The Seven Percent Solution is a 1974 novel by the American writer Nicholas Meyer. It was written as a pastiche of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was filmed in the film of the same name in 1976. Published as "The Lost Manuscript" of the late Dr. Jo
A short, suspenseful crime novel full of witty dialogue and characters who speak like real people, not Hollywood gangsters. It's also the first major appearance of Raylan Givens (later the main character of the series Justified).
Harry Hole is a police officer with a rather stormy past, both police and personal. His task is to bring back Sverre Olsen, an outspoken neo-Nazi who escaped conviction due to a bureaucratic error.
Another action novel by the author who writes under the pseudonym Lee Radow. The novel takes place in the last years of the twentieth century in some recognizable historical circumstances and events, and its protagonists are secret service agents.
Žagar, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.62 €
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Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop The New York Times Best Seller List, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959.
Otokar Keršovani, 1970.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
8.68 €
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Martin Cruz Smith, a master of crime novels, dissects the dark side of contemporary Russia – corruption, political intrigue, and Stalinist legacy – in the sixth part of the series about investigator Arkady Renko.