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A gripping and beguiling debut reading group mystery for fans of Tigers in Red Weather and Tangerine.

No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author and international sensation Clare Mackintosh puts a thrilling, modern spin on the classic locked-room thriller

'Another one-more-chapter, stay-up-late sensation' Lee Child 'A work of genius' Joanna Cannon 'No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh' Paula Hawkins -------------------------------------- The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since. Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to ask questions about her parents' deaths. But by digging up the past, is she putting her future in danger? Sometimes it's safer to let things lie . . . Discover the sensational, gripping new page-turner and NUMBER ONE Sunday Times bestseller from Clare Mackintosh, award-winning author of breakout bestsellers I See You and I Let You Go

Biografie van de Nederlandse econoom en hoogleraar (1942), die verschillende vooraanstaande functies in het bedrijfsleven, het bankwezen en de politiek vervulde.

"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"-- Provided by publisher.

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? Suzy and Callie live close to each other on a typical cramped, anonymous London street. Neighbours seem to move in, and move on, before you have even learned their names. Callie's increased sense of alienation leads her to try to befriend a new resident on her street, Debs. But Debs is anxious, odd. You wouldn't trust her with your child - especially not if you knew anything about her past. A brilliant and chilling evocation of modern life, The Playdate is a real talking-point book for mothers everywhere. I started reading and couldn't stop . . . a must-read that will tap into every mother's primal fears' Sophie Hannah

"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.

De voorspelling dat Lodrik, de jeugdige heerser van Tarpol, een belangrijke rol zal spelen bij de terugkeer van de Donkere Tijd lijkt meer dan ooit waarheid te worden. Het Kwade wint terrein en lijkt de overhand te krijgen. Onder invloed van valse vrienden en onbetrouwbare adviseurs wankelt Lodrik onder de druk die van alle kanten op hem wordt uitgeoefend. Niet in de laatste plaats omdat er levensgevaar dreigt voor zijn werkelijke getrouwen en bondgenoten. Maar zo snel geven Lodriks veteranen de strijd niet op, en gelukkig neemt ook in de vrije landen het verzet tegen de demonische macht toe. Op de Vlakte van Telmaran maakt het leger van Lodrik zich op voor een beslissende strijd...

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would. But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.

Er waart een dodelijk griepvirus rond, dat een mondiale epidemie veroorzaakt. Het begint in New York, maar binnen luttele dagen vallen over de hele wereld doden. Wanneer kardinaal John Tyler ook ziek wordt, komt reporter Cotten Stone erachter dat de epidemie geen natuurlijke oorzaak heeft. Het onderzoek voert haar van Noord-Korea naar het kasteel van Dracula zelf en dan ontrafelt ze een gruwelijk geheim uit de Tweede wereldoorlog en een groep zelfmoordterroristen die zich hebben bewapend met microben in plaats van explosieven.

A blockbuster debut thriller in thetradition of Tom Clancy

Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believed they were the envy of the nearby town of Wakefield - particularly her eldest brother Boyer, whom Natalie held especially close to her heart. But Natalie began to question her family's idyllic existence the summer she turned fifteen. The arrival of a soft-spoken stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. The series of events following that summer day would leave relationships shattered and the Ward family changed forever.

It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate. The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters.

De Heilige Speer: gesmeed door een directe nakomeling van Adam, gebruikt om Christus' zijde te doorboren bij de kruisiging en in bezit geweest van de meest machtige mannen uit de wereldgeschiedenis - Constantijn de Grote, Atilla de Hun, Adolf Hitler. En nu is dit machtige object in verkeerde handen gevallen en willen de krachten van het kwaad de mensheid ermee op de knieën dwingen... Het wordt een race voor Cotten Stone. Van het Kremlin naar een Ethiopische kerk waarin de Ark des Verbonds zich bevindt. Ze zal de Speer moeten vinden. En dan staat ze opeens oog in oog met de man die het lot van de wereld in zijn handen houdt. Een man die al meer dan 85 jaar dood is.

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. When the unit was rescued the following morning, 18 American soldiers were dead and more than 70 badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than 500 killed and over 1000 injured. Authoritative, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute account of modern war.

At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the uncharted wilderness of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart. In a voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion.

Jack Ryan, historicus, ex-marinier en CIA-medewerker, vindt op zekere dag in het zonovergoten Londen binnen een halfuur twee keer bijna de dood. De eerste keer wordt hij op een haar na door een dubbeldekker overreden wanneer hij bij het oversteken natuurlijk de verkeerde kant op kijkt. De tweede keer ontsnapt hij nauwelijks aan de dood als de IRA vlak voor zijn ogen een aanslag pleegt. Instinctief gooit Jacj zich in het gevecht. Pas als hij in het ziekenhuis weer bij bewustzijn komt, hoort hij wiens levens hij heeft gered. Wat voor Jack, zijn zwangere vrouw en zijn dochtertje een vakantie had moeten worden, blijkt het begin te zijn van een ware nachtmerrie. Meedogenloze terroristen blijken hen tot doelwit te hebben verkozen...

Wounded and angry, she turns to her mother for support, only to discover that the past has also come back to haunt Cora, a person who always seemed utterly flawless.For now comes evidence of Cora's own long-ago relationship with a famous man, a man who so adored Zeph's mother that he never forgot her.

Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare… Meanwhile, Anna Navarro, field agent for the Department of Justice, has been asked to investigate the sudden, random deaths of eleven men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them? A secret file, over a half-century old, that’s linked to the CIA—and is marked with the same puzzling codename: Sigma. As Anna follows the connecting thread—and Hartman finds himself on the run—she ends up in the shadows of a relentless killer who is one step ahead of her…victim by victim. Now, she and Hartman together must uncover the diabolical secrets long held behind Sigma. It will threaten everything they think they know about themselves—and confirm their very worst fears...

This brawny, hard-edged novel from an emerging star of suspense pits two besieged Philadelphia homicide detectives against a fiercely intelligent and relentlessly brutal serial killer--a monster fueled by a twisted, sacrilegious fury.

De belevenissen van een Britse militair tijdens de Golfoorlog.

Ayse is geboren in 1981 in Berlijn. Haar ouders behoren tot de Jezidi's, een streng religieuze Koerdische bevolkingsgroep in Turkije. Op haar twaalfde is Ayse voorbestemd om met haar neef Hassan te trouwen. Na de middelbare school volgt ze een opleiding tot verpleegkundige waar Ayse Oliver leert kennen. Vlak voor haar geplande huwelijk met Hassan ziet Ayse maar één uitweg: vluchten.

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller "Presumed Innocent," INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.

July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe... July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed.

Als de geliefde van een jonge vrouw vermoord wordt, besluit haar vriendin, privé-detective, jacht te gaan maken op de moordenaar.

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When art dealer Catherine Sergeant meets John Brigham, her view of the world has been shattered. Left by her husband Robert without explanation, she expects little from life. Apparently reclusive, John lives alone in a beautiful Arts and Crafts house on the edge of Dorset woodland, and has contacted Catherine's firm so that he may sell unwanted items. But when the two discover a mutual love of the haunting Victorian faerie artist Richard Dadd, their friendship rapidly deepens. As Catherine and John begin an affair that is to change their lives, John reveals an astonishing secret that links him to Dadd. Deeply sensual, THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR is a journey not only through love and obsession, but also through the world of Richard Dadd, whose tortured life was more extraordinary that any fairy tale.

The world's most powerful man...held to ransom by the world's most wanted terrorist. A chilling message is delivered to the US president by the world's most wanted terrorist - a message that begins a daring siege, and America's worst nightmare. A terrorist cell hidden deep in the American capitol is ready to unleash a terrifying new secret weapon of mass destruction - one so powerful it can decimate Washington and tear apart the Russian Federation - unless their demands are met within seven days. When Washington and Moscow agree a joint plan to hunt down the terrorists and neutralise their threat before the deadline expires, FBI counter-terrorist expert Jack Collins is put in charge of the manhunt alongside Alexei Kursk, one of Russia's top investigators. For them the hunt is personal...

Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the woman he loves from an evil drug baron. He teams up in New York with his old ally Liam Mellows and they end up in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated.

Once there were three worlds, each with their own people. Then, fleeing out of the void, on the edge of extinction, came the Charon. And the balance changed for ever. With A SHADOW ON THE GLASS, Book One of A View from the Mirror, a major new fantasy epic begins. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled past, is forced to steal an ancient relic in payment for a debt. But she is not told that the relic is, in fact, the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has seen. Llian, meanwhile, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery.Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret of incredible power. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Autobiografisch relaas van de ervaringen van een Amerikaanse 17-jarige gigolo met zijn vrouwelijke klanten.

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant--a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found--and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it--hard.

In "Special Forces," Tom Clancy explores the elite Army Special Forces Groups, detailing their rigorous training, tools, and missions. The book features insights into recruitment, real deployment exercises, and a mini-novel showcasing a hypothetical intervention scenario, along with exclusive visuals and an interview with General Hugh Shelton.

Verslag van de rampzalige gebeurtenissen tijdens de beklimming van de Mount Everest door de IMAX Everest-expeditie in 1996 en persoonlijke zoektocht van de klimleider naar inzicht in en begrip voor zijn legendarische vader.

There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire.What Prokeet, the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ... They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. Prokeet possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, but his insatiable curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. And when he felt Prokeet enter him, it was just the start of an epic journey that would turn him into a legend. The writers of classics such as LUCIFER'S HAMMER, FOOTFALL and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE have created a masterly tale of magic, gods, wizards and heroes that ranks among the very best in the genre. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Danny Buchanan is a top Washington lobbyist who once earned a vast fortune. Appalled by the desperate poverty he witnessed on his global travels, he decided to help the world's poor. A ruthless top-ranking veteran of covert CIA activity, Robert Thornhill discovers the secret of Danny's political influence and is determined to destroy him.

Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are About to Declare War on the Competition. . . . THE OBJECTIVE : A fourth consecutive New York Times bestseller for Tom Clancy's Op-Center THE HARDWARE: A blockbuster thriller armed with cutting-edge technology (a.k.a. everything a Clancy fan wants) THE PREDICTION: A SLAM-DUNKIn Tom Clancy's all-new, original novel, OP-CENTER: Acts of War , Syrian terrorists have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their very homeland. It is not insanity, but the first step in a deceptively simple plan: to force all-out war in the Middle East. What they don't know is that a new Regional Op-Center is now on-line in Greece, and its team can see exactly what the rebels are trying to do. But these terrorists are more resourceful than anyone thinks.

This text discusses 20 mysteries which challenge our accepted view of history. Topics covered were there ancient contacts between Europe and America?; could Atlantis have existed?; the true age of the great pyramid; was there a worldwide catastrophe around 10,000 BC?

The Bravo Two Zero mission, conducted by the SAS behind Iraqi lines, involved eight members of the regiment in one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Ryan was hurt in combat, eventually struggling alone across the desert into Syria and freedom.

In the midst of struggling to cope with a marriage in difficulty and a business under pressure, Jack & Alison Heywood suffer every parent's worst nightmare. Their two children are involved in a horrific road accident which leaves seven-year-old Frankie in a coma and her elder brother, Ben, severely traumatized by guilt.

Als een 17-jarige jongen door een val van een paard verongelukt, wordt het huwelijk van de ouders ontwricht en komt een vroegere minnaar van de vrouw weer in beeld.

The fourth volume in a series of high-tech thrillers centred on the National Crisis Management Centre in Washington.

Een zonderlinge man, die woont in een grot in New York, gaat op zoek naar een moordenaar nadat er een lijk voor zijn deur is gedumpt.

The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar. Op-Center, the newly-founded but highly successful crisis management team, begins a race against the clock and against the hardliners. Their task is made even more difficult by the discovery of a Russian counterpart . . . but this one's controlled by those same repressive hardliners and represents everything Op-Center stands for. Two rival Op-Centers, virtual mirror images of each other. But if this mirror cracks, it'll be more than seven years of bad luck . . .

Wanneer het lichaam van een zwarte marineofficier wordt gevonden in de machinekamer van een oorlogsschip dat buiten gebruik is, komt een twee jaar oude moord aan het licht.

Na een stilte van tweehonderdvijgtig jaar zijn er op de planeet Hyperion tekenen dat de Tijdtombes weer actief worden. Wie zal eruit opduiken? Aenea, het kind dat er in verdween, of de vreselijke Shrike, de mysterieuze vechtmachine die ooit een hele planeet terroriseerde? Beiden zijn een bedreiging voor de alleenheerschappij die de Kerk in de afgelopen eeuwen heeft gevestigd. Priester-commandant De Soya is met een grote legermacht op Hyperion geland, om hiermee af te rekenen. Raul Endymion is dood de Kerk ter dood veroordeeld. Wanneer de stokoude Martin Silenus tussenbeide komt en hem over Hyperion vertelt, is er in ieder geval één persoon bereid om het tegen de Kerk op te nemen...

Frederick Forsyth, best known for his spy novels The Day of The Jackal and The Odessa File, sets this post-communist thriller during 1999 in Russia, a land whose current stresses have worsened to breaking point. Ex-C.I.A. agent Jason Monk is sent in by a clandestine western group to try and stop the election of a sinister nationalist, Igor Komarov, who seems about to be installed in the Kremlin. The Russian Mafia and Komarov's nationalist militia make nasty enemies. As usual Forsyth gives his story an authentic feel with minute attention to detail and the use of real public figures in the background.

Een onderofficier bij de Amerikaanse marine gaat op onderzoek uit wanneer er op zijn schip allerlei fatale fouten gemaakt worden door de bemanning.

Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's up against the most expensive lawyers that money can buy.

Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK RYAN NOVEL “A harrowing tale…Clancy keeps you riveted with political intrigue and military maneuvering [and] sends you rushing headlong to the book’s stunning conclusion.”—USA Today Bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold, incisive look at what our nation’s leaders are calling “the new world order.” The time and place: a world at peace, where yesterday’s enemies are tomorrow’s allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new U.S. President’s National Security Advisor, and his CIA colleagues, John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complex—and devastating—as those of war. “[Debt of Honor] traces the financial, political, military, and personal machinations that drive America into the next major global war…A SHOCKER.”—Entertainment Weekly

Annie is the perfect jury candidate to return a not guilty verdict. A single mother, she is under pressure to do so, as she and her son are the targets of the Mafia's most sinister representative, known as the Teacher. However, a woman protecting her child should never be underestimated.

Haiwaï. Drie mannen op een golfbaan. De avond valt, in het laatste licht willen ze hun partij nog uitspelen. Een van hen slaat zijn bal het bos in en gaat ernaar op zoek. Dan horen ze een vreemd gekreun, diep vanuit de vulkanische rotsen. Ze gaan op het geluid af... Onroerend-goedmagnaat Byron Trumbo, eigenaar van Mauna Pele - speelplaats van de rijke elite - is niet blij met de negatieve publiciteit die zijn vakantiecomplex krijgt door een serie curieuze voorvallen. Er wordt geen winst meer gemaakt en daarom wil Trumbo het aan een Japanse beleggingsmaatschappij verkopen. Hij nodigt de Japanners uit voor een weeken op Mauna Pele om het contract te tekenen... Maar dat weekend verandert in een nachtmerrie. Gasten verdwijnen, vreemde wezens duiken op, de vulkaan wordt weer actief. Trumbo probeert de gebeurtenissen te bagatelliseren, maar de situatie escaleert. Alleen met veel moed, doortastendheid en met gebruik van oude, bizare rituelen is het mogelijk de harmonie rondom Mauna Pele te herstellen...

John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens. Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect... As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.

Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentent and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time. . .

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is, at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.

In Minneapolis worden een huisjesmelker en een ambtenaar van de sociale dienst afgeslacht... In Manhattan wordt op gruwelijke wijze een politicus geëxecuteerd... In Oklahoma wordt een invloedrijke rechter gedood... Slachtoffers die op het eerste gezicht niets met elkaar te maken hebben, ware het niet dat ze allen op dezelfde wijze om het leven zijn gebracht: volgens een oud indiaans ritueel. Het onderzoek voert Davenport naar de meest troosteloze achterbuurten van Minneapolis en door briljant speurwerk en volledige inzet slaagt hij erin een lijn te ontdekken. Een extra complicatie in deze toch al ingewikkelde zaak vormt echter de hem opgedrongen assistente, de mooi Lily Rothenberg. Als ervaren politieman weet Davenport natuurlijk dat een affaire met een collega tegen elke regel is, maar ja... langzaam maar zeker vallen de stukjes van de puzzel op hun plaats en wordt duidelijk dat het motief voor de moorden gezocht moet worden in een misdaad die lang geleden plaatsvond.

A law student in New Orleans writes a legal brief that ends up making her enemies in high places. Movie tie-in. Reprint.

Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on daring assignment; escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled gulf. For Lenson and his men, however, the danger is only just beginning. When a missile from hit-and-run enemy sinks a U.S. destroyer, every ship and aircraft in the area goes on red alert. As all hands prepare for the inevitable showdown with a hostile Middle Eastern nation, Benjamin Shaker, the destroyer's hair-trigger captain, plots his own secret form of revenge. If he isn't stopped, it will soon mean disaster for the entire Gulf region--and maybe the world.

Een oorspronkelijke en boeiende kijk op de intrigerende wereld van de vliegmachine. Prachtige, unieke foto's van de eerste vliegmachines, moderne straalvliegtuigen, helikopters en motoren geven een ooggetuigenverslag van de ontwikkeling van oude en nieuwe toestellen. KIJK naar een door stoom aangedreven vliegtuig uit de 19e eeuw, een tweedekker uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog, in close-up, een straalvliegtuig in doorsnee, de kleding van de eerste vliegeniers. LEER hoe vleugels voor 'lift' zorgen, waarom de eerste vleugels 'doping' nodig hadden, hoe een piloot zijn toestel bestuurt, hoe een helikopter in de lucht blijft, waarom moderne lijntoestellen drukcabines nodig hebben. ONTDEK hoe houten vliegtuigen werden gbouwd, hoe het was om zo'n oude tweedekker te besturen, hoe straalmotoren stuwkracht leveren, hoe een vliegtuig landt en opstijgt en nog veel, veel meer.

On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.The Hegemony of Man - a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways - is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition.The AIs - Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony - have become a threat; it seems they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. And there is evidence that they have begun a project to create the Ultimate Intelligence - to build, in short, God. God of Machines: the ultimate deus ex machina. His genesis may well mean man's annihilation.Something is drawing the Hegemony, the AIs, the Ousters, and indeed the entire universe, towards the Shrike and the Time Tombs from which it has arisen. In a moment the paths of man, machine and god will intersect. Nothing will ever be the same.

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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.

Opkomst, bloei en stilistische ontwikkeling van Art Nouveau, met belichting van historische achtergronden en met de nadruk op het voortduren van deze kunst in onze eeuw.

In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Each must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first -- and that's when all hell breaks loose. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it -- if he can -- as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance.

A non-fiction analysis of the Persian Gulf War and the nature of war and command as seen through the actions of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., commander of the armor and infantry of VII Corps.

Book on American modern art, mostly illustrations. Artists include Josef Albers; Milton Clark Avery; William Baziotes, James Brooks, Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauuschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin. Sixty color paintings plus some black and white pictures of the artists. Text entirely in Dutch.

This series of readers offers students six graded levels from elementary to advanced. All stages contain exercises at the back of the book, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary.

St Michael, London, 1985. Lavishly illustrated chronological history of the Impressionists, set in their historical context. 253 pp plus index, illustrated with nearly 300 full colour reproductions. Gilt lettering to spine, coloured endpapers. This is a gorgeous heavy coffee-table type book.

Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world's greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.