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    The Silent Sea
    Deti krvi a kostí
    I Maestri dell'avventura: Missione Odessa
    Tichá pacientka
    Crescent Dawn
    Virals: Il codice
    • Virals: Il codice

      Un romanzo della serie Virals

      • 521 stránok
      • 19 hodin čítania

      I Virals, quattro amici che hanno sensi amplificati dopo aver contratto un virus di un lupo, si ritrovano coinvolti in una strana caccia al tesoro. Tutto ha inizio come un innocuo passatempo intrapreso per il puro gusto della sfida: i ragazzi devono localizzare con un GPS alcuni oggetti nascosti da un Game master. Ma la caccia prende una svolta oscura quando trovano una scatoletta decorata che nasconde un messaggio cifrato. Uno di loro, Shelton, decodifica il messaggio e all'improvviso quello che sembrava un gioco si trasforma in una realtà molto pericolosa. I Virals sono caduti nella tela di uno squilibrato che li conosce molto bene e sa come ricattarli per ottenere ciò che vuole...

      Virals: Il codice
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    • Crescent Dawn

      • 548 stránok
      • 20 hodin čítania

      An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . . . Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts. Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans from succeeding . . . Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawnis a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue. 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

      Crescent Dawn
      4,4
    • Tichá pacientka

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      Alicia Berensonová má napohľad dokonalý život. Je známa maliarka, vydatá za vychyteného módneho fotografa, ktorého nadovšetko miluje, a býva v nádhernom dome obklopenom zeleňou v luxusnej štvrti Londýna. A predsa jedného večera z neznámych príčin svojho muža chladnokrvne zavraždí. Do hlavy mu vypáli päť rán a odvtedy neprehovorí. Aliciino mlčanie premení obyčajnú rodinnú tragédiu na verejnú záhadu, ktorá Aliciu neslávne preslávi. Cena jej umeleckých diel prudko vzrastie, zatiaľ čo ona sama postupne upadá do zabudnutia za múrmi psychiatrického ústavu. Psychoterapeuta Thea Fabera Aliciin osud od začiatku fascinuje a keď dostane príležitosť s ňou pracovať, urobí všetko pre to, aby prehovorila. Terapia pomaly napreduje a vzťah medzi ním a pacientkou je čoraz dôvernejší. Hľadanie pravdy však na povrch vyplaví skutočnosti, ktoré môžu celkom rozvrátiť aj Faberov vlastný život... Psychologický triler s detektívnymi črtami Agathy Christie, nádychom gréckej tragédie a hitchcockovsky pomaly gradujúcim napätím, ktoré vyústi do nepredvídateľného šokujúceho finále. Ambiciózny debut, ktorý žne úspechy po celom svete a chystá sa preniknúť aj na filmové plátna.

      Tichá pacientka
      4,3
    • Deti krvi a kostí

      • 464 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      Zélie si pamätá, že kedysi bola celá krajina Orïsha plná mágie. Ohnivci zapaľovali plamene, Vlnopáni rozkazovali vlnám a Zéliina mama Smrtonoska vzývala duše mŕtvych. No potom mágia kamsi zmizla a všetko sa zmenilo. Všetkých Madžiov na príkaz krutého kráľa vyvraždili, Zélie obrali o mamu a jej ľud o nádej. Teraz však má Zélie jedinečnú šancu zaútočiť na kráľovskú rodinu a vrátiť krajine mágiu. Musí zabrániť korunnému princovi, aby definitívne zničil mágiu, a s pomocou princeznej mu prejsť cez rozum. Na každom kroku na ne číha nebezpečenstvo, z krovín vrčia snežné lepardnéry a vo vodách vyčkávajú pomstychtiví duchovia. Najväčšou hrozbou pre krajinu sa však môže stať práve Zélie – ak sa nenaučí kontrolovať svoju moc. Tomi Adeyemi nadväzuje na tradíciu veľkých fantasy románov. Navyše prišla s neošúchaným námetom čerpajúcim z africkej mytológie a mágie. Autorkin štýl je plný farbistej fantázie, napínavú tajomnú atmosféru spestrujú prvky africkej kultúry a opisy rôznych druhov mágie. Preto sa nemožno čudovať, že filmoví producenti ihneď prejavili záujem a odkúpili práva na sfilmovanie príbehu.

      Deti krvi a kostí
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    • December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten . . . Present day. Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon team have been sent to locate the remains of a crashed NASA satellite in the Argentine jungle. Coming under attack, they make a mysterious discovery which sends them to a small Pacific island. There, they will discover the deadly secrets of an ancient Chinese expedition - by the lost ship The Silent Sea. Now Cabrillo and his team are in a race against time to find the remains of The Silent Sea. Because there will be terrible consequences if someone else finds it first . . . The Silent Sea is a gripping, white- knuckle ride of a novel, and is Clive Cussler at his brilliant best. 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter

      The Silent Sea
      4,1
    • Plague Ship

      • 581 stránok
      • 21 hodin čítania

      In this thrilling installment of Cussler's Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew confront a dangerous activist group planning a viral attack. After a secret mission in the Persian Gulf, they discover a ghost ship filled with bodies, leading to a perilous mystery and a race against time to thwart a cult's deadly scheme.

      Plague Ship
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    • Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - all of which went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.

      Cometh the Hour
      4,0
    • The Numa Files: Medusa

      • 454 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the "spine-tingling adventures" (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers—including Zavala—left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save—it’s the lives of millions.Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.

      The Numa Files: Medusa
      4,0
    • The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, stone-age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years...... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head. Praise for Clive Cussler 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'Unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express 'Delivers what it promises' Financial Times Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter

      The Kingdom
      3,7