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1943: World War II is raging in Europe. Kurt Muller is living in London. While working for British Intelligence, he discovers a photograph of his girlfriend, Gudrun, among the possessions of a German agent. Then he gets a postcard from Gudrun, posted in Germany, and he knows the Gestapo has taken her...

A German secret agent threatens the D-Day landings. February 1944. British Intelligence is using German double agents to deceive the German high command about Operation Overlord - the location chosen for the D-Day landings. When they pick up an unauthorized transmission from near London, the whole deception plan is thrown into jeopardy. And Kurt Müller is the main suspect. To save Operation Overlord and clear his name, Kurt must find the rogue agent and silence him.

In Berlin, Kurt Müller, an Abwehr signalman, discovers a colleague lying dead at his radio receiver. The criminal police dismiss the death as suicide, but Kurt is not convinced. Kurt follows a trail of mysteries, witnessing several atrocities that expose the Nazi regime for what it truly is. When the trail leads him to the German resistance, he faces the most difficult choices of his life. He must choose between his duty and his conscience, between his country and his family, between love and death.

When you're the sole surviving noble of junior lineage, don't expect much of a future. That's what some might think. Not Gregor, though. The way he sees it, being last of a line means he can dispense with social niceties and do exactly what he wants. And if any unwelcome visitors have a problem with that, this guy's got one or two surprises for them.

La opera prima de Slauerhoff es una obra mágica y a la vez con cierto sentido experimentalista, una novela modernista en la que se origina un cambio continuo del espacio y el tiempo y cuyos dos personajes principales viajan a distintas épocas entre los siglos XVI y el XX, introduciendo aspectos de la casi desconocida vida del poeta Luís Vaz de Camões mezclando detalles reales y ficticios en el contexto histórico de la Portugal del siglo XVI y otros países del entorno como España así como el proceso colonizador que sufrieron los países orientales.

Si no es fácil describir los siete anteriores volúmenes de la serie Caballo de Troya, la octava entrega Jordán supera todo lo imaginable. No se esfuerce. Su imaginación se quedará corta.

Mi nombre es Julián Romero y soy maestre de campo de los tercios del rey nuestro señor. Sirvo hoy con don Felipe II como ayer serví con su augusto padre, el césar Carlos. Queréis que os cuente mi historia y yo os diré que mi único mérito es haber salvado la piel donde otros dieron la vida.

This novelette is an homage to the amazing P. G. Wodehouse and his legendary characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. While living in 1920's New York City, Bertie is saddled with looking after the son of one of his Aunt Agatha's best mates, the Lady Mallowan. Bertie thinks that the young Lord Wiltshire is a useless, annoying nitwit, but he has no idea that left on his own a completely different side of the young Dermot will start to emerge, putting Bertie in a serious pickle.