Nelleke H. Maaren Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Een jonge joodse onderduiker raakt verward in het spel tussen droom en werkelijkheid dat een Spaanse schoonheid met hem speelt.

Gerard Logan finds that when his jockey friend dies following a fall at the Cheltenham races, he is involved in a desperate search for a stolen video tape which embroils him in more life-threatening hazards than does his work as a widely-acclaimed glass-blower.

The international bestseller is now available in the United States. In the bitter years of World War II, during the Nazi occupation, two brothers find themselves at the mercy of a German guard who makes a surprising proposition of his own.

Het relatief kalme leven van een meteoroloog van de BBC verandert abrupt als hij met een collega per vliegtuigje op orkanenjacht gaat.

Bundel met dertien misdaadverhalen die zich afspelen in de wereld van de paardenraces.

'"I don't think my stepfather much minded dying. That he almost took me with him wasn't really his fault."' Alexander Kinloch, artist, has worked out a good pattern for his life. His home is a small bothy on a remote mountain in Scotland; he paints on commission, from which he derives both pleasure and a decent income; he lives alone and likes it. One day, however, Alexander's peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. After a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and words "Where is it?" ringing in his ears. And the days that follow contain more danger than he could ever have imagined. Once again Dick Francis proves that for sheer narrative pace and ingenuity of plot he is second to none.

Valentine, a blind, confused and dying old man, seeking his peace with God, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest. This puts Thomas in a moral dilemma. Wild horses wouldn’t drag from a priest the secrets of the confessional—but then Thomas is not a priest. Thomas is engaged in directing a film concerned with racing when he unexpectedly finds himself facing the old wild-horses dilemma. Should he tell what he knows from the confession—or not. He discovers that the solution to his quandary could mean the difference between life and death. His life. His death. Either way, he is in trouble. Accustomed as he is to making difficult choices and decisions, he needs to call on extreme courage and cunning to sort through the chaos and keep himself alive.

Een autobus doorkruist Dakar. We zien een man zitten bij het raam, met een verloren blik, overweldigd door de verwarring van de andere passagiers. De man is Tierno, hij houdt een pakketje op zijn schoot: het is zijn zoon, Niiwam.

Chi è il misterioso playboy che abita l'appartamento all'ultimo piano della Residanzia Gregoriana? Sulla sua terrazza, che sovrasta Roma, lo si vede spesso in compagnia di una giovane donna affascinante. A volte si incontrano i suoi servitori, cinque uomini in abiti tristi con un maglione scuro a collo alto da ecclesiastico. A volte arriva anche una pesante limousine nera per prenderlo davanti alla porta: un grande Fiat con targa SCV, la registrazione del Vaticano. Perché è nell'atmosfera soffusa dei corridoi del Vaticano che Monsignore si muove, dove i prelati appaiono ancora con lo stesso fruscio di moiré e porpora di cinque secoli fa; ciò che Jack-Alain Léger rivela è il lato nascosto della chiesa onnipotente, questo territorio di 45 ettari, il cui influsso si estende su tutto il pianeta. E questo doppio volto è anche quello di Monsignore: un avventuriero o un santo?