The Diamond Chariot

Author : Boris Akunin
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9780297860679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Chariot written by Boris Akunin and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.

Author : Борис Акунин
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Chariot written by Борис Акунин and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship captain, fights for a woman, exposes double agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.

Author : Boris Akunin
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802148158
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Lover of Death written by Boris Akunin and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian detective infiltrates a dangerous circle of suicidal poets in this “droll, incisive, and fiendishly clever” series set in nineteenth-century Moscow (The Seattle Times). Naive young Masha Mironova arrives in Moscow at the turn of the century determined to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing. Reinventing herself as the reckless and daring Columbine, she soon falls in with a subversive group of poets known as the Lovers of Death. At the home of their leader, the Doge, these seductive bohemians conduct nightly séances to determine who shall be Death’s next lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen member must await three signs from Death before taking his or her own life. The resulting string of suicides have drawn media attention and sparked widespread hysteria in Moscow. As the group’s numbers dwindle, the dashing investigator Erast Fandorin goes undercover to join their ranks. But will the gentleman-detective be able to stop Columbine from taking fatal action when she receives her three unmistakable signs? “A devastatingly attractive combination of Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey and James Bond.” —The Guardian

Author : Boris Akunin
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0812968786
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turkish Gambit written by Boris Akunin and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her life for her fiancé, who has been falsely accused of espionage.

Author : Boris Akunin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780297860655
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book He Lover of Death written by Boris Akunin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death - so named for the life expectancy of her lovers. But as the bandit community balks at his success on both fronts, threats on his life begin to pour in . A dandy and his 'Chinese' sidekick seem to be taking an inordinate interest in Senka's welfare, and it becomes clear that those threatening Senka are linked to a spate of murders, grizzly even by underworld standards. Fandorin must unweave a tangled web of narcotics, false identities and organised crime - but can he survive an encounter with the ever-alluring Death unscathed?... Find out in the darkest Fandorin to date!

Author : J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958728
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engagements written by J. Courtney Sullivan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year • The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those words might be. "Sullivan is a born storyteller. Like its mineral muse, Engagements shines."—Entertainment Weekly Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son’s messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted by his wife’s family’s expectations; Delphine has thrown caution to the wind and left a peaceful French life for an exciting but rocky romance in America; and Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As the stories connect to each other and to Frances’s legacy in surprising ways, The Engagements explores the complicated ins and outs of relationships, then, now, and forever.

Author : Boris Akunin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297864157
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State Counsellor written by Boris Akunin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN. General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals, revolutionaries and traditionalists and good versus evil.

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Publisher : Bluewater Productions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orbit: Mikhail Prokhorov written by and published by Bluewater Productions. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a leading industrialist in Russia's precious metals sector, Mikhail Prokhorov quickly rose to become the 7th richest man in the country. He ran against the mighty Vladimir Putin in the 2012 presidential elections, and purchased the NBA team the Nets, moving the former Garden Staters to Brooklyn this year. As the center of his fair share of controversies over the years, the Russian billionaire has become one of the most talked about figures in Europe and beyond.

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416595546
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sashenka written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police... Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just 18. In the evenings when her mother is partying with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka becomes Comrade Snowfox and slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, and Sashenka is married to a dashing Communist leader with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, but her own family is safe. But she is about to embark on a forbidden love affair, which will have devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion and betrayal, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism--and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

Author : Russell H. Conwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acres of Diamonds written by Russell H. Conwell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell H. Conwell Founder Of Temple University Philadelphia.