Автор - Robert Harris

Enigma

Захватывающий шпионский детектив Р. Харриса, автора уже переведенного на русский язык и завоевавшего популярность у массового читателя романа «Фатерланд». Напряженная и драматическая борьба за обладание секретом немецкой шифровальной суперсистемы «Энигма», от которого зависит успех военных операций в Северной Атлантике, сопряжена со сложными политическими интригами, яркими любовными страстями и запутанными шпионскими манипуляциями. Для всех любителей современной остросюжетной прозы.

Помпеи

Изнурительно жаркий август. На побережье Неаполитанского залива раскинулись роскошные виллы первых богачей Римской империи. Величайший военный флот мира спокойно стоит на якоре в Мизенах. Отдыхающие заполонили приморские курорты — Байи, Помпеи, Геркуланум.Но вдруг перестает работать Аква Августа — огромный акведук, идущий по склону Везувия, снабжающий водой полмиллиона человек. Что это? Техническая неисправность или чей-то злой умысел? Куда исчезает имперский смотритель водоводов? Жив ли он? И имеет ли его исчезновение отношение к случившемуся? Вновь назначенному на этот пост Марку Аттилию Приму очень хочется разобраться в этой странной истории, но прежде — надо дать людям воду. Работы в Помпеях и его расследование начинаются утром 23 августа 79 года...

Призрак

«В тот момент, когда я услышал, как погиб Макэра, мне нужно было встать и уйти. К сожалению, мой агент Рик прекрасно рассказывал истории. К тому времени, когда его повествование закончилось, я уже сидел на крючке и не дергался. Тем более что деньги он обещал фантастические, да и персонаж планировался весьма неординарный: не каждый день доводится общаться с бывшим премьер-министром. Короче, я согласился стать писателем-«призраком» Адама Лэнга и превратить его судьбу в легенду. Только вот не предполагал, что через несколько минут после подписания контракта на меня будет совершено жестокое нападение, цель которого совершенно ясна — отобрать рукопись мемуаров. Но кому нужны сухие записки отошедшего от дел политика и как нападавшие узнали, что именно я и стал новым «призраком»?» Полный загадок и интриг «Призрак» — последний бестселлер Роберта Харриса, автора «Фатерланда», «Энигмы» и других знаменитых остросюжетных романов. Многие из его книг были экранизированы. Фильм «Призрак» Романа Полански с Юэном МакГрегором и Пирсом Броснаном в главных ролях стал одним из самых сильных конкурсантов на международном кинофестивале «Берлинале» в 2010 г.

Фатерланд

Расследование убийств видных деятелей национал-социалистской партии сопряжено в романе Р. Харриса с событиями реальной – малоизвестные факты о преступлениях нацистов – и альтернативной истории: действие происходит в 1964 году в Великом германском рейхе, одержавшем победу во Второй мировой войне и уничтожившем СССР. Захватывающая интрига развивается на фоне увлекательного повествования о жизни личности в тоталитарном государстве и о силе человеческого духа, не сломленного тиранией.

Lustrum

Imperium

From the bestselling author of Pompeii comes the first volume in an exciting new trilogy set in ancient Rome – an imaginary biography of Cicero, Rome 's first and greatest politician. Of all the great figures of Roman times, none was more fascinating or attractive than Marcus Cicero. A brilliant lawyer and orator, a famous wit and philosopher, he launched himself at the age of twenty-seven into the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics. Cicero was determined to attain imperium, the supreme power in the state. Beside him at all times in his struggle to reach the top – the office of Consul – was his confidential secretary, Tiro. An accomplished man, Tiro was the inventor of shorthand and the author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, unfortunately lost in the Dark Ages. In Imperium, Robert Harris recreates Tiro's vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero 's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato. Harris's Cicero is an immensely sympathetic figure. In his introduction to this imaginary memoir, Tato states: “Cicero was unique in the history of the Roman republic in that he pursued supreme power with no resources to help him apart from his own talent… All he had was his voice, and by sheer effort of will, he turned it into the most famous voice in the world.”Ever since Walter Scott wrote Waverley, the dominant tradition of the historical novel has been one of obsessive realism. Why this should be so is no great mystery. By and large, only novelists who take drug culture as their theme, or perhaps a poverty-stricken upbringing in Ireland, feel under greater pressure to demonstrate the authenticity of their material. This, for historical novelists who do not push their settings too far back in time, can often prove a positive inspiration. Robert Harris, writing about Bletchley Park in his thriller Enigma, was evoking a period when the fashion in English fiction had itself been broadly realist. Not only did this provide him with a ready supply of juicy period detail, it also justified the recycling of it. A genre, after all, is as much a product of its time as anything else. A novel set in 1940s England has every right to be as realist as it likes.But what about fiction set in the more distant past? We have plenty of literature from the pre-modern era, but it is often of limited value to writers working in the realist tradition. Indeed, in most periods of ancient history, there isn't much of a reality to be realist about. The most surefire solution to this problem, because also the most brutal, is simply to embrace anachronism – what might be termed the Up Pompeii approach. The modern exemplar of this is Lindsey Davis, and her hugely entertaining Falco novels. Flavian Rome may provide the backdrop, but there is never any doubt that Falco himself, for all his togas, is a thoroughly modern private eye. Indeed, since the genre of the detective novel is a modern one, it is hard to imagine what a credibly ancient private eye might be like.Harris, whose first three novels were set in the 20th century, played things similarly safe when he too moved back in time to Flavian Rome. Pompeii, a thriller about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was essentially a blending of Chinatown and any number of disaster movies. As a page-turner, it was predictably gripping; but as a recreation of the 1st century AD it had inevitable limitations. How, after all, was a contemporary genre supposed to offer an authentic vision of a period to which it was profoundly alien? This is a question to which Harris has evidently been giving much thought; and in his new novel, Imperium, he presents us with his solution.The setting, like that of Pompeii, is classical. A century and a half before the eruption of Vesuvius, the Roman world was administered not by an emperor but as a republic. Rival players competed for the fruits of power: the "imperium" of the title. Since Rome was by this stage the undisputed mistress of the Mediterranean, the potential pickings were mouth-watering. As ambitions turned ever more carnivorous, so politics took on an increasingly lurid and epic hue. Two thousand years on, those who emerged from the power struggle still cast a lengthy shadow over the imagination: Pompey, Crassus, Caesar, Cicero.Rich material for any writer – but there is a further reason, I suspect, why Harris has chosen the mid-1st century BC as his setting. It is, by a wide margin, the best documented period in ancient history, with what is, for the classicist, a whole wealth of evidence: orations, memoirs, even personal correspondence. Harris, like an excavator restoring a shattered mosaic, uses material native to the Romans whenever he can, fitting the fragments of real speeches and letters into the patterns of his own reconstruction. The result is an experiment as bold as it is unexpected: a novel that draws so scrupulously on the Roman source material that it forgoes much of what are traditionally regarded as the prime features of the thriller. Although there is detective work, there is no detective; although there are twists and turns, there is rarely any artificial ratcheting up of suspense. Instead, Harris trusts to the rhythm of the republic's politics to generate his trademark readability, a rhythm that the Romans themselves enshrined in their literature as something relentlessly exciting: in short, a thriller. Genres ancient and modern have rarely been so skilfully synthesised.Like I Claudius, a novel that similarly exploited the resources of classical literature, Imperium takes the form of a memoir. Tiro, the shy and bookish slave who writes it, was celebrated in ancient times as the inventor of shorthand: Harris has him transcribing key conversations and speeches with a flawless accuracy, and even, on one occasion, when he is secreted into a conference, serving as a human bug. But that is not the limit of Tiro's value as a literary device, for he was also the slave of the most prolific author in ancient history, the Roman who more than any other reveals himself to us in all his manifold contradictions, his brilliance and his blindness, his ambition and his vulnerability: Marcus Tullius Cicero.Tiro's master, unlike the aristocrats who customarily secured power in the republic, was a parvenu, with no family tradition of imperium to draw upon, and few other resources save for the spell-binding power of his oratory. It was this that made his rise to the consulship, the supreme office in Rome, all the more extraordinary; and it is the story of this rise that Harris uses to structure his narrative. Cicero, who was as vain as he was insecure, would have been delighted by the result. Once, in a letter to a friend, he anxiously wondered what people would be saying about him in a thousand years' time. To know, more than two millennia after his death, that he is the hero of such a gripping and accomplished novel must be giving his shade the most exquisite delight.

El hijo de Stalin

Rusia zozobra en el caos y muchos añoran un nuevo Stalin, alguien capaz de poner orden con mano dura e implacable. ¿Puede existir en la actualidad un personaje así? ¿Tal vez alguien por cuyas venas corra la misma sangre del dictador? Esta espeluznante hipótesis parece cobrar consistencia cuando Kelso, un profesor de Oxford, visita Moscú invitado a un congreso del gobierno y tiene noticia de dos hechos que podrían cambiar el curso de la historia: en algún lugar se oculta su hijo bastardo. Kelso emprende una peligrosa investigación a lo largo de cuatro días de pesadilla que le llevarán al centro de una verdad casi inimaginable… Obra maestra de su género, El hijo de Stalin es un vibrante y descarnado thriller político. Su inquietante trama da lugar a la reflexión y su fuerza narrativa cautiva desde la primera página.

Fatherland

The year is 1964. The setting is Berlin. JFK’s father, Joe Kennedy, is president. Edward VIII is king, Wallis his queen. Adolf Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday. In this thriller with a twist, the stalemate which ended World War II has evolved into a cold war, not between the Soviet Union and the United States, but between the Third Reich and America. Police investigator Xavier March handles a case involving the death of a prominent Nazi, an apparent suicide. The trail leads to other suicides, accidental deaths, a numbered vault in Zurich, and a beautiful American reporter. March discovers the pattern behind the deaths and locates incriminating papers exposing the Holocaust, which, because Germany didn’t lose the war, has been kept secret for 20 years.

The Fear Index

Vaterland

Jest rok 1964. Nazistowskie Niemcy triumfują w Europie oraz Azji i przygotowują się do obchodów 75 urodzin Hitlera. Prezydent USA J.F.Kennedy ma przybyć z oficjalną wizytą do Rzeszy, aby przywrócić stosunki dyplomatyczne miedzy krajami. Wtedy uwagę władz przykuwa seria tajemniczych morderstw. Wszystkie ofiary łączy udział w planie eksterminacji Żydów i Słowian. Śledztwo rozpoczynają agencji niemieckiego wywiadu, szpiedzy i amerykańska dziennikarka. Rozwiązanie okaże się bardziej zaskakujące, niż ktokolwiek przypuszcza.

Архангел

Вместе с предыдущими произведениями Роберта Харриса — «Фатерланд» и «Enigma» — «Архангел» образует своего рода жанровую трилогию увлекательных детективных романов с блестящей интригой, виртуозно вписанной в исторические декорации, по-своему раскрывающей и объясняющей тайны истории. В «Архангеле» загадка исчезнувшего дневника Сталина и длившиеся до недавнего времени его поиски дают толчок напряженному и трагическому поединку противоборствующих сил, у каждой из которых свои представления о прошлом и настоящем России. Для всех любителей современной художественной прозы.