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Robert O. Butler

    Robert Olen Butler je americký spisovatel, jehož díla jsou známá svou hlubokou psychologickou sondou a jedinečným stylem. Jeho próza často zkoumá složité lidské vztahy a morální dilemata s citem pro detail a pronikavým vhledem. Butlerův přístup k psaní, který se snaží odhalit vnitřní svět postav, mu vysloužil uznání kritiky i čtenářů. Jeho schopnost vytvářet živé a zapamatovatelné charaktery z něj činí významnou postavu současné americké literatury.

    The Empire of the Night
    The Star of Istanbul
    • The Star of Istanbul

      • 376 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
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      Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an American war correspondent reporting on World War I, has been tasked to follow a man named Brauer, a German intellectual and possible covert SS agent, into perilous waters aboard the ship Lusitania, as the man is believed to hold information vital to the war effort. Aboard the Lusitania on its fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who for some reason appears to be working with German Intelligence

      The Star of Istanbul
    • The Empire of the Night

      • 410 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení
      4,0(2)Ohodnotit

      It is 1915, and 'Kit' Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Isabel's offstage role is to keep tabs on Stockman, while Kit tries to figure out his agenda. Following his mother and her escort from the relative safety of Britain into the lion's den of Berlin, Kit must remain in character, even under the very nose of the Kaiser

      The Empire of the Night