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Robert J. Harris
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Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper.
London, 1942.
A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack-or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings?
In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend to track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner.
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- De: Frank Tallis
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
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Vienna, 1902: A beautiful medium has been found shot dead, and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside, and a cryptic note suggests a malevolent supernatural power is at work. Using the new science of psychoanalysis, Liebermann probes the minds of the suspects in an attempt to unravel this bewildering crime.
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Ho-hum Victorian mystery
- De Nancy E Day en 09-17-12
De: Frank Tallis
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The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Dr John Watson
- De: Tony Reynolds
- Narrado por: Simon Shepherd
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.
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Easy listening stories. Just what I was looking for.
- De MusiqueMusic en 12-16-24
De: Tony Reynolds
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Babylon Berlin
- Gereon Rath, Book 1
- De: Volker Kutscher
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations.
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It's no Bernie Gunther Mystery ...
- De Brian English en 01-28-18
De: Volker Kutscher
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The Affinity Bridge
- A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation
- De: George Mann
- Narrado por: Simon Taylor
- Duración: 9 h
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Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.
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- De Doug en 06-11-10
De: George Mann
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Meet the Tiger
- A Simon “The Saint” Templar Novel
- De: Leslie Charteris
- Narrado por: John Rayburn
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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The fiction world of today needs a “Saint” more than it ever did. For years now that scene has been dominated by the “anti-heroes"—those grim gray operators in a sunless sub-culture where global issues are worked out with totally unemotional pragmatism, those hapless uninspired puppets manipulated and expended by ruthlessly dedicated little brothers of Big Brother. It made morbidly fascinating narrative, but it never gave anyone a lift until it climaxed in the hyper-gadgeted parodies of 007 extravaganzas.
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droning
- De Kindle Customer en 04-27-24
De: Leslie Charteris
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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Dead Man's Land
- De: Robert Ryan
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
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Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- De L. Gutman en 03-01-18
De: Robert Ryan
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
- De: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation....
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- De connie en 11-13-11
De: Gyles Brandreth
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The Constantine Affliction
- A Pimm and Skye Adventure, Book 1
- De: T. Aaron Payton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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It is 1864, and London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction - a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex - has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city.
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A Mash-Up that Gels into a Rollicking Adventure
- De Tango en 08-09-14
De: T. Aaron Payton
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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 20 h y 17 m
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First appearing in print in 1890, the character of Sherlock Holmes has now become synonymous worldwide with the concept of a super sleuth. His creator, Conan Doyle, imbued his detective hero with intellectual power, acute observational abilities, a penchant for deductive reasoning and a highly educated use of forensic skills. Indeed, Doyle created the first fictional private detective who used what we now recognize as modern scientific investigative techniques.
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mouth watering
- De David en 03-30-10
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- A Novel of World War II
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
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Ho-Hum
- De Pete Harrell en 11-30-20
De: Robert Harris
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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Too close to the truth?
- De carl801 en 11-24-07
De: Robert Harris
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Enigma
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Ole Rabendorf
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Spændingsroman om englændernes arbejde i 1943 med at bryde den kode tyskerne anvender i u-bådskommunikationen. Menneskeliv er på spil, arbejdet foregår under tidspres og de involverede har mange hemmeligheder.
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Danish version!
- De Ramachandra Vemulapalli en 07-21-18
De: Robert Harris
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The Fear Index
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence.
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The Book Dan Brown Wished He Wrote
- De Ted en 11-29-13
De: Robert Harris
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An Officer and a Spy
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus' guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military.
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Top Notch Historical Fiction
- De Ryan en 03-18-14
De: Robert Harris
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The Second Sleep
- A novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes - about himself, his faith, and the history of his world - will be tested to destruction.
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This IS different...
- De Robin en 11-27-19
De: Robert Harris
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V2
- A Novel of World War II
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
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Ho-Hum
- De Pete Harrell en 11-30-20
De: Robert Harris
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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Too close to the truth?
- De carl801 en 11-24-07
De: Robert Harris
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Enigma
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Ole Rabendorf
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Spændingsroman om englændernes arbejde i 1943 med at bryde den kode tyskerne anvender i u-bådskommunikationen. Menneskeliv er på spil, arbejdet foregår under tidspres og de involverede har mange hemmeligheder.
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Danish version!
- De Ramachandra Vemulapalli en 07-21-18
De: Robert Harris
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The Fear Index
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence.
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The Book Dan Brown Wished He Wrote
- De Ted en 11-29-13
De: Robert Harris
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An Officer and a Spy
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus' guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military.
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Top Notch Historical Fiction
- De Ryan en 03-18-14
De: Robert Harris
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The Second Sleep
- A novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes - about himself, his faith, and the history of his world - will be tested to destruction.
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This IS different...
- De Robin en 11-27-19
De: Robert Harris
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Pompeii
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: John Lee
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All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried.
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We know the ending
- De Charles en 12-02-03
De: Robert Harris
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Act of Oblivion
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Tim McInnerny
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I—a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control.
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I've loved Robert Harris' Books; but...
- De Lucy en 10-16-22
De: Robert Harris
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Fatherland
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Michael Jayston
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Berlin, 1964. The Greater German Reich stretches from the Rhine to the Urals and keeps an uneasy peace with its nuclear rival, the United States. As the Fatherland prepares for a grand celebration honoring Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday and anticipates a conciliatory visit from US president Joseph Kennedy and ambassador Charles Lindbergh, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
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1960's Nazi Germany comes alive
- De Daniel Black en 10-19-17
De: Robert Harris
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Precipice
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
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outstanding in every way
- De Rosalind Britton en 10-10-24
De: Robert Harris
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Munich
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office - and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course.
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Gripping
- De Jean en 01-29-18
De: Robert Harris
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Imperium
- A Novel of Ancient Rome
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Simon Jones
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history.
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Engrossing read
- De Everett Leiter en 08-16-07
De: Robert Harris
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Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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Beautiful!
- De Elizabeth B. en 11-19-23
De: Robert L. Harris
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Lustrum
- Cicero 2
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Jakob Sveistrup
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
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Stedet er Rom og tiden er år 63 f.Kr. Syv maend kaemper om magten i republikken: Cicero er konsul, Caesar hans ubarmhjertige unge rival, Pompey er republikkens maegtigste general, Crassus dens rigeste mand, Cato er politisk fanatiker, Catilina psykopaten og Clodius en ambitiøs playboy. Historierne om disse virkelige historiske figurer - deres alliancer og forraederi, deres grusomheder og forførelser, deres storslåethed og deres forbrydelser - det hele flettes sammen i denne farverige roman.
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Conclave
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
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Microscopic look at Power
- De Mel en 05-17-17
De: Robert Harris
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Fatherland (Dramatized)
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Anton Lesser, Full Cast
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
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The year is 1964, and it's a week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the United States, and King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. In this dimension, history took a very different turn in 1942 to the one we are familiar with.
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butchered beyond comprehension
- De Howie en 10-28-06
De: Robert Harris
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Girl in a Cage
- Stuart Quartet
- De: Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to wind, rain, the taunts of the townspeople, and the scorn of Longshanks himself. Marjorie knows that despite her suffering and pain, she is the daughter of noble Robert the Bruce and she will make her father, and her country, proud. For a true princess is a princess, whether in a castle or in a cage.
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Girl in a cage
- De john killacky en 02-26-19
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Nerds Among Us
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Jake Bravado, a nerdophobic writer, finds out that nerds − the once-ubiquitous canker sore on the lip of humanity − are noticeably scarce. Where are they? What are they planning? Jake takes it upon himself to discover the truth, thus beginning a dangerous journey into the world of pocket protectors, bad hair cuts, and ill-fitting polyester clothing. With help from NITWIT (Nerd Intelligence Team With International Ties), he reluctantly infiltrates the nerd world, and within weeks he’s in fabulous Las Vegas for a technical writing seminar. Soon, he hears rumors about a “Big Event” ...
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Watson is a bit unbearable.
In this book, more so than many others, Watson’s just a bit too… daft, too straight, too self righteous, too stiff, too clueless, too out of touch, too tactless, too, well… UNBEARABLE not to get in the way of the story just a bit.
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a good novel, but not best by Harris
this is a good novel, though sometimes is but confusing. don't get me wrong, it is still a good novel. But if you haven't read other books by Harris before, this is not the strongest.
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With trepidation I purchased this
As an absolute Sherlock fan, and a Harris fan, I was not sure I wanted to disappointing myself on both fronts. I have really enjoyed most of his writings, (Fatherland, Munich, V2 and especially Pompeii for instance,) I was not particularly enamored of others (The Second Sleep for instance.) I have to say I was very please as both a Sherlock and a Harris fan. I found the story and presentation to be both enjoyable and true to the Conan Doyle characters. Moving the time frame to WW2 was both entertaining and believable. Would recommend
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- Stefan Filipovits
- 09-15-22
Fresh And Engaging
I've been a Holmes-head since I was a teenager. With engrossing mysteries, memorable characters, and one of the best arch-nemesis ever created (Professor Moriarty) the world of Sherlock Holmes is an easy one to become lost in. There's a reason Holmes is the most adapted fictional character aside from Dracula. While he's hardly the first author to create a keen-minded and dynamic detective, Arthur Conan Doyle gave us something undeniably resonant and compelling in Holmes. However, after 137 years and counting of mysteries, intrigues, and murders in our books, televisions, and cinema screens it's easy to feel like the implacable but imperfect sleuth of Baker Street and his stalwart companion Watson have no new surprises for us. Even Holmes going up against Jack The Ripper is a familiar trope at this point. That said, I think the author delivered a competently written and engaging story here.
Gone are the fog-shrouded and gaslit streets of Victorian England. A Study In Crimson instead places Holmes & Watson in 1942 Blitz ravaged London. We see Holmes trying to stop a Jack The Ripper copycat killer at the same time as his beloved home city is quite literally engulfed in war. While at first the time change felt like a superfluous gimmick, it honestly adds alot of color and extra tension to the story. To see Holmes solving a case at England's darkest hour is quite engaging. The prose does a good job of articulating the horror of trying to live and work in a city on the brink and you can really feel Holmes' sadness and uncertainty at seeing his beloved home devastated and his countrymen perpetually living in fear. While the mystery isn't as diverting as the world-building, we do get alot of interesting character work here as well. It's been awhile since a Sherlock Holmes story kept me guessing. While I think there are a few authors who do this type of thing better, Robert J. Harris clearly did his homework, understood the assignment, and handed in something fresh and engaging. I genuinely look forward to the sequel.
If you enjoyed A Study In Crimson as much as I have and are looking for similar titles then check out ""The House Of Silk" and "Moriarty" by Anthony Horowitz, "Anno Dracula" and "Professor Moriarty: The Hound Of The D'Urbervilles" by Kim Newman, "The Beekeepers Apprentice" by Laurie R. King, or "Dust and Shadow" by Lyndsay Faye.
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