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22 Yards
It’s exactly twenty-five years after India’s spectacular World Cup victory at Lords, and Indian cricket captain Mayank Pradhan is preparing for the match of his life: the Twenty20 World Cup final.While an entire nation waits for the finals with bated breath, Mayank learns that some of his team mates have been bought by bookies. As Mayank grapples with myraid emotions, he relives some of the darkest moments of his life after India’s abysmal showing at the ODI World Cup a year earlier. He revisits a damning no-holds-barred report that he had prepared, citing the reasons for India’s defeat. Reasons that ranged from ball-tampering to drugs, from philandering to betting. Hunted by these memories, with the Twenty20 World Cup looming before him, Mayank must find out whether the match has been fixed, ease underlying tensions, keep team morale up – and play the best cricket of his life. The chronicle of one’s man journey through the fickleness that is life and cricket, 22 yards is an unputdownable thriller.
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Skinned Animal
Modibo Njala - black dictator, psychopath and high on the F.O.'s hit list - is now President Njala, an officially approved African Statesman in London for top-level talks, his grossest sins forgiven and forgotten.Two years ago, a man left London with orders to kill Njala. Now, after two years in Njala's hell-hole jails, Richard Abbott is back - with a gun and a job to finish.
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Just Desserts
"Katherine Bourne has been a member of that endangered species, the full-time house-wife, for over twenty years, but things have finally turned sour. While she disembowels her delicious home grown tomatoes she dreams of mudering her husband. Why can't Harry hav an affair with a younger woman and just leave, like normal men?But Harry has no intention of giving up his home comforts; he's been sampling forbidden fruits for a long while. Glamorous banker Carol accompanies him on weekend trips and business beanos, but she too is beginning to find that the pleasure's growing stale.So who's fooling who? Harry, happy in his illusion that he's a sex god and that all his women love him really? Katherine and Carol, unlikely partners in Harry's parallel lives?Against a background of succulent suppers, cosy Cambridge cafes and the unexpected joys of unexplored freedom, the women decide that revenge is a dish best eated cold. And discover the perfect recipe..."
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The Perfect Seduction
The Crighton family has been the cause of scandal and heartache for Bobbie Miller--and she wants revenge. All she has to do is seduce the sinfully attractive Luke Crighton and the family secrets will be hers to expose. But the perfect seduction backfires when Bobbie becomes ensnared in her own dangerous trap.