C. C. Chris C. Humphreys Knihy

Fascinující příběh knížete a válečníka. DRÁKULA. Jméno, které v nás vyvolává představu hrůzy, zvrhlosti a temné smyslnosti. Skutečný Drákula byl však stejně fascinující jako děsivý a jeho životní příběh plný rozporů není příběhem nějaké nestvůry, ale příběhem člověka. Nepřátelé mu přezdívali „Tepeš“ — Napichovač. Stal se z něj národní hrdina.V zimě roku 1431 se narodil transylvánskému knížeti a otec ho pokřtil jménem „Vlad“, mezi lidmi se mu ale začalo říkat „Drakův syn“. V dějinách proslul jako Drákula. Tento román vypráví o skutečném životě muže, jenž se stal předlohou světoznámého mýtu. Vypráví o princi, válečníkovi, milenci, mučiteli, bojovníkovi a v neposlední řadě hrdinovi. Jeho pozoruhodný život překypuje vášní. Několik let byl zajatcem Turků, prošel mučením, bitvami, vítězstvím i zradou, ale až při svém posledním tažení, pod prapory Draka a Kříže, našel vykoupení za své nesčetné hříchy. C. C. Humphreys je autor 8 románů, z nichž jeden byl nominován na cenu CWA Steel Dagger.

Dobrodružný román z konce 18.století je inspirován divadelní hrou anglického dramatika Sheridana. Ve jménu a službách Anglie se královské vojsko vydává na cestu za moře. Cílem jsou kanadské pevnosti, kde vypukly revoluce proti anglické kolonizaci. Jedním z hlavních důstojníků je i bývalý britský špion Jack Absolute. Jack chce svůj úkol splnit se ctí a odvahou, naráží však na nečekané komplikace a dokonce zradu ve vlastních řadách. Oproti ostatním má však jednu neocenitelnou výhodu. Žil mezi Indiány a zná jejich život i způsob boje. Stojí před životním rozhodnutím. Za koho má bojovat a koho zradit.

Irresistible adventure story based on the real-life figure of Jean Rombaud, who beheaded Anne Boleyn. It is 1536, and the expert swordsman, Jean Rombaud, has been brought over from France by Henry VIII to behead his wife, Anne Boleyn. But on the eve of her execution Rombaud swears a vow to the ill-fated queen - to bury her six-fingered hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a sacred crossroads. Yet in a Europe ravaged by religious war, the hand of this infamous Protestant icon is so powerful a relic that many will kill for it... From a battle between slave galleys to a black mass in a dungeon, through the hallucinations of St Anthony's Fire to the fortress of an apocalyptic Messiah, Jean seeks to honour his vow.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, an epic and thrilling tale of a serial killer who threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665.

Four sides. Two battles. One War. As the world begins to learn how divided it really is, a small group of immortals must come together to save... everything.

From the scaffold of the Globe theatre to a menace in Whitehall, this is a gripping tale of corruption, rebellion and love.

The brilliant first outing for a new kind of hero . . .

A superb gothic novel about the real Vlad the Impaler - one of history's greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both...DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - 'The Impaler'. But Vlad's actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.

DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - 'The Impaler'. But Vlad's actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.

The powerful sequel to THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE ...