Hounded by political enemies and cut to the heart by the death of the man she loved, Honor Harrington has retreated to Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while her wounds heal. But the Republic of Haven is rising from defeat to threaten Grayson, and the new Grayson Navy needs her

After Xandra’s nasty run in with the Arcadian Council of Witches—where she was almost killed and her boyfriend, Declan, was almost framed for it—her plan is to lay low and figure out why its members would torment the people they are supposed to protect. Declan, temperamental and protective warlock that he is, doesn’t feel so reticent. And when violence erupts again, there’s no stopping him from pursuing revenge… When a council member is murdered in a fashion that screams dark magic, Declan claims someone else beat him to it. Xandra doesn’t want to believe he could commit such a brutal act, but she knows he has a dark side—one that his former love interest Tsura understands better than she ever will. With Tsura back in town, Xandra doesn’t know whom to trust. And a killer targeting witches and wizards is still at large…

Англия. Лондон. 1666 год. Промежуток между Великой чумой и Великим пожаром. Архидьякон Собора святого Павла и бывший чумной врач после череды странных и трагических событий оказывается втянут в противостояние с сектой «Отверженных». Богатые диалоги, красочные описания, продуманные персонажи и нетривиальный сюжет романа «Flamma» погрузят читателя в мрачную атмосферу Лондона 1666 года, полную тайн, мистики, загадочных убийств и конечно же любви

Obwohl Aurian und Anvar den Klauen des unberechenbaren Erzmagusch Miathan entkommen sind, gilt es noch immer, den Fluch aufzuheben, den dieser auf Aurians Kind gelegt hat. Nur das Flammenschwert, das letzte und mächtigste der verschollenen Artefakte der Macht, kann ihnen helfen, Miathans finstere Pläne zu durchkreuzen. In der Zwischenzeit rüsten die gefürchteten Khazalim im Süden zum Krieg. Das Himmelsvolk hat seine selbstgewählte Isolation aufgegeben, und die Xandim bereiten sich auf Ihren letzten Ritt vor – und der Tod wartet auf seine dritte und letzte Begegnung mit Aurian und Anvar

A collection of three Flandry tales: • The Game of Glory: Captain Flandry follows a dying man's clue to the watery provincial world of Nyanza, where a rebellion against the Empire may be brewing. • A Message in Secret: Flandry ventures to the remote colonial world of Altai, whose human inhabitants haven't been in contact with the Terran Empire for centuries, and discovers that they are cutting a Faustian deal with the Merseians. • The Plague of Masters: Flandry, of his own volition, decides to investigate the remote and isolated world of Unan Besar, to see exactly why it is they have had no contact with the Empire in over 300 years First published in 1965

Malcolm King is a journalist living in trendy Hove on the south coast of England. His days are taken up with video meetings and research on the internet while he writes articles for magazines around the world. When a solar flare of unprecedented magnitude hits the Earth, effectively hurling us back to the stone age in a matter of hours, Malc is thrust into a terrifying new world as he travels the length of the country to find his young daughter. Society, a fragile construct at best, shatters as the survivors fight each other for food and water, neighbour killing neighbour as fires rage through the cities, destroying much of what’s left. Faced with difficult choices at every turn, Malc draws his strength from those around him; Emily, a tough, no-nonsense soldier with a soft spot for lost causes and Jerry, a disgraced astrophysicist who may be the only person left who understands what’s happening with the sun. With their help, he must struggle to answer the ultimate question. What won’t he do to get his daughter back?

"Flash Crowd" is a 1973 novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instantaneous, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds. One consequence not foreseen by the builders of the system was that with the almost instantaneous reporting of newsworthy events, tens of thousands of people worldwide — along with criminals — would flock to the scene of anything interesting, hoping to experience or exploit the instant disorder and confusion so created. In various other books, for example Ringworld, Niven suggests that easy transportation might be disruptive to traditional behavior and open the way for new forms of parties, spontaneous congregations, or shopping trips around the world. The central character in Ringworld, celebrating his birthday, teleports across time-zones to «lengthen» his birthday multiple times (particularly notable since the hardcover first edition had the error of the character heading the wrong direction, increasing that edition's value). from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd

A Vietnam vet is haunted by his past. A violent past that cannot be forgotten or forgiven, or can it? Today Ed Saunders is on the road selling computer software but as he enters the quiet town of Ludlow, Ohio, he witnesses another tragedy, the abduction of a young girl. He tries to help but the only problem is, what he saw was all in the past. Did the flashback he witnessed really happen or is the ageing vet finally losing his mind? With the help of more visions into the past and the support of the town librarian, Ed puts his life on the line to investigate a series of gruesome murders going back to the early 60s when cars were be-finned colourful land yachts and gas was cheap and plentiful. With another kid-napping and planned murder under way, Edd takes on a bizarre cult of neo-Nazi extremists to try and save a special boy from a horrific ritual slaying, but time is running out. Can history help the present or will it just repeat itself? His painful past has finally caught up with him but not quite how he expected

In 1947 a Santiago-bound plane crashes into the Andes minutes after confirming its landing time. In 2003 a passenger plane nosedives into the Bavarian National Forest during a routine flight. Although separated by more than 50 years, these tragedies are linked by seven letters: S, T, E, N, D, E, C. On board Flight DFU323 in 2003 is Saskia Brandt—a woman who holds the answers to the many puzzles of the two flights and who knows she must survive in order to prevent a catastrophic chain of events stretching well into the future. But Saskia is not the only one to know this. She is being followed and her life is in danger—inside and outside of the plane. Filled with twists and turns as it trips skilfully through time, Flashback is a gripping technothriller that reaches more than fifty years into our past—and one hundred years into our future—to solve the enigmas of the doomed Star Dust and Flight DFU323. But is it enough to solve the enigma that is Saskia Brandt?

Firefighter Aidan Donnelly has always battled the flames with trademark icy calm. That is, until a blazing old flame returns – in the shape of sizzling soap star Mackenzie Stafford! Aidan wants to pour water over the unquenchable heat between them. But that just creates more steam… Kenzie is not the delicate, fragile female she looks like. She has one clear objective, and nothing will stand in the way of her goal – well, nothing but the red-hot touch of a certain dangerously sexy fireman, that is!

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past. A provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible, FLASHBACK proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers

Короткие рассказы разных авторов (перевод Gray)

When Donald E. Westlake assumes the mantle of Richard Stark the result is some of the fiercest, most electrifying crime fiction ever written. In FLASHFIRE the author of the legendary Parker series of noir crime novels, and the man behind such classic films as Point Blank and Payback, returns. This time Parker, ignited by betrayal, is heading for the swankest town in America. In a landlocked Midwestern city Parker calmly tosses a firebomb through a plate-glass window, while some newfound partners in crime take down a nearby bank. Making their getaway in the confusion, the bank robbers tell him two things: that this heist was only seed money for a much gaudier one, and that Parker has to loan them his share of the take. They should have given him his cut, or killed him. Because now Parker is rampaging through the American South, taking on a new identity as he goes, planning his own assault on his former partners’ next target, a spectacular jewelry heist in Palm Beach. But Parker didn’t count on one unfortunate detail. A very bad and very stupid man knows his true identity, and wants him dead. On the most heavily guarded island in the world it will all come together: the hit men, the diamonds, the plan, and the blonde real estate agent who’s wandered into the middle of it all. When the explosions start and the heat comes down, the best laid plans of thieves, killers, and schemers all go out the window — and Parker is on his own

L’espace de quelques minutes, l’humanité a perdu conscience. Durant ce laps de temps, chacun a eu un aperçu fugitif de son avenir vingt ans plus tard. Quand le monde s’éveille de nouveau, plus rien n’est comme avant : le black-out a causé des milliers de morts et de blessés. Plus encore : ces visions ont bouleversé les esprits à jamais

What happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby School in the late 1830s? What kind of man grew out of the foul-mouthed, swaggering, cowardly toady who roasted fags for fun and howled when he was beaten himself? For more than a century the fate of history’s most notorious schoolboy remained a mystery - until, in 1966, George MacDonald Fraser decided to discover a vast collection of unpublished manuscripts in a Midland sale-room. Since then the scandalous saga of Flashman, Victorian hero and scoundrel, has emerged in a series of bestselling memoirs in which the arch-cad reviews, from the safety of old age, his exploits in bed and battle. George MacDonald Fraser served in a Highland regiment in India and the Middle East, worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada, and has written nine other Flashman novels and numerous films, most notably The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film, Octopussy

В новом романе Александра Житинского реальные события переплетены с виртуальными, происходящими в сети интернет, и с чудесами, происходящими в реальности. Дон – физик, доктор наук, регистрируется на досуге в «Живом Журнале» и начинает экспериментировать с информационным пространством. Стихийно создав он-лайн акцию, он понимает, какой инструмент влияния попал в его руки. Постепенно начинают происходить странные флэш-мобы, сотрясающие не только интернет, где они зарождаются, но и порядок в стране

Political Consultant Devlin Conrad had the feeling that his very married client Senator Robert Logan was a lot more involved with the beautiful and mysterious Tracy Cabot than he wanted to admit. But he learned too late that the Cabot woman was a spy working for a shadowy right-wing organization — too late because by then she’d been found murdered in Senator Logan’s fishing cabin, and the police are certain that he killed her. But Conrad finds numerous suspects in the Senator’s mansion and in the somewhat comic but dangerous figure of political saboteur Howie Ruskin. He must find the real killer if he is to win the election for a client whose vanity and arrogance make him right at home in the United States Senate

Zach Thomas risks his life battling flames every day. But since sexy EMT Brooke O'Brian joined the crew, he can't resist playing with fire. Brooke is feisty, a little uptight.and sexy as hell. And as Zach soon discovers, she's definitely hot stuff between the sheets. Still, every firefighter knows that the hotter the blaze, the faster the action's over… After the whirlwind ride Zach's been taking her on, Brooke is ready to do anything for this man – in and out of bed! But she knows footloose and fancy – free Zach doesn't do commitment. So she plans to build up a five – alarm fire between them. The kind he won't ever want to put out

With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place which is limited to two dimensions—irrevocably flat—and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, even a fourth dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in 1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science-fiction classic as the works of H.G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories, and it does so with a wonderful, enduring enchantment

Квантовые принципы идеальной конспирации, или как создаются нераскрываемые тайные общества. Буденновские шашки и дизайн интерьеров. Индоевропейские иероглифы и киберреинкарнация. Мошенничество, как разновидность перформанса. Графическая этимология и отпечатки из предвечности. Как устроить скандальную выставку и превратить в масштабное шоу ее последствия. Какова площадь государства, границы которого очерчены разлетающимися осколками взорванных бомб. Вечность и время, любовь и ненависть в узорах древнеегипетских идеограмм. Принцип предельности информации и власть, восстающая из кромешной тьмы. Бешеный гитарный саундтрэк к книге by RustyFusion cyberpunk band (www.rustyfusion.com)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert’s Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality

Imagínese una vieja casa de campo en algún lugar de Inglaterra, en los años 50. Imagínese una niña de casi 11 años, solitaria y de extraños talentos, que vive allí con una familia poco común: un padre viudo de carácter taciturno y unas hermanas a las que nuestra protagonista no soporta. Se llama Flavia de Luce y es la dueña y señora de un laboratorio químico de la época victoriana abandonado décadas atrás. La joven Flavia, como si fuera un detective, hurgará en al misterioso pasado de su padre y planeará la venganza contra sus hermanas Ofelia y Daphne mientras el material para su propio experimento científico es el cuerpo de un hombre que se encuentra enterrado en el jardín de su casa. Con su protagonista excéntrica y brillantes, Flavia de los extraños talentos es una novela absolutamente original, imaginativa, de lectura compulsiva, que engancha por su inteligencia y por su humor, a veces muy negro, que se burla de la macabra seriedad de la trama

A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day — out of nowhere — a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take matters into their own hands… Flaw is Tulli’s most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership

Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED. In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which obedience is paramount and rebellion is punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything

Naota's life is not simple. He lives with his eccentric father and grandfather in a city distinguished by a gigantic hand-iron shaped factory perched on hill. His brother's ex-girlfriend makes passes at him. And to top it all off, an impish, playful alien has run him over with her Vespa and smacked him in the head with a bass guitar! Little does he know that this is only the beginning of his involvement in an interplanetary ideological war. Inspired by the FLCL anime

A frantic phone call from an old friend leaves private detective Regan Reilly to investigate two bizarre deaths and the disappearance of a diamond cache

Sten had fought his way up from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor’s bodyguard, the Imperial Gurkhas. But during his first three months on Prime World, the most dangerous weapons Sten had encountered were the well–phrased lies of Court politicians. It seemed no place for an honest fighting man. But when a bomb destroys a local bar, Sten discovers the danger and corruption behind Court intrigue. Only quick work by Sten, Alex Kilgour, and a tough female detective can keep the Empire together and the Emperor alive

No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your fleshbut what it makes you do to others. FLESH introduces a whole crowd of characters beginning with Eddie who is cruising back roads in his van for his next victim. Eddie ends up a bit crispy, but what happens after that is absolutely fascinating. Seems that dear Eddie was not acting alone; he was the host for something that compels humans to turn cannibal. The whole novel follows the leap of this “something” from person to person, hideous murders, creepy abandoned buildings with danger at every corner and one cop’s relentless pursuit of the weird killer

Reeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere. Finding it is their best hope for having a future and a life worth living. But the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. They are hunted by fierce animals escaped from zoos and circuses. They must raid zombie-infested towns for food and medical supplies. They discover the very real truth in the old saying: In the Rot & Ruin…everything wants to kill you. And what is happening to the zombies? Swarms of them are coming from the east, devouring everything in their paths. These zoms are different. Faster, smarter, infinitely more dangerous. Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead? In Flesh & Bone, Benny Imura, Nix Riley, Lou Chong and Lilah the Lost Girl are pitted against dangers greater than anything they've ever faced. To survive, each of them must rise to become the warriors Tom trained them to be

When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents – which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Then years later, a shock: at a bachelor party for a fellow doctor, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers going through a degrading display – and one of them is Lauren Teague. And now her mother is pleading for help once again. Lauren has disappeared – and she thinks Delaware can find her. He's not so sure – but when her disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end

In a land torn apart by civil war, pestilence, and shaky alliances, a man branded a traitor may be the world's only hope... The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society — and his family — ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he will meet his doom in water and blood and ice. And her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen in a rainy wilderness half-dead, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure, and possessing only a stolen book of maps. Offered sanctuary in a nearby monastery, Valen discovers that his book — rumored to lead men into the realm of angels — gains him entry into a world of secret societies, doomsayers, monks, princes, and madmen, all seeking to unlock the mystery of the coming dark age. Unfortunately, the key to Navronne's doom is buried in half-forgotten myth—and the secrets of his own past

They will clean out the demons and the suicides, and move on. As long as they stay within the rules, Jill Kismet can't deny them entry. But she can watch-and if they step out of line, she'll send them packing. When Cirque performers start dying grotesquely, Kismet has to find out why, or the fragile truce won't hold and her entire city will become a carnival of horror. She also has to play the resident hellbreed power against the Cirque to keep them in line, and find out why ordinary people are needing exorcisms. And then there's the murdered voodoo practitioners, and the zombies. An ancient vengeance is about to be enacted. The Cirque is about to explode. And Jill Kismet is about to find out some games are played for keeps…

Guitar players change lives. Everybody knows that. Geoff Nicholson's deliriously funny Flesh Guitar is overstimulated love letter to the guitar, complete with feedback, reverb, and special guest appearances, with a lead player the likes of whom has not been seen since Hendrix departed this earth.Into the Havoc Bar and Grill, an end-of-the-world watering hole on the outer fringes of the metropolis, walks the entertainment, Jenny Slade. She has the look down: beat-up leather jacket, motorcycle boots, cheekbones, and wild hair. But she's no ordinary guitar heroine. Her guitar is like none her audience has ever seen, part deadly weapon, part creature from some alien lagoon. Is that hair? Are those nipples? Is it flesh? Where does Jenny Slade come from? Where does she go? Geoff Nicholson fans know that wherever that is, the fide will be like no other

The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ — one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers. The case was closed. Until the killer walked free... When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City’s history. Twenty years ago ‘The Flesher’ was butchering people all over the UK — turning victims into oven-ready joints — until Grampian’s finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he’s missing and people are dying again. When members of the original investigation start to disappear, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae realizes the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks... Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light. And the only thing that’s certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is the most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum-seekers’ detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love... Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there’s the small matter of the two skeletons — a woman and an infant — found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt — but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland? Fleshmarket Close explores what it means to a society when shared heritage is lost beneath uglier aspects of our nature: greed, mistrust, violence and exploitation. It is a true state-of-the-nation novel, and one of Rebus’s most personal cases yet

Mūsdienu kriminālromāni Gregorijs Makdonalds. Fletčs. /Tulkojis H. Jubels/ Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv

Avez-vous déjà vu un personnage obèse, cradingue, vinasseux et violacé, en pantoufles, maillot de corps gris (mais qui fut blanc jadis), portant un pantalon de coutil rapiécé, affublé d'un véritable sombrero mexicain se prélasser dans les fauteuils du Boeing Paris-Tokyo ? Assurément non ! Pour se délecter d'une pareille situation, il faut avoir lu « Fleur de nave vinaigrette ». Au passage : savez-vous comment se traduit « Fleur de nave » en japonais ? « Bey-Rhû-Ryé » ! Rigoureusement authentique ! Si vous ne me croyez pas, consultez votre judoka habituel

Bonjour, ma chère! Мое имя — Элеонор МакАртур (И упаси вас Всевышний назвать меня Флёрдоранж… Я предупредила!), и в моей жизни все наперекосяк! В 8 лет дети бьют коленки и расстраиваются из-за потерянных игрушек. Я в 8 лет потеряла семью и друзей. В 18 лет приличные леди выпускаются из пансиона, в первый раз целуются и влюбляются. А мой первый поцелуй был украден каким-то разбойником (Да, он красавчик, но все же!), а потом я ввязалась в движение отступников и все перевернулось с ног на голову… Но вы сейчас только запутаетесь… Так что, начнем по порядку? Добро пожаловать в Старый-Новый мир, держитесь крепче, мы объявляем войну и не боимся влюбляться

Zévaco porte encore une fois, dans ce roman, haut la bannière de la littérature populaire, au meilleur sens du terme. L'histoire se passe à Paris, à la fin du XIXe siècle. Disparitions, réapparitions, meurtres, trahisons, vengeances, tous les ingrédients du genre y sont. Et vous ne vous ennuierez pas pendant une seule ligne…Fleurs de paris, ce sont quatre femmes : Lise, Marie Charmant, Magali et Rose de Corail. Fleurs de paris est aussi l'histoire de la famille du baron d'anguerrand et celle de la vengeance inassouvie de Jeanne Mareil.Le roman se déroule dans le Paris de la fin du XIXe siècle.Roman populaire, fleurs de paris est considéré comme l'un des premiers romans policiers

I uppföljaren till Män som hatar kvinnor är det Lisbeth Salander som står i centrum. Hon blir anklagad för trippelmord och dras in i en härva som leder tillbaka till hennes mörka förflutna. Lisbeth Salander återkommer till Sverige efter en längre tids vistelse utomlands. Tack vare finansmannen Wennerströms pengar har hon det bättre ställt än någonsin, men hon återvänder till ett Stockholm där hon inte längre har familj eller vänner. Lisbeth är helt ensam i världen. En rad dramatiska händelser inträffar som får Lisbeths mörka förflutna att göra sig påmint, och när hon dras in i en mördarjakt där hon själv är villebråd bestämmer hon sig för att göra upp med det förgångna en gång för alla. Hon ska straffa dem som förtjänar att straffas. Samtidigt har Mikael Blomkvist på Millennium fått korn på hett nyhetsstoff. Journalisten Dag Svensson och hans sambo Mia Bergman kan visa avslöjande fakta om en omfattande sexhandel mellan Östeuropa och Sverige. Många av de personer som utpekas i traffickinghärvan har högt uppsatta positioner i samhället. När Dag och Mia blir brutalt mördade och misstankarna riktas mot Salander bestämmer sig Mikael Blomkvist för att driva sin egen utredning. Han upptäcker snart ett samband mellan morden och traffickingtemat. Den fruktade Zala, vars namn ständigt förekommer i utredningen, visar sig dessutom ha kopplingar till en viss Lisbeth Salander... Det är dags för Blomkvist och Salander att mötas igen

Hartmut Hainbach ist Ende fünfzig und hat alles erreicht, was er sich gewünscht hat: Er ist Professor für Philosophie und hat seine Traumfrau geheiratet, die er nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe immer noch liebt. Dennoch ist Hartmut nicht glücklich. Seine Frau ist nach Berlin gezogen, sodass aus der Ehe eine Wochenendbeziehung geworden ist, die gemeinsame Tochter hält die Eltern auf Distanz, der Reformfuror an den Universitäten nimmt Hartmut die Lust an der Arbeit. Als ihm überraschend das Angebot zu einem Berufswechsel gemacht wird, will er endlich Klarheit: über das Verhältnis zu seiner Tochter, über seine Ehe, über ein Leben, von dem er dachte, dass die wichtigen Entscheidungen längst getroffen sind. Drei Jahre nach seinem gefeierten Debüt Grenzgang gerät in Stephan Thomes neuem Roman Fliehkräfte wieder einer ins Straucheln. Und mit atemberaubendem Gespür für die Niederlage, für das, was wirklich schmerzt, schickt Thome seinen Helden auf eine alles entscheidende Reise. Über Frankreich und Spanien führt sie ihn bis nach Lissabon und zugleich in die Vergangenheit, ganz nah heran an die Verwerfungen und Abgründe des gelebten Lebens