The aim of this book is to help the newswatcher, newspaper reader, armchair strategist or student of international politics to make sense of the world by providing key facts and brief analyses of the essential issues in the international game.

He'd come in here – come into Sharkwell's own, private chambers – sorcelled him in his sleep...

And he never comes back, Mr Dillon; he's damned well told that it ain't necessary, because this is a hotel not a hook shop.

Eighty percent tested positive for morbillivirus, which can cause serious disease in some animals and humans.