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Knižní bestseller Kena Folletta je již několik let na výsluní zájmu čtenářů celého světa. Nyní k vám přichází 4 dílné filmové zpracování tohoto velkolepého eposu z produkční dílny Tonyho a Ridleye Scottových, tvůrců hitů Gladiátor a Robin Hood. Anglie roku 1123. Tom Stavitel (RUFUS SEWELL), povoláním kameník, sní o stavbě velkolepé katedrály. Spojence pro její realizaci nachází v ambiciozním převorovi Philipovi (MATTHEW MACFADYEN). Zatímco se Anglie po smrti krále Jindřicha I. utápí v občanské válce, začíná se v Kingsbridgi po letech příprav mohutně stavět. Zhmotnění jedné velké představy však bude trvat několik desetiletí plných intrik, vražd a válek. Cíle by však nebylo nikdy dosaženo bez lásky. To ona dává lidem sílu a křídla k uskutečnění snů malých i velkých. To ona pomáhá dobru zvítězit nad zlem. A právě o tomto vítězství je náš příběh.

Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. Adn Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game? Up and coming artist Peter Usher has still to exhibit anywhere, still to make even the most modest mark on the London art scene. But as rumour turns to reality, Usher finds himself caught up in a race to uncover the shadowy figures behind a breathtaking scam. Will art genius ever be rewarded? Will the brush prove more deadly than the gun?

Triple is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal it...Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. Against him are the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein's Achilles heel.

By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. 'A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirling villains, saintly heroes, wronged women, and a lot of plot'. - Irish Times". 'Banks, brothels, and a high body count ...it's all there'. - "Financial Times". 'A compulsively readable, enjoyable thriller-cum-saga'. - "Sunday Times"."

Es ist Mittwoch, der 29. Januar 1958, und der Start des ersten amerikanischen Satelliten, Explorer, steht unmittelbar bevor. So steht es in der Zeitung, doch für Luke bedeuten diese Worte nichts. Um zu verstehen, was ihn in diese Lage gebracht hat, müssen wir zurückgehen in das Jahr 1941. Damals studierten fünf junge Leute in Harvard an der Universität. Jeder von ihnen hatte seine Träume im Leben - und jeder von ihnen stand im Krieg in Diensten des OSS, der Vorläufer-Organisation der CIA. Anthony blieb beim Geheimdienst und machte dort Karriere. Bern wurde Schriftsteller, geriet auf die Schwarze Liste der McCarthy-Ära und verdiente sich dann sein Geld mit Kinderbüchern. Billie wurde Psychologin und schrieb ein grundlegendes Werk über die Natur des Gedächtnisses. Elspeth heiratete schließlich Claude “Luke” Lucas, den fünften im Bunde, der Raketentechnik studierte und jetzt an der Entwicklung des amerikanischen Satellitenprogramms arbeitet. Und der sich daran nicht mehr erinnern kann. Während der Countdown zum Start der Rakete tickt, wird Luke klar, dass nicht alle seine Freunde von einst die Wahrheit sagen. Und dass mindestens einer von ihnen ein Verräter ist.

Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine Hippie-Kommune. Nun aber soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Doch die “Kinder von Eden” wollen sich nicht aus ihrem Paradies vertreiben lassen und greifen in ihrer Not zu einem wahnwitzigen Plan: Sie drohen der Regierung, ein Erdbeben stattfinden zu lassen, das entsetzliche Folgen haben wird. Niemand nimmt ihre Ankündigung ernst. Nur die junge FBI-Agentin Judy Maddox , die bereits auf der Abschußliste ihrer Vorgesetzten steht, hat ihre Zweifel und versucht, die Katastrophe zu verhindern. Aber dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse ...

Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth" enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now "World Without End" takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change."

From the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance. It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines

By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. 'A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirling villains, saintly heroes, wronged women, and a lot of plot'. - Irish Times". 'Banks, brothels, and a high body count ...it's all there'. - "Financial Times". 'A compulsively readable, enjoyable thriller-cum-saga'. - "Sunday Times"."

The Eagles, a team of volunteers from the executive ranks of a US corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer, are sent to penetrate a heavily-guarded prison fortress in Iran, and free the Americans imprisoned there - against terrible odds of success and survival.