Exactamente a la una de la mañana del sábado 6 de noviembre de 1943, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer de las SS y jefe de la Policía, recibió un lacónico mensaje: Ha llegado el Águila. Quería decir que un pequeño destacamento de paracaidistas alemanes había llegado a Inglaterra con el propósito de secuestrar al Primer ministro, Winston Churchill, sacándolo de la casa de campo de Norfolk, lugar en el que se encontraba pasando un fin de semana.
On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the fiercely guarded island fortress. The pair join a deadly game of wits that they must win....or perish in the darkness of the Night of the Fox
Frank Barry. terrorist of the highest order. His ideology is money and his track record is flawless. When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry is the man to deliver them. Martin Brosnan, poet, scholar and killer. Trained in Vietnam then polished in the ranks of the IRA he now languishes in a French prison fortress of Belle Isle. Liam Devlin, Brosnan's best and oldest friend. Devlin wants Brosnan out of jail and Barry's trail, and he'll use everything in his power to do so...
En Ucrania, en los años 50, la KGB ha construido una réplica perfecta de una ciudad irlandesa con el único objetivo de entrenar en ella a los futuros agentes terroristas y de espionaje. Y allí inicia su aprendizaje Mikhail Kelly, huérfano de un militante irlandés del IRA ahorcado por los ingleses. Años después, en 1982, M. Kelly llega a Irlanda. Su misión: sembrar el caos, desestabilizar el país, impedir cualquier acuerdo entre católicos y protestantes. Para lograrlo, ningún obstáculo le arredra, ni siquiera sus hábitos y su condición de sacerdote. Sus acciones provocan el desconcierto no sólo entre los servicios secretos ingleses sino entre los propios dirigentes del IRA. M. Kelly, sin embargo, consciente de que poderosas manos desconocidas manejan su vida, acorralado por el IRA y el Scotland Yard, abandonado y condenado a muerte por la KGB, decide vengarse de todo y de todos llevando a cabo en solitario su última acción: el asesinato del papa Juan Pablo II durante su visita a Inglaterra. Y como telón de fondo de esta vibrante novela de acción y suspense, el oscuro mundo del espionaje y los servicios secretos, las ocultas peripecias de esa guerra sorda entre las grandes potencias, la situación en el Ulster y la guerra de las Malvinas.
Argentina has set in motion an invasion of the Falkland Islands, and the British fleet is poised to meet and repulse the attack. The wild card is the Exocet -- the enemy, close to acquiring the deadly French missile, will soon be capable of smashing British defenses -- and throwing the global balance of power into chaos.
Locals call it the Rio das Mortes�the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river�s deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of making enough money to buy his passage back to England. But when he and fellow pilot Sam Hannah discover a field of massacred missionaries shot through with the Huna�s arrows, they decide to strike out along the River of Death to stage a daring rescue of the two nuns who are missing. Their mission draws them deep into the treacherous jungle, where a final violent showdown with the Huna leads to a fateful decision that will change their lives forever.
I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true. Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. James Graham's ruthless, red-topped play leads with the birth of this country's most influential newspaper – when a young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asked the impossible and launched its first editor's quest, against all odds, to give the people what they want. Ink premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London before transferring to the West End and later Broadway. It was nominated for both the Olivier and Tony Award for Best New Play.
