Titoli in Politici

Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis . . . Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former...

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Read by Scott Brick. The new rip-roaring Oregon Files adventure from the grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their...

La historia sigue a Bertie, un joven que descubre un valioso secreto sobre un prominente miembro de la comunidad, el Juez Gilroy. Usando un halcón entrenado, Bertie envía mensajes anónimos al juez, chantajeándolo con revelar su secreto a menos que pague una suma considerable de dinero. El halcón se convierte en el mensajero y el símbolo del chantaje, llevando los mensajes entre Bertie y el juez. A medida que avanza la historia, el Juez Gilroy intenta desesperadamente descubrir quién está detrás del chantaje.

México, Distrito Federal, 2006. Al final del largo pasillo del Servicio Médico Forense, en una fría madrugada, un joven profesor universitario que busca a su amigo desaparecido se encuentra con lo inevitable: el Diablo —como todos lo conocen desde la época de estudiantes—, su guía moral, compañero de juergas y de mil batallas políticas, yace inerte en una camilla. Aunque las circunstancias alrededor de la muerte son poco claras, un dolor acuciante carcome al protagonista: la certeza de saber lo que le robó el último aliento a su camarada.

Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading mafioso, has turned his back on the family business and joined the Rome police force. He may be one of the last honest men in Italy. But when Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician and told to "deal with it", he knows he’s in for trouble. When a young man is found stabbed to death in Rome, and a young American girl disappears on a beach in Elba, Scamarcio’s job gets a whole lot more complicated. Worst of all, every lead seems to implicate the prime minister.

Profesorul Kalitin este un chimist sovietic fără scrupule, obsedat de crearea unei otrăvi mortale, care să fie imposibil de depistat și fără antidot. Când înțelege câți oameni mor din cauza lui, este copleșit de vinovăție, iar la destrămarea URSS fuge în Vest. Deși primește o nouă identitate, e deconspirat și implicat în ancheta asupra uciderii a doi agenți occidentali. Iar pe urmele sale pornesc doi ucigași din forțele speciale, care vor să-i administreze chiar otrava creată de el.

Lo que comenzó como un día normal en la vida de Valentín Guzmán, espía de la Dirección Federal de Seguridad, acabaría tornándose en una complicada red de intrigas internacionales que cambiaría el rumbo de la historia y a él le arruinaría la existencia para siempre. Esa mañana de septiembre de 1963, Valentín tenía asignada la vigilancia de un individuo apocado, de mirada triste y camisa mal fajada, al que los mandos superiores de la inteligencia nacional seguían por sus posibles nexos con los soviéticos y los cubanos.

In 1983, the world stands at the brink of nuclear annihilation, and only a few people are aware of it. A riveting story of how two men’s lives intersect in the midst of an existential crisis, The Able Archers is told through the eyes of two key participants: a young American intelligence officer, Captain Kevin Cattani, and his more experienced Soviet counterpart, Colonel Ivan Levchenko. Only by working together will Cattani and Levchenko find a way to prevent a global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the '45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, he must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but also persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son.

La conmoción por el asesinato de Claudia Ochoa repercute en su ciudad y en todo el país, pero el misterio se cierne sobre el caso. La justicia parece alejarse cada vez más. Pilar Rosso se propone ir al hueso, desbrozando la espesa selva de complicidades que protegen a el (o los) que están atrás del crimen.

Najla, a young woman disillusioned with the system after the unjust death of her husband, is going to fight for what the law has not given her: justice. With the help of the young lawyer Alejandro Novely and the hacker "Bicho", Najla undertakes her particular form of revenge, as the only way to get justice, without even suspecting how their lives will change when they discover... the unimaginable. Thieves and hired killers will be unable to stop the crusade of revenge that Najla has started to achieve a special form of justice.

In 1902 Lithuania, a group of rebels armed with books triumphs against the mighty Russian Empire. Part folktale, part thriller, The Last Book Smuggler tells the story of Ada and her grandfather Viktoras, an old book smuggler tired of his forty-year battle to keep his language alive despite the attempts of the Russian Empire to destroy it. Into their world steps Jonas, a young man in love with Ada and ready to join the underground book smugglers. But there is a traitor in their midst who must stop them or lose everything.

Elizabeth Innes has a tongue too sharp for her own good, and she is never more ready to employ it than when faced with the MacKinnons. With just one piece of evidence connecting their clan to a near-deadly attack, she is determined to prove the laird guilty and see him brought to justice. So when chance throws her in the company of one of the MacKinnon men, she resolves to take advantage of the opportunity to glean more information.

Glenna Douglas may be the daughter of a humble crofter, but she dreams of becoming the innkeeper of Glengour Inn, where she has worked for years. Her problems are two-fold: first, she cannot read or write; second, the landlord has chosen a gentleman who has never set foot in Glengour to manage the inn. She is determined to prove herself more capable than the newcomer—but she may need a bit of help from him to do it.  

"He aquí un hombre" empieza con un disparo, aunque, ¿quién ha apretado el gatillo? ¿Quién morirá? ¿Quién sobrevivirá? En Whitehall, Giles Barrington descubre la verdad sobre Karin, su esposa, cuando el secretario del gabinete le revela un secreto. ¿Es una espía o solo una testigo inocente? Harry Clifton empieza a escribir su obra capital, mientras su esposa Emma cumple diez años al frente del Hospital Real de Bristol. Emma recibe una inesperada llamada de Margaret Thatcher; quiere ofrecerle un trabajo.

Heidi Waters, CEO of billion-dollar startup Vitality+, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Her company’s promises to roll out a neurochemical cure for caffeine-related anxiety are set to change the game, a godsend for anyone who’s ever got the jitters from upsizing their morning coffee order. There’s just one problem. There is no cure. The product doesn’t work.

Dawood Ibrahim es uno de los criminales más ricos y buscados de todo el planeta en la actualidad. En este relato a caballo entre la ficción y la historia real, seguimos el electrizante viaje de Dawood de la India a Inglaterra, y de ahí a Argentina, en una misión para acabar con un diplomático iraní. Sin embargo, hay fuerzas ocultas que tienen planes diferentes para Dawood... si consiguen atraparlo. Una bomba de relojería en forma de libro imposible de abandonar.

La extraña desaparición de un avión en la ruta Bogotá y Medellín desencadena una serie de inesperados acontecimientos en la primera novela del guionista y director Dago García. Victoria Albornoz es una reconocida reportera que decide investigar el caso cuando descubre que Roberto, su amante, era uno de los pasajeros; Lorenzo Pieschacón es un policía en decadencia que por azares del destino queda implicado en el caso, y el pastor Martín Quiñonez, pierde el avión e intenta capitalizar el hecho a su favor.

Si Danny Cartwright le hubiese propuesto matrimonio a Beth Wilson un día antes, no habría sido arrestado y acusado por el asesinato de su mejor amigo. Los cuatro testigos de la acusación son un abogado, un popular actor, un aristócrata y el socio más joven que ha tenido en toda su historia un famoso bufete, así que, ¿quién va a creer la versión de Danny? Danny es condenado a una pena de 22 años y enviado a la prisión Belmarsh, la cárcel de máxima seguridad más férrea del país, de la que ningún preso ha escapado jamás.

Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna River. Nilgi, one such village on the banks of the mighty River Krishna, has so far escaped unscathed from the illegal iron-ore mining and floods that have ravaged the rest of the district for decades. The village believes itself to be indestructible and incorruptible despite warnings of impending doom.