Patricia Cornwell tops this chart with her thriller Blow Fly, with John Grisham, James Patterson and Ian Rankin figuring highly.

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The problem was that it was spinning so fast that the drum would blow out and the characters would fly off.

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In the past 6 years, we have stopped numerous attacks, including a plot to fly a plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and another to blow up passenger jets bound for America over the Atlantic.

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The Wales fly-half has become the club's talisman and to lose a player of his calibre would be a blow.

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