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Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway — the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. Now Personal…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power — as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the island beyond: the island of the day before.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: »A Maggot» is not a historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery — a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds — which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave — 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This novel looks at life in the dark underside of Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is sick of his friends, sick with the city and its deserted docklands, and above all sick with himself.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph — the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion — with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. «It's probably nothing», says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists. But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 783 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 547) Аннотация: A desperate young man plans the perfect crime — the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law — if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end — the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived....