From the bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping, gripping tale set in the dark, violent storm of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, an extraordinary woman, and an American Mafia overlord parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily to convince the Sicilian Mafian king to back invading American forces.
"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.
De dochter van een denkbeeldige president van de Verenigde Staten wordt gegijzeld door Israëlische fanatici die de vernietiging van Irak, Iran en Syrië willen afdwingen.
Een voormalig majoor van het Engelse leger moet via wapenleveranties in de Ira zien te infiltreren.
Met een in Groenland neergestort vliegtuig blijkt meer aan de hand te zijn dan aanvankelijk werd gedacht.
Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.
Political Forces and Social Classes - Revised and Updated New Edition
As Northern Ireland braces itself for a return to conflict after eighteen months of peace, the new edition of this path-breaking study could scarcely be more timely. Covering the entire period between partition and the end of the IRA's ceasefire in 1996, the authors take issue with the stereotypes which portray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly alienated from the political establishment. Three of Ireland's most respected historians have written an accessible yet sophisticated history which shows how the divisions between the old Orange elite and the broader Protestant population created an explosive political dynamic. Using a wide range of primary sources, they lay bare the key issues of Northern Ireland's history from the establishment of the B Specials after partition to the stark realities of Direct Rule from London.'Revisionist' history has been much discussed in recent years. In an Irish context this does not mean denying past realities, but reassessing the country's history in a way which acknowledges the importance of specifically Irish factors in bringing about historical change rather than laying responsibility for all Ireland's woes at England's door. This highly acclaimed study is a landmark in that new history.
