Valerio Manfredi

Záverečný diel rozprávania o Odyseovi, najľudskejšom hrdinovi starých gréckych mýtov. Prešlo desať dlhých rokov vojny a krviprelievania, nepokojnej lásky a neuhasiteľnej nenávisti, kým boli Trójania porazení. Teraz sa Odyseus so svojimi druhmi musí vydať na spiatočnú cestu na rodnú na Itaku. No kým bude môcť vychutnať svoj radostný triumf - deň pomsty, znovu musí bojovať s ľuďmi, temnými silami prírody, vrtošivou a nevyspytateľnou vôľou bohov.

Záverečný diel rozprávania o Odyseovi, najľudskejšom hrdinovi starých gréckych mýtov. Prešlo desať dlhých rokov vojny a krviprelievania, nepokojnej lásky a neuhasiteľnej nenávisti, kým boli Trójania porazení. Teraz sa Odyseus so svojimi druhmi musí vydať na spiatočnú cestu na rodnú na Itaku. No kým bude môcť vychutnať svoj radostný triumf – deň pomsty, znovu musí bojovať s ľuďmi, temnými silami prírody, vrtošivou a nevyspytateľnou vôľou bohov.

This is an ancient crime, with a curse that remains...In the darkest hours of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archaeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work. He has discovered that the famous Etruscan statue known as 'the shade of twilight' contains a mysterious object, seemingly enclosed within the sculpture itself. He is suddenly interrupted by a phone call from an icy female voice, warning him to abandon his research at once. A series of gruesome killings follow. The victims, who have all been involved in the desecration of an unexplored tomb, seem to be have been torn to pieces by a beast of unimaginable size. Meanwhile, as Fabrizio excavates the Etruscan tomb he discovers something extraordinary, and chilling...Will Fabrizio manage to unravel these secrets without being sucked into the spiral of violence himself?

Archeologo ed autore di celebri romanzi storici, tra cui la trilogia Aléxandros", Valerio Massimo Manfredi si cimenta in questo testo inedito con la forma del racconto. Che siano ambientate nell'antica Grecia o nelle corti rinascimentali, ai tempi delle guerre puniche, o in una centrale nucleare all'alba del 2000, queste storie confermano il desiderio costante dello scrittore di rendere la Storia sempre pi "vicina" al lettore contemporaneo."

A rip-roaring archaelogical adventure from the master of historical fiction Jerusalem, 586BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As he locates the preordained hiding place which will make it impossible to be found, he makes a terrible discovery . . . The Middle East, in the early 2000s. William Blake, a renowned Egyptologist has been called in to oversee the discovery of an amazing, magnificent and strange tomb of a Pharaoh many miles from the Valley of the Kings, located in a militarily senstive spot. His research will lead him to an amazing and world shattering discovery concerning Moses and the tribes of the Israelites and their flight from the land of Egypt. 'Manfredi . . . shows silly old Dan Brown how it should be done' Daily Express

From the pen of the international bestselling author of The Last Legion comes a new political thriller set during the tempestuous final days of Julius Caesar's Imperial Rome. It is March in the year 44 BC. The Roman Empire stretches from modern-day Syria in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Gaius Julius Caesar, Pontifex Maximus, dictator in perpetuity, indomitable military leader who has subjected much of the known world to Roman law, is fifty-six years old. He is at the height of his power; his reign is supreme and his reach immense. Or so it appears. In truth, Caesar is exhausted and ill, trapped in the prison of his own nightmares. His divine missions-to end the bloody season of fratricidal wars, to reconcile warring factions, to singlehandedly save Roman civilization-may be too great for one man. The tide is turning against Caesar and there are those who conspire against him. They accuse him of being a tyrant. They say that when he dissolved the alliance with Pompey the Great at the river Rubicon, he put an end to liberty within the Republic. Caesar has resisted the attempts of his betrayers to bring him down, still he cannot resist forever. His power is being drained and it seems that nothing can save him, not Publius Sextius-his most loyal centurion and comrade, who is racing toward Rome in an attempt to prevent his assassination-or his devoted wife, Calphurnia; not even the attentions of his lover Servilla. The soothsayer's prophecies will out and when the Ides of March have passed, the world will have changed forever.

Greece 1973 - An archaeologist unearths a gold Mycenaean vase embellished with images of the last voyage of Ulysses, which seem to explain the prophecy of the Odyssey. But his almost immediate and mysterious death and the vasess disappearance remain unexplained for ten years....Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však ide ntické, bez ohľadu na obálku.