Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators....
Richard and Robin Mariner are in Long Beach, California, to oversee the arrival of their container ship, Sulu Queen, before joining their friend Nic Greenbaum aboard his fifty-million-dollar motor yacht as he races his daughter Liberty in an...
Haggard’s penultimate novel! His cousin Algernon was different indeed. To begin with, his attire was faultless, made by the best tailor in London and apparently put on new that moment. Within this perfect outer casing was a short, pale-eyed,...
The year is 1884. A 10-year-old British boy has come to visit his uncle’s Wyoming spread, just as the vicious Yellow Kerchief Gang has the ranch under siege. Outgunned and outmatched, a British rancher is willing to pay $5000 for help. That is...
Master and God by Lindsey Davis
From New York Times bestselling novelist Lindsey Davis comes an epic novel of first-century Rome and the Emperor Domitian, known to all of the Roman world as Master and God
Set in the reign of the...
Die Handlung setzt 1866 in Triest ein. Die mittellosen Gauner Sarcany und Zirone finden auf einem ihrer Spaziergänge durch die Stadt eine Brieftaube, die eine Geheimbotschaft befördert. Sarcany will sehen, ob sie aus der Botschaft Kapital...
1806 — Vizeadmiral Sir Richard Bolitho hat das Kap der Guten Hoffnung von den Holländern zurückerobert. Aber in London ist man von dieser Leistung nicht sonderlich beeindruckt, dort ist er wegen seiner Affäre mit Lady Catherine Sommervell...
Original as ever, Mr. Wheatley has produced a new type of hero in Robbie Grenn, a charming but mentally retarded young man who, owing to an injury when young, has never been to school, and is regarded by his family as almost a moron. Espionage...