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Michael Havlen

    Robert Ludlum's The Altman code : a covert-one novel
    Stranded
    Le Pacte Holcroft
    Come With Me
    Hidden Pictures
    Spáč číslo 13
    • Byla to jejich nejsmrtelnější zbraň. Nyní jsou jeho cílem. Jako dítě ho unesli na Střední Východ. Tvrdým výcvikem ho přetvořili na jednoho z nejelitnějších bojovníků jeho generace. Přinutili ho dělat věci, které by žádný člověk dělat neměl - tím spíš, když nevěří doktríně, kterou hlásají. Zatímco jeho soukmenovci zahajovali přípravu k vraždění, on začal hledat cestu ven. A nyní, v předvečer největšího smrtícího útoku, jaký se kdy podařilo zorganizovat, konečně spatřil svoji šanci. Osvobodí se. A najde ty, kteří z něj udělali monstrum.

      Spáč číslo 13
      4,5
    • Come With Me

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.Yet Aaron is unprepared to discover the dark secrets Allison kept, the death and horror that make up the tapestry of her hidden life. And with each dark secret revealed, Aaron becomes more and more consumed by his obsession to learn the terrifying truth about the woman who had been his wife, even if it puts his own life at risk.A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee.

      Come With Me
      4,2
    • Le Pacte Holcroft

      • 689pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      L'enjeu du " Pacte Holcroft ", c'est la coquette somme de 700 millions de dollars, déposée en 1945 dans une banque suisse par trois nazis repentis : les généraux Clausen, von Tiebolt et Kessler. L'argent est destiné à leurs descendants, afin qu'ils l'utilisent en dédommagement des crimes de Hitler contre l'humanité. C'est ainsi qu'un beau matin Noël Holcroft, le fils de Clausen, reçoit une lettre écrite quarante ans après l'effondrement du IIIe Reich. S'il veut blanchir son père, Holcroft doit retrouver les enfants de von Tiebolt et de Kessler et, avec eux, signer le Pacte. Le rendez-vous est fixé à Genève. Mais les associations néonazies et les services secrets anglais, américains, israéliens ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille...

      Le Pacte Holcroft
      4,1
    • Stranded

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Eight strangers. One island. A secret you'd kill to keep.

      Stranded
      4,0
    • On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the US Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination - a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered and vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...

      Robert Ludlum's The Altman code : a covert-one novel
      4,0
    • The Quartet Murders

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      A priceless violin. And a dark secret someone is prepared to kill for. DCI Oldroyd has seen his fair share of victims, but he has never witnessed a murder--until now. When world-famous violinist Hans Muller is shot and killed during a concert, the detective is faced with a case beyond logic. The culprit is nowhere to be found--and the victim's priceless violin has disappeared too. As Oldroyd investigates the mystery of the murderer's identity and the motive for the killing, he enters the ruthless world of wealthy instrument collectors and stumbles upon a dark path where shocking secrets have been buried in the past. But the secrets will soon take centre stage. Oldroyd must use all his cunning to recover the priceless instrument. But can he also solve the mystery of a murderer who vanished in front of his own eyes?

      The Quartet Murders
      3,9
    • Paris Option

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      When an explosion destroys the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Marty Zellerbach is left in a coma, while a top computer scientist - Emile Chambord - goes missing. Although a terrorist group takes credit for the bombing, officials begin to wonder whether there might be a more sinister plot at work.

      Paris Option
      3,9
    • La peur dans la peau

      • 697pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      Quelques années après les événements de La mémoire dans la peau, David Webb est devenu professeur d'études asiatiques à Georgetown, Kentucky. Mais, un jour, il devient la cible d'un assassin aussi habile que lui et la CIA lui met sur le dos le meurtre de deux de ses collègues. Webb, pour sauver sa peau, doit à nouveau endosser l'identité de Jason Bourne et retrouver sa détermination de tueur.

      La peur dans la peau
      3,9
    • Two bestselling authors collaborate to spin a deadly tale of science, espionage and government gone fatally wrong.

      Hades Factor
      3,9