Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Stockmen / Black Wind / Gweilo / The Blood-Dimmed Tide

 

Rosemary Highgrove-Jones's mother has groomed her as a socialite, and her father has banned her from working on their Glenelg station. But all Rosemary wants is to join in the tough life as a drover, roustabout, fencer ... just as long as she can work with horses and dogs on the land she loves. Then she finds out that family and love-not to mention cattle dogs! are more of a challenge than she could ever have guessed.

 

Near the end of World War II, the Japanese sent submarines to attack America with biological weapons. They never made it to the target, but now evil lurks under the waves of the Pacific, and a twisted billionaire is about to turn it to his own ends. Another mission for underwater hero Dirk Pitt, in the first novel Clive Cussler has written with his son Dirk.

 

When his father was posted to Hong Kong in the early 1950s, seven-year-old Martin Booth found himself with the whole colony to explore. He ventured into places normally closed to a 'Gweilo', and made many Chinese friends. His delightful, often humorous memoir paints a loving portrait of a vibrant city rich in tradition- -a true story that reads like the most charming fiction.

 

John Madden may have retired from Scotland Yard, but his instincts are still excellent. When a young girl is murdered, he is convinced the attacker will strike again. Soon he is helping his former colleagues in their investigations, in a desperate hunt before the killer goes to ground