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The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.Revolution is in the air1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert.Kingsbridge is on the edgeUnprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart.Tyranny is on the horizonNow, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal’s inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression. . .Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light is master storyteller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date.

1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other.[Bokinfo].

Wat als het gevaarlijkste wapen ter wereld een tiener blijkt te zijn? Het voormalige hoofd van de Britse geheime dienst Adrian Weston wordt midden in de nacht wakker gebeld door de premier. Haar bericht is schokkend: de strengst beveiligde firewalls ter wereld, van het Pentagon, de NSA en de CIA, zijn tegelijkertijd gehackt door een hacker met de bijnaam 'De Vos'. Nog schokkender is dat De Vos een zeventienjarige Britse scholier blijkt te zijn, zonder kwaad in de zin. De jongen beschikt gewoon over een geniale geest. De Amerikaanse veiligheidsdiensten willen dat De Vos wordt uitgeleverd, maar Adrian heeft andere plannen. In een race tegen de klok moet hij voorkomen dat de jongen in vijandelijke handen valt. Want dan zijn de gevolgen ondenkbaar...

Gennaio 1558, Kingsbridge. Quando il giovane Ned Willard fa ritorno a casa si rende conto che il suo mondo sta per cambiare radicalmente. Solo la vecchia cattedrale sopravvive immutata, testimone di una città lacerata dal conflitto religioso. Tutti i principi di lealtà, amicizia e amore verranno sovvertiti. Figlio di un ricco mercante protestante, Ned vorrebbe sposare Margery Fitzgerald, figlia del sindaco cattolico della città, ma il loro amore non basta a superare le barriere degli opposti schieramenti religiosi. Costretto a lasciare Kingsbridge, Ned viene ingaggiato da Sir William Cecil, il consigliere di Elisabetta Tudor, futura regina di Inghilterra. Dopo la sua incoronazione, la giovane e determinata Elisabetta I vede tutta l'Europa cattolica rivoltarsi contro di lei, prima tra tutti Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia. Decide per questo di creare una rete di spionaggio per proteggersi dai numerosi attacchi dei nemici decisi a eliminarla e contrastare i tentativi di ribellione e invasione del suo regno. Il giovane Ned diventa così uno degli uomini chiave del primo servizio segreto britannico della storia. Per quasi mezzo secolo il suo amore per Margery sembra condannato, mentre gli estremisti religiosi seminano violenza ovunque. In gioco, allora come oggi, non sono certo le diverse convinzioni religiose, ma gli interessi dei tiranni che vogliono imporre a qualunque costo il loro potere su tutti coloro che credono invece nella tolleranza e nel compromesso.

A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realise it is just a warning of greater devastation to come.

It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the 'privileged few'? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done - that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn't stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk - it could be the future of the entire country.

Inferno is het zesde boek van bestsellerauteur Dan Brown en het vierde boek met in de hoofdrol professor Robert Langdon, hoogleraar kunstgeschiedenis en symboliek. In Inferno reis je met Langdon mee naar Florence, waar hij de strijd aangaat met een gevaarlijk genie met een apocalyptisch wereldbeeld en een obsessie voor het duistere meesterwerk Inferno van Dante Alighieri. Dan Brown is een van de succesvolste thrillerauteurs ter wereld. In zijn fenomenale bestsellers De Da Vinci Code, Het Bernini Mysterie en Het Verloren Symbool, allemaal met Robert Langdon als hoofdpersoon, vermengde Dan Brown op meesterlijke wijze geschiedenis, kunst, codes en symbolen met een razend spannend verhaal. Met Inferno bevindt Brown zich op vertrouwd terrein en heeft hij zijn gewaagdste boek tot nu toe geschreven.

Il caso è sotto gli occhi dei media e delle autorità cittadine, in gergo si dice «un caso ad alta visibilità». Sono stati rapiti in rapida successione tre ragazzi, tre rampolli di famiglie molto ricche di New York, che frequentavano scuole prestigiose e avevano una vita serena e normale. Finché qualcuno non l’ha interrotta brutalmente. I primi due infatti sono stati già restituiti alle famiglie dal misterioso e spietato rapitore. Morti. Nessuna richiesta di riscatto è mai stata inviata ai parenti: l’assassino ha scritto solo messaggi confusi, inneggianti a una fumosa giustizia sociale, ma nessuno riesce a capire il suo piano. Un caso molto difficile, che richiede tutta l’abilità del detective Michael Bennett, e che mette a dura prova il suo cuore di padre vedovo: le vittime, tutte giovanissime, gli ricordano la sua numerosa famiglia composta da dieci amatissimi figli adottivi. Ma quando da Washington interviene anche l’FBI, nella persona dell’affascinante agente Emily Parker, a complicarsi non sono solo le indagini, ma anche la vita sentimentale di Bennett...

"A weapon of unspeakable power... A madman holds the world

De start van een nieuwe avonturenreeks Al tientallen jaren genieten miljoenen lezers van de boeken van bestsellerauteur Clive Cussler. Maak nu kennis met detective Isaac Bell in Cusslers overrompelende thrillerreeks. 1950. Het verroeste gevaarte van een stoomlocomotief rijst op uit de diepte van een meer in Montana. In de locomotief bevinden zich de resten van drie mannen die vierenveertig jaar geleden zijn gestorven. 1906. Al twee jaar worden de westelijke staten van Amerika geteisterd door een misdaadgolf: een reeks bankroven, gepleegd door een man die koelbloedig alle getuigen vermoordt en daarna spoorloos verdwijnt. De Amerikaanse regering schakelt de hulp in van Isaac Bell, een lange, magere detective met een geduchte reputatie. Bell zet de jacht in " van Arizona via Colorado naar San Francisco " op de sluwe misdadiger en op de vrouw die de sleutel in handen heeft van de identiteit van de bandiet