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Berlín v roku 1964. Od víťazstva Nemecka v druhej svetovej vojne uplynulo 20 rokov a v ríši vrcholia prípravy na oslavy 75. narodenín Adolfa Hitlera. V tejto atmosfére vyšetruje berlínsky detektív Xavier March prípad mŕtveho muža nájdeného na brehu jazera. Precízne a dôkladné pátranie dovedie Marcha k odhaleniu šokujúceho teroristického sprisahania, ktoré môže ohroziť celú ríšu. Robert Harris je britský autor historických trilerov a populárno-náučných kníh.

Berlín v roku 1964. Od víťazstva Nemecka v druhej svetovej vojne uplynulo 20 rokov a v ríši vrcholia prípravy na oslavy 75. narodenín Adolfa Hitlera. V tejto atmosfére vyšetruje berlínsky detektív Xavier March prípad mŕtveho muža nájdeného na brehu jazera. Precízne a dôkladné pátranie dovedie Marcha k odhaleniu šokujúceho teroristického sprisahania, ktoré môže ohroziť celú ríšu. Robert Harris je britský autor historických trilerov a populárno-náučných kníh. V slovenčine vyšli jeho diela Dôstojník a špión, Konkláve alebo Mníchov.

The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf has dreamt since childhood of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, along with his friend Werner von Braun, he has helped create the world's most sophisticated weapon - the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead that travels at three times the speed of sound. In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat, Hitler orders 10,000 to be built. Now, in the winter of 1944, Graf finds himself in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland. Haunted and disillusioned, he's tasked with firing the V2s at London. Nobody understands the volatile, deadly machine better than he does. Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the WAAF. She has experienced at first-hand the horror of a V2 strike. As the rockets rain down, she joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly-liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, the hope is that Kay and her colleagues can locate and destroy the launch sites. But at this stage in the war it's hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust. For every action on one side, there is an equal and opposite reaction on the other. As the death toll soars, the separate stories of Graf and Kay ricochet off one another, until in a final explosion of violence their destinies are forced together.

The Pope is dead. 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. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? _____________________________________ 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible.' STEPHEN KING 'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH _____________________________________ Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor - before night falls and curfew is imposed. He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm. What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested to destruction, as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying ... _____________________________________ '[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD 'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL 'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD 'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST LOOK OUT FOR ROBERT'S NEW THRILLER, V2 - COMING AUTUMN 2020

Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor - before night falls and curfew is imposed. He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm. What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested to destruction, as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying ...

Píše sa rok 1468. Mladý kňaz Christopher Fairfax prichádza na koni do odľahlej dediny v juhozápadnom Anglicku, aby pochoval tamojšieho farára. Okolitá krajina je posiata predmetmi z dávnych čias - mincami, črepinami, ľudskými kosťami -, ktoré starý farár vyhľadával a zbieral. Doplatil na svoju posadnutosť minulosťou vlastným životom? Fairfax je odhodlaný odhaliť pravdu. Nasledujúcich šesť dní otrasie všetkým, čo si doposiaľ myslel o sebe, cirkvi aj o svete.

Píše sa rok 1468. Mladý kňaz Christopher Fairfax prichádza na koni do odľahlej dediny v juhozápadnom Anglicku, aby pochoval tamojšieho farára. Okolitá krajina je posiata predmetmi z dávnych čias – mincami, črepinami, ľudskými kosťami –, ktoré starý farár vyhľadával a zbieral. Doplatil na svoju posadnutosť minulosťou vlastným životom? Fairfax je odhodlaný odhaliť pravdu. Nasledujúcich šesť dní otrasie všetkým, čo si doposiaľ myslel o sebe, cirkvi aj o svete.

Do města, které má být nadcházejícími událostmi navěky proslaveno v dobrém i zlém, přilétá přes Kanál britský ministerský předseda Chamberlain a vlakem z Berlína přijíždí říšský kancléř Hitler. Mají rozhodnout o dalším osudu Evropy. Ovšem v Mnichově se mají setkat i jiní muži - dávní přátelé z dob oxfordských studií. Jeden je Chamberlainovým sekretářem, druhý německým diplomatem a členem protihitlerovského spiknutí. Sázky jsou vysoko a zbývá jediná otázka: koho zradit? Přátele? Rodinu? Vlast? Vlastní svědomí?

MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes - about himself, his faith and the history of his world - is tested to destruction.

Do města, které má bžt nadcházejícími událostmi navěky proslaveno v dobrém i zlém, přilétá přes Kanál britský ministerský předseda Chamberlain a vlakem z Berlína přijíždí říšský kancléř Hitler. Mají rozhodnout o dalším osudu Evropy. Ovšem v Mnichově se mají setkat i jiní muži - dávní přátelé z dob oxfordských studií. Jeden je Chamberlainovým sekretářem, druhý německým diplomatem a členem protihitlerovského spiknutí. Sázky jsou vysoko a zbývá jediná otázka: koho zradit? Přátele? Rodinu? Vlast? Vlastní svědomí?

September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain’s plane judders over the Channel and the Führer’s train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain’s private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven’t seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?

Strhující román Diktátor je inspirován životem věhlasného řečníka Marka Tullia Cicerona – politika, filozofa, spisovatele a jednoho ze dvou nejmocnějších mužů dávného Říma. Ten se ocitá ve vyhnanství a snaží se získat zpět své výsadní postavení. Ovšem žádná postava veřejného života není zcela v bezpečí před bezohlednými ambicemi druhých. Robert Harris, mistr historické prózy, líčí bouřlivý vývoj impozantních událostí starověkých dějin včetně zavraždění Pompeia i atentátu na Caesara.

Papež je mrtvý. Za zavřenými dveřmi Sixtinské kaple se okamžitě roztáčí soukolí katolické mašinérie. Sto a osmnáct kardinálů k tomu z celého světa zasedne, aby během následujících hodin zvolili příštího nejmocnějšího duchovního vůdce planety. V jejich rozhodování je má provázet boží vůle a Jeho hlas jim má odhalit, kdo je ten pravý. Avšak i když jsou kardinálové oslavování jako muži ctností a víry, jsou to především lidé. Každý z nich má své touhy, své rivaly. A také hříchy, které už nyní nedokáží skrývat…

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?