Set against the backdrop of wartime London, the story follows three strangers from diverse backgrounds as they navigate the challenges of one of history's most devastating conflicts. Their paths intersect in unexpected ways, revealing the resilience of the human spirit amidst chaos and uncertainty. Themes of camaraderie, survival, and the impact of war on personal lives are explored as these characters confront their fears and forge connections in a time of turmoil.
Nocny napad na rodzinę, jedna jedyna ocalała – i brak wskazówek dotyczących sprawców i motywów. W burzliwą noc na zachodnim wybrzeżu Szkocji dwie rodziny, które biwakują w zatoce, zostają zaatakowane we śnie przez zamaskowanych mężczyzn. Przemoc eskaluje, a jedyną osobą, która przeżywa, jest Iris, najstarsza córka jednej z rodzin, która udaje się schować. Morderstwa Kilbride, jak zaczęto je nazywać, pozostają niewyjaśnione. Wiele lat później Iris nagle staje się celem niepokojącego stalkera. Wkrótce potem jej przyjaciółka znika bez śladu podczas wspólnej podróży. Czy to ofiara przestępstwa, które miało na celu Iris? Iris przypadkowo spotyka byłego inspektora Caleb Hale'a. Razem z Kate Linville zaczynają prowadzić śledztwo, które wciąga ich coraz głębiej w koszmar... Czekają na nich kolejne mroczne tajemnice i intrygujące sprawy morderstw.
Having survived combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and been decorated with medals, Travis Devine mysteriously leaves the army under a cloud of suspicion. Swapping fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda for the cut-throat world of high finance, his new role takes him into a world where greed, power, jealousy and ambition result in the financial abuse of the masses and the enrichment of an elite few. But it is on his 6:20am daily commute that he passes a house where he sees something that sounds alarm signals he cannot ignore.
Long Shadows is the seventh Amos Decker thriller from internationally bestselling author David Baldacci.Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in Florida.Things are changing for Decker. He is in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos Decker knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.Judge Julia Cummins seemingly had no enemies and there was no forced entry to her property. Close friends and neighbours in the community apparently heard nothing, and Cummins' distraught ex-husband, Barry, and teenage son, Tyler, both have strong alibis. Decker must first find the answer to why the judge felt the need for a bodyguard, and the meaning behind the strange calling card left by the killer.As the investigation deepens, the body count rises, and Decker and White discover a trail which leads back to a past presidential campaign and an unsolved crime surrounding those in power at the very highest level.Greed, deceit, deception and corruption at the very heart of power.Someone has decided that it's payback time.[Bokinfo]
The gripping second historical crime novel in David Baldacci’s Private Investigator Archer series, following the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.
Daylight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy and A Minute to Midnight featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine, from one of the world's most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci.The huntEver since Mercy was abducted aged six, Atlee has been relentless in her search for her. Finally, she gets her most promising breakthrough yet - the identity of her sister's kidnapper.The captureAs Atlee and her assistant, Carol Blum, race to track down the suspect, they run into Pine's old friend and fellow agent, John Puller, who is investigating the suspect's family for another crime.The killWorking together, Pine and Puller must pull back the layers of deceit, lies and cover-ups that strike at the very heart of global democracy. And the truth about what happened to Mercy will finally be revealed.That truth will shock Atlee Pine to her very core.Continue the gripping series with Mercy.
The number one bestselling author returns with another highly charged thriller taking Amos Decker, who has proved one of his readers' favourite characters to date, on an action-packed investigation with all the trademark twists and turns which make David Baldacci one of the world's favourite storytellers.
Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins. He's the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn't changed: He maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago? As he starts digging into the old case, Decker finds a startling connection to a new crime that he may be able to prevent, if only he can put the pieces together quickly enough.
Poca City 1949. Fresh from serving time for a crime he didn’t commit, Aloysius Archer is ready to put the past behind him and start again. Who can you trust ?Accepting a job as a debt collector for the local tycoon he gets embroiled in a long-running feud between. the town’s most dangerous residents. When one of them is found dead, Archer is the number one suspect. -- Publsher's description.
A US Navy Commander is attacked while having dinner with his wife by an unidentified Russian man. A CIA operative travelling on a Canadian passport is intercepted and interrogated at Tehran Airport. A team of FBI officers are arrested by Indonesian police for travelling under fake passports in Jakarta. These apparently unrelated incidents point to a compromise in US government security, and Jack Ryan and his team must find out where it is coming from. From Maryland to Macedonia, they frantically battle shadowy forces who are looking to drag the US president into a ground war with ISIS.
Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville, Pennsylvania, visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. With the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker realizes that the recent string of deaths is only one small piece of a much larger scheme -- with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville. But when one mistake could cost him everything, Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all
In Rusland is de macht van president Valeri Volodin tanende en in een poging het verloren gegane terrein terug te veroveren, verlegt hij zijn ambities naar het buitenland. Omdat de Verenigde Staten in het verleden dergelijke expansieplannen altijd hebben gedwarsboomd, besluit Volodin tot een andere aanpak. Een drijvende gasinstallatie in Litouwen wordt opgeblazen. In Venezuela wordt een aanklager vermoord. Bij een aanval op een trein met Russische troepen vallen tientallen doden. Wereldwijde chaos is het gevolg. De terreuraanslagen lijken niets met elkaar te maken te hebben, tot president Jack Ryan een beangstigend patroon ontdekt. Maar hij heeft geen bewijs…
Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a remarkable memory takes on another case in The Fix.Walter Dabney is a family man. A loving husband and the father of four grown daughters, he's built a life many would be proud of. But then the unthinkable happens.Standing outside the FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, Dabney shoots school teacher Anne Berkshire in cold blood before turning the gun on himself.One of the many witnesses is Amos Decker; a man who forgets nothing and sees what most miss. Baffled by what appears to be a seemingly senseless and random killing, Decker is thrust into the investigation to determine what drove this family man to pull the trigger. As part of an FBI special task force, Decker and the team delve into the lives of Dabney and Berkshire to find a connection that doesn't seem to exist. What they do find are secrets that stretch back a lifetime and reveal a current plot of impending destruction that will send the world reeling, placing Decker and his team squarely in the crosshairs.
Gang zlodejov uskutoční lúpež storočia a odnesie si z Firestonovej knižnice Princetonskej univerzity korisť nevyčísliteľnej hodnoty, poistenú na dvadsaťpäť miliónov dolárov.
Bruce Cable vlastní obľúbené kníhkupectvo v ospanlivom letovisku Santa Rosa na Ostrove Camino. Okrem toho má celkom slušné príjmy z predaja vzácnych kníh. Málokto o ňom vie, že na čiernom trhu obchoduje s ukradnutými knihami a rukopismi. Mercer Mannová je mladá spisovateľka, po prvom úspešnom románe a zbierke poviedok nie je schopná sústrediť sa na písanie, už tri roky mešká s ďalším románom. Príde o prácu a netuší, kde bude bývať, z čoho splatí študentskú pôžičku. Práve vtedy jej do života vstúpi elegantná Elaine Shelbyová, ktorá pracuje pre záhadnú nemenovanú spoločnosť. Mercer prijme jej veľkorysú ponuku a prenikne do kruhu literátov okolo Brucea Cabla s cieľom odhaliť jeho tajomstvá. Mercer sa však dozvie priveľa a v raji nastanú problémy.
Traja kamaráti Mark, Todd a Zola študujú na treťotriednej súkromnej právnickej škole, čaká ich posledný semester, promócia, potom advokátska skúška. Doteraz verili, že im škola zaručí dobre platenú prácu, aby rýchlo splatili horibilné študentské pôžičky.
Po tragickej udalosti sú však nútení zamyslieť sa. Žiadna významná právnická firma nemá záujem o absolventov ich školy. Situácia na trhu práce je beznádejná. Keď sa trojica dozvie, že sa stali obeťami grandiózneho podvodu, zrodí sa v ich hlave plán, ale ak ho chcú uskutočniť, musia odísť zo školy. Šialenstvo? Možno.
Trojica priateľov sa púšťa do zdanlivo nerovného boja s miliardárom Hindsom Rackleym. Ako sa skončí súboj Dávida s Goliášom? Podarí sa trom neskúseným študentom podviesť ostrieľaného podvodníka?
Ex-SAS, ex-Black Ops, Nick Stone returns and this time he wants vengeance. At any cost. Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone has spent a lifetime in harm's way -- but when someone he cares for very deeply is murdered in cold blood, he can no longer just take the pain. A high-level internecine conflict at the dark heart of the resurgent Russian Empire and an assassin's bullet on an isolated Alpine pass? propel him from an apparently run-of-the-mill close-protection task into his most brutal and challenging mission yet. As the body count increases, Stone becomes one of Europe's Most Wanted. He must evade the elite police forces of three nations in his pursuit of faceless men who trade in human misery, and a lone wolf terrorist who threatens to unleash the Western World's worst nightmare. Vengeance of the most explosive kind is top of Stone's agenda. The fuse has been ignited - but who really holds the detonator?
John Puller may be the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father -- a highly decorated army veteran -- may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrived on the scene, he realized that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother -- even proving that his father is a killer. Meanwhile, Paul Rogers has just been paroled after spending ten years in a high-security prison for murder. And with his freedom comes a desire to pay back old debts. Harbouring a dark past that changed him in unimaginable ways, Rogers embarks on a journey across the country, set on a path of revenge against the people who took away his humanity. As both men uncover a trail of deception that stretches back decades, they realize that the truth will bind them together in ways they could never have imagined
When a convicted killer is saved by another man's confession, Amos Decker, now an FBI special task force detective, must find the truth in this "utterly absorbing" #1 New York Times bestseller (Associated Press). Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth. The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now? But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.
The small, remote Bayou town hasn't changed and its residents remember Robie as a wild sports star and girl magnet. He left a lot of hearts broken, and a lot of people angry.Will and his father, Dan, are estranged, and his mother left years ago. When he visits Dan in jail, he finds that time hasn't healed old wounds. There's too much bad blood between the men, and although Will feels no good will come of staying around, he is persuaded to confront his demons by fellow agent Jessica Reel.This is the fourth thriller in the Will Robie and Jessica Reel series following on from The Innocent, The Hit and The Target.
Amos Decker would forever remember all three of their violent deaths in the
most paralyzing shade of blue. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments,
like a gutting knife made of colored light. He would never be free from it.'
When Amos Decker returned home eighteen months ago to find the bodies of his
wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed
with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job as a
detective, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the
police, Mary Lancaster, visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the
murder of his family, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek
justice for them. As Decker comes to terms with the news, tragedy strikes at
the local school. Thirteen teenagers are gunned down, and the killer is at
large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional
footballer, he gained a remarkable gift - and the police believe that this
unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer. Amos must endure the
memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he
is left with only one option. Memory Man by David Baldacci will stay with you
long after the turn of the final page.
Ex-SAS and ex-Black Ops operative Nick Stone returns in a gripping adventure. After a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment's Killing House, Stone, just back from Moscow and grappling with the safety of his girlfriend and baby son, is well-positioned to investigate the incident. His deep understanding of Special Forces and emotional detachment should keep him undercover. However, within forty-eight hours, a second death thrusts him into the crosshairs of an unknown assassin determined to guard a secret that threatens the very establishment Stone has fought to protect. As the clock ticks, he races from a secluded Welsh confessional to Glencoe, where echoes of murder and betrayal linger, and then to Southern Spain. His quest reveals a chain of events tracing back to an Afghan hillside, where a friend was brutally killed by the Taliban, leaving a haunting legacy. This heart-stopping journey compels readers to confront the fine line between sacrifice and suicide, to share the nightmares entwined with heroism, and to recognize the true cost of loyalty-driven actions.
In Command Authority, Tom Clancy's iconic hero, Jack Ryan, returns. Years ago, as a young CIA analyst, Ryan was tasked with investigating the death of an operative linked to suspicious banking activities in Switzerland. His relentless pursuit revealed not just financial fraud but also a KGB assassin known as Zenith, whom he could never apprehend. Now, a new threat looms with the rise of President Valeri Volodin in Russia, whose ascent is marked by deception and a dark secret. Volodin aims to restore Russia's former power, willing to eliminate anyone who threatens to expose him.
When an old friend of the Ryans is poisoned with a radioactive substance, the investigation leads back to Russia. Jack Ryan, Jr., alongside John Clark and the covert Campus team, must confront an international crisis decades in the making and complete his father's unfinished mission. As President Ryan battles to counter Russian aggression, his son engages in a covert struggle against a formidable adversary, heightening the risk of global conflict and jeopardizing survival for all.
This thrilling installment continues the legacy of Clancy's work, showcasing his trademark blend of realism, intricate plotting, and suspenseful storytelling.
Government operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel are faced with a lethal mission. An attack from North Korea looks likely as US involvement in an attempted coup is revealed, and a bond of trust has been broken at the very highest level. Chung-Cha is a young woman who was raised in the infamous Yodok concentration camp. It's a place where honour, emotion and compassion don't exist. Cold, calculating and highly skilled, Chung-Cha has been trained to kill. And the task she has been given is to destroy the enemy at all costs. A dangerous and deadly operation of cat and mouse plays out between East and West. But who will be the hunter and who will be the hunted when the true target is finally revealed ...?
Črevá zohrávajú v našom tele dôležitú úlohu, no neprávom ich podceňujeme. Mladá nemecká lekárka Giulia Enders v tejto knihe vysvetľuje, ako fungujú a aké majú súvislosti s inými orgánmi či našou celkovou pohodou. Nečakajte však nudné traktáty. Autorka zhrnula najnovšie vedecké poznatky a ponúka ich príťažlivou formou. O tráviacom trakte rozpráva zrozumiteľne, uvoľnene a veľmi nonšalantne. Vysvetľuje napríklad, prečo nám škvŕka v žalúdku, ako správne sedieť na záchode, čo pre nás robia črevné baktérie a veľa iných faktov, na ktoré sa často hanbíme opýtať. Text dopĺňajú vtipné ilustrácie.
Giulia Enders pôsobí na Ústave mikrobiológie na Univerzite Johanna Wolfganga Goetheho vo Frankfurte na Mohanom, venuje sa výskumu a pracuje na svojej doktorandskej práci. V roku 2012 zvíťazila vo vedeckej súťaži Science Slam vo Freiburgu.
Z nemčiny do slovenčiny preložili Katarína Babinská a Gregor Babinský.
Military CID investigator John Puller has returned from his latest case to learn that his brother, Robert, once a major in the United States Air Force, and an expert in nuclear weaponry and cyber-security, has escaped from the Army's most secure prison. Preliminary investigations show that Robert - convicted of treason - may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run, and he's the military's number one target. John Puller has a dilemma. Which comes first: loyalty to his country, or to his brother? Blood is thicker than water, but Robert has state secrets that certain people will kill for. John does not know for certain the true nature of Robert's crimes, nor if he's even guilty. It quickly becomes clear, however, that his brother's responsibilities were powerful and far-reaching. With the help of US intelligence officer Veronica Knox, both brothers move closer to the truth from their opposing directions. As the case begins to force John Puller into a place he thought he'd never be - on the other side of the law. Even his skills as an investigator, and his strength as a warrior, might not be enough to save him. Or his brother.
V roku 2008 americké megafirmy hromadne prepúšťajú, aby sa udržali nad vodou aj počas finančnej krízy. Mladá právnička Samantha Koferová však s výpoveďou dostane aj netradičnú ponuku – ak príjme prácu v neziskovej organizácii, po roku sa môže vrátiť. A tak nedobrovoľne odchádza do virgínskeho mestečka Brady, ďaleko od Washingtonu a New Yorku, kde doteraz žila.
Samantha sa ocitá vo svete ovládanom veľkými banskými spoločnosťami, ktoré rozhodujú o bytí a nebytí tamojších obyvateľov, dozvedá sa o ich nekalých praktikách a bezohľadnom drancovaní prírody. Nelegálne skládky uhoľného kalu, ekologické katastrofy, úmrtia, to je len zlomok hrôzy, ktorú majú tieto spoločnosti na svedomí. Šanca na zastavenie ich činnosti či odškodnenie postihnutých rodín je mizivá. Samantha sa postupne stáva stredobodom pozornosti pochybných indivíduí najatých banskou spoločnosťou. Do hry vstupujú usvedčujúce dokumenty – ukradnuté materiály s citlivými informáciami – a situácia sa vyostruje. O život prichádzajú ďalší nevinní.
Escape to Italy with this sumptuous story of secrets and friendships under Mediterranean skies. A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward... Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian coast, supplying food to feed a family now grown and gone. One summer these two women are brought together in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, with the shared language of food. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of the pomegranate tree, secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. But life's lessons are not learnt easily.
Nick Stone has always kept his job as ex-SAS trouble shooter at arms' length
from his home life. But when his son falls dangerously ill and the doctor who
saves him comes under threat from an old adversary, it is no longer possible.
Nick Stone has two decades of operational skills - but this time, that may not
be enough...
Vo Virgínii sídli úrad so suchopárnym názvom Servisný úsek technických operácií, známy ako TOSA. Jeho jedinou úlohou je vystopovať, nájsť a zlikvidovať osoby, ktoré predstavujú takú hrozbu pre Spojené štáty, že sa dostali na krátky dokument známy ako zoznam smrti. TOSA naozaj existuje. Aj zoznam smrti.
Teraz naň pribudlo nové meno. Terorista nazývaný Kazateľ úspešne fanatizuje mladých moslimov v zahraničí a podnecuje ich k zabíjaniu. Má však smolu, keď sa jednou z obetí stane generál námornej pechoty vo výslužbe, ktorého syn je najskúsenejším lovcom ľudí v TOSA. Dolapeniu teroristu zasvätí šesť rokov života. Netuší, ako sa jeho cieľ volá, ako vyzerá, kde býva. Uvedomuje si, že ho nová úloha zavedie na miesta, kde prežije iba málokto. Lenže Kazateľ do nej zatiahol jeho rodinu. Lov sa začína.
In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, when two former Secret Service agents investigate a message from a soldier who was supposedly killed, they're determined to protect his son...even if they pay for it with their lives. It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father...after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target? Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets, Sean and Michelle are determined to help and protect Tyler--though they may pay for it with their lives.
By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team, who had one Lance Armstrong on their books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically -- high on a roof after too much drink , he broke his heel in a fall, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise', and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . . It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life . . . and perhaps his own.
Becky heeft de balans tussen het moederschap en haar carrière nog niet echt gevonden. Haar relatie met Steve staat daardoor onder druk. Daar komt nóg een stressfactor bij als haar vader Geoff opnieuw gaat trouwen met een vrouw die hij pas drie maanden kent. Becky vraagt haar vriendin Janie, die net bij een weddingplanner is ontslagen, om de bruiloft te organiseren. Helen, Becky’s moeder, is niet voor niets gescheiden, maar dit nieuws komt toch hard aan. En dan vindt ze zelf opeens een nieuwe liefde. De wat onconventionele dominee Mel die de huwelijksceremonie zal leiden, krijgt een crisissituatie thuis waardoor haar geloof opeens op de proef wordt gesteld. Zo is de aanloop naar het huwelijk van Becky’s vader dus allesbehalve perfect en dat zegt uiteindelijk meer over degenen om hem heen dan over de bruiloft zelf.
Prišlo nás deväť, aby sme spoločne zmarili plány Mogadoráncov na ovládnutie Zeme. Z času na čas ma však prepadnú pochybnosti. Nezmenili sme sa? Všetci ešte veríme v naše poslanie? Ako to mám vedieť? Ostalo nás šesť. Ukrývame sa, usilujeme sa zapadnúť medzi ľudí, vyhýbame sa vzájomným stretnutiam... Naše schopnosti sa však nezadržateľne vyvíjajú a onedlho budeme mať dosť síl na boj. Je John číslom štyri a jeho boj znamením, na ktoré sme čakali? Videla som ho v správach. Sledovala som všetky články o tom, čo sa stalo v Ohiu. John Smith sa ocitol na úteku. Pre svet bol záhadou, no pre mňa... bol jedným z nás. A čo čísla päť a šesť? Nemohlo by jedným byť aj to dievča s havraními vlasmi z mojich snov? To, ktorého moc presahuje hranice mojej predstavivosti? To, ktoré môže mať dosť sily, aby nás všetkých spojilo?
Racing from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality. Working behind the scenes for the CIA, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive and barely escapes with his life. Undaunted, Moore is relentless in his quest to find the terrorist cell responsible, but what he discovers leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe... After years of planning, the Taliban have come to terms with a vicious Mexican drug cartel and agreed to supply them with opium. For the cartel, the deal means money, power, and ultimate control of the drug trade. But for the Taliban, it is a long awaited opportunity: to exploit the cartels and bring the fire of the jihad to the hearts of the infidels, striking against the very heart of America.
Máj 2025: USA ťažia na Mesiaci hélium-3 a vesmírnym výťahom ho dopravujú na Zem. Zdá sa, že zásobovanie našej planéty energiami je definitívne vyriešené. Technologický gigant Orley Enterprises spôsobil revolúciu vo vesmírnom letectve a svetové veľmoci sa usilujú uchmatnúť si čo najväčší kus Mesiaca. Svetu už nevládnu politici na čele štátov, ale šéfovia mnohonárodných koncernov.
Excentrický multimiliardár Julian Orley sa so skupinou prominentných hostí z celého sveta vydáva na dobrodružný výlet do vesmíru. Na opačnej strane zemegule má súkromný detektív Owen Jericho vypátrať krásnu čínsku disidentku Jou-jou, po ktorej akoby sa zľahla zem. Na prvý pohľad to vyzerá ako celkom všedná zákazka, no čoskoro sa ukáže pravý opak. Jou-jou totiž pozná tajomstvo, ktoré zrejme zaujíma aj iných. Hrôzostrašná naháňačka, v ktorej ide o život, vedie z Číny cez Rovníkovú Guineu, Berlín, Londýn až do Benátok.
Záhadný protivník najal profesionálnych vrahov, aby Jericha a Jou-jou zavraždili. Dej nás zavedie do chaosu žoldnierskych vojen v Afrike, bojov o ropu, alternatívne zdroje energie a vedúce postavenie vo vesmíre – a na Mesiac, kde sa Orleyho skupina vesmírnych turistov ocitá zoči-voči smrteľnému nebezpečenstvu.
Brought on by a tragedy experienced as a toddler, Calli Clark, suffers from selective mutism. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend and her voice. But neither Petra of Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered.
Je jedným z najobľúbenejších športovcov histórie a jedným z najtalentovanejších tenistov, ktorí kedy vyšli na kurt. V strhujúcej autobiografii rozpráva príbeh o živote plnom konfliktov, o živote balansujúcom medzi nutkaním k sebadeštrukcii a snahou o dokonalosť. Agassi nás núti prežívať stres, v ktorom ako malý, sedemročný chlapec z Vegas musel denne trénovať pod prísnym dohľadom svojho násilníckeho otca. Agassi šokuje svet aj seba, keď v roku 1992 vyhráva Wimbledon. Cez noc sa stáva miláčikom fanúšikov aj mediálnym terčom. Vďaka svižnému tempu a drsnej úprimnosti si Open vychutnajú aj tí čitatelia, ktorí o tenise nevedia celkom nič. Tak ako Agassiho hra, aj jeho biografia vymedzuje nové štandardy pôvabu, štýlu, rýchlosti a sily.
Bubbly, rich, delicate and delightful, the champagne of the famous House of Peine is everything that Clementine Peine is not. She lost her sparkle, along with the love of her life many years before, and now she's lost her miserable papa too. Still, at least now the precious House is hers. Or is it? First her wicked sister Mathilde returns, determined to poison the future the same way she poisoned the past. Then, out of the blue, a third sister appears - the enchanting but equally unwelcome young Sophie - claiming their surname and causing ancient family rivalries, long-ago love affairs and forgotten scandals to come bubbling to the surface. The glory days Clementine has dreamed of for so long have never seemed further away. But as her cherished grapes must blossom and blend to reinvent themselves and become something truly magnificent - so must she. Only then can the House of Peine become a House of Joy.
Een verdwenen wetenschapper, mysterieuze objecten van steen, een teken aan de hemel - geologe Ella Jordan staat voor een raadsel. Maar als ze afdaalt naar het diepste punt van de aarde, ontdekt ze de verschrikkelijke betekenis van deze schijnbaar onsamenhangende fenomenen... Uit de Marianentrog komen signalen aan de oppervlakte die veel te regelmatig zijn om een natuurlijke oorsprong te kunnen hebben. In een onderzeeboot duiken Ella en de wetenschapper Konrad Martin naar het diepste punt van de trog, waar zich de bron van de verschijnselen lijkt te bevinden. Daar ontdekken ze een reusachtige stenen kogel, harder dan diamant en niet te meten. Plotseling worden nieuwe signalen opgevangen: eerst vanaf de Noordkaap, dan uit Australië en Antarctica. Ella en Konrad reizen over de hele wereld en stuiten overal op dezelfde raadselachtige stenen objecten, die ineens, allemaal tegelijk, signalen gaan uitstralen die over de hele wereld aardbevingen en vulkaanuitbarstingen veroorzaken...
V nočnej hmle uháňa fiat po diaľnici smerom na sever. Kardinál Ganzaga a jeho osobný tajomník sú na delikátnej misii: tajnému bratstvu vezú na vedecké účely kus látky s nevyčísliteľnou hodnotou.
V rovnakom čase Lukas Malberg, mníchovský antikvár, cestuje do Ríma, aby získal vzácnu zbierku kníh schudobnenej markízy Falkonieriovej. Obchod sprostredkovala jeho bývalá spolužiačka Marlene Ammerová, žijúca v Ríme. Pokojná cesta sa však zmení na nočnú moru. Na dohodnuté stretnutie Marlen nepríde. Vzápätí jej mŕtve telo objavia vo vani jej bytu. Na písacom stole mala zapnutý počítač a na jeho obrazovke boli zvláštne poznámky v latinskom jazyku.
Polícia prípad podozrivo rýchlo uzavrie ako samovraždu, Malberg však tuší, že tu niečo nesedí. Začne pátrať na vlastnú päsť. Na ceste za odhalením pravdy stretne mladú reportérku Caterinu, s ktorou ho čoskoro nespája len záujem o tajuplný prípad, ale aj vzájomná príťažlivosť. Po čase s hrôzou zistia, že stopy vedú až do najvyšších kruhov Vatikánu.
Libby Blake dacht haar leven prima voor elkaar te hebben met een leuk gezin en een paar hartsvriendinnen. Maar sinds kort is haar oudste dochter irritant tegendraads, maakt haar jongste zich ongezond veel zorgen over de toekomst van de wereld en lijkt haar man haar vooral te zien als Manager Schone Overhemden en Gevulde Koelkast. En dan heeft Libby er ineens genoeg van. Ooit dééd haar leven ertoe en kon ze meer dan slim inkopen doen bij de supermarkt. Libby smacht naar verandering, en wanneer ze de jonge, charmante Daniel ontmoet gaan alle remmen dan ook los. Maar dan slaat thuis het noodlot toe en realiseert ze zich dat ze haar leven niet terugkrijgt door simpelweg een nieuwe start te maken...
Keď sa tulák a povaľač Jacop Lišiak večer 10. septembra 1260 šplhal na jabloň kolínskeho arcibiskupa, netušil, že o niekoľko minút nebude jeho život hoden ani deravého groša.
Strom stál na nešťastie na dohľad od nového kostola, ktorého základy sa práve dvíhali do výšky. A práve toto sväté dielo, nový kolínsky dóm, malo sa stať javiskom strašného zločinu. Jacop videl staviteľa chrámu Gerharda Morarta, ako sa osamelý prechádza po lešení, keď vtom za ním akoby odnikiaľ vyrástla obrovská tieňová postava. Vzápätí zaznel prenikavý výkrik, Gerhard sa zrútil do hĺbky a Jacop od úľaku spadol zo stromu.
Jediný videl, čo sa stalo. Lenže aj vrah zbadal jeho.
Unikol len o vlások. Strašnou smrťou však umrel každý, komu o vražde povedal – a Lišiakovi bolo jasné, že tentoraz bol v nesprávnom čase na nesprávnom mieste.
Román Smrť a diabol sa zakladá na skutočnosti. Majster Gerhard, geniálny staviteľ kolínskeho dómu, naozaj spadol z výškového lešenia za okolností, ktoré neboli bližšie objasnené. Tento záhadný pád prerástol na povesť. Podľa nej sa Gerhard zrútil, lebo prehral stávku s diablom.
Frank Schätzing prebral z dávneho príbehu to najzaujímavejšie. Jeho spisovateľský debut Smrť a diabol tlač vysoko vychválila a okamžite sa stal bestsellerom. Zriedkakedy je totiž stredovek taký nádherne farebný, vtipný, tajomný – a taký napínavý.
The second installment of the phenomenal Russian quartet The Night Watch vampire novels set in a richly realized post-Soviet Moscow. The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Day Watch begins where The Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. The Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from children’s nightmares as a counselor at a girls’ summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged. The Day Watch is replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever.
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch series, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under a powerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor, from vampires, he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce, and the whole city...
Po transplantácii orgánu zomiera pacient. Spočiatku to vyzerá ako chyba lekára, no polícia čoskoro zistí, že šlo o vraždu. Tajné služby na oboch stranách Atlantiku sa zaoberajú zakódovanými správami neznámej medzinárodnej organizácie, ktorá ide doslova cez mŕtvoly. Profesor Gregor Gropius, chirurg mníchovskej univerzitnej kliniky, rozbieha zúfalé pátranie po pravde, pri ktorom sa sám ocitne v smrteľnom nebezpečenstve. Bystrý postreh a zmätené pocity ho vrhnú do náručia dvoch záhadných žien. Ale len jedna ho privedie bližšie k riešeniu. Spojenie medzi mafiou obchodujúcou s ľudskými orgánmi a Vatikánom má tri písmená: IND. A najnebezpečnejšie spisy na svete sa volajú GOLGOTA.
"Hot on JK's heels" The Mail On Sunday "A genius at work" The Daily Mirror "First in a series of successes" The Sunday Post Carol was one of the millions of people who played the 'Dragon Tamers' virtual reality computer game. Along with her partner, a dragon called Sam, she managed to become the strongest player in the game. When the games goes offline, she's called in to help along with the second strongest player Ceirin and a beginner called Ellen, who was brought in by accident. As a strange monster destroys areas of the game, the trio of humans and their partners set out to find this creature and defeat him, and in doing so save the game world. It seems simple enough, but there's a catch - if they die in the game, they die in the real world too.
When the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy. Elizabeth George brings to the familiar subject of the serial killer a freshness and clarity of vision that provide illuminating insight into the psychological complexity of the tortured criminal mind. She does so within a richly textured, thrillingly suspenseful narrative that defies any reader to predict its outcome. Nor does she neglect our favourite characters, whose private lives provide an engrossing counterpoint to their professional duties.
Ústredným motívom knihy, ktorá sa ako niť vinie celým jej obsahom, je wimbledonské finále 2008 medzi Rafom a Rogerom Federerom, o ktorom John McEnroe vyhlásil, že to bola ,,najväčšia dvojhra v tenisovej histórii". Pravda, nie je to iba o jednom súboji.
Rafa odhaľuje tajomstvá svojich úspechov od detstva, keď sa bolestivo rozhodoval, akú športovú kariéru si zvoliť. Či dať prednosť kolektívnemu futbalu, alebo individuálnemu tenisu. Je to až nečakane úprimná spoveď nevídaného bojovníka na dvorci a nesmierne priateľského, rodinne založeného džentlmena v súkromí, ktorý doposiaľ vládol 102 týždňov svetovému tenisu a má na celom svete tisícky obdivovateľov.
Je to príbeh ostrovana z Malorky, ktorý svojím tenisom ohúril svet a zaujímavo o tom rozpráva.
