Títulos en Histórico

An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt’s top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference.

Wide Is the Gate followed the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dragon’s Teeth and introduces Lanny as a secret double agent fighting the Nazis as a supporter of the resistance in Germany. Lanny is living in England with his wife of almost five years, Irma Barnes, the twenty-three-million-dollar heiress. But Lanny is conflicted continuously in his heart and soul for the workers and social justice. He attempts to commit to Irma, to “behave” himself and lead a normal aristocratic life.

January 1944—a senior member of the French Resistance betrays his comrades to the Abwehr and Gestapo, but who? Within hours, the Germans arrest hundreds of suspected resistance fighters and incarcerate them in the infamous Amiens prison. When a Resistance spy inside the prison informs his leaders, Dominique Ponchardier and Boniface Monier, of German plans to conduct mass executions within weeks, they are helpless to respond. In a last-ditch effort to free their Résistants awaiting death or deportation to labor camps, they turn to the British for help.

This historical adventure with a hint of romance takes place during the American Revolution, when a man, only known as Mr. Harper, requests shelter at The Locusts during a storm. When another unknown stranger appears in want of shelter, Mr. Harper, and the Locust family, become quite suspicious. As the battle between the Patriots and the British is fought in their midst, an internal struggle occurs in the house of one family.

June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

Ambientato in Inghilterra durante l'età vittoriana, questo thriller psicologico ricco di suspense racconta le vicissitudini della ricca famiglia Coventry in seguito all'arrivo di una giovane donna di nome Jean Muir, assunta come istitutrice della sedicenne Bella. Jean si mostra come una ragazza dall'aria ingenua e gentile, ma allo stesso tempo porta con sé un'aura di mistero che attira da subito la curiosità dei giovani rampolli di casa e insospettisce gli osservatori più attenti.

Venezia, XVI secolo. Dopo un disperato tentativo fallito di assassinare il suo aguzzino, Marco Gianetti fugge con la sua amante, Tita Boldini. Angosciato dai crimini che pesano sulla sua coscienza, in cerca di redenzione si è rivolto all'enigmatico olandese Nathaniel der Witt. Ma der Witt brama vendetta: è giunto a Venezia per indagare su una serie di brutali omicidi che hanno sconvolto la città; omicidi legati ai famigerati Lupi di Venezia, ai quali non perdona l'assassinio di sua figlia.

Tra le calli della Serenissima, i Lupi di Venezia sono di nuovo a caccia...Venezia, XVI secolo. Marco Gianetti, l'assistente di bottega del celebre Tintoretto, deve fare i conti con le conseguenze delle proprie azioni. Corrotto dallo scrittore Pietro Aretino, al cui ricatto ha piegato il suo volere, è ormai odiato dagli ebrei del ghetto, che lo incolpano di un crimine atroce. Più passa il tempo e più Gianetti si convince che il denaro sia un subdolo alleato: invece di proteggerlo, ha messo in pericolo la sua vita.

Autunno 1919. Gabriele d'Annunzio ha conquistato Fiume e per sfidare i diplomatici franco-britannici ha deciso di invitarli a un beffardo banchetto nel manicomio del dottor Zoser, singolare e sinistra figura di psichiatra o, come si diceva allora, "alienista". Poco dopo il pranzo, però, Zoser muore folgorato, apparentemente vittima di un cortocircuito mentre è nel suo laboratorio, chiuso ermeticamente dall'interno. Il tenente Marni, il legionario responsabile della sicurezza interna, non crede si sia trattato di un incidente.

Genova, 1502. Dal giorno in cui è stato ferito da un sicario che aveva il compito di uc­ciderlo, Martino Durante giace su un letto privo di sensi. Veglia su di lui Sofia, una mercenaria conosciuta a Milano che più volte lo ha tradi­to, ma che ora non si allontana mai dal suo capezzale. Luomo che vole­va la morte di Durante è Goffredo Landriani, un nobile milanese senza scrupoli, che in passato è stato osta­colato più volte da Martino.

Bob è un uomo molto riservato e taciturno. L'incomunicabilità che lo caratterizza ha fatto naufragare il suo matrimonio. Pochissimi, però, conoscono il suo segreto. Bob è un agente della CIA. Una vacanza a Roma lo porta ad incontrare una affascinante ragazza ebrea con un dottorato in arte alle prese, insieme a un anziano professore di origine britannica esperto di esoterismo, con delle ricerche sui collegamenti internazionali che esistevano nell'Ottocento tra l'Italia e il resto d'Europa.

Wolf’s been promoted. He’s helped bring down one of the South’s greatest generals. Yet his country still has more to ask of him, and the costliest war in America’s history rages on. Sheridan’s cavalry raids west to destroy Confederate infrastructure and divert attention from Grant’s movement south of the killing fields of Cold Harbor. Yet Wade Hampton and his rebel forces have something else in store for the Union Cavalry Corps.

Entrapped and snared by Union forces, General Lee has surrendered. Celebrations take hold of the North as the Confederacy crumbles without their hero. Yet Wolf's war isn't over. Diehard rebels still operate in the field, led by the secret organization the Knights of the Golden Circle, including Wolf's nemesis, Marshall Payne. Their plot? Kill the president and let the war rage on.

This is a story of America! An older man, near the end of his days, sees his way of life and the code he follows in danger of disappearing. A younger man, on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. And a maniac is intent on destroying them both. Bonds are formed, secrets exposed, sacrifices made, trusts betrayed - all against a breathtaking American landscape of promise and peril. Three unforgettable characters, hurtling toward a spellbinding climax where pasts and futures collide and lives hang in the balance.

Some debts you cannot repay, even if you live forever. Seasoned imperial officer Marcus Sempronius Gracchus leads the 9th Roman Legion into a bloody battle against a fierce barbarian tribe. It's a battle he won't survive. When he awakens three days later, clawing his way from a shallow grave, Marcus must face the reality of his new existence. He will never see the afterlife...but that won't stop him from dying time and again over the next 2,000 years.

ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ರೋಚಕ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಸುತ್ತ ಹೆಣೆಯಲಾದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಥ್ರಿಲ್ಲರ್ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಡಾ.ಕೆ.ಎನ್.ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯನವರ "ಚಿತಾದಂತ - ಶಾಂತಿದೂತನ ದಂತಯಾನ

New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city’s most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman’s body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park - the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City’s darkest shadows.

He stared at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago, he had stood on English soil. Three hours ago, he had been Martin Hearne, British Intelligence agent. Now he was in Nazi-occupied Brittany, posing as Bertrand Corlay, with the Frenchman’s life reduced to headings in his memory. Hearne looked down at the faded uniform, which had once been Corlay’s, felt once more for the papers in the inside pocket. He was ready. From now on, he was one step away from death.

I ask you: How do you reconcile a man who is capable of deep, tender love (because I've felt it), a man, who - by public standards - is a health reformer, assistant to the future British prime minister, and the son-in-law of a wealthy industrialist, but who, when the moment overtakes him, kills women? I don't know what to make of it myself, but that's me. I've been told I have a philosopher's mind, that I'm ambitious and can do anything I set my mind to - but sometimes my sadomasochistic tendencies get the better of me.