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Kirjailija ja poliitikko Jeffrey Archer tuomittiin vuonna 2001 vankilaan väärän valan antamisesta. Tuomion alkuajat Archer vietti Belmarshin ja Waylandin vankiloissa. Trilogian kolmannessa osassa Archer on juuri saapunut North Sea Campin avovankilaan suorittamaan loput tuomiostaan. Pahamaineisten Belmarshin ja Waylandin jälkeen North Sea Camp tuntuu suorastaan ihanalta paikalta. Siinä missä Belmarshissa heräsi aamuisin saksanpaimenkoirien haukkumiseen, täällä vanki herää ulkona huutavien lokkien ääniin.

Being the last man on Earth has its advantages...After waking up from a military experiment gone horribly wrong, Nick Dekko discovers that he’s the last man on Earth. If that wasn’t bad enough, he’s trapped inside a military base, surrounded by thousands of hungry zombies. Armed only with a battle suit and a smart-ass A.I. named Slade, Nick sets off across a post-apocalyptic America where he discovers a group of hot warrior women who are only too eager to “assist” him in battling the dead.

Noah and the Camelot team are handed their most unusual mission yet: Sarah must infiltrate the infamous Bangkok Hilton women's prison in order to make contact with and plan the rescue of a young American woman. Noah, Neil, and new team member Marco are tasked with planning their escape, but something goes terribly wrong. Sarah and the target are banished from the prison and dragged into the infamous Thailand sex trade. Now, the mission has taken on new urgency as Noah and his team race to find and rescue both of the women, but the trail is almost impossible to follow.

Guilt and desire battle within Hughe, Lord Oxley’s, soul. When the enigmatic leader of the Assassin’s Guild learns that the widow of one of his targets is at the mercy of a cruel man, he does the only thing left in his power to do. He marries her. Then the worst thing happens. He falls in love with her. With more than one person trying to kill him and a family to rescue, Hughe needs the help of all his Assassins Guild friends to stay alive and keep his wife from learning the truth. Because he knows, and dreads, what will happen when she discovers what he did.

I mitten av 1900-talet föds Alexander Karpenko i ryska Leningrad, och det står genast klart att han inte är som alla andra barn. Alexander är en ledare. Någon som kan få ett helt land att följa hans minsta vink. Men innan han hinner utveckla sina talanger händer något som ska förändra hans liv för all framtid. Hans far blir brutalt avrättad av KGB - och resten av familjen tvingas fly för sin egen överlevnad.

Her job is to keep their secrets safe. A secluded Retreat Center full of preternatural clientele. A talking crow who thinks she knows everything. A new boy in town asking a lot of nosy questions. Sound like a lot to handle? Not for 15-year-old Macy Steward, who lives at the Center and helps her parents run the highly unusual retreats. For Macy, this is simply normal routine. And it’s all going exactly as expected, that is until the guests become dangerously unpredictable, the talking crow goes suspiciously missing, and the new boy turns out to be so much more than he first appeared.

Parece algo de lo más inocente. Un coronel británico caído en desgracia le lega una misteriosa carta a su único hijo. Sin embargo, en el momento en que Adam Scott abre el sobre amarillento, se pone en marcha una cadena de acontecimientos que podría llegar a sacudir los cimientos del mundo libre. En pocos días, Adam se encontrará en plena huida por las principales ciudades de Europa tras el brutal asesinato de su amante. No solo lo persigue el KGB, sino también la CIA y sus propios compatriotas.

Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer, Jeffrey Archer.

Sie sind Zwillinge - und werden bei der Geburt getrennt. Beide Jungen wachsen auf, ohne dass sie voneinander wissen: Nat in einfachen Verhältnissen, sein Bruder Fletcher als Sohn eines der reichsten Männer Connecticuts. Doch Nat will es den Umständen zum Trotz ganz nach oben schaffen. Immer wieder kreuzen sich die Schicksalspfade der beiden Brüder. Nat erkämpft sich eine Karriere als erfolgreicher Bankier, Fletcher geht in die Politik. Beide müssen sich in Machtspielen, Liebschaften und Lebensproben bewähren.

Cameron's third year as the only male demigod of his generation starts with everything going right, only to be touched by tragedy. His mentor is dead, and everyone thinks she took her own life...but Cameron knows better. And he won't stop until he clears Sarah's name and, heck, maybe do a bit more than that. When you're a Greek demigod, you can do more about death than whine about it. You can go right down into the underworld and take the matter right to Hades.

Vad händer med den unga detektiven från Neapel som reser till Italien för att ta reda på vem som dödade borgmästaren? Och den pretentiösa skolpojken som upptäcker hur hans far egentligen kommit över sina rikedomar? Eller de två unga kvinnor under 1930-talet, varav en hamnar i trubbel när hon liftar och den andra dristar sig till att utmana männen på sitt universitet, med oanade konsekvenser? Novellerna i Jeffrey Archers "Kvitt eller dubbelt" är inspirerade av de människor han mött, de historier han stött på och de länder han besökt de senaste tio åren.

Opposites attract in this fun prequel novella set during an unexpected Tennessee snowstorm. Enjoy forced-proximity and enemies-to-lovers tropes as this brand new couple finds love among the zany, meddling residents of our beloved Licking Thicket.

Esta es la historia de un hombre que amó a dos mujeres. Esta es la historia de un hombre asesinado por una de esas dos mujeres. Algunos hombres tienen sueños tan inalcanzables que, de conseguirlos, cuentan con un lugar asegurado en la Historia. Algunos de ellos son Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Sir Edmund Hillary o Neil Amstrong. Aunque, ¿y si hubiese un hombre que tuviese un sueño igual de inalcanzable, pero una vez conseguido, careciese de prueba alguna de haber cumplido sus ambiciones?

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

Charles Seymour, hijo segundo, nunca tendrá el porte señorial de su padre, pero sí que ha heredado la fuerza de su madre... y la voluntad para hacer realidad su destino. El padre de Simon Kerlslake lo sacrificó para asegurarse de que los sueños de su hijo se hacían realidad. Ahora le toca a Simon estar a la altura de esos sueños. Ray Gould nació en los suburbios, pero creció con orgullo... una cualidad pareja tanto al afilado intelecto que posee como al su deseo de alcanzar lo imposible.

Florentyna Kane on tehnyt mahdottomasta mahdollista - hänet on valittu Yhdysvaltojen ensimmäiseksi naispuoliseksi presidentiksi. Kaikki eivät kuitenkaan ole tyytyväisiä Kanen valintaan. He haluavat saada Kanen pois presidentin paikalta, hinnalla minä hyvänsä. Kun FBI joutuu iskun kohteeksi, erikoisagentti Mark Andrews selviää kuin ihmeen kaupalla. Pystyykö hän pelastamaan Florentyna Kanen hengen? "Kerrotaanko presidentille?" on Jeffrey Archerin huikean jännittävä romaani, joka jatkaa Kanen ja Abelin tarinaa.

Alan Madison: A middle-aged World War Two veteran discharged with an injury and former LAPD cop who lost his badge and marriage due to the bottle, then went into business as a P.I. in Santa Monica. Theresa McKinley: A young and savvy but rather unconventional recent graduate with a license to carry...and Alan's new partner in the firm. Together, as Madison-McKinley Private Investigators, they redefined detective drama for Southern California in the 1960s! You'll delight in listening to Ariel Archer's tales of this duo in The Madison-McKinley Files.

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service - but for a good cause.

Charles Seymour, hijo segundo, nunca tendrá el porte señorial de su padre, pero sí que ha heredado la fuerza de su madre... y la voluntad para hacer realidad su destino. El padre de Simon Kerlslake lo sacrificó para asegurarse de que los sueños de su hijo se hacían realidad. Ahora le toca a Simon estar a la altura de esos sueños. Ray Gould nació en los suburbios, pero creció con orgullo... una cualidad pareja tanto al afilado intelecto que posee como al su deseo de alcanzar lo imposible...

Los estafados: un catedrático de Oxford, un médico, un elegante galerista francés y un encantador lord inglés. Todos tienen una cosa en común: de la noche a la mañana, cada uno de estos inversores novatos ha perdido su fortuna por culpa de un hombre. El estafador: Harvey Meltcalfe. Un brillante gurú del engaño hecho a sí mismo. Un tipo muy peligroso. Y ahora, un hombre perseguido.