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Brought to you by Penguin. Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California for a while with friends, when someone tells him about a house in the desert two hours east of LA where the walls are steel and the glass shimmers. Frank tells himself: I have to...

The winter of 1942 casts a long shadow over pen-friends Richard and Grace. The world is teetering on the brink of destruction as war consumes continent after continent. When a letter arrives for Grace from a distant land she can scarcely place on a map, it brings news so shocking it reverberates through the entire village, with everyone offering conflicting advice. Meanwhile in bomb-scarred London, Richard is presented with the journalistic opportunity of a lifetime. The potential for career-defining reporting is immense, but so too are the dangers that shadow every step.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest...

¿Cual fue el papel que realmente desempeñaron los banqueros suizos en el 3r Reich? Es cierto que el gobierno de Hitler compró la alianza del Vaticano a cambio de una fortuna en lingotes de oro que previamente habían sido blanqueados por los banqueros suizos? Es es cierto que los herederos de la hermandad de ODESA tienen puesta la vista en un alto dignatario de la Iglesia como posible sucesor del Führer en lo que sería el nacimiento del 4to Reich? El oro de Mefisto narra en clave histórica todo lo que realmente sucedió detrás de los escenarios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que nunca se llegó a ser público.

For twenty-one-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, life is finally looking bright. Orphaned as a child and later struck down by polio, she then endured years of cold indifference at the hands of her sister Agnes. Now, with Agnes finally gone, Grace has found love with her handsome young husband and peace surrounded by friends in her home village of Knocknashee and in her ongoing friendship with the American journalist Richard Lewis.