Résultats pour "James" dans Politique

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont massivement arrêtés tandis que des pluies torrentielles s'abattent sur la ville. Un corps est découvert dans Griffith Park à la faveur d'un glissement de terrain.

This epic novel by master writer James Clavell, loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and Anglo-Satsuma War that took place in the late 1800s, is a richly researched, panoramic view of Japan’s budding relationship with the Western powers, its sweeping societal changes, and the political upheaval that followed.

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster has always run on spin. Now it runs on an AI. In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes. Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged. So Sarah tries not to. Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY. Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was brought out of the...

James Jesus Angleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligence at the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America, his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. William F. Buckley Jr. presents a subtle and thrilling...

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington Post From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett...

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece...

“What does ‘allegiance’ mean?” the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart. In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell’s extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.

Scott Bradley James, like the US Navy in which he serves, is uncertain of the course he sails, both in war and love. While the threat of defeat that loomed over the first half of America’s war against Japan is behind him, much danger lies ahead. Disastrous mistakes can still be made—and they...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the first novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY. Bernard has known that he is not getting the full picture from London Central ever since discovering that his wife Fiona was a double agent. Werner Volkmann has...

**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger** An Australian bestseller! Geopolitics and espionage collide in this explosive espionage thriller. 'Hands down the best debut of the year' Tim Shipman 'My favourite debut novel of 2025’ Antonia Senior THREE WORDS IN MANDARIN. THAT’S...

Colonel James Donovan finds himself again knee-deep in another conspiracy, with a plot hatched in the Bahamas that takes him back to Havana. This time, Dono and Maggie battle Russian oligarchs and rogue Congressmen in a deadly plot to kidnap an American ambassador and steal her inheritance of $1.2 billion dollars.

Shoulda Woulda Coulda reimagines a world where the Founding Fathers’ vision for America was fully realized, one where the Christian foundation of the nation was explicitly woven into the very fabric of its Constitution. What if the Founders had been even more explicit about their Christian beliefs and had ensured strict term limits for elected officials and clear boundaries for judicial power? What if the US had absorbed Mexico and the territories of Central America, stretching its borders to Panama and embracing them and the Caribbean islands as part of the republic?

Little Sister has vanished. The prototype device - real name IPD400 - has powers of surveillance that governments and terrorist organizations would kill for. They might yet. James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, invented the device and is the only person who can operate it. He's determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian - the arms dealer who "inadvertently" sold the prototype to a rogue dealer.

“Gripping…Ackerman and Stavridis stage a harrowing global conflict that pits military might against an appetite for justice… equal parts haunting and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet...

There is always a dark shadow lurking everywhere, so was there in America. The liberals: Daunting, fearless, cruel and sadistic, ruled over the only power they could find in America; conservatives and any one who believes in the rule of law and God. Soon, the conservatives find the pain and the power of the liberals too overbearing. The closure of churches, bombings, theft of the economy and deficits weigh down the conservatives causing Texas to become the first state to secede. Soon, other states start fueling up their resentment towards the liberals who used them for their advantage.

Brought to you by Penguin. Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothers also grow apart. When the shadow of the Third Reich falls they become divided by war and their differing ideals - only to meet...

National Emergency Security Chief James Donovan finds himself knee-deep in a conspiracy to kill the sitting president of the United States and take over the democratically elected government by military force. More than 5000 American soldiers and right-wing mercenaries are involved in a plot that includes members of the Cabinet, and members of the US Senate.