Allan Massie Orden de los libros

The fourth and final chapter of the 'Bordeaux' novels, Allan Massie's acclaimed crime series featuring Superintendent Lannes.

The third instalment in Allan Massie's acclaimed crime series continues the story of dogged detection in a world seemingly gone mad.

A diplomat's daughter, Marian Sutro is an outsider - half French, half British. When she is recruited by SOE, her hybrid status and fluent French will be of service for her to go undercover in wartime France on a dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France - officially as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must find Clement Pelletier, a family friend, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist, Pelletier is engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon and of urgent significance to her superiors. Marian struggles towards this reunion, understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted.

There are days, even in the bad times, even the worst, when you can still believe in the future, like that six o'clock in the morning three weeks ago when the bell rang and Dominique was there. Dominique, pale, wretchedly thin, exhausted, his hair cropped, but nevertheless Dominique. Lannes held him in his arms, neither able for a moment to speak.

"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history." --The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.

Death in Bordeaux is the first in a trilogy that will take Lannes through the war and up to the grisly, but inevitable purge of those found guilty of German collaboration. However, this is also a novel that explores the moral complexity of France's time of trial, and the reasons why it has taken its people so long to emerge from the shadow of war.

Die Lebensgeschichte des Marc Anton, Nachfolger Cäsars in Rom und in Kleopatras Armen: Nach seiner Niederlage gegen Octavian bei Actium zieht Marc Anton sich nach Alexandria zurück und diktiert seinem treuen griechischen Sekretär Critias den letzten Band seiner Memoiren. Es soll eine Gegendarstellung zu den Verleumdungen Octavians werden, die dieser seit geraumer Zeit in Rom gegen Marc Anton in Umlauf bringt. Marc Anton erzählt von der Ermordung Cäsars, vom ersten Treffen mit Cäsars Adoptivsohn Octavian und von der Gründung des Triumvirats. Schließlich kommt es zu der schicksalhaften Begegnung mit Cäsars Geliebter Kleopatra, deren Reizen Marc Anton ebenso erliegt wie sein großer Vorgänger.

Caesar, die Schlüsselfigur der Antike: Aus der Sicht eines seiner Mörder schildert Allan Massie das Leben dieses Kaisers der Kaiser. Caesar als Feldherr und Stratege, als Demagoge und Diktator, als Führer und Verführer nimmt Gestalt an vor den Augen des Lesers; das imperiale Rom, das Machtzentrum der Welt, wird lebendig. Eine bedeutende Romanbiographie, mit großer Sachkenntnis und Erzählkraft geschrieben von dem Romancier und Historiker Allan Massie.