William Shaw

London, November 1968. The decade is drawing its last breath. In Marylebone CID, suspects are beaten in the cells and the only woman is resigning. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his intray and a mutilated body on his hands. The dead man was the wayward son of a rising MP with the ear of the home office - and everywhere Breen turns to investigate, he finds himself obstructed and increasingly alienated. But PR wary politicians can't stop him talking to the art dealer Robert 'Groovy Bob' Fraser; whose glamorous parties mask a spreading heroin addiction among London's young and beautiful. He begins to see that the abuse of power is at every level of society. And when his actions endanger those at the top, he becomes their target. Out in the cold, banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, Breen is finally forced to fight fire with fire. William Shaw paints the real portrait of London's swinging sixties. Authentic, powerful and poignant, A House of Knives reveals the shadow beyond the spotlight and the crimes committed in the name of liberation.

FREE LOVE. DEADLY PRICE.'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction' Peter James'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' Val McDermid'A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties' C. J. SansomThe RunawayA nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road. The RejectDS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case. The RookieUntil new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough. And as hippies slam doors in their face, and locals suspect the new African neighbours, Breen and Tozer tread down a perilous path, closing in on a cruel conspiracy that goes far beyond class, colour and creed.

A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, 'Leveraging Migration for Africa' is the first comprehensive publication on harnessing migration, remittances, and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere are grappling with difficult choices on how to manage migration. Policy makers can help leverage the contributions of migrants to the development of Africa, reduce remittance costs, improve the efficiency of remittance markets in both origin and destination countries, and address the needs of the origin countries without restricting the emigration of high-skilled professionals. Innovative financing mechanisms such as issuance of diaspora bonds and securitization of future remittance flows can help finance big-ticket projects, such as railways, roads, power plants, and institutions of higher learning that will, step by step, help to transform Africa. This volume contributes to a greater understanding of migration and its potential role in Africa's development.

Combining engaging discussions and stimulating case studies, BUSINESS ETHICS: A TEXTBOOK WITH CASES, International Edition brings you a comprehensive survey of business ethics that will guide you toward becoming an ethical professional, even if you have never studied philosophy before. Rich with real-world examples, BUSINESS ETHICS: A TEXTBOOK WITH CASES, International Edition invites you to critically analyze and apply a broad range of philosophical concepts and principles to today's most important issues in business and beyond.

This is about the late 20th-century history of the Southcentral community, and about why the music that came from there is so potent. Every block in Southcentral contains at least one boy who wants to be a rapper. This work is about seven young men, all trying to make it in the rap business.

Dixon, Illinois, is the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan. Dickson (or Dikson), Siberia, is the northernmost town in the world, a place where polar bears are a traffic hazard, and, at the beginning of this story, a restricted area of the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, closed to foreigners. In 1984 the London "Sunday Times" published an unsympathetic article about economic difficulties in Dixon, Illinois, symptomatic of the failure of Reaganism. The article was picked up and given an even more anti-capitalist slant by the Soviet press, under the title "Dixon: A Community of Broken Hearts". Two Siberian journalists conceived the idea of linking Dixon, Illinois, with Dickson, Siberia, and wrote to Bill Shaw, editor of the Dixon local newspaper, enquiring about contacts between the two small towns. Shaw almost misfiled the letter in his waste basket, but fished it out on second thought, and enlisted the Mayor of Dixon in the effort to develop friendship between the two communities. The local Soviet newspaper for the Taimyr peninsula, where Dickson is situated, produced an edition in English, which was sent to Dixon, and reproduced as a supplement in the local newspaper, eliciting an intense response from many people in the town. Yet there were sceptics who insisted that Dixon community leaders were becoming dupes of the Soviets, and at any earlier period these sceptics might have been proved right. No one could then know for sure that many of the 15,000 residents of Dixon were becoming personally involved in one of the most momentous events of modern history: the rapid disintegration of the USSR. The story of this cultural contact, in which misunderstanding, suspicion, and lack of candour gave way to understanding and friendship, at a time when the Cold War was coming abruptly to an end, is told in alternating segments by Boris Ivanov and Bill Shaw, two newspapermen viewing the unfolding situation from opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. Ronald Reagan's own reminiscences of Dixon and of his earliest reactions to the Russian Revolution and the expansion of Communist influence form the epilogue to this story.