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An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation. The first in a series of five novels it features the spy Richard Hannay, an action hero with a stiff upper lip who gets caught up in a dangerous race against a plot by German spies to destroy the British war effort. When Richard Hannay offers sanctuary to an American agent seeking his help in stopping a political assassination, he takes the first step on a trail of peril and espionage.

Lin “The Silent One” Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory - a dangerously addictive immersive simulation.

عندما طلبوا مني أن أقدم عددًا خاصًا بمناسبة مرور ثلاثين عامًا على صدور الروايات، تحمست بشدة.. كانت المغامرة رقم ثلاثين في حياة رفعت اسماعيل هي (بعد منتصف الليل). المغامرة رقم ثلاثين في حياة عبير عبد الرحمن هي (عبقري) وهي محاولة مضنية لاستكشاف عالم دستويفسكي. المغامرة رقم ثلاثين في حياة علاء عبد العظيم هي (قصاصات)، وهي تحكى عن تجربته مع قراءة الوجدان الجمعي لطبيب إسرائيلي.. ترى ماذا يمثله رقم ثلاثين لكل منهم؟

As war looms in Europe, Richard Hannay returns from Rhodesia to his home in London. His neighbor, an American freelance spy named Franklin Scudder, claims to know of an assassination plot to destabilize Europe. When Hannay finds Scudder dead in his flat, he is drawn into a fast-paced labyrinthine adventure that takes him from the hills of Scotland to an unassuming location by the sea.

John Buchan takes us back to Edwardian Britain on the eve of the First World War in the modern thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. An inexplicable murder drives the innocent Richard Hannay, on the run from a manhunt that never seems to end, to hide in remote Scottish moorland. Disguise and deception are his only weapons, as he struggles to decode the clues left by the murdered man to prevent the theft of naval secrets by an unfriendly foreign power.

Richard Hannay, Buchan's hero in this 1915 thriller, stumbles across a dark plot to attack England by the German Reich (of World War I vintage) but has to flee when his discovery becomes known. He then engages in several hot pursuits and narrow, if theatrical, escapes, but all's well that ends well.

The Thirty-Nine Steps begins John Buchan’s series of spy novels featuring adventurer Richard Hannay. Having just returned from South Africa, he finds life dull until a mysterious American tells him about an assassination plot before being murdered in Hannay’s London flat.

Война — это дуэль со смертью. Бой в тылу врага — бег с ней наперегонки. И порой удача значит больше, чем самые лучшие планы или совершенная техника. Вот только что делать, если удача закончилась? Попавшие в сорок первый год наши современники продолжают громить врага там, где он не ждет. И когда появляется выбор между жизнью и честью, каждый из них знает, как поступить. И пока у них остались силы, они будут идти вперед, наматывая врагов на гусеницы Т-34.

A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most...

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the...

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Lucille Ball, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and many more.

Written in 1915, Beyond Thirty is a fascinating tale of the future after World War I as seen from 1915 - as the carnage and slaughter on the fields of France stunned the world, and men of good will all wondered where civilization was headed. For Edgar Rice Burroughs, "The Great War" results in a two century division between the eastern and western hemispheres. Inhabitants of Pan-America are forbidden to cross the 30th parallel. Europe and the Old World are forever cut off from America.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of the five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of tricky situations.

May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life. But a shady man named Franklin Scudder calls on him for help. Scudder is a freelance spy who has just uncovered a German plot to murder the Greek Premier, thus forcing Europe into war. He is the only man living to have penetrated into the ring of German spies who call themselves the Black Stone. Scudder tells Hannay all he knows. The next day, Scudder is murdered in Hannay's apartment.

إنه شىء ما .. يتحرك .. يلاحقك .. تتساءل عن كنهه فلا تجد إجابة .. ربما كـان فى دارك .. ربما كان على باب غرفتك .. إنه شىء ما .. لا أحد يعرف ما هو .. والخطأ الجسيم أن تفترض أن المؤلف ذاته يعرف أى شىء عنه !

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Cary Grant, Eve Arden, Richard Crenna, and many more.

لم يكد المغامرون الخمسة تختخ ونوسة ومحب ولوزة وعاطف يعودون من إجازتهم الصيفية في بور سعيد حتى وجدوا رسالة من المفتش سامي يقول فيها: " أعزائي المغامرون الخمسة...

لغز المائة دولار اشترت عالية مجموعة من الكتب القديمة في مزاد، وبذلك أتاحت للمغامرين بداية لغز عجيب .. عصابة من بدو الصحراء تقوم بتزييف ورقة المائة دولارا.. ترى...

Five BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of John Buchan’s espionage thrillers featuring gentleman spy Richard Hannay. The forerunner to James Bond, Secret Agent Richard Hannay is a thoroughly British action hero, pursuing ruthless villains, foiling deadly plans and risking life and limb for his country. This gripping collection encompasses all five of Hannay’s adventures, adapted for radio with superb casts including Tom Baker, Clive Merrison, Stuart Milligan, Jasmine Hyde and Patrick Malahide.

ورقة صغيرة في صندوق القمامة عليها كلماتٌ قليلة ومع ذلك تكشف بداية لغزٍ مثير.. وراء هذه الورقة كان "محب" يبذل جهده وعندما وجدها أخيرًا لم يستطع التعرف عليها، وعندما...