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In six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body of work – crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption - to explore the savagery and nobility that drive and define the human condition. In Broken, Winslow creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops and jaded private detectives, dope dealers and government agents, bounty hunters and fugitives.

Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que no puede escapar. Ahora depende de él atravesar la brecha para proteger a su familia.

The English Manor House has long been a world apart where landed gentry freely indulge in their passions, not only for outdoor sports, but the indoor variety as well. Lascivious activities are enthusiastically, pursued by lusty men and sensual women behind large and imposing stone walls, hidden from prying eyes. In that bygone era – the 1920s, relations between men and women were not as progressive as they are today. Hopefully, modern listeners won’t be too terribly offended by the less-than-sensitive treatment young Philippa Gresham-Cantwell is made to endure.

1951: Die CIA, die Nikolai Hel inhaftiert und gefoltert hat, macht ihm ein Angebot: Seine Freiheit gegen den Tod des sowjetischen Botschafters in Peking...

All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. Malone and his crew are an elite NYPD special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for 18 years, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He's done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean - including Malone himself.

For over 40 years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world's most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin—the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera—has left him bloody and scarred, cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created 30 more that are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico. But not just there.

Japan 1951. After spending the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor, Nicholai Hel is offered the chance of freedom - but at a price. Overseen by his American spymaster and the beautiful and mysterious Solange, he must travel to China and assassinate the Soviet Union's commissioner. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. From the glittering corruption of Beijing to the darkest shadows of the Vietnam jungle, his mission will sweep him through a world of chaos, violence and betrayal.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.

In this collection of tales, whispered fantasies are snatched from the dark side of the internet and brought closer, allowing us to examine the many varieties of human sexual experiences. Inspired by the shocking riot of sexual encounters graphically depicted in cyberspace, each story is unique, seductive and sizzling hot! Included are the joyful exhibitionist and the happy voyeur (and aren’t we all voyeurs, after all?).

A story of another age, of an early civilization seen only dimly through the veil of time. It’s a time when life is more primitive and closer to our animal roots. Life is hard, and wealth, glory and sexual pleasures are taken by conquest. The Thralkild court is rich and opulent, with scantily clad slaves and breathtakingly beautiful courtesans, all of whom who eagerly engage in the most outrageous acts at the command of their lecherous sovereign.

Ahora que su bando está perdiendo la sangrienta guerra criminal en la Costa Este, Danny Ryan se da a la fuga. La mafia, la policía y el FBI lo quieren muerto o en prisión. Emprende la clásica migración estadounidense a California —con su hijo pequeño, su viejo padre y el cansado séquito que le queda— para empezar una nueva vida.

Following his father Rupert’s death, his son Edward is packed off to Cheatem Manor in the English countryside. Although Rupert’s cousin has inherited the estate, the man must remain at his military post, leaving the estate and Edward’s upbringing in the hands of his father’s half-sister, Lady Amanda, and her two very beautiful wards, Catherine and Prudence. Once at the Manor, Edward is quickly reduced in status from honoured family member to lowly servant. Rather than spending a pleasure-filled summer in the country, he’s forced to serve this hedonistic household as a virtual slave

Two novellas about men obsessed with women who are both captive and captivating. “Breedlowe’s Obsession,” that’s what the old boys called it, most often followed by a nudge, and a knowing wink. But they would never know, or even suspect, the lengths to which that obsession will be carried, once their former classmate has acquired the necessary wealth and considerable leisure to fully indulge his insatiable appetite for feminine beauty.

A collection of steamy erotic stories by a master storyteller. They speak to the terrible power of Eros, which simmers just beneath the surface of all the games that lovers play. As life’s voyeurs we watch fascinated as romance and attraction grow between friends and lovers. We witness desire surface in its many variations, captivated by the obsessive compulsions of ordinary people, as well as those who skate along the kinky outer fringe of human sexuality. The very thought of being summoned by her lover sent a jolt of electricity through her. The lust rose in her, blowing all her ...

Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

QUAND TOUT LE SYSTÈME EST POURRI. AUTANT JOUER SELON SES PROPRES RÈGLES. Denny Malone est le roi de Manhattan North, le leader charismatique de La Force, une unité d élite qui fait la loi dans les rues de New York et n hésite pas à se salir les mains pour combattre les gangs, les dealers et les trafiquants d armes. Après dix-huit années de service, il est respecté et admiré de tous. Mais le jour où, après une descente, Malone et sa garde rapprochée planquent pour des millions de dollars de drogue, la ligne jaune est franchie.

Après les deux premiers tomes de la trilogie explosive du maître du polar Don Winslow, voici le troisième volume aussi épique et ambitieux, La Cité sous les cendres, livre annoncé comme le dernier dans la carrière de son brillant auteur. Parfois, il faut devenir ce que l'on déteste pour protéger ce que l'on aime. Danny Ryan est riche. Riche au-delà de ses rêves les plus fous. L'ancien docker, soldat de la mafia irlandaise et fugitif est désormais un homme d'affaires respecté – un magnat des casinos de Las Vegas et un partenaire silencieux dans un groupe qui possède deux somptueux hôtels.

"Jeg skulle have dræbt ham lige på stedet," tænker Art Keller, da han flere år senere mindes sit første møde med Adán Barrera i en træningshal i Culiacán, Mexico. Dengang var Adán kun en splejset dreng og yngste skud på stammen i Barrera-familien. Men netop den familie skulle blive drivkraften i sammenslutningen af de mexicanske klaner, Federación, som er hovedleverandør af den narko, der oversvømmer gaderne i USA. Den sammenslutning, som narkoagenten Art Keller skulle vie sit liv til at bekæmpe.

In six intense novellas connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption, Broken is number-one international best seller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters, and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway.