crash

Philip Clavering is a British agent using fake name James Dunlop while in Belgium. He found out that the train Berlin-Paris crashed. His boss calls and tells him that agent Charles Forrest was on this train, and Philip must find the gold box he was carrying. The woman who survived the crash is in his hotel, and he asks her if she has any information about Forrest. She is in a state of panic and loses...

A novel of crime and conscience by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the self-styled „prince of storytellers.” „The Profiteers” was written about the stock market post-World War I and pre-1929 crash. The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the...

American Millionaire meets Ruritanean Princess, Jeremiah Vavasour Strole meets the Princess Marya of Pletz at a weekend party in the Hamptons on Long Island. The year is 1933. Much of the world has been plunged into economic ruin by the stock market crash. Marya’s country, Jakovia, is ruled by a playboy monarch who would rather spend his nights with courtesans in Paris, than pay attention to the starving...

Kłamstwa, spiski, sekrety z przeszłości… Najnowszy thriller Harlana Cobena, amerykańskiego arcymistrza gatunku. Pięć lat temu niewinny człowiek został skazany na dożywocie za zamordowanie swojego syna. Właśnie dowiedział się, że jego dziecko żyje. David Burroughs odsiaduje wyrok dożywocia w zakładzie karnym. Przed pięciu laty, pomimo wielu niewiadomych w śledztwie, został skazany za zamordowanie...