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Nelson DeMille

    23 agosto 1943 – 17 settembre 2024

    Nelson DeMille è un maestro del thriller di suspense, noto per le sue intricate trame e i suoi dialoghi taglienti, spesso con umorismo nero. Crea narrazioni che approfondiscono le complessità del potere, dell'inganno e della psiche umana, spesso ambientate in sfondi vividi e suggestivi. La sua voce distintiva e la sua capacità di fondere azione ad alta tensione con avvincenti studi di personaggi hanno consolidato la sua reputazione di voce significativa nella narrativa contemporanea.

    Nelson DeMille
    Morte a Plum Island
    Mayday
    Missione al Nord
    Notte fatale
    La costa d'oro
    L'ora del leone
    • L'ora del leone

      • 459pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      New York, aeroporto JFK. Dal loro punto di osservazione privilegiato, alcuni membri del corpo speciale anti terrorismo attendono l'arrivo di un passeggero molto particolare: il presunto terrorista libico conosciuto intemazionalmente come II Leone. Tutto si sta svolgendo come da programma: il volo 175 proveniente da Parigi con centinaia di passeggeri a bordo, inclusi il libico e la scorta dell l'FBI e della CIA a lui assegnata, sta per atterrare in perfetto orario. Eppure è presto evidente che sta accadendo qualcosa di terribilmente sbagliato, e che il drammatico arrivo del volo 175 è solo il preludio dei terribili fatti che seguiranno... John Corey, della polizia di New York, durante l'ultima operazione si è beccato tré pallottole in corpo ed è sopravvissuto. Questo fatto lo porta a credere di avere esaurito tutta la fortuna assegnatagli in questa vita. Ciò nonostante, si getta a capofitto nel nuovo ruolo di agente speciale a termine, facendosi assegnare il caso del terrorista libico e trovandosi al JFK all'arrivo del volo 175. Kate Mayfield dell'FBI, invece, è più giovane di John ma superiore a lui di grado - sgradevole combinazione per entrambi. Dando prova di un autentico polso di ferro, Kate riesce a imporsi sui modi fin troppo esuberanti del compagno, sulla sua irriverenza verso gli agenti federali e sulla sua idea ossessiva di poter fare tutto di testa propria....

      L'ora del leone
      4,3
    • La costa d'oro

      • 729pagine
      • 26 ore di lettura

      Sullo sfondo della Costa d'Oro, la striscia di terra che si affaccia sul lato nord di Long Island, si intrecciano i destini di due uomini. L'aristocratico John Sutter, avvocato e mago di Wall Street, rampollo di una delle più antiche famiglie del posto, e Frank Bellarosa, un uomo che si è fatto da solo trasformando il crimine nella sua arma vincente. Affascinati l'uno dall'altro, Sutter e Bellarosa si affrontano in una lotta senza esclusione di colpi. Tra loro Susan, fragile e bellissima moglie di Sutter desiderata ardentemente da Bellarosa, oggetto e vittima dello scontro fra i due.

      La costa d'oro
      4,1
    • Notte fatale

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Long Island, una sera d'estate del 1996. Due amanti, mano nella mano, scherzano davanti a una videocamera. Poi fanno l'amore. Improvvisamente una terribile deflagrazione illumina il tramonto, e l'obiettivo della videocamera, incorruttibile, registra uno dei più drammatici eventi della recente storia americana: il Boeing 747 della TWA diretto a Parigi è appena esploso in aria con duecentotrenta persone a bordo. Dopo una frettolosa inchiesta il governo dichiara che l'incidente è stato causato da un difetto meccanico. Eppure sono centinaia i testimoni pronti a dichiarare di aver visto una scia luminosa (un razzo?) salire dal mare verso l'aereo. Basterebbe trovare una prova, un video, quel video (ma chi sa della sua esistenza?) e l'inchiesta verrebbe clamorosamente ribaltata. Dopo cinque lunghi anni di menzogne, la ricerca del video dei due amanti diventa l'unica ossessione di John Corey dell'antiterrorismo e di sua moglie, agente FBI. Una lotta definitiva contro un'America sommersa, ipocrita.

      Notte fatale
      4,1
    • Missione al Nord

      • 668pagine
      • 24 ore di lettura

      The last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself investigating a murder that took place back in Vietnam thirty years before. Now, returning to a time and place that still haunts him, Paul is swept up in the battle of his life as he struggles to find justice.

      Missione al Nord
      4,0
    • Mayday

      • 376pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      A dodici miglia sopra l'Oceano Pacifico, un missile colpisce un jumbo jet carico di passeggeri. Il personale di bordo è decimato: molti i morti e vari i feriti. Sfidando tanto la natura quanto gli uomini, i tre sopravvissuti devono riuscire a realizzare l'impossibile: far atterrare l'aereo. Un thriller pieno di realismo scritto con la collaborazione di un virtuoso del volo. Il romanzo è stato pubblicato nel 1999 da Baldini Castoldi Dalai.

      Mayday
      4,0
    • Morte a Plum Island

      • 594pagine
      • 21 ore di lettura

      Ferito nell'adempimento del proprio dovere, il detective della Squadra Omicidi della polizia di New York, John Corey, sta trascorrendo un periodo di convalescenza nell'isola di Plum Island, tra contadini, pescatori e... assassini. Assassini, sì, perché una giovane coppia di scienziati viene trovata uccisa da due colpi di pistola alla testa e, ben presto, John si rende conto di non trovarsi di fronte a un semplice tentativo di rapina sfociato in tragedia ma a qualcosa di ben più grave. Le vittime erano biologi specializzati nello studio di rari virus ed è facile immaginare un loro coinvolgimento in un traffico di armi batteriologiche di livello mondiale.

      Morte a Plum Island
      3,9
    • Cattedrale

      • 605pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      New York: un gruppo di guerriglieri dell'Ira occupa la cattedrale di sanPatrizio e prende in ostaggio quattro personaggi di rilievo, minacciando diucciderli se i compagni rinchiusi nel carcere di Long Kesh non verrannorilasciati. Polizia, Fbi, servizi segreti inglesi si mobilitano per trovareuna soluzione incruenta, ma le ore scorrono inesorabilmente e si avvicinasempre più il termine fissato nell'ultimatum dei guerriglieri.

      Cattedrale
      3,8
    • L'ospite pericoloso

      • 687pagine
      • 25 ore di lettura

      Dieci anni dopo aver ucciso il suo amante, il boss mafioso don Frank Bellarosa, Susan Stanhope, proveniente da una ricca famiglia della Costa d'Oro di Long Island, si ritrova a Stanhope Hall. Nel frattempo, il marito di Susan, John Whitman Sutter, un avvocato di successo, ha trascorso tre anni in mare e ora è tornato per il funerale di una domestica della tenuta. Al suo arrivo, scopre che anche Susan è tornata, e il loro primo incontro rivela che il tempo non ha affievolito il loro legame. Passione e tensioni riemergono, mentre Susan non è l'unica a tornare: Anthony Bellarosa, il figlio del defunto boss, ha obiettivi di vendetta e ambizioni criminali. John e Susan, decisi a liberarsi dal passato, devono affrontare un ambiente in cui le convenzioni sociali e i rapporti di potere sono ancora predominanti. Per farcela, dovranno imparare a perdonarsi e a non farsi sopraffare dal desiderio di lusso e trasgressione. Questo atteso seguito del best seller "La Costa d'Oro" esplora con suspense e ironia il mondo spietato dell'upper class newyorkese, offrendo una storia di amore e vendetta che affascina i lettori di Nelson DeMille.

      L'ospite pericoloso
      3,8
    • Keith Landry torna a Spencerville dopo una brillante carriera nei servizi segreti e vi ritrova Annie Prentis, un amore giovanile mai dimenticato. La passione si riaccende ma Keith dovrà fare i conti con il violento e brutale marito di lei, Cliff Baxter, capo della polizia locale. E sarà una lotta dura e senza quartiere tra i due uomini

      Spencerville
      3,7
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion.

      The Charm School
      4,3
    • Dangerous Women

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

      Dangerous Women
      4,2
    • Word of honour

      • 768pagine
      • 27 ore di lettura

      Ben Tyson is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest handsome family man, admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There, in 1968, the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity - and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson. His family, his career and his personal sense of honour hang in the balance.

      Word of honour
      4,1
    • The General's Daughter

      • 505pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the Army's "golden girl." And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life.

      The General's Daughter
      4,1
    • The Hammer of God

      • 223pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      A man in monk's robes, The Hammer of God, is butchering women to cleanse the world of witches. Sergeant Joe Ryker is committing every sin in the book to purge New York of killers.

      The Hammer of God
      2,0
    • In Berlin, a body is discovered, leading to a conspiracy where all sides are compromised. From bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, this gripping narrative follows Special Agents Brodie and Taylor as they investigate the murder of CID Special Agent Harry Vance, a skilled counterterrorism agent found dead in a park within the city's Arab refugee community. While authorities suspect Islamic terrorism, Brodie and Taylor sense deeper complexities at play. Unraveling Vance's motives for being in Berlin, they confront the contradictions of modern Germany, from Cold War remnants to the rise of neo-Nazi sentiments. As both German and American officials monitor their investigation, a new danger arises from American intelligence, wary that the agents might uncover sensitive information about U.S. clandestine operations linked to their past mission in Venezuela. Brodie and Taylor soon realize that Vance's murder is just the beginning of a more sinister plot, and they must race against time to solve the mystery and prevent impending disaster.

      Blood Lines
      4,1
    • *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* This “outstanding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) thriller features a brilliant and unconventional Army investigator, his enigmatic female partner, and their pursuit of the Army’s most notorious deserter. Captain Kyle Mercer of the elite Delta Force vanished in Afghanistan, with a video from his Taliban captors making headlines. The situation was unclear: Had Mercer deserted before capture? A second video confirmed he had willfully disappeared, raising alarms about the trained assassin and keeper of classified intelligence. A year later, Mercer is spotted in Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, prompting top military officials to assign Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor from the Criminal Investigation Division to retrieve him—preferably alive. Brodie faces challenges not only from the mission's complexity and his partner’s inexperience but also from their undeniable chemistry and his growing suspicion that Taylor may be reporting to the CIA. With its ripped-from-the-headlines appeal, exotic locale, and signature twists and humor, this marks the beginning of a thrilling new series from the #1 New York Times bestseller and his award-winning screenwriter son.

      Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor Series - 1: The Deserter
      4,0
    • Wild Fire

      • 709pagine
      • 25 ore di lettura

      While investigating the death of a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, stumble into the middle of a terrifying nuclear conspiracy.

      Wild Fire
      4,0
    • The Panther

      • 640pagine
      • 23 ore di lettura

      It's one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption and insurgency and the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists When FBI agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield are assigned to overseas posts in Sana'a, Yemen's capital city, they are tasked with hunting down the high-ranking Al Qaeda operative responsible for the USS Cole bombing. This man, known as The Panther, is wanted for terrorist acts and multiple murders and the US government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate don't know the rules, the players or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye - and that the hunters are about to become the hunted. In an action-packed and terrifying race to take down one of the most ruthless men alive, Nelson DeMille reunites readers with his charismatic hero John Corey - the sixth novel from the series.

      The Panther
      4,0
    • The Talbot Odyssey

      • 544pagine
      • 20 ore di lettura

      IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT. IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST. For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code-named Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets -- leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.

      The Talbot Odyssey
      3,9
    • John Corey Thriller - 4: Wild Fire

      • 519pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an all-too-plausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major American cities. Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an informal men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion. That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is reported missing. His body is soon discovered in the woods near the Custer Hill Club's game reserve. The death appears to be a hunting accident, and that's how the local police first report it, but Detective John Corey has his doubts. As he digs deeper, he begins to unravel a plot involving the Custer Hill Club, a top-secret plan known only by its code name: Wild Fire. Racing against the clock, Detective Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, find they are the only people in a position to stop the button from being pushed and chaos from being unleashed.

      John Corey Thriller - 4: Wild Fire
      3,7
    • John Corey Novel: Radiant Angel

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs. After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia. When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late? Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted, with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything it's ever seen before?

      John Corey Novel: Radiant Angel
      3,7
    • The Cuban Affair

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five and a decorated US Army veteran, he whiles away his life in stunning Key West, Florida, running a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat The Maine. A ladies' man and rule-breaker, Mac has it all, apart from the money to hold on to his beloved boat. Then Mac is approached by a hotshot Miami lawyer called Carlos with an apparently irresistable offer: a fee of 2 million to run the boat into Havana and smuggle out 60 million from a stash hidden from the Castro government - cash once owned by the family of a beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega. With the political 'Cuban Thaw' underway, it's only a matter of time before someone finds the stash. But Mac knows if he accepts this job, he'll walk away rich ... or not at all

      The Cuban Affair
      3,8
    • Radiant Angel

      • 451pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs. After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia. When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late? Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted, with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything it's ever seen before? Please note: Radiant Angel is published in the UK under the title A Quiet End.

      Radiant Angel
      3,8
    • Two Concorde jets take off for a UN conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries - and a bomb, planted by a terrorist mastermind.

      By the Rivers of Babylon
      3,7
    • ***The brand new, unmissable John Corey novel from America's Greatest Living Thriller Writer.*** 'Bottom line, if a man is known by his enemies, I'm one helluva guy.' Former anti-terrorist cop John Corey is NYU - New York Unemployed - and watching his back, ever more convinced his past will soon catch up with him. Then a new opportunity comes calling, and with it, plenty of trouble . . . A series of bodies has been found along a beach close to his home and he can no longer deny that a serial killer is on the loose, and no one seems able to find the culprit. Is the failure to find the perpetrator a result of the department's oversight? Is it due to the fact the victims are prostitutes? Or is it something darker? Could the killer be someone on the inside? John Corey must root out friend and foe in this dazzling thriller, which features his trademark snark, matched by brilliant investigative skills, and the masterful plot twists that are a signature of the American thriller legend Nelson DeMille.

      The Maze
      3,5
    • The Quest

      A Novel

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      From the dusty archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, a motley crew of four begin a deadly search for the Holy Grail. Two reporters, a cameraman and a mercenary soldier are caught in the center of an Ethiopian civil war. When they save a wounded prisoner who escapes from a bombed out prison, they hear the most amazing account of the location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Thus begins their Quest - a deadly adventure that pits them against murderous tribesmen, assassins, fanatical Coptic monks and, ultimately against themselves. In the best DeMille tradition, The Quest takes the reader on a heart-pounding, exciting ride where good ultimately triumphs - but at a steep price.

      The Quest
      3,3
    • At a top-secret Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor plunge into a deadly web of military suspense, AI technology, and robot soldiers as they unravel the shocking murder of a senior scientist in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille. Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor team up for their toughest assignment yet as they are dispatched to Camp Hayden to investigate the death of Major Roger Ames, the chief scientist in charge of the top-secret war games being conducted between a platoon of Army Rangers and a fleet of "lethal autonomous weapons." Brodie and Taylor find themselves at ground zero of the next generation of warfare, and must untangle the complex web of alliances, animosities, and secret agendas among the men and women of the isolated facility. In a place cut off from the world and exposed to the harsh desert elements, everyone is a suspect-from the zealous camp commander who pushes his men to the limit, to the Rangers slipping into madness due to isolation, grueling training, and rampant abuse of performance-enhancing drugs, to the late Major Ames's own research colleagues. Brodie and Taylor must uncover layers of deception to find the hidden hand behind the murder of Major Ames, and the real purpose of the activities at Camp Hayden and its terrifying arsenal of next-generation weapons.

      The Tin Men
    • Když letadlo mířící na newyorské letiště neodpovídá kontrolní věži, znamená to, že něco není v pořádku. Na jeho palubě totiž cestuje v doprovodu dvou agentů CIA nebezpečný terorista Asad Chalíl. V tuto chvíli John Corey z protiteroristické zvláštní služby ještě netuší, že ho místo rutinního úkolu čeká nebezpečné pronásledování muže zcela oddaného svému poslání. Chalíl Lev. Tento muž mnoha tváří pronásleduje svou kořist lstivě a mazaně. Jaké tajemství ho pojí s jeho oběťmi?

      Hra pro lvy
      4,4
    • Svazek obsahuje zkrácené verze čtyř úspěšných románů různých žánrů od světových autorů. Jednotlivé tituly jsou doplněny stručnými informacemi o jejich tvůrcích. Svazek obsahuje tyto díla: Nelson DeMille : Nebezpečný ostrov Ewan Clarkson : Let orlovce Ken Follett : Třetí dvojče Elaine Kaganová : Něčí dítě

      Nejlepší světové čtení. Třetí dvojče. Něčí dítě. Nebezpečný ostrov. Let orlovce
      4,3
    • Slovo cti

      • 456pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Román vypráví příběh bývalého důstojníka americké armády, který musí po letech čelit obvinění, že se během vietnamské války podílel na masovém vraždění.

      Slovo cti
      4,4
    • Tretie dvojča: Genetička Jeannie narazí na záhadu: ako môžu byť dvaja muži jednovaječnými dvojčatami napriek tomu že sa narodili rozličným matkám? Čiesi dieťa: Adoptovaná Claudia, teraz už sama matka, pátrá po svojich rodičoch... Nebezpečný ostrov: Detektív na dovolenke sa zapletie do dvojnásobnej vraždy, ktorá možno súvisí s tajným výzkumom na neďalekom ostrove. Po dvoch mŕtvých nasledujú ďalší... Let kršiaka rybára: Nicola objaví v pytliackej sieti zraneného dravca a jej život sa zmení. Začne sa o neho starať a popritom možno objaví aj lásku...

      Tretie dvojča / Čiesi dieťa / Nebezpečný ostrov / Let kršiaka rybára
      4,3
    • Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots who bombed Libya and killed his family. Filled with unrelenting suspense and surprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, THE LION'S GAME is a heartstopping race against time and one of Nelson DeMille's most riveting thrillers.

      Zilver pockets - 399: Het spel van de leeuw
      3,0
    • Při řekách babylónských

      • 413pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Dramatický zápas mezi izraelskými mírovými vyjednavači a arabskými teroristy. Teroristé se snaží zničit cestující proto, aby zabránili možnému mírovému urovnání konfliktu mezi Židy a Araby. Ačkoliv je román především akční, nechybí mu ani rozměr morální a politický.

      Při řekách babylónských
      4,0
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