Goldengirl was programmed to take, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow by storm — a superbly built, beautiful 19-year-old honey-blonde with a potential $20,000,000 pay-off in commercial exploitation. The stakes were high, the consortium backing her was interested only in gold — the gold medals Moscow that would spawn a fortune. This novel is a frightening, totally riveting story of the mental and physiological manipulation of a young girl whose mother had been conceived in a Nazi stud-farm by the mating of two of the finest specimens of Hitler’s German Youth. But heredity was only a starting point for Dr. Serafin, the American professor of anthropometry who adopted the child. The sinister implications of her upbringing only began to dawn on Jack Dryden as he became ever more deeply involved in pre-selling the Goldengirl image before she set foot on the Olympic track. Invited to join the consortium as the marketing man who would handle the exploitation, Jack Dryden began his own investigation of what lay behind this apparent phenomenon who had never appeared on a sports track, was totally unknown in the world of athletics, yet was confidently predicted by Dr. Serafin to be capable of running the world’s greatest female athletes into the ground. The truth, which he gradually uncovered, blighted even his ruthlessly commercial excitement at handling the merchandising goldmine of the century

Sarah Jordan, beautiful and clever, is a PhD researcher at an American university. She works with spiders... When she was small, Sarah hated them. In adolescence she forced herself to conquer this basic human fear, and now she loves spiders... Discovered by a documentary production team, she is groomed as a TV personality. On the giant nylon web built in the studio she feels strangely exhilarated, thrillingly powerful. People begin to call her Spider Girl... Love and fear, courage and perversity, violence and neurosis are spun together in a sinister web. Thread by thread this realistic and convincing novel is built to a bizarre and horrifying conclusion. Spider Girl, like Peter Lear’s best-selling Goldengirl, is too close to the truth for comfort, but it is a book you will go on reading

A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full purpose has not been revealed to this day, is under way. Forty-five years on, a team of English journalists, assembled by editor-in-chief Cedric Fleming, begins tentatively to probe the mystery. One by one, possible avenues of investigation are closed off, until only one remains. It leads to the gates of Spandau Prison, and to its only inmate, Rudolf Hess. Hess is the most closely guarded prisoner in the world, but if anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. But the interests at stake are far greater than anyone could have believed possible when the investigation began. The stability of Western Europe will be undermined by what Hess may reveal... and, for very different reasons, both MI5 and the KGB move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau. The startling plot of this deeply researched and compelling thriller is based entirely on the real events of 1941. It is given added credibility by the fact that only fear as to what Hess may reveal can begin to explain his continued detention in Spandau Prison, long after fellow Nazis have been released