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A gripping novel about one man's dogged pursuit of a serial killer against the opposition of Stalinist state security forces, Child 44 is at once suspenseful and provocative. Tom Rob Smith's remarkable debut thriller powerfully dramatizes the human cost of loyalty, integrity, and love in the face of totalitarian terror.A decorated war hero driven by dedication to his country and faith in the superiority of Communist ideals, Leo Demidov has built a successful career in the Soviet security network, suppressing ideological crimes and threats against the state with unquestioning efficiency. When a fellow officer's son is killed, Leo is ordered to stop the family from spreading the notion that their child was murdered. For in the official version of Stalin's worker's paradise, such a senseless crime is impossible – an affront to the Revolution. But Leo knows better: a murderer is at large, cruelly targeting children, and the collective power of the Soviet government is denying his existence.Leo's doubt sets in motion a chain of events that changes his understanding of everything he had previously believed. Smith's deftly crafted plot delivers twist after chilling twist, as it lays bare the deceit of the regime that enveloped an impoverished people in paranoia. In a shocking effort to test Leo's loyalty, his wife, Raisa, is accused of being a spy. Leo's refusal to denounce her costs him his rank, and the couple is banished from Moscow. Humiliated, renounced by his enemies, and deserted by everyone save Raisa, Leo realizes that his redemption rests on finding the vicious serial killer who is eviscerating innocent children and leaving them to die in the bleak Russian woods.The narrative unfolds at a breathless pace, exposing the culture of fear that turns friends into foes and forces families to hide devastating secrets. As Leo and Raisa close in on the serial killer, desperately trying to stay a step ahead of the government's relentless operatives, the reader races with them through a web of intrigue to the novel's heart-stopping conclusion.

British Army Major Harry Maxim has just completed Resistance training in preparation against a possible Russian military action on England, when suddenly the President of the U.S. is shot at in London by somebody using a Russian rifle. When there is no official response to this provocative act, Maxim takes the reconnaissance initiative. With the initially half-hearted help of his friend George Harbinger of the ministry of defense, he sets out to track down the originators of the assassination attempt. He comes to suspect early on that the act was neither perpetrated by the Russians nor actually aimed at the President, and the trail which leads him to the Crocus List and its secret operations takes him from London to Washington, St. Louis and East Berlin. This third adventure featuring the immensely likable Major (after The Secret Servant and The Conduct of Major Maxim) brims with intelligence and spirit. It's an irrepressible, entertaining and thought-provoking jaunt through the ins and outs of the international espionage trade.

Повесть «Поводырь» рассказывает о странном лётном происшествии в ночном небе над Северным морем.

Дидье ван Ковеларт (р. 1960) — один из самых читаемых в мире современных французских писателей (известный в России как «ван Ковелер»), лауреат множества литературных премий, в том числе Гонкуровской, а также драматург, сценарист и режиссер. Его романы экранизируются, переводятся на двадцать с лишним языков, и с каждой новой книгой армия его поклонников по всему миру неизменно растет.«Погрузиться в роман этого автора — редкое удовольствие. Тонкий знаток жизни, он с легкостью превращает повседневность в волшебную сказку». Франсуаза Ксенакис

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. For the next eight years Dr Beck re lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to log on to a certain web site at a certain time, using a code that only he and his wife knew. The screen opens onto a web cam and it is Elizabeth 's image he sees. Is it a practical joke? But as Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive and what really happened the night she disappeared, the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeth's murder on him, and everyone he turns to seems to end up dead…

В первый том «Избранного» Агаты Кристи вошли два величайших произведения английской писательницы, созданные в 1939–1940 гг. «И тогда никого не осталось» и «Занавес. Последнее и величайшее дело Эркюля Пуаро». Эти романы объединены общей идеей — «Не убий».

На страницах этого сборника таинственных и мистических историй собраны рассказы американских и английских писателей XIX — начала XX века. Повествования разнообразной жанровой и стилевой принадлежности принадлежат перу как известных мастеров, так и авторов малознакомых русскоязычному читателю.

Герои повести – невинные жертвы жестокой и бессмысленной войны, затеянной колумбийскими наркобаронами. Чтобы оказать давление на правительство, преступники похищают известных журналистов. Леденящий душу страх, жестокость похитителей, их абсолютная беспринципность – все это передано с присущей писателю эмоциональной глубиной и силой.

Женщина отправилась вместе с подругами на вечерний киносеанс. Обратно она возвращалась одна, в полночь, по улицам, по которым бродит маньяк-душитель… Новелла вошла в книгу «Вино из одуванчиков».