THE POWERFUL NEW BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF THE NATION`S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS Harry always knew he would go back on day! Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the pace he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of through every waking moment during those long aching years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing he recalled the sadness, the bad timings and even now, he could not forgive himself. They say you never forget your first love and it`s true. You could have a dozen loving relationships and even settle down with someone...
In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League - and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father`s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94230-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The powerful new bestseller from the nation’s favourite storyteller Harry always knew he would go back one day… Eighteen years ago he made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. In those early years he carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of peace. Every waking moment during those long aching years he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing eyes. For Judy Saunders, the pain of her past has left her deeply scarred. Cut off from her family and stuck in a stormy marriage to a man she doesn`t love, the distant memories of her first love are her only source of comfort. Now for the first time in all those years,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722117-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this latest In Death thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm - are brutally killed on the same night.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21568-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the Ichidian Universe, the League and its ruthless assassins continue to keep rule. But at what cost? Welcome back to the a whole new world. Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing and backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives. Refusing to play those politics, he became a Runner--someone who makes sure planets get the weapons, medicine and supplies they need to survive. May the gods have mercy on any who get in his way, because he definitely won`t. Alix Garran is a woman on the run from a past she can`t escape. Signing on to work for Devyn as a System`s Engineer, she finds a cause she can fight for--and a man she can respect. But as Alix`s past catches up to her, and...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94232-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear - except for Syn. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. But that was then, and the future is Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life. He tried to destroy the evidence, and has been on the run ever since. Now trained as an assassin, he allows no one to threaten him. Ever. He is the darkness that swallows his enemies whole. Shahara Dagan is the best bounty hunter in the universe. When Syn comes back on the radar, she`s the only one who can bring him to justice. There`s only one problem: Syn is a close family friend who`s helped out the Dagans...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94231-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In this collection of classic columns, first published in 1999, Jeremy takes a look at the world through his windscreen, shakes his head at what he sees - and then puts the boot in.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102899-6
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A thorough immersion in the art of botanical drawing, this book is sure to attract both aspiring and more experienced artists seeking scientific accuracy and the illusion of 3-dimension in their botanical artwork.
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 9788853002136
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
After so many adrenaline-soaked years risking his life, Jason Bourne is chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor asks him to investigate the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect called the Black Legion. The young man died carrying information about the group`s terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack the United States. In Europe, Bourne`s investigation of the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life - the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II.
ISBN: 978-0-446-55158-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne`s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne`s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world`s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again--assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the...
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6388-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne`s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne`s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world`s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again--assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the...
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6395-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne`s age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe, Russia and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy. Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace ...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7943-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators -- led by Carlos, the world`s most dangerous...
ISBN: 0-553-26011-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA`s most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he`s emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger-until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne`s closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that his legacy has followed him-and set him up as prime suspect for the brutal quicksand of lies and betrayals is deeper than Bourne ever imagined. Hunted by the CIA as a dangerous rogue agent, he has only one option to stay alive-and one last chance to stay one step ahead of an unseen assailant whose vengeance is personal. Pursued across the globe,...
ISBN: 978-0-312-99952-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne`s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring? An artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he`s determined to find the ring`s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he`ll discover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to create ruthless assassins for ,...
ISBN: 978-1-4555-0160-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face; strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the film negative that leads to a bank account in Zurich, four million dollars, and a name for the amnesiac: Jason Bourne. Now he is running for his life. A man with an unknown past and an uncertain future, the target of assassins and at the heart of a deadly puzzle. He`s fighting for survival and no one can help him - except the one woman who once wanted to escape
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1769-8
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America`s most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long-time friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia`s most feared spy agency, FSB-2. Karpov is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice-hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Now, these two trusted friends are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombian highlands to Munich, Cadiz, and Damascus, the clock is counting down to a disaster that will cripple America`s economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the...
Серия книг Penguin Readers, включающая классические и современные произведения, предлагает литературу для изучающих английский язык на уровнях Beginner – Advanced. Увлекательное чтение может дополняться аудиозаписями.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8950-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: май 2012
Jason Bourne`s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0326-4
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011