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Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

Overleven is het adembenemend spannende verhaal over de vliegramp in de Andes. Piers Paul Read leefde en sprak enkele maanden met de overlevenden. Hij tekende hun gruwelijke belevenissen op, de barre ontberingen, de dreigende hongerdood en bevriezing, waaraan zij uiteindelijk wisten te ontsnappen door het vlees van hun omgekomen medereizigers te eten. Piers Paul Read heeft zich zo in de lotgevallen van de overlevenden ingeleefd dat er een aangrijpend verhaal is ontstaan over de drang tot overleven.

A dozen years had passed since Mark Fraser and his family had fled to Ganymede, hoping to find the peace and freedom which had eluded them on Earth. Now violence and terror had pursued them to their new-found home: Captain Swayne and his battleship Vega had made landfall on Ganymede and were using its resources to build missiles with which to hold Planet Earth to ransom. For the second time, Mark Fraser was a marked man, running for his life. His only chance of escape was to a third planet: Jupiter. But as Fraser knew only too well, Jupiter itself was the scene of conflict and carnage. And so far no human being had ever breathed its atmosphere and lived to tell the tale!

From all over Europe - even from behind the Iron Curtain - the gypsies make their annual pilgrimage to Provence. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, is there, and so is Englishman Neil Bowman. But something is different about this year's gathering... What is the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide? Bowman comes too close to it for safety, and before long he is running for his life. From the dizzy ramparts of Les Baux to the vast limestone caverns beneath, from fiesta in Arles to the flat, salty plains of the Camargue, from the terror of the bull-ring to collisions at sea, the pace never falters.