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|authorisbn=C A Sacha0241678412|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring Life after university hasn't worked out quite the worldway that Phyl anticipated. She's first emissionback home, living with her parents and on a zero-free car hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to market and dominate productionnothing. The secret development project situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to enable this, Bucephalusstay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into investigating a second term think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to help him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for push the government in a legacy more extreme direction and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..is ready to act.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368300008385068|title=Two WrongsThe Midnight Feast|author=Mel McGrathLucy Foley

|summary=Sondra was It's midsummer on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. She talks to her, It's their opening weekend and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithsplendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - The Manor was her ancestral home and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with hers converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. She thought they shared everythingHer husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. Satnam The heat is taken to hospital oppressive and Nevis calls her mother, Honoramongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. TheyOld scores are going to be settled and it won've not been on good terms since t be long before a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherbody is found.

|author=Catherine SteadmanSaima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The Disappearing Actfact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is on the cusp a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of successLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Great successNot much happens in Hicks. If A silver mine and a defence contractor are the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places main local employers but sootherwise, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places hethere's going take him towards lies, deceit not much of note other than dive bars and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-starJoshua trees. It's a good time for Mia to escapeLife is quiet, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseuntil....|isbn=1471189783B0D321VJ76

|isbn=18387734281399613073|title=The Art of DeathMoral Injuries|author=David FennellChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the type a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which does appear in Trafalgar Square: is a bonus when you aim to be a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidcardiothoracic surgeon. Only this time it's not Laura is a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton perfectionist and 34-year-old Noel Tippinga trauma doctor. The installation Anjali is the work free spirit of @nonymous, underground artist the group and extreme version of Banksyshe becomes a GP. He When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's made a macabre promise: more going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will followimpact the three friends. In factThis time, we've already met the artist although not by name: heit's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been in violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookterrorists who are rampaging through, Maki-e fountain penkilling everyone on site, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly there is there with her son, JordanSam, a wartime photographer and she's explaining to her best friendAbhi, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagehotel manager. ActuallyAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, it doesn't take he forms a lot bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of explaining: Frankher room to try to capture what's attentions are obvious on happened through her face despite the foundation she's appliedphotography. Chau Ho is behind Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the counterterrorists. |isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's someone onlinesomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, CassandraH, that after all? Even the artist has his eye on, toodrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1804183210|title=The SourceNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=2.54

|summary=1996. Essex. ThirteenThirty-four-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baseTheo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingeso he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. When her squaddie brother brings food Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and treats, respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to look a little less bleakthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481405951680|title=Slough The Safe House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronCameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand actually she was gently nudged into it. Wellby her friend, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be doneAustralian outback for a couple of months. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.problems she'' Over d had at Regent's Parkwork, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw it seemed like just the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedbreak she needed. It isn't just She was no longer a data analyst for the message that was sentMetropolitan police in London: she's also delighted that she managed was Jess who was returning to fund the operation off country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the bookstraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Some private money was brought A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in. She won't always be so jubilant about thisVictoria sounded like just the ticket.

|isbn=00083793001448309743|title=The Shadow ManDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Helen FieldsCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he knows that he's dyingmet Ralph Finns. His body is giving up It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife Rolex watch, a child vintage wines and a brother. He's been on state-of-the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations-art sound system. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallscertainly more than acquaintances. Angela Fernycroft was Finns had no intention of going on to be his wife. Her husband, CalUniversity, unlike our storyteller who had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of fiveplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, away for the weekendUK's third most prestigious university. UnfortunatelyBefore going up, it doesn't go according he took up a loose invitation to plan and Angela diesvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.

|title=The Other EmilyHouse at the End of the World

|summary=Our hero David Thorne When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned withno one on your side, a place he has to return toyou can either suck it up, saddle up and a place he has ride on or you can retreat to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks small chain of tiny dots on the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, map and has a dozen live out your days in peace and more unfound Jane Does on his recordsolitude. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manThat's mind, but what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to no avail. Hestart afresh on Jacob's also having a recharge ready Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the sheer spitting image, neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the very embodiment, name of science and quite possibly bringing about the virtual resurrection, end of his loveall mankind. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199581662453159

|isbn=15291244171787636607|title=Before She DisappearedThe Trap|author=Lisa GardnerCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in On her car at the bottom 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the lakeLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She knew , too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnnot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary't have left her three-year-old daughter and run aways hospital. Lani was That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and now shewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they's moving re enjoying themselves. Josie, on againthe other hand, this time holds her handbag close to Boston where thereher tummy and you get the sense that Walter's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agonot too happy. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at StoneyHe's bar and sets out not used to investigate the community which spending this much money on a meal - but it is just about exclusively blackJosie's birthday after all.

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The TherapistHouse of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=B A ParisJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, a gated communityMartin, Alice Dawson was in Venicehas been convicted of their murder. Leo wanted to move quickly on We first meet Nancy outside the property as it was on the market at such court, after Martin receives a reasonable price life sentence. The barrister tells her that Alice wouldnshe's received a 'silent sentence't - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to sell live with what happened for the rest of her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itlife. Alice agreed Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she was tired of their longinherited five million pounds from her mother -distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend and the papers are making the most of the week together instead of just the weekendsit. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529135389|title=The KhanFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the motto be twice streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as good as men another body is discovered, and four times as good as white menthen another. This has served her well in her rise through is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the criminal justice system more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and by the time she is called home he has been for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to At the city of her birthsame time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to old scars and fresh woundsa different police station, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with arrival there of a woman who claims her sense little boy has gone missing, only no record of honour and dutythe boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=17860790971805300784

|isbn=00082144681529382823|title=A Time The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Edwards|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to Lieleave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Simon BerthonJacqueline Sutherland

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of an excavation on a building sitetheir first term at university. ItKit's been at Bristol and Jess's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wristExeter. It's not only the first time they've been there away from their parents for about twentyany length of time -five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerbut they've also been apart from each other. HeBelle can's married t wait to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bellathem all to herself for a while. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he wants didn't come but doesn'a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodt want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older' One of the ways : he's planning on going about this is twenty-four to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: itKit's easy to see eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that he wouldn. And they't have been in agreementll be sharing a bedroom.

|author= Gunnar StaalesenRobert Dugoni|title= Fallen AngelsHer Deadly Game|rating= 25|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friendPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's funeralwork of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the sins of the past are exposed latter was beginning to overshadow the light of the presentformer. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the clues hidden in his own history and to catch family firm because a romantic entanglement with a killersenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=19131930631662500181

|author= Deborah O'ConnorVanda Symon|title= The CaptiveExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the cagestart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, intimatelyshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. It lurks Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the corner of her eyehunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Soon Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, it will be occupiedand the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501914585577

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1787301036|title=The Long Dark RoadWhat July Knew|author=P R BlackEmily Koch|rating=45

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's Healey's nineteen-year-just ten years old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and sheShe'd already refused the offer of help from one man in s a big vehiclecareful, meticulous child. WeThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July'll see - but no one else will know - s mother, and any hint that another car stops and Stephanie the conversation is bundled into heading that way will lead to the car and driven offnecessity of a Lesson. There has been no sign Other infractions of her - his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or her body - in not the two years sinceinjuries are visible. Georgia July's teacher is back is Ferngateconcerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, determined to find out what happened and shehas he not? The playground wouldn's not going to be stoppedt have been resurfaced but for him.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008454493|title= The Last Resort All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a private island. They have been invited to an allyear -expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product well, apart from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. The group includes It's now a games designeryear since her son, social media influencerMason, gossip columnist was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and hedge fund managerIzzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. Everyone seems In that year she's done everything she could to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryraise awareness about the case. All except Amelia whose presence is She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a mysterykeynote presentation. We follow On the group as they explore the islandplane back, and each othershe's histories and it becomes clear that they all have approached by a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downpodcaster, these well-kept secrets are revealedWaylon Spencer, and it soon becomes clear who points out that this luxury retreat is really she could do a gilded cage. In podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themfew hundred people at conferences. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbn=00083301311848458436|title=The Stolen SistersJust the Nicest Couple|author=Louise JensenMary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisterswhole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in is the physical sensestory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksNina and Jake Hayes. They're The connection between the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old two is that Lily and she was Nina teach in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinssame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Much The couples have mixed as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionfoursome but it's not a regular thing. Leah and Marie were nattering about Christian is a lost ball market research analyst and Jake is a fleece which had been left outsideneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. The gate wasnLily hasn't shut properly and Brunosaid anything yet, their boxer dog, escapedbut she's pregnant. As the three girls went She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to chase after him they were snatched tempt fate by two menmaking the knowledge public.