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Eduardo G. Murillo

    The Phantom of Manhattan
    De Historicus
    Het Bernini Mysterie
    Semana Santa
    El Imperio del Agua
    • El Imperio del Agua

      • 715bladzijden
      • 26 uur lezen

      Per Dirk Pitt, una vita senza avventura non è degna di essere vissuta. Questa volta l'avventura si chiama Qin Shang, un abietto cinese privo di scrupoli e avido di ricchezze che ha fondato il proprio impero sul contrabbando di droga, di armi e soprattutto di vite umane, la sua merce di scambio preferita, al centro di loschi traffici d'immigrazione illegale. Qin Shang è disposto a qualsiasi cosa pur d'impadronirsi del relitto di una misteriosa nave carica di capolavori dell'antica arte cinese razziati da Chiang Kaishek durante la sua fuga dalla Cina e comprendente i resti preziosissimi del cosiddetto uomo di Pechino. La formidabile squadra della NUMA, comandata da Dirk Pitt, non ha però alcuna intenzione di stare a guardare. Seguendo le tracce di Qin Shang ha costruito un'enorme installazione portuale in una zona lontana dalle comuni rotte commerciali. Perché ha scelto un luogo così improbabile? Che cosa si nasconde dietro quell'impresa? Mentre si prepara la drammatica resa dei conti finale, una sola cosa è sicura. Pitt ha di fronte il più pericoloso nemico che abbia mai incontrato...

      El Imperio del Agua
      4,4
    • Semana Santa

      • 431bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      The mysteries of internationally best-selling author David Hewson are renowned for deft plotting and skillful accumulation of detail and atmosphere. Semana Santa finds Hewson in fine form, delivering a compelling novel infused with the sights and sounds of southern Spain. Semana Santa (Holy Week) fills the streets with gawking tourists and thousands upon thousands of hooded penitents. The week gets off to a grisly start, though, with the most unholy discovery of a double murder. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez is only supposed to observe the subsequent investigation, but the police are stretched way too thin, and Maria is soon following a trail of clues that may lead to her own demise. (from the audiobook cover)

      Semana Santa
      3,8
    • Een verzoening tussen wetenschap en religie wordt geblokkeerd door een eeuwenoude geheime broederschap, een verwoestend nieuw wapen en een onvoorstelbaar doelwit.

      Het Bernini Mysterie
      4,0
    • De Historicus

      Oude manuscripten, middeleeuwse kloosters en een eeuwenlang bewaard geheim...

      • 709bladzijden
      • 25 uur lezen

      Op een avond, thuis in Amsterdam, vindt een 16-jarig meisje in de bibliotheek van haar vader een vreemd boek en enkele brieven. Op zoek naar het waarom van deze verontrustende brieven stapt ze een wereld vol intriges binnen en maakt kennis met vier historici die ieder hun reputatie en zelfs hun leven op het spel zetten om een middeleeuws geheim te ontcijferen dat tot op de dag van vandaag een bedreiging vormt.

      De Historicus
      3,8
    • The Phantom of Manhattan

      • 177bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera . In The Phantom of Manhattan , acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux's brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera ... More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soon thereafter, his intense, unrequited love for a beautiful chorus girl set in motion a tragic string of events, forcing him to flee Paris forever. Now, as she lies dying in a convent, Madam Giry tells the untold story of the Phantom and his clandestine journey to New York City to start anew, where he would become a wealthy entrepreneur and build the glorious Manhattan Opera House...all so he could see his beloved, now a famous diva, once again. But the outcome of her visit would prove even more devastating than before-- and yet, would allow the Phantom to know, for the first time in his brutal life, the true meaning of love...

      The Phantom of Manhattan
      2,9