Brian Garfield fue un prolífico autor estadounidense reconocido por sus emocionantes narrativas. Su obra a menudo profundiza en complejas cuestiones éticas a través de personajes dinámicos y un estilo de escritura agudo. Garfield tenía el don de sumergir a los lectores en mundos donde las líneas entre el bien y el mal se desdibujan, dejando una marca imborrable en el panorama literario.
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, movies have been based on his life, and a square in Jerusalem is dedicated to his memory.
Years after going into hiding, a witness must run from the mob againFred Mathieson was not an ordinary witness against the mob. He was never in the organization, and didn’t testify against gangster Frank Pastor to save his own skin. Mathieson is a lawyer, and took the stand simply from a desire to do the right thing. His conscience destroyed his life, but he built a new one. Now his long-ago testimony is about to put him and his family back in danger. For nearly nine years, Mathieson has been safe in the Witness Security Program, working as an entertainment attorney in California. But Frank Pastor is a few days away from parole, and he has decided to take revenge. By blackmailing a clerk in witness protection, the mobster finds Mathieson’s new name, so the chase will start again.
Esta novela, inspirada en hechos reales, narra la extraordinaria historia de un hombre que hoy anda por la cincuentena y que desde los quince años fue un agente secreto al servicio de Churchill. En 1940 el famoso político inglés encomendó algunas misiones secretas a un muchacho al que había conocido casualmente. Poco a poco, lo que había comenzado como una divertida aventura juvenil se convirtió en una peligrosa carrera de espía en la que abundaron los crímenes, asesinatos, persecuciones y torturas. El joven, que utilizaba el nombre de Christopher Robin, recibía órdenes del propio Churchill y del jefe del servicio de espionaje británico, y las ejecutaba con gran imaginación y valor en una época particularmente crítica de la historia de Inglaterra, los años de la segunda guerra mundial. Así, su intervención fue decisiva en la retirada de las tropas de Dunkerque, en la entrada de los norteamericanos en la guerra y en otros importantes acontecimientos de este período. El hecho de estar basado en una historia verídica añade realismo y suspense a este magnífico relato de intriga.
An aged Western showman reflects over his long and colorful career Few bother to separate the myth of Colonel Hugh Cardiff from his real life. The nation knows him as a sharpshooter, buffalo hunter, moving pictures pioneer, and one-time proprietor of the greatest Wild West show the nation has ever seen. Some of the stories are true, some exaggerated, and some rank among the wildest of tall tales. But for a man who has lived like Colonel Cardiff, the facts trump the myth. In the spring of 1868, Denver is the richest, wildest city west of the Mississippi. When an overweight Easterner named Dr. Bogardus rolls into town to announce a shooting contest with a $1,000 prize, ears prick up. Young Hugh wins the shoot with an ancient muzzle-loading rifle, knocking glass balls out of the air and missing only four out of one hundred targets. He is famous at nineteen, and the Colonel's wild life is just getting started.