Prvý román Daniela Silvu sa stal medzinárodným bestsellerom a autor sa ním zaradil medzi klasikov špionážneho žánru. Nemecko, rok 1944. Vylodenie spojencov v Európe je na spadnutie a vrchné velenie armády zúfalo potrebuje vedieť, kedy a kde k nemu dôjde. Je najvyšší čas aktivovať jedného z posledných Hitlerových špiónov vo Veľkej Británii – dokonale utajeného „spiaceho agenta“, ktorého tam nemecká tajná služba dosadila ešte pred vojnou...
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.
Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising . Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism. It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA. By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.
"Il più grande impianto petrolifero della Siberia salta in aria: sabotaggio. Il Politburo sovietico decide di attuare il piano segreto denominato "Uragano Rosso". Gli occidentali però conoscono le intenzioni dei comandanti dell'Armata Rossa, e allora... la terza guerra mondiale"
Nel college di Kirkston Abbey era accaduto qualcosa di sinistro. A scatenare forze distruttive nel tempio della migliore borghesia era stata la strana amicizia tra due studenti: il fragile Jonathan, vittima dei compagni e dei professori, e il diabolico Richard, dotato di un carisma ai limiti dell'umano. Erano come le due metà di una cosa sola, ed era destino che diventassero inseparabili. Poi un gioco malefico aveva preso loro la mano... Dopo tanti anni, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto a quegli eventi ha deciso di liberarsi la coscienza dal peso di una verità insostenibile. Ma il mondo è pronto ad ascoltarlo?