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Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert; able to survive like no others can, in the harshest of conditions. The noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, presides over a huge corner of the desert. One day, two fugitives arrive from the north and Gacel, in accordance with their ancient and sacred hospitality laws, gives them shelter. At the time, Gacel is unaware that this act of kindness will lead to a series of deadly adventures... A classic epic and at the same time a beautiful rendition to one of the world's most unique cultures.
The board members of US company Dall & Houston receive a death threat from an alleged Islamic terrorist called Aarohum Al Rashid: unless they return the one billion dollars that they reaped from their direct involvement in the Iraq war, they will be killed off one by one. The plot addresses current global issues like the war for the control of coltan supplies, a mineral so valuable that it has become essential to new technology in the developed world. A great novel, charged with action, intrigue and first-class story telling.
On the island of Fuerteventura, the Germans have built a house of 'rest' that offers all kinds of pleasure to their submarine officers after hard months in the deep sea. The British secret service to infiltrate Erika Simon, German Jewish exile in England, in the group of prostitutes who enliven the leisure hours of the Germans. Its mission is to gather as much information as possible about the movement of the dreaded submarines. Your risk, involve your heart in an unexpected relationship. His dilemma, trapped in a terrifying crossroads: betray your allies or betray her lover ...
Alberto Vzquez-Figueroa, the acclaimed popular novelist, has given us in Ebano a novel in his own tremendously realistic and almost cinematographic style. This time his novel is set in Africa, the main characters being a young European lecturer and his wife, an ebullient and idealistic black African who tries to bring to the attention of the Western world the miserable plight of her home country. While on honeymoon in Africa, she is abducted during one of her husband’s absences. So begins the young man’s odyssey to find his wife who, suffering great hardship, is taken to Arabia —to be sold to a sheik for a large sum of money.
When Gavin meets Jackie on a bench in the local park, he thinks she's a stranger. She knows better. She’s connected to him in ways he can’t yet imagine. She swore she wouldn’t do this again but it's real this time. So real, she might do something reckless and tell him everything. He’ll understand. It wasn’t her fault, not really. Perhaps he’ll forgive her, even if she can never forgive herself.
Since birth has been rejected, abused, neglected, pushed aside, is Jesus "Chico" Grande, and his childhood was spent in the streets. Life on the streets of Bogota is hard, but along with his friend Ramiro manages to survive as you can, do all kinds of things to survive: assaults, stealing, begging and even kills. He tells all his life from then until it becomes an assassin, a murderer who kills for money, sometimes by necessity or revenge and sometimes for pleasure, the same for drug traffickers to anyone with money. His life undergoes a change when he meets his friend Abigail Anaya who changes his life and after he raises his life disappears.
A FATAL FACADE is a crime thriller focusing on the lives of four people who become involved with Paolo Cellini, a 30-year-old wealthy art dealer who is killed in his marbled bathroom in Chelsea, London. Each person is linked to Cellini in unusual ways: his lover, Bianca Vella, a Maltese nightclub-singer who worships him; Rico Batas, his Filipino nightclub-manager who hates him; his other lover, Angelica Logan, a woman with too many terrible secrets and Jack Bradley, an ex-DCI, who needs to redeem himself to his family and his colleagues by discovering the truth about the life and death of Cellini. Jack’s obsessive search takes him down dark, disturbing avenues into the secret lives of these people who are almost crushed under the weight of Cellini’s narcissistic personality. Jack knows that one of them killed him but even he is stunned by the secrets he unearths. The novel explores the universal themes of human frailty and our need to find forgiveness. For what man or woman can honestly say ‘I have never done anything wrong.’ ,