Blue Horizon
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
The "New York Times" bestselling adventure writer creates a truly exciting tale of danger, courage, and suspense set in colonial South Africa






The "New York Times" bestselling adventure writer creates a truly exciting tale of danger, courage, and suspense set in colonial South Africa
Het ziet er goed uit voor advocaat Mickey Haller. Na twee donkere jaren is hij weer in de rechtbank te vinden. Als zijn collega Jerry Vincent wordt vermoord, erft Haller al diens cliënten. De meest prominente is een filmproducent die ervan wordt beschuldigd zijn vrouw en haar minnaar te hebben vermoord. Maar terwijl Haller zich in deze zaak verdiept, lijkt het erop dat Vincents moordenaar het ook op hem heeft voorzien. Enter Harry Bosch. Vastbesloten om Vincents moordenaar te vinden, deinst Bosch er niet voor terug om Haller als lokaas te gebruiken. Maar als het gevaar dichterbij komt en de risico's steeds groter worden,beseffen deze twee knorrige einzelgängers dat er niets anders op zit: ze moeten samenwerken?
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.
Met lit. opg. - Vert. van: How full is your bucket? - New York : Gallup Press, 2004. - Eenvoudige uitleg van positieve psychologie.
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years.
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?
Het levensverhaal van twee bemanningsleden van een korvet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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 jonge bankier zet zijn loopbaan op het spel om de moord op zijn vader te onderzoeken.
Een Engelse zeebonk trekt rond 1700 met drie van zijn zoons naar Afrika om in opdracht van de Engelse Oost-Indische Compagnie een zeerover te vernietigen op de Indische Oceaan.
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".
In opdracht van de Amerikaanse narcoticabrigade wordt een lerares kinderjuffrouw bij een Siciliaanse maffiafamilie om de verblijfplaats van de pater familias te achterhalen.
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
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 safari apart, plunging them into the relentless tides of a deadly cival war. For Sean Courtney, veteran gurillia warrior and professional adventurer, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro it is a time to face the ultimate test in a world where American values count for nothing. And for Riccardo, her father, a rich and ruthless tycoon, it is a time to confront a dangerous obsession. But in the struggles of passion and blood follow, Sean knows one thing for certain: this is a time to die, and he must battle viciously to live, to love and to triumph. -- back cover
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
Present day Russia is the setting for this new thriller by the author of Fatherland.
Een van oorsprong joodse man bouwt een groot media-imperium op en wisselt zijn carrière af met een groot aantal seksuele contacten.
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.
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.
Wanneer een multimiljonair na ruim 20 jaar zijn natuurlijke zoon voor het eerst ontmoet, ontwikkelt zich tussen hen een haat/liefde-verhouding.
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.
"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.
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.
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...
Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeking perilous refuge in the arms of a defiant Basque rebel...and TERESA, the believer haunted by a faith that mocks her with silence. Leaving innocence but not hope behind, they venture into an alien, dazzling world, where each will encounter an unexpected destiny -- and the truth about herself.