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Hiver 1940. L''Allemagne progresse dans sa conquête de l''Europe. Stephen Metcalfe, riche héritier américain, est espion pour un réseau de renseignements américain basé sur Paris. Un jour il est char

Harrison Ambler lleva dos años encerrado en el psiquiátrico de Parrish Island, centro de alta seguridad donde se destina a aquellos agentes a los que la enfermedad mental ha convertido en una amenaza para la seguridad del pais. Pero Ambler, que no ha perdido la cabeza, consigue escapar durante el traslado de un preso que ha sufrido un infarto.De regreso en Washington, el antiguo espia descubre que nadie parece recordar su cara o su nombre, y el mismo es incapaz de reconocerse frente al espejo. Ademas, los responsables de su encierro se han propuesto darle caza y en esta ocasion la consigna es disparar a matar...La advertencia de Ambler es puro Ludlum: una narracion vertiginosa, un personaje en busca de su pasado, un gobierno dispuesto a todo con tal de no mostrar sus trapos sucios... Aun despues de muerto, el creador de Jason Bourne sigue siendo el gran maestro del thriller internacional.

PR4 The Bourne Identity Series: Penguin Readers Level 4 Intermediate Publisher: Longman Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781408221082 Publication Date: 2010 Price: £6.30 Description: The man has been shot many times, but he lives. Who wants to kill him, and why? The man can't remember. He can't even remember his name. As he begins to learn about his past, he becomes even more confused. Does he have a future? Or will he be killed before he knows who-and what-he really is? Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner's own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

El banquero norteamericano Ben Hartman llega a Zurich para pasar unas relajantes vacaciones en la nieve, invitado por un cliente que además quiere presentarle a su muy atractiva nieta. Y la fiesta parece completa cuando, en la puerta del hotel, se encuentra con Jimmy Cavanaugh, un viejo amigo de la universidad. El problema es que Jimmy lleva una pistola en la mano, y su objetivo parece no ser otro que el propio BenMientras tanto, la agente del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos Anna Navarro esta a punto de realizar un descubrimiento de lo mas inquietante: la muerte de once hombres de un extremo a otro del globo esta relacionada con una misteriosa palabra en clave, Sigma, cuyas raices se hunden en tiempos de la segunda guerra mundial. Momento en que sus jefes deciden retirarla del caso y sabotear su carreraRobert Ludlum, gran maestro de la intriga internacional y creador del personaje de Jason Bourne que con tanto exito ha sido llevado recientemente a la gran pantalla, nos ofrece con El protocolo Sigma un nuevo thriller de los que quitan el aliento. Tambien, una impactante investigacion sobre el reparto del oro nazi y las organizaciones que desde la sombra intentan controlar los destinos de la politica economica mundial.

Jason Bourne era el espía perfecto, una máquina entrenada para acabar sin el menor pestañeo con quien se interpusiera en su camino, pero tras esa fachada se escondía un hombre que había perdido la memoria y la identidad. Tras recuperarlas, David Webb intenta llevar una vida comun y corriente como profesor de Linguistica en la Universidad de Georgetown. Hasta que una mañana, mientras atraviesa el campus caminando, una bala pasa zumbando junto a su cabeza y Bourne se ve obligado a tomar de nuevo las riendas de su personalidad. Pero los problemas no han hecho mas que comenzar. Alex Conklin, su antiguo jefe en la CIA, y Mo Panov, el psicologo que le ayudo a recobrar la normalidad, han sido ejecutados, lo que convierte a Webb en el principal sospechoso del crimen. Objeto de una nueva caza del hombre, el ex agente debera enfrentarse ademas a Khan, un asesino a sueldo tan silencioso y mortal como el propio Bourne en sus mejores dias. La desvastada Chechenia, Nairobi, Creta y una cumbre antiterrorista en Reykiavik son algunos de los escenarios en los que se desarrolla esta trepidante novela, un thriller con el que Eric Van Lustbader ha sabido escarbar en la compleja psique de Jason Bourne sin traicionar el espiritu de su amigo Robert Ludlum.

Bourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a major Mexican drug lord may have been trafficking in something far more deadly than drugs. Yadin convinces Bourne to investigate. Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who ordered Rebeka - one of the only people Bourne has ever truly cared about - murdered. Bourne is determined to avenge her death, but in the process he becomes enmeshed in a monstrous world-wide scheme involving the Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians. Bourne's increasingly desperate search for Ouyang takes him from Tel Aviv, to Shanghai, Mexico City, and, ultimately, a village on China's coast where a clever trap has been laid for him. Bourne finds himself pursued on all sides and unsure whom he can trust. As he moves closer to Ouyang, closer to avenging the woman he loved, he also moves ever closer to his own death...

Reformed from his days of covert-operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. Janson also takes on independent assignments--for a fee, he'll use his skills to resolve international crises. But only those that he believes contribute to the greater good of all. When oil executive Kingsman Helms begs Janson to rescue his wife, Allegra, from Somali pirates, Janson and Kincaid seize the opportunity. At last they can derail American Synergy Corporation's scheme to subvert sovereign nations into wholly-owned subsidiaries. But the pirates are the least lethal threat in the violent chaos of oil-rich East Africa, and when Janson and Kincaid stumble into a bewildering storm of plots and counterplots, they begin to fear that the only way to escape would be to abandon the innocent Allegra.

The Merge: a device destined to revolutionise the world and make the personal computer and smart phone obsolete. When Covert-One's Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential he discovers that its enhanced vision, real-time battlefield displays, unbreakable security, and near-perfect marksmanship could change the face of warfare for ever. Meanwhile, CIA operative Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghans - all equipped with enhanced Merge technology. As Smith and Russell investigate, they're blocked by someone who seems to have access to the highest levels of the military. Is the Merge really as secure as its creator claims? And what is the Pentagon so desperate to hide? Smith and Russell are determined to learn the truth - but will they pay with their lives...?

Washington, Hong Kong and Peking - terror sweeps the globe. The Vice-Premier of the Peoples Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same fearful questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is next on his death list? But US officials know the shocking truth: there is no Jason Bourne. There never was. But someone has resurrected the name, and if he is not stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. Jason Bourne must live again. He must utilise his murderous skills. But this time the will to survive is not enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme...

When Covert-One's top operative Jon Smith wakes in a hotel room, he's staring down the barrel of a gun. The area is under terrorist attack and within minutes, bombs explode right across the city. In this perfectly formulated chaos, criminal warlord Oman Dattar, held for crimes against humanity, escapes while his men attempt to steal a new strain of deadly bacteria being showcased at an international conference. In the wrong hands it has the power to devastate nations - and Dattar and his men have it firmly in their sights to use in their plot to bring down the West once and for all. Can Jon Smith stop him or is it already too late?

It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy. Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace...

Adiestrado en el ultrasecreto programa Treadstone, Jason Bourne es la máquina de matar perfecta. Pero no es la única que salió de aquella operación de la inteligencia de los Estados Unidos. Ahora, despues de que la marchante de arte Tracy Atherton muere entre sus brazos, el ex espia intenta descubrir las claves que esconde un misterioso anillo, quiza la puerta de entrada a un tesoro de leyenda. Pero para ello debera enfrentarse a su propia amnesia, a la organizacion Severus Domna y a Leonid Arkadin, un mercenario ruso formado tambien en Treadstone... y, por tanto, capaz de mostrarse tan expeditivo, invencible y letal como el. Solo puede quedar uno.La nueva aventura de Bourne es un festival de accion sin limites que atraviesa cuatro continentes para desembocar en el mas fascinante thriller arqueologico. Una vez mas, Eric van Lustbader se ha puesto a la legendaria altura de su amigo y maestro Robert Ludlum.