Le parcours de Mitch Silver dans le monde de la publicité, où il a perfectionné ses talents pour créer des slogans mémorables, a profondément marqué sa voix littéraire. Cette expérience du pouvoir du langage transparaît dans son premier roman, qui explore les facettes complexes de l'expérience humaine avec un œil observateur aiguisé. Son œuvre est souvent empreinte d'une subtile ironie, reflétant une vive compréhension du monde. La prose de Silver se caractérise par un rythme soutenu et des rebondissements narratifs inattendus, rendant ses histoires captivantes et propices à la réflexion.
A young woman uncovers Ian Fleming's lost account of his espionage activities during World War II, thrusting her into a dangerous world of spies and intrigue. As she delves into the narrative, she must complete the story to uncover the truth behind the threats on her life. This thrilling journey intertwines historical events with personal danger, blending elements of love and passion with the high stakes of espionage.
Gary Stephens is brought into a government-sanctioned cover-up when he discovers that his father helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landing in the 1960s. In 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon . . . didn't they? After China announce a space mission to place their own flag next to the one US astronauts planted during the Apollo 11 mission, few people bat an eyelid. Shortly after this statement Charlie Stephens, a 74-year-old former filmmaker, is murdered. The incident is made to look like an accident, but why? Going through his father's effects, Gary Stephens discovers reels of 35mm celluloid showing the Apollo mission was faked - there's no US flag on the moon, and only a handful of people know it. For his own safety Gary is brought into Mission Dark Side, a government-sanctioned cover-up to send a crew to the moon to plant the flag before the Chinese reach it . . . but there are those out to sabotage the mission and cause the US a national embarrassment.
The discovery of a human arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist at a London construction site prompts Russian historian Lara "the Bookworm" Klimt to investigate a secret World War II operation and prevent a present-day international conspiracy.
Belgium, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before the Nazis plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. That night, he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery’s library and then escapes. London, 2017: A construction worker makes a grisly discovery—a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist. The woman who will put these two disparate events together—and understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to prevent—is Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, “Lara the Bookworm,” to her friends.In the course of this riveting thriller, Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Coward—actor, playwright and, secretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchill. She will understand precisely why that leather Bible, scooped up by the Nazis and deposited on the desk of Adolf Hitler days before he planned to attack Britain, played such a pivotal role in turning his guns to the East. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpart—maverick and dealmaker—and the evil it portends.
V roce 1964 zapečetil Ian Fleming, tvůrce Jamese Bonda, balíček se svým rukopisem, a doufal, že si jej někdo přečte teprve padesát let po jeho smrti. V roce 2005 je vyzvána Amy Greenbergová, americká vysokoškolská učitelka se skvělou budoucností, aby v Irsku převzala obsah bezpečnostní schránky svého dědečka, ve které nalezne pouze jedinou věc: rukopis od Iana Fleminga. Stránky popisují zapojení Fleminga do špionážní činnosti Spojenců a obsahují informace tak důvěrné a potencionálně výbušné, že Amy brzy zjistí, že lidé na obou stranách Atlantiku mají v úmyslu ji zabít, jen aby zachovali tajemství rukopisu. Tato skvělá prvotina nového talentovaného autora kombinuje napínavé pátrání se strhující akcí ve zcela novém pojetí špionážního románu.