Лучшие книги Джеймса Беккера

Детектив Крис Бронсон ошеломлен известием, что жена его лучшего друга умерла в результате падения с лестницы на собственной вилле в Италии. Приехав поддержать друга, Бронсон находит на входной двери виллы следы взлома, а над камином, под слоем свежей штукатурки, обнаруживает вмурованный камень со странной надписью на латыни. Чутье подсказывает ему, что смерть женщины не была случайностью и что разгадка убийства кроется в этой таинственной надписи. Бронсон обращается за помощью к своей бывшей жене, специалисту по античной истории, однако их расследование неожиданно становится чрезвычайно опасным. Какие-то силы готовы на все, лишь бы древняя…

Сотрудник британской полиции Крис Бронсон прибыл в Марокко – расследовать гибель двух своих соотечественников, чей автомобиль упал в пропасть. Детектив узнает, что накануне трагедии они случайно нашли на местном базаре какую-то глиняную табличку, испещренную странными знаками. Но в вещах погибших ее не обнаружили – остались лишь несколько фотографий находки. С помощью специалистов Крис выясняет, что это – часть некоего зашифрованного послания на арамейском… И тут вокруг Бронсона раскручивается настоящий смерч кровавых событий. Все люди, знающие о существовании этой таблички, погибают. Сам детектив несколько раз лишь чудом избежал смерти. Ему еще предстоит узнать, что тайна, к которой он прикоснулся, очень древняя. И очень страшная…

Chris Bronson is back and he's yet again found himself on a treacherous mission with his life in danger. His ex-wife - and best friend - Angela, has unwittingly discovered something of enormous historical importance. It is a clue that could unearth a secret kept hidden for hundreds of years by the Knight's Templar. But she was never meant to see this clue - or at least not see and survive another day. Now a terrorist organisation is hot on their heels, not only to unravel the secret first but also to eliminate Angela and Bronson in the process. With both their lives at stake, Bronson and Angela must use all their ingenuity to…

In Ethiopia, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis are on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. But it looks like their luck is running out. Until, that is, a new avenue springs open in southern France.

Meanwhile, the Vatican is getting worried. Their best people are tracking the Ark, but so are a mysterious group operating from Jerusalem. Both are prepared to use deadly force.

As the net closes in around the most powerful artefact in history and the greatest mystery, it's also tightening around Bronson and Lewis. They'll need all their smarts to escape this time...

AN OLD ENEMY Poland, 1945. A special Evacuation Kommando arrives at the Wencleslas Mine, site of the Nazis’ most secret weapon development project. A device known as Die Glocke is removed from the subterranean factory, loaded on to a transport aircraft and spirited out of war-ravaged Europe. No witnesses are left alive. A DESIRE FOR REVENGE London, today. Chris Bronson is working undercover for the Metropolitan Police. What begins as a routine investigation into a group of hooligans vandalising sites in North West London, takes a very sinister turn when Bronson discovers the attacks are being masterminded by a Far Right group. A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF FEAR What if the prototype for a devastating new form of super-weapon survived the end of the war? What if sixty years later it has been perfected? Now imagine an old enemy who has been hiding in the shadows and is still fighting a war most thought had ended with the fall of Hitler. Chris Bronson has less than ten days to stop the biggest and most destructive terror attack the world has ever seen.

BOHEMIA, 1741 On the northern banks of the Vltava River, an extraordinary event is taking place. Inside a private chapel, a high-born Hungarian lady is being laid to rest. But not before her heart is removed from her body, and she is buried beneath a layer of heavy stones - lest she rise again to prey upon her victims ... VENICE, 2010 Holidaying in the world's most beautiful city, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb. Inside it is a female skeleton and an arcane diary dating back hundreds of years. Written in Latin, it references a scroll that will provide an 'answer' to an ancient secret. Soon corpses of young women, all killed in the same ritualistic manner, start appearing throughout the city. And when Angela disappears, Bronson knows that he must find her before she too is slaughtered. But Bronson's hunt for Angela leads him back to the Island of the Dead, and into a conspiracy more deadly than he could ever have imagined ...

FROM THE PUBLISHERS THAT BROUGHT YOU DAN BROWN

For thousands of years we guarded it. But now it has been found. This could be the end - for us; for our organisation; for the world. You must destroy it, and those who have taken it.

An ancient object is discovered in a Cairo souk. Hours later, the market trader who sold it is tortured to death. As the bodies begin to pile up, a request for help is sent to British Museum historian Angela Lewis.

Angela travels to Spain with her ex-husband, undercover police officer Chris Bronson. There they discover the key to the greatest secret in the history of Christianity.

Their only problem is deciphering it before they are brutally murdered like those before them...