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Face à une menace d''attentat d''al-Qaida contre l''Occident, les services secrets britanniques décident d''infiltrer l''organisation. Pour cela, ils vont substituer au chef taliban Izmat Khan, priso

Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) A secret organisation plans to assassinate the French President, General de Gaulle. Their leader, Colonel Marc Rodin, decides to hire a professional, someone unknown to French police. He and his men choose the Jackal. Can police detective Claude Lebel stop the killing and save the Presidents life?

Al Isra heißt der Plan eines Terroranschlags der al Qaida von unvorstellbarem Ausmaß. Als der englische und amerikanische Geheimdienst davon erfahren, bleibt nur noch eine Chance: Ein Agent muss in die Schaltzentrale des Terrornetzwerks eingeschleust werden, der die Zielkoordinaten des Attentats herausfindet. Und nur einer erweist sich hierfür als geeignet: Mike Martin, ein erfahrener SIS-Offizier, der mit der Sprache und der Kultur des Nahen Ostens aufgewachsen ist. Ein atemloser Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt ...12Wenn es um Spionage und internationale Verwicklungen geht, ist Frederick Forsyth ein Meister der Spannung. Washington Post01Frederick Forsyth, geboren 1938 in Ashford/ Kent, studierte in Granada, Spanien. Mit 19 Jahren jüngster Pilot der Royal Air Force, danach tätig als Reporter für die Eastern Daily Presse in Norfolk und Korrespondent der Agentur Reuters. Berichte zunächst aus Paris, später aus Ostdeutschland und der Tschechoslowakei. 1965 ging er als Reporter zur BBC. Seine Erfahrungen aus dem Journalismus verarbeitete er in Romanen.

Forsyth Frederick shows once again he's a master of the political thriller by taking a simple but completely original idea and turning it into a compelling story. The unnamed Obama-like U.S. president, disgusted by the horrors wrought by illegal drug trafficking, decides to bring the entire weight and resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He first declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists, subjecting them to new and extensive legal procedures, then he brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux to head the team that will implement the effort (...)

It has taken a lot time and work for Fiona Bristow to find the peace that she has in her new life on Orca Island, off the coast of Seattle. After a serial killer destroyed everything, Fiona rebuilt on this quiet island, starting her own dog-training school and volunteering with canine search and rescue programs. Nearly simultaneously two things--one good and one bad--appear in her life, shaking her calm: the good thing is Simon Doyle and his puppy Jaws; the very bad is a copycat killer with his eye on Fiona. This is an absorbing romantic suspense novel from the master Nora Roberts.

An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nations history forever. But news of the discovery has reached Russia - and suddenly Manson finds he no longer makes the rules in this power game.

"Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And yet he lived to tell the tale. ''We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I''m getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I''ve barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau. The Stasi arrested me, the Israelis regaled me, the IRA prompted a quick move from Ireland to England, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that''s just for starters. All of that I saw from the inside. But all that time I was, nonetheless, an outsider.'' Trained first as a pilot, then as a journalist, Frederick Forsyth finally turned to fiction and became one of the most lauded thriller writers of our time. As exciting as his novels, Forsyth''s autobiography is a candid look at an extraordinary life lived to the full, a life whose unique experiences have provided rich inspiration for thirteen internationally bestselling thrillers."

It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence--Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world''s most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy Kim Philby. The wheels are in motion, the pawns are in place, and the countdown has begun toward an "accident" that could change the fact of British politics forever and trigger and collapse of the Western alliance. Only British agent John Preston stand any chance of breaching the conspiracy. Through plot and counterplot, from bloody back streets to polished halls of power both East and West, his desperate investigation is relentlessly blocked by deceit, treachery, and the most deadly enemy of all...time.

La trama, elaborada y apasionante, mezcla política internacional, amor, nacionalismo y una galería de personajes acabados y convincentes.