Книги, похожие на «Jack Higgins, Wrath of the Lion»

The seventh classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.On a quiet night a high-ranking police officer, Nyland, is slaughtered in his hospital bed, brutally massacred with a bayonet. It's not hard to find people with a motive to kill him; in fact the problem for Detective Inspector Martin Beck is how to narrow the list down to one suspect. But as he investigates Nyland's murder he must confront whether he is willing to risk his life for his job.Written in the 1960s, these masterpieces are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.

Book-3 is a continuation of the story set out in Book-2 «The Hilt». The development of events taking place on a planet like Phaethon in prehistoric times in the constellation Sirius. The heroes of the book are scientists participating in the «Panacea» program, which is to search for an alternative form of energy to save the planet from destruction. At the same time, the crew of the interplanetary spacecraft was sent into deep space in search of an alternative planet to relocate a dying…

For security expert Aaron, it was just another routine job, protecting his client at an office party.Until commandos stormed the place and took a hostage. But they had the wrong woman…innocent Risa. Now, trapped in the midst of a deadly conspiracy, only her sexy new protector Aaron stands between Risa and a bullet.