Hans Kooijman Books

1884 and in Khartoum, on the banks of the Nile, the Courtneys meet the Ballantynes in this epic adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Madhi or "Expected One". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat, these three powerful men fight to survive.

Beneath the unforgiving, blazing heat of the African sun, two men and a woman embark on a savage hunt. A hunt that will tear their safe safari apart, plunging them into the restless tides of a deadly civil war.

The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa in this brilliant new novel from the celebrated international bestselling author. At the close of Wilbur Smith's bestselling Monsoon, Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled on the high seas and finally reached the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. In this spellbinding new novel, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous 'Robber's Road'. It is a journey both exciting and hazardous, that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. At heart a story of love and hatred, vengeance and greed, Blue Horizon is an utterly compelling adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists.

In opdracht van de Amerikaanse narcoticabrigade wordt een lerares kinderjuffrouw bij een Siciliaanse maffiafamilie om de verblijfplaats van de pater familias te achterhalen.

Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together. Bringing together Michael Connelly's two most popular characters, The Brass Verdict is sure to be his biggest book yet.

A 12-year-old boy goes on the run after being falsely accused of murder. Pursued by police and a hired killer, he breaks into homes, steals cars, a gun--politely leaving notes of apology--and regularly calls a radio show to defend himself. A first novel.

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the farthest edges of the known world, the mighty East India Trading Company suffers catastrophic losses from pirates of the high seas. After four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage -- a death or glory mission in the name of the Empire and the Crown. Monsoon is Wilbur Smith's extraordinary new Courtney novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their wildest dreams... 'Let yourself be blown away by the hurricane of storytelling that is Monsoon... a fantastic reading experience.' Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared.' The Times

Duraid Al Simmu and his wife Royan were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris - and with it the scrolls in which was recorded the burial of Pharaoh Mamose and his treasure. But when Duraid is murdered, Royan is forced to seek refuge in England before finding the courage to return.

Het levensverhaal van twee bemanningsleden van een korvet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Representing the system's most unsavory characters in his work as a criminal defense lawyer, jaded attorney Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by sinister events that suggest the workings of a particularly evil perpetrator.

"A page-turning whopper."-- Entertainment Weekly. The novel that took the nation by storm is now in paperback. Allan Folsom has created an international conspiracy of apocalyptic dimensions that interconnects three intricate and compelling stories spanning two continents and five decades.

The rangers closed in, firing steadily. Within minutes all the adult animals were down. Only the calves still raced in bewildered circles, stumbling over the bodies of the dead and dying. Six minutes after the first shot, a silence fell over the killing ground on Long Vlei... In the blinding light of Zimbabwe`s Chiwewe National Park, Dr Daniel Armstrong, world-famous TV naturalist, films the slaughter of a herd of elephant. In London, anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into violent conforntation with the shareholders of the most powerful conglomerate in the City of London, warning them of the destruction of an African country. Now the time has come to act. Together, Armstrong and Kinnear forge a passionate alliance - and begin the fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to save...Combining breathtaking realism and thrilling suspence, the world`s master storyteller takes us on a journey deep into the heart of a wild, magnificent continent, threatened for ever by the destructive hand of man.

Set in Sarajevo, this is the story of a detective in the Bosnian police who discovers the murder of a woman living in a bombed-out building. His determination to solve the murder draws him into a political underworld.

Nathan Conrad è un medico. Cerca di curare i malati mentali più gravi, i casi disperati. Lo chiamano lo "psichiatra dei dannati". Ogni sera torna a casa e tira il fiato. Ma un bel mattino d'ottobre la follia bussa alla sua porta, anzi lo chiama al telefono : "Buongiorno dottor Conrad: ascoltami. Non dire una parola. Ho tua figlia".

She felt Ramn come awake and spring from the bed, naked and lithe as a jungle cat. She heard the metallic snicker of a firearm as he snatched the pistol from the holster. In the darkness a yellow flower of gun-flamed bloomed, and a single bullet whiplashed across twenty yards of open ground... In the searing heat of a divided Africa two decades of bitter dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. To Gary and Sean Courtney it is a struggle to the end; brother pitted against brother as they are dragged unwittingly into the lair of an international terrorist. Only Isabella Courtney stands between them and the mutual destruction they have willed for so long. Beautiful, headstrong Isabella; the link to 'Golden Fox' - a man whose alias hides a sinister and deadly secret... Traversing a vast panorama, from the heart of London society to the grandeur of Spain, from parched Ethiopia to war-torn Angola and on to the blazing hunting grounds of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Golden Fox is masterful storytelling from the arena of war; an adventure of stirring, irresistible intensity.

In THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT, they played the ultimate game of love, lust, and death. Now, in MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, the survivors meet to play one last time... Shadowed by tragedy and burdened by amnesia, a beautiful woman desperately tries to return to reality. She is Catherine Douglas, destined to once again challenge the cruel, charismatic power of Constantin Demiris, the Greek shipping tycoon who murdered Catherine's husband. Now, in the glittering capitals and carefree playgrounds of post-war Europe, Demiris sets his deadly sights on Catherine -- and the single, treacherous secret whose shattering truth is known to her alone...

Kisah empat biarawati yang tiba-tiba terlempar ke luar lingkungan biara mereka yang aman. Mereka terseret dalam perjuangan keras antara gerakan separatis Basque di bawah pimpinan Jaime Miro yang idealis dan penuh kharisma, dan Angkatan Darat Spanyol di bawah komando Kolonel Ramon Acoca yang bertekad menumpas mereka semua. Megan, si gadis yatim-piatu, bersedia mengorbankan apa saja untuk mengetahui identitas orangtuanya. Namun dia tak berdaya melawan daya tarik Jaime Miro. Lucia, si cantik jelita yang berdarah panahs, putri mafioso dari Sicilia, diincar polisi karena dua perkara pembunuhan. Tetapi, dia rela mengorbankan kekayaan dan masa depannya untuk menyelamatkan nyawa teroris yang sedang sekarat. Bahkan keheningan dan kesucian biara tak mampu menghapus masa lalu Graciela. Mampukah dia mempertahankan kesuciannya dalam pusaran arus dunia yang bejat dan penuh maksiat ini? Dan Teresa, yang terombang-ambing antara kenyataan yang dihadapinya dan masa lalu yang ingin dilupakannya, dalam kebingungannya justru memohon bantuan Kolonel Ramon Acoca---kesalahan fatal yang mencelakakan kawan-kawannya sendiri.

Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws to prise her out. Identifying her doesn't take so long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and her picture is on law enforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? From the number one bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer, master storyteller Nicholas Evans, comes this powerful new novel, an epic thriller of the human heart. In a journey of discovery and redemption, from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, it tells the heart-rending tale of a family fractured by divorce. As both parents and children struggle in search of lost happiness, some devastating truths unravel. "The Divide" is the story of a great love betrayed and of the yearnings and needs, and the dashed hopes and disillusionments that connect and separate all men and women.

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast

Soon to be a major motion picture, from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively. She has nothing to lose and only revenge to live for

Een vrouwelijke arts die wordt beschuldigd van moord op een terminale patiënt, beweert op zijn verzoek gehandeld te hebben, maar erft wel een miljoen van hem.

De dochter van een denkbeeldige president van de Verenigde Staten wordt gegijzeld door Israëlische fanatici die de vernietiging van Irak, Iran en Syrië willen afdwingen.

Een van oorsprong joodse man bouwt een groot media-imperium op en wisselt zijn carrière af met een groot aantal seksuele contacten.

Met lit. opg. - Vert. van: How full is your bucket? - New York : Gallup Press, 2004. - Eenvoudige uitleg van positieve psychologie.

Wanneer een multimiljonair na ruim 20 jaar zijn natuurlijke zoon voor het eerst ontmoet, ontwikkelt zich tussen hen een haat/liefde-verhouding.

Een geheim agent krijgt opdracht om tien getuigen van de landing van een UFO op te sporen, maar wanneer hij ontdekt dat zij vlak daarna vermoord worden, merkt hij dat ook hijzelf geen jager meer is maar een prooi.

Een jonge bankier zet zijn loopbaan op het spel om de moord op zijn vader te onderzoeken.