When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. Meanwhile, Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. It¿s none of his business why he was hired to kill Phil Kramer. But now that he¿s been ordered to take out Kramer¿s widow, he figures there¿s a bigger secret at work¿and maybe a bigger payoff. As they race to find the secret that Phil Kramer so masterfully hid, both Hobart and Emily must question where their true loyalties lie and how much they owe those who have been unfaithful to them.
After his father forces him to become engaged to Lady Annabelle Ashton, a woman who has been disgraced by a scandal, Reginald Mason finds that his new fiancée shares his resentment toward the impending marriage.
Readers of Dan Brown's extraordinary bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE are fascinated by the questions raised in the novel. Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? Was she one of his disciples and did she write her own gospel? Did they have a child together? Did some geniuses of art and science, people like Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, belong to secret societies that had the most compelling insider information in history, and did Leonardo convey some of these ideas in The Last Supper and other paintings? SECRETS OF THE CODE is the definitive guide to the novel and provides the curious reader with authoritative explorations into the major themes within THE DA VINCI CODE. Read by Sian Thomas and Jeff Harding
Left for dead in a dumpster, private investigator Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in his most puzzling mystery yet. Benny is recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head. He has a condition called alexia sine agraphia; in layman's terms, it means he can still write but cannot read. And his memory has been affected too: Although he can quote lines from his high-school production of Twelfth Night, he finds himself brushing his teeth with his shaving cream. Even his girlfriend's name—Anna Abraham—continues to elude him. When Benny learns that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman, he figures he must have been close to solving a case. With Anna working as field agent and two Toronto cops reluctantly sharing their discoveries, Benny pieces together the events that led to a murder—and his own injuries.
Der Tiger fasziniert Menschen weltweit und inspiriert seit der Antike Ehrfurcht. Dieses Buch ist eine Hommage an dieses bemerkenswerte Wesen und bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über seine natürliche und kulturelle Geschichte – von Evolution und Verhalten bis hin zu seiner symbolischen Bedeutung in Mythos und Ritual. Es enthält sowohl anekdotische als auch statistische Einblicke in die fortwährende Ausbeutung und die Überlebenskämpfe des Tigers und beleuchtet aktuelle Naturschutzbemühungen. Mit über 200 Bildern illustriert, präsentiert es eine unvergleichliche Sammlung von Wildtiger-Fotografien, von denen viele bisher unveröffentlicht sind, und zeigt die Arbeiten führender Fotografen. Das Buch stellt auch beeindruckende Beispiele tiger-inspirierter Kunst durch die Jahrhunderte vor, darunter antike Mosaiken, indische Malerei und Werke europäischer Meister wie Delacroix und Dali. Eine leidenschaftliche Erzählung von Valmik Thapar, der fast dreißig Jahre mit der Beobachtung von Tigern und dem Einsatz für ihr Überleben verbracht hat, wird durch die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Forschungen und Essays von zwanzig führenden Experten ergänzt. Dieses beeindruckende Werk erkundet jede Facette eines der majestätischsten Tiere der Natur und ist sowohl autoritativ als auch schön.
