Kirjahaku

During the unparalleled days of the emancipation of the Hebrews from slavery a young man was being prepared for a historic role. Born under the oppressive whip of Egyptian taskmasters, Joshua the son of Nun steps onto the stage of history a virtual unknown. Chosen by Moses to be at his side, he learns from the iconic leader lessons that are still relevant for us today.A.J. Furst thoughtfully explores the untold story of Joshua's development in becoming the successor to Moses. From being chosen to lead an inexperienced army in battle against a well established king . . . to walking on the mountain of God . . . to exploring the land promised to his ancestor Abraham, take a second look at leadership lessons with application to anyone involved in serving others.

T.J. and Blake have started their new business-Treasure Finders. Their first client, Mildred Russell, contacts them after seeing their poster at the local grocery store. Mildred has guarded a letter from Private Bernie Winslow dated 1951. The letter tells Mildred that he hid something of great value specifically for her in the event of his death. But the letter includes a code and only Mildred has the key to crack the code.Follow the adventures of T.J. and Blake as they crack the code and unearth the treasure hidden for over fifty years. Will they find it before the insidious Matthew who is driven by his love of money?* What is the key to cracking the code in Bernie's letter? * Where can the treasure be found so many years later? * What did Bernie hide for Mildred and her alone?Find out in T.J. and Blake's first big adventure, The Big Tip.

Dr. Simpson and his family travel to Ghana on a humanitarian medical mission. He is helping to establish a clinic that will be handed over to the local community. While treasure hunting, T.J. and Blake discover a mysterious object buried in a farmer's field infested with venomous snakes.Kofi Adofo is a farmer trying to care for his family. The elected chief and elders have given a parcel of land to the foreigners for building a clinic-land that Kofi has farmed for years. He feels betrayed by his own people in favor of the white doctors.What will Kofi do to protect his way of life? Will the deadly snakes kill the Treasure Finders? What will become of the clinic?Kofi's Plot takes you to Ghana on an adventure that includes intrigue, suspense and mystery.

In 1938 Paris, Nicholas Morath, a Hungarian aristocrat and charismatic former cavalry officer, is recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, to try to bring down the Hungarian fascists, as Europe moves ever closer to all-out war under the shadow of Hitler and the Nazi war machine. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

September, 1939. The opening days of World War II. The invading German Wehrmacht blazes a trail of destruction across Poland. Warsaw is surrounded. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in a David-and-Goliath struggle for a nation's survival. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who now must learn a dangerous new role: spymaster in the anti-Nazi underground. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage that span occupied Europe; he moves through Poland, France, and the Ukraine, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. In Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people's will to resist. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black-market bistros with Nazis while uncovering information about German battle plans. And a love affair with a woman of the French Resistance leads him to make the greatest decision of his life. In The Polish Officer, Alan Furst returns to the shadowy, clandestine arena of World War II spycraft, and the result is a gripping, panoramic espionage novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carre. The Polish Officer, like Furst's acclaimed Night Soldiers and Dark Star, has a haunting authenticity that brings the era to vital life. His story, brilliantly and colorfully cast, is written with a keen awareness of the nuances of national character, individual psychology, and the weight of history.

In 1940 occupied Paris, French film producer and bon vivant Jean Casson undertakes a dangerous mission against Germany in the world of espionage, an assignment that could cost him everything--even his life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II."

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. Andr Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.

After his brother is murdered by Bulgarian fascists in 1934, Khristo Stoianev is recruited by the Soviet intelligence service, the NKVD, trained in Moscow, and sent to Spain to serve Russian interests in the Spanish Civil War. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

From "America's preeminent spy novelist" (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler. Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the diagram into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts and increasingly dangerous espionage assignments, he travels to Germany and along the escape routes of underground resistance safe houses to spy on Nazi maneuvers. When he meets the mysterious and beautiful Leila, a professional spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London.

The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel.

From the master of the wartime espionage novel; a thrilling story of subterfuge at sea

From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistance

A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe

The thrilling new spy novel from Alan Furst. 'In the world of espionage thrillers, Alan Furst is in a class of his own' William Boyd

'Outclasses any spy novel I have ever read' Richard Condon, author of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

The sequel to THE WORLD AT NIGHT featuring Jean Casson - 'Casson could become a cult figure - reluctant spy, utterly disreputable' THE TIMES

'A wonderfully evocative picture of wartime Paris and the moral maze of resistance' Mail on Sunday

Utterly gripping spy thriller set in the glittering world of European high society, just before the Second World War.

The author of TV Book Club's hit novel Spies of the Balkans returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris