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Storytelling of the highest calibre Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate… 'A fast-moving intrigue… a cracking good read. This is the first novel I have read by Jeffrey Archer; it will not be the last' Mail on Sunday 'Back in top form . ....
| Автор | Archer Jeffrey |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2010 |
When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at best...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Margaret Campbell had finally decided to leave Beijing - and the man she loved---and return home to the States. She had first come to Beijing to conduct a seminar on her specialty, forensic pathology, for the city's police. The invitation turned out to ask for more than she expected; she was thrust into the search for a murderer. This was how she met and came to fall in love with the Beijing police detective Li Yan. Although they began as enemies, the attraction between them was...
| Автор | May Peter |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL* A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her...
| Автор | S. Tremayne |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alone. In this seminal account, Karen Armstrong traces the gestation of the Bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundreds of years. Karen Armstrong begins her analysis with the origins of the very earliest books of the Hebrew Bible, in which God was...
| Автор | Карен Армстронг |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2015 |
One point away from winning the French Open, tennis star Kirsten Keller breaks down and flees the court in tears.
Keller has been receiving death threats. Terrified and desperate, she hires former Metropolitan police officer Chris Foster to protect her at Wimbledon.
As the championship progresses, Keller's tormentor gets ever closer. And the threats become horrifyingly real.
| Автор | Patterson James, Stone Lee |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr. Big -master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Mr. Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr. Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other ...Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A terrifying Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Extreme Prey. They call them Travelers. They drift from city to city, always staying on the move. Now somebody is murdering them, one by one. When Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, gets a phone call from a female Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco, Letty urges her father to investigate. The woman s male companion is missing. And the woman is very afraid. Though he suspects...
| Автор | John Sandford |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
Apologies for the general email, but I desperately need your help. My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family's holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old. When identical twin Coco goes missing during a family celebration, there is a media frenzy. Her parents are rich and influential, as are the friends they were with at their holiday home by the sea. But what really happened to Coco?...
| Автор | Alex Marwood |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
Gripping psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Nicci French. Married. One child. A career: Lydia has her life in perfect order -- if only everyone else around her could be as organised as she is. Her unmarried twin sister Elisa is still struggling to find what she wants to do. And her colleagues at the school where she teaches often fail to reach her high standards. But one day, it all falls apart from Lydia. When she is threatened by one of her pupils, her sister is the first person she...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
When a squadron of RAF Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over Turelhampton, the village is immediately evacuated. But why is the village still guarded by troops in 2001[unk] When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for. Caught up in both a deadly conspiracy and a historical mystery, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart calls upon his old friend the Doctor. Half-glimpsed demons watch from...
| Автор | Richards Justin, Cole Stephen |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A group of gangsters takes control of a town in the sticks. Defending his daughter, the protagonist accidentally shoots their chief and walks away in full view of the crowd. He hides in the forest living with the Saami deer-breeders and is transformed from a nonentity to a people's avenger, killing the corrupt mayor and the chief of police. The townsfolk are first overjoyed, but when a prize is offered for his head they compete to turn him in to the police. After a series of extraordinary events...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ella's best friend Lila has always been a good girl who likes pretty clothes and preppy boys. But ever since the first day she met Micha's best friend Ethan, she hasn't been able to stop thinking about him. Girls have always flocked to Ethan -- but never princesses like Lila. And until Lila came into his life he never wanted them to. From the outside the two couldn't seem more different, but somehow they have a connection...
| Автор | Jessica Sorensen |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2014 |
There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting . . . You actually thought they were going to kill each other. You wanted them to stop. It wasn't funny anymore. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The (second) best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on in...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The young, the fabulous and the fanged rule the upper echelons of Manhattan society in book 2 of this fantastically addictive series from bestselling YA author Melissa de la Cruz. Preparations are under way for the ball of the century. But as any true Blue Blood knows, it's the after-party that counts. And the cunning Mimi Force is getting ready to make sure her masquerade ball is the place to be for the Young, Fabulous and Fanged. But Schuyler Van Alen has more on her mind than fancy...
| Автор | de la |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2014 |
It's been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix barely survived the French Revolution.
Now she's made her way back to the living and she must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who left her for dead the day she turned into a vampire. That's if she can control her affection for Logan Drake, a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks.
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
When photographer Callie has life-changing news, she - and her whole family - learn that love is not just about word. It is about deeds. After all, love means being there, through everything. 'Everyone in Callie's family is busy; her sister is a free-spirited Manhattan chef, her best friend Lila is coping with the vitriol of her new man's ex-wife, and her parents, Walter and Honor, have rich though separate lives. But when Callie discovers the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten has returned,...
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| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |