Anna Blundy Knihy

Na pozadí izraelsko-palestinského konfliktu tento román ukazuje svět zahraničních dopisovatelů, takový, jaký opravdu je. Strach, legrace, podrazy a odvaha.

Faith Zanetti doesn't much care who put the bomb on flight TAA67, the plane that blew up over the tiny Scottish village of Cairbridge twenty-five years ago. Wasn't it those Libyan blokes who went to prison for it? For a woman whose comfort zone is a war zone it seems like the boring assignment from hell. But as the conspiracy theories start seeming less theoretical and the threats get increasingly real, Faith realises she's skating on thin ice. With the ghost of her dead father creeping out of her dreams as Sicily erupts in violence around her, and the screams of the doomed passengers ringing in her ears, Faith begins to suspect that the truth she seeks might be closer to home than she thought ...

Faith Zanetti is addicted to danger. But hooked as she might be on alcohol, cigarettes and living life in the fast lane, she's also clever enough to know that at some point something's got to give. She's the Moscow correspondent of the moment - chosen for the job because, as a teenager, she married a Russian. Through the vodka haze it's a struggle to remember everything about those days, but Faith knows that a lot of it was bad. Now, fifteen years later, those days are back to get her. And when she is arrested for murder, Faith knows she's going to have to get the present in order. And the past too.

Pavel Ivanchenko's life begins in poverty and violence, but he is destined to become one of the richest men in the world: one of the post-Glasnost Oligarchs. He starts his business life trading illegal vodka on the freezing, grimy streets of Kargasok, he ends up buying most of the steel in the old Soviet Union, believing that he can buy, sell, or destroy anything or anyone - especially women. This is principally the story of two of those women: one English, one Russian, who become friends as girls in Moscow, and whose lives then become entwined through their turbulent relationships with the Oligarch. From Moscow to London and the French Riviera, back to St Petersburg, from the grinding boredom of extreme poverty, to the surreal stage sets of fabulous wealth, the story leads us deep into the heart of an unknown and fascinating world, with a larger-than-life man - part hero, part villain - at its centre.

Mroźna Syberia to dla wielu ludzi inny świat, ale uczucia, kt�re tam się rodzą, są takie same jak wszędzie: gorące i gwałtowne. Miłość, namiętność, nienawiść, cierpienie i żądza zemsty na zawsze połączą losy Angielki Mo, jej przyjaciela Eliego oraz dw�jki młodych Rosjan, Katii i Pawła, kt�rzy wychowani w syberyjskim Kirgasku, pojadą szukać szczęścia i pieniędzy do Moskwy. Po latach Paweł Iwanczenko zostawi za sobą zimną Syberię i zostanie najbogatszym człowiekiem w Rosji. Katia będzie chodzić w drogich futrach i opływać w luksusy. A Mo i Eli? Czy uda im się zdobyć to, czego pragną? Przypadkowe spotkanie czw�rki nastolatk�w, pochodzących z tak r�żnych świat�w, zaważy na całym ich życiu i sprawi, że nic już nie będzie takie jak dawniej.