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Frans J. Bruning

    The Scorpio Illusion
    Trading Reality
    The Marketmaker
    The Apocalypse Watch
    Redemption
    Shinju
    • When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro.Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy; they were murder. Risking his family's good name and his own life, Sano will search for a killer across every level of society determined to find answers to a mystery no one wants solved. No one but Sano...As subtle and beautiful as the culture it evokes, Shinju vividly re-creates a world of ornate tearooms and gaudy pleasure-palaces, cloistered mountaintop convents and deathly prisons. Part love story, part mystery, Shinju is a tour that will dazzle and entertain all who enter its world.

      Shinju
    • Redemption

      • 879 páginas
      • 31 horas de lectura

      Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimedauthor of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass ,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption . A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War, Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordinary Irish families.hey love freedom more than life,and they will fight to the death to win it.From the magnificence of New Zealand's green mountains, to the bloody beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli, to the streets of Dublin and the shipyards of Belfast, Redemption follows three Irish Patriots on their odysseys of freedom and passion- in a monumental tale of the men and women who loved, fought, and died for the chance to be free.

      Redemption
    • The Apocalypse Watch

      • 656 páginas
      • 23 horas de lectura

      Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway - the fortresslike nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when he receives the sudden good news that Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry's cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the United States and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments - but is the list legitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother?

      The Apocalypse Watch
    • The Marketmaker

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin American bond markets. How far would you go to please the king? Disenchanted academic Nick Elliot knows that he may be selling his soul when he joins Ricardo Ross at City brokers Dekker Ward, but he needs the money. As Nick soon discovers you are either with The Marketmaker, or you have made an enemy for life. While Nick is learning the ropes, strange things start to happen to Dekker Ward employees. One top trader is fired without warning. Another dies in a bungled robbery. Nick can't hide his feelings for his attractive Brazilian colleague Isabel. Then she is kidnapped in Rio. Nick decides go to Brazil to look for her, a country he doesn't know at all. But the Marketmaker knows it, knows it very well ...

      The Marketmaker
    • Trading Reality

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      The excitement of million-dollar deals meets the daring of cold-blooded murder in this shocking financial thriller. Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His older brother, Richard, owns FairSystems, a small company poised to do for the virtual reality world what Bill Gates did for personal computers. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop. Mark immediately steps into Richard's shoes -- and his life. Through cunning and luck, Mark struggles to keep his brother's business afloat and to discover the secrets behind his death. Until Mark himself becomes the target, moving ever closer to his brother's fate.

      Trading Reality
    • Amaya is the most deadly terrorist in the annals of political struggle. The horrors of her past have made her an accomplished assassin. Her motive is revenge, her vowed intent is murder.

      The Scorpio Illusion
    • Sol naciente

      • 351 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Una novela explosiva sobre el imperialismo económico japonés. En la mejor tradición de los buenos thrillers, la historia arranca con el hallazgo de un cadáver, en esta ocasión el de una call-girl en el piso 45 de la torre Nakamoto, un rascacielos de Los Ángeles que alberga el cuartel general desde donde el coloso oriental l anza su invasión económica sobre Estados Unidos... Sol naciente es una de las novelas más trepidantes de Michael Crichton, célebre autor de Parque Jurásico, y su adaptación cinematográfica, protagonizada por Sean Connery, constituyó todo un acontecimiento

      Sol naciente
    • Poema: De Daedalus dreiging

      Roman van een fascistische samenzwering

      • 666 páginas
      • 24 horas de lectura

      Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway - the fortresslike nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared.<p>Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when he receives the sudden good news that Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry's cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live?</p><p>For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the United States and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments - but is the list legitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother?</p>

      Poema: De Daedalus dreiging
    • Woestijnstorm

      De Golfoorlog Air Campaign

      • 605 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      Augustus 1990 Het leger van Saddam Hoessein trekt Kuweit binnen en stelt zich dreigend op aan de grens met Saudi-Arabië. De verenigde Staten reageren meteen en sturen vliegtuigen, manschappen, tanks en oorlogsbodems naar de Golf om de Saudi´s bij te staan. Voor het eerst sinds het debacle in Vietman staan ze weer op het punt betrokken te raken bij een gewapend comflict. En dit keer zijn ze vastberaden om te zegevieren. Aan het hoofd van de geallieerde luchtmacht in de Golfregio staat generaal Chuck Horner. Hij is een van de beste fighter pilots binnen de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. In Vietnam vloog hij de gevaarlijkste missies en nu ook nog is hij een klasse apart, zoals de veel jongere piloten in dogfights met hun commandant nogal eens moeten ervaren. Nu staat Horner voor de zwaarste opdracht uit zijn leven: Irak vanuit de lucht op de knieën dwingen. In Woestijnstorm vertellen Tom Clancy en luchtmachtgeneraal Chuck Horner het verhaal van de eerste ooklog die hoofdzakelijk vanuit de lucht werd gestreden; operatie Desert Storm. Het is een gedetailleerd en opwindend verslag van hoe oorlogen vandaag de dag gevoerd worden, compleet met de details zoals alleen zij die erbij zijn geweest kunnen geven.

      Woestijnstorm
    • Het Trevayne verraad

      Roman van een internationale bedreiging - Midprice

      • 474 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Een Amerikaanse miljonair krijgt opdracht van de regering de praktijken bij militair-industriële vestigingen te onderzoeken; daarbij stuit hij op corruptie op grote schaal.

      Het Trevayne verraad