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Ivan Němeček

    Láska. Kniha symbolů
    Magie
    Vlčí máky
    Městečko South Park: Scénáře. Kniha 2.
    Different Seasons
    Apt Pupil
    • Apt Pupil

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication. If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander’s dark and deadly past…a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception—and horror—as finally there is only one left standing.

      Apt Pupil
      4.4
    • Different Seasons

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Different Seasons contains four stories with an interlacing of horror that capture the dark corners of our times. In Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in this sinister slammer, and a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's too late. And brace yourself for icy shock in three more stunning novellas of suspense. Four young boys come face to face with life, death and hints of their own mortality....A teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil... A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death. The greatest horror master of our time turns the screws of suspense to lock you into terrifying tension and nerve-tingling twists.

      Different Seasons
      4.4
    • V této knize poprvé v češtině vycházejí literární scénáře kultovního televizního seriálu Městečko South Park, které na rozdíl od dabovaného televizního textu nejsou ochuzeny o žádné jazykové nuance anglického originálu. Po celosvětovém úspěchu televizního seriálu a nemenším úspěchu celovečerního filmu prezentovali autoři své buřičské názory v dokumentárním filmu o vzniku seriálu, v němž tři čtvrtě hodiny seděli v bazénu s Japoncem, který nepromluvil. Nyní přicházejí s první knihou scénářů obsahující pět velice zdařilých příběhů, jejichž komično těží z formálního rozporu nevinných dětských postaviček a jejich konání a výroků. A tak se setkáváme s Kennym, Ericem Cartmanem, Stanem a mnoha dalšími.

      Městečko South Park: Scénáře. Kniha 2.
      4.5
    • Vlčí máky

      • 278 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Thriller z konce 90. let 20. století se odehrává střídavě v New Yorku, Hongkongu a Číně. Bývalý policista Artie Cohen, původem ruský židovský emigrant, je požádán svým přítelem, židovským obchodníkem s diamanty, o pomoc. Ve své kanceláři totiž nalézá mrtvou čínskou dívku. Stopy Artieho zavedou nejen do rozrůstající se Čínské čtvrti v New Yorku, ale i do Hongkongu, který má být brzy předán pod čínskou správu a na prodej je zde úplně všechno a všichni. Ve hře jsou kromě nelegálního přistěhovalectví z Číny do USA i nečisté praktiky při adopci čínských dětí a nový druh heroinu. Artie se s pomocí přátel pouští do nerovného a nikdy nekončícího boje s čínskou mafií.

      Vlčí máky
      4.3
    • Magie

      • 40 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Magie nám osvětluje cíle a prostředky mágů, kteří se přenášeli do jiných světů, aby naplnili ty nejneuvěřitelnější sny a vyvolali zvláštní proměny. Dozvíme se něco o alchymii, čarodějnictví, numerologii, věštectví, tajích magie a orientální magické tradici.

      Magie
      5.0
    • Láska. Kniha symbolů

      • 40 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Kniha symbolů Láska přináší množství mileneckých tradic a připomíná čtenáři Kupida, Venuši, Erota a Afroditu, seznamuje ho s jazykem květin a milostných medailonků, se symboly vášně, svádění a stálosti, s afrodisiaky a symboly plodnosti i s romantickou symbolikou Měsíce a hvězd.

      Láska. Kniha symbolů
      5.0
    • Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Kniha symbolů Sny zkoumá záhady našich snů, dotýká se takových témat, jako jsou jungiánské archetypy, tělo, rodina, znamení a věštba i sny o pádech a létání. Úchvatná cesta bludištěm nevědomí zaujme každého, kdo se zajímá o svět za zavřenýma očima.

      Kniha symbolů
      5.0
    • Smiley's People

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People.In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.

      Smiley's People
      4.3
    • A Prayer for Owen Meany

      • 637 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.

      A Prayer for Owen Meany
      4.3
    • Reissue of the international bestseller in dramatic new graphic cover style

      The Shining
      4.3
    • Night shift

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Reissue of the international bestseller in dramatic new graphic cover style

      Night shift
      4.3
    • Ambiciozní soudce Nejvyššího soudu státu New York Allen Sturdivant touží po funkci guvernéra státu.Nešťastnou náhodou se zaplete do procesu vraždy své milenky.V něm nakonec po těžkém vnitřním boji mezi svými osobními a společenskými zájmy podlehne.

      Rozsudek
      4.4
    • Běžící muž

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Sci-fi z nedaleké budoucnosti líčí temnými barvami industriální svět, nikoli nepodobný totalitě. Zábavu apatickým masám obstarává jediný televizní kanál, který vysílá obskurní zvrácené soutěže, z nichž nejdrsnější a nejpopulárnější je Běh o život. Vybraný jedinec, v tomto případě Ben Richards, je vypuštěn do ulic Ameriky jako lovná zvěř. Po dvanácti hodinách ho začnou pronásledovat profesionální Lovci, podporovaní mnoha udavači z řad televizních diváků. Prchající zoufalec sahá pod vidinou odměny ve výši milionu dolarů k těm nejkrutějším prostředkům, aby pronásledovatele setřásl.

      Běžící muž
      4.2
    • Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has every had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole - a cave inhabited by sick bats. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has written.

      Cujo
      4.2
    • Ironický nadhled nad životem a pichlavý humor, vlastní všem autorovým hrdinům, neopouští ani protagonistu románu Jak nevodit policii za nos, filmového kritika Careyho Thorpa, který se nedobrovolně ocitne na šikmé ploše - a zároveň se nechtě musí stát i amatérským detektivem. Kniha nabízí toto typicky westlakeovské "morální ponaučení": když už jste spáchal vraždu, nespěte proboha alespoň s ženou inspektora vyšetřujícího váš případ......

      Jak nevodit policii za nos
      4.2
    • How a Gunman Says Goodbye

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. He's lasted longer than he should have...

      How a Gunman Says Goodbye
      4.2
    • Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children have walked in procession with solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding ..

      Pet sematary
      4.2
    • Tajemný jazyk symbolů

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      V knize je více než 200 zvláště vybraných reprodukcí uměleckých děl, které čtenáře bezprostředně uvádějí do světa symbolů. Jsou doplněny asi 130 fotografiemi, na nichž je zachycena bohatá symbolika Východu i Západu ve všech údobích existence lidstva. Jádrem knihy je podnětný vizuální "rejstřík", který zahrnuje všechny typy významných symbolů - mandal a bludišť, bytostí žijících na zemi, v moři a ve vzduchu, bájných draků, sexu a plodnosti, mýtických bohů a bohyň, architektury církevní i světské, nebe a pekla, květin a drahokamů, nebeských bytostí a mnoha dalších pojmů. Autor se rovněž podrobně zabývá velkými symbolovými systémy - od I-ťing ke zvěrokruhu - a ukazuje cestu, jak je mohou k sebepoznání tvořivě využít i lidé skeptičtí k astrologii a vykládání budoucnosti.

      Tajemný jazyk symbolů
      4.0
    • You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon. Meet Charlie--and see what happens when innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror.... --back cover

      Firestarter
      4.2
    • In Stephen King's gripping tale, young Luke Ellis is kidnapped and taken to The Institute, where children with special abilities are exploited. As he navigates this sinister environment, he learns of the brutal consequences for non-compliance and the mysterious fate of those who vanish to the ominous Back Half. A chilling story of good versus evil.

      The Institute
      4.1
    • The Sudden Arrival of Violence

      • 382 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The stunning conclusion to the Glasgow Trilogy from the celebrated author of The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter and How a Gunman Says Goodbye

      The Sudden Arrival of Violence
      4.1
    • Městečko South Park

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      V této knize poprvé v češtině vycházejí literární scénáře kultovního televizního seriálu Městečko South Park, které na rozdíl od dabovaného televizního textu nejsou ochuzeny o žádné jazykové nuance anglického originálu. Po celosvětovém úspěchu televizního seriálu a nemenším úspěchu celovečerního filmu prezentovali autoři své buřičské názory v dokumentárním filmu o vzniku seriálu, v němž tři čtvrtě hodiny seděli v bazénu s Japoncem, který nepromluvil. Nyní přicházejí s první knihou scénářů obsahující pět velice zdařilých příběhů, jejichž komično těží z formálního rozporu nevinných dětských postaviček a jejich konání a výroků. A tak se setkáváme s Kennym, Ericem Cartmanem, Stanem a mnoha dalšími.

      Městečko South Park
      4.1
    • The Outsider

      A Novel

      • 656 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn!​ Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King’s story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

      The Outsider
      4.0
    • Quinn, the negotiator, is called in to resolve the plot to keep the U.S. President from signing a U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty.

      The negotiator
      4.0
    • Záhady druhé světové války se vrací k doposud k největšímu válečnému konfliktu na naší planetě. Autor sbíral ke knize materiál po více než dvě desetiletí. V průběhu téměř čtvrtiny století detailně prozkoumal celou řadu předních vojenských archivů. Výsledkem Breuerova úžasného úsilí je vynikající dílo, popisující řadu skutečných případů, které nám budou mnohdy připadat zcela neuvěřitelné. Rovněž šíře autorova záběru je fascinující. Jeho kniha obsahuje více než sto napínavých a často velice záhadných příběhů. Dočteme se strhující vyprávění od německého přepadení Polska přes útok na Pearl Harbour až po tichomořskou válku. Jedním z příkladů je historie americké ponorky Tang, která v průběhu námořních bojů zničila více japonských lodí než kterékoliv jiné americké válečné plavidlo. Jeji poslední torpédo rovněž zasáhlo cíl - avšak cíl naprosto neočekávaný...

      Záhady 2. světové války
      3.8
    • Nightmares and Dreamscapes

      • 593 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you. Can you believe? Then come...

      Nightmares and Dreamscapes
      4.0
    • Stephen King Goes to the Movies

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The #1 bestselling author reflects on the filming of five of his most popular short stories, each tale included in this collection. Those movies are The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Children of the Corn, The Mangler, and Hearts in Atlantis. Includes an introduction, his brief personal commentary, and behind-the-scenes insights by Stephen. The Subterranean Press edition of Stephen King Goes to the Movies is -- so far -- the only hardcover edition scheduled, and features full-color movie poster illustrations -- one for each story -- by Vincent Chong.

      Stephen King Goes to the Movies
      3.9
    • Four past midnight

      • 768 pages
      • 27 hours of reading

      Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror.... THE LANGOLIERS You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell. SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare. THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid. THE SUN DOG You are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity. You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best, with an extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas.

      Four past midnight
      3.9
    • The Running Man

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Every night the whole nation watched the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants tried to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.

      The Running Man
      3.9
    • Carrie

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to the Prom by Tommy Ross is a dream come true, and a step towards social acceptance by her high school peers. But events take a macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night.

      Carrie
      3.9
    • James Bond: Thunderball

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey eyes. He was wearing a very dark-blue lightweight single-breasted suit over a cream silk shirt and a black knitted silk tie. Despite the heat, he looked cool and clean. "And who might you be?" she asked sharply. "My name's Bond, James Bond ..." When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind: he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs. While acting the playboy, Bond meets Domino, sultry plaything of secretive treasure hunter Emilio Largo. In getting close to this gorgeous Italian girl, Bond hopes to learn more about Largo's hidden operation ...

      James Bond: Thunderball
      3.9
    • The Halloween tricks began with the bloody upper torso of a human body, and suddenly Detective Steve Carella was in the midst of evil involving a psychopath and a gang of children with loaded shotguns.

      Tricks
      3.9
    • A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house... Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia. The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles - until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret...

      The Secret of Chimneys
      3.9
    • 'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington Post The small town of CASTLE ROCK, MAINE has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now. There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game. One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: 'Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.' On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black suit coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat... Journey back to Castle Rock in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.

      Gwendy's button box
      3.9
    • Goldfinger. James Bond

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked and a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.

      Goldfinger. James Bond
      3.9
    • Thinner

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      For use in schools and libraries only. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.

      Thinner
      3.8
    • 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' In Casino Royale, the first of Fleming's 007 adventures, a game of cards is James Bond's only chance to bring down the desperate SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. But Bond soon discovers that there is far more at stake than money.

      Casino Royale
      3.8
    • The Langoliers

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. On a red-eye flight from L. A. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane. But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out . . . A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.

      The Langoliers
      3.8
    • “Among King’s best.”—San Francisco Chronicle When housekeeper Dolores Claiborne is questioned in the death of her wealthy employer, a long-hidden secret from her past is revealed-—as is the strength of her own will to survive...

      Dolores Claiborne
      3.8
    • Before the fall

      • 376 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel Selected by The Sunday Times as one of the top page-turners of summer 2017 FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD WINNING FARGO AND LEGION TV SERIES 'Hawley's sublime prose glows on every page in this literary thriller of the highest quality' Daily Mail THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT. BUT FATE IS BLIND. A private jet plunges into the sea. The only survivors are down-on his luck artist Scott Burroughs and JJ Bateman, the four year old son of a super-rich TV executive. For saving the boy, Scott is suddenly a hero. And then, as the official investigation is rapidly overtaken by a media frenzy, it seems he may also be a villain. Why was he on the plane in the first place, and why did it crash?

      Before the fall
      3.7
    • Blood for Blood

      • 347 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.

      Blood for Blood
      3.6
    • Live and Let Die is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Ian Fleming. Another classic Bond mission, see’s 007 in Jamaica investigating the underworld criminal ‘Mr Big’, who is suspected to be involved with Soviet spy operations. Caught up in dangerous situations and beautiful girls, Bond must complete his mission.

      Live and let die
      3.6
    • Ever After

      • 275 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Bill Unwin, in his 50s, looks back over his life and past. From his university rooms, he studies old family diaries from the mid-Victorian era. Excerpts from the diaries throw light on his own life - his feelings of hurt, revenge and family betrayal.

      Ever After
      3.4
    • From a Buick 8

      • 478 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick. And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir . . . --back cover

      From a Buick 8
      3.5
    • Zločinecká skupina Société Anonyme se inspiruje dílem slavného umělce Marcela Duchampa a jejími oběťmi se stávají mladí lidé z celého světa. Hlavní hrdinka románu, která se do jejich spárů rovněž dostává, se prostřednictvím studia Duchampových děl a výprav do opuštěných industriálních objektů snaží přijít věcem na kloub. Mysteriózní román s neobvyklým námětem tak provádí čtenáře prostředími, do nichž se v běžných dobrodružných knihách jen tak nedostane a v nichž většinou nejde o nic menšího než o život.

      Hotová zlodějka
      3.3
    • The Dark Room

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room .' James Patterson The heart-pounding follow-up to The Poison Artist called ';an electrifying read' by Stephen Kingthat shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied

      The Dark Room
      3.4
    • "Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It'd take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it's your check, I'm going to have caviar, and what the English call "cutlets", and some pink champagne. I don't often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner's going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with-if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself ...

      Diamonds Are Forever
      3.5
    • Der New-York-Times-Bestseller: Verrat verjährt nicht! Flughafen Wien, 2006: Auf dem Rollfeld steht ein Airbus mit einhundertzwanzig Passagieren an Bord, den Terroristen in ihre Gewalt gebracht haben. Die CIA vor Ort hat die Chance, die Geiselnahme zu beenden und Blutvergießen zu verhindern. Doch ihr Plan wird verraten – alle Passagiere kommen ums Leben. Der entscheidende Anruf kam aus dem Quartier der CIA. Kalifornien, 2012: CIA-Agent Henry Pelham ist nervös. Nach Jahren wird er seine Kollegin Celia Favreau wiedersehen, mit der er in Wien eine kurze Beziehung hatte. Zusammen versuchten sie in jener Nacht fieberhaft, das Leben der Passagiere zu retten. Nun hat die interne Ermittlung der CIA den Fall neu aufgerollt. In einem Restaurant treffen sich Henry und Celia. Was als Gespräch unter ehemals Vertrauten beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem packenden wechselseitigen Verhör, das schließlich die Wahrheit über den Verrat von Wien ans Licht bringt. Ein genial spannend erzählter Politthriller über eine Welt, in der Loyalität nicht mehr belohnt wird.

      Der Anruf
      3.3
    • Alistair MacLean's Death Train

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Three agents from the United Nations Anti-Crime Organization had a mind-boggling mission: to find out who stole six kegs of plutonium from a European train. But that wasn't the end of the case. It turned out that only five kegs contained plutonium. The sixth held something even worse. Just as John Gardner has continued the work of Ian Fleming, Alastair MacNeill now maintains the excitement of Alistair Maclean.

      Alistair MacLean's Death Train
      3.4
    • Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered. M takes the attack personally and sends James Bond to protect King's daughter Elektra in Turkey. With nuclear weapons expert Dr Christmas Jones at his side, Bond travels to the Caspian sea where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final confrontation in a nuclear submarine.

      Ian Fleming's James Bond in The World is Not Enough 007
      3.1
    • Luxor ze Supermana, Harry Caul v Rozhovoru, Roy Tucker v Dominu, nebo Max ze Strášaku. Filmový portrét amerického herce Gena Hackmana.

      Gene Hackman