New Releases by Piers Paul Read

A Patriot In Berlin is the dramatic story of Berlin after the fall of the Wall, and Moscow after Gorbachev - of love, faith and patriotism in conflict. Berlin, August 1991. An emigre Russian couple are found murdered. American art historian Francesca McDermott is recruited to organise a major retrospective of 20th century Russian painting. In Moscow, the search begins for a rogue former KGB agent, Andrei Orlov, who has disappeared without trace. Three seemingly unconnected events.... Working alongside Francesca is a Russian expert on the art that Communism dismissed as `decadent`. Serotkin is combative, attractive, mysterious; he is also secretive, and his secrets hold lives to ransom.

Journalistiek verslag van de ramp in de Tsjernobyl-centrale, van de gevolgen voor de bevolking, van de overheidsmaatregelen en van de invloed op de maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen in de Sovjet-Unie.

To chronicle the catastrophe, the author interviewed the engineers and operators on duty at the time, talked to the director, now serving a ten year sentence for negligence, visited the previously top-secret Kurchatov Institute, Moscow''s Hospital No. 6, and the once-closed city of Obninsk. The author also gained access to the transcripts of the trail of the reactor operators, the protocol of the previously secret Medical Commission, and other confidential reports. Includes 16 pages of bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This novel hinges on the notion of what would happen if a group of Israeli archaeologists found the skeletal remains of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Chronique romanesque qui nous rapporte, à l''occasion des faits et gestes d''un Français né avec le siècle, l''évolution des mentalités devant les séquelles de la Grande Guerre, le montée du communisme et du nazisme, la guerre d''Espagne pour traiter de la Résistance et de la collaboration. Ensemble de circonstances filtré par les consciences du principal protagoniste et de ses nombreux parents et amis à travers une trame bien organisée.

Bertrand de Roujay, a French Catholic aristocrat and civil servant, joins de Gaulle in London when France falls. His adventures are interspersed with the often tragic experiences of his family and friends who remain in France.

Beretning om et flystyrt i Andesbjergene og om redningen af de overlevende