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Architect Douglas Layton has lost everything. The balcony of one of his beautiful music halls collapsed during a packed performance, killing dozens. Layton knows the flaw was not in his design; someone else must have caused the dreadful catastrophe. But with no proof, Layton finds himself facing a five-year prison sentence. When he is finally freed, Layton starts over with a new name and identity, taking a job as a set painter. But as Layton begins to discover dead bodies hidden within theater halls across London, it soon becomes clear something darker is chasing him.

Weit über den Globus verstreut trägt jedes Mitglied der Familie Manning seinen Teil zur Verteidigung Amerikas bei. Während die chinesische Flotte unaufhaltsam vorrückt, kommandiert Admiral Manning die USS FORD Trägerkampfgruppe in der Nähe von Midway, einem Atoll im Nordpazifik.

Ein CIA-Agent schließt sich einem Sondereinsatzkommando der Marine an, um eine geheime chinesische Basis im Dschungel Südamerikas zu infiltrieren. Eine weibliche US Navy-Hubschrauberpilotin muss im Rahmen einer unvorstellbaren Katastrophe das Kommando ihres Zerstörers übernehmen. Und der Admiral der modernsten Flugzeugträgerkampfgruppe Amerikas muss seine Tochter vor einem Angriff der chinesischen Marine retten.

Von einer geheimen, von Dschungel überwucherten Insel im Pazifik bis zum Wüstensand des Nahen Ostens. Von den smoggefüllten Gassen Chinas bis zu den Gängen eines Zerstörers der US Navy. Die Architekten des Krieges folgt einer Elitegruppe des Militärs und der Geheimdienste, die eine chinesische Verschwörung aufdeckt, die das Ziel hat, den nächsten Weltkrieg zu beginnen und Amerika anzugreifen.

Von einer geheimen, von Dschungel überwucherten Insel im Pazifik bis zum Wüstensand des Nahen Ostens. Von den smoggefüllten Gassen Chinas bis zu den Gängen eines Zerstörers der US Navy. Die Architekten des Krieges folgt einer Elitegruppe des Militärs und der Geheimdienste, die eine chinesische Verschwörung aufdeckt, die das Ziel hat, den nächsten Weltkrieg zu beginnen und Amerika anzugreifen.

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible.

The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you’ve ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro’s “Rembrandts,” “Caravaggios,” “Miros,” and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe.

Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, experts, and major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure”. Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this audiobook, Caveat Emptor, is that artist, Ken Perenyi’s, confession.

When reclusive millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist’s final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business.

When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane - the credited artist of the weepy waifs - for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992, he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane was more of a conman than an artist and that he forced his wife, Margaret, to sign his name to her own paintings. As a result those weepy waifs may not have been as capricious an invention as they seemed.

Albert Speer fu l'architetto di Hitler. Venne accusato per la deportazione e lo sfruttamento dei civili europei. Nominato da Hitler nel febbraio del 1942 ministro degli Armamenti, si servì dei prigionieri di guerra anche nell'industria bellica. Ascoltato a Norimberga nell'udienza del 19 giugno 1946, riconobbe tuttavia che Hitler aveva tradito il popolo tedesco "gettandolo nell'abisso". Questo ritratto ripercorrerà la vita del genio dell'estetica del terzo Reich. Luigi Romolo Carrino (napoletano, classe 1968) nel suo percorso letterario ha affrontato tematiche sociali di vario tipo.