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William Ryan

    Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Write
    The Bloody Meadow
    The Twelfth Department
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    • Děj detektivní prvotiny Williama Ryana se odehrává v Moskvě v roce 1936, během pětiletek a začínajícího Velkého teroru. Kapitán Alexej Dimitrijevič Koroljov, úspěšný a svědomitý vyšetřovatel moskevské kriminálky, se po příchodu do služby dozví o brutální vraždě: na oltáři odsvěceného kostela, používaného komsomolci jako klubovna, byla nalezena mrtvá a zohavená dívka. Postupně se ukáže, že jde o americkou občanku, dceru ruských emigrantů, která do země přijela z neznámých důvodů. O případ se zajímá vysoce postavený plukovník z NKVD a dalšími stopami jsou cizinec a moskevské podsvětí, známé jako Zloději. Jeden z členů této skupiny je také nalezen mrtvý v podobném stavu. Koroljov se ocitá pod dohledem NKVD a zažívá „slasti“ krátkého pobytu v neblaze proslulé Lubjance. Přesto se mu nakonec podaří případ vyřešit a najít hřejivý lidský vztah. Kniha vyniká nejen napětím, ale také přesně a sugestivně vylíčeným ovzduším doby, kdy budoucnost byla nejistá a minulost se zdála být neustále přítomná.

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    • Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for Best Historical Crime Novel of the Year Shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year Moscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long-overdue visit from his young son Yuri when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin and Korolev is ordered to find the killer.It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power. When another scientist is brutally murdered, and evidence of the professors' dark experiments is hastily removed, Korolev begins to realise that, along with having a difficult case to solve, he's caught in a dangerous battle between two warring factions of the NKVD. And then his son Yuri goes missing . . .A desperate race against time, set against a city gripped by Stalin's Great Terror and teeming with spies, street children and Thieves, The Twelfth Department confirms William Ryan as one of the most compelling historical crime novelists at work today.

      The Twelfth Department
    • The second novel in William Ryan's lauded, multi-award nominated Captain Korolev series, set in 1930's Stalinist Russia - now with a stunning new cover look

      The Bloody Meadow
    • Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Write

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
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      Practical advice from a successful and expert writer of historical and crime William Ryan, writer & creative writing teacher.Learn the craft of effective storytelling with the Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Write . Novelist William Ryan introduces the techniques needed to construct, craft and draft a novel. He provides tried-and-tested examples and details on what to consider when writing for any audience, across any genre. Each chapter tackles a key aspect of the writing process, including how structure a novel, develop central and subsidiary characters, create atmosphere and tension, write punchy dialogue and pacey scenes. This is the perfect guide for any writer looking for clear and informed advice on getting their ideas on to the page from the bestselling and trusted creative writing brand.

      Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Write
    • Noah's Flood

      The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
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      Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea.Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans. Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of the Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The rim of the lake, which had served as an oasis, a Garden of Eden for farms and villages in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people fled, dispersing their languages, genes, and memories.

      Noah's Flood