Best Selling Books by Mike Tucker

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development.This exciting Graphic Texts pack contains 168 reading books, 6 each of: Chasing Birdy, The Wind in the Willows, The Pelican Chorus and other poems,Great Artists, Time Stealer, The Jungle Book, If and other poems, Great Inventors, The Sands of Deception, The Secret Garden, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and other poems, Great Naturalists, The Jurchen Recruits, Treasure Island, The PiedPiper of Hamelin, Great Space Explorers, Time''s Pendulum, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky and other poems, Great Scientists, Antarctic Ambush, The Call of the Wild, The Raven and other poems, Great Engineers, Time Runs Out, Oliver Twist, For the Fallen and other poems, Great Pioneers. In addition, this pack contains 7 sets of guided readingnotes and 1 teaching handbook.

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new alien micro-friend, Nok. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, these stories are ideal for independent reading. This pack contains 1 copy of each of the 12 books at Grey Book Band.

NOMAD "Burn the opium. Keep the gold." "Nothing comes at you harder than life. And nothing heals like love. When you really love someone, it''s like the feeling of the sun at dawn." "War never changes. War is nothing but a street fight taken to another level. And nobody ever won a street fight throwing jabs." "Naked eye, Sun Yen could see the antlers on a deer at 400 meters. His mother had watched two daughters and one son die before they were three months old in a village in Helionjiang that was seven hundred miles from the nearest doctor, a village like so many in China, a village where the most incurable disease was poverty. The best sniper in North China, he''d joined the communists in 1927." "Hsia Lungtze," Bao Turr said, poker-faced, calm. "Killed more people than the plague. In bed with the Japanese since 1924, major opium dealer on the North China coast since 1917. . . . . Deep connections to opium godfather Chiang Kaishek, Shanghai and Tokyo." "CIA--Criminally Incompetent Assholes. And you''re goddamn right I hold them accountable. No one is more responsible for the spread of Radical Islamic terrorism in Europe than the CIA. It''s the CIA that bankrolled the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe since 1950 and that is a goddamn fact, brother." "Nobody wanted the French back in Indochina in 1945 except the French. And the Vietnam War was way wrong, just a fuckin'' goddamn tragedy. Now it''s 2017 and the same people inside the Beltway who think that the Vietnam War was a good idea want America to go to war with China, over Taiwan. And what built Taiwan? Opium and heroin money. Who built Taiwan with opium and heroin money? Chiang Kaishek, number one opium warlord in Asia, 1927-1949, that ratpunk scumbag motherfucker Chiang Kaishek, serious opium gangster in the 1950s. Who got Chiang Kaishek out of China and safely to Taiwan in 1949? CIA. Now, who backs Taiwan in 2017? The CIA, the gang of fuckwits in three-piece suits that can''t find tits on a stripper in Vegas." Mike Tucker from NOMAD, @2017, Mike Tucker In the snow and ice of North China in the winter of 1938, an American mercenary fights against seemingly-impossible odds, shoulder-to-shoulder in the heart of the Chinese Revolution with Long March veterans carrying submachine guns and grenades and their dreams. NOMAD could not be more fierce, urgent, raw and compelling-the scintillating tale of an American mercenary at war in North China, whose journey in the Chinese Revolution later inspires clandestine mercenaries in our time. This is NOMAD--a classic war story, an epic mercenary saga and the most political war novel since FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. "NOMAD is dedicated to the farmers and fishermen of North China who were the soul of the Chinese Revolution up north and who remain the soul of North China in our time. And in memory of my comrades from France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Kurdistan and the United States of America who died behind Burmese Army lines and in Iraq and Afghanistan. And NOMAD is also dedicated in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Archimedes L.A. Patti, United States Army (1913-1998), Office of Strategic Services, China and General Huang Hua (1911-1943), Red Army, Chinese revolutionary, brilliant guerrilla war commander and Long March veteran." Long life and blue skies, Mike Tucker North China May 20, 2017 PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This Graphic Texts pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: Time''s Pendulum, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky and other poems, Great Scientists.

FOR EMMA Volume 2, The Journey Trilogy "The best journey is the one that leads you to love." Mike Tucker On the Thai-Burmese border in December 1992, a Delta Force veteran, Declan McIntyre, discovers just how real the road less travelled is on a journey that changes his life forever. Riveted with point-black combat, FOR EMMA is the thrilling, scintillating sequel to FOR SUZANNE and a meditation on the ancient Spanish proverb that is never out of style, in every generation-love is the reason for our survival.

3 SNIPERS Deep behind enemy lines, Jed McCullough, Brian Burgess and James Street hunt the Gestapo in WWII, aided by partisans and guerrilla fighters from North Africa to France. Led by McCullough--trained in his youth in Northern New Mexico by the Jicarilla Apache on tracking and survival--the veteran British sniper Burgess and Street, a former deep cover mercenary from Australia, stand and fight against the Nazis, against all odds, employing deception and guile at every turn. A tribute to the Greatest Generation and a homage to the French Resistance, this is 3 SNIPERS, the gripping, compelling and no-holds-barred sequel to ROGUE, a riveting tale of clandestine operations in WWII and a scintillating meditation on courage and freedom. RAID, the sequel to 3 SNIPERS and volume three in The Rogue Trilogy, will be published on December 1st, 2020.

The Grief Sessions Participant Guidebook is used in conjunction with a six session video presentations (DVD). The Grief Sessions presents practical, healthy ways to navigate the new life we never wanted but have to face nonetheless. The six sessions share scientifically researched, Bible-based, and people-proven ways to turn loss into living again.

A stunning, point-blank, no-holds-barred indictment of Karzai and American counterinsurgency failure in Afghanistan, TAKING DOWN AL QAEDA IN THE HINDU KUSH is not only the first work to get to the root of Petreaus'' counterinsurgency folly in Afghanistan, it is the only book that lays out a counterterrorism strategy for defeating Al Qaeda, a strategy that is rooted in Muslim counterterrorists'' success since September 11th. Mike Tucker, who has been compared to Hemingway by top British foreign correspondent Miles Amoore of THE SUNDAY TIMES, has also been hailed by that great foreign correspondent as the best writer on war of his generation: "Tucker''s knowledge of the military and of special operations is unrivalled among modern authors - he spent time in the military and with elite fighting units in both Afghanistan and Iraq." Mike Tucker, who was the only author under fire with both Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 counterterrorists after September 11th and is also the only author of his generation compared to Hemingway, reveals completely-exclusive special operations raids and missions in Afghanistan in 2009 in this fascinating book, including his first-hand account of a Joint Special Operations Command counterterrorist team in Afghanistan. Wounded at 10,000 feet in the Hindu Kush with SEAL Team 6 counterterrorists on a mission taking down Al Qaeda, Mike Tucker survived to write this incisive, provocative and compelling account of the guerrilla war in Afghanistan in 2009 that is woven-through with scintillating words from the field from counterterrorists, Afghan spies, American light infantrymen, scouts and snipers. Essential reading for anyone who wants to know why counterinsurgency failed in Afghanistan and how America and the world can take down Al Qaeda, for good and for keeps.

Project X CODE Extra introduces more exciting adventure stories and stimulating non-fiction texts into the Project X CODE series. In this adventure in the Pyramid Peril zone, Max and Rex get lost in an underground maze. Will they find their way out? In line with the phonic, vocabulary and comprehension progression in Project X CODE, this book is ideal for additional practice outside of the core intervention sessions and for children who simply want to read more of the CODE adventure!

Inspired by the magnificent bossa nova classic "Wave" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim and by the rugged, beautiful ancient coast near Cascais, Portugal, this is WAVE by Mike Tucker, a brilliant, compelling work of poetry and his 26th book. The only writer of his generation compared to Hemingway, Mike Tucker returns to his roots as a poet--he received Honors in Poetry in 1982 & 1983, while a young poet and writer at James Madison University--and celebrates the spirit of bossa nova in WAVE. A poet, novelist, lecturer and former mercenary, Mike Tucker is the only foreign writer in China since 1949 to lecture on the legendary guerrilla war commander and revolutionary, General Huang Hua, and was interviewed five times on the celebrated, nationwide "Poet and the Poem" radio program on the Pacifica network in America by the Poet Laureate of Maryland, Grace Cavalieri, during his apprenticeship as a poet and writer in Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s. He left America in 1992 to get his dreams as a writer and carried out extensive fieldwork in the rugged, remote highlands of Northern Thailand for his novel SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING, the first of many journeys in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Near East. Mike Tucker has lectured on America foreign policy, counterterrorism, guerrilla war, the Chinese Revolution, the origins of the Vietnam War and literature in the United States, China and Southeast Asia. The Visiting Scholar on Counterterrorism at James Madison University in fall 2006, he was on missions with American snipers in the Near East and Hindu Kush after September 11th, in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, and was under fire with Spanish counterterrorists in the historic Siege of the Banco Central in Barcelona in 1981. Mike Tucker''s most recent book of poetry, FIRST LIGHT, is a BEST BOOKS OF 2018 selection by the WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS. He lives in North China and Portugal.

JUSTICE: The Kurdish Revolution, 1961-2017 "I fought to free my people. We were all inspired to fight and win our revolution by Mala Mustafa Barzani. We fought the horror of the Ba athists, the evil of Saddam had to be fought. To slay the dragon is a beautiful thing. We slayed the dragon and we won our revolution right here, in Kurdish highlands. My people are the Kurds and these are glorious days for us, truly glorious days . . .our children will live free from the horror of Saddam, brother. Our children will live free from the horror of Saddam! We are Kurds and we will live free. Kurdi Zin Duah!" Muhammad Mala Khader, Kurdish revolutionary and sniper, from JUSTICE "No one has the right to tell the Kurds they cannot be independent and free. On September 25th, 2017, the Kurds voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence--92 per cent plus. Realpolitik is dead but history is not. The victory of the Kurdish Revolution in our time is the living proof that realpolitik is dead. With nothing but their Kalashnikovs and their balls, the Kurds fought and won their Revolution. This is JUSTICE, the story of the Kurdish Revolution, in their own words, the words of the Kurdish revolutionaries, Kurdish artists, Kurdish women rights activists and Kurdish spies who fought the good fight against the most brutal dictatorship in the history of the modern Near East, men and women of uncommon valor, real honor and real integrity who prevailed over Saddam and who have now prevailed over the Islamic State, the hip cool righteous Kurds who are brilliant counterterrorists and who have lived their dreams. Long live Mala Mustafa Barzani, Spartacus of the Kurdish Revolution. Long live the Kurdish Revolution. And long live the Kurds." Mike Tucker North China October 3, 2017 Mike Tucker journeyed solo, beat Turkish spies and Turkish Army officers on July 18th, 2003 at the Habur Border Crossing and entered Kurdish highlands to carry out exclusive interviews of Kurdish revolutionaries, Kurdish artists, Kurdish women rights activists and Kurds from all walks of life for this epic work of history, the only oral history of the Kurdish Revolution: JUSTICE. Mike Tucker got the job done and helped get Saddam hanged for crimes against humanity, after being told by countless Kurds, "Find Saddam and kill him." Thanks to the extraordinary help of Kurdish counterterrorists, Kurdish spies and the Kurdish underground in Europe and America, and the great help of Kurdish revolutionaries in Kurdish highlands, this incredible, unique, authentic and completely exclusive work of history, JUSTICE: The Kurdish Revolution, 1961-2017, an inspiring, gritty and no-holds-barred look at the victory of the Kurdish Revolution is now in print and will stay in print forever. Rich with exclusive photos from Kurdistan in 2003 and 2004, a gripping and completely exclusive account of the Kurdish Revolution from the Kurds who fought and won it, this is the story of Spartacus in our time, the story of revolutionaries who gave their all to win their freedom from tyranny against seemingly-impossible odds. But this time, Spartacus won.

CLANDESTINE "Moses is in Egypt. And he''s your Moses, mate. Your wife is a little worried? Tell her there''s a reason James Bond works for us." "The threat is real. We are looking at 20,000+ dead in Hamburg. Get all our deep covers up in Europe, now."u003eMike Tucker, from CLANDESTINE In the heart of Northern Saudi Arabia, British Secret Intelligence Service clandestine operatives hunting Islamic State financiers take on a mission that has profound consequences for Europe, the Near East and America in CLANDESTINE, a thrilling, politically-charged novella that could not be more urgent, compelling or provocative. A riveting tale of espionage and intrigue, this is CLANDESTINE by Mike Tucker, a counterterrorism specialist on the Arabian Peninsula for seven years and the only writer who was with American snipers in both the Near East and the Hindu Kush after September 11th. Praise for Mike Tucker "NORTH CHINA BLUES is a classic journey story and a raw, vivid espionage and war novel with a powerful affirmation of justice and love -point-blank, gripping and poignant, a story that we would not know except for Mike Tucker''s journey among the farmers and fishermen in North China. The Chinese guerrilla fighters, revolutionaries and spies have their say and could not be more real, convincing and authentic. Lyrical and compelling, reminiscent of THE ODYSSEY, I could not put it down. Bravo, Mike Tucker." Mark Chambers, hunting guide, Northern New Mexico "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, THE LONG PATROL, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, author and journalist. Untamed Travel. "CHINATOWN is a quick read, a wild tirade, and a historical investigation all at once. In that it ties Trump to some of our worst international impulses over 100 years of history is an achievement. And it does so with fire." Will Layman, jazz musician, critic and educator. Washington, D.C.

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new alien micro-friend, Nok. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, these stories are ideal for independent reading. This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 12 books at Grey Book Band.

ROGUE Major Jed McCullough, a US Army intelligence officer, goes rogue on the Atlantic Coast of Portugal in December 1940, on the hunt for a Gestapo spy ring in ROGUE, Mike Tucker''s thrilling, entertaining and gripping espionage thriller inspired by a legend from Portugal. The first in the Rogue Trilogy of WWII novels, ROGUE is a no-holds-barred, scintillating novel and a vivid, riveting tale of espionage, escape, romance and war.

This pack contains 24 books for children aged 7 to 9 years (Oxford Levels 9-14/Book Bands Brown and Grey), plus an exciting Alien Adventures Fact File with extra information on characters, gadgets and spaceships.

Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with these 8 fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, these books are ideal for independent reading. This pack contains 6 of each of the following titles: The Way Between Worlds, The Hidden Fortress, The Cyber Patrol, The Path Through the Woods, The Contestants, The Last Stand, Reign of the Practari, The Rip in the Wardrobe. Each book contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, questions for readers, and a range of follow-up activities to help children develop their higher level comprehension and writing skills.

LAWMAN "We are known forever by the tracks we leave." On the hunt for a Mafia spy inside the US government, an American federal agent takes on the mission of his life, one with profound consequences for him and a fellow WWI Marine veteran in LAWMAN, Mike Tucker''s gripping crime saga based on a true story. A riveting meditation on justice, survival and love, this is LAWMAN, a stunning tribute to the Great Depression generation in America and a ripping, provocative and point-blank thriller.

For over half a century the world has been kept safe from alien invasion by the tireless work of UNIT - the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Finally, that story has been uncovered. From the early days working in secret under the command of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to the new, modern UNIT organisation under the leadership of his daughter Kate, this secret history exposes the many threats ranged against our world - and how UNIT has saved humanity time and again. Carefully curated from the top-secret, maximum-security heart of UNIT itself, this never-before-seen account includes declassified case files spanning five decades, technical schematics of recovered alien technology, previously unreleased press reports and testimony from UNIT personnel who witnessed events first hand. Featuring plenty of input from the Fifteenth Doctor himself, The Gold Archive stands as the ultimate guide to Earth''s invasions.

CIGARETTES IN THE RAIN Volume 3, The Chieftain Trilogy by Mike Tucker "Heroes never die. Mike Tucker lived this book and you can tell by the authentic, telling details in Cigarettes in the Rain, inspired by a counterterrorism operation in the Far East that saved over 26,000 lives. Thrilling and compelling, this is the penultimate finale of The Chieftain Trilogy, the perfect bookend to East River and the smashing sequel to Tsunami. Cigarettes in the Rain is the riveting tale of how Nate McCullough became the Chieftain and also, a brilliant, stunning tribute to the Chieftain''s father, Rogue, a legendary commando in Europe in WWII. Moreover, this great novella is a scintillating meditation on survival, sacrifice, friendship and love." Josh Kavanagh, Connacht, Ireland Mike Tucker was right at the heart of a counterterrorist operation in the Far East in the late 1980s, which was classified from 1988 to 2013. This is CIGARETTES IN THE RAIN, based on that legendary counterterrorism operation against the Japanese Red Army Brigade terrorists on Okinawa. The final chapter of The Chieftain Trilogy, a meditation on destiny and a point-blank, ripping good read, CIGARETTES IN THE RAIN is Mike Tucker''s 47th book. His great love story, Paco & Maria, a tale of love and adventure that begins in Northern Mexico in our time, will launch on Amazon in mid-October 2021. Justin & Olivia, a beautiful love story set in Italy in early December 2021, will launch on Amazon on December 1, 2021.

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new robot micro-friend, Eight. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. The crew of the Excelsa respond to a distress signal and go in search of a missing cargo of cyberbees.

From distant galaxies in the far-flung future, to ancient history on the planet Earth, Doctor Who is unique for the breadth of possibilities that it can offer a designer. For the first time in history, the Doctor Who Art Department are opening their doors to reveal a unique, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most loved series on British Television. Whether it''s iconic sets like the TARDIS console room, recurring villains like the Daleks or the Cybermen, or the smallest hand prop featured in the briefest of scenes, this book showcases the work of the Doctor Who art department in glorious detail. Discover how the designers work with the costume, make-up and special effects teams to produce the alien worlds, and how the work has evolved from the programme''s ''classic'' era to the panoramic alien worlds and technologies that delight audiences today. Featuring hundreds of models, sketches, storyboards and concept artworks, many never-before-seen, Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds opens the doors to 50 years of astonishing creative work from one of the most inventive shows on television.

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TIME STARTS NOW Hunted by a Roman assassin, a slave in Cleopatra''s temple finds herself on a journey that changes her life forever in TIME STARTS NOW, a thrilling love story by Mike Tucker, the author of 28 books, former deep cover mercenary and the only writer in our time compared to Hemingway. Inspired by a Bedouin legend, TIME STARTS NOW is a story rich in point-blank action, a gripping and moving love story and a wild, entertaining ride. PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "Spartacus Did the Right Thing is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent THE SUNDAY TIMES, London. www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, The Long Patrol, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, journalist & author, UNTAMED TRAVEL. Bangkok, Royal Kingdom of Thailand "RONIN, by Mike Tucker, a gripping book on Marine snipers in Iraq, is along with Ghost Wars, one of the top ten books since September 11th." Matt LaPlante, Foreign correspondent, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

FIRE AND RAIN In the heart of the Chinese Revolution, an American mercenary hunting Chiang Kaishek''s opium mafia finds himself on a mission that changes his life forever in FIRE AND RAIN, a raw, thrilling novel rooted in Mike Tucker''s travels among farmers, artists, fishermen and veteran guerrilla fighters on the North China Coast from February 2016 to January 2019. A book that could not be more scintillating and authentic, this is FIRE AND RAIN, a classic journey story and a must-read to understand China in our time. PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, THE LONG PATROL, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, author and journalist. Untamed Travel, Bangkok.

"On 16 May a planned double 220kV double circuit outage took place at MAN on INV-MAN2 & NMA-MAN3... This report''s objective is to review and document the MAN outage planning and operational activities and market outcomes... [and] identify potential planning, operational, policy, tool and communication improvements across Transpower"--Page 4.

The Doctor and Mel land in what appears to be an orbiting warehouse, a delivery facility with a dangerously erratic computer. Whilst Mel is helping with repairs, the Doctor begins to realise that not everything in the warehouse is as it seems. Why do no goods ever seem to leave the shelves? Why are the staff so obsessed with the stocktake? And who is the mysterious Supervisor? On the planet below, the Doctor discovers that the computer might be the least of their problems - and that they should be more concerned with the spacestation''s mould and vermin.

A new illustrated collection of Doctor Who stories, each featuring one of the twelve Doctors off on a festive adventure in his trusty TARDIS.