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Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. On their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see Jim.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves...

1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim, now a detective at the Dupree Agency, is teaching Diana the art of deduction he’s learned from his idol, Sherlock Holmes.

When the bodies of two men are found shockingly posed in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples' decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances but also those of the city as a whole. A Few Drops of Blood is a riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty.

القرصنة والعولمة والمارينز موضوعات تتناولها الأحداث في هذه الرواية الحقيقية التي وقعت في العام 2009وتتعلق باختطاف سفينة الشحن الأمريكية مارسك ألاباما على يد مجموعة من القراصنة الصوماليين في خليج عدن مقابل السواحل الصومالية،وكانت السفينة بقيادة الكابتن ريتشارد فيليبس والملاحين العشرين في خليج عدن في طريفها إلى ميناء مومباسا في كينيا حيث كانت تنقل حمولة من الإمدادات المتجهه إلى كينيا والصومال ويوغندا،وتعرضت هذه السفينة غير المسلحة لهجوم من قبل أربعة قراصنة صوماليين.ووصل القراصنة إلى السفينة على متن زورق صغير تمكنوا من الصعود إليها