Una donna divorata da una tremenda ambizione, capace di sacrificare anche l´affetto più sacro. Florentyna ha imparato dagli uomini, soprattutto dal padre, le dure leggi del successo: lei vuole vincere, essere la prima, e conquistare la carica più alta, la presidenza degli Stati Uniti. Un sogno per lei solo apparentemente impossibile...
È il marzo 1987. Edward Kennedy è presidente degli Stati Uniti da poco più di due anni, ma il suo mandato potrebbe concludersi tragicamente nell'arco di sette giorni. Il FBI scopre infatti un complotto per assassinarlo, uno dei tanti che sistematicamente vengono orditi contro i presidenti in carica, ma il panico si impadronisce degli agenti quando si rendono conto che la data per l'esecuzione è già fissata e che il piano è molto accurato. Questa volta non si tratta di un falso allarme. Cinque sono gli uomini del FBI a conoscenza di tutti i dettagli, ma nel giro di un'ora quattro vengono uccisi. L'agente Marc Andrews resta solo, in una lotta martellante contro il tempo che passa inesorabile, a cercare di comporre tutti i pezzi di quello che sembra un puzzle impossibile. Ha solo sette giorni. Dove cercare i mandanti? Fra i commercianti che la legge recentemente approvata da Kennedy per l'abolizione della libera vendita di armi ha gravemente danneggiato? Non si possono tralasciare neppure gli uomini dell'entourage del presidente: tutti sono sospetti e forse proprio tra loro si cela il capo della congiura. E se fosse il senatore Dexter, il padre di Elizabeth, la ragazza che si insinua prepotente nei pensieri di Marc anche in quei giorni di tensione quasi insostenibile e dalla quale il dovere lo allontana sempre bruscamente? La pista che Marc segue si popola in breve tempo di attentati, di morti, di terrore, di violenza, finché giunge il fatidico settimo giorno...
Here, from the author of such monumental bestsellers as Kane and Abel and As the Crow Flies , is an ingeniously plotted thriller that is as up-to-the-minute as today's headlines. In Washington DC, in the spring of 1993, it is the dawn of a new political era – but six thousand miles away, in the impoverished streets of Baghdad, there is a growing disillusionment with the unelected president. Sensing the mood of the people, Saddam Hussein moves boldly to settle scores with the United States. Using $100 million as bait, Saddam gathers into his web three key players: a powerful American Mafia boss; the world's greatest forger; and most crucially, a special assistant to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Saddam's goal is to embarrass the U.S. by stealing part of its history – then destroying that symbol in front of the world's media. With the help of a sophisticated criminal underworld that the exhibits Swiss-watch timing, and a skilled actor who is transformed through plastic surgery into a stand-in for Bill Clinton, he sets about his brilliant scheme. As the countdown begins to July 4, 1993 – potentially, the most humiliating day in U.S. history – two lovers, a beautiful Mossad agent and a dashing American professor who advises the CIA, turn out to be a far more formidable weapon than any Patriot missile. And what is sure to be hailed as the suspense novel of the year; master storyteller Jeffrey Archer reminds us that the things worth dying for are sometimes to be found in the words that define our historic values.
"Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins, the Pandavas and the Kouravas, but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination."--Cover.
This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank, but only after Hakim Bishara has to resign for personal reasons. Sebastian and Samantha’s talented daughter, Jessica, is expelled from the Slade School of Fine Art, but her aunt Grace comes to her rescue. Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons. In a devastating twist, tragedy engulfs the Clifton family when one of them receives a shocking diagnosis that will throw all their lives into turmoil. This Was a Man is the captivating final installment of the Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world, and enhanced Jeffrey Archer’s reputation as a master storyteller.
Broschiertes Buch Fate, fortune, redemption . . . and revenge
