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Glenn Meade

    21 juni 1957

    Glenn Meade is een meester in intrigerende thrillers die feiten en fictie vakkundig met elkaar verweven. Zijn werken, geprezen en vertaald in talrijke talen, zijn het resultaat van diepgaand onderzoek en uitzonderlijke verbeeldingskracht. Meade schuwt controversiële onderwerpen niet en biedt lezers meeslepende verhalen met een wereldwijde impact. Zijn kenmerkende stijl en zijn vermogen om de lezer onder te dompelen, maken hem tot een toonaangevende stem in de hedendaagse thrillerliteratuur.

    Romanov Conspiracy. A Novel
    Resurrection day
    De tweede messias
    De Sfinx van Sakkara
    De jacht
    Sneeuwwolf
    • Sneeuwwolf

      • 592bladzijden
      • 21 uur lezen

      Enero de 1953 Eisenhower está a punto de ser investido presidente de Estados Unidos en un momento en que la guerra fría se encuentra en su punto más álgido. Los informes que se reciben desde el otro lado del telón de acero sobre la salud mental de Stalin son cada vez más alarmantes y se teme que reinicie sus horribles purgas. William Massey, periodista de investigación, descubre unos documentos escondidos en la antigua casa de su difunto padre. El hallazgo no sólo revela que la muerte se su padre no fue un suicidio, como le hicieron creer, si no que además fue un miembro activo de la CIA que desapareció en Rusia durante una operación secreta. La investigación le lleva a desenmascarar una trama urdida más de cuarenta años atrás y que aún permanece en el más estricto secreto. Una estratagema en la que el sanguinario dictador Stalin, el político más poderoso de la época, era el objetivo a exterminar, y el padre de Massey el hombre encargado de la ejecución. Con una idea fija en la mente, el agente secreto recorrió la gélida estepa rusa acosado por dos organizaciones bien distintas: una era previsible, la otra, sin lugar a dudas, no.

      Sneeuwwolf
      4,3
    • De jacht

      • 443bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      After a massacre at a Bosnian prison camp, a young girl is found traumatized and clutching a diary. Twenty years later, the last witness to the guards' brutal crimes must uncover the truth about her family. Following the fall of Yugoslavia, the world witnessed the horrors of 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia, where countless lives were lost. Carla Lane, unaware of her past, is living a seemingly perfect life in New York City, soon to start her own family. However, her world shatters when her husband is murdered by Serbian war criminals, prompting buried memories to resurface. Extensive childhood therapy had helped her suppress these memories, but her mother’s diary unlocks the truth: she and her family were imprisoned in a camp outside Sarajevo. As her recollections return, she realizes she is the last witness to a massacre and that her brother may still be alive. Determined to find him, she must first confront the war criminals who destroyed her life. These killers will go to great lengths to maintain their anonymity and silence the last witness to their atrocities. This gripping thriller promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

      De jacht
      4,2
    • De Sfinx van Sakkara

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Ondanks de meest uitgebreide veiligheidsmaatregelen ontdekt een Duitse spion, bijgenaamd de Sfinx, dat de geallieerden een topontmoeting in Caïro voorbereiden. Onmiddelijk bekrachtigt Adolf Hitler een vermetel plan: een moordaanslag op Franklin D. Roosevelt en Winston Churchill tijdens hun geheime ontmoeting in Caïro. Majoor Johann Halder, een van de briljanste agenten van de Abwehr, wordt samen met een uitgelezen undercoverteam en de jonge egyptologe Rachel Stern gedropt in een vijandige woestijn en begint een race tegen de klok om Caïro op tijd te bereiken en de aanslag succesvol uit te voeren. Als de militaire inlichtingendienst van de Verenigde Staten erachter komt dat Roosevelt en Churchill doelwit zijn van een moordaanslag, krijgt luitenant-kolonel Harry Weaver de opdracht Halder en zijn team op te sporen en te elimineren. Maar zowel voor Weaver, als voor Halder en Rachel staat er meer op het spel dan oorlog en het leven van de twee leiders ... Ooit sloten zij drieën bij de pyramide van Sakkara een verbond dat op het punt staat om tot het uiterste getest te worden tijdens een razend spannende wedloop naar de dood.

      De Sfinx van Sakkara
      3,9
    • De tweede messias

      • 480bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      Twintig jaar nadat zijn ouders een belangrijke Dode Zeerol vonden, die na een mysterieus ongeluk verdwenen is, vindt een archeoloog opnieuw een tweeduizend jaar oud document.

      De tweede messias
      3,8
    • Resurrection day

      • 742bladzijden
      • 26 uur lezen

      The world's most powerful man...held to ransom by the world's most wanted terrorist. A chilling message is delivered to the US president by the world's most wanted terrorist - a message that begins a daring siege, and America's worst nightmare. A terrorist cell hidden deep in the American capitol is ready to unleash a terrifying new secret weapon of mass destruction - one so powerful it can decimate Washington and tear apart the Russian Federation - unless their demands are met within seven days. When Washington and Moscow agree a joint plan to hunt down the terrorists and neutralise their threat before the deadline expires, FBI counter-terrorist expert Jack Collins is put in charge of the manhunt alongside Alexei Kursk, one of Russia's top investigators. For them the hunt is personal...

      Resurrection day
      4,1
    • "Dr. Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to shed light on one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. A member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed in July 1918, Pavlov discovers a body perfectly preserved in the permafrost of a disused mine shaft. The remains offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs, and in particular their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been in question. Pavlov's discovery sets her on an unlikely journey to Ireland, where a carefully hidden account of a years-old covert mission is about to change the accepted course of world history and hurl her back into the past - into a maelstrom of deceit, secrets, and lies. Drawn from historical fact, The Romanov Conspiracy is a high-tension story of love and friendship tested by war, and a desperate battle between revenge and redemption, set against one of the most bloody and brutal revolutions in world history."--Publisher

      Romanov Conspiracy. A Novel
      4,0
    • Brandenburg

      • 678bladzijden
      • 24 uur lezen

      A political activist is shot in Berlin. In Paraguay a smuggler is killed in a hit-and-run incident. An elderly businessman then commits suicide in his Asuncion mansion. Journalist Rudi Hernandez is convinced that the deaths are linked. But soon Hernandez too is brutally murdered.

      Brandenburg
      3,9
    • The Devil's Disciple

      • 569bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      Kate Moran, 30, is an FBI agent. The day before she is due to marry her fiancé, he and his twelve-year-old daughter are abducted and murdered by Constantine Gamal, otherwise known as The Devil's Disciple, a serial killer obsessed with black magic and ritualistic double-killings. Equally obsessively, Moran tracks Gamal down and brings him to trial. Two years later, just before his execution is carried out, he promises he will return - not in hell but in this life - and destroy her. Now the double killings have started all over again. When Kate is assigned the case she treats it as a copycat killing, but then evidence raises the shocking possibility that Gamal may have escaped execution after all. On top of this, as the murders get closer to home she realises he is not the only one who is determined to plot vengeance against her . . .

      The Devil's Disciple
      3,9
    • New York lawyer Jennifer March is haunted by nightmares following her family's murder and her father's disappearance. Two years later, her father's body is discovered in the Swiss Alps' glacial ice, prompting Jennifer to embark on a dramatic quest for the truth and a fight for survival.

      Web of Deceit. Projekt Wintermond, englische Ausgabe
      3,7
    • Branderburg

      • 544bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      From the highly acclaimed international bestselling author Glenn Meade comes a riveting and spellbinding new thriller. In Berlin a political activist is gunned down in the street. In Paraguay a smuggler is killed in a hit-and-run. And then an elderly German businessman puts a gun in his mouth in his luxurious South American mansion. Joseph Volkmann, a member of an elite European security force, finds himself drawn into the mystery of the brutal deaths, investigating a link between the seemingly random cases that cost the journalist who connected them his life.For Volkmann a painful journey lies ahead, leading him from barren Mexican ranches to Italian ports and abandoned German monestaries, a journey that will force him to confront his own ghosts and a people he has long mistrusted. At first Volkmann has little to go on-only an inconclusive taped conversation and the charred remains of an old, torn black-and-white photograph that may hold the key to a momentous, horrific plan promising to turn the clock of European history back half a century. What makes this plan all the more terrifying is that it may reflect actual events unfolding today.Heralded by critics and fans as the next Robert Ludlum or Frederick Forsyth, Glenn Meade has done it again with Brandenburg–a sizzling read, packed with action, great characters, and an engaging story.

      Branderburg