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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The master storyteller continues the Clifton saga with this, the second volume. New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sins of the Father Jeffrey ArcherIt is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a family scandal, and realizing he can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant Navy. When a German U-boat sinks his ship, Harry and a handful of sailors are rescued by the SS Kansas Star, among them an American named Tom Bradshaw. That night,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tragic, comic, outrageous — these fifteen tales from international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer showcase his remarkable talent for capturing an unforgettable moment in time... In India, in Caste-Off, a man and woman fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green on the streets of Delhi... From Germany comes A Good Eye, about a priceless oil painting that has remained in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is the number one bestselling first book in The Clifton Chronicles, a multi-generational family saga. The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: «This is a collection of three volumes of Jeffrey Archer's masterful short stories. This edition of short stories, bringing together the short stories from three collections by Jeffrey Archer, showcases the master storyteller's skill like never before. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H.H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry — Jeffrey Archer has written five bestselling collections over the years and Macmillan are proud to announce the publication of a sixth volume of stories in May 2010. Jeffrey has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: If your dream is big enough, not even your enemies can stop you... Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps — his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Hers was the ultimate ambition... The magnificent story of love and politics that continues the saga of Kane and Abel. The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other follows on into the next generation. Florentyna Rosnovski, Abel's daughter, inherits all her father's drive, but none of his wealth. A woman gifted with beauty and spirit, but above all with indomitable will,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The world's most powerful newspaper barons — which of them will triumph? At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, who emerged from the most backward corner of a Europe ravaged by a bitter war. The other was raised in a mansion on the far side of the world while the war was just another piece of news. Once was…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and when he'd…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 435) Аннотация: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. But what if one man had such a dream... and once he'd fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? This is the story of such a man: George Mallory. He once told an American reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest because it's there. On his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: They had only one thing in common... William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant — two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 466) Аннотация: In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal — the office of Prime Minister.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 145 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 618) Аннотация: If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends — a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history — who is going to believe Danny's side of the story?…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: An English lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. Another man, an accountant, realizes he's achieved nothing in his life — and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is the author's own favorite, In the Eye of the Beholder, about a star athlete who has a fateful run-in with a three-hundred-pound woman. Some of these twelve stories…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A breathtaking journey of twists and turns from New York to London, from Bucharest and on to Tokyo ends up in a sleepy English village where the mystery surrounding Van Gogh's last painting will finally be resolved.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: «Expect the unexpected... A wrongly convicted murderer exacts a flawless plan of revenge... Headlights in a rear-view mirror tail a female traveler on a lonely stretch of road... A serial bride secures her future by marrying only the wealthiest of men... An escaped Iraqi with a price on his head pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... A brush with death proves the biggest break of an…