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Justin Scott

    Tento autor se zabývá především napínavými příběhy plnými zvratů a nečekaných odhalení. Jeho styl je charakteristický svižným tempem a komplexními zápletkami, které čtenáře vtahují do děje. Své příběhy často zasazuje do autentického prostředí, které oživuje detailním popisem a realistickými dialogy. Tento autor je mistrem v budování napětí a udržování čtenářské pozornosti až do samého konce.

    Justin Scott
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    Forty Days and Forty Nights
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    Špion : román ze série Isaac Bell
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    • The Sister Queens

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      Two rival queens. History's greatest playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor, England finds itself in a supremely perilous moment. When spymaster Anthony Bacon commands esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a play on the poisonous history of Queen Elizabeth and the rival monarch she executed, Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, Will knows that Elizabeth's one-time favorite, the powerful Earl of Essex, will use the play to try to seize her throne. Must Will be ensnared in a ruthless plot fated to tumble his country into civil war? Or can he navigate a treacherous path through the dark warrens of London and the tortuous world of Elizabethan politics to save his family, his country, and his Queen?

      The Sister Queens2024
      3,5
    • Forty Days and Forty Nights

      • 366 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      Forty days and forty nights of torrential rain swell the Mississippi River to the brink of deadly rampage. Clementine Price, a young Army Corps of Engineers officer born beside the river, draws on science, brutal loss, and a warrior spirit to protect the people and the homeland she loves from a catastrophic flood. Suddenly, she discovers that a richly funded domestic terrorist—hiding in plain sight as a pillar of the community— has ingeniously weaponized the looming natural disaster. Inspired by a river as powerful as it is unpredictable, his plot to inundate the Delta and cleave from America his own white supremacist nation is already in motion. Clementine has only hours to stop civil war and save millions from drowning. With the help of fellow Corps officers, civil servants, farmers, and local law enforcement, Clementine must harness the power of the torrent to turn nature’s fury against her enemy and embrace the raging river as her most potent ally.

      Forty Days and Forty Nights2021
      4,1
    • Isaac Bell avontuur: De smokkelaar

      • 397 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Tijdens de drooglegging van de Verenigde Staten in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw strijden vele gangsterbendes om de macht. Detectivebureau Van Dorn raakt bij deze strijd betrokken wanneer een van hun medewerkers gewond raakt bij een schietpartij.

      Isaac Bell avontuur: De smokkelaar2017
    • The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate - petite young blonde women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims - there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.

      The Cutthroat2017
      4,0
    • The Gangster

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      No.1 USA Today bestseller Globe and Mail fiction bestseller Toronto Star fiction bestseller Maclean's fiction bestseller Praise for The Gangster Cussler has written another wonderful historical thriller.The action is fast and thoroughly enjoyable. - Library Journal This latest Bell thriller combines a vivid historical environment with a top-notch story and enjoyable, realistic characters. Bell, the detective whose nimble intellect often gets him out of tight situations, is one of Cussler's most engaging protagonists, and the series...remains fresh and exciting - Booklist Fascinating and suspenseful plot -- Praise for the Isaac Bell adventures The Isaac Bell series continues to tell compelling stories. Tidbits of history are sprinkled throughout the narrative, and it's fun to filter out fictional characters and events from historical facts. -Associated Press Cussler and Scott have written another wonderful page-turner. This is historical action-adventure fiction at its rip- roaring best! - Library Journal (starred review) As always in this series, the novel is very exciting, with excellent pacing and some very well-drawn characters. Cussler is a perennial A-lister, popularity-wise, and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter. - Booklist The seventh page-turner featuring indomitable detective Isaac Bell-great fun from one of the better Cussler series. - Kirkus Reviews

      The Gangster2017
      3,8
    • The Assassin

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn't stop there. The murders--shootings, poisonings, staged accidents--have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all.

      The Assassin2016
      4,0
    • The Bootlegger

      • 448 stránek
      • 16 hodin čtení

      It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into.

      The Bootlegger2015
      3,9
    • The Thief

      • 341 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      An invention that could change the world… A ruthless agent that could destroy it… Only Isaac Bell can save it. On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a groundbreaking new invention are rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky when one of the thugs attacks a second time. What are the scientists holding that is so precious? Something that will revolutionize business and world culture—and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted an opportunity to give the German Empire an edge in the coming conflict. It’s up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he’s up to, and stop him. But Bell may already be too late.

      The Thief2013
      3,9
    • The Striker

      • 378 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      It is 1902, and Isaac Bell is investigating sabotage in a West Virginia coal mine. But when he stops a runaway train, saving countless lives, Bell discovers that it is part of a conspiracy to frame striking miners. schovat popis

      The Striker2013
      4,0