Frans Bruning Libri

Robert Ludlum’s outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins returns with a diabolical scheme to right a long-standing wrong and seek vengeance on those who ousted him from the military. Discovering a buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the Hawk, also known as Chief Thunder Head, devises a brilliant plan that leads him and his reluctant legal partner, Sam Devereaux, to the Supreme Court. Their objective is to reclaim a significant piece of American real estate: Nebraska, the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Will they prevail against formidable opposition? Will the Wopotami tribe finally have their day in court? From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, the president's men are mobilized, with CIA Director Vincent "Vinnie the Bam-Bam" Mangecavallo determined to thwart their efforts. Their adversaries include the CIA, the Pentagon, and the White House, ensuring high stakes and intense conflict. One thing is certain: Ludlum delivers nonstop suspense and laughter until the very last page. "A very funny book... no character is minor: they're all hilarious." -- Houston Chronicle. In a previous adventure, Ludlum introduced Hawkins and Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spiraled into sheer hilarity.

In un parco di divertimenti a Baltimora, nella ressa della folla, si consuma un delitto assurdo e agghiacciante. Il più feroce dei killer, il terrorista internazionale Carlos, detto "lo Sciacallo", è tornato. E il mite professor Webb, esperto di lingue e culture orientali, deve nuovamente assumere la sua seconda identità, quella di Jason Bourne. Dopo "Un nome senza volto" e "Doppio inganno", la trilogia di Ludlum si conclude con questo romanzo.

Uno squallido locale notturno di Kowloon, nella Cina meridionale. Uno strano religioso avvolto in una tunica bianca. Il frastuono della musica è assordante, e il sacerdote uccide... Poi uccide ancora. Inginocchiatosi, l'uomo di fede traccia a terra, con il sangue delle vittime, un segno...

Michael Havelock's world ended on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He stood by and watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was coldly and efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for Havelock but to get out, quit the game. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is a marked man, on the run from both US and Russian assassins. Racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist - Parsifal ...

Un thriller di straordinaria tenuta narrativa. Chi è l'uomo senza nome, senza memoria, con il volto dai lineamenti ricostruiti, che alcuni pescatori di Marsiglia hanno salvato dopo un naufragio? A che cosa si riferiscono le visioni confuse e le immagini di violenza e di pericolo che di tanto in tanto gli affiorano nella memoria? Perché qualcuno ha tentato, e sta ancora tentando, di eliminarlo con ogni mezzo? La storia di un incubo, di un'angoscia: quella di essere un ingranaggio di una macchina che non si sa a che cosa serva e dove porti.

Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can't refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal, and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone despatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it's too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.

Delft, Olanda, XVII secolo. La vita scorre tranquilla nella prospera città olandese: ricchi e poveri, cattolici e protestanti, signori e servi, ognuno è al suo posto in un perfetto ordine sociale. Così, quando viene assunta come domestica in casa del celebre pittore Johannes Vermeer, Griet, una bella ragazza di sedici anni, riceve con precisione il suo compito: dovrà accudire con premura i sei figli dell'artista, non urtare la suscettibilità della scaltra suocera e, soprattutto, non irritare la sensuale, irrequieta, moglie del pittore e la sua gelosa domestica privata. Inesorabilmente, però, le cose andranno in modo diverso... Griet e Johannes Vermeer, divideranno complicità e sentimenti, tensione e inganni.

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev , a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives.As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark Builder,” he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town.As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in “The War Doctor,” her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors’ plot.And, finally, we meet her in “The Trope Teacher,” in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal.Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok’s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable—and remarkably loved—body of work.

Een briljant geoloog, belast met een winstgevende doch geheime missie op Jamaica, raakt verwikkeld in bloedige samenzweringen.