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Pelecanos George: The Cut

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's speciality hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the…

Rankin Ian: The Impossible Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Malcolm Fox is has been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct — and the man who reported him was his own uncle. What should be a simple job is soon complicated by conspiracy and cover-up — and a brutal murder, a murder committed with a weapon that should not even exist. The spiralling…

Flynn Gillian: Gone Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must…

Dick Philip K.: Flow My Tears the Policeman Said

Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people — and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous…

Horowitz Anthony: The House of Silk

Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: THE GAME'S AFOOT... November 1890. London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued, Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into a series…

Hammett Dashiell: The Dain Curse

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die — violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is…

Wooding Chris: The Iron Jackal

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Vardia is descending into chaos. And that makes it a good time to be a freebooter. Never one to miss an opportunity, Captain Darien Frey has hit on a lucrative plan: stealing Awakener relics, and selling them back to them through the feared pirate, and his former finacee, Trinica Dracken. Things are finally looking good for the Ketty Jay and her crew... until the Shaklemores, bounty hunters to…

Sedgwick Marcus: Midwinterblood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: What would you sacrifice for someone you've loved forever — told in seven parts and spanning ten centuries, this is a cleverly constructed, beautifully crafted love story with elements of thriller and the supernatural. Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar even when you've never been there before, or felt that you've known…

Akunin Boris: The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the…

Ellory R.J.: A Dark and Broken Heart

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place and who could they turn to for help? Madigan is charming, resourceful, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to the drug king of East Harlem. This one heist will give Madigan the chance he needs to get his life back on…

Torday Paul: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist — for whom diary — notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' — who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen — a project that will change his life, and the course of British…

Gabrielsson Eva: Stieg and Me: Memories of My Life with Stieg Larsson

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story other than himself — his lifelong companion and muse, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Stieg's upbringing and early years, and how this shaped his morals and personality. She talks of his life-long struggle to expose Sweden's Neo-Nazis, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, EXPO, alive,…

Gardner John: Nobody Lives For Ever

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Take care 007. Take special care. The continent's a hotbed of villainy these days and you can never be too careful Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond's hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for. With a price on his head, Bond must evade the world's greatest assassins in a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse across Europe,…

Gardner John: Role of Honour

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: People notice things and word around Whitehall is that Commander Bond is living a shade dangerously — gambling, the new Bentley, er... ladies, money changing hands... Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service James Bond becomes a gun for hire; able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have…

Aaronovitch Ben: Whispers Under Ground

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Doctor Who Screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch's superbly entertaining supernatural crime series has, with its witty one-liners and wonderfully erudite take on London, won a legion of fans in double quick time. Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well — he's already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Progression in the Police…

Anderson: Tau Zero

Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged…

Pratchett T.: Eric

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain.…

Binchy Maeve: Full House

Скачать книгу (размер 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 117) Аннотация: Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher, and doesn't earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs, and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It…

Tevis W.: Mockingbird

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.