Literary Fiction Political

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

In the age of Trump and Twitter and children separated at the border, 3 college-town musicians - a contemplative songwriter, a punk, and a hippie - form a club to write protest songs against the current administration and to seek out like-minded souls. Using a unique blend of song lyrics, political debate, and humor the novel Political Music Club tells the story of three individual voices trying to make a change in a very big world.

It’s early summer in Jackson, Wyoming. Former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent, now a local fishing guide, is wading through a swift current of local politics, introspection, and tragedy. Three seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred in one day - unheard of in the scenic valley. A skier perishes in a freak late-season avalanche. A French couple is discovered mutilated on a remote trail in Grand Teton National Park - presumably by a bear.On the Snake River, Jake himself finds the body of an expensively attired tourist fisherman.

London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days listening. When he first joined the Institute, he expected to encounter glamorous, high-risk espionage. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient Communists and ineffectual revolutionaries - until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected internal leak.

The USS Vicksburg is returning home when the crew comes upon a lifeboat bearing a dead Somali pirate who shows signs of torture. Questions immediately arise: Who is this man, and which ship did he come from? Who tortured him? Soon Red Cell analysts Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke have traced the dead man back to an Iranian ship currently bound for Venezuela - and the ship appears to have dangerous, radioactive cargo on board.

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

Gli ex poliziotti Guido Lopez e Stefan Wunzam sono chiamati a lavorare per la neonata Agenzia Investigativa Europea di cui è capo David Montorsi. Incappano subito in una sterminata rete criminale che include élite altolocate e manovalanza immigrata di origine cinese. Questa indagine si interseca con le vicende dell'agente CIA Jim Cameron di stanza a Pechino, che vive di traffici di droga. Qualcosa di strano succede con una fornitura destinata a Montecarlo e Cameron si trova all'improvviso braccato dai suoi ex colleghi della CIA e dai cinesi.

Quello che tutti in Italia si attendono, fin dal crollo delle Torri Gemelle, accade. II Palazzo di Giustizia esplode e crolla. Sotto le macerie, centinaia di morti e una bomba ancora innescata: è lo Schedario, la raccolta dei documenti riservati delle inchieste più delicate e ancora ignote al pubblico, un archivio di dossier in grado di fare saltare ogni istituzione.

In The Tower, the thrilling conclusion to Simon Toyne’s bestselling Sanctus trilogy, an ominous countdown has begun that some believe could be the first sign of an imminent global catastrophe. Toyne’s latest thriller opens at the NASA Control Center in Maryland where the center’s...

“A talented new writer who instinctively grasps the broad rules of superior action thrillers and adapts them with pace, grace, humor, and a keen eye for cinematic effect.” —Daily Telegraph (London) “Toyne’s writing is stellar and downright fun. Get your Dan Brown game face on and step...

When the President's mistress reveals the existence of a sex tape and demands money for her silence, it falls to the long suffering First Lady to deal with it. Unwilling to trust the Secret Service or any other federal agency, she calls on childhood friend and former lover, Dan Powers, to negotiate the deal. But with bodies quickly falling Powers soon learns nothing is as it appears and that he's been marked for death.

Fumo di asfalto colloso nella spossante Milano estiva delle periferie. Tra le case popolari di Calvairate, il quartiere dormitorio di Quarto Oggiaro e il carcere di Opera emergono, come strani zombie dal sottosuolo, un suicidio sospetto, un giro di pedofili e un ex terrorista nero evaso. E tra servizi segreti impegnati in grossolani depistaggi, inconfessabili ed esplosive verità e inquietanti parole d'ordine come "indulto", a vent'anni dal delitto Moro l'ispettore Guido Lopez non potrà fare a meno di avvertire l'aria pesante e sporca di un complotto.

Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Quincy Troupe, Dumas' books have long been out of print. All of his short fiction is collected here, for the first time, and includes several previously unpublished stories.

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

ليو جين يون كاتب صيني معاصر من مواليد عام 1958. يُصنف جين يون ككاتب من الدرجة الأولى، وبفضل إنجازاته في مجال الكتابة، حصل على جائزة ماودون الأدبية عام 2011 وعلى غيرها من الجوائز الأدبية الرفيعة. وتحولت العديد من روايته إلى أعمال سينمائية حققت إيرادات عالية. وحصلت روايته "البرج" حال صدورها على جائزة أفضل قصة في الصين.

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But, in a land where adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as German proves contentious. And then there’s the face in the cemetery.

Il 7 ottobre 1967 Ernesto Che Guevara resta imbottigliato con un piccolo gruppo di guerriglieri in una "quebrada" della foresta. Consegnatosi ai soldati, il Che viene trasportato nel vicino paesino di La Higuera dove è rinchiuso nel locale della scuola. Il 9 ottobre a un soldato scelto a sorte tocca il compito di uccidere il ferito, il cui cadavere viene poi trasportato all'ospedale di Vallegrande per essere mostrato a fotografi e giornalisti.

A young, handsome, charismatic Southern governor is elected president of the United States in a landslide. He was so popular that world leaders were scrambling to attend his inauguration. Among the attendees were the pope, the queen of England, and other royalties. He had, however, an Achilles' heel-he was a philanderer. It will not take long for his misdeeds to leak out to the media and the opposition party. While he was being investigated, the noose was getting tighter around his neck. Pressured by his wife to save his power, he decided to do the unthinkable.

Uscito nel 1976, "Un borghese piccolo piccolo" racconta la crudele, sanguinosa vicenda di Giovanni Vivaldi, impiegato di un ministero romano che, nell'Italia spietata del boom economico, tenta di farsi largo nel mondo tra sotterfugi e piccole furbizie, ed è pronto a tutto pur di garantire al figlio quel benessere che lui ha potuto solo sfiorare.

Mein Sohn, trotz allem... Fus und Gillou, 10 und 7, sind sein ganzer Stolz. Doch als seine Frau stirbt, steht er mit seinen Jungs allein da. Die Arbeit als Monteur, Haushalt, Erziehung: Er gibt sein Bestes, bringt die Jungs zum Fußball, zeltet mit ihnen in den Ferien. Die ersten Jahre läuft alles glatt. Nur Fus wird in der Schule schlechter, sodass er danach nicht in Paris studieren kann. Der Vater tröstet sich damit, dass sein Ältester nicht wegzieht - bis er entdeckt, dass der 20-Jährige neuerdings mit einer rechtsextremen Clique rumhängt.