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Starý Rím, mesto slávy postavené na brehu rieky neresti, sa hemží ambicióznymi a neľútostnými mužmi. Nik z nich sa však nevyrovná Marcovi Cicerovi. Mladý postupujúci právnik, brzdený manželkou-dračicou, sa rozhodne staviť všetko na jedinú kartu v najdramatickejšom zákulisnom boji všetkých čias. Ak vyhrá, získa neobmedzenú moc nad Rímom. Ak prehrá, je navždy stratený.

The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium. “The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, ‘Rick, I’m sorry, this isn’t for me, I don’t like the sound of it,’ finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, Rick — I often thought he should have been the writer and I the agent — that once he’d started talking there was never any question I wouldn’t listen, and by the time he had finished, I was done for.”After five books set firmly in the past, Robert Harris returns with a contemporary novel that brings the reader face to face with some of the biggest issues of our time — the result is a gripping and genuinely thrilling read.From the Hardcover edition.

Jakmile Gerd Heidemann, reportér listu Stem, získal první díly "deníků Adolfa Hitlera", kresby, malby a další dokumenty zaručeně signované Hitlerem, spojil se s mocnými tohoto tiskového koncernu. Několik let přísně utajovaná záležitost nakonec roztočila na plné obrátky světový obchod. Zatímco Stern již vyplatil statisíce marek za získání dalších dílů, ověřuje se pravost dokumentů. Kdo byl autorem deníků? Kdo z mocných tiskových magnátů naletěl? Kdo na všechno doplatil?

Hrdinom príbehu novej knihy Roberta Harrisa je profesionálny spisovateľ. Keď raz celkom nečakane dostane ponuku napísať memoáre bývalého britského predsedu vlády Adama Langa, neodolá tejto vábivej ponuke. Musí odísť za ním do Ameriky a dokončiť knihu v ústraní luxusného domu. Takmer v rovnakom čase, ako sa skrížia cesty rozprávača príbehu a šarmantného bývalého britského popredného politika, médiá zverejňujú kompromitujúcu správu. Pred niekoľkými rokmi na poste predsedu vlády schválil nezákonný zákrok proti štyrom britským občanom podozrievaným z terorizmu. Spočiatku sa zdá, že je to pre memoáre nepodstatná téma. Postupne sa však stáva kľúčovou, a nielen v životnom príbehu Adama Langa. Osudovo zasiahne aj autora jeho memoárov.

The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK´s premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain) was not original,

Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade.

Román Lustrum je po Impériu druhý díl skvěle napsané Římské trilogie Roberta Harrise, inspirované životem věhlasného řečníka Marka Tullia Cicerona – politika, filozofa, spisovatele a jednoho ze dvou nejmocnějších mužů Říma. Autor se znovu představuje jako mistr historické prózy, který na základě brilantních rešerší píše strhující příběh – skvělý román plný napětí a překvapení.

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in h istory. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state. This is the starting-poi nt of Robert Harris' most accomplished novel to date. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, it takes us inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, to describe how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach th e top. 'Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early - exposing it prematurely to the laughter and scepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentionin g a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible. That was how it was that night. When Cicero pronounced the word "consul" he planted it in the ground like a standard for us all to admire. And for a moment we glimpsed the brilliant, starry f uture through his eyes, and saw that he was right: that if he took down Verres, he had a chance; that he might - just - with luck - go all the way to the summit...' Robert Harris states: 'This novel grows out of a thirty-five year obsession with poli tics, by which I mean politics as a contact sport. I can enjoy a good election anywhere and I think that what makes this book unusual is not that it draws the parallel (a cliche now) between the US and Rome, but that it goes back to the beginnings of everything which makes politics so fascinating - oratory, strategising, electioneering, manipulation of public opinion, the sheer addictive exhilaration of politics. I have always followed politics as others might follow football, and Cicero is fasc inating to me because he's the ultimate professional in the ultimate sport. It's this universality which is important'.

Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma.        Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives.        One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer, a former bodyguard of the secret police chief Lavrenty Beria. The old man claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke, and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private papers, among them a notebook.        Kelso decides to use his last morning in Moscow to check out the old man's story. But what starts as an idle inquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across nighttime Moscow and up to northern Russia--to the vast forests near the White Sea port of Archangel, where the final secret of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century.        Archangel combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of Fatherland with the meticulous historical detail of Enigma. The result is Robert Harris's most compelling novel yet.From the Paperback edition.

Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the worlds financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffmans hedge fund built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or 'Fear Index' generates astonishing returns for his investors. Then, late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an int ruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harriss new novel a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Set entirely over the course of a single day, The Fear Index follows Hoffmans quest to find out who is trying to destroy him, even as the worlds financial markets head for collapse.

Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii.Only one man is worried. The engineer Marius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’s sixty-mile main line -- somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Marius -- decent, practical, incorruptible -- promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he heads out towards Vesuvius he is about to discover there are forces that even the world’s only superpower can’t control.Pompeii recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, it offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.From the Hardcover edition.

March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.

The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Mike McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's biography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first seem. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government on 'The War on Terror' during the Tony Blair years.

Meet Alex Hoffman: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic - and feeds on fear. And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffman attempts - with increasing desperation - to discover who is trying to destroy him - before it's too late ...

April 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a river on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel.

Štyridsiatnik Alexander Hoffmann, americký vedec, génius, podivný introvert a zberateľ prvých vydaní vzácnych vedeckých kníh vytvoril algoritmus, s ktorým určitý počítačový program dokáže nezávisle analyzovať informácie z dostupných databáz a vyhodnocovať nielen pohyby na finančných trhoch, ale aj dokáže určiť, kedy investori prestávajú racionálne konať a ich rozhodnutia určuje strach. Hoffman si vybuduje vlastný hedžový fond a prosperuje vďaka analýzam vzťahov medzi ľudskými emóciami a obchodnými stratégiami. Raz večer však dostane zásielku, ktorú si neobjednal, a udalosti v jeho živote naberajú prudký spád. Všetko naznačuje dokonalú krádež identity.