Fiction - Political

Democracy always comes with a cost.After learning of a plot that could kill millions, small-town sheriff Jacob Davidson intercepts an enigmatic briefcase-one of the plan's lynchpins that puts him in the crosshairs of formidable D.C. fixer Tiffany Wright.And while Wright and Davidson play their...

The classic World War II-era dystopian novel, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and 1984, in its first new translation in more than fifty years A Penguin Classic Leo Kall is a zealous middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has...

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against...

In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin--now a major motion picture--and "the voice of today's postmodern thriller generation" (The Providence Journal) delivers a pulse-pounding novel starring a young, hungry, and lethal operative named Mitch Rapp as he begins his career as a...

The breakneck thriller that inspired TV sensation Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh, "unlike any other spy drama you've seen" (Daily Beast). Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of...

"[An] elegant novel of poisoned love and intimate violence . . . Sharp and funny . . . a beautifully polished performance." --James Lakeman, The Times Literary Supplement "Political intrigue, sexual chicanery, disappointment, betrayal" combine with "dazzling" effect (Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph) in...

The political and the personal become blurred in a series of tense, tantalizing conversations about resistance. A pared-back yet gripping psychological novel from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and Allegro. A woman travels to Paris to meet her lover. When she...

«Juliana cae al vacío, lleva un vestido blanco, vaporoso, que se agita en el aire, pero en vez de estrellarse contra el piso, justo antes de llegar, mueve sus brazos y vuela como una mariposa . Verónica Balda es periodista y conduce uno de...

La historia de la única heredera de Moctezuma contada como nunca antes.1521, el imperio azteca se derrumba. Tecuixpo, la hija favorita de Moctezuma, es hecha prisionera por los conquistadores españoles, quienes son responsables de la muerte de su padre y la sangrienta derrota de...

«Una ciudad, una verdadera, tiene dos caras: la que la mayoría de sus habitantes entiende, y otra, la que se aparece apenas cae la noche. México, 1977. En la penumbra de una cantina del Centro Histórico, el Güero, un legendario periodista de nota roja,...

Ganadora del premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI según el New York Times El fenómeno literario internacional que catapultó a Han Kang y que está destinado a ser un clásico «Un libro que resistirá el paso de...

"Mi nombre es Juan Planchard, tengo veintinueve años y cinco millones de dólares en mi cuenta. Tengo una casa en Caracas, una en Madrid y un apartamento en Nueva York. Soy dueño de una casa de apuestas en el Hotel Palms de Las Vegas....

« Para qué compro tu país si al final de cuentas ya es mío? Por qué somos un continente rico con gente pobre? Las cicatrices del viento intenta explicar los orígenes del atraso latinoamericano a través de una vigorosa narración novelada que revela el...

From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.Author: Ben LernerPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 08/23/2011Pages: 186Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9781566892742Award: Literary Award - Runner-UpAward: L.A. Times Book Prize...

An unprecedented and terrifying bioterrorism plot threatens to kill millions in the midst of a divisive presidential election in this "gut punch of a tale that exploits our greatest fears" (The Providence Journal) from the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series. A...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "compelling" (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday--from "a literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own" (The Wall Street Journal) "Rich and complex . . . with...

Una impresionante novela sobre el amor, la resiliencia y el sacrificio, protagonizada por mujeres de tres generaciones unidas por una vieja máquina de escribir Olivetti, del autor español bestseller Mario Escobar. Ana, de casi treinta años, regresa a España con su familia tras años...

Jack Ryan Jr.--along with the covert warriors of the Campus--continues to uphold his legendary father's legacy of courage and honor in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy.Privately training with special forces, he's honing his combat skills to continue his...

A new US administration has taken office, installing a brash and unconventional CIA director skeptical of old alliances and determined to disrupt the Agency. When the axe falls on the chief of London Station, the agency veteran decides to spy for the Brits--a betrayal...