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Nel college di Kirkston Abbey era accaduto qualcosa di sinistro. A scatenare forze distruttive nel tempio della migliore borghesia era stata la strana amicizia tra due studenti: il fragile Jonathan, vittima dei compagni e dei professori, e il diabolico Richard, dotato di un carisma ai limiti dell'umano. Erano come le due metà di una cosa sola, ed era destino che diventassero inseparabili. Poi un gioco malefico aveva preso loro la mano... Dopo tanti anni, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto a quegli eventi ha deciso di liberarsi la coscienza dal peso di una verità insostenibile. Ma il mondo è pronto ad ascoltarlo?

Invierno de 1954, Norfolk (Inglaterra). Jonathan Palmer se siente prisionero bajo las severas reglas del internado Kirkston Abbey. Adolescente tímido y de carácter débil, traba amistad con Richard Rockeby, frío, calculador y con un enorme poder de seducción, quien se convertirá, en un principio, en un importante apoyo para Jonathan. Sin embargo, debido a problemas familiares, su nuevo amigo acumula en su seno un odio terrible que descargará sobre él, el resto de alumnos y los profesores. Cincuenta años más tarde, Tim Webber, un ambicioso periodista, intenta destapar la verdad sobre el caso para conseguir una historia que le lance a la fama. Para ello, contactará con un ex alumno de aquella promoción, quien le relatará lo ocurrido, pero…¿está Tim dispuesto a asumir las consecuencias de sacar a la luz este descubrimiento?

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising . Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism. It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA. By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.

"In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer - and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...

From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real. “Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of truth.”—TIME