Munich: A novel

Paul von hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Now, when hugh flies with chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.

Hugh legat is a rising star of the british diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. And once again, chamberlain, robert harris gives us actual events of historical importance--here are Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier--at the heart of an electrifying, unputdownable novel.

. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since.

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Fatherland: A Novel

. It’s a triumph. The washington times “distinguished by vivid details based on impeccable research, the thriller is a crackling-good read in the le Carré tradition. Time “Wonderful. Newsday “a gripping detective story as well as a chilling visit to the Germany that might have been. Historical fact is blended skillfully with fiction.

Detroit free Press “Absorbing. Fast-paced. Expertly written. The new york times Book Review “Truly captivating. Robert ludlum “a strong premise for a police thriller with rich foreign atmosphere and political texture galore? Absolutely!”—Entertainment Weekly “A sly and scary page-turner. Los angeles times “a well-plotted, well-written detective tale and a fascinating trek through parallel history.

Chicago tribune “Fatherland works on all levels. But when xavier march discovers the identity of the body, he also uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, march, together with the american journalist charlotte Maguire, a truth that could topple governments, with the Gestapo just one step behind, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth—a truth that has already killed, a truth that will change history.

Praise for fatherland “A singular achievement displaying original and carefully wrought suspense.


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Greeks Bearing Gifts A Bernie Gunther Novel

He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice. Working together, leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. Thriller frightening suspenseful. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens. One who may have never left.

Bernie gunther has a new name, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, a chip on his shoulder, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war.

Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S. S. Witzel's claimed losses are large, even worse, and, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. A vicious murder puts bernie gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.

Munich, 1956. Officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. But when bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place.


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Enigma

Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours. People"satisfYING. Captivating. New york daily news"elegantly RESEARCHED. Feeling that the blood of allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark.

. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. And they've changed the code. But shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways.

Entertainment weekly"SUSPENSEFUL. As jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. Suspenseful and fascinating.


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Conclave: A novel

They are holy men. But they have ambition. Behind the locked doors of the sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.

From the Hardcover edition. The best-selling author of enigma and fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. And they have rivals. Thriller frightening suspenseful.

The pope is dead.


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Fatherland

And, march, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, together with an American journalist, with the Gestapo just one step behind, a truth that will change history. From the Paperback edition. Xavier march, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.

As march discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is april 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Thriller frightening suspenseful.

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An Officer and a Spy

Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.

Winner of the walter scott prize for historical fictionWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award Thriller frightening suspenseful. Vintage. National bestseller a whistle-blower. A witch hunt. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as staunchly as any member of the public.

Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. A cover-up. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military—indicating that Dreyfus is innocent.


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Enigma

Literate and savvy. Brims with wartime intrigue. The washington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Captivating. New york daily news"elegantly RESEARCHED. As jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend.

. Vintage. Suspenseful and fascinating. The orlando sentinelas an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic. A tense and thoughtful thriller. San francisco chronicleUntil the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked.

And they've changed the code. As jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. But shark, has masked the germans' movements, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels.

Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours.


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An Officer and a Spy: A novel

Alfred dreyfus, a young jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the twentieth century, secret tribunals, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness––a witch hunt, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower--richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.

. At first, picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus’s guilt. Vintage. Thriller frightening suspenseful. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that “proved” Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. A novel of the dreyfus affair, an espionage thriller--signed first edition by Robert Harris.

As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Robert harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own.

This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895.


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Dictator: A Novel

In robert harris’s indelible portrait, Cicero is a deeply fascinating hero for his own time and for ours. At the age of forty-eight, cicero—the greatest orator of his time—is in exile, his power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. A novel of the dreyfus affair, an espionage thriller--signed first edition by Robert Harris.

Vintage. The only way to return to Rome is to pledge his support to a charismatic and dangerous enemy: Julius Caesar. Vintage. The long-awaited final volume of the Cicero Trilogy, from a beloved bestselling author “incapable of writing an unenjoyable book” The Wall Street Journal. But its central question is a timeless one: how to keep political freedom unsullied by personal gain, vested interests, and the corrosive effects of ceaseless foreign wars.

Thriller frightening suspenseful. Harnessing his political cunning, unrivalled intellect, and the sheer brilliance of his words, Cicero fights his way back to prominence. Yet no public figure is completely safeguarded against the unscrupulous ambition of others. Riveting and tumultuous, the murder of pompey,  Dictator encompasses the most epic events in ancient history, including the collapse of the Roman Republic, and the assassination of Caesar.

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Warlight: A novel

Vintage. They suspect he might be a criminal, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, and educate in rather unusual ways Rachel and Nathaniel.

Vintage. In 1945, just after world war ii, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Thriller frightening suspenseful. But are they really what and who they claim to be? and what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.

National best sellerfrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. A novel of the dreyfus affair, an espionage thriller--signed first edition by Robert Harris.


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