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"Джек Ричер, или В розыске" — роман английского писателя Ли Чайлда, вышедший в 2012 году. Семнадцатая книга из серии о бывшем военном полицейском Джеке Ричере, сиквел романов "Джек Ричер, или 61 час" и "Джек Ричер, или Это стоит смерти" • Разобравшись с очередным смертельно опасным делом, Джек Ричер твердо решил добраться до Вирджинии и наконец познакомиться с женщиной, которую так часто слышал по телефону, но никогда не видел. Как обычно, передвигаться по стране он предпочел на попутном транспорте. Ждать пришлось долго - никто не хотел пускать в свой автомобиль огромного громилу подозрительного вида. Наконец какие-то люди - двое мужчин и женщина - согласились подвезти его, причем чуть ли не до места назначения. Но через некоторое время Ричер начал понимать: эти люди вовсе не "какие-то"

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination, the closest thing to a home he ever had: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th Military Police • Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But now he's arrived, she's disappeared, and things are getting weird • Accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide and co-opted back into the army, Reacher says nothing • But he's sure as hell thinking of a way out

Jack Reacher is having a bad day • It would be a dumb idea to make it worse • Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it • All he wants is to find the woman • He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle • If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing • Best advice: stay out of his way

В смертельно опасных дебрях Небраски случаются неприятности... и Ричер попадает прямо в них. Он враждует с Дунканами, местным кланом, который запугал целую страну и заставил ее подчиниться • Но Ричер не может расстаться с нераскрытым делом о пропавшей восьмилетней девочке • Ричер - весь в синяках и побоях - должен был просто продолжать идти. Но для Ричера это было невозможно • За что в этой страшной стране стоило бы умереть? • Книга на английском языке • 'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at all' Independent • There's trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country into submission

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off • No one saw it happen • You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind • Everyone is lying • By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one • Someone is to blame • Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find

A practical, inspiring roadmap for changing the conversation on social justice issues • 'Not all men' • 'I don't see colour' • 'To play devil's advocate...' • 'Climate change is coming' • From the persistent to the insidious, too often, antagonistic responses threaten to distract and derail the most urgent conversations • Tackling twenty of the most enduring conversation-stoppers, No Offence, But... equips readers with the knowledge, tools and context to respond with confidence. Alongside other trailblazing writers, educators and advocates, acclaimed campaigner Gina Martin helps us to unpick these phrases, understand why they are harmful and feel empowered enough to change the conversation • Featuring chapters from Aja Barber, Ben Hurst, Cathy Reay, Charlie Craggs, Daze Aghaji, Ione Gamble, Koa Beck, Mariam Kemple Hardy and Azadeh Hosseini, Nova Reid and Salma El-Wardany

The present can be tense • A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they're trapped in an ominous game of life and death • But the past can be worse • Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn't get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who's lying? • As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher • That's for damn sure

Jack Reacher walks alone • Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president • Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him • This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London • The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal

Reissue of the worldwide bestseller by popular demand - a shocking true story of life behind the veil • In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you • Think of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons • 'Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King

The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun • The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals the man behind the myth • In the years 434-454AD the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man, Attila, king of the Huns. The decaying Roman empire still stood astride the Western World, from its twin capitals of Rome and Constantinople, but it was threatened by a new force, the much-feared Barbarian hordes. It was Attila who united the Barbarian tribes into a single, amazingly-effective army. He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe

Тяжелая работа детектива, полицейского, спецагента – чисто мужская, так считалось издавна. Женщины уже давно с этим не согласны. В век равноправия полов и развития высоких технологий на первый план стали выходить интеллект, технические навыки и профессионализм, заменяя собой грубую силу и умение быстро стрелять. Кто же все-таки лучше в этом деле? Чтобы получить ответ, автор мировых бестселлеров Ли Чайлд собрал в одну команду своих самых известных собратьев по перу и разбил их на пары – мужчина против женщины. Своих героев свели в профессиональной дуэли Кэти Райх и Ли Чайлд, Вэл Макдермид и Питер Джеймс, Сандра Браун и Си Джей Бокс, Диана Гэблдон и Стив Берри, Лиза Скоттолайн и Нельсон Демилль…

Blades are sharpened, battle lines drawn and the ravens gather. For judgement day is come • England, 1071. Five years since the crushing Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings, the country is reeling under the savage rule of the new king - 'the Bastard'. The North has been left a wasteland - no atrocity is too great to ensure William's grip upon the crown • And now he turns his cold gaze east, towards the last stronghold of the English resistance. After years of struggle, he will brook no further challenge to his power: his vast army masses and his siege machines are readied • The English have put their faith in the only man who might defeat the murderous invaders: Hereward - warrior and a master tactician. But Hereward is missing • With their hopes of victory dwindling, can the English rebels find the leader who seems to have abandoned them before William the Bastard begins his final, devastating assault that will truly be the end of days