Manda Scott Knihy

Vysnívaný orol oživuje korene pôsobivého príbehu, ktorý nestráca na aktuálnosti ani s odstupom stáročí. Je to príbeh z čias, kedy Britániu obývali kmene druidov. Z čias, keď bol svet ľudí plný čarov, vášní, odvahy a hrdinstva...

Dej tohto dobrodružného trileru je zasadený do dvoch časovo vzdialených období. Začína sa súčasným príbehom dvoch mladých manželov, Stelly a Kita, ktorí objavia v hĺbke zabudnutej jaskyne v Anglicku krištáľovú lebku a pritom jeden z nich takmer príde o život. Pretože už vedia niečo o jej cene a poslaní, uvedomia si, že sa dostali do veľkého nebezpečenstva. Musia však pátrať po tajomstve lebky, pretože v hre je oveľa viac než ich životy…

AD60: The flame of rebellion, smouldering for twenty years of Roman occupation has flared into a conflagration that will consume the land and all who live it in. Set against Rome's attempted destruction of the Celtic civilisation.

Sie war die Seherin der Kelten und die große Widersacherin Roms. Bereit, selbst gegen den eigenen Bruder zu kämpfen, verteidigte sie die Unabhängigkeit ihres Volkes bis zum Äußersten. Niemals wird Breaca, Seherin der Kelten und einzige Hoffnung auf die Freiheit, sich den Römern unterwerfen. Doch der Kampf ist schwer geworden: Ihr geliebter Ehemann Caradoc fiel in Rom einem schrecklichen Verrat zum Opfer, und ihr eigener Stamm betrachtet sie mit großem Misstrauen. Breacas einzige Hoffnung: Ihre Töchter, die rechtmäßigen Erbinnen, und ein erneuter Aufstand der östlichen Völker. Aber das Schicksal will es anders: Wieder trifft Breaca jenen Mann, der schuld ist an ihrer größten Niederlage und der doch, laut einer alten Weissagung, einst ihr Volk retten wird: Ihr Halbbruder Ban, ein römischer Legionär, ist auf dem Weg nach Norden. Auch er sucht den Frieden …

In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome - the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush the vibrant native civilization of our island home ...

There is a secret hidden within a body, burning within the flames, that will change history forever. 2014: In the French city of Orléans, a manâe(tm)s charred corpse is found in a burned-out hotel, stripped of all ID. Police captain Inà ̈s Picaut must hunt down his killer before others fall prey to the fire. She has only one clue: the name of a woman who has been dead for over five hundred years. 1429: Joan of Arc is taking the war to the English. They want her dead but the only way to reach her is through a fiercely loyal inner circle - until undercover spy Tomas Rustbeard finally earns her trustâe¦ The myths of the past hold the key to the mystery of the present, but how many must die before the truth is laid bare?

"The body of an elderly woman is found in Orléans, France, her identiy cleverly obscured. But one thing is clear: she has been killed in the manner of traitors to the Resistance in World War Two. To find answers in the present, police inspector Inès Picaut must look to the past; to 1940s France, a time of sworn allegiances and broken promises, where men and women fought together for survival against the Nazi invaders. But, as Picaut soon discovers, there are those in the present whose futures depend on the past remaining buried, and who will do anything to keep their secrets safe. Old-fashioned espionage might be a thing of the past but treachery is just as murderous as ever ..." Klappentext.

Sebastos Pantera is newly returned from 5 years undercover work in Britannia. Sick of spying, he plans to retire into peaceful anonymity far from the schemes of his Emperor. But no sooner has he set foot in Gaul than he is met by his former spymaster Seneca who begs him to undertake one final mission.

Her writing has been called “powerful and subtle,” (The Times, U.K.) her plotting “original and shiver-count high.” (The Times, U.K.) Now Manda Scott has written a powerful thriller debut, the terrifying tale of a lone woman pitted against an enigmatic killer—a man who deals out death without a second thought.... NO GOOD DEED For Detective Inspector Orla McLeod, violence is a way of life. As a child, her own world was ripped apart by a brutal, unforgettable moment of terror. So when the Special Branch operation she is spearheading goes disastrously wrong, she will do everything she can to protect the nine-year-old boy caught in the cross fire. For Jamie Buchanan was the sole witness to an act of savagery committed in cold blood by a man rapidly becoming one of the most feared criminals in Europe. Orla and her partner, Luke Tyler, had risked their lives to infiltrate Tord Svensen’s criminal world. Together they had gone deep undercover in a Glasgow tenement to get close enough to bring him down. Then in a series of harrowing events, everything in Orla’s life would change forever. Now Orla finds herself haunted by the memory of what happened—and tormented by the guilt she feels over her own survival. What keeps her going are the promises she made to her partner Luke and to orphaned Jamie Buchanan. Jamie is the only person who’s seen Tord Svensen’s face, the only one able to ID him. Officially pulled off the Svensen case, Orla spirits Jamie away to the only place she feels safe, a lonely cottage under the shadow of a snowcapped Scottish mountain. But there will be no sanctuary for them in the Highlands. For, like Orla, the hunter who pursues them knows exactly what to do to survive. And that means putting both Orla and her vulnerable young charge in the grave. Chilling, intense, and stylishly written, No Good Deed places Manda Scott among the forefront of today’s best thriller writers.

The stunning new Roman novel featuring Sebastos Pantera, set during the year of the Four Emperors. Rome: AD69, The Year of the Four Emperors. Three Emperors have ruled in Rome this year and a fourth, Vespasian, has been named in the East. As the legions march toward civil war, Sebastos Pantera, the spy whose name means leopard, returns to Rome intent on bribery, blackmail and persuasion: whatever it takes to bring the commanders and their men to Vespasian's side. But in Rome, as he uses every skill he has ever learned of subterfuge, codes and camouflage, it becomes clear that one of those closest to him is a traitor, who will let Rome fall to destroy him. Together the two spies spin a web of deceit with Rome as the prize and death the only escape.