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Paul Adam

    1 januari 1958

    Paul Adam is de veelgeprezen auteur van elf thrillers voor volwassenen, die wereldwijd wijdverspreid zijn verkocht en in meerdere buitenlandse talen zijn vertaald. Hij schreef ook de Max Cassidy-serie, thrillers gericht op kinderen. Daarnaast heeft Paul Adam scripts geschreven voor televisie en film. Zijn verhalende stijl en complexe plotontwikkeling creëren een meeslepende spanning voor de lezer.

    Enemy Within
    Shadow Chasers
    Sleeper
    Paganini's Ghost
    Escape from Shadow Island. A Max Cassidy Adventure
    De onzalige drie eenheid
    • Practical Bookbinding

      • 152bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      Focusing on the art of bookbinding, this republished edition of a classical work aims to preserve its significance for future generations. The text has been reformatted and retyped for clarity, ensuring a readable and accessible format, rather than relying on scanned copies. This modern edition reflects a commitment to maintaining the legacy of bookbinding techniques throughout history.

      Practical Bookbinding2024
    • Max, a typical schoolboy by day and a successful escapologist by night, discovers that his mother, convicted of murder, may be innocent. A mysterious man named Lopez-Vega reveals the trial's rigging, but when Max seeks him out, he finds Lopez-Vega dead in a hotel.

      Escape from Shadow Island. A Max Cassidy Adventure2011
      4,3
    • Paganini's Ghost

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione searches for a long-lost instrument that was possessed by famed violinist Niccolo Paganini. Full of remarkable history and musical lore, "Paganini's Ghost" will enchant music lovers and Italophiles alike.

      Paganini's Ghost2011
      3,9
    • Nesvatou trojici v tomto románu představuje věčné město Řím, smrt a politika. Prolínají se v něm dvě časové linie. Celý příběh začíná na konci války a důsledky tehdejších dějů se projevují v současnosti. Hlavní hrdiny, vyšetřující soudkyni Elenu Fiorini a anglického novinářeAndy Chapmana, zavede pátrání po vrahovi „Rudého kněze“ mezi neofašisty, do nejvyšších pater politiky i do Vatikánu a jeho tajných archivů. Rafinovaná zápletka, napětí až do poslední stránky, plastické zachycení prostředí dnešního Říma i historická věrohodnost – to jsou přednosti tohoto politického thrilleru.

      Nesvatá trojice2007
      3,5
    • Enemy Within

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      This is a thriller from the author of 'Unholy Trinity' and 'Flash Point', in which an innocent man's life is wrecked. But he can't work out who has done it until he understands why he's been targeted.

      Enemy Within2006
      3,6
    • Sleeper

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Rainaldi was a violin-maker and when he was discovered slumped over his workbench, murdered with one of his own chisels, both the police and his friends are at a loss to discover a motive.

      Sleeper2005
      3,8
    • Flash Point

      • 496bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Maggie Walsh, a freelance photo-journalist with a penchant for dangerous situations, receives a tip that the Dalai Lama is dead. In McLeod Ganj, home of the Tibetan community in exile, she confirms the truth of the tip, but before she can get out with her photographs, she is apprehended. While detained, she gets to know a young monk, and when he announces he is going into Tibet to follow the oracle to find the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, she persuades him to take her with him. It is the beginning of an extraordinary physical and spiritual adventure as they first locate the newly born child, and then attempt to return to McLeod Ganj without alerting the Chinese.

      Flash Point2003
      3,5
    • Shadow Chasers

      • 448bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      British Customs officer, Rob Sullivan, is on secondment to Brussels where a tiny unit from the EU's member states is supposed to tackle all excise duty crime in Europe. Much of his work is either boring or frustrating, but now all his leads seem to result in his witnesses meeting with "accidents".

      Shadow Chasers2001
      3,5
    • De onzalige drie eenheid

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Een Britse journalist en een Italiaanse vrouwelijke onderzoeksrechter onderzoeken de moord op een progressief en sociaal bewogen priester.

      De onzalige drie eenheid1999
      3,0