Frans J. Bruning Books

When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro.Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy; they were murder. Risking his family's good name and his own life, Sano will search for a killer across every level of society determined to find answers to a mystery no one wants solved. No one but Sano...As subtle and beautiful as the culture it evokes, Shinju vividly re-creates a world of ornate tearooms and gaudy pleasure-palaces, cloistered mountaintop convents and deathly prisons. Part love story, part mystery, Shinju is a tour that will dazzle and entertain all who enter its world.

Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway - the fortresslike nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when he receives the sudden good news that Harry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry's cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest-ranking officials in the United States and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments - but is the list legitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother?

An Irish immigrant in New Zealand fills his son, Rory, with patriotic tales. When Rory grows up, World War I is on. He joins the New Zealand corps of the British army, survives Gallipoli, becomes an officer and is transferred to Ireland to put down a rebellion. One day his father's tales catch up and Rory switches sides. By the author of Trinity.

Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin American bond markets. How far would you go to please the king? Disenchanted academic Nick Elliot knows that he may be selling his soul when he joins Ricardo Ross at City brokers Dekker Ward, but he needs the money. As Nick soon discovers you are either with The Marketmaker, or you have made an enemy for life. While Nick is learning the ropes, strange things start to happen to Dekker Ward employees. One top trader is fired without warning. Another dies in a bungled robbery. Nick can't hide his feelings for his attractive Brazilian colleague Isabel. Then she is kidnapped in Rio. Nick decides go to Brazil to look for her, a country he doesn't know at all. But the Marketmaker knows it, knows it very well ...

The excitement of million-dollar deals meets the daring of cold-blooded murder in this shocking financial thriller. Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His older brother, Richard, owns FairSystems, a small company poised to do for the virtual reality world what Bill Gates did for personal computers. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop. Mark immediately steps into Richard's shoes -- and his life. Through cunning and luck, Mark struggles to keep his brother's business afloat and to discover the secrets behind his death. Until Mark himself becomes the target, moving ever closer to his brother's fate.

Amaya is the most deadly terrorist in the annals of political struggle. The horrors of her past have made her an accomplished assassin. Her motive is revenge, her vowed intent is murder.

On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of Jurassic Park.

Augustus 1990 Het leger van Saddam Hoessein trekt Kuweit binnen en stelt zich dreigend op aan de grens met Saudi-Arabië. De verenigde Staten reageren meteen en sturen vliegtuigen, manschappen, tanks en oorlogsbodems naar de Golf om de Saudi´s bij te staan. Voor het eerst sinds het debacle in Vietman staan ze weer op het punt betrokken te raken bij een gewapend comflict. En dit keer zijn ze vastberaden om te zegevieren. Aan het hoofd van de geallieerde luchtmacht in de Golfregio staat generaal Chuck Horner. Hij is een van de beste fighter pilots binnen de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. In Vietnam vloog hij de gevaarlijkste missies en nu ook nog is hij een klasse apart, zoals de veel jongere piloten in dogfights met hun commandant nogal eens moeten ervaren. Nu staat Horner voor de zwaarste opdracht uit zijn leven: Irak vanuit de lucht op de knieën dwingen. In Woestijnstorm vertellen Tom Clancy en luchtmachtgeneraal Chuck Horner het verhaal van de eerste ooklog die hoofdzakelijk vanuit de lucht werd gestreden; operatie Desert Storm. Het is een gedetailleerd en opwindend verslag van hoe oorlogen vandaag de dag gevoerd worden, compleet met de details zoals alleen zij die erbij zijn geweest kunnen geven.

Een Amerikaanse miljonair krijgt opdracht van de regering de praktijken bij militair-industriële vestigingen te onderzoeken; daarbij stuit hij op corruptie op grote schaal.

De Engelse journalist en televisiepresentator bereist de wereld op zoek naar esoterische en spirituele bewegingen die al honderd jaar de komst van de Maitreya voorspellen.