When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada and of the latest type of...
Der junge Römer Caius wird an der Seite eines engen Vertrauten des Kaisers Augustus mit einem Sonderauftrag zur Armee des Legaten Publius Quinctilius Varus nach Germanien geschickt. Dabei kommt er hinter ein ungeheuerliches Geheimnis: Varus...
As they listened to the death throes of their sister ship Mako sinking in the Pacific where the waters were six miles deep, the crew of USS Eelfish suddenly came of age. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and...
A TROUBLED TOWN, A DEADLY SECRET
"You're not wanted in Hattanâ's Point", Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. "There's trouble here and men are picking sides". But Matt decided he wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out what...
Tales of a blind man, written down by an imbecile. Such is the genesis of the Bible in this raucous, unsettling account of recent and not-so-recent history with its richly entwined odysseys:
Plantagenet Strongbow, twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset,...
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby second-rate musicians, in order to save an innocent family from death. But Citizen Chauvelin is hot on their heels, and still looking for revenge against his bitter...
This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had...