Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.
Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted [...]
A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812-1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell , a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secr[...]
Interviews with experts and an examination of previously classified documents underlie a study of the history, technological development, and expanding strategic role of chemical and biological warfare, in an updated study that incorporates a new introduction and epilogue that brings the history up [...]
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious subur[...]
Helps human resource professionals fulfill bottom-line responsibilities of preparing their organization's personnel for global interaction and competition. This work offers various cross-cultural training and education strategies aimed at developing global organizations and managers who are able to [...]
From the bestselling author of "Fatherland" and "Imperium" comes "The Ghost," an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving -- and most controversial -- prime minister of the last half century, whose ca[...]
Boken handler om en profesjonell ghostwriter som begår en fatal feil i det han sier ja til å skrive memoarene til Storbritannias nylig avgåtte statsminister. Hans forgjenger på prosjektet døde under mistenkelige omstendigheter, og den sjarmerende eks-statsministeren viser seg å bære på mørk[...]
The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history?
Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his firs[...]
When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history.[...]
They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. It is a gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of Fatherland. January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being pub[...]
Tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian who is in Moscow to attend a conference on newly opened Soviet archives.[...]
It is March 1943 and the War hangs in the balance... At Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat.[...]
Hitler hat den Krieg gewonnen - Nazideutschland beherrscht ganz Europa. Das ist das Horrorszenario in Robert Harris' frivolem Politthriller. ?Harris versteht, gut und spannend zu schreiben. Es kommt alles vor: Verbrechen, Verschwörungen, Vertuschung, Irreführung, Gewalt und Liebe. Harris kann den [...]
März 1943. ENIGMA ist die Wunder-Chiffriermaschine, die den Funkverkehr der deutschen U-Boote so genial verschlüsselt, dass er scheinbar nicht zu knacken ist ... Eine nahezu unlösbare Aufgabe für den Secret Intelligence Service. "Die intelligente Maschine und ihre noch intelligentere Überlistu[...]
Hovedpersonen i Robert Harris' siste bok er en profesjonell ghosthwriter - en skyggeskribent som lever av andres livshistorier. Han er vant til å jobbe med b-kjendiser og aldrende rockestjerner. Så får han muligheten til å skrive memoarene til Storbritannias nylig avgåtte statsminister. Han gri[...]
Tyskland 1964. Hitler har gjennomført "Det tredje riket", grunnlagt et maktsentrum i øst og reorganisert alle de største byene etter sine egne visjonære ideer. I Albert Speers Berlin, like før Hitlers fødselsdag, lever den noe forsofne, fraskilte, whiskydrikkende, men uhelbredelig nysgjerrige [...]
Hans navn er helt ukendt for de fleste, men inden for de ultra velhavendes kredse er dr. Hoffmann intet mindre end en legende - en visionær videnskabsmand, hvis hemmelige computersoftware og avancerede algoritmer kan forvandle alt til guld på et ellers ustabilt finansmarked. Ingen kan gennemsk[...]
Storkapital och högteknologi i ohelig allians
Den amerikanske fysikern Alex Hoffman är okänd för allmänheten, men en legend i finansvärldens innersta kretsar. Han är upphovsmannen till en revolutionerande programvara som köper och säljer värdepapper på börsen. Den känner av [...]