An alternate cover edition can be found here.April 1943 - A Mitsubishi transport plane plunges from the sky over the island of Bougainville.On board is Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In a document case chained to his wrist is the greatest secret of the Second World War - a revelation with the potential to change the world if it is ever revealed.December 2011 - Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair celebrates the return of a Vermeer painting to its rightful owner, and the day turns even better when he's offered a lucrative commission. Not much can surprise Jamie, but he blinks when mining tycoon Keith Devlin reveals the object he wants him to find. How did the preserved head of a Solomon Island warrior end up in a German museum? And how is he supposed to discover what happened to it in 1945?The search takes Jamie from Berlin to Tokyo and with every turn the significance of the Bougainville skull becomes ever greater. Soon he realizes he's become involved in something much more important than finding a lost piece of history. Three thousand miles away, the answer lies in airless jungles that have already swallowed up one terrible conflict and are now being torn by a war the world isn't meant to know about . . .
James Douglas-Hamilton Boeken






Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair thought he knew his grandfather, but when he stumbles upon the old man's lost diary he's astonished to find that the gentle Anglican clergyman was a decorated hero who had served in the Special Air Service in World War Two. And his grandfather has one more surprise for him.
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Jamie Strings, a thirteen-year-old farm boy from Broken Creek, embraces a life of adventure in the great outdoors. He spends his days hunting, fishing, and mastering the skills needed to thrive off the land. With a close-knit family and a deep connection to nature, Jamie's idyllic life on the family farm is filled with exploration and self-discovery.
Iran is a tightly restricted, closed society-a situation that Jack Abramian, a superrich Californian with Armenian roots and business interests, desperately wants to change. From his huge industrial base in southern Armenia he conceives Operation Snowdrop, in which a handful of daredevil pilots drop 10 million ready-to-use mobile phones that float down on little parachutes on Iranian cities. Programmed with messages of freedom, they are an immediate challenge to the Mullahs' control, something that unsettles the country overnight. A hardcore group within the regime, however, fights first they stun the world with a nuclear explosion in the remote province of Baluchistan, then they initiate a plan to attack Israel with nuclear-armed missiles purchased from the dangerous Russian oligarch Oleg Nedjew.Can Jack Abramian free Armenia from international isolation by opening up Iran? Can hectic preparations by Iran to nuke Israel be stopped? Can pretty, young Sophie Kramer-who worked with the Zurich bank that launders Oleg Nedjew's arms-deal billions, and finds herself catapulted into the center of this deadly plot-outrun a ruthless hired killer? Will she finally prevail with the help of a few trusted friends in a breathless race against the clock?
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The Air Battle for Malta
The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot
This book provides an intriguing and realistic account of the struggle for the possession of Malta during World War II. The air battle raged for two and a half years during which time 14,000 tons of bombs were dropped on a defiant population.The history is based on the diaries of Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, the author's uncle, who was the leader of a Spitfire squadron that defended the island during the worst of the crisis.
Die Psychologin Leslie Palmer wird von einem verbrecherischen Doppelagenten gezwungen, in geheimer Mission als Doppelgängerin der First Lady den US-Präsidenten umzubringen, weil sonst ihre beiden Söhne getötet würden.
Gegen den unerbittlichen Feind Angst und Schrecken verbreiten sich im Südtessin. Der Islamische Staat (IS) hat Kämpfer in die Südschweiz eingeschleust. Sie morden, plündern, brandschatzen. Agent Ken Cooper nimmt einen zunächst vermeintlich harmlosen Auftrag an, doch rasch wird er in den Strudel der dramatischen Ereignisse gerissen und muss versuchen, eine Hinrichtung zu verhindern. Zusammen mit Kriminalbeamtin Jessica Ponte kämpft er sich hartnäckig durch die feindlichen Linien. Doch sie ahnen nicht, dass Verrat im Spiel ist. Die Verbindung zu einem in Libyen getöteten britischen MI6-Agenten verschafft Cooper im letzten Moment brisante Erkenntnisse, die das Blatt vielleicht wenden könnten. Doch die Uhr tickt unerbittlich.
Dieser Agenten-Roman bietet eine dramatische Handlung mit internationalen Geheimbünden, kriminellen Machenschaften, menschlichen Schicksalen sowie Themen wie Erpressung, Mord, Liebe und Verrat. Die Spannung bleibt bis zur letzten Seite erhalten, und das Buch endet überraschend. Es wurde ins Amerikanische übersetzt und für eine Verfilmung bei Paramount vorgesehen.



