It is set to be the greatest bounty hunt in history...
Fifteen names.
There are fifteen targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they all must be dead by twelve noon today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each.
One hero.
Among the names on the list, one stands out. An enigmatic marine named Shane Schofield, call sign SCARECROW.
No limits.
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late night phone call while on business in Paris; the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum.Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted french cryptologist, Sophie Neveu begin to work through the bizarre riddle, they are stunned to find a trail that leads back to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.
Nevil Shute's second novel joins a romantic theme to a masterly story of adventure in the air during the uneasy peace between the wars.
Peter Moran, agent to Lord Arner, stops his car one rainswept night on the Sussex Downs to give an unwanted lift. His passenger turns out to be Maurice Lenden, an old war-time comrade, who has just crash landed a high speed french bomber.
Caught up in the ploys of espionage, Moran finds himself trapped between loyalties as treason and intrigue lead him to a desperate chase across Europe.
The whole thing was impossible, sheer madness to attempt. He must be sensible and put it from his mind. It would be damn good fun...
Already wealthy, Henry Warren would go on making more money, it was now his sole interest...but what was the use in working only for himself? Then he found a woman with faith in the future ... a town that needed to regain its self respect ... a new purpose in living. To try and make a dream come true, Henry risked his fortune ... his reputation ... and his freedom.
Ross raised himself up on one elbow, still holding her hand and looked Alix full in the face. 'This is a good country,' he said earnestly, '...I will ask Leif to let us stay here when the longship goes back and you shall have your children here.'
An Old Captivity
In the shelter of a Greenland Fiord, shunned by their Eskimo Helpers, an elderly Oxford don and his golden-haired daughter listen to words - spoken as if in a dream by the young pilot who holds their lives in his hands. Words that bridge the gap of centuries ...
