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Jeffrey Archer To Cut a Long Story Short
The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession – and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to the creative financial talents of a member of...
Engels | 7 uur 42 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer The Fourth Estate
Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father’s newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than...
Engels | 19 uur 34 minuten (851 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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C. M. Albright Shadow Banking
Set in the heart of global finance, Shadow Banking follows the lives of City hopefuls, as they try to wheel, deal and backstab their way to billions. Remember: life’s a trade... It is 1994. Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville; he thinks he’s there to start a job. But in fact, he’s at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever. Al is joined by a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers: razor-sharp...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (586 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alex Gough Emperor's Axe
The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters of Geta. Meanwhile, Caracalla’s ally Marcellus is captured by Syrian warriors. They wish to use his son, Avitus, as a puppet emperor to affirm a new Eastern Empire. Caracalla orders Silus to track down and rescue Avitus, rumoured to be Caracalla’s child. As Rome buckles beneath the weight of...
Engels | 11 uur 50 minuten (524 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet
"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...
Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen
"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Alex Gough Emperor's Spear
An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier. On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart of the battle-torn region. Plunged into a deadly intrigue and a brutal conflict, can Silus find out who is betraying Rome? Or will the legions start falling, one by bloody...
Engels | 10 uur 21 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alex Gough Emperor's Sword
A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia...
Engels | 12 uur 58 minuten (571 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Felice Picano The Lure
Shocking and controversial, The Lure has become a classic of gay fiction with its candid description of New York’s gay subculture. The works of Felice Picano need little introduction. As one of the founding members of The Violet Quill, the foremost post-Stonewall gay writing movement, (other members included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), Picano has published many acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1979, The Lure rocketed Picano to commercial literary fame....
Engels | 15 uur 23 minuten (671 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alex Gough Emperor's Knife
Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies... An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Ancient Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle. Silus, now a centurion in the Arcani, the secrete network of spies and assassins, is thrown into the maelstrom. Back in Ancient Rome, plots breed in the stinking alleys. Everyone might be an enemy. Everyone a traitor. As an Imperial Assassin, Silus’ loyalty will...
Engels | 13 uur 24 minuten (594 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Richard Dübell De erfgename van de Duivelsbijbel
De jacht op een manuscript uit de late middeleeuwen, de Codex Gigas, ook wel de Duivelsbijbel genoemd, waarvan de deelnemers tot de hoogste kringen van het Duitse keizerrijk behoren, vindt tijdens de laatste maanden van de Dertigjarige Oorlog (1618-1648) zijn ontknoping. Vervolg op 'De Duivelsbijbel' en 'De wachters van de Duivelsbijbel'.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Nederlands | 638 pagina's | De Fontein, Baarn | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Arturo Pérez-Reverte De club Dumas
of De schaduw van Richelieu
Wanneer een liefhebber van zeldzame boeken speurt naar de geheimen van twee uitzonderlijke boeken, laat hij een spoor van lijken na.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Nederlands | 420 pagina's | Karakter, Uithoorn | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Tom Hillenbrand De gestolen glimlach
als de Mona Lisa in 1911 uit het Louvre wordt gestolen moet inspecteur Lenoir de imponerende kunstwereld ontrafelen
Parijs 1911. Het nieuws van de roof van de Mona Lisa schokt de wereld. Commissaris Lenoir probeert het schilderij terug te vinden.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Nederlands | 461 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Heather Gudenkauf In stilte gehuld
Twee 7-jarige vriendinnen, van wie er een al drie jaar geen woord meer heeft gesproken en de ander optreedt als haar 'stem', verdwijnen op hetzelfde tijdstip uit hun huis.
Fictie | Familieroman | Thriller
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,4 MB | de Kern, Utrecht | 2012
E-book
Paul McCusker | Walt Larimore De griepbom
thriller
Een terroristische milieu-organisatie bedreigt het menselijk leven op aarde door een gevaarlijk griepvirus te verspreiden.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | ePub, 0,6 MB | Mozaiek, Zoetermeer | 2012
E-book
Joel Rosenberg De eerste gijzelaar
een J.B. Collins thriller
Na een aanslag van IS op het Midden-Oosten overleg in Jordanië wordt de Amerikaanse president vermist en mag de Amerikaanse journalist Collins de reddingsactie van nabij volgen, totdat hij zelf verdacht wordt van betrokkenheid bij IS.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 379 pagina's | Kokboekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Ellen Lina Koningslaan
spannende liefdesroman
Als de jonge weduwe Charlie een nieuw begin wil maken met haar leven, verhuist naar haar geboortedorp en verliefd wordt op de jonge meubelmaker Finn, verandert haar leven plotsklaps in een nachtmerrie.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen | Thriller
Nederlands | 213 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Ellessy, Arnhem | 2021
E-book
Carla Cassidy | Cassie Miles Ritueel van angst
Fictie | Romantische verhalen | Thriller
Nederlands | 413 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Wouter van Mastricht Het scherp van Ambon
Na zijn ontslag vertrekt de voormalig secretaris van de Rotterdamse Admiraliteit in 1641 naar de Molukken om zijn broer op te sporen die van verraad wordt beschuldigd.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Nederlands | 559 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Karakter Uitgevers, Uithoorn | 2012
E-book