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बलाढ्य रशिया अराजकतेच्या चक्रात सापडतो. समाजजीवन गढूळ होते. जनता दु:खसागरात लोटली जाते. अशा भावूक स्थितीत देशाला तरून नेणारा तारणहार नेता-‘इगॉर कोमारोव्ह’ समोर येतो. कोमारोव्हची प्रभावी भाषणे, आत्मीयता पाहून, योग्य नेता मिळाल्याचा आनंद रशियन जनतेला होतो. रशियाचा सुवर्णकाळ आता दूर नाही, असे स्वप्न लोक पाहतात... आणि एकदमच रहस्यमय, ‘काळ्या जाहीरनाम्या’ चा बोलबाला होतो. कोमारोव्हने गुप्तपणे लिहलेला ‘काळा जाहीरनामा’ चोरीस जातो. त्याचे हिटलरशाही राबवायचे मनसुबे कोसळतात. ‘काळा-रहस्यमय जाहीरनामा’ ब्रिटिशांच्या हाती लागतो. जाहीरनामा अनधिकृत असल्याने पाश्चात्य राष्टे कारवाई करू शकत नाहीत. पण ‘कॉन्सिल ऑफ लिंकन’ हा प्रभावी आंतरराष्ट्रीय समुदाय, अनधिकृत अस्तित्व नाकारणारा गट. हा गट ‘गुप्तहेर यंत्रणेचे-सीआयए’ चे ‘जेसन मंक’ यांची प्रतीक-आयकॉन-म्हणून निवड करतात. ही महान कामगिरी मंक यांचेवर सोपवल्याने इमॉर कोमारोव्हचे दुष्ट मनोरे गळून पडतात. जेसन मंक त्याची कृष्णकृत्ये शोधून ती धुडकावून लावतात. कोमारोव्हचा पर्दापाश होऊन हिटलरशाहीला पायबंद बसतो, हे ‘आयकॉन’ ही कादंबरी सांगते.
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The Shepherd
Christmas Eve, 1957. For one Royal Air Force pilot, one last hurdle remains between himself and a cozy Christmas morning in England. A sixty-six-minute flight in his Vampire fighter plane from Germany to Lakenheath. A routine flight plan and a full tank of fuel. What could go wrong? But as the fog begins to close in, the compass goes haywire and the radio dies, leaving him in silence, lost and alone up in the inky black sky. All hope seems lost as he accepts his fate when, out of nowhere, a vintage fighter-bomber appears and is miraculously trying to make contact. For one lonely pilot this is a miracle, but really the mystery has just begun ...
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The Day Of The Jackal (द डे ऑफ द जॅकल)
आपल्या हाती अनिर्बंध सत्ता असावी या हेतूने सरकारविरोधी ओएएस संघटनेने प्रÂान्सचे अध्यक्ष जनरल द गॉल यांचा वध करण्याचा कट रचला; पण तो असफल झाला. हा प्रयत्न फसल्यामुळे लगेच पुढच्याच वर्षी १९६३ मध्ये ओएएस संघटनेच्या प्रमुखाने एका अज्ञात इंग्लिशमनला द गॉल यांच्या हत्येची सुपारी दिली. ऐशआरामी जीवन आणि पैशासाठी काहीही करणार्या इंग्लिशमनने अर्थात अतुलनीय बुद्धिमत्तेच्या आणि अफाट क्षमतेच्या निष्णात नेमबाजाने हा विडा उचलला. त्याचा सुगावा लागताच अध्यक्षांच्या जीवावर उठलेल्या जकॉल या सांकेतिक नावाने ओळखल्या जाणार्या निर्दयी व क्रूर मारेकर्याला रोखणे अत्यावश्यक तर होतेच, परंतु केवळ सांकेतिक नावाच्या आधाराने त्याचा माग काढणेही अवघड आणि अशक्य होते. तरीही जकॉलच्या लक्ष्य साध्य करण्याच्या अंतिम टप्प्यापर्यंतच्या प्रत्येक खेळीवर मात करत फ्रान्स च्या पोलीस आणि गुप्तहेर यंत्रणेने जकॉलचीच यमसदनाला पाठवणी केली...
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The Kill List ( द किल लिस्ट)
दहशतवादाची समस्या जगातल्या महत्त्वाच्या देशांना भेडसावताना दिसते. अमेरिकेत दहशतवादानं थैमान घातलेलं असतानाच इंग्लंडमध्येही ते थैमान सुरू होतं आणि मग इंटरनेटवरून एक बुरखाधारी इस्लामी पाश्चात्त्य जगाविरोधात अतिविखारी भाषणं देताना, प्रचार करताना आणि पाश्चात्त्यांच्या हत्येचं आवाहन करताना आढळतो. त्याला टोपण नाव दिलं जातं. द प्रीचर. त्याच्या शोधाची जबाबदारी एका अधिकाऱ्याकडे सुपूर्द केली जाते. त्या प्रीचरपर्यंत हा अधिकारी कसा पोहोचतो आणि त्या शोधादरम्यान या दहशतवादाशी संबंधित घटनांची आणि व्यक्तींची संगती कशी लागत जाते, याचं थरारक चित्रण म्हणजे ‘द किल लिस्ट’ ही कादंबरी. दहशतवादाच्या रंदावलेल्या कक्षा, त्याची पाळंमुळं खणून काढण्याचं आव्हानात्मक आणि धाडसी काम, आधुनिक तंत्रज्ञानाचा दहशतवाद्यांकडून होत असलेला गैरवापर आणि या अनुषंगाने येणाऱ्या अनेक बाबींवर ‘द किल लिस्ट’ ही कादंबरी प्रकाश टाकते. त्यातील थरार अनुभवण्यासाठी ती वाचलीच पाहिजे.
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It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake. Out of the chaos, however, a single charismatic voice is starting to be heard - that of Igor Komarov, a visionary patriot who claims he can restore Russia's greatness and bring prosperity to the masses. He even woos Western political leaders with a rather more realistic analysis of the way forward for Russia. Komarov is set to win the next election when a document is smuggled into the British Embassy in Moscow. It's called The Black Manifesto and it appears to show Komarov's secret agenda - his political blueprint is really Mein Kampf, the rebirth of Russia will be as a New Third Reich with Komarov as Fuhrer. But can the document be authenticated? And what can the Western Alliance's most secret Trilateral Commission do about it if it is? They need to find another voice the masses will listen to and obey rather than Komarov - an icon they can cleave to and trust. Once, not that long ago, he was called the Tsar. And so develops a thrilling and increasingly frightening adventure - Jason Monk, ex-CIA, who used to run agents into the Soviet Union, is recruited and slips back into Russia, into the desperate Moscow world of poverty, luxury, gangsters and prostitutes and underneath it all, the titanic power struggle to ensure the outcome of the forthcoming elections.
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The Deceiver
Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives, a legend in his own time. The end of the cold war has, however, strengthened the hand of the Whitehall mandarins, to whom he seems about as controllable as Genhis Khan, so Sam is to have his fate decided at a special hearing. As part of the proceedings, four of Sam's key operations are reviewed: a clandestine mission into East Germany in 1985 to contact the top Russian spy General Pankratin; the second involving a KGB colonel who wants to defect - but is he genuine? An audacious Qaddafi-inspired plot to ship arms to the IRA; and the fourth when McCready presided over the aftermath of political murder and mayhem in the Caribbean.
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The Fox
The master storyteller is back with a classic race-against-time thriller with a modern edge. Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn’t a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme?What if it’s a 17-year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind, who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe, who can manipulate that weaponry and turn it against the superpowers themselves? How valuable would he be? And what wouldn’t you do to get hold of him? The Fox is a race-against-time thriller across continents to find and capture, or protect and save, an asset with the means to change the balance of world power. Whatever happens he must not fall into the wrong hands. Because what follows after that is unthinkable…
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The Odessa File (द ओडेसा फाइल)
सॉलोमन टाउबर या ज्यू व्यक्तीने लिहिलेल्या डायरीत छळ छावणीत हिटलरच्या एस. एस. संघटनेकडून ज्यूंवर केल्या गेलेल्या अनन्वित अत्याचारांचे, विशेषत: रोशमन या एस.एस. अधिकाऱ्याच्या क्रूरतेचे वर्णन असते. सॉलोमन आत्महत्या करतो आणि ती डायरी पोलिसांच्या हाती लागते. नंतर तरुण जर्मन पत्रकार पीटर मिलरच्या हाती ती डायरी लागते. ती डायरी वाचून मिलर रोशमनचा शोध घ्यायचा, असं ठरवतो. जेव्हा मिलर ती डायरी वाचतो तेव्हा तो खूप अस्वस्थ होतो. ज्यूंच्या हत्याकांडाबरोबरच त्या डायरीतील आणखी एक बाब त्याला रोशमन या क्रूरकम्र्याचा शोध घ्यायला प्रवृत्त करते. ती बाब कोणती याचं रहस्य कथानकाच्या शेवटी उलगडतं. रोशमनला शोधण्यासाठी मिलरला कोणत्या दिव्यातून जावं लागतं, याची कहाणी ‘द ओडेसा फाईल’ या कादंबरीतून चित्रित केली आहे. मिलरचा या शोध मोहिमेच्या दरम्यानचा प्रवास चित्तथरारक आणि उत्कंठावर्धक आहे. तो प्रवास वाचकाला खिळवून ठेवतो. तो अनुभवण्यासाठी हे पुस्तक अवश्य वाचलं पाहिजे.
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The Outsider
As thrilling as his fiction - this is Frederick Forsyth's life in his own words. Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I�m getting ahead of myself.
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The Kill List
Top secret catalog of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out discover this mans identity, locate him and take him out. Tasked with what seems like an impossible job is an ex-US marine who has risen through the ranks to become one of America most effective intelligence chiefs. Now known only as The Tracker, he must gather what scant evidence there is, collate it and unmask The Preacher if he is to prevent the next spate of violent deaths. Aided only by a brilliant teen aged hacker, he must throw out the bait and see whether his deadly target can be drawn from his lair.
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The Feast Of God ( द फिस्ट ऑफ गॉड)
प्रत्येक युद्धातून आपल्याला काही ना काही बोध घेण्यासारखा असतो. पण तसा तो घेऊन त्याप्रमाणे आचरण करणे हे खरे महत्त्वाचे असते. नाहीतर युद्धात जे सैनिक किंवा नागरिक प्राणास मुकले असतील, त्यांचे बलिदान व्यर्थच ठरते. इराक-कुवेत. युद्धानेही एक धडा जगाला शिकवला आहे. फ्रेडरिक फोरसीथ यांच्या बहुतेक कादंबर्‍या या एखाद्या प्रत्यक्ष घडलेल्या घटनेच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर लिहिलेल्या असतात. प्रस्तुत मूळ कादंबरीचे स्वरूपही असेच आहे. इराक-कुवेत युद्धाच्या आणि त्या वेळी जगभरात देशोदशी घडलेल्या राजकीय घटनांच्या प्रचंड पार्श्वभूमीवर एका प्रत्यक्ष घडलेल्या युद्धाच्या इतिहासामध्ये कौशल्यपूर्ण रीतीने गुंफलेली काल्पनिक पात्रांची कथानके, असे या मूळ पुस्तकाचे दोन पदर आहेत. त्यामुळे या पुस्तकाची भाषाशैलीही त्यांनी अपरिहार्यपणे दोन वेगळ्या प्रकारची वापरलेली आहे. मूळ पुस्तकात जेव्हा इतिहासात घडलेले प्रसंग किंवा राजकीय घडामोडी वर्णन केल्या आहेत, तेव्हा फोरसीथ यांची भाषा स्वाभाविकपणे काहीशी कोरडी, एखाद्या वृत्तनिवेदकाच्या शैलीची, त्रयस्थपणे घटनेचे वर्णन करणारी आहे. पण काल्पनिक किंवा खर्‍या पात्रांमध्ये, काल्पनिक किंवा प्रत्यक्ष घडलेले प्रसंग जेव्हा ते वर्णन करतात, तेव्हा मात्र त्यांची भाषा आपोआपच प्रसंगानुरूप त्या त्या भावना दर्शवणारी, त्या पात्रांच्या क्रिया-प्रतिक्रियांचे अचूक वर्णन करणारी, त्यांचे परस्परसंबंध रंगवणारी अशी झालेली आहे.
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The Veteran
A collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer.nnA miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy; a drug smuggling heist on an international flight where the Knock pit their wits against the smugglers; a brural urban murder, where a brilliant QC decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling justice; an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of the Old Masters - each story is a remarkable tour de force.nnAnd above all here is a brilliant novella, 'Whispering Wind', which begins with the single survivor of Custer's Last Stand at the battle of Little Big Horn. Then follows the rescue from rape and murder of a Cheyenne girl and a flight across the mountains and forests of the West, ending in a savage present-day manhunt in the wild lands of Montana. About the Author Frederick Forsyth is the author of ten bestselling novels: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God, Icon and Avenger. His other works include The Biafra Story, The Shepherd, two short story collections, No Comebacks and The Veteran, and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of Manhattan. He has also collected together an anthology of flying tales, Great Flying Stories, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len Deighton and H.G. Wells. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
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The Afghan(द अफगाण)
रेड फ्लॅग नोटिस जारी केलेल्या फोनवरून केला गेलेला एकच फोन, छापा मारल्यावर लॅपटॉप हातात पडू नये म्हणून त्याची मोडतोड करायचा प्रयत्न, स्वत: पकडले जाऊ नये म्हणून चौथ्या मजल्यावरून घेतलेली उडी ब्रिटिश आणि अमेरिकन इन्टेलिजन्स एजन्सीजची एवढीच खात्री पटते की, जगाला थक्क करेल अशा भयानक घातपाताचा कट अल काईदाने रचलेला आहे. पण तो कोणत्या स्वरूपाचा आहे, कधी घडणार आहे आणि लक्ष्य काय आहे याचा थांगपत्ता लागत नाही. अल काईदामध्ये स्वत:चा माणूस घुसवून कुठल्याही त-हेची माहिती काढणे आजपर्यंत त्यांना कधीही जमलेले नाही. अफगाण आहे इझमत खान, ग्वाटेनामो बे इथे पाच वर्षे तुरुंगात असलेला तालिबान कमांडर आणि अफगाण आहे इराकमध्ये जन्मलेला, पंचवीस वर्षे जगाच्या कानाकोप-यात लढल्या गेलेल्या युद्धांचा अनुभव असलेला कर्नल माईक मार्टिन. जबरदस्त पूर्वतयारी आणि दैवावरच भरवसा ठेवून, जिथल्या भीषण गोष्टींची कल्पना करणेही केवळ अशक्य आहे, अशा अंधा-या अरब जगतात अरब म्हणून इझमत खान म्हणून वावरत कर्नल माईक मार्टिन त्या कटाचा छडा लावू शकेल ?
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The Cobra
The Cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading...it is a blight which must be stopped. One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He will not stop until he has completed his mission. Up to now the drug trade has been used to world governments attempting to prevent them plying their trade. But up to now, those governments have played by the rules. That is about to change. The rules no longer apply... and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier..
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The Odessa File
The life and death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of an international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill top, the question every reader asks at the end of Day of a Jackal will inevitable be asked again: Can this be fiction?
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Avenger
SOLDIER : Many years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the jungle lairs of the enemy. Today, he's a small-time attorney in a sleepy New Jersey town. But Dexter's life is anything but ordinary. VIGILANTE : The beast Dexter's been hired to hunt is Zilic, a Serbian warlord cocooned in a South American compound with the best security blood money can buy. But one of the gangster's victims is an innocent American aid worker - and the grandson of a business tycoon who can afford the best revenge. AVENGER: And so the chase is on. Slowly Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But CIA agent Paul Devereaux must find a way to stop him before his quest for revenge throws the world into chaos...
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The Fourth Protocol
Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan that is a plan that in its spine-chilling ingenuity breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution. . . .
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The Afghan
When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it`s impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless ... The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs - pass off Martin as the trusted Khan. It will require extraordinary preparation, and then extraordinary luck, for nothing can truly prepare Martin for the dark and shifting world he is about to enter. Or for the terrible things he will find there ... "The Day of the Jackal", "The Dogs of War", "The Odessa File" - the books of Frederick Forsyth have helped define the international thriller as we know it today.;Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is, in a way that few have ever been able to equal. And the world as it is today is a very scary place.
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The Dogs Of War
In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuable mineral, platinum. "Not only exciting but truly surprising"--Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. Sir James knows how. Invade the country with a band of savage, cold-blooded mercenaries. Topple the government and set up a puppet dictatorship. Unleash the dogs of war."