Languishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies on the `Dulcibella` in the Baltic. A grouse-shooting party or a weekend at Cowes would have been more Carruthers`s style. More disconcerting still, soon after his arrival it emerges that Davies needs his assistance, not on a yachting holiday, but in a spot of amateur spying ... Sounding a warning of the dangers of a German sea-borne invasion, `The Riddle of the Sands` created a sensation when it appeared in 1903. Recognizably the great forerunner of the espionage novels of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, its vivid period flavour and richly detailed background of inshore sailing have made it a classic among...

ISBN: 978-0-14-119799-9
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: февраль 2011

This official children’s storybook, based on the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, follows Frodo’s heroic struggle to destroy the One Ring and restore peace to Middle-earth. As the armies of the Dark Lord Sauron come together, Gandalf and the rest of the Fellowship are drawn into the epic War of the Ring, while Aragorn must decide whether or not to fulfil his destiny and claim his place as King of Gondor. Packed with 100 photographs from the forthcoming film, the book offers an exciting and colourful teaser for those too impatient to wait for The Return of the King on the big screen. Includes pull-out poster showing all the characters from The Lord of the Rings films.

ISBN: 0-00-717056-4
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

ISBN: 9781526607461
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2020

In the years between the two great wars, the nations of the world, ravaged by war and depression, struggled to maintain a delicate peace. Torn between pressing social needs - record-setting unemployment and the threat of revolutions, Western Europe played for time in which to repair its economies and to strengthen its governments. No one wanted war: Britain was still healing the wounds of World War I; the Americans had retreated into isolation; the French were divided politically and the Soviet Union, an international outcast, was facing its own enormous problems. Yet, determined to win the `living space` he was convinced Germany needed, Adolf Hitler made war unavoidable, despite the pronounced reluctance of the rest of the world. Almost...

ISBN: 978-1-84595-130-6
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

It is 1939. In the Soviet Union, Stalin has placed his hopes on a 30-ton steel monster, known as the RED COFFIN. But the design is not yet complete. And when the weapon`s secretive and eccentric architect is found murdered, Stalin sends for Pekkala, his most trusted investigator. He is convinced that a sinister group called the White Guild intends to bring about a German invasion before the RED COFFIN is ready. While engineers struggle to complete the design of the tank, Pekkala must expose plans to propel Germany and Russia into conflict.

ISBN: 978-0-571-27419-2
Дата выхода: июль 2011

HE`S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE...It`s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor`s shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life.Now he doesn`t have a job or a prayer... except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he`s in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings.A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous, million-dollar war of...

ISBN: 9780440221654
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2020

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature. The novel follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, a free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate, "The Red Rover".

ISBN: 978-5-521-07954-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018

After Sherlock Holmes` apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in "The Adventure of the Empty House". This follows the celebrated full-length "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the second of three volumes of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" reproduced from original copies of "The Strand Magazine". The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.

ISBN: 1-85326-058-4
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2001

ISBN: 9781844086986
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2010

ISBN: 9781409103462
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2010