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...
In the dead of night, December 1939, a train winds its way through Italy towards the Alps with a cargo too precious to destroy, too awful to reveal. On board is an iron box. Its sinister contents, documents concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world and set religion against religion, an entire people against another. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil are drawn into a violent and deadly hunt. The richest aristocrat in Italy is responsible for the documents' safety, but he's marked for death by the Nazis. Some people want the secrets told. Some people want to plunge the world into a catastrophic holy war ...
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion. War hero and infamous ladies’ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China’s Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington, this looks like the end of Mac’s illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope.What’s the ransom? Just one American dollar—for every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady “investors,” Mac’s four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life, and readers have in their hands one relentlessly irreverent page-turner.Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard.“Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.”—Chicago Sun-Times“Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.”—The New York Times
A Washington si viene a sapere che un membro del Comando Supremo Nazista è disposto a divulgare informazioni che potrebbero porre termine anzitempo alla guerra a favore degli Stati Uniti. Ma per il suo tradimento richiede il file top secret sull'Eredità Scarlatti, un documento che, se reso noto, potrebbe distruggere la reputazione degli uomini più importanti e famosi dell'occidente. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti ha un piano per salvare il mondo da suo figlio, Ulster, un uomo terribilmente pericoloso che lavora con il nome di Heinrich Kroeger. Se non riuscirà a fermarlo, potrebbe fornire al Terzo Reich di Hitler il più potente strumento esistente sulla Terra.
Twee oude mannen die toegang hebben tot de militaire geheimen van Rusland en de Verenigde Staten, vatten het plan op de grote mogendheden een lesje te leren.
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