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le Carr shows his customary mastery in the detailsfrom Jonathan's self-lacerating momentum to the intricacies of interagency turf warsand reveals once again why nobody writes espionage fiction with his kind of authority. Kirkus Reviews In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an...

In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Rome Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls from the sky, The Choir is plunged into lethal danger, and the survival of the...

This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head-on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century. Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes...

a splendid book [le Carr] is a perfect spy novelist. The New York Times The most autobiographical of John le Carrs works, A Perfect Spy follows two narratives: the manhunt for the double agent Magnus Pym, and the makings of the man in questiontold in his own words. Referred to as le Carrs best...

The best spy novel of all time Publishers Weekly Its the early 1960s, and the newly built Berlin Wall looms large. British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, caught in its shadow, feels the chill all too keenly: the preceding years have seen nearly every member of his Berlin spy network either...

After an unremarkable interview, Circus agent George Smiley determines the subject of a standard security checka civil servant in the Foreign Office named Samuel Fennanposes no threat, nor presents any reason for suspicion of espionage. Hours later, Samuel Fennan is found dead by suicide...

Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venices famous courtesans, shes perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesnt matteronly that they made an enemy of the Council of Ten, the shadowy...

Munich, 1935. The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't seeor choose to ignoreis the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement, which considers Munich its spiritual home. When a...

The Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1881 and is arguably Henry James' finest novel. It is set in England and Europe, but the main characters tend to be American, including one of fiction's great heroines, Isabel Archer, around whom the plot revolves. A young innocent abroad, Isabel...

Verano de 1960. Un alto cargo de una institución pública alemana es salvajemente asesinado en Madrid, y el gobierno español trata de evitar un incidente diplomático asignando la investigación a uno de los detectives estrella de la policía: el inspector Ernesto Trevejo.

Reino de Castilla, 1283 d. C. Alvar León de Lara, cardenal de la curia, vuelve a petición de su antiguo mentor a la abadía que fue su hogar, que abandonó veinte años atrás con el alma rota por un amor imposible. Su maestro desea revelarle algo que cambiará el curso de la cristiandad. Sin...

A murdered heiress. Missing jewels. A killer hidden among the passengers. When wealthy American heiress Flossie Halliday boards the Plymouth Express carrying a fortune in precious jewels, she expects nothing more than an ordinary journey. Instead, her body is discovered concealed beneath a train...

Europa lleva setenta años unida bajo la esvástica después de que Alemania triunfase en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Germania, la antigua Berlín, es la capital del Gran Reich, que se extiende a lo largo de casi todo el continente. Mientras tanto, Albert Laun, un hombre inocente que se encuentra...

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor James Moriarty - consulting criminal.

AN ARTIFACT THAT PROMISES WORLD PEACE… BUT AT WHAT COST? Deep within Cambodia's Angkor Wat, a millennia-old secret is waiting to be unleashed —one powerful enough to build empires and now poised to destroy the world.

Manches Geheimnis überdauert seine Träger. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs entscheidet nicht nur Feuerkraft über Sieg oder Niederlage. Zwischen den abgelegenen Wetterstationen Grönlands, den Hinterzimmern des neutralen Lissabons und den Schaltzentralen des europäischen Funkkriegs beginnt...

Bloomsbury presents Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Cynthia Farrell. The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a...

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia. Grace...

In the shadowy alleys of Fleet Street, BLEEDERS: The Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd reimagines the infamous barber’s story as a gothic revenge thriller. Falsely accused and orphaned by a corrupt system, Sweeney Todd sharpens his razors for a bloody crusade against those who destroyed his life...

Año 61 a.c, durante el consulado de Pisón y Corvino. Una serie de crímenes perturba la vida diaria de Roma, una ciudad de por sí caótica y repleta de conflictos políticos. El senador Cayo Rabirio y el liberto Crisógono son hallados muertos. Ambos fueron mutilados y después ejecutados mediante una violenta puñalada en el corazón. Un modus operandi que recuerda a los sacrificios humanos que realizaban los sacerdotes de la diosa Ma.