Stanley Johnson’s Kompromat is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016’s seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the Atlantic.The UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU was a political showdown the British PM, Jeremy Hartley, thought he couldn’t lose. But the next morning both he and the whole of the rest of the country woke in a state of shock.America meanwhile has its own unlikely Presidential candidate, the brash showman Ronald Craig, a man that nobody thought could possibly gain office. Throw into the mix the cunning Russian President Igor Popov, with his plans to destabilise the west, and you have a brilliant alternative account of the events that end with Britain’s new PM attempting to seek her own mandate to deal with the Brexit related crisis and America welcoming its own new leader.Now in development for a major new TV series, Kompromat is a fast-paced thriller from a true political insider, and who knows, it just might all be true!

Un écrivain professionnel est engagé pour rédiger les mémoires d'Adam Lang, le Premier ministre britannique resté le plus longtemps en exercice, et le plus controversé, de ces cinquante dernières années. Un projet périlleux sur lequel planent de nombreuses zones d'ombre et notamment la mort curieuse du précédent rédacteur…A peine mis au travail, l'écrivain découvre des secrets que Lang n'a guère l'intention de révéler.Des secrets explosifs susceptibles de bouleverser la politique mondiale… Des secrets susceptibles de tuer. Danger, oppression, panique : la tension monte.« Pas étonnant que Polanski se soit jeté dessus. Il y a là tout pour réaliser un grand film. »François Vey — Le Parisien / Aujourd’hui en France« Robert Harris (…) est un maître du suspense doublé d’un humoriste pince-sans-rire, et son livre se lit d’une traite. »B. de C. — Valeurs Actuelles

“THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!”

It all happened so fast: the terrorist bombings of Congress which killed nearly a hundred senators and congressmen; the incredible kidnapping of the President-Elect, Clifford Fairlie.

Tough, veteran agent David Lime was summoned to track down the kidnappers, who threatened to kill Fairlie if the captured terrorists were not set free. And behind the scenes, ruthless men battled for the glory of the highest office in the land.

The rescue efforts swung into high gear. It became a vast, global manhunt. The entire world watched in frozen horror.

But only two men had the power to shape the end of this chilling, savage drama — agent Lime and the terrorist leader for whom hate had become a holy mission.

“This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner… will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form.”—Library Journal (starred review)“Fiendishly clever… Higashino offers one twist after another… Readers will marvel at the artful way the plot builds to the solution.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka’s best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both teachers, they were colleagues at the same public school. Kaga went on to join the police force while Nonoguchi eventually left to become a full-time writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. As Kaga investigates, he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates that the two writers’ relationship was very different that they claimed, that they were anything but best friends. But the question before Kaga isn’t necessarily who, or how, but why. In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the killer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. And if Kaga isn’t able to uncover and prove why the murder was committed, then the truth may never come out.Malice is one of the bestselling—the most acclaimed—novel in Keigo Higashino’s series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular creations of the bestselling novelist in Asia.

Hired by a political kingmaker to investigate a cocaine war, journalist Morgan Citron uncovers a scandal involving the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. It’s a story that will make Watergate look like a parking ticket — if Citron lives to tell about it.

When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers—information that only Finn’s widow knows. But Anna, a former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love, vanished with her child shortly after Finn’s death.Adrian isn’t the only one eager to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so sensitive that the KGB killed to protect it—and now Anna is in the KGB’s crosshairs, as the only person who knows the true identity of the Kremlin insider, superspy, and double agent called Mikhail. The CIA and Cougar, a giant American private intelligence company, are also hunting her.With the Kremlin still in the grasp of all-powerful Vladimir Putin, Mikhail is the West’s best hope for revealing Russia’s obscure intentions for its newfound oil wealth.Anna holds the key to the secrets of her motherland, and now the former Russian agent faces her greatest test. To secure her freedom and protect her child, she must uncover the full truth before anyone else does—even as friend and foe set her in their sights.Moving from Paris to New York, from the Kremlin to the American Southwest, Moscow Sting is an absorbing and timely tale of intrigue, betrayal, fatal lies, and complex truths, told with the authentic detail and chilling insight of an experienced insider.

‘Even better than Child 44’TelegraphMoskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated début serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park.* * *Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid – like marble to the touch – missing the little finger from his right hand.A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It’s a shot at redemption.But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets. As Fox’s investigation sees him dragged deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl’s father, for Alex’s safety.And if Fox can’t find her soon, she looks likely to become the next victim of a sadistic killer whose story is bound tight to that of his country’s terrible past…Praise for Jack Grimwood:‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park), Jack Grimwood’s Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off…’— Sunday Times‘Tom Fox is well drawn, the action scenes are filled with energy and tension, but the real hero of Moskva is Russia itself, bleak, corrupt, falling apart, but with an incurable humanity.’— Tom Callaghan, author of A Killing Winter‘A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist.’— Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men‘A first-rate thriller – Moskva grips from the very first page. Heartily recommended.’— William Ryan, author of The Twelfth Department‘Like the city herself, Jack Grimwood’s Moskva is richly layered, stylish, beautifully constructed, and full of passion beneath the chills. Part political thriller, part historical novel, part a story of personal redemptions, Moskva cements Jack Grimwood as a powerful new voice in thriller writing. Not to be missed.’— Sarah Pinborough, author of The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy‘Hard to know what to praise first here: the operatic sweep of this mesmerising novel; the surefooted orchestration of tension; or the vividly realised sense of time and place; all of these factors mark Jack Grimwood’s Moskva out as **something special in the arena of international thrillers.’— Barry Forshaw, author of Brit Noir‘Memorable characters, powerful recreations of history and an unrelenting pace that will keep you breathless. A striking début in the genre.’— Maxim Jakubowski‘A sublime writer… I felt glimmers of Le Carré shining through the prose.’— CrimeSquad

‘Even better than Child 44’TelegraphMoskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated début serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park.* * *Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid – like marble to the touch – missing the little finger from his right hand.A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It’s a shot at redemption.But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets. As Fox’s investigation sees him dragged deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl’s father, for Alex’s safety.And if Fox can’t find her soon, she looks likely to become the next victim of a sadistic killer whose story is bound tight to that of his country’s terrible past…Praise for Jack Grimwood:‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park), Jack Grimwood’s Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off…’— Sunday Times‘Tom Fox is well drawn, the action scenes are filled with energy and tension, but the real hero of Moskva is Russia itself, bleak, corrupt, falling apart, but with an incurable humanity.’— Tom Callaghan, author of A Killing Winter‘A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist.’— Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men‘A first-rate thriller – Moskva grips from the very first page. Heartily recommended.’— William Ryan, author of The Twelfth Department‘Like the city herself, Jack Grimwood’s Moskva is richly layered, stylish, beautifully constructed, and full of passion beneath the chills. Part political thriller, part historical novel, part a story of personal redemptions, Moskva cements Jack Grimwood as a powerful new voice in thriller writing. Not to be missed.’— Sarah Pinborough, author of The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy‘Hard to know what to praise first here: the operatic sweep of this mesmerising novel; the surefooted orchestration of tension; or the vividly realised sense of time and place; all of these factors mark Jack Grimwood’s Moskva out as **something special in the arena of international thrillers.’— Barry Forshaw, author of Brit Noir‘Memorable characters, powerful recreations of history and an unrelenting pace that will keep you breathless. A striking début in the genre.’— Maxim Jakubowski‘A sublime writer… I felt glimmers of Le Carré shining through the prose.’— CrimeSquad

Iran, ostatnie dni szacha. Kilku pracowników amerykańskiego koncernu trafia do więzienia w Teheranie. Żadne interwencje nie odnoszą skutku, a wobec chwilowego "bezkrólewia" nie ma z kim pertraktować. Ross Perot, właściciel koncernu, postanawia na własną rękę odbić więźniów – zakładników. Jego ekipa, złożona z pracowników spółki i jednego zawodowego komandosa, wkracza do akcji…

Andrāšs BerkešiNāra zīmoggredzenāAutors pieder pie ungāru rakstnieku vidējās paaudzes, literatūrai pievērsies, sākot ar 1957. gadu. Izgājis rūgtu dzīves skolu un paša pieredzēto un Izjusto pārliecinoši attēlojis šai darbā, kas uzrakstīts kā politisks detektīvromāns, reizē dodot ari Ieskatu par Ungārijai likteni otrā pasaules kara laikā un pēckara periodā.Šai romānā jo plaši parādīts Ungārijas liktenis kara laikā un pēckara periodā, ieskaitot sešdesmito gadu sākumu. Visi romāna notikumi saistās ar galvenā varoņa Kālmana Borši likteni, viņa idejisko un morālisko iz­augsmi, taču vienlaikus iepazīstam dažādus sabiedriskus grupējumus, to attiecības un cīņu pret okupācijas varu, kā ari sarežģīto dažādu valstu izlūkdienestu darbību pēckara periodā.Kaut arī dažos jautājumos varam autoram nepiekrist un neticēt, piemēram, Kālmana spējām veselu ādu tikt cauri ārkārtīgi daudzām «detektīviskām» situācijām, Oskara Šalgo straujajai un pamatīgajai pāraugšanai, taču šis romāns valdzina ar savu brīnišķīgo ticību cilvēkam. Reizēm ir grūti aptvert, kā šai zir­nekļa tīklam līdzīgajā intrigu vijumā iespējams to saglabāt.Berkesi Andrās Sello a pecsetgyurunBudapest © Berkesi Andršs, 1971Rīga «Liesma» 1980No ungāru valodas tulkojusi Elga Sakse Mākslinieks Viesturs GrantsNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv

The men who bossed the city were running scared. Elections were coming up and the voters were rallying behind Richardson Caldwell, an idealistic reformer with the old-fashioned notion that criminals belonged in jails instead of public offices.But then a staggering development struck at the hopes of Caldwell’s supporters. He was found drunk in his apartment, and beside him lay a murdered woman whose reputation had been notorious gossip for years.Caldwell was arrested and charged with murder. The cell door swung shut on his career and the hopes of the city for decent government.It was then that Sam Terrell, a newspaperman, began a determined inquiry into the life of the murdered girl, and into the forces to whom Caldwell’s arrest had meant a reprieve from ruin. The search was dangerous; but Terrell stuck at it stubbornly, convinced that his newspaper owed more to the community than sports news and comics.To this explosive situation William P. McGivern adds an illuminating dimension by examining with sympathy and power the question of how much a man owes the community in which he lives. Mr. McGivern’s compassionate talents have been seen in such novels as THE BIG HEAT, ROGUE COP, THE SEVEN FILE, etc. In NIGHT EXTRA, a story of passions and politics and people, he has reached a new superb level of suspense.

Berlin, 31. August 1948. Die verstümmelte Leiche einer Stadtstreicherin wird in der Nähe des Lehrter Bahnhofs gefunden. Nichts Besonderes im Berlin der Nachkriegszeit und so glaubt Hauptkommissar Tom Sydow zunächst an einen Routinefall. Doch warum sammelte das Mordopfer Zeitungsausschnitte über den stadtbekannten Kriegsgewinnler, Schieber und Spekulanten Paul Mertens? Bei seinen Ermittlungen kommt Sydow einer Organisation auf die Spur, deren Verbindungen in höchste Kreise von Justiz und Politik zu reichen scheinen ...

When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared… “Superb… Ken Follett’s fans may be reluctant to see him return to fiction.” - The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous, rare, terrific read…as exciting as a novel.” - USA Today