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A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.






A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.
No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author and international sensation Clare Mackintosh puts a thrilling, modern spin on the classic locked-room thriller
'Another one-more-chapter, stay-up-late sensation' Lee Child 'A work of genius' Joanna Cannon 'No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh' Paula Hawkins -------------------------------------- The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since. Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to ask questions about her parents' deaths. But by digging up the past, is she putting her future in danger? Sometimes it's safer to let things lie . . . Discover the sensational, gripping new page-turner and NUMBER ONE Sunday Times bestseller from Clare Mackintosh, award-winning author of breakout bestsellers I See You and I Let You Go
Biografie van de Nederlandse econoom en hoogleraar (1942), die verschillende vooraanstaande functies in het bedrijfsleven, het bankwezen en de politiek vervulde.
"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"-- Provided by publisher.
Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere. I started reading and couldn't stop . . . a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears' Sophie Hannah
"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.
De voorspelling dat Lodrik, de jeugdige heerser van Tarpol, een belangrijke rol zal spelen bij de terugkeer van de Donkere Tijd lijkt meer dan ooit waarheid te worden. Het Kwade wint terrein en lijkt de overhand te krijgen. Onder invloed van valse vrienden en onbetrouwbare adviseurs wankelt Lodrik onder de druk die van alle kanten op hem wordt uitgeoefend. Niet in de laatste plaats omdat er levensgevaar dreigt voor zijn werkelijke getrouwen en bondgenoten. Maar zo snel geven Lodriks veteranen de strijd niet op, en gelukkig neemt ook in de vrije landen het verzet tegen de demonische macht toe. Op de Vlakte van Telmaran maakt het leger van Lodrik zich op voor een beslissende strijd...
My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.
Er waart een dodelijk griepvirus rond, dat een mondiale epidemie veroorzaakt. Het begint in New York, maar binnen luttele dagen vallen over de hele wereld doden. Wanneer kardinaal John Tyler ook ziek wordt, komt reporter Cotten Stone erachter dat de epidemie geen natuurlijke oorzaak heeft. Het onderzoek voert haar van Noord-Korea naar het kasteel van Dracula zelf en dan ontrafelt ze een gruwelijk geheim uit de Tweede wereldoorlog en een groep zelfmoordterroristen die zich hebben bewapend met microben in plaats van explosieven.
A blockbuster debut thriller in thetradition of Tom Clancy
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.
Najslávnejší agent JAMES BOND prichádza v absolútnom utajení! V dvadsiatich krajinách sveta vrátane Slovenska ožila 28. mája legenda - James Bond. I keď je autor Ian Fleming už 44 rokov mŕtvy a práve na tento deň pripadlo 100 rokov od jeho narodenia, slávny, neodolateľne príťažlivý a chladnokrvne odhodlaný agent 007 sa vracia v plnej sile. Flemingova rodina zverila Bonda do rúk spisovateľa Sebastiana Faulksa. Faulks sľubuje všetko to, čo k Bondovi neodmysliteľne patrí: exotiku, nádhernú ženu, suché Martini, kabriolet Continental Bentley i napätie. Nedočkavcom čo-to z príbehu napovie obálka knihy. Silueta nahej ženy s ohnivo červenými vlasmi pripomína divý mak, ktorý je zároveň symbolom celej reklamnej kampane.
De Heilige Speer: gesmeed door een directe nakomeling van Adam, gebruikt om Christus zijde te doorboren bij de kruisiging en in bezit geweest van de meest machtige mannen uit de wereldgeschiedenis – Constantijn de Grote, Atilla de Hun, Adolf Hitler.En nu is dit machtige object in verkeerde handen gevallen en willen de krachten van het kwaad de mensheid ermee op de knieën dwingen…
1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 US soldiers dead and led to the troop withdrawal from Somalia.
At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the uncharted wilderness of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart. In a voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion.
Wounded and angry, she turns to her mother for support, only to discover that the past has also come back to haunt Cora, a person who always seemed utterly flawless.For now comes evidence of Cora's own long-ago relationship with a famous man, a man who so adored Zeph's mother that he never forgot her.
Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare… Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, that’s linked to the CIA—and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma. As Anna follows the connecting thread—and Hartman finds himself on the run—she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her…victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves—and confirm their very worst fears...
This edition includes an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man . In his gripping novels, Montanari has made a significant impact in the suspense genre. His latest work features two beleaguered detectives facing off against a cunning serial killer in the gritty landscape of Philadelphia, where downtrodden neighborhoods clash with upscale areas. Amidst this urban chaos, a teenage Catholic girl writes in her diary, another confides in a friend, and yet another prays, all while a man seeks to turn their lives into a horrific reality. Veteran cop Kevin Byrne, grappling with personal demons, is assigned a rookie partner, Jessica Balzano, who is reluctant to accept his guidance. Together, they delve into a chilling case involving the murders of devout young women, found with their hands bound in prayer. As they pursue leads that come and go like nightmares, Byrne's troubled past and Balzano's determination collide. The body count rises as Easter approaches, heightening the urgency of their investigation. With relentless pacing and emotional depth, this novel is a haunting thriller that challenges conventions and lingers in the mind long after the final page.
Ter dood veroordeeld door mijn ouders - Het waar gebeurde verhaal van Ayşe
Ayse is geboren in 1981 in Berlijn. Haar ouders behoren tot de Jezidi's, een streng religieuze Koerdische bevolkingsgroep in Turkije. Op haar twaalfde is Ayse voorbestemd om met haar neef Hassan te trouwen. Na de middelbare school volgt ze een opleiding tot verpleegkundige waar Ayse Oliver leert kennen. Vlak voor haar geplande huwelijk met Hassan ziet Ayse maar één uitweg: vluchten.
Scott Turow sa zapísal do povedomia čitateľov predovšetkým ako tvorca obľúbeného „románu zo súdnej siene“, kde sa prvky spoločensko-psychologického príbehu spájajú s výraznými prvkami kriminálneho žánru. Najnovší Turowov román je z toho istého prostredia ako úspešne sfilmované dielo Pre nedostatok dôkazov. V autorovom farbistom podaní znovu ožíva Amerika, zasľúbená krajina emigrantov a ľudí hľadajúcich životné Istoty, no i bezprávia, rodinných tragédií, rozkladu, korupcie a zločinu, v okruhu ktorých sa pohybuje právny zástupca Alejandro Stern.
Vzrušujúci dobrodružný príbeh o odvahe, osude a zrade sa odohráva v minulosti i prítomnosti, ktoré sa prelínajú v magickom juhofrancúzskom meste Carcassone. Júl roku 1209: šestnásťročné dievča dostane od svojho otca zvláštnu knihu. Hovorí sa v nej o tajomstve grálu. Hoci Alais nerozumie čudesným slovám a znakom, ktoré v nej vidí, vie, že knihu musí chrániť aj za cenu svojho života... Júl roku 2005: Alice Tannerová pri vykopávkach v pohorí neďaleko juhofrancúzskeho mesta Carcassonne objaví dve záhadné kostry. V hrobke, kde doteraz ležali, sa jej zmocní pocit, že ju prenasleduje zlo. Keď Alice zistí, že svojím objavom dala do pohybu hrozivý sled udalostí, je už neskoro. Jej osud je od začiatku neoddeliteľne spätý s osudom záhadných katarov.
Als de geliefde van een jonge vrouw vermoord wordt, besluit haar vriendin, privé-detective, jacht te gaan maken op de moordenaar.
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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.
The world's most powerful man...held to ransom by the world's most wanted terrorist. A chilling message is delivered to the US president by the world's most wanted terrorist - a message that begins a daring siege, and America's worst nightmare. A terrorist cell hidden deep in the American capitol is ready to unleash a terrifying new secret weapon of mass destruction - one so powerful it can decimate Washington and tear apart the Russian Federation - unless their demands are met within seven days. When Washington and Moscow agree a joint plan to hunt down the terrorists and neutralise their threat before the deadline expires, FBI counter-terrorist expert Jack Collins is put in charge of the manhunt alongside Alexei Kursk, one of Russia's top investigators. For them the hunt is personal...
Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the woman he loves from an evil drug baron. He teams up in New York with his old ally Liam Mellows and they end up in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated.
Once there were three worlds, each with their own people. Then, fleeing out of the void, on the edge of extinction, came the Charon. And the balance changed for ever. With A SHADOW ON THE GLASS, Book One of A View from the Mirror, a major new fantasy epic begins. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled past, is forced to steal an ancient relic in payment for a debt. But she is not told that the relic is, in fact, the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has seen. Llian, meanwhile, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery.Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret of incredible power.
Keiharde spanning in de wereld van de SAS-commando's. Waar gebeurd, bloedstollend spannend!
Autobiografisch relaas van de ervaringen van een Amerikaanse 17-jarige gigolo met zijn vrouwelijke klanten.
Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant--a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found--and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it--hard.
In "Special Forces," Tom Clancy explores the elite Army Special Forces Groups, detailing their rigorous training, tools, and missions. The book features insights into recruitment, real deployment exercises, and a mini-novel showcasing a hypothetical intervention scenario, along with exclusive visuals and an interview with General Hugh Shelton.
De zoon van de beroemde Sherpa Tenzing vertelt zijn verhaal
Verslag van de rampzalige gebeurtenissen tijdens de beklimming van de Mount Everest door de IMAX Everest-expeditie in 1996 en persoonlijke zoektocht van de klimleider naar inzicht in en begrip voor zijn legendarische vader.
There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What Prokeet, the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ... They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. Prokeet possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, but his insatiable curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. And when he felt Prokeet enter him, it was just the start of an epic journey that would turn him into a legend. The writers of classics such as LUCIFER'S HAMMER, FOOTFALL and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE have created a masterly tale of magic, gods, wizards and heroes that ranks among the very best in the genre.
Brian Haig, a distinguished ex US Army officer, puts his inside knowledge into this thriller about a military crime. Major Sean Drummond has to go to Kosovo to investigate a horrific massacre by an elite US Army Special Forces team.
Als binnen een paar dagen de zes spoorbruggen tussen St. Louis en New Orleans over de Mississippi worden vernield, komen niet alleen de FBI en een geheime defensietrein, maar de hele bevolking van die streek in gevaar.
Faith Lockhartovej ide o život. Táto príťažlivá žena pracovala takmer všetky roky svojho dospelého života pre legendárneho Dannyho Buchanana. Tento skvelý senátor v mladosti úspešne loboval pre peniaze, no keď mu neskôr cesty po exotických krajinách otvorili oči, rozhodol sa svoj nevšedný talent využiť na pomoc chudobným a núdznym tohto sveta. Posledných desať rokov presviedčal vplyvných kongresmanov, aby svoje hlasy dávali v prospech fondov na podporu chorých a chudobných. Jeho motívy sú čisté, jeho metódy však nie. Dannyho Buchanana začne vydierať nebezpečný paranoidný megaloman...
Wanneer een groep Koerdische terroristen een dam in Turkije opblaast in de hoop daarmee Syrië te destabiliseren en een conflict in het Midden-Oosten te ontketenen, grijpt een supergeheime Amerikaanse interventiemacht in.
This text discusses 20 mysteries which challenge our accepted view of history. Topics covered were there ancient contacts between Europe and America?; could Atlantis have existed?; the true age of the great pyramid; was there a worldwide catastrophe around 10,000 BC?
Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife, he is called to Union Station train terminal - a man is on the loose, firing at random into the swarming crowds of travellers. Psychopath Gary Soneji seems determined to go down in a blaze of glory, and he wants Alex Cross to be there. Will this be the final showdown
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! Tom Clancy reveals Jack Ryan's origins in this electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that pits the former Marine turned family man against a vicious group of international terrorists. As an American in London on vacation with his family, Jack Ryan never imagined his quick thinking would prevent an assassination attempt on Britain's royal family and earn him the gratitude of an entire nation--and the scorn of an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA. Irish terrorist Sean Miller and his followers in the Ulster Liberation Army intend to make sure Ryan pays for his interference in blood. But he's not the only one they're after... With the lives of his pregnant wife and young daughter in mortal danger, Ryan accepts a role as a CIA analyst in order to find Miller and shut down the ULA. Going head to head with a ruthless terrorist is a fool's errand, but Jack Ryan is the kind of man who will do whatever it takes to protect his family.
The Bravo Two Zero mission, conducted by the SAS behind Iraqi lines, involved eight members of the regiment in one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Ryan was hurt in combat, eventually struggling alone across the desert into Syria and freedom.
Šesťročnú Frankie Heywoodovú a jej kamarátku zrazí cestou do školy autobus. Kamarátka zomiera, Frankie upadne do kómy. Frankin brat Ben, ktorý ju sprevádzal a na vlasné oči nehodu videl, je udalosťou veľmi poznačený. Rodičia detí - šéf malej leteckej spoločnosti Jack a Alison - prežívajú v tomto období manželskú krízu kvôli Jackovej nevere. Nešťastie ich však prinúti spoločne dcére pomôcť. Keď ani po niekoľkých mesiacoch nenastáva u Frankie žiadne zlepšenie, Jack a Alison sa rozhodnú hľadať pomoc v USA, na súkromnej klinike Elizabeth Chaseovej. Elizabeth je mimoriadne nadaná neurologička, ktorá sa zaoberá preberaním ľudí z kómy experimentálnou metódou - pomocou počítačového programu vystavuje pacientov množstvu rozličných podnetov. Keď však počas liečby na klinike zomrú dvaja pacienti, začnú sa proti práci Dr. Chaseovej množiť protesty, výrazne podporované médiami...
Als een 17-jarige jongen door een val van een paard verongelukt, wordt het huwelijk van de ouders ontwricht en komt een vroegere minnaar van de vrouw weer in beeld.
The fourth volume in a series of high-tech thrillers centred on the National Crisis Management Centre in Washington.
Did Jesus marry and have children with Mary Magdalene? If so, what happened to his family? Are descendants of Jesus still alive today? This extraordinary account of the potential family line that the author believes was born from Jesus Christ encompasses some of the most romantic, colourful and sacred territory of the past 2,000 years. From royal and suppressed archives, Gardner presents proof of the heritage of Jesus in the West and new findings on the long awaited discovery of the Holy Grail. Featuring all the charm and adventure of Arthurian romance, coupled with enthralling Rosicrucian and Templar disclosures, this work has a cutting edge of intrigue and exposure of conspiracy in the vein of Michael Baigent's international bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Arrow). Bringing together revelatory insights into the descendant heirs of Jesus and his brother James, Gardner: Proves that there is an authentic line of succession from the sons of Jesus and James Documents a hidden legacy of the Messiah and unveils hitherto guarded secrets about Mary Magdalene (was married to Jesus) and Joseph of Arimathea (was Jesus's brother). Traces the sacred lineage through centuries of persecution and Inquisition, revealing a systematic suppression of authentic records and a strategic manipulation of the New Testament Gospels The author was granted privileged access to royal and religious archives and repositories across Europe
Een zonderlinge man, die woont in een grot in New York, gaat op zoek naar een moordenaar nadat er een lijk voor zijn deur is gedumpt.
The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .
Wanneer het lichaam van een zwarte marineofficier wordt gevonden in de machinekamer van een oorlogsschip dat buiten gebruik is, komt een twee jaar oude moord aan het licht.
Na een stilte van tweehonderdvijgtig jaar zijn er op de planeet Hyperion tekenen dat de Tijdtombes weer actief worden. Wie zal eruit opduiken? Aenea, het kind dat er in verdween, of de vreselijke Shrike, de mysterieuze vechtmachine die ooit een hele planeet terroriseerde? Beiden zijn een bedreiging voor de alleenheerschappij die de Kerk in de afgelopen eeuwen heeft gevestigd. Priester-commandant De Soya is met een grote legermacht op Hyperion geland, om hiermee af te rekenen. Raul Endymion is dood de Kerk ter dood veroordeeld. Wanneer de stokoude Martin Silenus tussenbeide komt en hem over Hyperion vertelt, is er in ieder geval één persoon bereid om het tegen de Kerk op te nemen...
V lete roku 1999 sa Rusko nachádza na pokraji anarchie. Existujúci chaos je ideálnou živnou pôdou pre Igora Komarova, vodcu ruskej extrémnej pravice. Z čierneho manifestu, ukradnutého z ústredia jeho strany, behá vedúcim predstaviteľom Západu mráz po chrbte. Jason Monk, bývalý agent CIA, má dvojakú úlohu: zastaviť Komarova a vyrovnať si starý osobný účet - ignorovať dokument, alebo zareagovať, kým je čas, ešte pred prezidentskými voľbami v Rusku...?
Een onderofficier bij de Amerikaanse marine gaat op onderzoek uit wanneer er op zijn schip allerlei fatale fouten gemaakt worden door de bemanning.
Kniha z právnického prostredia. Rudy Baylor je mladý študent, ktorý sa nachádza v poslednom ročníku právnickej fakulty . Zúčastní sa povinného seminára na návšteve v miestnom domove dôchodcov. Za úlohu má poskytnúť právne rady obyvateľom domova, ktorí o to požiadajú. Ako prvá osoba za ním prichádza slečna Birdie, ktorá síce nie je členom domova, ale zúčastňuje sa na ich stretnutiach a využije možnosť poradenstva, keďže má problémy so svojím závetom, z ktorého chce vyškrtnúť niektorých zo svojich príbuzných. Ďalším z jeho klientov je Dot Blacková, ktorá tiež nie je členom domova. Má problém a potrebuje sa o ňom porozprávať s právnikom. Jej syn Donny Ray Black zomiera a Dot má podozrenie, že jeho poisťovňa neprávom odmietla financovanie liečby choroby -leukémie. No v jeho prípade by táto choroba mohla byť liečiteľná, keďže má dvojča a ono je vhodným darcom kostnej drene, ktorej transpláciou by bol Donnyho život zachránený. Rudy sa ujíma prípadov...
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK RYAN NOVEL “A harrowing tale…Clancy keeps you riveted with political intrigue and military maneuvering [and] sends you rushing headlong to the book’s stunning conclusion.”—USA Today Bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold, incisive look at what our nation’s leaders are calling “the new world order.” The time and place: a world at peace, where yesterday’s enemies are tomorrow’s allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new U.S. President’s National Security Advisor, and his CIA colleagues, John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complex—and devastating—as those of war. “[Debt of Honor] traces the financial, political, military, and personal machinations that drive America into the next major global war…A SHOCKER.”—Entertainment Weekly
This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore.
Haiwaï. Drie mannen op een golfbaan. De avond valt, in het laatste licht willen ze hun partij nog uitspelen. Een van hen slaat zijn bal het bos in en gaat ernaar op zoek. Dan horen ze een vreemd gekreun, diep vanuit de vulkanische rotsen. Ze gaan op het geluid af... Onroerend-goedmagnaat Byron Trumbo, eigenaar van Mauna Pele - speelplaats van de rijke elite - is niet blij met de negatieve publiciteit die zijn vakantiecomplex krijgt door een serie curieuze voorvallen. Er wordt geen winst meer gemaakt en daarom wil Trumbo het aan een Japanse beleggingsmaatschappij verkopen. Hij nodigt de Japanners uit voor een weeken op Mauna Pele om het contract te tekenen... Maar dat weekend verandert in een nachtmerrie. Gasten verdwijnen, vreemde wezens duiken op, de vulkaan wordt weer actief. Trumbo probeert de gebeurtenissen te bagatelliseren, maar de situatie escaleert. Alleen met veel moed, doortastendheid en met gebruik van oude, bizare rituelen is het mogelijk de harmonie rondom Mauna Pele te herstellen...
Tom Clancy Takes Us Back To A Formative Episode In The Life Of John Kelly, A Character Familiar To His Many Readers As Cia Legend Mr Clark, In His Seventh No 1 Bestselling Thriller Now Reissued With A New Cover. It Is 1970. Back In The Us After Serving As A Navy Seal In Vietnam, John Kelly Meets A Woman Who Will Change His Life Forever. She Has Recently Escaped From A Nightmare World Of Unimaginable Suffering, Yet Before They Can Plan A Future Together, The Horrors Of Her Past Reach Out To Snatch Her From Him. Kelly Vows To Gain Revenge But Finds There Are Others Who Have Need Of His Deadly Skills. In Washington A High-Risk Operation Is Being Planned To Rescue A Key Group Of Prisoners From A Pow Camp Deep Within North Vietnam. Kelly Has His Own Mission; The Pentagon Want Him For Theirs. As He Attempts To Juggle The Two, He Must Step Into A Netherworld As Perilous As Any He Has Ever Known From Which He May Never Return&
V roku 1967 v meste Greenville v štáte Mississippi vyleteli do povetria kancelárie židovského právnika Marvina Kramera, aktivistu hnutia za občianske práva. Zahynuli pri tom Kramerove malé deti. Na mieste činu zatkli Sama Cayhalla, ktorý bol od mladosti členom Ku-Klux-Klanu. Tri razy stál Cayhall pred súdom, ale až tretia porota sa uzniesla na jednomyseľnom rozsudku a odsúdila obžalovaného na trest smrti. Deväť a pol roka čaká Cayhall vo väzení. Všetky žiadosti o udelenie minulosti boli zamietnuté. Odsúdenému neostáva nijaká nádej. Od plynovej komory ho oddeľuje len niekoľko metrov a niekoľko sekúnd. V posledných mesiacoch s ním trávil najviac času Adam Hall, právnik firmy Kravitz a Bane, jeho vlastný vnuk, ktorý sa snaží pochopiť, čo sa vlastne stalo s cayhallovskou rodinou a im podobným na americkom Juhu, prečo vznikol Ku-Klux-Klan, prečo dochádzalo k lynčovaniu a prečo títo ľudia zanechávali za sebou mŕtvych. Ambiciózny právnik cíti morálnu povinnosť zachrániť svojho príbuzného pred celou smrti. Do poslednej chvíle verí, že sa mu podarí zmeniť osud a nájsť čo i len najmenšiu právnu štrbinku, ktorá by odvrátila nevyhnutné...
Eyewitness Guides are a series of illustrated information books which integrate photographs with explanatory illustrations, maps, charts and text. This book looks at knights, their armour, battles, chivalry, jousting, heraldry, hawking and crusades.
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.
The #1 New York Times bestselling series. Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a bizarre ritualistic killer. A slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis . . . a rising political star executed in Manhattan . . . an influential judge taken in Oklahoma City . . . All the homicides have the same grisly method — the victim's throat is slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife – and in every case the twisted trail leads back through the Minnesota Native American community to an embodiment of primal evil known as Shadow Love. Once unleashed, Shadow Love's need to kill cannot be checked, even by those who think they control him. Soon he will be stalking Lucas Davenport — and the woman he loves... Never get involved with a cop: Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has been warning women for years, but now he finds himself on dangerous ground with a policewoman named Lily Rothenburg, on assignment from New York to help investigate the murders. Both have previous commitments, but neither can stop, and as their affair grows more intense, so too does the mayhem surrounding them, until the combined passion and violence threaten to spin out of control and engulf them both. Together, Lucas and Lily must stalk the drugged-out, desperate world of the city's meanest streets to flush out Shadow Love — not knowing they are now the objects of his deadliest desires....
V jednu noc zavraždili vo Washingtone dvoch sudcov Najvyššieho súdu. Odlišné metódy naznačujú, že vraždy spolu nesúvisia a vzhľadom na všeobecné nepokoje v súvislosti s článkom č. 5 ústavy USA, mohla tento drastický čin spáchať ktorákoľvek organizácia či rozzúrený jednotlivec. FBI si kladie otázku: Po ktorej stope ísť? Túto otázku si spočiatku len zo zvedavosti kladie nádejná študentka práva, lenže jej riešenie sa ukáže, ako zásah do čierneho.
de ontsluiering van het geheim van Rennes-le-Château
Op grond van een geografische beschrijving van de ligging van kerken en burchten in de Franse Pyreneeën tracht de auteur aan te tonen, dat rond 1500 v. Chr. aan een gebied met vijf bergtoppen cultische waarde toegekend is.
Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on daring assignment; escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled gulf. For Lenson and his men, however, the danger is only just beginning. When a missile from hit-and-run enemy sinks a U.S. destroyer, every ship and aircraft in the area goes on red alert. As all hands prepare for the inevitable showdown with a hostile Middle Eastern nation, Benjamin Shaker, the destroyer's hair-trigger captain, plots his own secret form of revenge. If he isn't stopped, it will soon mean disaster for the entire Gulf region--and maybe the world.
Be an eyewitness to how man first realised his dream of taking flight and the remarkable and stunningly different machines that have whisked him up, up, and away. Discoverwhy a rotary engine is designed to rotate when in use Seea hot air balloon being inflated Find outabout the construction of a World War I fighter plane
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.
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John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People.In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.
Opkomst, bloei en stilistische ontwikkeling van Art Nouveau, met belichting van historische achtergronden en met de nadruk op het voortduren van deze kunst in onze eeuw.
First paperback edition. Spy thriller as an American agent within the Kremlin is about to be betrayed.
A non-fiction analysis of the Persian Gulf War and the nature of war and command as seen through the actions of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., commander of the armor and infantry of VII Corps.
Book on American modern art, mostly illustrations. Artists include Josef Albers; Milton Clark Avery; William Baziotes, James Brooks, Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauuschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin. Sixty color paintings plus some black and white pictures of the artists. Text entirely in Dutch.
This series of readers offers students six graded levels from elementary to advanced. All stages contain exercises at the back of the book, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary.
St Michael, London, 1985. Lavishly illustrated chronological history of the Impressionists, set in their historical context. 253 pp plus index, illustrated with nearly 300 full colour reproductions. Gilt lettering to spine, coloured endpapers. This is a gorgeous heavy coffee-table type book.
Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world's greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.