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This was the main character’s first professional visit to the Robinsons. Arthur Robinson had a bronchial coryza. He seemed – like most selfish people – very much in need of a listener, and he poured out his views on art and the form his own message to the world was likely to take.

In an interesting precursor to the later „I Spy” television series, the novel follows the activities of a young British tennis professional, Mervyn Amory, who is spending the season in Monte Carlo. While traveling from Paris on Le Train Bleu, he meets an Italian secret agent who is carrying documents which show the treachery of the dictator Matorni. Matorni is a thinly disguised Mussolini. (The title...

Czy można bać się liczby? Czy to ona jest największą zagadką naszego Uniwersum? I co łączy miłość, śmierć i Boski umysł? Wrzesień 2012 roku, Oksford. Gorące lato dobiega końca. Dwudziestodwuletnia Ava Majewska dokonuje pozornie niemożliwego matematycznego przełomu, a wokół niej zaczynają ginąć ludzie. Tropy rozbiegają się po całym świecie: Princeton, Castel Gandolfo, Genewa, Dżudda. Wygląda na to,...