagonisten müssen ihre Fähigkeiten und ihren Verstand einsetzen, um komplexe Aufgaben zu meistern. Die Geschichte fördert nicht nur die Kreativität, sondern fordert auch die Leser dazu auf, aktiv mitzudenken und eigene Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln. Mit einer spannenden Handlung und unerwarteten Wendungen bleibt die Spannung bis zur letzten Seite erhalten. Ideal für alle, die gerne knobeln und Rätsel lösen.

    Sherlock & You, Band 1: Das Rätsel um das verschwundene Haus. Ein Rätsel-Krimi von "Young Sherlock Holmes"-Erfolgsautor Andrew Lane!
    4.8
  • Der 16-jährige David ist todkrank. Seine einzige Hoffnung: eine äußerst seltene Affenart. Diese trägt angeblich ein Enzym in sich, aus dem ein neues Heilmittel hergestellt werden kann. Kurzerhand reist Lukas in den Dschungel von Costa Rica, um einen der Affen nach Las Vegas zu bringen. Doch dann wird das Tier entführt – und die Erpresser verlangen ein mörderisch hohes Lösegeld … Nun sind Lukas’ Instinkte als Secret Protector gefragt!

    Secret Protector, Band 2: Mörderische Erpressung
    4.0
  • Er ist lässig. Er ist durchtrainiert. Er bleibt am liebsten unter dem Radar. Doch wenn es hart auf hart kommt, stellt sich Lukas Crowe den schlimmsten Gangstern. Thomas und Tina schweben in großer Gefahr. Der Grund: Die Geschwister sind der Schlüssel zu einer mächtigen Waffe – und werden deshalb von der finsteren Nemor Corporation gejagt. Als Lukas Crowe verhindert, dass Thomas und Tina vor seinen Augen entführt werden, ahnt er davon noch nichts. Doch schon bald wird ihm klar, dass er es mit einem gefährlichen Gegner zu tun hat – dem gefährlichsten, dem er je gegenüberstand … Ist dieser Einsatz eine Nummer zu groß für den Secret Protector? *** Band 3 der Action-Reihe von „Young Sherlock Holmes“-Autor Andrew Lane! *** Safari in der Savanne Afrikas. Verfolgungsjagd durch die Totenstadt. Angriff auf eine alte Burg. *** Lukas Crowes dritter Einsatz als Secret Protector! *** Entdecke alle Action-Abenteuer rund um den „Secret Protector“: • Band 1: Tödliches Spiel • Band 2: Mörderische Erpressung • Band 3: Bedrohliches Vermächtnis

    Secret Protector, Band 3: Bedrohliches Vermächtnis
    3.0
  • Einsatz in Tokio

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Agent Without Licence – in tödlicher Gefahr Das AR-Equipment, mit dem Kieron und Bex ihre Missionen durchführen, funktioniert plötzlich nicht mehr. Der VR-Link ist unterbrochen. Auf der Suche nach den Saboteuren fliegt Bex nach Japan, wo sich das geheime Satellitenkontrollzentrum befindet. Mit Kierons Hilfe gelingt es ihr, in das von Wachrobotern geschützte Gebäude einzudringen. Gleichzeitig entdeckt Kieron zu Hause in Newcastle, dass eine rechtsextreme Vereinigung Zugang zu einer giftigen Chemikalie hat, die per Funk aktiviert werden kann. Hunderttausende Menschen könnten auf einen Schlag sterben. Können Kieron und Bex die Welt retten – und werden sie die Mission lebend überstehen? Young Sherlock Holmes-Autor Andrew Lane liefert mit »Agent Impossible« atemlose Spannung und rasante Action.

    Einsatz in Tokio
    3.0
  • Mission Tod in Venedig

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Agent Without Licence – in tödlicher Gefahr Special Agent Bex ist auf dem Weg zu Kieron, um ihm zu sagen, dass er nicht mehr als Agent arbeiten kann. Doch Sekunden, nachdem sie aus ihrem Auto gestiegen ist, explodiert es in einem flammenden Inferno. Um Kieron in Sicherheit zu bringen, fährt sie mit ihm zu dem geheimen Apartment, das sie angemietet hat – nur um dort den nächsten Sprengsatz zünden zu sehen. Jemand will ihr Team ausschalten. Aber wer? Der geheimnisvolle Killer scheint nichts von Kieron zu wissen und das ist ihre Chance. Schon steckt Kieron mitten in einer neuen Jagd auf Leben und Tod.

    Mission Tod in Venedig
    3.5
  • Agent Without Licence – in tödlicher Gefahr In einem Forschungsinstitut in New Mexico hat es mehrere Todesfälle gegeben. Dort werden streng geheime Waffensysteme für den MI6 entwickelt. Agentin Bex hat den Auftrag, zu recherchieren, ob jemand gegen die britischen Interessen arbeitet. Selbst kann sie das nicht tun, denn die Chefin des Sicherheitsdienstes kennt sie. So muss Bex Kieron noch einmal um Hilfe bitten und er reist an Bex‘ Stelle undercover nach Albuquerque – mit falschem Pass als junges Computergenie. Während Bex ermittelt, scheint etwas noch viel Unheilvolleres zu drohen: Kieron wird in den Nahen Osten entführt. Und nicht nur er ist in Gefahr, sondern Milliarden Menschen …

    Undercover in New Mexico
    3.5
  • AGENT IMPOSSIBLE - Operation Mumbai

    Start der actionreichen Reihe von Young-Sherlock-Holmes-Autor Andrew Lane

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Agent Without Licence – zwei Teenager retten die Welt Kieron und sein Freund Sam, zwei ganz normale Teenager, hängen gerade im Fastfoodladen ab, als der Mann am Nebentisch vor aller Augen entführt wird. Dabei ist ihm etwas heruntergefallen: ein Headset und eine Brille. Als Kieron die Brille aufsetzt, hat er plötzlich eine Menschenmenge in Mumbai vor Augen. Und durch das Headset hört er Bex, eine MI6-Agentin. Ohne Bradley – den Mann, der entführt wurde – kommt Bex nicht an die Informationen, die sie braucht. Unversehens ist Kieron Teil einer brandgefährlichen Mission um skrupellose Killer und tödliche Waffen … Young Sherlock Holmes-Autor Andrew Lane liefert mit »Agent Impossible« atemlose Spannung und rasante Action.

    AGENT IMPOSSIBLE - Operation Mumbai
    3.7
  • Agent Impossible. Operation Mumbai

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Agent Without Licence Kieron und sein Freund Sam, zwei ganz normale Teenager, hängen gerade im Fastfoodladen ab, als der Mann am Nebentisch vor aller Augen entführt wird. Dabei ist ihm etwas heruntergefallen: ein Headset und eine Brille. Als Kieron die Brille aufsetzt, hat er plötzlich eine Menschenmenge in Mumbai vor Augen. Und durch das Headset hört er Bex, eine MI6-Agentin. Ohne Bradley – den Mann, der entführt wurde – kommt Bex nicht an die Informationen, die sie braucht. Unversehens ist Kieron Teil einer brandgefährlichen Mission um skrupellose Killer und tödliche Waffen …

    Agent Impossible. Operation Mumbai
    3.4
  • Lukas, 17, reagiert blitzschnell, als vor seinen Augen der Bruder der Profi-Gamerin Una entführt wird. Doch nach einer wilden Verfolgungsjagd durch New Orleans entkommen die Kidnapper. Und schicken kurz darauf ihre Forderung: Una muss bei einer Gaming-Weltmeisterschaft in Dubai absichtlich verlieren - sonst stirbt ihr Bruder ... Ab 12

    Secret Protector. Tödliches Spiel
    3.8
  • Agent Impossible

    Einsatz in Tokio

    Agent Without Licence – in tödlicher Gefahr Das AR-Equipment, mit dem Kieron und Bex ihre Missionen durchführen, funktioniert plötzlich nicht mehr. Der VR-Link ist unterbrochen. Auf der Suche nach den Saboteuren fliegt Bex nach Japan, wo sich das geheime Satellitenkontrollzentrum befindet. Mit Kierons Hilfe gelingt es ihr, in das von Wachrobotern geschützte Gebäude einzudringen. Gleichzeitig entdeckt Kieron zu Hause in Newcastle, dass eine rechtsextreme Vereinigung Zugang zu einer giftigen Chemikalie hat, die per Funk aktiviert werden kann. Hunderttausende Menschen könnten auf einen Schlag sterben. Können Kieron und Bex die Welt retten – und werden sie die Mission lebend überstehen?

    Agent Impossible
  • AGENT IMPOSSIBLE - Undercover in New Mexico

    Die Fortsetzung der actionreichen Agenten-Reihe

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Agent Without Licence – in tödlicher Gefahr In einem Forschungsinstitut in New Mexico hat es mehrere Todesfälle gegeben. Dort werden streng geheime Waffensysteme für den MI6 entwickelt. Agentin Bex hat den Auftrag, zu recherchieren, ob jemand gegen die britischen Interessen arbeitet. Selbst kann sie das nicht tun, denn die Chefin des Sicherheitsdienstes kennt sie. So muss Bex Kieron noch einmal um Hilfe bitten und er reist an Bex‘ Stelle undercover nach Albuquerque – mit falschem Pass als junges Computergenie. Während Bex ermittelt, scheint etwas noch viel Unheilvolleres zu drohen: Kieron wird in den Nahen Osten entführt. Und nicht nur er ist in Gefahr, sondern Milliarden Menschen … Young Sherlock Holmes-Autor Andrew Lane liefert mit »Agent Impossible« atemlose Spannung und rasante Action.

    AGENT IMPOSSIBLE - Undercover in New Mexico