Robert Harris
1) The ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving - and most controversial - prime minister of the last half century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in wintry Martha's Vineyard...
Author
Series
Cicero trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Marcus Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear thourgh a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome's leader: elected by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival camps, the patricians and populists. There is, also a...
6) Vtoroĭ son
Author
Series
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 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 artefacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he...
7) Ghost writer
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever. Bonus features included.
Author
Language
English
Description
Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.
Author
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Russian
Description
A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the ancient Roman orator from his beginnings as a young lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Gran Bretaña, año 1468. El sacerdote Christopher Fairfax llega a una aldea remota enviado por el obispo de Exeter para celebrar el funeral del vicario que acababa de fallecer. El difunto, apasionado coleccionista de artefactos de otras épocas, murió accidentalmente mientras excavaba en los alrededores. Fairfaix se aloja en la vicaría y en los aposentos del religioso fallecido descubre una colección de objetos considerados heréticos, y textos...
15) Archangel
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Allumination FilmWorks LLC
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of four eventful days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated former Oxford historian attending a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives. He is about to leave the city when a surprise visit from an ex-officer of the Soviet Secret Police changes his mind. The old man reveals a deadly scandal which promises to expose dark secrets from the Russian underworld and its KGB connections.--Container
16) Archangel
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Russia's most closely guarded conspiracy.
17) Enigma
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover, a brilliant code-breaker is summoned to Blechley Park, Britain's top-secret intellengence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment - crack the Nazis' infamous Engima codes. Putting together the pieces of a puzzle, he discovers the reason for his lovers' disappearance to U-boats closing in on Allied cargo ships to a mass grave in Poland.
18) Selling Hitler
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of one of the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, and how they turned out to be fake. Includes five episodes and background on the aftermath of the Hitler Diaries.
