Twenty years ago Katherine Neville's groundbreaking thriller THE EIGHT was a global bestseller -- a thriller in the style of THE DA VINCI CODE way before Dan Brown ever got there![...]
The globally bestselling thriller that paved the way for THE DA VINCI CODE and countless copycat conspiracy novels.[...]
Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pi[...]
"A dizzying, enjoyable caper...After reading this hard-to-put down thriller, you may put all your money in your mattress."
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
When financial executive Verity Banks' latest proposal is axed by her boss, she decides to show how easy it is to break through automated security, [...]
When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue--and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cr[...]
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with the ches[...]
Endelig kommer oppfølgeren til bestselgeren De åtte! Katherine Nevilles internasjonale bestselger De åtte regnes som forløperen for Dan Browns Da Vinci-koden. Katherine Neville har en utrolig evne til å veve historiske tråder sammen til én levende fortelling.Lesere som elsker kultur, reiser o[...]
De otte er en uforÂglemÂmelig og nervepirrende historisk thriller
De otte var den første bog i den populære genre ´konspirationsthriller´ og har inspireret en mængde senere bøger som fx Da Vinci mysteriet, Rosens navn, Danteklubben og Det flamske maleri.
Spillet fortsætter. Montglane skakspillet, der var omdrejningspunktet i kultsuccesen De otte, er igen i gang. Spillet giver indehaveren ubegrænset magt, og dets mystiske kræfter kan ændre verdens fremtid. I 2003, 30 år efter at Alexandras forældre endelig spredte brikkerne fra det [...]
New York 1972. Dataexperten Catherine Velis kommer på kant med sin chef och skickas iväg att jobba i Algeriet. Samtidigt blir hon erbjuden ett ovanligt uppdrag som extraknäck. Uppdraget går ut på att återfinna pjäserna i ett gammalt schackspel som varit försvunna i århundraden. Om hon hitta[...]
New York, 1972. Matematiikkaa ja shakkia harrastava tietokoneasiantuntija Katherine Velis saa työkomennuksen Algeriaan. Ennen Katherinen lähtöä selvänäkijä ennustaa hänen joutuvan suureen vaaraan. Lisäksi eräs antiikkikauppias pyytää häntä etsimään kadonneen shakkipelin osia, joiden [...]
Katherine Nevillen romaani Kahdeksan (Bazar 2010) on henkeäsalpaava jännitystarina, jonka juoni kietoutuu arvoituksellisen shakkipelin ympärille. Kirja ilmestyi 1980-luvulla, ja se sai nopeasti kulttimaineen, joka on pitänyt kirjan suosion korkealla jo parikymmentä vuotta. Nyt julkaistavassa Tu[...]
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the diffe[...]