Adam LeBor Knihy

Britský novinář odhaluje roli švýcarských bank při financování nacistické vojenské mašinérie. Švýcarské banky oddálily porážku Německa, neboť nacistický režim dotovaly cizími měnami a přijímaly zlato pochybného původu (státní poklady okupovaných zemí, židovský majetek). Tvrdá měna umožnila nacistům nákup potřebných vojenských surovin... Budapešťský zpravodaj listu The Times pomocí archivních materiálů a zpravodajských dokumentů odhaluje zrůdnost hospodářské spolupráce nacistů a švýcarských bankovních domů

Balthazar Kovacs je romský detektiv z budapešťského oddělení vražd. Právě když pije svůj první ranní šálek kávy, obdrží tajemné textové zprávy, v nichž stojí jen: „26, náměstí Republiky“, a fotografii. Na ní je tělo třicátníka, ležící na zádech s očima otevřenýma, napůl pokryté cihlami a prachem. Adresa – někdejší ústředí komunistické strany, kdysi jedno z nejvíce obávaných míst v zemi. Když ale Kovacs přijde na náměstí Republiky, tělo je pryč a jediným svědkem události je malý cikánský kluk, který viděl mrtvolu v neoznačené dodávce. Následné vyšetřování zavede Kovacse až do samého podsvětí Budapešti a dostává se na stopu rozsáhlé korupce, která sahá až do vládních kruhů.

The authors here provide a radical examination of the relationship between the Nazi Party and those it sought to seduce and control. There are some historians who argue that the Gestapo regime was a reign of terror that forced German citizens and others to collaborate with the Nazi rulers. Other historians argue that the German people were programmed for genocide by centuries of anti-Semitism. The authors here believe neither view is correct. They argue that to understand how the Holocaust could have happened the reader and historian need to step back into the heart of daily life in the Third Reich. This book draws on new research and recently declassified documents to show life for the average citizen, and uncovers examples of protest as well as eager complicity. It examines how many really knew about the extermination camps and ask how ideologically driven was the Holocaust? The text illustrates life in Germany and its conquered territories under the Nazi regime, and gives an explanation of how mass murder could be accepted by a supposedly civilized nation.

Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy.

Through the eyes of these families from Jaffa, we understand how the founding of the state of Israel could be simultaneously a moment of jubilation for the Jews, and a disaster - the Naqba - for the 100,000 Arabs who fled Jaffa in 1948, most of them never to return. Jaffa was for centuries the main port of the eastern Mediterranean, home to Muslims, Christians and Jews, while the produce of its orange groves was famed throughout the world. From 1920, the British administered the city under the Mandate and it is in 1920 that Adam LeBor's ambitious and engaging new book begins to tell the history of Israel through the prism of Jaffa. Its inhabitants include the Jewish coffee and spice merchant, the Arab baker, who made bread for the whole community, the Palestinian exile who tried to bring modern business methods to the Arafat era and the Jewish schoolgirl, who befriended an Arab drug dealer.

Nazi-occupied Budapest, Winter 1944. The Russians are smashing through the German lines. Miklos Farkas breaks out of the Jewish ghetto to find food - at the Nazis' headquarters. There he is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. Miklos knows it must stay hidden forever if he is to stay alive. Present day Budapest. As the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Miklos Farkas is brutally murdered. His journalist grandson Alex buries his grief to track down the killers. He soon unravels a chilling conspiracy rooted in the dying days of the Third Reich, one that will ensure Nazi economic domination of Europe - and a plan for a new Gypsy Holocaust. The hunt is on for The Budapest Protocol. Alex is soon drawn deeper into a deadly web of intrigue and power play, a game played for the highest stakes

The death of an Arab financier reveals the dangerous fractures running through Budapest in Adam LeBor's latest dark police procedural.

An investigative history of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' own bank

Yael Azoulay does the United Nations' dirty work by cutting deals that most of us never hear about. Equally at home in the caves of Afghanistan, the slums of Gaza, or corporate boardrooms all across the world, Yael believes the ends justify the means...until she's pushed way beyond her breaking point. When Yael is assigned to eastern Congo to negotiate with Jean-Pierre Hakizimani, a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide, she offers him a generous plea bargain. Thanks to Congo's abundance of a valuable mineral used in computer and cell phone production, her number one priority is maintaining regional stability. But when she discovers that Hakizimani is linked to the death of the person she loved the most—and that the UN is prepared to sanction mass murder—Yael soon realizes that salvation means not just saving others' lives but confronting her own inner demons. Spanning New York City, Africa, and Switzerland, The Geneva Option is the first in a series of gripping conspiracy thrillers, a tour de force of international espionage and intrigue.

A UN covert negotiator is drawn into a web of intrigue that stretches from America's military to the Middle East.