Katarzyna Morland, siedemnastoletnia córka pastora, na zaproszenie przyjaciół jedzie do popularnego uzdrowiska Bath. Poznaje tam rodzeństwo Tilneyów, Henryka i jego młodszą siostrę Eleonorę, którzy zapraszają ją do Opactwa Northanger, mrocznego i pełnego tajemnic. Krąg jej znajomych poszerza się. Młodziutka Katarzyna, która wiedzę o życiu czerpała dotąd z książek, będzie musiała nauczyć się samodzielnie oceniać ludzkie intencje i charaktery i rozpoznawać prawdziwą, bezinteresowna przyjaźń. Czy znajdzie też mężczyznę swojego życia? "Opactwo Northanger", jeden z wcześniejszych utworów autorki "Rozważnej i romantycznej", jest pełną humoru, bogatą w aluzje literackie, łagodną satyrą na modne za życia Jane Austen powieści gotyckie. Książka doczekała się dwóch adaptacji telewizyjnych – w 1986 i w 2007 roku

No one is like Daemon Black.When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on. But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever. Together we’re stronger... and they know it

Książę Aldo Morosini po odnalezieniu historycznych kamieni szlachetnych - Błękitnej Gwiazdy i Róży Yorku - popada w apatię i przygnębienie. Kiedy jednak Szymon Aronow proponuje mu, by wyruszył do Wiednia śladem trzeciego z zaginionych klejnotów, opalu księżniczki Sissi, Aldo odzyskuje dawny entuzjazm. Nowe wyzwanie sprowadza go w najpiękniejsze zakątki Austrii. Jednak atmosfera tych miejsc jest tylko na pozór sielankowa. Na drodze Morosiniego stają bezwzględni złoczyńcy, gotowi za wszelką cenę zdobyć klejnot dla siebie. Czy piękna Anielka Solmańska ma z nimi coś wspólnego?

It is winter in Ukraine. A former Chernobyl refugee decides to return to the exclusion zone to confront his memories and contemplate his buried past. A tortuous quest for identity is on the horizon, made up of encounters and exhilarating adventures. But the Zone is much more than an abandoned territory: it is a unique experience, a forbidden adventure from which one does not emerge unscathed. What if the radioactive remains of Chernobyl were just a trap?

Położone nad jeziorem Locust miasteczko Tranquility wydawało się oazą spokoju. Doktor Claire Elliot osiedla się tutaj wraz ze swoim nastoletnim synem Noahem, w nadziei, że uchroni go przed niebezpieczeństwami wielkiego miasta. Niespodziewanie jeden z jej młodych pacjentów, kolega Noaha ze szkoły, popełnia zbrodnię. Niektórzy obwiniają o to lekarkę, która zmieniła chłopcu kurację przepisaną przez poprzedniego lekarza. W Tranquility szerzą się akty przemocy popełniane przez nastolatków, są kolejne ofiary śmiertelne. Psychoza zaczyna przyjmować rozmiary epidemii. Claire ujawnia, że podobne wydarzenia miały już miejsce w przeszłości – sto i pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej. W pobliżu jeziora wymordowano całe rodziny. Czy istnieje medyczne wyjaśnienie tej zagadki? Claire musi je szybko odkryć – aby uratować siebie i swojego syna…

Here is a holiday story, all wrapped up in tinsel and tied with a bright red bow

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey — which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul

"An ambiguous tale that verges on dark comedy. With skill and subtlety, the novel hints that a whole society might labor under an illusion of liberty." — The Economist When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible. Iosi Havilio bursts onto the Argentine literary scene after Open Door was highly praised by some of the country's most influential critics and writer, including Beatriz Sarlo and Rodolfo Fogwill

Open Heart is a psychological tour de fource about love and the nature of man's soul. From the opening lines of this first-person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr. Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious young internist, who is jockeying for position with the hospital's top surgeons. But it isn't until Benjy learns that his position has been terminated, and that he has been selected to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, that Yehoshua sets his hero on a journey of self-discovery

When Lacey Ferguson walked into her dream home the last thing she expected to find was her dream man. She was looking for granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Not rock hard abs and buns of steel. Meeting the rugged and downright sexy man who built her ideal home almost convinces her to take a chance on love, but is Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handy possibly hiding something? Too good to be true usually spells disaster, right? Or is she just making excuses to avoid having her heart trashed again? Jackson Kingston has been using work as a distraction from life for the past year and a half. And it's been working great. His plan to re-build his father's home construction business with his three brothers is finally happening and he's so exhausted from working 16 hour days he doesn't have the energy to think about the past. Mission accomplished in his books. When Jack meets Lacey while touring one of his properties, all he can think about is using the granite countertop for something much more erotic than meal preparation. Suddenly life is worth experiencing again. If only he can convince the voluptuous home buyer that a no strings affair is the ideal arrangement for both of them. Things get complicated when they end up working on a real estate project together, and a no strings affair turns into something more. Can a man with a tendency to shutdown when emotions become involved and a woman who mistrusts love build something real together, or is their foundation too weak to last?

Stella Rimington first joined Britain’s Security Service (MI5) part-time in 1965, while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to New Delhi. She became a full-time employee on her return to the U.K. During her career with MI5, she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism becoming, successively, Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General in 1992 – the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced. During her tenure, she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5, giving several public lectures and publishing a booklet about the service

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada

The first of a series of books that cover World War Three, from July 1945 through to its close in September 1947. From the cold waters of the Baltic to a coffee shop in Turkey, a Chateau in Alsace to paddy fields in China, a foxhole in Northern Germany to the Kremlin’s private offices, the Red Gambit series will carry you through the events that lead up to and continue through what became known as World War Three. Told from the point of view of the soldiers in the frontline, aircraft pilots, submarine and tank commanders and on to the Supreme Commanders on either side of the divide. Ride with Colonel of Tanks Arkady Yarishlov of the Red Army, fight alongside Major John Ramsey VC of the Black Watch, learn about leadership and honour from ex-SS Standartenfuher Ernst-August Knocke and follow Major Marion J. Crisp to glory with the 101st US Airborne Division. it was June 1945 and soldiers who had been fighting for years could look up at the summer sky and know that death would not visit them that day. It was the pause but they didn’t know it. [The ‘Red Gambit Series’ novels are works of fiction, and deal with fictional events. Most of the characters therein are a figment of the author’s imagination. Without exception, those characters that are historical figures of fact or based upon historical figures of fact are used fictitiously, and their actions, demeanour, conversations, and characters are similarly all figments of the author’s imagination.]

1975-ieji metai. Geležinis fašistinės Vokietijos kulnas sutrypė Europą, Aziją, Pietų Ameriką ir Afriką. Tik JAV bei Australijoje dar rusena blausi demokratijos spingsulė. Tačiau greitai ir ji bus užgesinta. Todėl, kad naciai jau seniai turi atominį ginklą, kuriuo netrukus nušluos JAV. Vienintelė amerikiečių viltis — operacija „Protėjas”. Tai superslaptas projektas grįžti į praeitį ir žūtbūt pamėginti ją pakeisti…

1939–1940-ieji metai. Žymiausi pasaulio mokslininkai — Albertas Einšteinas, Edvardas Teleris, Leo Silardas bei kiti — iš visų jėgų stengiasi įgyvendinti „Protėjo” operaciją — susisiekti su 1975-aisiais ir sužinoti atominės bombos sukūrimo paslaptį. Deja, ryšio nėra, o Adolfas Hitleris, pasirodo, sėkmingai bendrauja su 2025-aisiais ir jau seniai laiko savo rankose atominį kūjį

James Bond, como sucediera antes con Sherlock Holmes, se ha convertido en un mito del siglo veinte. Cuando en la década de los ochenta John Gardner resucitó -con la debida autorización legal-, el personaje de James Bond, dotado para la ocasión de una sensibilidad inédita hacia la salud pública y la ecología, amén de un coche nuevo y de un gesto de comprensión hacia el feminismo, su libro License Renewed pasó a ocupar directamente el número uno entre los títulos más vendidos a uno y otro lado del Atlántico. Según el Daily Telegraph, el mismo Fleming “no hubiese quedado decepcionado”. Un segundo libro que narraba las aventuras actualizadas de Bond, For Special Services, disfrutó incluso de mejor acogida por parte del público, y durante muchos meses se mantuvo en las listas de bestsellers de Estados Unidos. En la obra que ahora nos ocupa, vemos a Bond embarcado en una tercera misión de la mano de John Gardner. Se trata de una arriesgadísima operación que el superespía lleva a cabo junto con sus respectivos pares de Israel, Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética -es decir, con el Mossad, la CIA y la KGB- en las vastas y desoladas tierras árticas de Laponia. Pero surgen los interrogantes: aunque en teoría el enemigo común es el fascismo, que brota con renovada fuerza de la mano del conde Von Gloda, ¿a quién hay que temer en realidad? ¿Se puede confiar en que el Smersh soviético resista su afán de desquite contra Bond? ¿Quién hace el doble juego: Brad Tirpitz, el escurridizo agente norteamericano, o Rivke Ingber, la voluptuosa espía israelí? ¿Pretenden los servicios secretos finlandeses utilizar a Bond con el único objeto de aliviar el sofocante abrazo que la KGB -con Kolya Mosolov a la cabeza- mantiene sobre su frágil autonomía nacional? Nunca hasta hoy se había topado Bond con un grupo de colaboradores tan fríamente desleales ni soportado una sucesión tan asombrosa de mortales enfrentamientos

Año 1943. El coronel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg acababa de ser trasladado a Berlín bajo las órdenes del general Friedrich Olbricht, miembro de un comité de resistencia que empieza a maquinar un plan para dar muerte a Hitler. Olbricht ya tiene entrelazados a más de 200 implicados en distintos estratos de la sociedad alemana e incluso de la sección de inteligencia y contraespionaje. El objetivo es eliminar a Hitler, Goering y Himmler, neutralizar a las SS e instalar un gobierno provisional que intentaría hacer las paces con occidente y detener la guerra. Von Stauffenberg, a pesar de sus lesiones de guerra (ha perdido un ojo y varios dedos de la mano), quiere realizar el atentado. Los conspiradores dudan. ¿Tendrá capacidad para activar la bomba? Finalmente aceptan porque entienden que su invalidez es la coartada perfecta y que no levantará sospechas. El coronel Von Stauffenberg intenta varias veces cumplir su misión, pero no consigue nunca encontrar juntos a los que deben morir. Finalmente, el 20 de julio de 1944 se da la ocasión perfecta. El alto mando se reúne en el cuartel general de Hitler, ubicado cerca de Rastenburg. Von Stauffenberg porta un maletín con un explosivo inglés de 1 kg que se activa mediante un detonador químico absolutamente silencioso. Todo es perfecto. Se sienta junto al líder nazi. Solo queda esperar el momento…

Del libro «LA CAJA NEGRA», cuentos de ciencia ficción Los autores: Yuriev, Varshavski, Bilenkin, Kolupaiev, Dnieprov Editorial «Mir», Moscú, 1984

Wyobraźmy sobie sytuację, gdy do złudzenia podobny do nas nieznajomy zawłaszcza nasze imię i nazwisko, przypisuje sobie nasz życiorys i jeździ po świecie, podszywając się pod nas. W książce tej, gdzie w mistrzowski sposób fakty splatają się z fikcją, Philip Roth spotyka mężczyznę, który być może jest, a może nie jest Philipem Rothem. A wszystko dlatego, że ktoś o tym nazwisku przemierza państwo Izrael, propagując dziwaczną ideę żydowskiego exodusu a rebours. Roth postanawia powstrzymać tego człowieka – nawet gdyby miało to oznaczać wcielenie się w uzurpatora. Pełna napięcia, zabawna, nasycona emocjami, inteligentnie napisana i tętniąca narracyjną energią Operacja Shylock jest historią szpiegowską, politycznym thrillerem, refleksją nad istotą tożsamości, a jednocześnie rodzajem wyznania

Po 3 latach z księżyca Europa wraca na Ziemię kosmonauta Dan. Prowadził tam pomiary pantomatów – urządzeń scalających wiedzę o ludzkiej cywilizacji. Rzucony zostaje w świat, w którym ważniejsze od podrózy międzygwiezdnych stają się eksperymenty z genami oraz z nieśmiertelnością, czyli tzw. aktualizacją zapisu świadomości. Jego brak zgody na „operację wieczność” stanowi meritum historii, w której prawo do decydowania o własnym losie jest, według bohatera, tyleż wartością nadrzędną, co jednak ginącą w opętanym przez chęć istnienia wiecznego świecie

Robert Bellamy, oficer wywiadu amerykańskiej marynarki wojennej, weteran wojny w Wietnamie, z trudem wraca do równowagi zaburzonej rozpadem małżeństwa. Otrzymuje ściśle tajne zadanie w operacji pod kryptonimem „Sąd Ostateczny”. Ma odnaleźć i zmusić do milczenia świadków pewnego wypadku. Ale ktoś go uprzedza i ucisza ich na zawsze. Wkrótce Bellamy przekonuje się, że jest nie tylko tropicielem, ale i tropionym…

Cosmodrome numéro 7. Le grand jour était arrivé. Le jour du grand voyage. Un voyage que Kenedy redoutait. Les réacteurs soufflaient un vent chaud sur la vaste plaine aride du New Jersey, où se tenait, solitaire, le vaisseau spatial. Lugubre, il fixait l'engin qui, bientôt, l'emmènerait dans l'espace, en pensant au dernier voyage… à la mort !

It’s hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that! Field Agent Lewis Orne must contend with genetic manipulation and dig deep into a complex political situation to untangle deep embedded secrets. A science fiction classic from Frank Herbert, author of DUNE!

America's astronauts were the targets. Four had been killed so far — with their murderers conveniently found dead just a few hours later. The enemy was known. Red China. But China's mastermind in the U.S. was a mystery. There were five possibilities. Dr. Joy Sun, the beautiful NASA scientist, with a voracious sexual appetite… Alex Simian, the multi-millionaire, with the strange "friends" in China… Major Sollitz, the career officer, with luxurious tastes his meager salary couldn't satisfy… Candy Sweet, the sensuous playgirl, with a lust for bizarre kicks… Reno Tree, the crippled hood, with ambitions to take over a Mafia empire. One of them was in the pay of Red China. But which one? Nick Carter could only wait — with himself as the bait. Killmaster had made his usual bargain with death!

It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved – but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in great danger, leading her, finally, to a remote island off Argentina in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon

In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1, 1960, Powers endured sixty-one days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a ten-year sentence. After nearly two years, the U.S. government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero

The Petrograd submarine, Russia’s newest and deadliest war-toy, is NATO’s worst nightmare. So, when a Russian naval officer offers the sub’s plans and maintenance manual for sale, the CIA station chief in Tokyo jumps at the chance. Both get more than they bargained for. Hours later Russian-seller and CIA-buyer are dead-gunned down by the KGB. But the microchip with the plans has vanished. With the plans up for grabs Tokyo becomes a chess board of intrigue in a deadly game of Far Eastern espionage. But the Killmaster is playing for higher stakes. As Soviet and Western agents clash, N3 goes after the sub itself

In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator. With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare

Nick Carter didn’t believe in an abominable snowman — that is, until high in the heart of the Himalayas, in the face of monstrous evidence, he was forced to... Nick Carter didn’t believe there was a woman who could shake his cool — that is, until he met the beautiful Khaleen and she made him want to... Nick Carter didn’t believe it was possible for one man to stop the Chinese from taking over a country — that is, until he got the assignment in Nepal and realized he had to! Killmaster’s logic is no match for ancient superstition in this electrifying espionage adventure that plunges AXE’s top operative into brutal Red Chinese intrigue deep in the Himalayas!

In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British and US forces struggled to liberate the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. Taking shelter behind an American armoured Humvee, Grey turned his head to witness scenes of carnage. A car and a truck were riddled with gunfire. Their occupants, including several children, had died. Taliban positions were pounded by bullets and bombs dropped on their compounds. A day later, as the operation continued, a mine exploded just yards from Grey, killing a British soldier. Who, he wondered in the days that followed, was responsible for the bloodshed? And what purpose did it serve? A compelling story of one military venture that lasted several days, Operation Snakebite draws on Grey’s exclusive interviews with everyone from private soldiers to NATO commanders. The result is a thrilling and at times horrifying story of a war which has gone largely unnoticed back home

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award

The members of S-Squad are looking for a break from their run of cold climate travails. So when a seemingly simple mission in Amazonia comes their way, they are looking forward to some welcome warmth. What they get is oppresive heat, biting insects, and a dredging operation on the river with a snake problem. A big snake problem. Soon they are in a fight for survival. The old snake gods of the river know the waterways much better than our Scottish squaddies. Are their wits, and bonds of comradeship enough to see them through?

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release. A weapon was primed many years before. It had been meant to turn the tide of war. Now it stirs under the ice once more

A mission to the Congo starts badly for S-Squad and gets worse fast as they trace a team of captured WHO medics to a lost world in the interior. The Squad are isolated, split up, and face terrors long since thought extinct. Mokele-mbembe walks this jungle. And he is not alone

S-Squad are relieved to be home, and even an order to investigate animal mutilations at a local wildlife park does not seem like an onerous detail. But things take a turn to the twilight zone all too quickly around the S-Squad, and even their homeland is not immune. Something is feeding, ravenously, on animals, wildlife, and now people in the Scottish Highlands, and the trail leads to only one place, a place of legends, and the dark waters of Loch Ness

It’s supposed to be a routine job, walking a pair of stranded archaeologists out of the Gobi Desert. But when the rains come unexpectedly, S-Squad’s troubles are only starting. There is something in the sand, something red and wriggling. Thirsty for water. Hungry for flesh

The chill grey waters of the North Sea off the Scottish coast are treacherous at the best of times and become even more so when something attacks an offshore oil rig. An old friend calls for S-Squad’s expertise but what they find is a bigger enemy by far than any they have previously encountered. This time they’re going to need bigger guns

It’s supposed to be a simple sanitation job, a post war scientific base that needs cleansed of anything that might prove incriminating to British and Norwegian governments. But when the S-Squad try to complete their mission they are pursued in the mountains and fjords by something out of legend. They have woken a sleeping beast. Now it’s angry, ready for a fight. And it’s bringing its friends along

A terrifying darkness engulfed the sky while on the horizon a fire flood consumed the mountain! The ship swayed again. Flying creatures darted back and forth above the tree tops. Miles away, insensate violence reigned. Clouds of dust and smoke shot miles into the air, half a mountainside glowed white hot, and there was the sound of long-continued thunder as the ground shook and quivered… The runaway spacecraft’s rockets bellowed as it lifter. Hovering for an instant, it surged skyward. The ship vanished into emptiness. Jed Cochrane stared helplessly at the spot where it had stood. Babs gasped suddenly. She realized the situation in which she and Cochrane had been left. Shivering, she pressed close to him as the distant trail of blackened smoke spread toward the center of the sky. They were alone together among the stars!

Earlier in the previous part: The team are sent into a remote area of the Libyan desert to rescue a team of researchers who have gone missing. When their search leads them to a lost city in a high desert canyon they find that they are also following in the footsteps of a previous Scottish squad, a team from the Victorian era. The city is overrun with an infestation and soon the squad are separated and under siege. Can they avoid the fate that befell their predecessors and find their way to safety?

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven’t walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have been cloned, revived, and set loose to roam free. And some of them are very hungry

A trip to a war zone to rescue trapped archaeologists finds the S-Squad in a remote desert region of lost cities and temples. They quickly discover that they are not alone among the ruins. First they find the bodies, then they find the webs, then they’re in real trouble when the spiders attack. Big spiders. Lots of them

Newly promoted Sergeant Wiggins doesn’t have any time for celebrations. The squad’s latest assignment takes then to the Canadian Yukon, into the middle of a winter storm and to a town overrun by ancient enemies of man, back now to wreak havoc in the snow

Science fiction, Lee-style. A U.S. Air Force test pilot recruited for a very special mission: to fly an operational recovered UFO. Any test pilot’s dream, right? Wrong. Special disfiguring surgery is required for anyone human who wants to fly the craft. This brilliant novella proves to detractors that Lee can write in many arenas, not just horror, and doesn’t have to rely on the “gross-out"

Per i colleghi della System Enterprises il suo nome è Friday, ma sono in molti a conoscerla sotto altri nomi e questa conoscenza è risultata a volte fatale. Perché Friday è una splendida figliola, moderna e disponibile, ma possiede due caratteristiche peculiari: è un corriere segreto (e come tale sa uccidere come pochi quando le necessità lo richiedono) ed è una PA, ossia una Persona Artificiale, uguale in tutto a un comune essere umano tranne per il fatto di essere stata creata in un laboratorio genetico e di possedere riflessi molto rapidi. Il suo capo, Boss, l’ha reclutata e addestrata quando per lei la vita era tutt’altro che facile, e ora Friday è una stimata professionista nella sua ristretta cerchia di ammiratori, un agente in grado di sopportare all’occasione stupri multipli e torture. Ma la sua vita non manca dilati piacevoli e distensivi; nel mondo futuro che la ospita e nel quale il genere umano si è sparso ben oltre i confini della Terra, Friday appartiene a un gruppo-S (dove la S sta per famiglia sintetica) e possiede tre mariti e tre mogli in Nuova Zelanda, e tuttavia può conservare ogni sua forma preferita di libertà e di indipendenza. Almeno, fino al giorno che sarà poi ricordato dai libri di storia come il Giovedì Rosso. In quella data, per Friday la situazione comincerà a farsi maledettamente calda; chi si nasconde, infatti, dietro l’ondata di delitti politici e di sabotaggi che dilagano sulla Terra e nello spazio, minacciando il tranquillo caos che da secoli regna sulle cose umane? Nominato per premio Nebula in 1983 e premio Hugo in 1983

Operațiunea Haos este un roman science fantasy, care are toate ingredientele adulate de Paranormal Romancieri și Urban Fantaziști (dragoste cu vârcolaci și vrăjitoare, îngeri, demoni, incubuși, cadru modern ș.a.), și mai are în plus o complexitate morală și stilistică pe care nu o poți detecta la prima vedere în subiectul aparent ușurel sau în scrierea relaxată. Dar dacă te uiți mai atent, o vezi