Автор - Sidney Sheldon
Operacja „Sąd Ostateczny”
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Robert Bellamy, oficer wywiadu amerykańskiej marynarki wojennej, weteran wojny w Wietnamie, z trudem wraca do równowagi zaburzonej rozpadem małżeństwa. Otrzymuje ściśle tajne zadanie w operacji pod kryptonimem „Sąd Ostateczny”. Ma odnaleźć i zmusić do milczenia świadków pewnego wypadku. Ale ktoś go uprzedza i ucisza ich na zawsze. Wkrótce Bellamy przekonuje się, że jest nie tylko tropicielem, ale i tropionym…
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Si Hubiera Un Mañana
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Tracy Whitney es joven y hermosa. Ha sido condenada a quince años de prisión por un delito que no cometió. Una vez en libertad, busca vengarse de las fuerzas del crimen organizado, responsables de su condenada. Sus armas son las inteligencia, la belleza, y la firme determinación de cumplir con su cometido, sin reparar en los medios utilizados.
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Tell me your dreams
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Meet Ashley Patterson, the brainy, babelicious "computer whiz" and confused heroine of Tell Me Your Dreams. Although she has a cushy job at Global Computer Graphics, a fast-growing start-up in Silicon Valley, her life falls short of fulfilling. She's lonely, shy, and absolutely convinced she's being stalked. What's worse, the only sympathetic ear around is her father, Dr. Patterson, the heartless heart surgeon, who has the charm of an electric eel and the compassion of a tarantula. Given her options, Ashley looks to the heavens for support and offers up an ultimatum to the Almighty: "I'll make a deal with you, God. If it doesn't rain, it means that everything is all right, that I've been imagining everything." Of course, it starts raining buckets just paragraphs later, setting off a car alarm of an omen about our computer cutie's fate. Enter Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. They both work with Ashley at Global Computer Graphics, but the similarities end there. Toni is a saucy, British vixen with a penchant for Internet dating and discotheques. La bella Italiana Alette, on the other hand, is a wannabe artist who prefers quiet, dreamy weekends with beefcake painters. Reminiscent of junior high school, Toni and Alette do their best to keep Ashley out of their cool clique, but find it difficult when a string of murders irrevocably binds them together. Based on a true story and laden with realistic details--not to mention a whopper of an ending--Tell Me Your Dreams is vintage Sheldon. However, there is one necessary caveat: avoid moviegoer types who insist on telling you the entire plot before you have a chance to see it. You should be doing this anyway, but take extra care with this book. Once the surprise ending is blown, so is the fun in reading it. --Rebekah Warren --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Doomsday Conspiracy
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Sheldon spices his latest thriller, a 17-week PW bestseller in cloth, with science fiction, including aliens who arrive from another planet on an enviromentalist mission.
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The sands of time
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
This is a work of fiction. And yet… The romantic land of flamenco and Don Quixote and exotic-looking señoritas with tortoises hell combs in their hair is also the land of Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition, and one of the bloodiest civil wars in history. More than half a million people lost their lives in the battles for power between the Republicans and the rebel Nationalists in Spain. In 1936, between February and June, 269 political murders were committed, and the Nationalists executed Republicans at the rate of a thousand a month, with no mourning permitted. One hundred sixty churches were burned to the ground, and nuns were removed forcibly from convents, "as though," wrote Due de Saint-Simon of an earlier conflict between the Spanish government and the Church, "they were whores in a bawdy house." Newspaper offices were sacked and strikes and riots were endemic throughout the land. The Civil War ended in a victory for the Nationalists under Franco, and following his death, Spain became a monarchy. The Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, may be officially over, but the two Spains that fought it have never been reconciled. Today another war continues to rage in Spain, the guerrilla war fought by the Basques to regain the autonomy they had won under the Republic and lost under the Franco regime. The war is being fought with bombs, bank robberies to finance the bombs, assassinations, and riots. When a member of ETA, a Basque guerrilla underground group, died in a Madrid hospital after being tortured by the police, the nationwide riots that followed led to the resignation of the director general of Spain's police force, five security chiefs, and two hundred senior police officers. In 1986, in Barcelona, the Basques publicly burned the Spanish flag, and in Pamplona thousands fled in fear, when Basque Nationalists clashed with police in a series of mutinies that eventually spread across Spain and threatened the stability of the government. The paramilitary police retaliated by going on a rampage, firing at random at homes and shops of the Basques. The terrorism that goes on is more violent than ever. This is a work of fiction. And yet…
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The sky is falling
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Dana Evans, who made her first appearance in Sidney Sheldon's The Best Laid Plans, is a spunky, good-looking, young Washington TV journalist who's recently returned to the nation's capital from the Balkans, where she adopted a handicapped war orphan who's having trouble adjusting to life in America. But that doesn't keep Dana from following a story all over the world, from Washington to Aspen, Nice, Juneau, Dьsseldorf, Rome, Brussels, Moscow, and Siberia. Each of these brief visits is like a postcard--a local landmark or two, an interesting local restaurant (at least in the European venues), and another piece of the puzzle, which has to do with why every member of a venerable, old Washington dynasty has died a violent death in the last year. It seems strange that in a media-savvy city like Washington, no one but Dana has noticed there's a pattern in the rapid extinction of the Winthrops or even whispered the words family vendetta. But that's why pretty, young girl TV reporters were invented, at least by Sheldon. As Dana sets out to investigate the distinguished career of the Winthrop family patriarch, her lover Jeff, a sports anchor at her station, is called away to administer aid and succor to his former wife, a beautiful model who's realized, too little and too late, that she never should have dumped him. And Kemal, the 12-year-old orphan, is being drugged by his baby sitter, who's in cahoots with at least one set of bad guys. Dana hasn't noticed how tractable the temperamental boy has become recently because she's been dressing up like a two-bit Russian tramp to infiltrate a secret weapons base in Siberia... Do you hear the words movie locations? But all's well that ends well, as it usually does for Sheldon's heroines, and in the meantime you've learned where the five-star hotels are and what to order in a famous restaurant in Rome. A slick, commercial, slightly thin tale told by a craftsman of the genre.
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Wen die Götter strafen
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Buch Dana Evans ist Redakteurin und Moderatorin eines wichtigen Nachrichtenmagazins in Washington. Selbstbewusst, erfolgreich und karriereorientiert, lässt sie sich von nichts bremsen, wenn sie eine gute Story wittert. Und scheut dabei auch die Gefahr nicht. Als in kurzer Zeit fünf Mitglieder einer einflussreichen Familie ums Leben kommen, unter ihnen der angesehene Politiker Taylor Winthrop, den sie erst kürzlich interviewt hat, glaubt sie nicht an einen Zufall. Ihre Recherchen bringen schnell ans Tageslicht, dass Winthrop in Wahrheit ein skrupelloser Mann war, der vor Betrug, Gewalt und Mordaufträgen und schließlich sogar vor Hochverrat nicht zurückschreckte - dafür musste er sterben, und mit ihm seine Familie. Dana verfolgt die Spuren des Killers über Frankreich, Deutschland und Italien bis nach Alaska. Sie enden in Sibirien, in der ehemals geheimen, unterirdischen Stadt Krasnojarsk. Dort wird nicht nur Plutonium hergestellt und verkauft - es wird auch in großem Umfang gestohlen. Und Taylor Winthrop stand im Zentrum dieses Schmuggelrings. Doch noch bevor Dana mit ihren schockierenden Erkenntnissen an die Öffentlichkeit gehen kann, merkt sie, dass sie und ihr Adoptivsohn in tödlicher Gefahr sind. Aus der Jägerin wird plötzlich die Gejagte ... Autor Sidney Sheldon, 1917 in Chicago geboren, schrieb schon früh für die Studios in Hollywood. Bereits mit fünfundzwanzig Jahren hatte er große Erfolge am Broadway. Am bekanntesten aus dieser Zeit ist wohl sein Drehbuch zu dem Musical »Annie, Get Your Gun«. Seit langem veröffentlicht er nun Romane, die auch in Deutschland Bestseller und allesamt verfilmt wurden. Er lebt in Los Angeles, Palm Springs und London. Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel »The Sky Is Falling« bei William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York
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Zorn der Engel
Автор: Sidney SheldonЖанр: Иностранная литература
Jennifer Parker, 24, eine schöne und kluge junge Anwältin, hat gerade ihren Job als Assistentin des New Yorker Staatsanwalts angetreten. Gleich am ersten Tag wartet ein spektakuläres Verfahren auf sie: der Prozeß gegen Michael Moretti, den zur Zeit erfolgreichsten jungen Mafiaboß. Und dieser Tag wird beinahe auch der letzte in der Karriere Jennifers - sie gerät in den Verdacht, selber im Sold der Mafia zu stehen. So beginnt der glänzend geschriebene Roman des erfolgreichen Bestsellerautors Sidney Sheldon. Der Roman um eine Frau, die später eine der erfolgreichsten Strafverteidigerinnen Amerikas wird. Es ist aber auch ein Roman um die beiden Männer in ihrem Leben, um den verheirateten Adam Warner, der für die Präsidentschaft kandidiert und sich Skandale nicht leisten kann, und um Michael Moretti, den ›schwarzen Engel‹, von dem sie abhängig wird. Ein Roman um zwei Männer, die sich gegenseitig vernichten wollen und um die Frau, die zwischen ihnen steht und ihren eigenen Weg finden muß. Ein Roman voller Leben, Liebe und Leidenschaft, voller Dramatik und großer Menschlichkeit.
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