Operation Napoleon - Brossura

Indridason, Arnaldur

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250017998 ISBN 13: 9781250017994

Casa editrice: Minotaur Books, 2013

Riassunto

When her volunteer brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin finds herself violently pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a dark conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Arnaldur Indridason was initially a journalist for an Icelandic newspaper and then spent many years as a film reviewer. He won the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both Jar City and Silence of the Grave, and in 2005 Silence of the Grave also won the Crime Writers Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year. The film of Jar City, now available on DVD, was Iceland's entry for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Arnaldur Indridason's crime fiction has sold in more than twenty-five countries. He lives in Iceland with his family, and the next novel in his Reykjavik series is forthcoming soon from Minotaur Books.

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From worldwide bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason comes a mesmerizing tour de force that takes readers deep inside the heart of a long-buried secret with huge international consequences.

"INDRIDASON'S NOVELS ARE GRIPPING, AUTHENTIC, HAUNTING, AND LYRICAL." —HARLAN COBEN

In 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland during a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm. He sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, only to disappear into the white vastness...

"REMARKABLE...ANOTHER TOP-NOTCH STORY FROM INDRIDASON."—KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)

Flash forward to the present. The U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of an airplane from an Icelandic glacier. A young Icelander, Elías, inadvertently stumbles upon the excavation and then promptly disappears. But before he vanishes, he manages to contact his sister, Kristín. She embarks on a thrilling and perilous adventure, determined to discover the truth of her brother's fate—and solve the riddle of

OPERATION NAPOLEAN

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• Editore: Minotaur Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250017998
• ISBN 13: 9781250017994
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 392