Agenten & Intrigen

Inhaltsangabe zu "Silverview"

Julian Lawndsley hat seinen Überflieger-Job in London drangegeben für ein einfacheres Leben als Buchhändler in einem kleinen englischen Küstenort. Kaum ist er ein paar Monate dort, stört ein abendlicher Besucher seine Ruhe. Edward, ein polnischer Emigrant, der auf Silverview lebt, dem großen Anwesen am Ortsrand, scheint viel über Julians Familie zu wissen und zeigt großes Interesse an den Details seines neuen kleinen Unternehmens. Gleichzeitig erhält in London ein Agentenführer des britischen Geheimdienstes einen Brief, der ihn vor einer undichten Stelle im Dienst warnt, und die Ermittlungen führen ihn in einen kleinen Ort an der englischen Küste … Silverview ist die faszinierende Geschichte einer Begegnung, Erfahrung trifft auf Unschuld, Integrität auf Loyalität. John le Carré, einer der großen Chronisten unserer Zeit, konfrontiert uns mit der Frage, was wir den Menschen, die wir lieben, wirklich schuldig sind.

Inhaltsangabe zu "The Target (Will Robie series, Band 3)"

Broschiertes Buch
From the number one bestselling author of THE HIT and THE INNOCENT. The target is one of the toughest to reach. The result could be momentous, or it could be Armageddon. US government operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel have to prove they are the best. But they are pitted against an agent whose training has been under conditions where most would perish. There is no margin for error.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Munich"

Broschiertes Buch
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Führer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience? Imperium, the acclaimed play cycle based on Robert Harris's Cicero novels, is running in the West End in summer 2018 - tickets now on sale!

Inhaltsangabe zu "Against All Enemies (A Campus Novel)"

Tom Clancy, the master of international intrigue and explosive action, introduces a new hero for a new era of warfare-against a new kind of threat.

Inhaltsangabe zu "A Better World (The Brilliance Saga)"

Inhaltsangabe zu "A Better World: The Brilliance Saga, Book 2"

The brilliants changed everything.

Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities. Supermarket shelves stand empty. 911 calls go unanswered. Fanatics are burning people alive.

Nick Cooper has always fought to make the world better for his children. As both a brilliant and an advisor to the president of the United States, he's against everything the terrorists represent. But as America slides toward a devastating civil war, Cooper is forced to play a game he dares not lose - because his opponents have their own vision of a better world.

And to reach it, they're willing to burn this one down.

From Marcus Sakey, "the master of the mindful page turner" (Gillian Flynn) and "one of our best storytellers" (Michael Connelly), Book Two of the Brilliance Saga is a relentless thrill ride that will change the way you look at your world - and the people around you.

Inhaltsangabe zu "A Better World"

The highly-anticipated sequel to the Edgar nominated Brilliance

The brilliants changed everything.

Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.

Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities. Supermarket shelves stand empty. 911 calls go unanswered. Fanatics are burning people alive.

Nick Cooper has always fought to make the world better for his children. As both a brilliant and an advisor to the president of the United States, he’s against everything the terrorists represent. But as America slides toward a devastating civil war, Cooper is forced to play a game he dares not lose—because his opponents have their own vision of a better world.

And to reach it, they’re willing to burn this one down.

From Marcus Sakey, “the master of the mindful page turner” (Gillian Flynn) and “one of our best storytellers” (Michael Connelly), Book Two of the Brilliance Saga is a relentless thrill ride that will change the way you look at your world—and the people around you.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Split Second (King & Maxwell Series, Band 1)"

Split Second is David Baldacci at the top of his well-informed game, with a real sense of what the Secret Servicemen who protect the President and presidential candidates think about the job and how it feels to fail. Sean King looked away at the wrong moment and a man died; his career ended and he has spent eight years rebuilding a life. When Michelle Maxwell makes a similar mistake, she becomes convinced that there is a link between the man she lost to kidnappers and the man Sean failed to protect--and the more she learns, the more she can prove.

This is an odd couple thriller--Sean and Michelle have radically different attitudes to the job they both did well--and ingeniously put together in terms of what it tells us about the shadowy villain manipulating events and what it delays telling us about the past. It is a well-informed thriller that wears its research lightly--it has a sense of how it feels to see every large room as a potential killing ground in which you have to protect very vulnerable public men, and some charming scenes of budding romantic comedy. --Roz Kaveney

Inhaltsangabe zu "The Atrocity Archives"

Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.