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Rasputin S Shadow
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Author : Raymond Khoury
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Rasputin S Shadow written by Raymond Khoury and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with Fiction categories.
Raymond Khoury, the international bestselling author of The Last Templar, is back with another ingenious, fast-paced thriller that straddles present-day NYC and Russia in the early 1900s—the time of the infamous Rasputin and his mysterious rise to power. FBI special agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a delicate case. A Russian diplomat seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a sixth-floor window in Queens, New York. The apartment’s owners are missing, while a faceless killer known only as Koschey—“the Deathless”—is roaming the city and leaving a trail of death in his wake. Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly’s investigation soon uncovers a deadly, desperate search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back in time to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia. A device that, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on our world. Packed with the twists and suspense, the impeccable historical research, and the present and past story lines that Khoury’s fans have come to expect, Rasputin’s Shadow will keep readers turning pages long into the night.
Rasputin S Shadow
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Author : Raymond Khoury
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Rasputin S Shadow written by Raymond Khoury and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Fiction categories.
From the bestselling author of THE LAST TEMPLAR, an action-packed adventure thriller of an ancient mystery and its deadly impact on the present. Siberia, 1916. A mine turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and infamous Russian mystic Rasputin - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. New York, present day. FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window. The apartment's owners have gone missing, while a faceless killer roams New York City, leaving a trail of death in his wake. Reilly's investigation uncovers a deadly search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia and which, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on the modern world.
Khan In Rasputin S Shadow
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Author : Chad Huskins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Khan In Rasputin S Shadow written by Chad Huskins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Fiction categories.
No ones ever managed to spring a prisoner from Supermax-the nations most secure penitentiary and home to societys most dangerous criminals. But thats not going to stop Khan from trying. Hes a former U.S. Special Forces operative-turned-contractor for a mysterious covert agency called the Axis Group. His mission? Extract a mysterious prisoner known only as Prisoner 866. Along for the ride is Rasputin, another operative and a lifelong survivalist, tracker, and stealth expert. Together, these two men must put their separate approaches aside to find a way inside Supermaxs walls-unbeknownst to its 2,000 security cameras, watchdogs, motion detectors, heat sensors, and gun towers.But when the pair discover an assassin has been hired to silence them both, Axiss motives and origins are called into question, and Khan and Rasputin find themselves in a fight for survival. Who is Prisoner 866? Why does Axis want him so badly? And just who are the minds behind the Axis Group? Khan and Rasputin must answer these questions in time to save their mission-and themselves.Khan in Rasputins Shadow mixes Tom Clancy-style suspense with high-stakes intrigue for a keeps-you-guessing, fast-paced and savvy thriller, right up until the shocking finale.
Rasputin
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Author : Brian Moynahan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-17
Rasputin written by Brian Moynahan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. He had become, a society lady wrote, "a dusk enveloping all our world, eclipsing the sun. How could so pitiful a wretch throw so vast a shadow? It was inexplicable, maddening, almost incredible. " Rasputin's name has become synonymous with evil, but his legend has obscured the facts of his life. In this evocative biography, Brian Moynahan presents us with a flesh-and-blood Rasputin, more fascinating than the myth--a man in whom debauchery coexisted beside a real (if erratic) spiritual sense, a man whose coarseness hid a savvy awareness of human psychology. Drawing on confidential police reports, cabinet meeting memos, and other documents, some available only since the fall of the Soviet Union, Moynahan sheds new light on Rasputin's life and disputes some of the widely held details of his death. The young Rasputin was a drinker, thief, and womanizer. He claimed to have religious visions and became a wandering holy man, preaching that exposure to sin could drive out sin. He stormed the fashionable salons of St. Petersburg, and in 1905 he met Nicholas and Alexandra, who, increasingly despised by the sophisticated, found in Rasputin reassurance that the "real Russia, the simple and pious peasantry, loved them. Rasputin's mysterious ability to stop the bleeding attacks of their hemophiliac only son, Alexis, sealed the approval of the domineering Alexandra. With royal patronage, Rasputin became increasingly reckless, partying with prostitutes, peddling influence, plotting the disgrace of those who crossed him. Ever contradictory, he was also a devoted family man, a defender of the poor, and a figure of immense charisma. As Germany battered Russia during World War I, as Nicholas's ineptitude as a leader became ever more rampant and the masses went hungry, Rasputin seemed to monarchists to be the cause, and not just the symptom, of corrupt government. A group of conspirators gathered--among them a grand duke and a scion of the richest family in Russia--and one of the most famous murders in history was planned. Set against the vivid backdrop of prerevolutionary Russia, Rasputin is a portrait of an age as well as of a man. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
The Oxford Handbook Of Russian Religious Thought
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Author : Caryl Emerson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-04
The Oxford Handbook Of Russian Religious Thought written by Caryl Emerson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-04 with Religion categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the historical background and context, the Handbook follows the leading figures and movements in modern Russian religious thought through a period of immense historical upheavals, including seventy years of officially atheist communist rule and the growth of an exiled diaspora with, e.g., its journal The Way. Therefore the shape of Russian religious thought cannot be separated from long-running debates with nihilism and atheism. Important thinkers such as Losev and Bakhtin had to guard their words in an environment of religious persecution, whilst some views were shaped by prison experiences. Before the Soviet period, Russian national identity was closely linked with religion - linkages which again are being forged in the new Russia. Relevant in this connection are complex relationships with Judaism. In addition to religious thinkers such as Philaret, Chaadaev, Khomiakov, Kireevsky, Soloviev, Florensky, Bulgakov, Berdyaev, Shestov, Frank, Karsavin, and Alexander Men, the Handbook also looks at the role of religion in aesthetics, music, poetry, art, film, and the novelists Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Ideas, institutions, and movements discussed include the Church academies, Slavophilism and Westernism, theosis, the name-glorifying (imiaslavie) controversy, the God-seekers and God-builders, Russian religious idealism and liberalism, and the Neopatristic school. Occultism is considered, as is the role of tradition and the influence of Russian religious thought in the West.
One Man In His Time The Memoirs Of Serge Obolensky
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Author : Prince Serge Oblensky
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
One Man In His Time The Memoirs Of Serge Obolensky written by Prince Serge Oblensky and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
Personal account of a young Russian nobleman and his life through the Russian Revolution, leaving Russia, and serving in two World Wars, including the U.S. Army (OSS) during WWII. Obolensky was a Russian prince who became a publicist and international socialite. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II’s daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army’s oldest paratrooper and earned the rank of colonel. He started his own public relations firm in New York in 1949, handling accounts like Piper-Heidsieck champagne. “Serge,” a friend once remarked, “could be successful selling umbrellas in the middle of the Sahara.” A legend in the hotel business, Colonel Obolensky became a Director of Zeckendorf Hotels, then Vice Chaiman of Hilton Hotels.
The Ottoman Secret
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Author : Raymond Khoury
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-05-30
The Ottoman Secret written by Raymond Khoury and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Fiction categories.
'The best what if thriller for a long, long time' LEE CHILD PARIS, 2017. 300 YEARS AFTER ALL OF EUROPE FELL TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE . . . Kamal Agha is a special investigator for the state police, forced to uphold the feared sultan's strict regime. When a mysteriously tattooed, naked man appears by the Seine and murders a passerby, it's up to Kamal to track him down. But it's a trail that leads him to an astonishing secret. A secret that exposes an empire of lies - and which the sultan's men will do anything to keep hidden. Forced on the run, Kamal knows he will be killed for what he knows - unless he dares use it to save himself. But doing so could wipe out his whole world, and everyone he ever loved along with it . . . This fast-paced adventure packed with thrills and intrigue, will appeal to fans of The Man in the High Castle. ___________ 'A sweeping and cinematic dystopian thriller that wears its smartness on its sleeve' Independent 'Alternate histories don't get much better than this . . . A classic of the genre' Publishers Weekly 'An alternative history tale that will blow your mind. Thoroughly engrossing' DAVID BALDACCI 'A thrilling tour de force. Left me in awe' JAMES ROLLINS 'A masterpiece on a grand scale. A stellar epic' STEVE BERRY 'A world-class writer of pure-bred thrillers' Daily Telegraph
The Devil S Elixir
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Author : Raymond Khoury
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-01-19
The Devil S Elixir written by Raymond Khoury and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Fiction categories.
FBI agent Sean Reilly has just received a call from his past - and finds himself in a desperate race against time to save a woman he once loved and her four-year-old child. From the bestselling author of the TEMPLAR thrillers. [Published in hardback as THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR.] 'I'm in trouble. Something terrible has happened ... I didn't know who else to call' An unexpected phone call from three thousand miles away. A voice he hadn't heard in more than five years. A desperate cry for help that he couldn't ignore. And two small words that would change everything about his life. FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin are back in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from the present day back to 1700s Mexico and, quite possibly, far beyond...
Faceoff
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Author : Lee Child
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-12
Faceoff written by Lee Child and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Fiction categories.
In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring teir much loved series characters.
The Last Noble Gendarme
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Author : Vladimir G. Marinich
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-11-01
The Last Noble Gendarme written by Vladimir G. Marinich and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with History categories.
The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II's last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert the unrest that grew into a revolution replete with mayhem and violence by cautioning his senior government officials about the growing crisis through meetings and written reports. The incompetence and corruption of his superiors caused Globachev's warnings of an impending disaster to be often disregarded, misunderstood, and sometimes rejected flat out. The warnings of Globachev's security and intelligence agency going unheeded helped lead imperial Russia to its cataclysmic destruction—perhaps a metaphor for our times. Following the revolution, Globachev was detained by the new government, but released and forced to flee with his family after the Bolsheviks gained power. Globachev and his family survived the revolution, the subsequent civil war and exile in Turkey. The final chapter of their dramatic adventure was their immigration to the United States, where they became citizens. Now, through their complete biographies, we get to know them as individuals who lived through the most tempestuous and dangerous of times.