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A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.

La autora de "Te estoy viendo" presenta un thriller psicológico que explora un dilema emocional en un vuelo inaugural de Londres a Sídney. Mina, una azafata, se enfrenta a una difícil decisión: salvar a cientos de pasajeros o a su hija. Con giros impactantes, esta historia mantiene la tensión hasta el final.

Tightly-plotted, tense and affecting, Let Me Lie will keep you guessing until the very last line. No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh PAULA HAWKINS, number one bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Biografie van de Nederlandse econoom en hoogleraar (1942), die verschillende vooraanstaande functies in het bedrijfsleven, het bankwezen en de politiek vervulde.

The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Edgar and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel 'Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted' Patricia Cornwell 'Smart, clever suspense, skilfully plotted, and a lot of fun to read' John Grisham Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life - and she suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; plus her husband is acting suspiciously. As she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, terrified her past is catching up with her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of those around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick they threaten her family, her marriage - and her life.

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere. I started reading and couldn't stop . . . a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears' Sophie Hannah

"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.

Waar het epos van De Donkere Tijd ophoudt, begint het epos van De Nieuwe Tijd... In het laatste deel van De Donkere Tijd werden de legerscharen van Govan vernietigend verslagen, de aanhangers van Tzulan gaven zich gewonnen en zijn op de terugtocht. Zo werd op het nippertje voorkomen dat de door de volgelingen van Tzulan gewenste Donkere Tijd werkelijkheid werd. Nu, nog voor de vrede goed en wel een feit is, nog voor in Ulldart aan de wederopbouw van stad en dorp is begonnen, tekent zich aan de horizon nieuw onheil af. Lodriks eerste vrouw Aljascha zint in bannelingschap op wraak vanwege de vernederingen die haar onterecht – dat wil zeggen, dat vindt zijzelf – zijn aangedaan. In het geheim sluit ze een verbond met de aanhangers van Tzulan om de heerschappij over Tarpol te herwinnen. Tegelijk wordt in Borasgotan verrassend genoeg de jeugdige Raspot Putjomkin tot koning gekroond – slechts weinigen is bekend dat dit het gevolg is van de machinaties van de geslepen intrigant Fjanski, die de jongeling wil inzetten als een machtige pion teneinde zijn eigen doeleinden te verwezenlijken.

De la mano de su profesor, dos estudiantes de psicología participan en un experimento que consiste en estudiar el expediente médico de un paciente de una clínica psiquiátrica privada de Berlín, donde hace años tuvieron lugar escenas de horror y que, actualmente, se mantiene cerrada al público. En medio de los acontecimientos se hallan el joven Caspar, un paciente que sufre amnesia, incapaz de recordar quién es, y también un asesino en serie conocido como el Destructor de almas. Tras el ataque a tres mujeres, el Destructor de almas centrará ahora su objetivo en el centro psiquiátrico. Cualquiera puede ser la próxima víctima...

De voorspelling dat Lodrik, de jeugdige heerser van Tarpol, een belangrijke rol zal spelen bij de terugkeer van de Donkere Tijd lijkt meer dan ooit waarheid te worden. Het Kwade wint terrein en lijkt de overhand te krijgen. Onder invloed van valse vrienden en onbetrouwbare adviseurs wankelt Lodrik onder de druk die van alle kanten op hem wordt uitgeoefend. Niet in de laatste plaats omdat er levensgevaar dreigt voor zijn werkelijke getrouwen en bondgenoten. Maar zo snel geven Lodriks veteranen de strijd niet op, en gelukkig neemt ook in de vrije landen het verzet tegen de demonische macht toe. Op de Vlakte van Telmaran maakt het leger van Lodrik zich op voor een beslissende strijd...

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.

Er waart een dodelijk griepvirus rond, dat een mondiale epidemie veroorzaakt. Het begint in New York, maar binnen luttele dagen vallen over de hele wereld doden. Wanneer kardinaal John Tyler ook ziek wordt, komt reporter Cotten Stone erachter dat de epidemie geen natuurlijke oorzaak heeft. Het onderzoek voert haar van Noord-Korea naar het kasteel van Dracula zelf en dan ontrafelt ze een gruwelijk geheim uit de Tweede wereldoorlog en een groep zelfmoordterroristen die zich hebben bewapend met microben in plaats van explosieven.

A blockbuster debut thriller in thetradition of Tom Clancy

Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart. But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.

Set in the Cold War, Bond crosses two continents after he is assigned to shadow a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate with an interest in opiate deriviates.

De Heilige Speer: gesmeed door een directe nakomeling van Adam, gebruikt om Christus zijde te doorboren bij de kruisiging en in bezit geweest van de meest machtige mannen uit de wereldgeschiedenis – Constantijn de Grote, Atilla de Hun, Adolf Hitler.En nu is dit machtige object in verkeerde handen gevallen en willen de krachten van het kwaad de mensheid ermee op de knieën dwingen…

In 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers in Somalia were on a mission to capture two lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Through the night, in the longest sustained fighting by American troops since Vietnam, they battled thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, 18 Americans were dead. Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, and Sam Shepard, set for release in March 2002.

At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the uncharted wilderness of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart. In a voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion.

Wounded and angry, she turns to her mother for support, only to discover that the past has also come back to haunt Cora, a person who always seemed utterly flawless.For now comes evidence of Cora's own long-ago relationship with a famous man, a man who so adored Zeph's mother that he never forgot her.

Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare… Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, that’s linked to the CIA—and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma. As Anna follows the connecting thread—and Hartman finds himself on the run—she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her…victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves—and confirm their very worst fears...

Una serie de brutales crímenes está sacudiendo la ciudad de Filadelfia. Varias jóvenes católicas han aparecido torturadas y con las manos en cruz asidas a un rosario. Una pareja de detectives, el veterano Kevin Byrne y la joven policía Jessica Balzano, intentará acabar con esta espiral de violencia, pero el abismo de la maldad humana es casi imposible de controlar. Se acerca la Semana Santa y la cifra de muertes aumenta… cuando llegue el día de la resurrección sólo quedará una cuenta del rosario… y será la más dolorosa.

Ayse is geboren in 1981 in Berlijn. Haar ouders behoren tot de Jezidi's, een streng religieuze Koerdische bevolkingsgroep in Turkije. Op haar twaalfde is Ayse voorbestemd om met haar neef Hassan te trouwen. Na de middelbare school volgt ze een opleiding tot verpleegkundige waar Ayse Oliver leert kennen. Vlak voor haar geplande huwelijk met Hassan ziet Ayse maar één uitweg: vluchten.

Achttien jaar na de verdwijning van zijn zusje Valerie, wordt Simon Graf van het Müncher Detectivebureau bezocht door een jong meisje, dat vertelt dat ze in de ban van het Kwaad is. Ze vraagt om zijn hulp en zegt dat hij toch niet weer tekort mag schieten, zoals destijds bij Valerie. Een paar dagen later wordt ook zij vermist. Kort daarna ontvangt Simon spookachtige e-mailtjes. Er zitten foto's bij van zijn zusje, gekleed in doodshemd en bruidsluier, en de nachtmerrie van destijds herleeft. Samen met zijn collega, detective Malina Maltzan, gaat Simon op reis in zijn eigen verleden. Maar dan verdwijnt er opnieuw een meisje, en de sporen die Simon en Malina volgen, leiden hen in een moeras van godsdienstwaanzin en levensgevaarlijke obsessie.

Presumed Innocent was the fiction debut of the decade--a magnetic work of suspense that earned Turow acclaim for his unparalleled storytelling gifts. Now, in a brilliant follow-up, Scott Turow stakes his claim as an American master, in a mesmerizing novel of law, family and deceit. Alejandro "Sandy" Stern--the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent --comes home to discover that his wife of 30 years has committed suicide, leaving behind a web of mystery, money and guilt. While Stern hunts for answers, he is caught up in the threatened Federal prosecution of his most powerful and troublesome client--his own brother-in-law. Now, after a life of success, Sandy Stern is a man in desperate need of many truths--about his family, his uncertain future and the troubled legacy his wife left behind.

En las montañas de Carcasona, la tierra de los cátaros, un secreto ha permanecido oculto desde el siglo XIII. En plena cruzada contra los cátaros, la joven Alaïs ha sido designada para proteger un antiguo libro que contiene los secretos del Santo Grial. Ochocientos años después, la arqueóloga Alice Tanner trabaja en una excavación en el sur de Francia y descubre una cueva que ha ocultado oscuros misterios durante todos estos siglos. ¿Qué pasará si todo sale a la luz?

Kniha vzpomínek významné osobnosti českého veřejného života, hudebního publicisty a organizátora, jednoho z prvních signatářů Charty 77, v 80. letech spolupracovníka vídeňské redakce Hlasu Ameriky, v 90. letech vedoucího Kanceláře prezidenta republiky. Ivan Medek (* 1925) vzpomíná na své prarodiče, rodiče (jeho babička byla ženou malířů Antonína Slavíčka a Herberta Masaryka, tatínek, generál Rudolf Medek, byl významný legionář, básník a prozaik) a bratra Mikuláše, jednoho z nejvýznamnějších českých malířů 20. století. Poutavě líčí své dětství a mládí, zachycuje setkání s T. G. Masarykem, vyslovuje se k osobnosti Emila Háchy, líčí své zážitky z pražského květnového povstání 1945 a svá setkání s Edvardem Benešem a Zdeňkem Nejedlým. Podstatná část vzpomínek je věnována české hudbě, zejména osobnosti dirigenta Václava Talicha. Poté Medek líčí svůj vztah k okruhu katolických kněží, vězněných v 50. letech (Antonín Mandl, Anastáz Opasek), zrod Charty 77, práci sanitáře v nemocnici Na Františku, exil v Rakousku a svou tamní intenzivní novinářskou práci. Vzpomínky se uzavírají shrnutím zkušeností z 90. let až do současnosti, kde autor načrtává drobné portréty řady významných osobností (Pavel Tigrid, Václav Havel). Knihu, doplněnou unikátní fotografickou přílohou a jmenným rejstříkem, předmluvou uvedl spisovatel Ivan Binar.

Welcome. You are about to meet Lucas Davenport, a police detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who does it his way. The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep the police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.Librarian's note: the first five books in the Lucas Davenport series are #1, Rules of Prey, 1989; #2, Shadow Prey, 1990; #3, Eyes of Prey, 1991; #4, Silent Prey, 1992; and #5, Winter Prey, 1993.

Als de geliefde van een jonge vrouw vermoord wordt, besluit haar vriendin, privé-detective, jacht te gaan maken op de moordenaar.

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When art dealer Catherine Sergeant meets John Brigham, her view of the world has been shattered. Left by her husband Robert without explanation, she expects little from life. Apparently reclusive, John lives alone in a beautiful Arts and Crafts house on the edge of Dorset woodland, and has contacted Catherine's firm so that he may sell unwanted items. But when the two discover a mutual love of the haunting Victorian faerie artist Richard Dadd, their friendship rapidly deepens. As Catherine and John begin an affair that is to change their lives, John reveals an astonishing secret that links him to Dadd. Deeply sensual, THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR is a journey not only through love and obsession, but also through the world of Richard Dadd, whose tortured life was more extraordinary that any fairy tale.

The world's most powerful man...held to ransom by the world's most wanted terrorist. A chilling message is delivered to the US president by the world's most wanted terrorist - a message that begins a daring siege, and America's worst nightmare. A terrorist cell hidden deep in the American capitol is ready to unleash a terrifying new secret weapon of mass destruction - one so powerful it can decimate Washington and tear apart the Russian Federation - unless their demands are met within seven days. When Washington and Moscow agree a joint plan to hunt down the terrorists and neutralise their threat before the deadline expires, FBI counter-terrorist expert Jack Collins is put in charge of the manhunt alongside Alexei Kursk, one of Russia's top investigators. For them the hunt is personal...

De ervaringen van enkele leden van de Britse mijnopruimingsdienst tijdens hun werkzaamheden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het Kanaal.

Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the woman he loves from an evil drug baron. He teams up in New York with his old ally Liam Mellows and they end up in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated.

Once there were three worlds, each with their own people. Then, fleeing out of the void, on the edge of extinction, came the Charon. And the balance changed for ever. With A SHADOW ON THE GLASS, Book One of A View from the Mirror, a major new fantasy epic begins. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled past, is forced to steal an ancient relic in payment for a debt. But she is not told that the relic is, in fact, the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has seen. Llian, meanwhile, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery.Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret of incredible power.

Autobiografisch relaas van de ervaringen van een Amerikaanse 17-jarige gigolo met zijn vrouwelijke klanten.

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant--a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found--and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it--hard.

In "Special Forces," Tom Clancy explores the elite Army Special Forces Groups, detailing their rigorous training, tools, and missions. The book features insights into recruitment, real deployment exercises, and a mini-novel showcasing a hypothetical intervention scenario, along with exclusive visuals and an interview with General Hugh Shelton.

Drawing on interviews with more than 20 surviving refugee scholars, the authors give a moving account of the scientific diaspora which resulted from Hitler's policy of dismissing Jewish scientists. The irony is that they went on to help win the war for the Allies. "If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!" With these words Hitler closed the door on Germany's 50-year record of world supremacy in science. The subsequent exodus of German and Austrian scientists caused critical damage to Germany's scientific output and brought invaluable gains to the West. The Third Reich's losses included Einstein, and also Leo Szilard, who became the driving force behind the atomic bomb project. As one refugee remarked: "Far from destroying the spirit of German scholarship, the Nazis had spread it all over the world. Only Germany was to be the loser." This book recounts how Britain played a significant role in rescuing the scientists and how, within weeks, leading British academics had set up an agency to support the exiles and help them to find jobs. Of the 1,500 refugees they rescued, 15 went on to win Nobel Prizes.

Verslag van de rampzalige gebeurtenissen tijdens de beklimming van de Mount Everest door de IMAX Everest-expeditie in 1996 en persoonlijke zoektocht van de klimleider naar inzicht in en begrip voor zijn legendarische vader.

There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What Prokeet, the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ... They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. Prokeet possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, but his insatiable curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. And when he felt Prokeet enter him, it was just the start of an epic journey that would turn him into a legend. The writers of classics such as LUCIFER'S HAMMER, FOOTFALL and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE have created a masterly tale of magic, gods, wizards and heroes that ranks among the very best in the genre.

Brian Haig, a distinguished ex US Army officer, puts his inside knowledge into this thriller about a military crime. Major Sean Drummond has to go to Kosovo to investigate a horrific massacre by an elite US Army Special Forces team.

Als binnen een paar dagen de zes spoorbruggen tussen St. Louis en New Orleans over de Mississippi worden vernield, komen niet alleen de FBI en een geheime defensietrein, maar de hele bevolking van die streek in gevaar.

When lobbyist Faith Lockhart stumbles upon a corruption scheme at the highest levels of government, she becomes a dangerous witness who the most powerful men in the world will go to any lengths to silence in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed. Now Faith Lockhart must flee for her life--with her story, her deadly secret, and an unknown man she's forced to trust...

Ésta es la novela más intensa y ambiciosa que se ha escrito sobre la guerra del Golfo. Con su indiscutible autoridad en temas militares y de alto espionaje, Forsyth nos lleva desde la planificación estratégica de Saddam Hussein hasta las arriesgadas misiones de comandos especiales tras las líneas iraquíes. La historia gira en torno a una terrible arma secreta que obra en poder del ejército iraquí y cuyo uso puede deparar una estrepitosa derrota de las fuerzas aliadas. Sólo hay una manera de evitar el peligro que se cierne sobre Occidente: infiltrar un agente en la propia Bagdad con una misión suicida... El puño de Dios narra en clave de ficción los pormenores de un conflicto bélico que conmovió el mundo y constituye una de las mejores novelas de Forsyth, maestro de narradores.

Wanneer een groep Koerdische terroristen een dam in Turkije opblaast in de hoop daarmee Syrië te destabiliseren en een conflict in het Midden-Oosten te ontketenen, grijpt een supergeheime Amerikaanse interventiemacht in.

This text discusses 20 mysteries which challenge our accepted view of history. Topics covered were there ancient contacts between Europe and America?; could Atlantis have existed?; the true age of the great pyramid; was there a worldwide catastrophe around 10,000 BC?

Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancee. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane-so unimaginable-that he is thought of as "not of the earth." Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross.When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing.The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?

Desde el asesinato que desencadenó la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta la guerra étnica en Serbia, Bosnia y Croacia, los Balcanes han sido el crisol del siglo XX, el lugar donde el terrorismo y el genocidio se convirtieron en herramientas de política. La obra de Kaplan es un cautivador y a menudo escalofriante relato de viaje político que se ha consolidado como un clásico moderno. A través de su análisis, Kaplan explora los conflictos que han marcado la región, ofreciendo una visión profunda de las dinámicas sociales y políticas que han dado forma a la historia balcánica. Su escritura revela la complejidad de una tierra atormentada por la violencia y el sufrimiento, mientras que también destaca la resiliencia de sus pueblos. Este trabajo incluye reflexiones sobre los Balcanes en el contexto de los Acuerdos de Paz de Dayton y los acontecimientos posteriores a la guerra de Kosovo, proporcionando un marco para comprender la evolución de la región en un periodo crítico de su historia.

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.

The Bravo Two Zero mission, conducted by the SAS behind Iraqi lines, involved eight members of the regiment in one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Ryan was hurt in combat, eventually struggling alone across the desert into Syria and freedom.

Barcelona. 18 cm. 430 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Jet', 392/1. Traducción de Carlos Milla Soler. Traducción de: The Lazarus child. Biblioteca de Robert Mawson. Los jet de Plaza & Janés. 392/1 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-48582-7

Als een 17-jarige jongen door een val van een paard verongelukt, wordt het huwelijk van de ouders ontwricht en komt een vroegere minnaar van de vrouw weer in beeld.

En Turquía, estalla una represa de una enorme presa, lo que da inicio a una nueva operación para el Centro de Operaciones. Deben prevenir un conflicto inminente entre Turquía y Siria. Sin embargo, la explosión tiene causas más profundas: los separatistas kurdos buscan provocar una guerra entre Turquía y Siria, anticipando que este conflicto no solo involucraría a las dos partes en guerra, sino que también atraería la atención de todas las fuerzas significativas en el escenario político mundial. Esto permitiría a los kurdos centrar la atención en sus propias demandas y reabrir el debate sobre su propio estado. Las partes involucradas en el conflicto subestiman a un aparente forastero, un jugador cuya participación no se había considerado. El Centro de Operaciones, establecido con el consentimiento tácito de las élites políticas y militares estadounidenses, envía a la región un vehículo de espionaje equipado con tecnología avanzada. Pronto, todas las partes del conflicto se darán cuenta de que han cometido un error de cálculo al no incluir a esta organización en sus planes.

Did Jesus marry and have children with Mary Magdalene? If so, what happened to his family? Are descendants of Jesus still alive today? This account of the potential family line that the author believes was born from Jesus Christ encompasses some of the most romantic, colourful and sacred territory of the past 2000 years.

Een zonderlinge man, die woont in een grot in New York, gaat op zoek naar een moordenaar nadat er een lijk voor zijn deur is gedumpt.

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

Wanneer het lichaam van een zwarte marineofficier wordt gevonden in de machinekamer van een oorlogsschip dat buiten gebruik is, komt een twee jaar oude moord aan het licht.

Na een stilte van tweehonderdvijgtig jaar zijn er op de planeet Hyperion tekenen dat de Tijdtombes weer actief worden. Wie zal eruit opduiken? Aenea, het kind dat er in verdween, of de vreselijke Shrike, de mysterieuze vechtmachine die ooit een hele planeet terroriseerde? Beiden zijn een bedreiging voor de alleenheerschappij die de Kerk in de afgelopen eeuwen heeft gevestigd. Priester-commandant De Soya is met een grote legermacht op Hyperion geland, om hiermee af te rekenen. Raul Endymion is dood de Kerk ter dood veroordeeld. Wanneer de stokoude Martin Silenus tussenbeide komt en hem over Hyperion vertelt, is er in ieder geval één persoon bereid om het tegen de Kerk op te nemen...

"Era el verano en que el precio de una barra de pan alcanzó el millón de rublos..." Esta frase nos introduce en la convulsa Rusia de 1999. La otrora gran superpotencia zozobra en un mar de hiperinflación, caos económico y criminalidad. Las elecciones se aproximan y una sola voz carismática resuena en todo el país. Igor Komárov, líder derechista, promete reformar la moneda, acabar con el crimen, elimar la corrupción y devolver la gloria a Rusia. Pero los dirigentes occidentales se ven conmocionados cuando llega a sus manos un documento secreto del cual se desprende que Komárov no es el salvador de la nación sino un nuevo Hitler. Oficialmente, Occidente no puede hacer nada, pero un grupo de prohombres angloamericanos decide no quedarse cruzado de brazos viendo cómo la historia se repite...

Een onderofficier bij de Amerikaanse marine gaat op onderzoek uit wanneer er op zijn schip allerlei fatale fouten gemaakt worden door de bemanning.

Rude Baylor, estudiante de Derecho, afronta su primer caso representando a una pareja cuyo hijo se está muriendo de leucemia. En su lucha contra la poderosa compañía de seguros, que se niega a costear el tratamiento de la enfermedad, Baylor descubrirá uno de los fraudes más importantes de la historia judicial de Estados Unidos.

On the Pacific island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his new-bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of highly unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major stock-clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customised computer program online for the first time, and smiles at his own private joke. Three seemingly unrelated incidents - but all just the first links in a chain of events that will stun the world. Called out of retirement to serve as the new President's National Security Advisor, Jack Ryan quickly realises that the problems of peace are full as complex as those of war..

Parece que ha llegado por fin el momento decisivo para Louie Boffano. Tras muchos años de ser uno de los principales capos mafiosos con total impunidad, la policía ha conseguido reunir suficientes pruebas para acusarlo. Cuando se convoca a los jurados y empieza a formarse el tribunal, Boffano demuestra no estar dispuesto a dejarse atrapar tan fácilmente. Sabe que debe existir alguna forma de conseguir un veredicto de inocencia y el único hombre capaz de logarlo es el Profesor, un colaborador ocasional del mafioso, que tan sólo actúa por placer: un hombre culto, educado, bien situado, psicópata y cruel. Tras analizar la situación, el Profesor descubre que el punto débil del tribunal es Annie Laird, el jurado 224, una mujer sola que luchar por sacar adelante a su hijo, que trabaja por horas como procesadora de datos y que en sus escasos ratos libres crea unas originales esculturas con las que espera llegar a triunfar algún día. Para un hombre como el Profesor no es difícil acercarse a ella y jugar con sus sentimientos, ejerciendo una presión continua y obsesiva. Annie Laird verá cómo toda su vida cambia de la noche a la mañana, convirtiéndose en un infierno insoportable. Jurado 224 lleva al límite las cualidades más inquietantes del thriller psicológico, el autor imprime a la acción un ritmo trepidante y tan obsesivo que el lector se sentirá también perseguido y acosado sin piedad por ese incalificable Profesor.

Haiwaï. Drie mannen op een golfbaan. De avond valt, in het laatste licht willen ze hun partij nog uitspelen. Een van hen slaat zijn bal het bos in en gaat ernaar op zoek. Dan horen ze een vreemd gekreun, diep vanuit de vulkanische rotsen. Ze gaan op het geluid af... Onroerend-goedmagnaat Byron Trumbo, eigenaar van Mauna Pele - speelplaats van de rijke elite - is niet blij met de negatieve publiciteit die zijn vakantiecomplex krijgt door een serie curieuze voorvallen. Er wordt geen winst meer gemaakt en daarom wil Trumbo het aan een Japanse beleggingsmaatschappij verkopen. Hij nodigt de Japanners uit voor een weeken op Mauna Pele om het contract te tekenen... Maar dat weekend verandert in een nachtmerrie. Gasten verdwijnen, vreemde wezens duiken op, de vulkaan wordt weer actief. Trumbo probeert de gebeurtenissen te bagatelliseren, maar de situatie escaleert. Alleen met veel moed, doortastendheid en met gebruik van oude, bizare rituelen is het mogelijk de harmonie rondom Mauna Pele te herstellen...

John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens. Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect...

Una de las obras más destacadas del maestro de los thrillers legales. En el pueblo de Greenville, Mississippi, en 1967, dos miembros del Ku-Klux-Klan colocan una bomba en la oficina de un abogado de origen judío, resultando en la muerte de dos niños de cinco años. Uno de los perpetradores, Sam Cayhall, es rápidamente capturado y acusado de doble homicidio. A pesar de las pruebas contundentes de su culpabilidad, dos juicios anteriores terminan en la anulación del proceso debido a la incapacidad del jurado para llegar a un veredicto. Años después, Sam Cayhall vuelve a ser juzgado y es condenado a muerte. Tras una larga batalla legal de nueve años, su apelación fracasa y queda a solo dos semanas de la ejecución en la cámara de gas, habiendo renunciado a su defensa. Sin embargo, un joven abogado de Chicago decide intervenir para salvarlo, motivado no solo por su oposición a la pena de muerte, sino por razones más profundas. Una novela que hipnotiza y provoca reflexión.

Eyewitness Guides are a series of illustrated information books which integrate photographs with explanatory illustrations, maps, charts and text. This book looks at knights, their armour, battles, chivalry, jousting, heraldry, hawking and crusades.

Un senador ha muerto, y Mark Sway, un chico de once años, es el único que sabe dónde está escondido el cadáver. En el FBI quieren que revele el paradero a toda costa, sea cual sea el perjuicio para Mark y su familia. Y el asesino quiere que mantenga la boca cerrada para siempre. Reggie Love lleva menos de cinco años ejerciendo la abogacía. Solo ella puede salvar a Mark de dos amenazas aterradoramente simétricas. Juntos deberán enfrentarse al poder del aparato estatal y a las tretas de un asesino sin piedad. «Grisham es un maestro de tomo y lomo.» The Washington Post

Kali - de Eeuwige Godin van Dood en Vernietiging, Beschermvrouwe van de broeierige, stinkende, gruwelijke stad Calcutta. Duizenden jaren geleden werd zij van de aardbodem verbannen... Robert Laczak wordt naar Calcutta gestuurd om een bijzonder manuscript op te halen. Met zijn Indiase vrouw en kleine dochtertje raakt hij verwikkeld in een plan om de gruwelijke godin weer aan de macht te brengen...

De negentien fantasy en s.f.-verhalen in deze bundel van zijn als hommage aan schrijver van o.a. 'In de ban van de ring', J.R.R. Tolkien, geschreven in de trant van diens in het verleden spelende, sprookjesachtige verhalen en proza. Er zijn verhalen over de strijd tegen het kwaad, zoals in 'Reave de Rechtvaardige', over sprookjesachtige wezens en verre landen zoals in 'Winterkoning', en over trollen en draken zoals in 'Trolbrug' en 'De draak van Tollin'. De veelal Amerikaanse en Britse bijdragers aan deze ter gelegenheid van de 100e geboortedag van Tolkien verschijnende bundel hebben allen science-fiction of fantasy gepubliceerd. De bundel als geheel kan echter het niveau van Tolkiens werk niet benaderen. De verhalen zijn van wisselende kwaliteit. Enkele, zoals 'Trolbrug' en 'Langs de tijdstroom' boeiend en goed geschreven, de meeste zijn beslist leesbaar, maar weinig bijzonder. De vertaling is redelijk. Sprookjesachtige omslagillustratie in kleur van een vestingstadje gebouwd tegen een berg; lichtblauwe belettering.

The #1 New York Times bestselling series. Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a bizarre ritualistic killer. A slumlord and a welfare supervisor butchered in Minneapolis . . . a rising political star executed in Manhattan . . . an influential judge taken in Oklahoma City . . . All the homicides have the same grisly method — the victim's throat is slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife – and in every case the twisted trail leads back through the Minnesota Native American community to an embodiment of primal evil known as Shadow Love. Once unleashed, Shadow Love's need to kill cannot be checked, even by those who think they control him. Soon he will be stalking Lucas Davenport — and the woman he loves... Never get involved with a cop: Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has been warning women for years, but now he finds himself on dangerous ground with a policewoman named Lily Rothenburg, on assignment from New York to help investigate the murders. Both have previous commitments, but neither can stop, and as their affair grows more intense, so too does the mayhem surrounding them, until the combined passion and violence threaten to spin out of control and engulf them both. Together, Lucas and Lily must stalk the drugged-out, desperate world of the city's meanest streets to flush out Shadow Love — not knowing they are now the objects of his deadliest desires....