The Beria papers - Alan Williams
The dark side of the island - Mark Hebden
The ninety-second tiger - Michael Gilbert
Inglese | 1974 | 510 pagine | ISBN 13: 9780600779254
The Beria papers
The world waits in suspense to know: are the Beria Papers fact or fiction?
These are the facts:
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was head of the Soviet secret police from 1938 until 1953 (when he was executed).
He was Stalin’s closest henchman.
At one time he had a million armed men under his direct personal command. He was a sadist and a mass murderer. And he was also a vicious rapist with a compulsive appetite for young girls.
This is possible:
Beria may have kept a private diary in which he lovingly recorded his sexual activities, his murders, various scandals involving men now highly placed in the Soviet hierarchy — and the true facts of Stalin’s death.
This is certain:
The publication of Beria’s diary would cause the greatest political scandal the world has ever known — and set off a deadly manhunt for those responsible for its release …
The private diaries of Beria — Stalin’s notorious chief of secret police — are a lurid, shattering indictment of Russian political methods and contain a new account of what really happened at Stalin’s death.
They confirm Beria as one of the greatest human monsters of our time, both in his personal life and in his political manipulations of top Soviet politicians, some of whom are in power today.
The Beria Papers are sold to an American publisher for three million dollars. On publication they are an immediate, sensational bestseller.
They cause panic in Moscow and outrage everywhere — even in the upper echelons of the U.S. government, where there is fear that such revelations will create a dangerous precedent in smear campaigns against world leaders.
So the world’s two most powerful secret services — the Soviet KGB and the American CIA — are ordered to track down the book’s origin.
Their investigations range from New York to Washington, to London, Moscow, Munich, Budapest, Vienna and finally to a small island in the Indian Ocean where the activities of the two secret agencies come horrifically together.
But can The Beria Papers possibly be a hoax?
Praise for The Beria Papers:
‘Intriguing and gripping … compulsively exciting’ - Sunday Express
‘Both exciting and really convincing … fascinating. Part adventure, part thriller, part a documentary of might-have-been history, The Beria Papers is the best thing of its kind for a long time.’ - Sunday Times
‘The most interesting and original thriller since The Odessa File … a sharp and intelligent thriller that cries out for filming.’ - Daily Mail
‘Intriguing and gripping … not merely compulsively exciting entertainment, it is also so well researched and the background appears so absolutely authentic that the whole fantastic story could just be true.’ -Sunday Express
Alan Emlyn Williams(born 1935) is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in modern languages. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams.
The dark side of the island
The lost islands of the Outer Hebrides are the setting for Mark Hebden's new novel, 'The Dark Side of the Island', their remoteness making them the perfect hideaway for a gang of international crooks.
But though the islanders of Dungainay are slow in speech and movement, they are far from being fools, and suspicions are aroused. A bland and crafty policeman is quick to link apparently unconnected events, and Hamish, a bird watcher with a powerful pair of binoculars, and Nona, a teenage girl suffering from the pangs of youthful lovesickness for the indifferent Hamish, also notice that things are not quite what they appear to be.
Stange characeteristics appear and there is unexpected and - for the islands - unfamiliar violence in which local people are involved, until half the island is united against the men who are intruding into its peace, in a climax in which even the treacherous and stormy weather of the north-west takes a hand.
In this exciting and fast moving novel the author juxtaposes, to great effect, the peaceful atmosphere of the lonely island of the north-west and the violence of modern criminal methods.
The ninety-second tiger
Hugo Greest is the tiger. He now has a TV adventure series in which he has knocked out 91 beautiful girls and 91 villains. The 92nd comes unexpectedly when he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that His Highness Sheik bin Rashid bin Abdullah al Ferini, in the middle of a small war, needs a new military advisor and he wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent "
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