Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin schenkt Marschall Tito einen mit Diamanten besetzten Säbel – das ist der Ausgangspunkt von Ivan Ivanijs spektakulärem Politthriller, der uns an die Schauplätze von Verbrechen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien führt. Das Geheimnis um diese Waffe ist so brisant, dass sich sogar die CIA und der Mossad dafür brennend interessieren. Ein packendes Buch aus der Feder eines der prominentesten serbischen Literaten.
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An old friend draws barman Mac McCorkle into a deadly international game. As the saying goes, you can't pick your friends. If you could, Mac McCorkle would disown Padilla. They owned a bar together in Bonn, the West German capital, and stayed partners even after Padilla's sideline as a CIA operative got the bar blown up. Padilla was thought to be dead and erased from the CIA's files - but now he's back on the agency's turf. Mac moved to Washington, DC, after the trouble in Bonn to get married and open his bar anew. His new bride is beautiful, the bar is a success, and Padilla's reappearance threatens everything. A group of African terrorists want Padilla to assassinate the prime minister of their small sub-Saharan republic - and they've kidnapped Mac's wife to use as leverage. Review quotes. "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense." - The Los Angeles Times. "What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites." - The Village Voice. "Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once." - Eric Ambler, author of The Mask of Dimitrios. Biographical note. The winner of the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, Ross Thomas (1926-1995) was a prolific author whose political thrillers drew praise for their blend of wit and suspense. Born in Oklahoma City, Thomas grew up during the Great Depression, and served in the Philippines during World War II. After the war, he worked as a foreign correspondent, public relations official, and political strategist before publishing his first novel, "The Cold War Swap" (1967), based on his experience working in Bonn, Germany. The novel was a hit, winning Thomas as an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and establishing the characters Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo. Thomas followed it up with three more novels about McCorkle and Padillo, the last of which was published in 1990. He wrote nearly a book a year for twenty-five years, occasionally under the pen name Oliver Bleeck, and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel with "Briarpatch" (1984). Thomas died of lung cancer in California in 1995, a year after publishing his final novel, "Ah, Treachery!"
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Bored with retirement, an ex-spy challenges his old agency to a game. Miles Kendig is one of the CIA's top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life-gambling, drinking, sex-offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent's offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead. To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig's life is fun again, with survival on the line.
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An old-school Southerner is recruited to run a political campaign in a dangerous African election. Clinton Shartelle doesn't seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he's American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For another, Shartelle is Southern and fiercely proud of it, and his ideas about racial politics veer unpredictably from progressive to rigidly old-fashioned. But Shartelle is the best, and the political future of Albertia is too important to be left to anyone else. If history is any indication, this first fair election will probably be the country's last. Rich natural resources make it attractive to businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, opening Albertia up to political corruption. For his part, Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist's favored candidate wins the presidency. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool. Review quote. "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense." - Los Angeles Times. "What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites." - The Village Voice. "Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once." - Eric Ambler, author of The Mask of Dimitrios. Biographical note. The winner of the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, Ross Thomas (1926-1995) was a prolific author whose political thrillers drew praise for their blend of wit and suspense. Born in Oklahoma City, Thomas grew up during the Great Depression, and served in the Philippines during World War II. After the war, he worked as a foreign correspondent, public relations official, and political strategist before publishing his first novel, "The Cold War Swap" (1967), based on his experience working in Bonn, Germany. The novel was a hit, winning Thomas as an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and establishing the characters Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo. Thomas followed it up with three more novels about McCorkle and Padillo, the last of which was published in 1990. He wrote nearly a book a year for twenty-five years, occasionally under the pen name Oliver Bleeck, and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel with "Briarpatch" (1984). Thomas died of lung cancer in California in 1995, a year after publishing his final novel, "Ah, Treachery!"
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An ace campaign operative comes out of retirement to investigate a chilling disappearance. There are few jobs that Harvey Longmire hasn't had. He's been a crime reporter, Louisiana state legislator, foreign correspondent, and - briefly - a decoy for the CIA. But he made his name as campaign trail fixer, an expert in the art of exploiting an enemy's secrets. For nearly a decade, Harvey was the sharpest man in the Beltway, but he quit in 1972, trading political dirty work for a quiet life on a farm. Now two old friends want him back in the game. A millionaire named Vullo has started a foundation to investigate conspiracies, and Harvey happens to be the expert on the most prominent case: the infamous disappearance of a man named Arch Mix. The trail is not as cold as Harvey thought. Soon he'll either find Mix - or suffer a disappearance of his own. Review quote. "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense." - Los Angeles Times. "What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites." - The Village Voice. "Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once." - Eric Ambler, author of The Mask of Dimitrios. Biographical note. The winner of the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, Ross Thomas (1926-1995) was a prolific author whose political thrillers drew praise for their blend of wit and suspense. Born in Oklahoma City, Thomas grew up during the Great Depression, and served in the Philippines during World War II. After the war, he worked as a foreign correspondent, public relations official, and political strategist before publishing his first novel, "The Cold War Swap" (1967), based on his experience working in Bonn, Germany. The novel was a hit, winning Thomas as an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and establishing the characters Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo. Thomas followed it up with three more novels about McCorkle and Padillo, the last of which was published in 1990. He wrote nearly a book a year for twenty-five years, occasionally under the pen name Oliver Bleeck, and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel with "Briarpatch" (1984). Thomas died of lung cancer in California in 1995, a year after publishing his final novel, "Ah, Treachery!"
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Warum lässt Angela sich gerne untern Rock schauen und was hat das mit ihrem großen Bruder aus Amerika zu tun? Gibt es ein Leben nach dem Zinssatz oder drucke ich mein Geld jetzt selbst? Haben Außerirdische Probleme wie du und ich, oder gründen die eher eine Partei, um sich oben ohne mit Putin über die Van-Allen-Gürtel zu unterhalten? Brauch ich wieder ein Whisky sauer oder soll ich erst mal die CIA zum Holzhacken anrufen? Alles Fragen, die dringender Klärung bedürfen. Die Raue Wahrheit ist nicht einfach zu verkraften, aber in kleinen Dosen spannend und humorvoll präsentiert, ist sie für jeden erkennbar. Hier finden Sie aktuelle News und Themen, die schon lange bekannt sein sollten. Sind sie aber nicht – und genau da fängt es für den Autor an, interessant zu werden.
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<p> Nie milkną spory na temat marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego, Romana Dmowskiego i innych postaci z polskiego życia publicznego. Nie ma ciszy nad trumną płk. Ryszarda Kuklińskiego, o którą apelowano już dawno. Od ponad 30 lat trwają różnorodne dyskusje na jego temat, włącznie z takimi, w których jego czyn ocenia się jako dezercję i ewidentną zdradę. Czyni się też z niego bohatera narodowego, który dzięki swej działalności szpiegowskiej uratował Polskę i całą Europę, a nawet świat przed atomową apokalipsą. Przeszedł on do grona osób publicznych znanych zarówno w kraju jak i za granicą. Nie można się oprzeć wrażeniu, że wokół pułkownika tworzy się wiele legend i mitów odbiegających od rzeczywistości. W budowanej legendzie tej postaci widać wiele przeciwstawnych interpretacji. W jego życiu były takie okresy, kiedy na materiałach go kompromitujących mógł być skutecznie pozyskany do współpracy przez polskie służby specjalne, a także służby innych państw. Pełnej prawdy o nim pewno nigdy się nie dowiemy. Służby specjalne każdego państwa chronią do końca swoje najważniejsze tajemnice.</p>
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<p> <strong>Michał Protasiuk</strong></p> <p> <strong>Ad infinitum</strong></p> <p> Życie Tomasza stanęło na krawędzi. Jego małżeństwo przeżywa kryzys, a córeczka, chora na autyzm, została porwana. Kto za tym stoi i czego chce od rodziny Tomasza?</p> <p> Akcja wielowątkowego thrillera Michała Protasiuka wiedzie od Warszawy, przez Lizbonę, siedzibę CIA w Langley, aż po Budapeszt, ten historyczny i ten współczesny. Kim jest wykorzystywana w eksperymentach tajnych służb Trójca Święta, zdolna zaburzać prawdopodobieństwo zdarzeń? Co łączy amerykańskiego profesora fizyki, węgierską policjantkę i byłego pracownika służby bezpieczeństwa, a teraz człowieka o tysiącu tożsamości i twarzy? I dlaczego w to wszystko został zamieszany Tomasz i jego autystyczne dziecko?</p> <p> <em>„</em>Ad infinitum<em>”</em> czerpie zarówno z literackiej tradycji powieści szpiegowskich Johna Le Carre’a, jak i thrillerów Dana Browna. Tym razem jednak zagadka, która zafascynowała bohaterów, związana jest nie z historią, lecz z fizyką cząstek, budową świata i judaistyczną mistyką.</p>
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