Piero Spinelli Boeken

A tale of spies and betrayal in the Second World War. Germany, 1944. The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitler's last spies in Britain - Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders . . . British intelligence also has its orders, and academic Alfred Vicary has been recruited by Churchill himself to carry them out. It is his job to find Catherine and stop her before it is too late. But whose side are his own people on?

In the bleak winter term of 1954 something terrible happens at Kirkston Abbey School for Boys. Forty years later a journalist hovers near the truth, buried long ago by the panicked authorities. Kirkston Abbey is no place for the weak: its rules are harsh and its discipline savage. So the struggling Jonathan Palmer cannot believe his luck when Richard Rokeby - tough, handsome, aloof - befriends him. But Rokeby's possessive friendship is suffocating and, what starts out as an innocent game amongst friends, takes a shocking turn as Palmer finds himself powerless to stop Rokeby from unleashing a horrifying fate on them all. A brilliantly clever psychological thriller, The Wishing Game launched Redmond to his bestseller status.

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising . Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism. It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA. By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.

"Il più grande impianto petrolifero della Siberia salta in aria: sabotaggio. Il Politburo sovietico decide di attuare il piano segreto denominato "Uragano Rosso". Gli occidentali però conoscono le intenzioni dei comandanti dell'Armata Rossa, e allora... la terza guerra mondiale"

Nel college di Kirkston Abbey era accaduto qualcosa di sinistro. A scatenare forze distruttive nel tempio della migliore borghesia era stata la strana amicizia tra due studenti: il fragile Jonathan, vittima dei compagni e dei professori, e il diabolico Richard, dotato di un carisma ai limiti dell'umano. Erano come le due metà di una cosa sola, ed era destino che diventassero inseparabili. Poi un gioco malefico aveva preso loro la mano... Dopo tanti anni, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto a quegli eventi ha deciso di liberarsi la coscienza dal peso di una verità insostenibile. Ma il mondo è pronto ad ascoltarlo?