Joseph Kanon: Stardust
Скачать книгу (размер 2 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 506) Аннотация: The author of The Good German returns with his most accomplished novel yet — a tale of Hollywood glamour, post-war espionage, and family secrets.
Joseph Kanon: Alibi
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Adam Miller had a long war, and when the US Army let him go he made his way to Venice where his mother was trying to recreate her pre-war life. Exhausted both in body and spirit the pace of the ancient city began to heal him, and when he met Claudia, an Italian Jewess, he was ripe for seduction. Claudia's war had been worse, and after Mussolini's downfall she was quickly betrayed to the SS. While…
Joseph Kanon: Los Alamos
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In the closing weeks of the war in Europe a security guard on the Manhattan Project is murdered near the Hill. Michael Connolly is sent to Los Alamos from Washington to make sure his death really is the result of a casual homosexual encounter and not connected with espionage. The Nazi regime may be near the end of its reign, but the new enemy of communism has created an atmosphere of paranoia as…
Joseph Kanon: The Prodigal Spy
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in the '50s fear of the 'red menace' and forced to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities. He seems a very unlikely Communist, but before the hearing is concluded he has disappeared — defected to the East — though not…
Joseph Kanon: Good German
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A well-known American journalist travels to Germany to write about the Allied occupation — and also to find the German woman with whom he had an affair before the war began. In war-ravaged Berlin, he finds more than he expected, including a murdered American soldier and a stunning level of postwar corruption that is inextricably mixed with the American and Russian rocket projects.
Joseph Kanon: The Good German
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Kanon's «New York Times» bestseller is now the basis for Warner Bros. Picture's latest film, starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire, scheduled for release in November. American reporter Jake Geismar is sent to Berlin to cover the final Allied summit meeting of World War II and becomes tangled up in a murder mystery.
Joseph Kanon: Good German
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable — streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. But in the way she would not leave with…
Joseph Kanon: The Prodigal Spy
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This story set during the infamous McCarthy era revolves around the son of an American government official who is discovered to be a Russian spy. Readers follow the father and son over 20 years in an ordeal that involves murder, spies, shocking revelations about the past, and a passionate affair.