Tom Rob Smith Boeken

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...

Sovjet-Unie, 1956. Stalin is dood. Na zijn overlijden ontstaat een maatschappij waarin de ordehandhavers misdadig zijn en de misdadigers onschuldig. Alles raakt in een stroomversnelling als de geheime rede, opgesteld door Stalins opvolger Chroesjtsjov verspreid wordt. Stalin was een tiran en een moordenaar, is de boodschap en er zal veel veranderen in de Sovjet-Unie, is de belofte. Maar niet iedereen is in staat om de dingen die gebeurd zijn te vergeven of te vergeten. Er zijn krachten aan het werk die op een verschrikkelijke wraak uit zijn. Ook voormalig MGB-officier Leo Demidov wordt geconfronteerd met verontrustende ontwikkelingen. De twee meisjes die zijn vrouw Raisa en hij hebben geadopteerd, hebben hem zijn betrokkenheid bij de moord op hun ouders nog niet vergeven. En ze staan daarin niet alleen.

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An ambitious, cinematic thriller unfolds as humanity faces an unprecedented crisis. A mysterious, omnipotent force has taken control of the planet, issuing a stark ultimatum: humanity has thirty days to reach Antarctica, the only place where they can survive. This fast-paced narrative follows a group of survivors as they embark on a frantic exodus to the harshest environment on Earth. Their journey is not just about survival; they must confront the daunting challenge of evolving rapidly enough to secure a future for humanity. As they navigate the icy landscape, they grapple with the remnants of their past and the urgent need to build a new society in sub-zero conditions. Original and imaginative, this story is both profoundly intimate and grand in scope. Praised by critics, it is described as a remarkable achievement, chilling, and hypnotic, with a masterful plot that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The tension is palpable, and the stakes are high as the characters strive to reinvent civilization against overwhelming odds. This unforgettable epic promises to be a powerful page-turner that will resonate long after the final page is turned.

Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself.

From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's A Perfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

From the bestselling author of Child 44, a virtuosic, highly-anticipated new novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors trying to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist . . . Antarctica. Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most inhospitable environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. While they cling to life on the ice, the vestiges of their past swept away, they must also confront the most urgent of challenges: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the cold? Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a truly masterful epic.

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From the bestselling author of Child 44 and The Farm, a gripping and emotional contemporary thriller about an unexpected romance between two people from very different worlds: one from the high-powered ranks of investment banking and the other from a hard partying world of clubbing and youthful excess. Danny—gregarious, hedonistic, and romantic—falls in love with the enigmatic and brilliant Alex. Then Alex disappears. When Danny finds Alex’s body, he is forced to pursue the truth behind his death. This volume of complete scripts is a brilliant companion to the award-winning BBC series.

Svazek obsahuje zkrácené verze čtyř úspěšných románů od renomovaných angloamerických autorů, doplněné stručnými informacemi o jejich tvůrcích. 1) V Londýně se náhodně střetnou dva muži z opačných konců společnosti, nevzdělaný automechanik a začínající advokát. Jejich dramatické setkání vyústí v soudní spor, který pro jednoho z nich skončí nespravedlivým odsouzením. Ve vězení začne spřádat plán pomsty. 2) Představte si možnost změnit svůj život od základů – zkrotit neposlušné kudrny, srovnat křivé zuby, dosáhnout skvělého postavení v práci a vzít si milionáře. Lexi Smartová se brzy dozví, zda je takový život skutečně šťastnější. 3) Lev Děmidov, agent státní bezpečnosti, odmítne udat vlastní ženu a oba jsou vyhnáni na Sibiř, kde je Lev degradován. Zde se účastní vyšetřování úmrtí dívky, které nápadně připomíná smrt jiného dítěte v Moskvě. Lev se rozhodne pátrat po sériovém vrahovi sám, přestože ve stalinském Rusku oficiálně "neexistuje zločin". 4) Třiatřicetiletá televizní reportérka Tiel McCoyová se vydává na dovolenou do Nového Mexika, když zaslechne zprávu o únosu dcery texaského milionáře. Z benzínové stanice volá svému šéfovi a ocitá se v situaci, která může být největší reportérskou kauzou jejího života, pokud ovšem vyvázne živá.