The Bourne Identity Ludlum Robert Pearson Education

После шторма рыбаки находят в Средиземном море неизвестного, тяжело раненного и потерявшего память. Человек без имени, без документов, без прошлого... При этом он обладает феноменальными способностями, боевыми навыками и знает несколько языков. Ключом к разгадке его тайны может стать микроплёнка с номером счёта в швейцарском банке на имя американского гражданина Джейсона Борна. В погоне за всплывающими в памяти образами, лицами и именами герой пытается понять, кто он - суперагент или наёмный убийца, почему за ним охотятся ЦРУ, полиция и криминальные синдикаты и, главное, как его прошлое связано с Карлосом - неуловимым международным террористом. В книге представлен сокращённый и адаптированный текст уровня Intermediate

После шторма рыбаки находят в Средиземном море неизвестного, тяжело раненного и потерявшего память. Человек без имени, без документов, без прошлого... При этом он обладает феноменальными способностями, боевыми навыками и знает несколько языков. Ключом к разгадке его тайны может стать микроплёнка с номером счёта в швейцарском банке на имя американского гражданина Джейсона Борна. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images • And yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view: one that details the realities and contradictions of patriotism, examines the role of class and privilege in Nigerian society, juxtaposes inherited tradition with the diasporic experience and explores the power of storytelling and its intrinsic link to Nigeria's history • Within these pages, acclaimed and award-winning writers share memories and experiences of Nigeria that can be found nowhere else, bringing to the fore a country whose influence can be found everywhere

The complete collection of Robert Fabbri’s Vespasian novella series about Magnus and the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood • Marcus Salvius Magnus, leader of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood, has long dominated his part of Rome’s criminal underworld. From rival gangs and unpaid debts to rigged chariot races and blood feuds – if you have a problem, Magnus is the man to solve it. He’ll do everything in his power to preserve his grip on the less-travelled back alleys of Rome, and of course, make a profit • But while Magnus inhabits the underbelly of the city, his patron, Gaius Vespasius Pollo, moves in a different circle. As a senator, he needs men like Magnus to do his dirty work as he manoeuvres his way deeper into the imperial court… • In these thrilling tales from the bestselling Vespasian series, spanning from the rule of Tiberius through the bloody savagery of Caligula to the coming of Nero, Robert Fabbri exposes a world of violence, mayhem and murder that echos down the ages

The epic and action packed third novel in Low’s Oathsworn series charting the adventures of Orm and his band of Viking brothers • The Oathsworn have itchy feet. Battle-hungry and tired of keeping the homestead fires burning, they are restless for action. And, being the Oathsworn, action is what they get • When their homestead is attacked by Klerkon and his men, the Oathsworn promise bloody revenge. But they didn’t count on having to undertake the most dangerous journey of their lives in order to save two of their number • Packed with epic adventure and bloody action, The White Raven is Robert Low at his very best

The world's most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, has carved a bloody swathe through all his opponents but now he's facing the one force he can't defeat – his own past – in the latest thrilling entry in Robert Ludlum's New York Times bestselling series • Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery Treadstone agent codenamed Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent, recently been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt • They failed. Their charge died at the hands of a shadowy assassin • Now, three years later, everything has changed. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bourne is a lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone

Bourne is Back • and in the crosshairs of every intelligence agency on the planet • New York Congresswoman Sofia Ortiz has been assassinated – and it looks like Jason Bourne was the rogue gunman responsible • Ortiz was about to blow the whistle on a scandal that could tie one of the most powerful tech companies in the country to Treadstone, the shadowy government agency that trained Bourne, and to something even more sinister. If he is to clear his name, Bourne is going to have to get to the bottom of the conspiracy Ortiz was killed to protect • It won't be easy: alone, on the run, with enemies at every turn, Bourne will have to put all his skills to the test – and uncover some new ones

Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy and a murderous tech giant in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum's New York Times bestselling series • Jason Bourne has faced many killers before, but none as dangerous as the assassin Lennon. Bourne thought he had his foe cornered in Iceland, only to have the killer escape in a fiery explosion. Lennon's trail leads Bourne to New York and then to Washington D.C. – and the body count rises with each deadly encounter • Bourne believes the assassin has a new employer, a shadowy group called the Pyramid. The only clue is the murder of a young German woman, killed in D.C. while on her way to a covert meeting. But the woman's entire identity is a lie, and news reports of her death have been strangely twisted and suppressed

Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis • The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It is a story that Robert Fisk has been reporting for over thirty years. His masterful narrative spans the most volatile regions of the Middle East, chronicling with both rage and compassion the death by deceit of tens of thousands of Muslims, Christians and Jews • Robert Fisk’s remarkable history is also the tale of a journalist at war – learning of the 9/11 attacks while aboard a passenger jet, reporting from a bombed-out Baghdad, interviewing Osama bin Laden – and of the courage and frustration of a life spent writing the first draft of history

The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of one of the darkest days in Britain's social history • On 16 August 1819, a strong force of yeomanry and regular cavalry charged into a crowd of more than 100,000 workers who had gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester for a meeting about Parliamentary reform • Many were killed. This violent, startling event became known as Peterloo, one of the darkest days in Britain’s social history • The Peterloo Massacre provides a revealing narrative account of the events leading up to Peterloo, starkly describes the actions of that fateful day, and examines its aftermath. It offers a new perspective on the political and military activities of the time, and shows how the very nature of society was powerfully influenced by irreversible technological change: a pattern that, two-hundred years later, still has relevance in understanding the forces shaping our world today