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Never - A Novel (2021)
~EN NWISBN: 9780593300015 bzw. 0593300017, vermutlich in Englisch, 816 Seiten, Penguin Random House Viking, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Free shipping.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Syndikat Buchdienst, [4235284].
AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: biNew York Times/i Bestseller The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. A compelling story, and only too realistic. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary /b Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn t get fixed. So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Follett s nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert a stolen US Army drone an uninhabited Japanese island and one country s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer a spy working undercover with jihadists a brilliant Chinese spymaster and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election. iNever/i is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. BUCHBESPRECHUNG: Urgent and fiercely compelling . . . iNever/i is first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. It deserves the popular success it will almost certainly achieve. i The Washington Post/i Superstar novelist Ken Follett s what-if political thriller . . . isso exciting and so plausible you won t want to look away. i /iApple Books (Best Book of the Month) Settle in for a thrilling ride. i /iCNN.com Terrific . . . A powerful, commanding performance from one of the top writers in the genre. i Publishers Weekly /i(starred) A complex, scary thriller that feels too plausible for comfort. You ll be so absorbed in the story threads that you ll follow them anywhere and you ll suddenly realize you ve read hundreds of pages. . . . On one level, it s great entertainment on another, a window into a sobering possibility. i Kirkus /i(starred) Absolutely compelling . . . A smart, scary, and all-too-plausible thriller. i Booklist/i AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: pChapter 1/pp/ppSeen from a plane, the car would have looked like a slow beetle creeping across an endless beach, the sun glinting off its polished black armor. In fact it was doing thirty miles per hour, the maximum safe speed on a road that had unexpected potholes and cracks. No one wanted to get a flat tire in the Sahara Desert./pp/ppThe road led north from N'Djamena, capital city of Chad, through the desert toward Lake Chad, the biggest oasis in the Sahara. The landscape was a long, flat vista of sand and rock with a few pale yellow dried-up bushes and a random scatter of large and small stones, everything the same shade of mid-tan, as bleak as a moonscape./pp/ppThe desert was unnervingly like outer space, Tamara Levit thought, with the car as a rocket ship. If anything went wrong with her space suit she could die. The comparison was fanciful and made her smile. All the same she glanced into the back of the car, where there were two reassuringly large plastic demijohns of water, enough to keep them all alive in an emergency until help arrived, probably./pp/ppThe car was American. It was designed for difficult terrain, with high clearance and low gearing. It had tinted windows, and Tamara was wearing sunglasses, but even so the light glared off the concrete road and hurt her eyes./pp/ppAll four people in the car wore shades. The driver, Ali, was a local man, born and raised here in Chad. In the city he wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, but today he had on a floor-length robe called a galabiya, with a loose cotton scarf wound around his head, traditional clothing for protection from the merciless sun./pp/ppNext to Ali in the front was an American soldier, Corporal Peter Ackerman. The rifle held loosely across his knees was a US Army standard-issue short-barreled lightweight carbine. He was about twenty years old, one of those young men who seemed to overflow with chirpy friendliness. To Tamara, who was almost thirty, he seemed ridiculously young to be carrying a lethal weapon. But he had no lack of confidence-one time he had even had the cheek to ask her for a date. "I like you, Pete, but you're much too young for me," she had said./pp/ppBeside Tamara in the rear seat was Tabdar "Tab" Sadoul, an attach at the European Union mission in N'Djamena. Tab's glossy mid-brown hair was fashionably long, but otherwise he looked like an off-duty business executive, in khakis and a sky-blue button-down shirt, the sleeves rolled to show brown wrists./pp/ppShe was attached to the American embassy in N'Djamena, and she wore her regular working clothes, a long-sleeved dress over trousers, with her dark hair tucked into a headscarf. It was a practical outfit that offended no one, and with her brown eyes and olive skin she did not even look like a foreigner. In a high-crime country such as Chad it was safer not to stand out, especially for a woman./pp/ppShe was keeping an eye on the odometer. They had been on the road a couple of hours but now they were close to their destination. Tamara was tense about the meeting ahead. A lot hung on it, including her own career./pp/pp"Our cover story is a fact-finding mission," she said. "Do you know much about the lake?"/pp/pp"Enough, I think," Tab said. "The Chari River rises in central Africa, runs eight hundred and seventy miles, and stops here. Lake Chad sustains several million people in four countries: Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. They're small farmers, graziers, and fishermen. Their favorite fish is the Nile perch, which can grow to six feet long and four hundred pounds."/pp/ppFrenchmen speaking English always sounded as if they were trying to get you into bed, Tamara thought. Perhaps they always were. She said: "I guess they don't catch many Nile perch now that the water is so shallow."/pp/pp"You're right./p, 2021, Buch, gebundene Ausgabe, Neuware, H: 39mm, B: 162mm, T: 36mm, 1129g, 816, Internationaler Versand, Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Syndikat Buchdienst, [4235284].
AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: biNew York Times/i Bestseller The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. A compelling story, and only too realistic. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary /b Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn t get fixed. So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Follett s nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert a stolen US Army drone an uninhabited Japanese island and one country s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer a spy working undercover with jihadists a brilliant Chinese spymaster and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election. iNever/i is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. BUCHBESPRECHUNG: Urgent and fiercely compelling . . . iNever/i is first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. It deserves the popular success it will almost certainly achieve. i The Washington Post/i Superstar novelist Ken Follett s what-if political thriller . . . isso exciting and so plausible you won t want to look away. i /iApple Books (Best Book of the Month) Settle in for a thrilling ride. i /iCNN.com Terrific . . . A powerful, commanding performance from one of the top writers in the genre. i Publishers Weekly /i(starred) A complex, scary thriller that feels too plausible for comfort. You ll be so absorbed in the story threads that you ll follow them anywhere and you ll suddenly realize you ve read hundreds of pages. . . . On one level, it s great entertainment on another, a window into a sobering possibility. i Kirkus /i(starred) Absolutely compelling . . . A smart, scary, and all-too-plausible thriller. i Booklist/i AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: pChapter 1/pp/ppSeen from a plane, the car would have looked like a slow beetle creeping across an endless beach, the sun glinting off its polished black armor. In fact it was doing thirty miles per hour, the maximum safe speed on a road that had unexpected potholes and cracks. No one wanted to get a flat tire in the Sahara Desert./pp/ppThe road led north from N'Djamena, capital city of Chad, through the desert toward Lake Chad, the biggest oasis in the Sahara. The landscape was a long, flat vista of sand and rock with a few pale yellow dried-up bushes and a random scatter of large and small stones, everything the same shade of mid-tan, as bleak as a moonscape./pp/ppThe desert was unnervingly like outer space, Tamara Levit thought, with the car as a rocket ship. If anything went wrong with her space suit she could die. The comparison was fanciful and made her smile. All the same she glanced into the back of the car, where there were two reassuringly large plastic demijohns of water, enough to keep them all alive in an emergency until help arrived, probably./pp/ppThe car was American. It was designed for difficult terrain, with high clearance and low gearing. It had tinted windows, and Tamara was wearing sunglasses, but even so the light glared off the concrete road and hurt her eyes./pp/ppAll four people in the car wore shades. The driver, Ali, was a local man, born and raised here in Chad. In the city he wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, but today he had on a floor-length robe called a galabiya, with a loose cotton scarf wound around his head, traditional clothing for protection from the merciless sun./pp/ppNext to Ali in the front was an American soldier, Corporal Peter Ackerman. The rifle held loosely across his knees was a US Army standard-issue short-barreled lightweight carbine. He was about twenty years old, one of those young men who seemed to overflow with chirpy friendliness. To Tamara, who was almost thirty, he seemed ridiculously young to be carrying a lethal weapon. But he had no lack of confidence-one time he had even had the cheek to ask her for a date. "I like you, Pete, but you're much too young for me," she had said./pp/ppBeside Tamara in the rear seat was Tabdar "Tab" Sadoul, an attach at the European Union mission in N'Djamena. Tab's glossy mid-brown hair was fashionably long, but otherwise he looked like an off-duty business executive, in khakis and a sky-blue button-down shirt, the sleeves rolled to show brown wrists./pp/ppShe was attached to the American embassy in N'Djamena, and she wore her regular working clothes, a long-sleeved dress over trousers, with her dark hair tucked into a headscarf. It was a practical outfit that offended no one, and with her brown eyes and olive skin she did not even look like a foreigner. In a high-crime country such as Chad it was safer not to stand out, especially for a woman./pp/ppShe was keeping an eye on the odometer. They had been on the road a couple of hours but now they were close to their destination. Tamara was tense about the meeting ahead. A lot hung on it, including her own career./pp/pp"Our cover story is a fact-finding mission," she said. "Do you know much about the lake?"/pp/pp"Enough, I think," Tab said. "The Chari River rises in central Africa, runs eight hundred and seventy miles, and stops here. Lake Chad sustains several million people in four countries: Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. They're small farmers, graziers, and fishermen. Their favorite fish is the Nile perch, which can grow to six feet long and four hundred pounds."/pp/ppFrenchmen speaking English always sounded as if they were trying to get you into bed, Tamara thought. Perhaps they always were. She said: "I guess they don't catch many Nile perch now that the water is so shallow."/pp/pp"You're right./p, 2021, Buch, gebundene Ausgabe, Neuware, H: 39mm, B: 162mm, T: 36mm, 1129g, 816, Internationaler Versand, Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung.
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Never
EN NWISBN: 9780593300015 bzw. 0593300017, in Englisch, Penguin LLC US, neu.
The new must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war 'When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions-logical, moderate decisions-each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again?'-Ken Follett In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives-and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers-at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China-and its close military ally, North Korea-to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone-even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills-stop the inevitable? Never is an extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Story Locale: Chad, China, North Korea, America (Washington DC), 24.1 x 16.3 x 4.6 cm, Fremdsprachige Bücher.
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Never
~EN NWISBN: 9780593300015 bzw. 0593300017, vermutlich in Englisch, Penguin LCC US, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Lieferzeit 1-3 Werktage, Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland.
The new must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war "When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions-logical, moderate decisions-each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again?"-Ken Follett In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives-and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers-at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China-and its close military ally, North Korea-to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone-even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills-stop the inevitable? Never is an extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Story Locale: Chad, China, North Korea, America (Washington DC).
The new must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war "When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions-logical, moderate decisions-each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again?"-Ken Follett In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives-and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers-at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China-and its close military ally, North Korea-to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone-even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills-stop the inevitable? Never is an extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Story Locale: Chad, China, North Korea, America (Washington DC).
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Never (2021)
~EN NWISBN: 9780593300015 bzw. 0593300017, vermutlich in Englisch, 816 Seiten, Penguin LCC US, neu.
Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Free shipping.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, buchversandmimpf2000, [3715720].
Neuware - The new must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war 'When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions-logical, moderate decisions-each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again '-Ken Follett In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives-and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers-at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China-and its close military ally, North Korea-to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone-even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills-stop the inevitable Never is an extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Story Locale: Chad, China, North Korea, America (Washington DC), 09.11.2021, Buch, Neuware, 235x156x33 mm, 1170g, 816, Banküberweisung, PayPal.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, buchversandmimpf2000, [3715720].
Neuware - The new must-read epic from master writer Ken Follett: an action-packed, globe-spanning spy thriller about brinkmanship, impossible decisions, and the unforeseen consequences that could lead to the next world war 'When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions-logical, moderate decisions-each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known. I came to believe that it was all a tragic accident. And I wondered: Could that happen again '-Ken Follett In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives-and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers-at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful young widow fights against human traffickers while traveling illegally to Europe with the help of a mysterious man who may not be who he says he is. In China, a senior government official with vast ambitions for himself and his country battles against the older Communist hawks in the government, who may be pushing China-and its close military ally, North Korea-to a place of no return. And in the United States, Pauline Green, the country's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. But when one act of aggression leads to another, the most powerful countries in the world are caught in a complex web of alliances they can't escape. And once all the sinister pieces are in place, can anyone-even those with the best of intentions and most elite skills-stop the inevitable Never is an extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Story Locale: Chad, China, North Korea, America (Washington DC), 09.11.2021, Buch, Neuware, 235x156x33 mm, 1170g, 816, Banküberweisung, PayPal.
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Never
~EN NWISBN: 9780593300015 bzw. 0593300017, vermutlich in Englisch, Penguin LCC US, neu.
Lieferung aus: Österreich, plus shipping.
The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. gebundene Ausgabe, 09.11.2021.
The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. gebundene Ausgabe, 09.11.2021.
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