Raymond Benson

The Legendary Jethro Tull - How many rock bands from the sixties can you name that are still around today? Probably not that many. There are a few - the Rolling Stones, Yes, Santana but most have broken up, stopped recording, and reappear only for the ubiquitous reunion tours.Jethro Tull is one band that formed in 1968 and is still going strong, thanks to the leadership, vision, and extraordinary talent of its leader, Ian Anderson. Named after the 17th Century inventor of the seed drill, Jethro Tull has always been controversial, challenging, and completely impossible to categorize. Are they rock? Blues? Progressive? English folk? These labels merely begin to describe Jethro Tulls eclectic and imaginative music. Over thirty-five years Tulls music has gone through many styles and periods, just as the group has undergone several personnel changes. Nevertheless, the band has always produced distinctive Tull Music.Author Raymond Benson looks at this legendary rock band and analyzes its place in pop music history. He examines every Jethro Tull album - track listing, personnel, cover art, recording history, and content. A handy rating system informs Tull newbies where to start and provides longtime fans with fodder for debate. A book for both the casual and hard-core fan, Jethro Tull is an insightful companion to enhance ones listening pleasure.

It begins at a movie studio in Nice where a police raid goes horribly wrong, and innocent people are killed. It continues in an English prison, where a dead man discloses an intriguing secret about the brutal criminal organization called the Union. The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where he meets the tantalizing movie star Tylyn Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of discovery.But Tylyn is in mortal danger. Her husband, a volatile film producer, has not forgiven his glamorous wife for ending their troubled marriage - and he is connected to the Unions thugs.Meanwhile Bonds friend, French agent Mathis, has disappeared while tracking down the Unions leader, Le Gerant. Bonds journey takes him to a thrilling underwater brush with death, a chase through the Corsican wilderness, a surprise encounter with an old friend - and a confrontation with a twisted criminal genius.

The Union is a criminal organization with tentacles throughout the world, specializing in military espionage, theft, intimidation and murder. After one of its agents assassinates James Bonds friend, the Union becomes 007s priority target.When information vital to Britains national security is stolen, both M and Bond suspect that the Union is behind it. The trail leads Bond from one of Englands most exclusive golf clubs to the cosmopolitan city of Brussels and finally to the icy heights of the legendary mountain Kangchenjunga.Led by the abrasive mountaineer Group Captain Roland Marquis, aided by the expeditions beautiful doctor, Hope Kendall, and opposed by an unknown traitor working out of SIS itself, Bond must pit his strength and guile against two deadly adversaries - the forces of nature at high altitude and the most resourceful criminal minds he has ever encountered.

Someone is poisoning British soldiers in Cyprus; the same killer has murdered a British intelligence agent in Athens. James Bond himself barely escapes with his life.The secrets behind these and other deaths start to come to light in Texas, where Bond goes in search of the assassin of Ms friend and lover. Fearful of an international scandal that could engulf both his service and his country, he learns instead of the existence of the Decada.Held together by an archaic philosophy and their own bizarre rituals, the Decadas fanatics have created a deadly virus - and are willing to use it to further their terrifying ambitions for power and revenge . . .Aided by beautiful, brave Greek intelligence agent Niki Mirakos, Bond puts himself into the firing line for a last-ditch attempt to stop the Decada before they unleash a horrifying weapon on their helpless prey.

La Agencia necesita de nuevo al asesino más brutal y efectivo del mundo, su agente 47. La misión que van a encomendarle requerirá de toda su fuerza y su capacidad para ocultarse entre las sombras, además de sus sigilosas tácticas. Pero lo que la Agencia no sabe es que el encargado de la misión tiene su propia agenda. Y es que en esta ocasión, traicionado por los suyos y perseguido por aquellos que le creen una amenaza, el agente 47 va a destrozar y aniquilar a todo aquel que se cruce en el camino hacia su meta: averiguar la verdad última del peligroso mundo que le envuelve. Para todos los fans que han estado esperando la nueva entrega del videojuego superventas, llega en primicia la última gran aventura del agente 47, basada fidedignamente en los juegos de Hitman y que permitirá a los lectores conocer a fondo al gran protagonista de Hitman. Absolution.

En el 2025 Estados Unidos vive una recesión inacabable y ha desatado una guerra atroz por el petróleo. Lo que el reportero Ben Walker nunca imaginó fue que su país sería invadido y ocupado por una Corea reunificada, una superpotencia mundial liderada por el hijo del dictador, Kim Jong-il.Al huir del caos de Los Angeles, Walker descubre que a pesar de que el ejercito de Estados Unidos ha sido diezmado, su espiritu de lucha sigue intacto. Asi, se une a un grupo de soldados que se dirige hacia el este a traves del desierto, a la vez que lucha contra patrullas coreanas. Muy pronto, el reportero encuentra su propia mision: transmitir la informacion y la posicion del enemigo a las celulas civiles de la Resistencia a traves de la radio.Pero las transmisiones de Walker, o la Voz de la libertad como lo llaman, llegan a oidos del enemigo. Corea envia a su guerrero mas sanguinario para que acabe con el y detenga la Resistencia antes de que se organice una nueva guerra por la libertad de Estados Unidos. La novela esta basada en el videojuego del mismo nombre.

Un comando renegado de la organización Foxhound amenaza con hacer explosionar un artefacto nuclear de potencia insólita en las islas Aleutianas. El experimentado pero ahora retirado agente Solid Snake es convocado para neutralizar al comando e impedir una hecatombe nuclear. La mision de Snake es conseguir sortear las impenetrables fortificaciones de la base, rescatar a los rehenes y desactivar ese arma mortifera. Solo en territorio hostil, armado con poco mas que su ingenio, debe enfrentarse a unas tropas que han sido manipuladas geneticamente para ser los soldados perfectos, ademas de a seis asesinos excepcionales con unas increibles y extraordinarias habilidades. Pero nada es lo que parece. Todos esconden algo. Mas de uno tiene un designio oculto o no es quien aparenta ser. Y alguien sin duda quiere que Snake averigue secretos de su oscuro pasado, unos secretos que podrian llevarle a cuestionar todas sus certezas. Raymond Benson consigue convertir el adictivo videojuego METAL GEAR SOLID en una novela igualmente fascinante que gustara tanto a los iniciados en el juego como a aquellos que no lo conozcan aun.