The Most Dangerous Game
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
A thriller from the writer of "Blame the Dead", "Shooting Script", "Uncle Target", "Venus with Pistol", "Judas Country" and "Midnight Plus One".
Gavin Lyall Boeken
9 mei 1932 – 18 januari 2003
Gavin Lyall creëerde meeslepende thrillers die bekend stonden om hun nauwgezette technische nauwkeurigheid en sardonische humor. Zijn vertelstijl, vaak in de ik-persoon, deed denken aan het hard-boiled detectivegenre. Lyall was een veelzijdige schrijver, die schakelde tussen luchtvaartthrillers, internationale misdaadverhalen, spionageromans en semi-historische verhalen over de beginjaren van de Britse geheime dienst. Zijn toewijding aan onderzoek doordrenkte zijn werk met een unieke authenticiteit en spanning.
Midnight Plus One
- 304bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
'Breathless suspense ... taut action ... manages to achieve depth as a novel without ever letting up its adventurous pace ... A grand book for every le Carre reader' The New York Times Book Review
The assassination attempt on the American president in London bore the hallmark of the KGB. But with Britain about to hold unilateral talks with the Russians over Berlin, why should Moscow Centre rock the boat? Major Harry Maxim smelled conspiracy. Trouble was, nobody wanted to believe him. So the Major goes hunting, taking with him his old mentor from Downing Street days, George Harbinger, and another colleague from former times, the not so old and much more attractive Agnes Algar, MIS. It's all highly unofficial. But that doesn't stop Maxim shooting and pistol-whipping his way from London to East Berlin via the Cotswolds, Eastbourne and Illinois, until he finally tracks down the Crocus List - a group of earnest patriots playing God and soldiers to open the country's eyes to the Russian menace...
Thriller - A novel which works up to beautiful tension and ingenuity in Vienna, reached via London, Amsterdam, Zurich and Venice.
Set in 1912, the earliest days of the present British Sceret Service. These four linked stories take the reader from Cork to Paris, Kiel to Budapest and the death-throes of the AustroHungarian Empire. By the author of "The Wrong Side of the Sky", "Venus with Pistol" and "Blame the Dead".
Set against the backdrop of diverse battlefields, this volume of the Freedom's Battle trilogy delves into the harrowing experiences of warfare over the high seas, in Malta, and through desert confrontations, culminating in the struggle against Japan. The narrative offers intensely vivid accounts that capture the challenges faced by soldiers and the complexities of combat across different terrains, providing a comprehensive view of the multifaceted nature of war.
DIE WELT IST UNTER DIKTATOREN AUFGETEILT Die Erzählungen der ausgehenden sechziger und beginnenden siebziger Jahre liegen unter dem Titel „10000 Lichtjahre von zu Haus\" vor (HEYNE-BUCH Nr. 06/65). In diesem Band sind die Erzählungen der mittleren und späteren siebziger Jahre zusammengefaßt, darunter die berühmten Geschichten: HOUSTON, HOUSTON, BITTE MELDEN! (Hugo GernsbackAward 1976) IM RAUCH STIEG EWIG AUF EIN FLÜCHTIGES SEINSGEFÜHL DER PSYCHOLOGE, DER KEINE RATTEN QUÄLEN WOLLTE Mit einem Vorwort von Ursula K. Le Guin James Tiptree jr., unter diesem Pseudonym publizierte Alice Sheldon (1915-1987) ein Jahrzehnt lang aufsehenerregende Stories, die wiederholt Preise gewannen, mit denen diese geheimnisumwitterte Gestalt zu so etwas wie einer Kultfigur der SF-Szene der siebziger Jahre wurde. Deutsche Erstausgabe Science Fiction Contents: Your Haploid Heart (1969) And So On, and So On (1971) Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974) A Momentary Taste of Being (1975) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976) The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976) She Waits for All Men Born (1976)
