Crime, high finance and journalism - all are interconnected in this early thriller by Ken Follett. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as the Evening Post's ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story.
In 1993, Harry Bosch was assigned the case of a missing person, Marie Gesto. The young woman was never found - dead or alive - and the case has haunted Bosch ever since.
Harry and Kiz are thrown into a politically sensitive and case when a DNA match connects a white supremacist to the 1988 murder of a mixed race 16-year-old girl. Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today's Dostoyevsky of crime literature.
Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight.
A man is shot, left for dead, later rescued from the sea. Surviving but with no memory, he is given a name: Jason Bourne. He retraces his past through a harrowing personal labyrinth. The discovery: He was a trained killer. Book 1 from Bourne Trilogy.
The Vice-Premier of the People's Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same fearful questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is next on his death list?
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne''s age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy.
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 to the mob, the law, and organized religion.
Adrian is now an angst-ridden 38, and trying to cope with life in middle-England as a single marketing campaign to include national outdoor sites and London Underground. A bestseller in hardback.
Second novel in the series featuring reporter Lindsay Gordon. Lindsay Gordon is sent to investigate an alleged assault at the Brownlow Common peace camp - it rapidly becomes an investigation into murder when a body is found.
Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. - of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Its a powerful, well-written story.
Called out of retirement to serve as the new President''s National Security Adviser‚ Jack Ryan quickly realizes that the problems of peace are fully as complex as those of war.
Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it’s better not to tell. But it’s just as dangerous if you don’t. So Mark needs help fast... because there isn’t much time.
Mega-bestseller Patterson teams up with novelist Paetro for a rousing fourth installment of the Women's Murder Club series. This time, bright, tough SFPD Lt. Lindsay Boxer is battling police brutality charges while chasing down a clan of murderers.
Polar Shift is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter. An action-packed adventure with the world facing climactic disaster.
This collection from the modern-day master of crime writing, which includes seven Rebus stories and the hard-to-find Death Is Not The End, not only explores the human condition, but also the inner life of a city like no other.
Detailní pohled na to nejlepší ze současné japonské architektury od konce 80. let do dneška. Zahrnuje práce architektů jako Toyo Ito, SANAA, Atelier Bow-Wow a Kengo Kuma. Text v angličtině.
