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With plague and violence stalking the streets and a new Cold War brewing in the East, America has never been more unprepared to face her enemies. There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling. When CIA assassin Jason Trapp is called to the Middle East to identify a man suspected to be feared ISIS terrorist Khaled al-Shakiri, he expects to be in and out in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas. After surviving the most violent prison break the region has ever seen, Trapp is left chasing shadows.

Brought to you by Penguin. "We had a chance, and we were going to hold onto it with both hands." THE NEW TEAR JERKER FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A THOUSAND BOY KISSES AND A THOUSAND BROKEN PIECES . . . Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamt of becoming a novelist. To write...

It's out there, it's ALWAYS been out there - just no one believed it. Governments, Black Ops, Rich Businessmen...All want alien tech and some are going to great lengths, illegal lengths, to procure it. Someone went so far as to endanger a young girl's family. A young girl who wrote a letter to the Queen Bitch.

Theo Briggs is a rule follower. He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed. Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and embarrassing situations—and Caleb is about ready to call the whole thing off. When Theo and Caleb meet in the basement of an old Catholic church that's rumored to be haunted, an instant and electric connection forms between them.

Jacob Mark er vendt tilbage til Folketinget efter en syv måneder lang stress-sygemelding, og han kastes direkte ud i arbejdet. Privat har han sammen med sin kone, borgmester i Holbæk Kommune Christina K. Hansen, købt en bondegård, og her kommer lille Theodor til verden, mens en tanke fylder mere og mere som månederne går: "Skulle jeg ikke være vendt tilbage?" Tanken ender i et opsigtsvækkende politisk exit. Jacob Mark træder ud af rampelyset og ind i en mere normal tilværelse, hvor der også er tid til familieliv, traktorkørsel og æbleplantage.

Det ramte avisernes forsider med et brag, da SF’s 30-årige gruppeformand, Jacob Mark, fortalte, at han havde mistet det meste af sit syn som følge af stress. I bogen Fartblind tager Jacob Mark os med bag kulisserne på nogle vilde, kulørte og travle år med valgkampe, MeToo, shitstorme og politiske sejre og nederlag, der undervejs blev ledsaget af voldsom angst og stress. Hudløst ærligt fortæller han om sit livs største krise og kampen for at finde sig selv under sin syv måneder lange sygemelding.

'Wonderful, compassionate, unpredictable' GRAEME SIMSION, bestselling author of The Rosie Project 'After I finished, I just thought "Yes, this is why I read". To find gems such as this' ***** Reader Review 'I loved this original, at times painful but truly thought-provoking book. A triumph'...

Theo Briggs just wants to be perfect. The perfect son. The perfect friend. The perfect boyfriend. But the harder he tries to keep up appearances, the more difficult juggling all of those expectations becomes. Where Theo usually turns to his faith for comfort, he now finds confusion and apathy.