Adam LeBor

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Yael Azoulay does the United Nations dirty work. From the caves of Afghanistan and the slums of Baghdad to the worlds corporate boardrooms, Yaels job is to broker the secret deals that grease the wheels of superpower diplomacy and big business. When a suspicious death at the UN headquarters in Manhattan is covered up, Yael decides that the ends no longer justify the means and she goes rogue. Events quickly spiral out of control as Yael is forced on the run in the streets of New York and Geneva. Hunted by the worlds intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Yael must ultimately learn that salvation means not just saving others lives but slaying her own inner demons. A gripping journey through the secret corridors of power. The best Adam LeBor to date the world he creates is driven by the sharp edge of reality - by the raw, brutal politi, by the monsters and desperate heroes -- Alan Furst A classic, fast-paced thriller Get ready to be entertained -- Olen Steinhauer Adam LeBor has done it again. Gripping and atmospheric -- Charles Cumming

Los banqueros secretos de Hitler es una riguosa obra de investigación y, sobre todo, una denuncia de cómo el sistema financiero suizo no dudó en su momento en apoyar el esfuerzo de guerra nazi a traves de su colaboracion financiera. De algun modo, una obra desmitificadora y absolutamente necesaria para mantener la memoria historica de un episodio tan oscuro como estremecedor. Encuadernacion: rustica con solapas.

Budapest autumn 1943 Four years into the war Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal home to spies and agents of every kind But Budapest remains at peace an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary The riverside cafes are crowded and the city s famed cultural life still thrives All that comes to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invade By the summer Allied bombers are pounding its grand boulevards and historic squares Budapest s surviving Jewish population has been forcibly relocated to cramped overcrowded Yellow Star houses By late December the city is surrounded and under siege from the Red Army Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in the savage siege as Budapest collapses into anarchy Hungarian death squads roam the streets as the city s Jews are forced into ghettos Russian artillery pounds the city into smoking rubble as starving residents hack chunks of meat from dead frozen horses Using newly uncovered diaries documents archival material and interviews with the last survivors Adam LeBor brilliantly recreates life and death in the wartime city the catastrophic fate of half of its

Budapest September 1944 The Hungarian capital lies in the eye of the storm Three months after D Day the Allies are making significant strides through Europe For Stalin Budapest is Moscow s gateway to the West For Hitler the city is a crucial bastion where the Russian s advance must be stopped Squeezed between the two sides with the Red Army advancing Budapest and its inhabitants will soon pay a terrible price Large parts of the city s Jewish population has already been deported to Auschwitz by the chillingly efficient Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann This is the climax of Adam LeBor s epic history of Budapest during the war the story of an authoritarian regime allied with Hitler that also tried to keep in for as long as possible with the Allies It is a tale full of spies like the British agent Basil Davidson of brave Hungarian aristocrats smuggling people and information out of Nazi occupied Poland of bureaucrats having it both ways and getting sucked into the disaster of the German invasion of Russia From then until the apocalyptic end game Budapest became a more and more dangerous place for Jews anti fascists and ordinary people The events culminate in the Siege of Budapest the 50 day battle in which 38 000 civilians and 100 000 Soviet troops were

Nazi-occupied Budapest, Winter 1944. The Russians are smashing through the German lines. Miklos Farkas breaks out of the Jewish ghetto to find food - at the Nazis headquarters. There he is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. Miklos knows it must stay hidden forever if he is to stay alive. Present day Budapest. As the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Miklos Farkas is brutally murdered. His journalist grandson Alex buries his grief to track down the killers. He soon unravels a chilling conspiracy rooted in the dying days of the Third Reich, one that will ensure Nazi economic domination of Europe - and a plan for a new Gypsy Holocaust. The hunt is on for The Budapest Protocol. Alex is soon drawn deeper into a deadly web of intrigue and power play, a game played for the highest stakes: the very future of Europe. The Budapest Protocol is a journey into Europes hidden heart of darkness.