Décembre 2008, dans une vallée encaissée des Pyrénées. Au petit matin, les ouvriers d’une centrale hydroélectrique découvrent le cadavre d’un cheval sans tête, accroché à la falaise glacée. Le même jour, une jeune psychologue prend son premier poste dans le centre psychiatrique de haute sécurité qui surplombe la vallée. Le commandant Servaz, 40 ans, flic hypocondriaque et intuitif, se voit confier cette enquête, la plus étrange de toute sa carrière. Pourquoi avoir tué ce cheval à 2 000 mètres d’altitude ? Serait-ce, pour Servaz, le début du cauchemar ? Une atmosphère oppressante, une intrigue tendue à l’extrême, une plongée implacable dans nos peurs les plus secrètes, ce premier roman est une révélation !

What’s cuddly, cute, and the object of a high-stakes court battle? It’s Gladly, a cross-eyed teddy bear: the brainchild of slightly cross-eyed beauty Lainie Commins, Matthew Hope’s client and the litigant in a trademark dispute with toy company tycoons Etta and Brett Toland. Hope, still recovering from a near-fatal shooting, is certain he can win this case — until someone murders one of the key players. While Hope is locked in a battle of nerves and legal wits, two of his closest associates have found their way into another of Florida’s favorite people traps. Warren Chambers and Toots Kiley have entered the underworld of drug-smuggling violence from opposite ends — and they can only escape together

Some people feel no empathy. An experimental drug makes them take a hard look in the mirror

It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temple’s fiancé, written on crisp Ministry paper and delivered on her maid’s silver tray. But for Miss Temple, Roger Bascombe’s cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for answers, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors—and a remote estate where danger abounds and all inhibitions are stripped bare.…Thus begins Gordon Dahlquist’s debut novel of Victorian suspense—at once a dazzling feast for the senses and a beguiling, erotic literary adventure. Nothing could have prepared Miss Temple for where her pursuit of Roger Bascombe would take her—or for the shocking things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic—both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. As the unlikely trio search for answers—hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking moments of self-discovery-- they are confronted by puzzles within puzzles. And the closer they get to the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face—an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power—is so terrifying as to be beyond belief

From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood

The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known—and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or

Gustave Wallberg, President of the USA and Leader of the Free World, has a dark past. And it’s returned to haunt him. His head is in the sights of Halden Corwin — a man he thought was dead, a man with a sniper’s eye, an assassin’s mind and a grudge that goes back decades. Ex-CIA operative Brendan Thorne is the only man capable of stopping Corwin. But as he stalks his quarry through the frozen forests of Montana, Thorne discovers that the relentless greed and ruthless ambitions of Capitol Hill are far more deadly than the adversary he’s facing. Caught in a web of lies and deceit, it’s not the President’s life Thorne needs to save, it’s his own

Otto milioni di copie vendute per otto libri pubblicati: un record che nessun altro autore fantastico e fantascientifico ha mai eguagliato. Abraham Merritt, che siamo lieti di presentare sulle pagine di « Futuro » con uno dei suoi più noti capolavori, è una figura dominante nella letteratura immaginativa americana. Capostipite di una «scuola» che ha fra i suoi esponenti Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance ed Ira Levin, è il più grande ed affascinante creatore di mondi fantastici. Mondi dimenticati in luoghi inaccessibili, nascosti tra le pieghe del tempo, perduti tra i labirinti di altre sconosciute dimensioni. « Gli abitatori del miraggio » lo presenta in questa vena, che ha una grande tradizione narrativa. Merritt trasporta i suoi personaggi —ed i lettori con essi — dalla magica desolazione del deserto di Gobi, culla dell’uomo. agli universi misteriosi che si celano al di là dell’illusione e del miraggio. Universi popolati da figure mitiche, da genti e creature favolose, su cui domina l’ombra minacciosa del Kraken, che guida l’eterna battaglia fra il Bene ed il Male, incarnati in due figure di donna egualmente enigmatiche ed inafferrabili. Universi alternativi alla grigia realtà contemporanea, che fanno sognare e pensare

Gianni Rodari amava moltissimo i gatti e progettava un intero libro di storie, poesie, disegni a loro dedicato. La prematura scomparsa gli impedì di realizzare il volume, ma gli scritti qui raccolti danno idea del simpatico e divertente progetto: un «signor Gatto» con la vocazione del commercio, felini con denominazioni e professioni inusuali, vecchi scontenti della loro condizione e pronti a trasformarsi in gatti… Una girandola di trovate e di spunti che al gioco della fantasia e al gusto delle rime, sa unire il piacere di una riflessione mai oziosa e moralistica, l'invito ad essere sempre se stessi. Gianni Rodari (1920–1980), notissimo in Italia come in molti paesi stranieri, ha contribuito a rinnovare profondamente la letteratura per i ragazzi. Nel 1970 ha ricevuto il Premio Andersen

Sono passati trent’anni da quando Frederik Pohl inventò quei Mercanti dello spazio che Kingsiey Amis nelle sue Mappe dell’inferno mise al disopra dello stesso 1984 di Orwell. Fu allora che dagli uffici di Madison Avenue le grandi compagnie pubblicitarie assunsero il controllo della Terra, ma fecero lo sbaglio di mandare un’astronave sul pianeta Venere. Oggi Venere è il rifugio dei refrattari e dei ribelli, il simbolo dell’anti-pubblicità, la bandiera dei nemici della produzione e del consumo. I rapporti tra i due pianeti si fanno ogni giorno più difficili. La situazione insomma è così tesa, che Frederik Pohl ha sentito la necessità di scrivere un nuovo romanzo sullo scottante argomento. E l’ha scritto

Gli eredi della Terra di Kate Wilhelm appartiene a quel numero di opere che travalicano i confini della fantascienza, per diventare letteratura di valore assoluto. Ancora una volta uno scrittore di sf ha dato una esemplare lezione di stile e di classe, con un romanzo che testimonia delle inesauribili risorse espressive da cui il genere può proficuamente attingere e, nello stesso tempo, della varietà dei suoi temi. Gli eredi della Terra è un grande libro sull’uomo, nel quale il tema della clonazione (di recente divenuto attualissimo) resta lo sfondo su cui l’autrice tesse la sua parabola morale, innestando un’appassionante avventura. Le vicende della piccola comunità agricola, che raccoglie la sfida di un mondo che rischia di trasformarsi in un deserto, e che riuscirà a sopravvivere solo a costo dei sacrifici e rischi più arditi, ci viene presentata con acuto senso della vita, mentre la natura violentata reclama il suo diritto all’esistenza, e torna padrona e libera dove prima era stata minacciata. E gli uomini la temono, ne hanno paura. perché non la capiscono, e la fuggono, finché, un giorno, qualcuno ne riscopre la voce e il futuro si spalanca per l’umanità… Vinto il premio Hugo per miglior romanzo in 1977. Nominato per il premio Nebula per miglior romanzo in 1977

In un futuro lontano, una classe dominante di umani geneticamente modificati ottiene l’equivalente dell’immortalità mediante l’uso di droghe. Questa classe dominante tiene l’intera società in stasi grazie alla manipolazione genetica del genoma umano, eliminando ogni sorta di mutazione spontanea dello stesso. Come se non bastasse, solo poche persone attentamente selezionate hanno la possibilità di riprodursi. Tuttavia nelle megalopoli si sviluppano dei movimenti clandestini ed appare una razza di cyborg, opposta agli immortali

Anche pubblicato come “Gli oscillanti” e “Gli ondicoli”

Questa è la storia di Will Barrent, che esiliato dalla Terra piomba in quel mondo d’incubo che è Omega. E’ un pianeta di fuorilegge, che ha una sua particolare religione, una sua precisa idea sugli svaghi, una sua assurda organizzazione sociale in base alla quale solo l’assassino più abile, più feroce, e più fortunato, in un mondo fatto di assassini, può aspirare alla ricchezza e al potere. Un mondo in cui le proprietà della vittima vengono per legge ereditate dall’uccisori. E su questo mondo Will Barrent cerca disperatamente i ricordi che gli hanno tolto, la ragazza che l’ha salvato dalla morte per due volte, e la speranza di poter un giorno tornare sulla Terra nonostante le terribili astronavi di pattuglia orbita attorno a Omega. Quando riuscirà ad arrivare sul suo pianeta, si troverà fronte a qualcosa più pericoloso ancora dei «Giochi» di Omega: i suoi ricordi, il suo condizionamento di terrestre, ma soprattutto l’esasperato conformismo di una civiltà che si è arrenata al raggiungimento della perfezione meccanica

Gli osservatori è la versione di una storia sugli UFO fatta da uno scrittore di talento come Robert Silverberg: una vicenda in apparenza trita e banale diventa nelle sue mani un racconto avvincente i cui protagonisti spiccano con figure vive e reali dalla carta stampata. In una notte illune del 1982 il cielo del Nuovo Messico viene vivacemente illuminato da un’improvvisa esplosione: una stella lucente fiorita in un lampo biancazzurro che si muove da nordest verso sudovest, sopra la valle del Rio Grande ed i polverosi piccoli puebli, va a spegnersi dopo l’ultima accecante vampata nei pressi di Albuquerque.Ma soltanto tre esseri umani scopriranno che la stella cadente apparsa in cielo è in realtà un disco volante precipitato sulla Terra per un’avaria ai motori, soltanto Charley Estancia, il giovane messicano del pueblo di San Miguel dalla sveglia intelligenza, Kathryn Mason, la vedova melanconica e solitaria di Albuquerque, e Tom Falkner, colonnello delle forze aereeamericane, vedranno con i loro occhi gli alieni venuti dalle stelle, gli osservatori extraterrestri che studiano e controllano lo sviluppo della civiltà umana. Soltanto loro sapranno del pericolo che corre la Terra e potranno impedire lo scoppio di un conflitto galattico. Una storia umana e affascinante che solo un maestro come Silverberg poteva

Festival Fredric Brown si potrebbe intitolare questo numero che vede il versatilissimo autore dei «racconti concentrati» alle prese con un intreccio di solida consistenza fantascientifica: un tranquillo villaggio americano sconvolto da una serie di inspiegabili «incidenti», e la lunga brancolante lotta dei suoi abitanti impegnati a individuare e cercare l'ignota e mostruosa «mente direttiva» che sola può esserne la causa. Tra Brown romanziere e Brown umorista, al lettore decidere quale sia il più brillante

Una vita da topi, una vita da scarafaggi: così si diceva degli ebrei chiusi nei ghetti dell’Europa Centrale, dei popoli schiacciati dall’occupazione nazista. Ma qui, su questa Terra invasa da strapotenti, invincibili, torreggianti mostri, la vita da scarafaggi è, per l’uomo, una realtà letterale. Tribù nomadi ormai ridotte allo stato primitivo si aggirano in un groviglio di cunicoli, condotti, gallerie; il loro stato normale è il terrore, il loro unico scopo e sopravvivere fino a domani; il loro universo è quello cieco e senza speranza degli insetti, degli infimi parassiti che infestano le crepe e i segreti passaggi dei muri di casa. Ma c’è, in questa esistenza disperata, una tenacia, un accanimento, un coraggio che gli insetti non conoscono. Non è facile liberarsi, una volta per tutte, dei fastidiosi e formicolanti terrestri

It's all she's ever wanted to be, but it couldn't be further from her grasp... Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she's had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl — she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technology into Faerie. Soon, Dana finds herself tangled up in a cutthroat game of Fae politics. Someone's trying to kill her, and everyone seems to want something from her, from her newfound friends and family to Ethan, the hot Fae guy Dana figures she'll never have a chance with... until she does. Caught between two worlds, Dana isn't sure where she'll ever fit in and who can be trusted, not to mention if her world will ever be normal again

It’s 1999 and the world is falling apart at the seams. The sky is afire, the oceans are rising—and mankind is to blame. While the spoils of the 20th Century dwindle, Jack Finnegan lives on the fringes in his decaying mansion, struggling to keep his life afloat and his loved ones safe while battling that most modern of diseases—AIDS. As the New Millennium approaches, Jack’s former lover, a famous photographer reveling in the world’s decay, gifts him with a mysterious elixir called Fusax, a medicine rumored to cure the incurable AIDS. But soon, the “side effects” of Fusax become more apparent, and Jack gets mixed up with a bizarre entourage of rock stars, Japanese scientists, corporate executives, AIDS victims, and religious terrorists. While these larger players compete to control mankind’s fate in the 21st Century, Jack is forced to choose his own role in the World’s End, and how to live with it. Originally published in 1997, Glimmering is a visionary mix of fantasy and science fiction about a world in which humanity struggles to cope with the ever-approaching “End of the End.”

The Sorceress and Wizard of Oz attempt to save Princess Ozma and Dorothy from the dangers which threaten them when they try to bring peace to two warring tribes

When a robot defies his programming, is he broken? Or is he something else? A short story of 5,000 words

In this prequel to Cinder, we see the results of the plague play out, and the emotional toll it takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch…

Fluer Savager stares out from the covers of the world's most glamorous magazines. Hollywood loves her, men adore her. So why does she leave it all behind? The answer is buried in a French convent – in her childhood. Secrets lurk there – secrets she must unearth before someone else does. The question is, can she? "Poignant and triumphant." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

A story of murder and corruption set in Puerto Rico and Atlantic City. Tommy Donovan has a casino in both places. Our cop hero Vincent is convalescing in Puerto Rico after being shot by a mugger. Vincent gets involved with a Puerto Ricon beauty who leaves to work for Donovan in Atlantic City

Czekał 7000 lat, by pokonać ludzkość. Przyszła na świat, by przynieść wybawienie lub całkowitą zagładę… Znakomita powieść wielokrotnego laureata nagród Hugo i Nebula, dorównująca napięciem i pomysłowością Grze Endera a głębią i skomplikowaniem Mówcy umarłych. Tym razem rzecz dzieje się na planecie Imaculata, skolonizowanej przez człowieka setki pokoleń wcześniej. Cywilizacja ludzka jest jednak w ciągłym zagrożeniu. Zgodnie z przepowiednią ratunek lub ostateczną zagładę ma przynieść pracowita potomkini Kapitana Statku

Displaced from his home more than twenty years ago as Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia descended into war, Serbian author David Albahari found safety in Canada, where this novel was written. In Globetrotter, Albahari deals with the bewilderments of exile and lost identity, themes he has investigated in earlier works. But in this unsettling experimental book he also enters new arenas, where sexual identity and the nature of blame and guilt attract his scrutiny. Narrated in a single uninterrupted paragraph, the novel takes place in the late 1990s at the Banff Art Centre in the Canadian Rockies. Three men — a painter from Saskatchewan and the narrator of the tale, a writer from Serbia, and a man whose traveling Croatian grandfather long ago jotted his name in a local museum’s guest book — become acquainted, then attached, then fatally entangled. On a climactic mountain hike that seethes with jealousy, desire, shame, and guilt, each man must engage in a final struggle. Albahari seizes his reader’s attention and never yields it in this remarkable, gripping tale

Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American’s gun. Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols. They needed a new gun. When Karl Water, a firearm salesman based in the U.S. first saw a Glock in 1984, his reaction was, “Jeez, that’s ugly.” But the advantages of the pistol soon became apparent. The standard semi-automatic Glock could fire as many as 17 bullets from its magazine without reloading (one equipped with an extended thirty-three cartridge magazine was used in Tucson to shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others). It was built with only 36 parts that were interchangeable with those of other models. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. Made in part of hardened plastic, it was even rumored (incorrectly) to be invisible to airport security screening. Filled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs—and an attempt on Gaston Glock’s life by a former lieutenant—Glock is at once the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, as well as a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America

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Two centuries ago, shortly after the U.S. was formed, a Russian expedition set its sights on the Pacific Northwest. It could have changed history. At the dawn of the nineteenth century two empires met on the far side of North America. Spain was the tired and hidebound colonial master of much of the Americas. Russia was the upstart, hungry for America's Pacific Northwest coast, a prize left unclaimed after the golden age of exploration. The dream of a Russian America became the goal of the Russian America Company, championed and led by Nikolai Rezanov, aristocratic adventurer and diplomat and courtier to Tsar Alexander I. At a time when John Jacob Astor was amassing his own fortune in the fur trade, Rezanov envisioned transforming fur-hunting stations on the Alaskan coast into the hub of a Pacific empire stretching from Siberia to California. The distances were vast—thousands of miles overland across the endless Russian steppes, thousands more by sea to Alaska and down to San Francisco bay. His men were unreliable—disorderly, dissolute, disease-ridden—and the dangers ever-present. Yet Rezanov persisted, and in 1806—just as Lewis and Clark were discovering the Columbia River to the north—he came close to realizing his dream. Had he done so, the history of the United States might have been very different. Owen Matthews brilliantly chronicles a hitherto untold story of adventure and colonial ambition, brought to life by vivid first-hand accounts and his own travels across Russia, recalling a time when dreams of glory pushed men to the limits of human endurance

Что бывает, когда в горах видишь белого тигра, а охотник за головами выходит за порог в самую длинную ночь в году? Почему танцуют скелеты на кладбищах и чем грозит гнев духов во время праздника? Стоит ли любовь жизни русалки? Надо ли общаться с незваным гостем из другого мира, поселившимся в твоей квартире? Почему горит синее пламя и как не упустить свой шанс? Ищите ответы на эти вопросы в сборнике рассказов «Шанс», где авторы знакомят читателей с новыми историями по полюбившимся вселенным Киндрэт и Мантикоры, а также приоткрывают дверь в совершенно иные миры

When lightning plays along the baselines and match point stands between hell and glory — a wrong guy needs more than the right racket — to meet a champion’s thunder!

a perfect balance of suspense, futuristic police procedural and steamy romance…truly fine entertainment…sure to leave you hungering for more…' Publisher's Weekly Glory in Death by J D Robb (better known as the highly successful Nora Roberts) is the second in her series featuring feisty police lieutenant Eve Dallas. It's set some 50 years in the future with a gun ban and genetic screening for criminal behaviour in place, but there are still plenty of crimes to solve and perpetrators to catch. Eve's investigation concerns the murder of two beautiful and successful women. Why is the first victim found alone in such a sleazy area? As a prosecutor, she must have sent many violent people to prison who could have wanted revenge, but there are many more suspects among her own family, her lover and even Eve's commander and his wife. Eve is a tough and uncompromising detective, driven to do her best for victims and bereaved. A woman without roots who has had to create herself from nothing, the one person she is close to is her lover, Roarke. Their sexual relationship is ardent and passionate, but Eve finds it hard to give her lover the commitment he wants; when he gives her an ultimatum and seems to be linked with both victims and an old scandal, she forces herself to concentrate on the investigation to the exclusion of everything else. Now Eve could be in danger herself as the motivation for the murders becomes clearer; re-finding her emotional balance, she also makes the breakthrough she needs professionally. Eve Dallas is an attractive and complex character, and the combination of an investigation involving the rich and powerful with the automatically programmed cars, androids and interstellar travel of mid-21st century living and an appealing heroine is a page-turning mix

April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in which direction their loyalty calls them, it is a time for decisions. Such a one is Lieutenant Samuel Bowater, an officer of the U.S. Navy and a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Hard-pressed to abandon the oath he swore to the United States, but unable to fight against his home state, Bowater accepts a commission in the nascent Confederate Navy, where captains who once strode the quarterdecks of the world's most powerful ships are now assuming command of paddle wheelers and towboats. Taking charge of the armed tugboat Cape Fear, and then the ironclad Yazoo River, Bowater and his men, against overwhelming odds, engage in the waterborne fight for Southern independence

Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope—pushing the genre to new heights. Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged half sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister, Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans. On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin. And along the way, she will meet a traveler who has come an unimaginable distance—and who threatens the delicate balance of the Stratoins’ carefully maintained, perfect society… Both exciting and insightful, Glory Season is a major novel, a transcendent saga of the human spirit

¿Qué fue lo que realmente sucedió esa noche en la fiesta donde se festejó al poeta Jorge Washington Noriega? En una caminata por el centro de la ciudad, Ángel Leto y el Matemático reconstruyen esa fiesta en la que no estuvieron pero que conocen bien: circulan distintas versiones, todas enigmáticas y un poco delirantes, que son revisadas y vueltas a contar y discutidas o rectificadas

Создатель «Гладиатора» Г.П. Фолленд в годы Первой Мировой войны работал в Королевском авиационном бюро и участвовал в создании таких самолетов как RE 9, SE 4, SE 5 и FE 2. В 1917 году он стал сотрудником «Бритиш Ньюпорт энд Дженерал Эйркрафт Ко, лтд». Руководство фирмы дало возможность Фолленду проявить конструкторскую инициативу. Его первым самолетом стал «Найтхоук BN 1» и Лондон «Триплейн». Кроме того, Фолленд участвовал в создании спортивных самолетов «Беймел», а также Глостер I, И, III, IV и IV

Идея оснастить самолет реактивной силовой установкой начала витать в воздухе после Первой Мировой войны. В течение 1920-х годов предпринимались попытки разработать новые типы двигателей для авиации – ракетные или газотурбинные, но последние всё ещё требовали использования обычных пропеллеров. В начале 1930-х годов молодой английский инженер Френк Уиттл, служивший тогда в Королевских ВВС Великобритании (RAF), в частном порядке приступил к работам над новым двигателем. Отношение к идеям Уиттла у военных было неоднозначным. Большую поддержку оказала RAF, а Министерство авиации отвергло предложения изобретателя, позволив ему взять патент на своё имя. Суть патента состояла в том, что газовая турбина вращала вместо обычного винта ряд импеллеров в закрытом канале. В марте 1936 года Уиттл основал фирму «Пауэр джетс» (Power Jets Ltd.), чтобы воплотить свой проект в металле. Параллельно с разработкой двигателя он пытался найти подходящий самолёт для его установки. В 1939 году Уиттл познакомился с Джорджем Картером, главным конструктором фирмы Глостер Эйркрафт, и их последующие встречи показали, что появление реактивных боевых самолётов не за горами. К этому времени Министерство авиации резко изменило свои взгляды и проявило крайнюю заинтересованность в работах Уиттла.. В результате Глостер получила заказ на разработку новой машины, которая являлась летающим стендом для отработки реактивного двигателя и, кроме того, при незначительных доработках могла превратиться в полноценный боевой самолёт для RAF

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan. A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey. A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle. A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette. . For the first time, Britain's most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist's office in Camberwell

It's Vegas, baby! Anything can happen. Reed has a (small) chance to win fame and fortune, thanks to his"entourage," Beth. Sick of feeling like a loser, Harper's betting she can win back herlife, starting with Miranda – whose birthday wish just might cometrue… Adam's also getting lucky, with a certain ex-girlfriend. Kane, as usual, is playing hard – and not very nice. Win or lose, it's going to be wild