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Robert Crais: The First Rule

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Frank Meyer had got out of ' the life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. Ten years later, a group of armed men break into his Los Angeles home and brutally gun down him and his family. It's a vicious, cold and…

Boris Akunin: She Lover Of Death: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon — that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator hot on the heels of these disciples of the occult. Little do they realise that the latest…

Robert Ludlum: The Matarese Countdown

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Twenty years ago, KGB and CIA agents worked together to bring down the Matarese Circle. Now they are back — and the only man with the power to stop them may already have run out of time... CIA officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless activities is to follow a trail of blood money and stone-cold killers right to the heart of…

James Lee Burke: Rain Gods

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Hackberry Holland is a man haunted by the past. A former POW from the Korean War, he has left his traumatic and chequered past behind to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas. But Hack soon find himself dealing with more than just his own demons when nine dead prostitutes are dug up behind a run-down church. The search for justice — and revenge — pits Hack against…

Robert Ludlum: The Matlock Paper

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: James Barbour Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor — but now the US government have an assignment for him. They want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale dope and prostitution business; and they'll go to any lengths to find the answers they need. Matlock is soon trapped in a maze of unrelenting terror, as the people he cares for most are under threat. Would he have…

Michael Palin: Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988

Скачать книгу (размер 3 706 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 728) Аннотация: The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life,…

Robert Ludlum: The Chancellor Manuscript

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Inver Brass: a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals. They see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. And so they decide to do away with him — quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy…

Ursula Le Guin: Lavinia

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.' Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's…

Helia Phoenix: Lady Gaga

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better know as Lady Gaga, is a born performer. Forget the fake, wannabee starlets who become famous overnight — Gaga earned her success the hard way, performing at every club in New York, getting booed offstage — and then finding herself — as a singer, a dancer, a performer — as an artist. She's shocked the public with her crazy outfits, individual sense of…

Charlaine Harris: Dead and Gone: A True Blood Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: A new Sookie Stackhouse book is always a treat! Sookie is a sexy, sassy cocktail waitress who works at Merlotte's Bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's just a regular gal, with all the normal hopes and fears, about dating, boys and life in general — oh, and she's telepathic. And her boyfriends have included Vampire Bill, her first love and the were-tiger Quinn. And Bon Temps is a pretty normal rural…

Sebestyen Victor: Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still fighting the cold war.…

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal — the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a…

Carrie Ryan: Forest of Hands and Teeth Ome

Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood…

Christopher Priest: Inverted World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it prgresses into the wilderness. The society within toils under an opressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are…

Simon Francesca: Horrid Henry's Nits (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry has got nits — again! But as an impending visit from Nitty Nora the Nit Nurse looms, Henry's determined he won't be the only one...

Erica James: It's the Little Things

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters — the Boxing Day tsunami — their lives have changed dramatically. Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of their young son, and Sally is the bread winner and loves her job as a partner in a…

Burstein D.: Secrets of the Lost Symbol

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: From the team that brought you the bestselling SECRETS OF THE CODE and SECRETS OF ANGELS AND DEMONS comes the first literary companion to Dan Brown's latest blockbuster. SECRETS OF THE LOST SYMBOL builds upon the expertise and wisdom of Nobel prize-winning scientists, historians, technologists and conspiracy theorists to help readers fully understand the mysteries behind THE LOST SYMBOL.…

Coben Harlan: Long Lost

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that more than one blood-type has been discovered at the scene — and the other blood can only be attributed to her daughter. But she died 10 years before. As…