After taking a picture of a sumo wrestling star for his Tokyo newspaper, photographer Ken Harada soon finds out that someone wants his photograph very much.

George Keegan, a Dublin lawyer, wakes to find himself lying in a pool of blood. He can't remember what happened the night before. He soon has a clue when he sees the body of his girlfriend and colleague, Orla, on the TV news. But who killed Orla? And why? George wants to know. And so does Inspector Sean Murphy of the Dublin police.

When a brick smashes the window of a family-run Internet cafe, a customer tries to help but finds himself in danger.

Murder mystery story, with the police in a race against time to catch a serial murderer before he kills again.

Secret agent Ian Munro is sent to the islands of the Caribbean to discover what two notorious terrorists are doing there. He tracks down the men and their beautiful female accomplice, and then follows them as they put their plan to dominate the world into action. How can he stop them? And what about the kidnapped boy and his nuclear scientist father?

Inspector Jenny Logan of the Edinburgh police force takes on her first murder case.

"Five stories to make you smile, and think: a Chinese lion dancer turns round and round; an old wooden wheel sits on an English pub wall; an American teenager makes a new wheel for a car; a bicycle taxi driver in Singapore helps a sick girl; and an English student finds a strange, very old disc"--Page 4 of cover.

Diamonds smuggled from the bloody civil-war zones of Africa and traded illegally for weapons are known as "blood diamonds." London journalists Harley Kirkpatrick and Annie Shepherd sense the scoop of a lifetime when they try to trap a smuggler.