BuchDer amerikanische Privatdetektiv John Gowers ist schon viel herumgekommen, als ihn eine Mörderjagd 1867 bis ans Ende der Welt führt – von Australien bis ins abenteuerliche Neuseeland. Dort gerät er in die blutigen Wirren der letzten Maorikriege, ausgetragen zwischen den neuseeländischen Ureinwohnern und den europäischen Siedlern. Doch weder der deutsche Söldnerführer von Tempsky noch seine Kontrahenten Titokowaru und Te Kooti Arikirangi können den »Investigator« von der unerbittlichen Verfolgung seines Ziels abbringen.Ein Gefangenenaufstand, den der Amerikaner unterstützt, erinnert ihn an ein düsteres Kapitel der Vergangenheit, und er führt in eine zehn Jahre vergangene, noch dunklere Zeit – in der John Gowers als junger Mississippilotse nicht nur die Liebe, sondern auch den Tod kennenlernte …AutorDaniel Twardowski alias Christoph Becker, geboren 1962, studierte Literatur-und Medienwissenschaften. Nach diversen Tätigkeiten, unter anderem als Universitätsdozent und Aktfotograf, lebt der Autor heute als freier Schriftsteller in Marburg. 2003 erhielt er den Förderpreis zum Literaturpreis Ruhrgebiet, 2005 das DaimlerChrysler-Stipendium der Casa di Goethe in Rom, 2006 den Oberhausener Literaturpreis und 2007 den Deutschen Kurzkrimipreis für »Nachtzug«.

Ktoś zdradza plany Rosjan w wojnie z Turcją. Podejrzenia padają na narzeczonego emancypantki Warwary Suworowej. Na szczęście w pobliżu jest detektyw Erast Fandorin…Druga powieść z cyklu kryminałów, których bohaterem jest detektyw Erast Fandorin.Rok 1877. Do Bułgarii, gdzie toczy się wojna z Turkami, w ślad za narzeczonym Pietią jedzie Waria, rosyjska emancypantka. W dramatycznych okolicznościach poznaje Fandorina, który w walce szuka zapomnienia po stracie ukochanej. Tajemniczy agent uprzedza Turków o planach Rosjan, podejrzenie pada zaś na Pietię. Aby ratować niewinnego przyjaciela, Fandorin i Waria gorączkowo szukają prawdziwego zdrajcy…

**"As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they didn't get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work, will not or cannot** **take a bow or even talk about their missions."**

**-- Brian Kilmeade**

When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied--thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring.

Washington realized that he couldn't beat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York. So carefully guarded were the members' identities that one spy's name was not uncovered until the twentieth century, and...

General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble - his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed “Giotto”, is behind a string of thefts has aroused the scorn of his rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying women provides clues.

Berlin,1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. The American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he soon finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war.

Meanwhile Rath’s on-off girlfriend, Charly, lets a young woman she is interrogating escape, and soon her investigations cross Rath’s from the other side. Berlin is a divided city where two worlds are about to collide: the world of the American gangster and the expanding world of Nazism.

Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages “Christoph Ganz” to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece.

Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel’s claimed losses are large, and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place.

Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He’s kept that man’s name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice...

Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases — new and old — to bed. But there’s a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens... one who may have never left.