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Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation.

Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge - these are themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, gun-smuggling or the cruel confidence trick Forsyth is never less than compulsive.Here are eight stories with the Forsyth touch - a brilliant and original collection by an incomparable craftsman of suspense.

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless...

Nel caldo torrido di un maledetto agosto, lungo le strade di un quartiere degradato, un uomo viene selvaggiamente picchiato e derubato, nell'omertosa indifferenza dei passanti. Il difensore dei due giovani aggressori è uno dei più quotati avvocati di Londra, ma durante il processo una doppia sorpresa porterà alla luce un'insospettabile verità... È questo il primo dei cinque racconti compresi nel volume. Cinque brevi thriller dotati del respiro dei romanzi. Cinque storie graffianti in cui il grande maestro ancora una volta riversa il suo tocco magico.

Ricky Colenso, giovane statunitense, parte pieno di entusiasmo per aiutare i profughi bosniaci alla volta di Zagabria, dove lo attende però una fine atroce. Suo nonno, il miliardario Steve Edmond, muove tutte le pedine a sua disposizione per fare chiarezza sulla morte del nipote e per catturare Zoran Žilić, il feroce assassino di Ricky. Sarà questo il compito del Vendicatore, un misterioso personaggio con un tragico passato alle spalle. La caccia ha inizio, e sarà metodica, pianificata, curata in ogni dettaglio.

Osama bin Laden wurde nach langer Suche vom amerikanischen Geheimdienst unschädlich gemacht. Aber die Saat ist gesät und der islamistische Terror eine permanente Gefahr für den Westen. Frederick Forsyth zeigt, wie die Terroristen sich finanzieren: mit dem Entführen von Schiffen vor der Küste Afrikas. Dramatisch wird es, weil sich auf dem Schiff inkognito der Sohn des schwedischen Reeders befindet. Das weiß eigentlich nur der Kapitän.

Claire erwacht in einem verlassenen Hotel. In ihrem Kopf wirbeln Bilder und Ereignisse durcheinander - sind das Erinnerungen, oder Phantasieprodukte infolge des erlittenen Schocks? Draußen tobt ein Schneesturm, der es ihr unmöglich macht, mit der Außenwelt in Kontakt zu treten. Dann rettet sich vor dem Unwetter noch jemand ins Hotel: ein hilfsbereit und verständnisvoll wirkender Mann namens Laslo. Er ist mit seinem Wagen angeblich im Schnee stecken geblieben. Claire findet zögerlich Zutrauen zu ihm - bis sie in einer Zeitung einen Artikel findet, der vor dem Ausbruch eines psychopathischen Serienmörders warnt... und Laslos Foto zeigt.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation...

In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers.

Sam McCready serves Britain as Chief of Covert Operations for the Secret Intelligence Service. He's competent, dedicated, in his prime. Why then this push to get him out? The options are painful -- early retirement or an administrative backwater. But he has one other option: it's a wild card...

In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

After losing her father to whiskey and her mother to cancer, all Prudence has left is skiing. She hitchhikes to a remote ski area in New Mexico - someplace no one would look for her, if they were looking. She manages to land a job with the ski patrol. Their gruff kindness, and the fact that she has nobody else, strengthens her resolve to prove herself on the mountain. So when a blizzard descends as fierce and blinding as God, she refuses to show her fear or be left behind.

Pat, a Vietnam vet finished with marriage and booze, gets his dose of society sitting alone and dry at the local bar. One afternoon, watching a pre-season Red Sox game, he ends up next to a group of loudmouth writers gathered around a man in a wheelchair. The writers get under Pat's skin, and he says something lousy to the big-shot who, it turns out, is also a big-shot writer.

Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction.

This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson's portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes: a body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears.

Efter att ha ärvt ett torp i Dalarna börjar läraren Alexander Glesa att tillbringa sin tid där, och undersöka områdets historia. Här har hans släkt bott i hundratals år, och han tycker sig känna historien vibrera i husens urgamla stengrunder. Britta Anna Svensdotter har precis fyllt 17 år, och lämnar sitt hem och sin familj för att arbeta. Hon har fått en tjänst som piga på en av traktens stora gårdar, och borde gå en ljus framtid till mötes.