CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he’s still loyal – or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence known only to a few senior CIA officials. But now he`s coming home - and no one, including his CIA minder Jennifer Exley, knows what to expect. He is a man alone, used by two adversaries and trusted by neither. And as terrorists prepare to unleash the most devastating attack in history, Wells knows he is the only man who can stop them. With or without the government’s
ISBN: 978-0-09-950215-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In tough times, even the criminals are making cut-backs, it seems. Right now, the most significant part of defence lawyer Mickey Haller`s business is not about keeping clients out of jail but about keeping a roof over their heads, as the foreclosure industry booms. Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey`s for eight months, and although so far he`d managed to stop the bank from taking her house, the strain and sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll, and the bank had recently got a restraining order to prevent her protesting against their fraudulent practices. But now the bank`s CEO has been found with a bullet in his brain, and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder. For Mickey, it`s back to what he does best on the...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1833-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
From Ernest Hemingway`s Preface: `There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused`. This is a collection of Hemingway`s first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including "Up in Michigan",...
ISBN: 9780099339212
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020
The hard-up Diamond Brothers win a weekend for two in Paris, but as soon as they arrive, they find themselves in danger. There`s a nasty smell in the air and it`s not the cheese. If Nick and Tim aren`t careful, their dream holiday could end up being a nightmare from which they`ll never wake up.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-0492-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war`s end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn`t enough. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Keith Townsend, the Oxford-educated son of a millionaire newspaper owner, takes over his family`s business. His energy and brilliant strategic thinking quickly make him the leading newspaper publisher in Australia. Still, he longs to move on to the world stage. As both Armstrong and Townsend seize control of everything they see, their ambitions collide on a global scale. But suddenly they both find themselves threatened by finicial disaster and enormous debt. Frantic to...
ISBN: 0-06-109203-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02039-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06460-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Faith of Men" is a short story collection containing eight of Jack London`s amazing adventure tales like "A Relic of the Pliocene", "A Hyperborean Brew", and "The Story of Jees Uck". All of them set in London`s favorite place, the Yukon Territory.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07486-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A remarkable piece of forgotten history and the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends. In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to corrective labor camps where they will be worked to death. This book is...
ISBN: 978-0-14-311542-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Джон Голсуорси - признанный английский писатель XIX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. "Первые и последние" - одно из самых известных произведений автора. В привычной и размеренной жизни королевского адвоката никто не предвещало беды, но однажды его младший брат совершает убийство… История о последствиях, к которым могут привести необдуманные поступки, обязательно произведёт впечатление на...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05451-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy`s masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Gallsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property...
ISBN: 978-5-521-06272-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The First Men in the Moon" is a scientific novel, which tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08226-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence - Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world`s most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy Kim Philby. The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place, and the countdown has begun toward an accident that could change the fact of British politics forever and trigger and collapse of the Western alliance. Only British agent John Preston stand any chance of breaching the conspiracy. Through plot and counterplot, from bloody back streets to polished halls of power both East and West, his desperate investigation is...
ISBN: 0-553-25113-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08175-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Гилберт К. Честертон - один из классиков английской литературы, известный читателям всего мира, благодаря циклу детективных новелл со священников Брауном и Хорном Фишером. "Перелётный кабак" - это не просто увлекательный роман, а гротескное повествование об антиалкогольной кампании, которая проходила в Англии в XIX веке. Всё шло как по маслу, пока один хитрец не решил: а почему бы не завести кабак, который не...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05483-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
