Jan Smit Knihy

Jedenásťročný Mark žije s mamou a mladším bratom v chudobnej memphiskej štvrti. Deti sa náhodou stanú svedkami samovraždy advokáta, ktorý si vezme život zo strachu pred svojím klientom – mafiánom. Mark sa však nestane len svedkom samovraždy, zhodou okolností sa dozvie aj to, kde je ukryté telo obete mafiánskej vraždy. Od tej chvíle sa stáva z neho štvanec. Má v pätách políciu i mafiu. Chlapec je našťastie veľmi bystrý, podarí sa mu nájsť si advokátku, ktorá je v tomto príbehu spoluhrdinkou.

John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens. Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect...

When art dealer Catherine Sergeant meets John Brigham, her view of the world has been shattered. Left by her husband Robert without explanation, she expects little from life. Apparently reclusive, John lives alone in a beautiful Arts and Crafts house on the edge of Dorset woodland, and has contacted Catherine's firm so that he may sell unwanted items. But when the two discover a mutual love of the haunting Victorian faerie artist Richard Dadd, their friendship rapidly deepens. As Catherine and John begin an affair that is to change their lives, John reveals an astonishing secret that links him to Dadd. Deeply sensual, THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR is a journey not only through love and obsession, but also through the world of Richard Dadd, whose tortured life was more extraordinary that any fairy tale.

Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart. But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.

Veľkolepá vízia budúcnosti, kde vysoko rozvinutá technológia splýva s pradávnymi náboženstvami, vedecké objavy sa prepájajú s nadčasovými tajomstvami a nepredstaviteľná extáza plynulo prechádza do mrazivej hrôzy. Záhadné Hrobky času sa otvárajú. Rapír, ktorý sa z nich vynoril, môže mať v rukách osud celého ľudstva. Vydedenci zaútočili na Hegemóniu človeka. Umelé inteligencie, ktoré sme vytvorili, sa obrátili proti nám a vybudovali Najvyššiu inteligenciu: Boha. Boha strojov. Jeho stvorenie by mohlo znamenať zánik ľudstva. Neznáme sily priťahujú Hegemóniu, Vydedencov, UI a celý vesmír k Rapírovi a splietajú ich osudy dokopy.

It begins with the murder of an American woman in the back streets of Tokyo. It ends in war...

In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair. Each must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first -- and that's when all hell breaks loose. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it -- if he can -- as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance.