Political

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world. And then tragedy struck....

There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It's "masterful...white-hot...devastating" (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to pause....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic...

The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell....

Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American president's term....

Against all odds we have made it into the last half of the 1990s. The Cold War looks solved, Arabs and Jews are talking, confrontation is on the wane. In this new harmony, one discord - what becomes of unemployed terrorists? You can bet they aren't going to retire quietly....

On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion....

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands....

CIA operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield....

After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried....

In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come....

A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis.

It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States....

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.

After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, US Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice....

A breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid....

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia....

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did....

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist....

When a new weapon tips the balance against American and allied forces, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration has just fired....

When the president is blackmailed into releasing five detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a sadistic assassin with a vendetta years in the making is reactivated....

Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17....

In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations.

Utopia By Sir Thomas More is a work of political philosophy primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. A really influential and highly regarded mind, Thomas More is known for being controversial and highly intelligent. A wonderful work, and a great addition to any collection.

An einem regennassen Abend in Dublin öffnet die Wissenschaftlerin und vierfache Mutter Eilish Stack ihre Haustür und steht zwei Beamten der neu gegründeten irischen Geheimpolizei gegenüber. Sie sind gekommen, um ihren Mann Larry, einen bekannten Gewerkschafter, zu verhören. Kurz nach dieser Begegnung verschwindet Larry, und sehr schnell beginnen die Dinge in Eilishs Welt aus dem Ruder zu laufen. Irland befindet sich in der Gewalt einer Regierung, die auf dem Weg in die Tyrannei ist.

Set in the fictional town of Steeplejack, nestled in the Bitterroot Mountains, Hazel Mackenzie provides law enforcement with sketch art and victim reconstruction following suspected crimes. Hazel is catapulted from observer to participant when her husband dies in an accident and then soon after, her gay twin brother Kento is shot by a member of Steeplejack's growing anti-LGBTQ community during a gender reveal party for his child.

Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother, the great Madame Leong, unexpectedly passes away, Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Finding herself at the centre of a political controversy, and caught between two men who love her, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.

Предопределенный ход исторических событий меняется – медленно, незаметно, но неотвратимо. Да, Третий крестовый поход состоится, но каковы будут последствия – не знает никто. Никто, кроме горстки заговорщиков – самых влиятельных людей XII века, жаждущих изменить облик католической Европы. Вскоре будет нанесен последний, решающий удар. И в грандиозном политическом спектакле, разворачивающемся на пространстве от Барселоны до Константинополя, примут участие главные герои цикла А. Мартьянова Вестники времен – Мишель де Фармер, Гунтер фон Райхерт и Сергей Казаков.

One-term Georgia governor Jimmy Carter would soon declare his bid for the presidency and miraculously get elected in 1976. America was full of hope for renewal. My book, Deacon Blues, transports you back to that remarkable seven year period between 1973 and 1980 as seen by an angst-filled American adolescent. A child of divorce, the protagonist Manfred Schmidt craves for belonging and respect and takes on Jimmy Carter as his hero.

London, Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2021, die Temperatur beträgt 16 Grad, es ist heiter, später gibt es Schauer. Als Campell Flynn, 52 Jahre alt und auf der Höhe seines Ruhms als öffentlicher Intellektueller, an diesem Tag aus dem Taxi steigt, trägt er sich noch mit Gedanken an ein neues publizistisches Projekt. Aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammend zählt er heute zur Elite des Vereinigten Königreichs: seine Frau, die Tochter einer Gräfin, sein bester Freund, ein Industrieller, sein Schwager, ein Politiker mit Einfluss, sein Leben getaktet von Vorträgen, Vernissagen und Society-Events.

A bleeding-heart liberal. That’s what they called Jim Weldon when he promised Black voters he would put an end to systemic racism once he became president. The strategy worked, as a record Black turnout at the polls propelled him to victory by the tightest of margins. True to his word, he immediately signed the SCALE ACT for Social Justice, along with its trillion-dollar budget, into law.

Imagínate una granja donde los animales, cansados de la opresión humana, se rebelan buscando igualdad y libertad... "Rebelión en la Granja" es una alegoría política que satiriza la Revolución Rusa de 1917 y los acontecimientos posteriores en la Unión Soviética.

En un penal de América Central, un preso político y un perro se observan fascinados el uno por el otro. Cuando el preso se evade tras herir mortalmente al guardián, el animal, condicionado por su amo antes de morir, se lanza en su persecución. Los dos adversarios se enfrentan en una lucha atroz e infatigable, y, a medida que transcurren las semanas, se establece entre ellos una extraña complicidad, hecha de sentimientos tan opuestos como el odio y la autoestima.

Un filo resistente lega gli uni agli altri i racconti di questa antologia: un'agenda rossa. Si affaccia dalla pagina declinata in diversi modi, una volta ha i fogli strappati, un'altra è gonfia di biglietti di teatro, ma sempre intende ricordare quella appartenuta a Paolo Borsellino - che conteneva appunti, nomi e forse rivelazioni sulla strage di Capaci, scomparsa immediatamente dopo l'attentato mafioso del 19 luglio 1992 e mai più riapparsa.

When nighttime radio becomes daytime danger, Mayor Maddy Glenn must act before another innocent dies.

Donald Trump doesn't want you to listen to this book. Trump is president. Unfortunately, that bell can't be unrung. But what if, for a very brief period of time, Donald Trump had actually developed a sliver of moral decency just before the election? What if he thought he was going to lose the election? Even more importantly, what if he thought that he should lose the election because he realized that he's a terrible person with no business being president?

Na, klar ist das nur ein verrückter Zufall, dass sie beide David heißen: David aus Hamburg, elfte Klasse in einer Gesamtschule und wegen einmal Sitzenbleiben schon 18 – und David aus Kampala, der Hauptstadt Ugandas, der erst 16 ist, aber weiß, dass er weg muss. Um jeden Preis. Überhaupt kein Zufall ist, wie sie einander finden: im Internet, wo David aus Kampala auf Planet Romeo durchklickt zu David in Hamburg, weil in seinem Profil etwas steht, das in Kampala zu sieben Jahren Gefängnis führen kann: "Ich unterstütze die Rechte sexueller Minderheiten in Afrika!"

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck.

What if aliens were to invade our planet, stealthily and determinedly, in order to rid it of its human population and prepare it for the needs of their own reptilian race? Would they come surging out of their spaceships, bent on the immediate murder of everyone in their path? Not if they were smart enough to have reached our solar system in the first place. Instead, they'd transport themselves to the seats of government power and see to it that we did away with ourselves, using our own methods.

In a night of shattering brutality, three of Washington's most powerful and unscrupulous politicians have been executed with surgical precision. Their assassins, vanishing without a trace, have delivered a shocking ultimatum to the leaders of the American government: set aside petty, partisan politics and restore power to the people, or be held to deadly account. No one, they warn, is out of their reach, not even the president.

Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as a Western spy. His reputation and life are in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.

Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most.

JAG Officer Zack Brewer's prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the "court martial of the century" by the press. Now, with the limelight behind him, all Zack wants to do is forget. But the radical Islamic organization behind the chaplains has a long memory - and a thirst for revenge.

Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal’s fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr; 1876; Washington, D.C.; Empire; and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation.

Gli antieroi di questo romanzo ci permettono di recuperare, attraverso la narrativa, la memoria di un periodo della nostra storia che, per quanto recente, continua a rimanere sullo sfondo a causa di quel meditato ed efficace depistaggio mediatico che impedisce a questo Paese di condividere una storia e di "usarla" politicamente. Massimo Carlotto. Nell'Italia degli anni Novanta ci sono la Storia con la S maiuscola e la storia con la s minuscola. Della prima si occupa Antonio Castellani, giornalista incompiuto e affetto dalla sindrome di Cassandra.

Sette racconti che si ascoltano come un romanzo corale e parlano del nostro presente, delle sue criticità e delle nostre aspettative, di amori e distanze. Con uno stile limpido e diretto, una prosa intensa ed elegante, Daria Colombo raccoglie in questei capitoli momenti di vite normali, comuni, colti e raccontati nella medesima giornata: vite affacciate sullo stesso Paese, nello stesso momento come un'istantanea del nostro tempo. Che si tratti di un venditore ambulante o di un ragazzo del Sud in cerca di lavoro, che sia un musicista innamorato o una donna delusa.

Inspired by 50 years of Cuban literary noir, from Cold Tales by Virgilio Piera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Robert Arellano's Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery.