Collector of Secrets by Richard Goodfellow

By Richard Goodfellow

A riveting debut mystery with the twists and turns of “North through Northwest” and The company approximately an American in Japan who comes upon a mysterious decades-old diary, and finally ends up stuck in an internet of world espionage he can't almost certainly fathom.

Max Travers is an English instructor in Japan. while his manipulative boss starts off swindling the unsuspecting mom and dad of his scholars, Max needs to retrieve his passport to come domestic. Max sneaks into her place of work basically to bump into a burglary-in-progress. Max slightly escapes, yet unintentionally takes an odd diary certain in leather-based and embossed with an odd seal. Little does Max comprehend that this diary has been hidden for over part a century, and its secrets and techniques may possibly topple a few of Japan’s strongest humans and rewrite the historical past of the royal family.

Max quickly reveals himself at the run from every body from tattooed Yakuza to the japanese police and a
mysterious American who has ties within the optimum locations, all keen to kill for the diary’s secrets and techniques. together with his and girlfriend's lives within the stability, Max needs to decipher the diary's secrets and techniques in a richly unique and impressive mystery that covers every little thing from international conflict II to Watergate.

Show description

Read Online or Download Collector of Secrets PDF

Best historical fiction books

Bright Young Things

The yr is 1929. ny is governed by means of the brilliant younger issues: flappers and socialites looking thrills and chasing goals within the anything-goes period of the Roaring Twenties.

Letty Larkspur and Cordelia gray escaped their small Midwestern city for brand new York's glittering city. All Letty desires is to work out her identify in lighting, yet she quick discovers new york is stuffed with lovely women who will do something to be a celeb. . . .

Cordelia is trying to find the daddy she's by no means identified, a guy as notorious for his wild events as he's for his shadowy schemes. in a single day, she enters a global extra exciting and glamorous than she ever may have imagined—and extra risky. It's a lifestyles an individual could kill for . . . and an individual will.

The purely individual Cordelia can belief is ­Astrid Donal, a flapper who turns out to have all of it: cash, seems to be, and the affection of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. yet Astrid's excellent veneer hides a rating of relatives secrets.

Across the big lawns of big apple, within the ­illicit speakeasies of new york, and at the blindingly lit phases of Broadway, the 3 girls' fortunes will upward push and fall—together and aside. From the recent York instances bestselling writer of The Luxe comes an epic new sequence set within the dizzying final summer season of the Jazz Age.

The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

The place Theodora went, hassle undefined. ..

In sixth-century Constantinople, one girl, Theodora, defied each conference and all of the odds and rose from universal theater tart to empress of an excellent country, the main strong lady the Roman Empire might ever be aware of. the girl whose picture used to be later immortalized in glittering mosaic was once a scrappy, shrewdpermanent, conniving, flesh-and-blood lady choked with sensuality and spirit whose actual tale is as fantastic as any ever instructed. ..

After her father dies abruptly, Theodora and her sisters face hunger and a existence at the streets. made up our minds to outlive, Theodora makes a residing any manner she can—first on her again with each guy who may have her, then at the degree in a scandalous dramatization of her personal invention. whilst her bold functionality offers her a backdoor access into the halls of strength, she seizes the opportunity to win a filthy rich protector—only to stand heartbreak and betrayal.

Ever resilient, Theodora rises above such trials and, through a coincidence, meets her such a lot passionate admirer but: the emperor's nephew. She flourishes as his confidant and courtesan, yet many demanding situations lie forward. For sooner or later this guy will hand her a crown. And the entire empire will wonder—is she daring sufficient, wise adequate, and powerful sufficient to maintain it?

Winds of Dalmatia

The Winds of Dalmatia is Tanja Tuma’s excellent, epic, fascinating, and well-crafted novel devoted to these who’ve the headlines from the Bosnian struggle but won't absolutely understand the bad person discomfort that transpired within the lives of its victims.

It’s the 1st booklet of Tuma’s Balkan trilogy. enthusiasts may still be aware that the second one e-book will go back and forth north to Istria and Slovenia, and within the 3rd, east to Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

The plot of Winds of Dalmatia is sweeping, grand, romantic, and gorgeous.

Maria Perić has undergone her own hell in the course of the Balkan conflict and survived. Now in her sixties, she leads a comfy existence dealing with a lodge on a quiet island, and elevating her loved Paula. Her prior is as shady because the resource of her wealth. while Paula falls in poor health with leukemia, there’s just one approach to keep her — Maria needs to inform the reality, and Paula needs to face the Serbian conflict felony waiting for his verdict from the foreign legal Tribunal on the Hague Hilton.

In her spare time, Maria escapes truth via studying the heritage of her place of birth Dalmatia. Her ancient saga starts off with a Greek colony within the 6th Century B. C. at the isle of Korčula, by means of a bankruptcy at the Roman occasions, the period of the Emperor Diocletian, born in Dalmatia.

Her study strikes to Dubrovnik, because the potent Republic of Ragusa blooms within the Fourteenth Century, difficult the Venetians within the Adriatic. The 15th Century witnesses the Ottoman Empire carry Islam to the hinterland of Dalmatia. Readers will thrill to the intrigues of a harem the place a tender rebellious spouse and a eunuch lengthy for freedom and love.

As global warfare I calls for extra infantrymen, a mom comes to a decision to dedicate her cherished son to the protection of the Blaca monastery at the island of Brač, which saves him from front. but the mum nonetheless loses him, and her wrath is poor.

These escapist stories by no means fail to entertain, yet can't distract Maria and Paula from their appointment with future. And as the entire motion wraps up, the most characters survive, prepared for the second one and the 3rd elements of Tuma’s Balkan troika.

The ethical dilemmas, in addition to the twists and turns of the unconventional, will continue readers at the fringe of their seats. the fundamental subject Tuma units forth is that of people residing in hard occasions of conflicts and wars, and the way they focus on their very own own values, love, and household. Villains may perhaps occasionally do this that's correct, natural, and noble, whereas solid everyone is compelled into committing crimes. Tuma’s characters are deep, fascinating, and intricate. Her e-book is dramatic, attractive, and choked with characters which are wrong but constantly jam-packed with surprises. occasionally it’s most unlikely to not hate them, whereas different instances the reader should be pushed to face up and cheer for them.

The Winds of Dalmatia will grip the readers, and take them right into a passionate, first-hand trip of a number of the cultures of the previous Yugoslavia. the unconventional craftily skirts through the troubling warfare violence because it conveys the inner conflicts of assorted characters facing it in numerous old sessions. The clashes of 3 religions and cultures — Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Islam — in addition to global battle I, international battle II, and the Nineties battle within the Balkans, give you the backdrop for romance tales within which basic individuals are attempting to come to phrases with the tumult of conflicts and wars round them, eager for freedom, love, and peace.

The Last Necromancer (Ministry of Curiosities, Book 1)

Victorian London: for 5 years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy within the slums. but if one robbery too many will get her arrested, her basically technique of get away lies with a lifeless guy. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit when you consider that she first came across she may perhaps accomplish that 5 years in the past. that point, her father banished her.

Extra info for Collector of Secrets

Example text

Soon afterward came an episode in Bastogne, showing again what kind of battle this was going to be. They carted off not merely the staff and the supplies, but all the wounded men. IV Monuments resumed work on interrogation; it was the way they could be most useful, setting free the military men for more urgent duties. Lanny’s interest was the keener because his own life was at stake. Many whom he didn’t know would know him, for he had been a conspicuous figure wherever he went in Naziland, the American whom the Führer trusted.

They talked fast, and it was evident that they knew their business down to the last detail; they had spent two years learning it and half a year acting what they had learned. With quiet competence they laid out the procedure. Another commando would be a second or two behind, prepared to help. All that presupposed darkness, of which there was an unlimited quantity outside. ” asked Lanny. ” exclaimed the lieutenant, pleased but uncertain. “Most of the officers will be in the farmhouse, eating supper and resting.

He had destroyed all his papers and could give a false name and might get by with it. But he had traveled all over Germany, ever since boyhood, and had known literally thousands of Germans, especially of the officer class and among the Nazis of the ruling group. Wasn’t it certain that they would apply all the fancy kinds of scientific torture they had devised to make him reveal the names of his accomplices? So why not die quickly and take a few highly trained enemy troops along with him? If only he had had one of those tiny cyanide capsules with which the OSS provided its agents when going into enemy territory!

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.10 of 5 – based on 19 votes