An ex-assassin for the United States government, Paul Janson, teams up with an accomplished sharpshooter, Jessica Kincaid, to rescue a doctor abducted by African pirates in international waters and realizes there are larger forces at work when their liberation mission goes awry.
Bevat de titels: De Commitments, De Bastaard, De Bus - druk 4
Bevat: De Commitments, De bastaard en De bus
'Slaying the Badger' relives the adrenaline, the agony, the camaraderie, the betrayals and the pure exhilaration of the 1986 Tour de France, which saw an epic battle between veteran Bernard Hinault and the young American, Greg LeMond.
Als een student wegens geldgebrek de universiteit moet verlaten, verzinnen zijn vriendinnen een plan om aan geld voor zijn studie te komen.
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le CarrU has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. From the age of 17, he has been controlled by two mentors.
Tales of a blind man, written down by an imbecile. Such is the genesis of the Bible in this raucous, unsettling account of recent and not-so-recent history with its richly entwined odysseys.
In this, the sequel to Beaches, Cee Cee Bloom, the famous singer and movie star, has been entrusted with the eight-year-old daughter of her friend Bertie, after the latter's tragic death. Then, with a devastating discovery, Cee Cee is forced to come to terms with the depth of her commitment.
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, After Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story - a tale as gripping as it is moving - which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.
A troubled cop seeks to save his son from a killer in the wilderness of Yellowstone. Back of Beyond is a gripping adventure from New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box, and the first book in the series that inspired hit TV show Big Sky.Twilight falls on a cold, wet spring day in the mountains of Montana. A cabin smoulders in the forest. Its charred structure reveals the remains of a single body.Detective Cody Hoyt investigates. A brilliant cop, Cody is also struggling with alcoholism and close to losing his job. It doesn't help that the body in the cabin is his AA sponsor, Hank Winters. It looks like a suicide, but Cody knew Hank better than that.Cody is determined to get justice for his friend. But when the clues lead to a company running wilderness adventures, he realises their latest trip, to Yellowstone National Park, is the very same one his estranged teenage son has signed up for...Cody must trek deep into Yellowstone, America's greatest wilderness, alone, in pursuit of his son - and the truth.Reviews for Back of Beyond'Timeless, gripping. Resembles an Agatha Christie whodunnit but with horses, bears, wolves and hunting rifles.' Sunday Times'A perfect introduction to the novels of C.J. Box.' Booklist'Perceptive... smooth, muscular writing keeps the tension rising.' Financial Times'One of the most suspenseful wilderness thrillers since Deliverance.' Associated Press'Terrifically entertaining.' Kirkus
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age- the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.
Denis Avey, een dappere jonge Britse soldaat, vecht in de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Noord-Afrika. Daar wordt hij in 1944 krijgsgevangen genomen. In het werkkamp in Duitsland waar hij terechtkomt, werkt hij zij aan zij met gevangenen uit het nabijgelegen Auschwitz. Denis is geschokt door de verhalen die hij van hen hoort en voelt het als zijn plicht er met eigen ogen kennis van te nemen en de wereld ooit zijn verhaal te kunnen vertellen. Denis vat het gewaagde plan op van kamp te wisselen met een jonge joodse gevangene uit Nederland. Gekleed in diens smerige gestreepte kampkleding met gele ster loopt hij tussen andere gevangenen onder de poort met Arbeit Macht Frei Auschwitz binnen, niet wetende wat hem te wachten staat en of ze elkaar ooit weer zullen zien.
The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her African lover has vanished, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out in pursuit of the killers and their motive.
A gripping psychological narrative explores themes of obsession and the consequences that follow. The story delves into the complexities of human relationships, showcasing the impact of fixation on individuals and their lives. With a suspenseful plot, the author crafts a tale that keeps readers on edge, revealing the darker sides of desire and the lengths to which people will go when consumed by their passions.
ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.
John le Carré 's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist (code name Bluebird) burdened with a secret knowledge; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the source of the document. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, "The Russia House" catches history in the act.
Two young lovers find themselves in the darkening basement of an anonymous house in Bloomsbury. In the same room sit two members of Britain's intelligence service. And they want information. The couple, Perry and Gail, have just returned from holiday in the Caribbean where they met the mysterious Dima, a Russian millionaire in fear for his life. The Russian thinks that only the unlikely figure of Perry can save him. And Dima has cash - and he is prepared to pay. Their meeting will propel Perry and Gail on a terrifying journey from London to Paris and on to a safe house deep in the Swiss Alps. When there is that much money at stake, and a British government that needs it that badly, certain sacrifices, even if it means a life or two, will have to be made ..
Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.
West Virginia, 1859. Sarah Brown heeft de bijzondere gave kaarten te tekenen en zo slaven te laten ontsnappen. Het is een veelbewogen zomer: Sarah is na een ziekte onvruchtbaar geworden en de oktoberopstand doet het kruitvat van de Burgeroorlog ontploffen. Maar het grootste conflict speelt zich af in haar hart. Ze is hartstochtelijk verliefd op Freddy maar hoe kan ze zijn aanzoek accepteren nu ze weet dat hun huwelijk kinderloos zal blijven? Honderdvijftig jaar later verhuizen Jack en Eden Anderson naar West Virginia om een gezin te stichten. Hoewel Eden alles heeft geprobeerd om zwanger te worden, wil het niet lukken. Op een dag vindt ze een vreemde pop in de kelder. Wanneer ze de herkomst probeert te achterhalen, gaan heden en verleden steeds meer door elkaar lopen.
A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with Cortes and his conquistadors.Diego is seeking his fortune in the New World. What he finds is love, and chocolate, and an elixir of life. Separated from his lover, he must wander the world, and the centuries, in search of the fulfilment that he first knew in Mexico.In a series of dramatic episodes that are evocative, witty and thought-provoking, from revolutionary Paris to Freud’s Vienna, Fry’s Bristol and Hershey’s Pittsburgh, Diego and his ever-faithful greyhound, Pedro, seek the perfection of chocolate and the meaning of life.
Deze geheime geschiedenis van de twintigste eeuw is een traktatie voor iedereen met interesse in spionage, smokkel, geschiedenis, het Midden-Oosten, de verhalen van duizend-en-een-nacht, politiek, religie, magisch-realisme en oorlog. Op de laatste dag van 1921 komen drie mannen samen in een achterkamer in Jeruzalem. Hun partij poker zal twaalf jaar duren en heeft als inzet niets minder dan de controle over Jeruzalem zelf. Op het spel staat de toekomst van kleurrijke spelers als: Cairo Martyr, een koolzwarte man met blauwe ogen met een witte aap op zijn schouder. Zijn rijkdom is afkomstig van het monopolie op lustopwekkend mummiestof. Joe O'Sullivan Beare, de voormalige Ierse vrijheidsstrijder die wapens levert aan alle partijen in de Oriënt en een fortuin verdiende met de verkoop van Christelijke fallusbeeldjes. Munk Szondi, een Zwitserse bankier die handelt in promessen voor gebakken vis, wiens vrouwelijke familieleden allemaal Sarah heten. Nubar Wallenstein, een invloedrijke oliebaron met een eigen spionagedienst, maar ook een fanatieke alchemist, geobsedeerd door onsterfelijkheid. Duizenden gokkers uit de hele wereld nemen deel aan het spel en er worden fortuinen gewonnen en verloren. Want Jeruzalem is de sleutel tot het Midden-Oosten en dus tot de wereld...
Hun vriendschap was voor het leven. Gebaseerd op het filmscenario van Mary Agnes Donoghue
Tussen twee heel verschillende vrouwen bestaat een hechte vriendschap sinds zij elkaar op jonge leeftijd op het strand hebben ontmoet.
Een Brit van Russische afkomst, veroordeeld tot vijftien jaar dwangarbeid in de Sovjet-Unie, rebelleert in gevangenschap met succes tegen de kampleiding.
Een jonge, ambitieuze vrouw komt als undercoveragente terecht in het wereldje van drugdealers en -verslaafden.
Een Amerikaans commando in Vietnam wordt door de CIA belast met speciale liquidatie-opdrachten.
Tussen hoop en vrees: Raisa Gorbatsjov vertelt over zichzelf, over haar verleden en huidige leven, in gesprek met de schrijver Georgi Prjachin
Als een man de fantastische familiegschiedenis zoals zijn grootvader die vertelde op waarheidsgehalte toetst, ontdekt hij dat de werkelijkheid nog schokkender is.
Een Engelse bank, die zijn grootste profijt uit allerlei criminele activiteiten haalt, raakt in de problemen met Russische leveranciers.
Politieman Aurelio Zen, die tijdelijk is overgeplaatst naar een plaatsje in het Zuid-Italiaanse Calabrië, onderzoekt de mysterieuze moord op een Italiaanse Amerikaan en krijgt te maken met een Amerikaanse miljonair die op zoek is naar een legendarische schat.
