I was so blown away by this book I had to meet Viktor in person and now count him as a personal friend. The book is factual in every respect and is difficult to put down once started. John Barron is an excellent author and did a first class job of writing Viktor’s story. In addition to an exciting escape story it reveals why the Soviet Union had to collapse of its own ineptitude, deceit, and corruption. It details humorous incidents such as army pilots’ mess-hall riots due to bad food. MiG Pilot is also a biography of an exceptional man whose intelligence saw through a lifetime of brainwashing. The story is humorous in places and engrossing from beginning to end. It starts right out with Viktor’s desperate and harrowing escape flight to freedom in his top-secret MiG-25 Foxbat, then in subsequent chapters details the life events that led to his courageous decision to “go for broke” and make his live-or-die dash to freedom. It illustrates how America probably could have given the Soviets all of its top secrets and they would have found a way to screw up making use of them. Viktor is not only a first class pilot, he is also a true hero. Don’t lend this book to anyone and expect to get it back

The year is 1988. Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism. As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysterious ‘red menace’. There are no bars nearby, no art galleries, no cinemas and no air-conditioned shopping malls. Worst of all, there are no lithe young ladies willing to pose nude for an eager painter-in-training. What Thomas has found in plentiful supply are sand dunes, barbwire fences and landmines. He may as well have landed in hell. When a man approaches on foot from Angola, the place where the terrorists are said to come from, Thomas discovers that life can still get a whole lot worse. MiG-23 Broke my Heart is a war novel, a tale of action and adventure, a fictional road trip and—deep in its dark heart—a certain kind of love story. Please be advised that the novel contains violence, hard-biting humour and sensitive subject matter that some readers may find disturbing. This is a full-length novel, which in paperback form would be about two hundred and fifty pages

Карл-Хайнц Эйерманн (1932–2011) — известный немецкий журналист из Восточной Германии. В ГДР было издано большое количество его книг, в том числе в Военном издательстве ГДР. Карл-Хайнц Эйерманн обладал глубокими познаниями в области авиационной и космической техники, был лично знаком со многими учеными, инженерами и военными специалистами, связанными с авиацией и космонавтикой. Предлагаемая вашему внимаю книга была издана в 1986 году (позднее переиздавалась и дополнялась). В ней обзорно рассказывается об истории создания КБ Микояна, о системах обозначения самолетов МиГ в СССР, странах Варшавского договора и НАТО; приводятся краткие описания различных типов самолетов Микояна, в т. ч. экспериментальных, созданных к моменту издания книги. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht auf langjährige Recherchen und die Sichtung der internationalen Fachliteratur zurück. Sie stützt sich vor allem auf Materialien aus Archiven der UdSSR und berücksichtigt die Publikationen von Experten der Sowjetluftfahrt. Es ist der Versuch, wichtige Etappen in der Entwicklung der MiG-Flugzeuge zu schildern. Dabei wurde besondere Aufmerksamkeit der Beschreibung von Serienmodellen gewidmet. Gleichzeitig fand eine größere Anzahl von Prototypen und Experimentalmaschinen Erwähnung, um den Überblick über das Wirken der MiG-Konstrukteure zu vertiefen

Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic — but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall. Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown, and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time? In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London, and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival. Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date. With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the Barrington families continues

Gwynne Heikki is in the business of salvaging. Her company wins a contract to find and salvage a lighter-than-air craft that had disappeared in the wilds on the planet of Iadara. The craft had been transporting a valuable experimental crystal matrix would make great changes to the interstellar railway currently in place. Although the job seemed “not quite right” from the beginning, Gwynne and her team take the contract

Žoržs Simenons Miglu osta. Flāmu nams Romāni Komisārs Megrē ierodas Miglu ostā, kur ir noziegums, ir  upuris un ir ļaudis, kuri spītīgi klusē, radot iespaidu, ka viņi visi ir līdzdalīgi slepkavībā. Un tomēr - slepkava ir tikai viens. Kurš? Un kāpēc neviens nesaka komisāram taisnību? Flāmu nama iedzīvotājus apvaino smagā noziegumā, viņi lūdz Megrē palīdzību, bet pat slavenajam komisāram grūti atrast slepkavu, Apgāds «Artava» Rīga No franču valodas tulkojusi Skaidrīte Jaunarāja Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Mākslinieks Māris Sīmansons © Izdevums. “Artava”, 1993

MIGNON is James M. Cain’s first novel in nearly ten years. Readers of previous bestsellers such as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce will find Mignon Fournet, the heroine of the new novel, as remarkable a creation as the women in those two celebrated books. Mignon is a beautiful young widow who, with her father, has come to New Orleans at the close of the Civil War in the hopes of improving their war-reduced fortunes. But the risky trade in contraband cotton has landed her father in jail and Mignon at the hotel room door of Bill Cresap. Cresap, recently discharged from the Union Army for wounds received in battle, has arrived in New Orleans to start a business with a friend. Reluctantly, but irrevocably, Cresap is drawn into the intrigues and dangers which engulf the irresistible Mignon. Also moving among the dark events of those tough, troubled times is a fascinating variety of richly drawn characters. There is Adolphe Landry, Mignon’s enigmatic father; Frank Burke, Landry’s unscrupulous partner; Gippo, Burke’s henchman, more animal than human; and Marie Tremaine, the beautiful, rich, and powerful chatelaine of a notorious New Orleans gambling house. From gaudy New Orleans, the scene shifts up-river to the bloody Red River battle. There, the personal and military dramas are joined. Cresap, in the turbulent actions which follow, finds himself not only involved in the intrigues of desperate men, but the passions of two beautiful women. In an explosion of violence and tragedy, the novel reaches its inevitable climax. Of MIGNON, Mr. Cain says: It is a continuation, in theme, of a previous book, Past All Dishonor, in which the hero is tempted, by his love for a girl, so slight his duty — not much, just a little bit. In MIGNON, Mr. Cain depicts the bafflement of large numbers of men, even in high places, who must wrestle the rules of war and slight them — not much, but a little bit. “Treason,” says Mr. Cain, “doesn’t invite my interest, at least as a narrative theme, being so stark it defies exploration. But its close relative, cheating just little bit, fascinates me. Sometimes, as in Mignon, it even manages to seem quite praiseworthy, which is where the trouble really starts.”

Główny bohater książki, zawodowy morderca Tanner Mirabel przybywa do Chasm City, aby zabić swego wroga Reivicha. Obu łączy mroczny sekret i okryta tajemnicą przeszłość. Rozpoczyna się niebezpieczna gra, która zakończy się śmiercią jednego z nich i odsłoni przerażającą prawdę o wydarzeniach, które miały miejsce 15 lat wcześniej, doprowadzając do straszliwego kataklizmu

Kontynuacja Migotliwej wstęgi: Pościgu. Główny bohater książki, zawodowy morderca Tanner Mirabel przybywa do Chasm City, aby zabić swego wroga Reivicha. Obu łączy mroczny sekret i okryta tajemnicą przeszłość. Rozpoczyna się niebezpieczna gra, która zakończy się śmiercią jednego z nich i odsłoni przerażającą prawdę o wydarzenia, które miały miejsce 15 lat wcześniej, doprowadzając do straszliwego kataklizmu

Aleksander Grin, właściwie Gryniewski (1880–1932), jest pisarzem znanym i chętnie czytanym w Polsce. Przełożono już na język polski sporo jego opowiadań, opowieści i niemal wszystkie powieści („Biegnąca po falach”, „Droga donikąd”, „Złoty łańcuch”). Polskiemu czytelnikowi została wreszcie udostępniona jedna z najciekawszych powieści tego pisarza rosyjskiego „Migotliwy świat”, która może przykuć uwagę swoją sensacyjno-przygodową fabułą, utopijną futurologią, nietypową fantastyką i tajemniczością

Somewhere in the middle of Maine, one of the world’s darkest secrets has been called to the surface. Alan and his little family find themselves directly in the path of the dangerous ritual. To save themselves and their home, they have to learn the secrets of the Migrators

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion. Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed — but precociously observant — neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page