Barcelona. 21 cm. 252 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. El falso mahdí. Quinnell, A. J. 1940-2005. Traducción de Alicia Steimberg. Steimberg, Alicia. 1933-2012 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8422618249
Known only as Creasy, he was hired to protect, not to kill. A battle-scarred, burnt-out mercenary, working as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist, he thought he had lost the power of feeling. Until the girl's beguiling touch awakens in him the ability to love.Then something happens, something so devastating that Creasy is consumed by a single-minded rage for revenge. And at a stroke he is transformed into the terrifying killing machine he was trained to be...
This gripping novel of international intrigue, passion and lethal vengeance will forever alter readers' perceptions of the power wielded by the Vatican, the secrets buried in the Kremlin, and the blurred boundaries between ultimate good and unpardonable evil. An explosive book guaranteed to hold readers enthralled from cover to cover.
In Zimbabwe a young American woman is shot dead by a sniper at her camp on the bank of the Zambezi River. In Hong Kong, Lucy Kwok, a Chinese air hostess, returns from Tokyo to find her father, mother and brother have been brutally murdered. The killings are linked - to Africa. Ex-mercenary Creasy is hired to find the American woman's killers, and when Lucy Kwok discovers that he truth behind her family's death also lies in Zimbabwe, a fateful meeting is set in motion. Ranging from the African bush to the backstreets of Hong Kong, Black Horn is a towering story of violence, vengeance and a love born of danger.
Bývalý příslušník elitních jednotek cizinecké legie, John Creasy, přišel o práci a stal se zněj apatický alkoholik, který rezignoval na celý svůj život. Chuť do života mu vrátí až jeho dávný přítel z bohaté italské průmyslnické rodiny, který si ho najme jako osobního strážce své malé dcerky Pity, neboť Itálie trpí četnými únosy. Ve chvíli, kdy si děvčátko tohoto tvrdého muže podmaní svou živostí, něžností a dotykem lidskosti, dochází k nevyslovitelné tragédii. Dívka je unesena a Creasy postřelen. Uchýlí se na Maltu, kde se v ústrání pomalu uzdravuje a kde ho touha po pomstě opět proměňuje v neomylný zabijácký stroj, ničící viníky zločinu.
