ТОП просматриваемых книг сайта:
Jacob Hay
Список книг автора Jacob HayАннотация
It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be the Governor General of the Pacific island kingdom of Ceruliana, which just might be the closest thing to a Paradise on this Earth. He was just the man for the job. <P> For nearly two decades prior to his appointment Sir Vyvyan had assisted materially in the dissolution of his nation’s once-mighty Empire. Did a newly emergent former Colony need advice on how to establish a Parliament? Did it need words of wisdom on how to set up its own equivalent of New Scotland Yard? Bultivant was there with the answers.
Аннотация
1960s spy spoof in which a British master spy smuggles a ton or rocket fuel out of Czechoslovakia, under the noses of the enemy.
Аннотация
“Mr. Amberley,” the Captain continued, raising his gaze from the floor and staring into nothingness, “I have to inform you that this ship is presently in the control of pirates.”<P> The Chief Purser took an instinctive step forward, felt immediately the pressure of a gun in his back, and was aware that a third man, the one who had locked the door, was still behind him.
Аннотация
Omega Agradamian was not bored, not in the least. From time to time it pleased him to think of himself as a kind of modern-day Captain Nemo. More realistically, he knew that he had discovered the ultimate antidote to boredom, and it therefore delighted him that his friends should think he was forever engaged in a mindless pursuit of pleasure…
Аннотация
The first case in the hitherto unreported criminal inquiries of the firm of Wracke & Rheuwin, Private Investigators. (Will certain eminent groups of devotees chuckle with glee or gnash their teeth in rage? We're betting on the former.)