Robert Wilson

A small death in Lisbon.

The Company of Strangers

The first in Robert Wilson's Seville series, featuring the tortured detective Javier Falcon.

The Blind Man of Seville

“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.

An American Life

Barnum

In a follow-up to The Blind Man of Seville, Javier Falcn, still struggling with the psychological trauma of his past case, investigates an apparent suicide in a wealthy neighborhood and becomes increasingly alarmed when subsequent suicides have suspicious links to the first. Reprint.

The Vanished Hands

As maos desaparecidas

The Hidden Assassins

The ignorance of blood

British ex-patriate Bruce Medway, working as a troubleshooter for traders in West Africa, finds his life complicated by his search for another ex-patriate, as well as by local official corruption, and the elusive Madame Servernou.

Instruments of Darkness

Ferguson Otis

Dorothy Chamberlain

This book contains all of Otis Ferguson's writings about music and musicians; a selection of his writings on radio, theater, movies, books, and writers; and his autobiographical writings, including some extraordinary accounts of his sea voyages.

The Otis Ferguson Reader

In the Spirit of Jazz

The “crackerjack” first thriller in the London-set series featuring kidnap consultant Charles Boxer (TheWall Street Journal). When the twenty-five-year-old daughter of Indian billionaire Frank D’Cruz is kidnapped, former cop turned private security professional Charles Boxer is charged with getting her back alive. Boxer knows all-too-well how the dark forces in London can reach out and ensnare an innocent victim. He also knows that D’Cruz’s crooked business empire has made him plenty of enemies. But despite the family’s vast fortune, the kidnappers aren’t looking for money. Instead, they favor a crueler, more lethal game that will put many lives at stake as the trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil. Capital Punishment is a “smart, sophisticated, and twisty thriller” from the award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon (Library Journal, starred review).

A Thriller

Capital Punishment

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; Vol. 4 of 4

Inspektør Javier Falcón etterforsker en ukjent kriminell gruppe da Sevilla plutselig rystes av massive eksplosjoner som ødelegger en blokk og en barnehage. Når det blir kjent at det lå en moské i kjelleren på blokken, blir alles frykt for at det dreier seg om terrorisme bekreftet. Men mens likene bæres ut av ruinene og byen er lammet av frykt, skjønner Falcón at ingenting er slik man har antatt. Inspektør Javier Falcón ble introdusert for norske lesere i den kritikerroste "Den blinde mannen i Sevilla". En rekke av Wilsons kriminalromaner er oversatt til norsk.

De skjulte morderne

romance

Assassinos escondidos

O cego de Sevilha

A ignorancia do sangue

James Benton might be the last man on earth. Racing to get to work, he finds random abandoned cars, smoldering pile-ups, and something even stranger. Everywhere he goes there's no grass, no people, not even a bird in the sky. Alone in a barren world, James travels west in search of someone, anyone who might have survived The Quiet.

The Quiet: A Novella

Manuel Joaquim Vieira

Maria Douglas

Último acto em Lisboa

Um livro ambientado em Lisboa e pano de fundo da II Guerra Mundial. Lisboa, 1944. No calor tórrido do Verão, as ruas da capital fervilham de espiões e informadores, enquanto os serviços secretos disputam em silêncio a última partida. Os alemães dominam a tecnologia dos foguetões e a pesquisa atómica. Os aliados estão decididos a impedir que a ameaça da «arma secreta» venha a concretizar-se. Andrea Aspinall, matemática e espia, entra nesse mundo sofisticado pela mão de uma abastada família do Estoril. Karl Voss, adido militar da Legação Alemã, abalado pela implicação no assassinato de um Reichsminister e traumatizado pelo desastre de Estalinegrado, chega a Portugal com a missão de salvar a Alemanha do aniquilamento. Na tranquilidade mortal de um paraíso corrupto, Andrea e Voss encontram-se e tentam viver o seu amor num mundo em que não se pode acreditar em ninguém. Depois de uma noite de terrível violência, Andrea fica na posse de um segredo que vai ligá-la para sempre ao mundo clandestino, do repressivo regime fascista português à paranóia da Guerra Fria na Alemanha. E aí, numa Berlim gelada, descobre que os maiores segredos não estão nas mãos dos governos, mas em mãos muito próximas de si, e é forçada a fazer a derradeira e dilacerante opção.Robert Wilson nasceu em 1957. Doutorado pela Universidade de Oxford, trabalhou em expedição, publicidade e comércio, em África, e viveu na Grécia e na África Ocidental. Divide o seu tempo entre Inglaterra (Oxford) e Portugal, sendo proprietário de uma pequena quinta no Alentejo. É autor de grandes romances de sucesso, entre os quais destacamos A Companhia de Estranhos, Último Acto em Lisboa (Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger para Melhor Romance Policial, em 1999, e International Deutsche Krimi Prize 2003), e o quarteto de Sevilha – O Cego de Sevilha, As Mãos Desaparecidas (Prémio Gumshoe para Melhor Romance Policial Europeu 2006), Assassinos Escondidos e A Ignorância do Sangue –, obras que revelaram e celebrizaram o inspetor-chefe Javier Falcón. Em 2012, os dois primeiros livros do quarteto de Sevilha foram adaptados para televisão pela Sky Atlantic, na série de nome Falcón.

A Companhia de Estranhos

Math prodigy Andrea Aspinall vanishes from her first assignment for the British secret service, using a Nazi traitor's identity and memories to recreate a new life for herself. By the author of A Small Death in Lisbon. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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