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Jon Evans

    Jon Evans je autorem literatury faktu a redaktorem. Ve své práci se věnuje široké škále vědeckých témat, od těžby asteroidů po flexibilní elektroniku a úpravu genů. Jeho články se objevily v prestižních publikacích jako New Scientist, Chemistry World a Materials Today. Prostřednictvím svého psaní zpřístupňuje složité vědecké koncepty širšímu publiku.

    The Junior Week-end Book
    The Blood Price
    Trail of the Dead
    Invisible Armies
    • In a world where companies are more powerful than governments and security cameras can track your every move, if you can manipulate the web you can change the world. You can also get away with murder over and over again . . . Danielle Leaf thought she was just doing an innocent errand to help out a friend. Then she was abducted in remote rural India. Her daring escape is only the beginning. Now she has been drawn into a war between anti-corporate activists and an international mining company that is poisoning thousands of Third World farmers. It is a dizzying world of desperate escapes and whirlwind romance on the Goa coast; bloody street battles in Paris; shadowy computer hackers and mysterious benefactors. Danielle is in love, vibrantly alive, and fighting for a better world. But then she crosses the steadily blurring line between right and wrong, and stumbles across an awful revelation. Soon she is running for her life. For both sides of this war are willing to kill for their cause - and both sides hide terrible secrets . . .

      Invisible Armies2006
      3,6
    • The Blood Price

      • 403 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      Conjuring the dark legacy of post-war Bosnia, a world inhabitedby warlords, smugglers and people willing to do anything to survive, Jon Evanslaunches readers full-speed into another thrilling page-turner. Paul Wood, thebackpacking thirtysomething hero of Dark Places , returns in this novel of"human cargo" and the smuggling of refugees desperate for freedom.Paul’s attempt to help a Tamil child separated from his refugee family throwshim into a confrontation with gun-toting gangsters, international dealers inhuman desperation. From urban Sarajevo to rural Albania, through Belize and Mexicoto California, Blood Price is a riveting and addictive read that confirmsthe storytelling talent that has earned Evans an international following.

      The Blood Price2005
    • Trail of the Dead

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      A thrilling debut novel for fans of Alex Garland's "The Beach": A mysterious and brutal serial killer is on the loose in Morocco, Nepal, Cameroon, and Indonesia. What drives him, and can he be stopped before more murders occur?

      Trail of the Dead2004
      3,5