Résultats pour "Vera" dans Historique

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Justin Tolliver is on the brink of an enormous change. The younger son of an English peer - that is, the son with no money and no prospects - he had joined the police force in British East Africa, full of dreams of bringing his majesty's justice to a dark and savage world. But it's 1913, and with his faith in the British government in tatters, Justin is opting instead for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. It is his wife, Vera, who has helped him put aside images of darkness and come to see Africa, instead, as all but lit from within.

Tra le dune di Venezia, una coppia in cerca di intimità ritrova un cadavere. È il 1943, la Seconda Guerra Mondiale non accenna a finire, e in Italia il Fascismo sta iniziando a crollare. In questa torrida estate, il maresciallo Russo dovrà indagare sulla morte dell'uomo ritrovato tra le dune, riconosciuto come Ludovico Ferri, ricco borghese molto noto in città. In questo giallo storico, l'orrore della Guerra rifletterà altri segreti che si nascondono tra i canali di Venezia.