Robert Ludlum sa preslávil svojimi napínavými thrillermi, ktoré pravidelne obsadzovali prvé miesta v rebríčkoch bestsellerov. Jeho majstrovské dielo spočíva vo vytváraní zložitých zápletiek a plných akčných dejových zvratov. Ludlum sa sústredil na témy tajných operácií a medzinárodných sprisahaní, pričom jeho hrdinovia často bojujú s vlastnou identitou a vonkajšími hrozbami. Jeho diela preložené do mnohých jazykov zanechali nezmazateľnú stopu v žánri.[INFO_EXCLUDED]
Dejiskom strhujúceho príbehu je Ďaleký východ, na ktorého teritóriu rozohrajú svoju mocenskú hru tamojšie dobre zorganizované mafie. V boji o moc im má napomôcť i oživená legenda vraždiaceho agenta Bourna. No zoči-voči legende sa postaví skutočný Jason Bourne.
Po obrovskom výbuchu sa zrúti laboratórna budova Pasteurovho inštitútu v Paríži. Medzi mŕtvymi je aj Emile Chambord, jeden z najvýznamnejších vedcov pokúšajúcich sa zostrojiť molekulárny počítač. Profesor Chambord však nanešťastie utajoval všetky podrobnosti svojho výskumu a poznámky očividne zničil výbuch alebo požiar, ktorý po ňom nasledoval. Vedecká obec všeobecne predpokladá, že vyvinutie molekulárneho počítača potrvá ešte roky. Náhle však z radarových senzorov nevysvetliteľne zmiznú americké bojové stíhačky na celých päť minút. Telefónne ústredne a ostatné služby prestanú fungovať, čo má ničivé dôsledky. Washington v snahe zabrániť panike uisťuje verejnosť, že je to práca šikovného hackera, hoci vedia, že také niečo je nemožné. Takú skazu je schopný spôsobiť jedine obrovský výkon a rýchlosť molekulárneho počítača. Pod zámienkou, že ide navštíviť svojho priateľa Martyho Zellerbacha, ktorý bol vážne zranený pri výbuchu Pasteurovho laboratória, agent Záštity 1 Jon Smith letí do Paríža hľadať spojenie medzi výbuchom a silami ovládajúcimi tento počítač. Smith sleduje stopu, ktorá vedie cez dva kontinenty, a odhalí spleť podvodov, ktorá môže spôsobiť zmätok a navždy pretvoriť svet.
Napínavý príbeh o spolupráci amerických a ruských tajných služieb, ktoré sa márne snažia zadržať unikajúceho kuriéra so vzorkou smrtiaceho vírusu...
Podplukovník doktor Jonathan Smith, vojenský mikrobiológ, čelí nečakaným šokom, keď sa stáva terčom pokusov o vraždu a zistí, že jeho snúbenica Sophia Russellová sa nakazila smrtonosným vírusom, ktorý sa objavil na troch vzdialených miestach USA. Po zistení, že Sophia bola infikovaná injekčnou striekačkou, sa Smith rozhodne odhaliť páchateľa a jeho motív. Pri vyšetrovaní narazí na byrokratické prekážky a po presvedčení generála Kielburgera o vražde Sophiu, sa situácia zhorší, keď Kielburger je zavraždený a Smith sa stáva hlavným podozrivým v očiach polície a FBI. Uvedomuje si, že ide o sprisahanie, do ktorého sú zapletení aj vysokopostavení vládni úradníci. Jeho šancou na rehabilitáciu a zastavenie epidémie je získať dôkazy o účasti konkrétnych osôb. Vytvorí si sieť sprisahancov, zatiaľ čo čelí hrozbe zabijakov pracujúcich pre Viktora Tremonta, riaditeľa farmaceutického koncernu Blanchard. Na celom svete prepukajú epidémie novej choroby so stopercentnou úmrtnosťou, a Tremont oznamuje, že jeho firma vyvinula úspešný protiliek. Smith musí zhromaždiť dôkazy o pôvode choroby a odhaliť jej hrôzostrašné pozadie.
Jason Bourne má pamäť úplne prázdnu. Isto vie len to, že jeho guľkami prederavené telo bolo vyplavené zo Stredozemného mora a že je z neznámych dôvodov objektom záujmu profesionálnych zabijakov. Tvárou v tvár smrti sa vydáva na zúfalý beh o život. Pomôcť mu môže len žena, ktorá ho kedysi chcela zradiť. Jason Bourne je skrátka muž bez minulosti... a možno i bez budúcnosti.
Zomrel J. Edgar Hoover prirodzenou smrťou? Alebo bol zavraždený? Keď skupina vysokých a vzdelaných intelektuálov známa ako Inver Brass odhalí obrovské nebezpečenstvo pre krajinu v Hooverovom neetickom využívaní jeho škandálmi poznačených súkromných súborov, rozhodnú sa ho odstrániť — potichu, efektívne, bez náznaku nesprávneho konania. Potom bestsellerový autor thrillerov Peter Chancellor narazí na informácie, ktoré robia jeho predchádzajúce knihy bezvýznamnými rozprávkami. Teraz sú Chancellor a Inver Brass na smrteľnej kolíznej dráhe, ktorá sa šíri po celom svete v neustále sa rozširujúcom oblúku násilia a teroru. Všetky cesty vedú k súdnemu dňu, ktorý roztrhne hlavné mesto krajiny — a prežije len jeden kompromitujúci dokument.
Dlhé roky pôsobil Bryson ako člen supertajnej nadnárodnej špionážnej inštitúcie Direktórium. Pre riaditeľa CIA je Bryson jediný tromf v rukáve, a preto ho presvedčí, aby sa znovu pokúsil infiltrovať do Direktória. No po rokoch nečinnosti, keď Bryson vypadol z hry, nie je ľahké obnoviť staré kontakty a stať sa dôležitým kolieskom mašinérie, ktorá rozhoduje o svete. V novej situácii si nemôže byť istý, komu možno dôverovať a kto hrá s akými kartami. A pritom chýba len tak málo, aby sa narušila krehká rovnováha, ktorá môže znamenať svetovú katastrofu
Jeseň 1943. V Buenos Aires sa schádza elita špionážnych služieb z celého sveta, aby tam dohodli podmienky spolupráce na tajnom zbrojárskom projekte. Intenzívne jednania na najvyššej úrovni sa sústreďujú okolo nemeckého priemyselníka Ericha Rhinemanna a zanedlho začínajú niesť prvé nebezpečné ovocie. V Argentíne plní svoju misiu aj americký agent David Spaulding. Je presvedčený, že i jeho zásluhou vojna čoskoro skončí, ale postupne zisťuje, že v meste nájomných vrahov, prebehlíkov a exotických krások bola uzavretá najdesivejšia dohoda, akú kedy vojnové strany uzatvorili. Pravidla sa rýchlo menia, pravda ustupuje do tieňov a na povrch vyplávajú temné tajomstvá. Spaulding sa náhle ocitá v drtivom zovretí a neostáva mu než pozbierať všetky sily k záchrane života nielen svojho, ale i ženy, ktorú miluje – a predovšetkým záchrane sveta pred zlovestnou Rhinemannovou výmenou.
Three classic Ludlum novels in one great value edition.
Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases, and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is tapped to lead a team to Wednesday Island, an icy path of land between the northern coast of Canada and the Earth’s magnetic pole. There, the remains of a mysterious plane were discovered during a routine educational expedition. The plane seems to be a Russian spy plane, and the Russian government secretly revealed to the U.S. President that it may contain dangerous cargo - anthrax. But Jon and his team aren't the only ones making their way to the plane. And when the members of the educational expedition slowly start dissappearing and a team of Russian pirates take over the island, Jon's team must somehow get out alive.
Jansonův rozsudek - Robert Ludlum / Winter's end - John Rickards / Nádraží Waterloo - Emily Grayson / Námořník - Peter Lovesey
An ex-assassin for the United States government, Paul Janson, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates ... it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with an infamous terrorist named El Ghadan ("Tomorrow"). El Ghadan holds as his captive Soraya Moore, former co-director of Treadstone, and a close friend to Bourne, along with her two year old daughter. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is in the midst of brokering a historic peace treaty between the Israelis and the Palestinians -- an event that El Ghadan is desperate to prevent. He demands that Bourne carry out a special mission: kill the President. If Bourne refuses, Soraya and her daughter will die. Bourne must make a monstrous choice: save Soraya and her daughter, or save the President.
A mild-mannered professor is forced to assume again the deadly alter ego he created in Vietnam years ago as part of the Medusa Brigade.
Malé americké městečko Saddle Valley je operačním centrem skupiny OMEGA financované sovětskou KGB, která se pomocí vydírání nejvlivnějších osobností chystá rozvrátit USA. CIA, která se o plánech OMEGY dozvěděla, využívá známého žurnalisty Johna Tannera, neboť se domnívá, že členyOMEGY jsou všichni nebo někteří z jeho nejbližších přátel. Ve vysoké a smrtelně nebezpečné hře nakonec zůstává sám a musí se vlastními silami pokusit zachránit sebe, manželku i děti, a navíc ještě zlikvidovat OMEGU......
Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin and fearless international mercenary, in THE BOURNE SANCTION. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In The BOURNE DECEPTION, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge and kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin's skills mirror Jason's because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training. Now, in THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, Jason will turn the tables and target Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne's downfall?
While assessing the military potential of a new intelligence device, Covert-One's Colonel Jon Smith realizes the technology must never fall into the hands of America's enemies
The Matarese Circle are the Corsican Brotherhood. Terrifying killers, their power could plunge the world into chaos and destruction within two years. Only two rival spies - and one mysterious woman - can stop them. Brandon Scofield, CIA, and the West's most professional assassin, and Vasili Taleniekov, former KGB, now wanted by the Politburo. They share a genius for espionage - and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, Scofield and Taleniekov have vowed to terminate each other, but now they must become allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves necessary to destroy an international circle of killers: the Matarese...
Badly injured in an ambush possibly orchestrated by the mysterious Arkadin, Jason Bourne fakes his death and assumes a new identity while endeavoring to assist another team's investigation into a missile attack that resulted in a passenger plane crash
In the dead of night, December 1939, a train winds its way through Italy towards the Alps with a cargo too precious to destroy, too awful to reveal. On board is an iron box. Its sinister contents, documents concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world and set religion against religion, an entire people against another. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil are drawn into a violent and deadly hunt. The richest aristocrat in Italy is responsible for the documents' safety, but he's marked for death by the Nazis. Some people want the secrets told. Some people want to plunge the world into a catastrophic holy war ...
In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.
In Geneva, American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn’t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: “The generals . . . they’re back . . . Aquitaine!” Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world’s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he’d long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a lethal progression to the heart of every major government, a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible—no one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost, the only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Aquitaine Progression “You won’t be able to put it down. (Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day).”—Chicago Sun-Times “Ludlum at his best.”—Publishers Weekly From the Paperback edition.
A once-great nation is determined to rebuild its shattered empire, and lightning military strikes against its neighbours are planned. But first they must sow confusion and fear in the ranks of their enemies. They turn to one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. He has control over an undetectable and incurable bio-weapon, the perfect assassin's tool. Created using a strand of each victim's own DNA, it is the ultimate precision-guided silent killer. Lt Col. Jon Smith and his Covert-One operatives take orders from the US President: their mission is to stop this murderous conspiracy - and thwart the leaders who are seeking to restore their country to her former power...
Still reeling from Rebeka's death, Bourne is drawn back into the fight between the Mexican cartels when he learns that his nemesis Ouyang Jidan is involved. Determined to discover the connection between the Chinese official Ouyang and a deceased drug lord, Bourne sets off for Shanghai...where he'll face his greatest threat to date...
When word reaches the President of the United States that a Chinese cargo ship is transporting chemicals to a rogue nation intent on creating new biological weapons, the President knows he must act quickly to obtain the proof he needs. Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message - the President's biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the mysterious ship draws closer to its end port, Smith is losing time in uncovering the truth about the vessel and its cargo - a truth that probes the secrets of the Chinese ruling party, a faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and an international cabal thursting the world to the brink of war ..
TOP LEVEL TERROR Washington has been working its data banks and computers overtime. Finally, the machines came up with a name: James Barbour Matlock the perfect man for the assignment. An assignment that would mean horror and pain to Matlock, that would mean the savaging of the girl he loved --- and almost surely his own death. But the soundless machines and the faceless men who monitored them didn't care as long as the conspiracy called Nimrod was destroyed along with him.
"Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself--an amoral, heartless killer--in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling series"--Provided by publisher.
Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria there is a remote hideaway - the fortress-like nerve centre of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, but now, after three years in deep cover, he has disappeared.
Nicholas Linnear, visionary hero of The Ninja, The Kaisho, and Floating City, returns in... Second Skin Eric Lustbader's powerful novels have established him as "an author of authentic and engrossing Oriental intrigue second to none" (Ib Melchior, Los Angeles Times Book Review ). Now the international bestselling master storyteller brings us a globe-spanning new novel of epic adventure. Nicholas Linnear is back -- to confront his most formidable and hated enemy. Nicholas Linnear won a major battle with the apocalyptic destruction of Floating City. But his enemy has taken flight from the city's ruins in Vietnam to regroup and mount the assault that will solidify his ultimate power -- and destroy Linnear. Mick Leonforte, an international corporate power broker as well as a criminal czar, is preparing to take on Linnear, his sworn nemesis, on the battleground where business and warfare become one. With the help of seasoned New York City police detective Lew Croaker and the dazzling, cunning Vesper Arkham, Linnear pursues his prey -- placing Koei, the woman he loves above all else, in the vengeful path of a criminal genius. And it will plunge Nicholas into the depths of Kshira -- the terrible force that even the master who trained him in the mysteries of psychic warfare was powerless to escape.
Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn't realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne's every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.
Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist. Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly - and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. With the life of the president hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Amaya's serpentine trail to uncover the sinister network who exist to help this consummate killer. And Hawthorne must discover the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion ...
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist--Parsifal.
Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare… Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, that’s linked to the CIA—and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma. As Anna follows the connecting thread—and Hartman finds himself on the run—she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her…victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves—and confirm their very worst fears...
American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy--an official knowns only as the Dirizhor.
Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne.
Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can't refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal, and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone despatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it's too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.
The brilliant new global thriller from the master storyteller ...
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in "deep storage" former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is one of the few who is so dangerous that he is in complete isolation from other patients, kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients in the facility: Ambler isn't crazy.With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Ambler manages to first clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then executes a daring escape. On the loose and barely one step ahead of the retrieval teams sent after him, he is out to discover who had him stashed in the psychiatric hospital and why.But the world he returns to isn't the one he so clearly remembers - friends and longtime associates don't recognize him, and there are no official records of any person named Hal Ambler. With no resources and his unknown enemies closing in on him, Ambler has to uncover the truth of who he was and figure out what it is about him - remember what he knows - that makes him such a danger that someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.
Thriller set in the world of power politics. An unassuming Congressman from Colorado mediates in the release of 200 hostages from the Middle East.
Retired operative Paul Janson is called back to the spy game to settle a personal debt he owes. Peter Novak, the legendary Hungarian immigrant and head of the Liberty Foundation, has been kidnapped and faces execution at the hands of terrorist extremists. It is up to Janson to rescue Novak before he is murdered. Janson immediately puts together a top team and manages the nearly impossible task of extricating Novak, but something goes horribly wrong - something that indicates the operation had been compromised from the start - and only Janson himself survives. Now the major intelligence services think that Janson was responsible for Novak's death and are sending their finest operatives after him...
Jason Bourne's old friend and covert brother-in-arms, Colonel Boris Karpov, is brutally murdered. The main suspect is Sara Yadin, a Mossad agent and Bourne's lover.
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion. War hero and infamous ladies’ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China’s Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington, this looks like the end of Mac’s illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope. What’s the ransom? Just one American dollar—for every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady “investors,” Mac’s four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life, and readers have in their hands one relentlessly irreverent page-turner. Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard. “Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.”— Chicago Sun-Times “Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.”— The New York Times
By the author of "The Holcroft Covenant", "The Matarese Circle" and "The Bourne Identity" this is a story about Andrew Trevayne, a self-made millionaire by the age of 30 and now head of a huge foundation. His apparent incorruptibility is threatened by corruption in high places.
The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death, half-drowned and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. He awakens with no memory of who he is or why he was shot-and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own amnesia. Then Bourne discovers that the Mossad agent named Rebeka is so determined to find this injured man that she has gone off the grid, cut her ties to her agency, and is now being stalked by Mossad’s most feared killer. Do the answers to these mysteries lie back in southeast Lebanon, in a secret encampment to which Bourne and Rebeka escaped following a firefight weeks ago? The complex trail links to the mission given to Treadstone directors Peter Marks and Soraya Moore: find the semi-mythic terrorist assassin known as Nicodemo. In the course of Bourne’s desperate, deadly search for a secret that will alter the future of the entire world, he will experience both triumph and loss, and his life will never be the same. Now everything turns on the amnesiac. Bourne must learn his identity and purpose before both he and Rebeka are killed. From Stockholm to Washington, D.C., from Mexico City to Beijing, the web of lies and betrayals extends into a worldwide conspiracy of monumental proportions.
"An elite member of the Nazi high command is ready to defect, bringing information vital to the Allied cause. He will deal with no one but Army Intelligence Major Matthew Canfield."--Audio cassette container.
In a quiet suburban town a strange assortment of men and women gather for a momentous weekend. Meanwhile in Zurich, Moscow and Washington, the time machine is already ticking. But countermeasures are in motion. In Washington, John Tanner bets his life in a gamble to destroy the menacing conspiracy that hangs over us all. "Shattering...it will cost you the night and the cold hours of the morning!" (Cincinnati Enquirer)
This 1986 volume was the first of five, which together give a comprehensive account of clinical psychiatry in the 1980's and its scientific foundations. After an introductory section about the historical background and the evolution of some basic concepts, clinical phenomena are described and discussed. The book concludes with a section in which mental disorders are classified and their assessment, diagnosis and treatment detailed. Each chapter is written by a recognised authority in the field and the book includes a comprehensive bibliography and cross-references to the other volumes in the series.
Jon Smith is attending a conference in The Hague on infectious diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter, and finds three pictures in the assassin's pocket: one of an unknown woman, one of Peter Howell, his friend and a former agent with Britain's MI6, and one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel, he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smith's narrow escape, bombs go off at the train station, airport and at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice, where a Pakistani warlord, Oman Dattar, is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of deadly bacteria - and is determined to use them to bring down the West once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him?
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The Scarlatti Inheritance; The Osterman Weekend; The Matlock Paper
THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE - A spellbinding story of international terror and intrigue, greed and cunning, suspense and murder, revolving around a file whose contents will destroy many of the Western world's greatest reputations if they are made known. THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND - John Tanner, network news director, is looking forward to a weekend party with his friends. But then the CIA tell him that they are all suspected Soviet agents: fanatical, traitorous killers working for Omega, a massive Communist conspiracy... THE MATLOCK PAPER - James Matlock, professor of English at Carlyle University, New England, is assigned by the US government to investigate what seems to be a large-scale dope and prostitution business on campus. But does he realise what the ultimate effect on his personal life will be?
Reformed from his days of covert operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. Janson also takes on independent assignments - for a fee, he'll use his skills to resolve international crises. But only those that he believes contribute to the greater good of all. When oil executive Kingsman Helms begs Janson to rescue his wife, Allegra, from Somali pirates, Janson and Kincaid seize the opportunity. At last they can derail American Synergy Corporation's scheme to subvert sovereign nations into wholly owned subsidiaries. But the pirates are the least lethal threat in the violent chaos of oil-rich East Africa, and when Janson and Kincaid stumble into a bewildering storm of plots and counterplots, they begin to fear that the only way to escape would be to abandon the innocent Allegra.
Robert Ludlum's newest novel in the hugely popular Covert-One series, by New York Times bestselling author Kyle Mills
At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again--assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap--a trap from which only one of them will escape.
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it’s different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West.Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play—forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
In a new adventure, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder - to prevent a war in Asia that could quickly spread worldwide ...
General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead but the cyber attack he launched at the heart of the US's nuclear defence network lives on. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country? The sequel to The Bourne Enigma.
Robert Ludlum's bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting, ripped-from-the-headlines new novel by bestselling, award-winning thriller author Jamie Freveletti.On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of brainwashing or mind-altering drugs. Smith's investigation leads him to Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr. Laura Taylor, had been attempting to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. But Dr. Taylor's research was suspended almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution. Now, if Smith doesn't figure out the brainwashing drug, and track down the kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry out drone strikes anywhere in the world . . .
Satirisk spændingsroman om The Hawk's endeløse søgen efter retfærdighed, ære, og - selvfølgelig - penge, denne gang hos en indianerstamme i Nebraska som er blevet frastjålet deres landområder
A history of the United States through the Reagan administration. Includes study helps and reference material such as a copy of the Declaration of Independence and a complete annotated text of the Constitution.
Complete & Unabridged
Four books in shrinkwrap - The Matarese Circle, The scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Bourne Identity
Für seine Zeit als Killer im Dienst der US-Regierung hat Adam Hayes teuer bezahlt. Inzwischen hat er dem geheimen Treadstone-Programm den Rücken gekehrt und arbeitet daran, sich an der Westküste der USA eine bescheidene Existenz aufzubauen. Bis die Vergangenheit ihn gnadenlos einholt: Ein schwer bewaffnetes Kommando versucht, Hayes auszuschalten. Mit knapper Not kann er entkommen. Wer steckt hinter dem Attentat? Und warum? Um eine Antwort auf diese Fragen zu finden, muss Hayes wieder das werden, was er nie wieder sein wollte: ein nahezu perfekter Killer.
Un asesino sin rostro, sin identidad y con un nombre que el mundo quería olvidar: Jason Bourne. Reingresa al mundo sombrío de Jason Bourne, un experto asesino aún atormentado por las pesadillas fragmentadas de su vida anterior. Esta vez, las apuestas son más altas que nunca. Alguien más ha asumido la identidad de Bourne, un asesino implacable que debe ser detenido o el mundo pagará un precio devastador. Para tener éxito, el verdadero Jason Bourne debe maniobrar a través del peligroso laberinto del espionaje internacional, un mundo exótico lleno de tramas de la CIA, agentes traidores y alianzas en constante cambio, mientras espera encontrar la verdad detrás de sus recuerdos atormentados y las respuestas a su propio pasado fragmentado. Esta vez hay dos Bournes, y uno debe morir.
Le monde de Michael Havelock s'est éteint sur une plage au clair de lune sur la Costa Brava. Il regarde son partenaire et amante, Jenna, agent double, être abattue efficacement par sa propre agence. Il n'avait plus rien à faire que de quitter le jeu, de s'en aller. Jusqu'à ce qu'un jour, dans un moment de panique sur une plateforme de train bondée à Rome, Havelock voit sa Jenna--vivante. À partir de ce moment, il est marqué pour la mort par des assassins américains et russes.
Związek Radziecki. Właśnie tu Jason Bourne staje do ostatecznej rozgrywki ze swoim największym wrogiem - słynnym terrorystą Carlosem - i tajnym międzynarodowym stowarzyszeniem, które ma swoich ludzi na wszystkich kontynentach. Tylko Bourne może przeszkodzić potężnej Meduzie w zdobyciu władzy nad światem. Ale musi stoczyć walkę na śmierć i życie.... W jednej książce Ludluma jest więcej akcji niż w sześciu dobrych powieściach sensacyjnych razem wziętych."New York Times"
Adam Hayes hat beschlossen, seine tödlichen Fähigkeiten nicht länger in den Dienst der Geheimorganisation Treadstone zu stellen. Stattdessen will er nur noch Aufträge übernehmen, die er selbst moralisch vertreten kann. Doch die Vergangenheit lässt sich nicht so einfach abschütteln. Als er nach einem Angriff auf sein Flugzeug bei einer Mission in Burkina Faso notlanden muss, findet er sich allein auf unwegsamem Territorium wieder. Ihm auf den Fersen sind nicht nur die Extremisten, die ihn beschossen haben. Auch sein ehemaliger Arbeitgeber ist plötzlich an der Verfolgung beteiligt. Kann Hayes seine Haut retten und sich einen Weg in sicheres Gelände bahnen?
„Hydra“ – ein neues, weltbedrohendes Virus bricht aus In Moskau sterben US-Diplomaten an einem tödlichen, neuartigen Virus. Es lässt sich nicht diagnostizieren, nicht aufhalten und es gibt kein Gegenmittel. Die perfekte Biowaffe, die ihr Ziel in der DNA ihrer Opfer findet und diese rasend schnell zerstört. Jon Smith von der amerikanischen Sondereinheit Covert One wird von Prag nach Moskau beordert, um die Attentäter ausfindig zu machen. Er kommt einer weltweiten Verschwörung auf die Spur, die von einem geheimnisumwitterten Mann geleitet wird.
Berlin 1964: Die Leiche eines nackten alten Mannes wird an der Havel gefunden, kurz vor dem 75. Geburtstag des Führers. Das von Albert Speer erbaute Berlin ist festlich geschmückt. Großdeutschland, das Europa dominiert, wird von Partisanenkriegen im Osten geplagt, während die neue Außenpolitik auf die Beendigung des Kalten Krieges mit den USA abzielt. Präsident Kennedy wird als erster amerikanischer Regierungschef zu einem Staatsbesuch erwartet. In diesem angespannten Klima ist der plötzliche Tod eines hohen Parteibonzen problematisch und erfordert sofortige Ermittlungen. Kripo-Sturmbannführer März, unterstützt von dem deutschstämmigen amerikanischen Journalisten Charlie Maguire, kommt der historischen Wahrheit gefährlich nahe und wird von Berlin nach Zürich und zurück gezogen. Parallel dazu wird die Geschichte von Amaya Bajaratt erzählt, die als Kind miterleben muss, wie ihre baskische Familie brutal ermordet wird. Getrieben von dem Wunsch nach Rache an der Obrigkeit, perfektioniert sie das Handwerk des Terrorismus und plant einen Feldzug gegen die Mächtigen der politischen Welt. Die Geheimdienste sind ratlos und rufen den eiskalt agierenden Spitzenagenten Tyrell Hawthorne zur Hilfe. Wird es ihm gelingen, Amaya und ihre Komplizen zu stoppen?
Actionreiche Hochspannung – der neue Bourne! Vor der schwedischen Küste zieht Jason Bourne einen Bewusstlosen aus dem Meer. Der Mann hat jegliche Erinnerung an sein Leben verloren – eine unheimliche Parallele zu Bournes eigenem Schicksal. Die Lösung scheint in einem geheimen Mossad-Lager im Libanon zu liegen, wo Bourne sich zuvor versteckt hatte. Dort erkennt er einen zerstörerischen Plan, der nicht nur sein Leben, sondern die Sicherheit der Welt bedrohen könnte. Als der mysteriöse Mann, dem Bourne das Leben gerettet hat, das Bewusstsein wiedererlangt, greift er Bourne an und flüchtet. Rebekka, eine befreundete Mossad-Agentin, ist ebenfalls hinter dem Mann her, was das Rätsel noch komplizierter macht. In dem Mossad-Lager im Libanon finden sie eine erste Spur, die sie nach Mexiko führt. Dort entdecken Bourne und Rebekka den Flüchtigen im Haus eines mexikanischen Software-Magnaten. Sie machen eine schreckliche Entdeckung: Eine gefährliche Technologie steht kurz vor dem Abschluss und könnte in den falschen Händen verheerende Folgen haben. Die Spur des Komplotts reicht von Mexiko bis China und zu einem Energiekonzern, der bereit ist, über Leichen zu gehen, um den Markt zu dominieren. Bourne ist fest entschlossen, dem Treiben ein Ende zu setzen und stellt sich den dunklen Mächten entgegen, koste es, was es wolle.
