Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria there is a remote hideaway - the fortress-like nerve centre of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, but now, after three years in deep cover, he has disappeared.
An Irish immigrant in New Zealand fills his son, Rory, with patriotic tales. When Rory grows up, World War I is on. He joins the New Zealand corps of the British army, survives Gallipoli, becomes an officer and is transferred to Ireland to put down a rebellion. One day his father's tales catch up and Rory switches sides. By the author of Trinity.
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 ...
A successful trader in the City finds that the death of his brother in a Scottish fishing village, and his attempt to save his brother's company, put him in danger too.
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 lanza su invasión económica sobre Estados Unidos. La investigación del asesinato avanza a ritmo frenéticopor un tortuoso laberinto vinculado a las intrigas y entresijos del mundo industrial. Japón ha declarado la guerra a todas las naciones, y del resultado de esta contienda depende la conservación de las libertades, así como el control de nuevos avances de la tencología punta cuya importancia resulta vital para el mundo. 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.
Een man wordt wegens politieke belangen door de CIA gedwongen zich uit te geven voor een beroepsmoordenaar.