La Corona y la Espada

'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer

Septiembre de 1803, Falmouth. El país se enfrenta a la cruda realidad de la guerra y Bolitho será llamado para que se anticipe a la estrategia de la flota francesa. Pero el conflicto ha tomado además un cariz personal: la vendetta entre Bolitho y el contralmirante francés Jobert, quien en su día estaba al mando del Argonaute. Un último y potencialmente funesto encuentro planea sobre Bolitho y sus hombres, en el cual no se va a pedir ni se va a dar cuartel.

In this novel, the sixth book in the continuing drama of those left behind at the Rapture, Rayford Steele and the other members of the Tribulation Force prepare for a future as fugitives.

This is a story of a young beautiful Jewish woman, trained as a gemologist, who experiences the excitement and intrigue of the world of diamonds and murder in the African Desert. She is accused of murdering the family who owns the Alonso Diamond Mining Company and whose home she had just left ten days earlier. On her return to New York City by way of ocean liner and in the course of being arrested for murder she meets a young reporter by the name of Stephen Hauk. It is a story of deep love and emotion with determination to succeed under all circumstances that will leave you in awe of Emmy...