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Abril de 1945. Un avión de transporte de la Luftwaffe despega entre las ruinas de Berlín con un cargamento de documentos secretos pertenecientes a Adolf Hitler. Media hora más tarde, el avión se estrella en el bosque de Heidenholz.Primavera de 1983. Una revista alemana saca a subasta los diarios secretos de Hitler y los mayores grupos de comunicacion del planeta se reunen en la camara de un banco suizo. El precio inicial es de mas de tres millones de dolares.Ahora. Con el caracteristico pulso narrativo de sus mejores thrillers, Robert Harris recupera en este clasico de la investigacion periodistica la historia del supuesto descubrimiento de uno de los documentos mas codiciados del siglo XX: los diarios privados de Adolf Hitler. Un fiasco de proporciones mayusculas protagonizado por falsificadores, ladrones, periodistas avariciosos, viejos nazis recalcitrantes, magnates sin escrupulos, historiadores burlados y maletines repletos con disparatadas sumas de dinero. Y eso es solo el comienzo... Una fabula real sobre el peso del pasado y el precio y la manipulacion de la verdad.

Un thriller con un ritmo y un suspense perfectamente ensamblados, sobre la celebración del cónclave en el que se elegirá al próximo Sumo Pontífice de la Iglesia Católica. El libro en el que se basa la pelicula homonima de Edward Berger.La critica ha dicho: Apasionante, la version eclesiastica de House of Cards.The Times No importa si crees en Dios, en la Iglesia o en nada, Conclave te resultara enormemente entretenida.The Washington PostEl Papa ha muerto y los cardenales se reunen para elegir a su sucesor. El escenario esta preparado para un enfrentamiento en este esplendido retrato del poder, la corrupcion y el engaño.The Guardian Unrelato sobre las maquinaciones a mas alto nivel dentro de la Iglesia catolica. Un libro fascinante.The New York Times Robert Harris logra que el mecanismo del suspense funcione como un reloj en este habil relato sobre intrigas vaticanas.Financial TimesUna novela que explora el poder, la gloria y las argucias del proceso de eleccion de un nuevo Papa, por el autor de bestsellers mas brillante de la actualidad.Esquire Es un thriller, si, pero un thriller inusual y distinto, y la clave de su exito es la extraordinaria galeria de personajes. Me cautivo. Posee un ritmo perfecto y una intriga constante y cada vez mas emocionante. Su punto de partida es un tema absolutamente secreto y desvela los entresijos. Sin duda, para mi una de las mejores novelas del año.For winter nights. A bookish blog

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY. A gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost.Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd.Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil''s Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down.But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life...

The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Mike McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's biography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first seem. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government on 'The War on Terror' during the Tony Blair years.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?

September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich.As Chamberlains plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrers train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own.Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlains private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they havent seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again.When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?

'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now.' The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house. But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. The Times has called Robert Harris 'the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller'. The Ghost is his most compelling novel yet.

En la Roma de las conjuras y los asesinatos políticos, Cicerón abandona sus ideales para seguir escalando en el poder.Magnífica recreación histórica de uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la historia de Roma, y de su vinculacion con las oscuras maquinaciones que determinaron el fin de la Republica.El joven Ciceron es un idealista, partidario de Pompeyo, pero sus enemigos le impiden acceder al codicado titulo que otorga poder absoluto, el de Imperium. Si quiere ascender politicamente tendra que pactar con los aristocratas y asi destruir a sus rivales.

Robert Harris regresa con un thriller de infarto, lleno de ritmo e intriga, propio de un conocedor de los entresijos políticos. La redaccion de la autobiografia del ex primer ministro britanico se ha convertido en un juego muy peligroso. Una trepidante intriga politica inspirada en personajes reales.El negro encargado de escribir la autobiografia del ex primer ministro brit&aa

The concluding part of the Cicero Trilogy that began with Imperium, from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland, An officer and a Spy, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and The Ghost.Aged 48, Marcus Cicero, the greatest orator of his time, is to all appearances a broken man. Out of power, exiled to the eastern Mediterranean with his faithful secretary, Tiro, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, he spends his days tormented by his failure.But, to quote one of his own famous aphorisms: ''while there''s life there''s hope''. By promising to support his political enemy, Caesar, he manages to win his return to Italy. Once home, he gradually fights his way back: first in the law courts, then in the senate, and finally by the power of his pen, until at last, for one brief and glorious period, he is once again the dominant figure in Rome.The long-awaited final volume of Robert Harris''s Cicero Trilogy, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic events in human history: the collapse of the Roman republic, the subsequent civil war, the murder of Pompey and the assassination of Julius Caesar. Its theme, however, is timeless: how is political freedom to be safeguarded against the triple threats of unscrupulous personal ambition, of an electoral system dominated by vested financial interests, and of the corrupting impact of waging ceaseless foreign wars?But above all, it is the very human figure of Cicero, beset by family problems, which makes the story so compelling: brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful and yet ultimately brave -- a hero for his time, and for ours.