READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS: THE JANSON DIRECTIVE, WINTER'S END, THE HOUSE SITTER, I'M NOT SCARED

The Janson Directive opens when Paul Janson is forced out of retirement from has career as a covert operative when a billionaire diplomat who once saved his life is kidnapped by terrorists. Janson assembed a crack team, but when the operation goes horribly wrong he finds himself a marked man. his only hope is to uncover the truth about what has happened, a truth that threatens the very course of world history. Winter's End. When Sheriff Townsend comes across a man standing in the middle of the road with a knife in each hand and a dead body at his feet, it seems like an open and shut case. But the suspect refuses to answer questions and there is no forensic evidence to like him to the murder. The sheriff calls an old friend, private eye Alex Rourke, to help solve the crime. A powerful and amospheric mystery about a ruthless killer with a chilling agenda. The House Sitter. A criminal psychologist has been found srangled on detective Hen Mallin's patch, and she is getting nowhere with the case. Reluctantly she calls in Peter Diamond of Bath CID, a man who gets results but can be unorthodox and difficult. A lively, thoroughly British crime story. I'm Not Scared. One hot summer day, nine year old Michele and his friends are playing in the countryside around their remote Italian village whenthey come across an abandoned farmhouse. Michele stumbles across a shocking secret with terrible implications. Even as he copes with a stark new perspective on the adult world, he knows he must summon all his courage to do the right thing....