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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the forensic resources available to find any leads at all. Delving into the dead man's life he discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime. Did his past come back to haunt him?…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: At a time when journalism is under attack as never before, «Tell Me No Lies» could not be more timely. It is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby — a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive — living…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 691 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 529) Аннотация: This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m. He made his millions back in the early '90's, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian markets and winning. Failure meant not only…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker,…

Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Seymour 'Swede' Levov — a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall — of a strong,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction — pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating — only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Viktor — last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha — seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In «The Crack in Space», a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in “Thank You for Smoking”, conspiracy theories in “Little Green Men”, and Presidential indiscretions “No Way to Treat a First Lady” now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations – in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight. Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn – a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army – monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately – one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany – made them available to the public in this remarkable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Merciless attacks by an invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the noble Chewbacca is laid to rest, having died as heroically as he lived — and a grief-stricken Han Solo is left to fit the pieces of his shattered soul back together before he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killingof the Minister of War is an act of violence with chillingrepercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as awhole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is madeup of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a manon the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossinghim and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This explosive new alternative history novel plunges a 21st-century naval fleet into the middle of the Pacific during combat in World War II — an event that disrupts the course of history.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Ord Cestus, a planet mostly barren and inhospitable to life, was first colonized as a prison world — until a handful of hardy pioneers discovered its rich ore deposits and managed to build up a successful droid-manufacturing industry. But when the Clone Wars erupted, bringing severe rationing of imported resources and a Republic ban on the production of battle droids, Ord Cestus was threatened…