Charles Belfoure Knihy

Napínavý příběh z okupované Paříže o lidech, kteří riskovali své životy, aby zachránili životy ostatních. Paříž, 1942. Nadaný architekt Lucien Bernard váhá, zda přijmout práci, která mu vynese hodně peněz, ale také ho může naprosto zničit. Má navrhnout důmyslnou skrýš pro bohatého židovského muže ukrývajícího se před deportací. Prostor musí být naprosto neviditelný, nesmí ho objevit žádný nacistický čmuchal. I když jsou pro architekta zásadním motivem peníze, přelstít nenáviděné okupanty je stejně velká výzva. Projekt vytvoří. A následují další. Jenže pak jedna z jeho skrýší fatálně selže…

From the New York Times bestseller of The Paris Architect Someone has to take the blame. When the Britannia Theatre's balcony collapses, killing over a dozen people, the fingers point at the architect. He should have known better, should have made it safer, should have done something. Douglas Layton knows the flaw wasn't in his design, but he can't fight a guilty verdict. When he is finally released from prison, he has nothing: no job, no family, nowhere to go. He needs to assume a new identity and rebuild his life. But he soon finds himself digging up the past in a way he never anticipated. If the collapse was not an accident ... who caused it? And why? And what if they find out who he used to be?

In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gent's, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve. The take better include some cash too: the bigger the payout, the faster this will be over. With a new-found talent for sniffing out vulnerable and lucrative targets, Cross becomes invaluable to the gang. But Cross's entire life has become a balancing act, and it will only take one mistake for it all to come crashing down and for his family to go down too.