Beating its biplane rivals in a 1936 Reich Air Ministry design competition, the Arado Ar 196 provided the Kriegsmarine with possibly the best shipborne reconnaissance seaplane of World War II.Replacing the Heinkel He 60 biplane as the standard catapult-launched floatplane embarked on the Kriegsmarine's capital ships, the Ar 196 flew an assortment of combat missions during World War II, including coastal patrol, submarine hunting, light bombing, general reconnaissan...

An illustrated history of a remarkable aircraft, the Dornier Do 24, which served both military and humanitarian purposes.Perhaps the most seaworthy flying boat ever built, the elegant, tri-motor Dornier Do 24 served with both the Allied and Axis forces in very different parts of the globe during World War 2, garnering an excellent reputation along the way. This study uses archival records, first-hand accounts and revealing photographs to illuminate the combat caree...

Beating its biplane rivals in a 1936 Reich Air Ministry design competition, the Arado Ar 196 provided the Kriegsmarine with possibly the best shipborne reconnaissance seaplane of World War II. Replacing the Heinkel He 60 biplane as the standard catapult-launched floatplane embarked on the Kriegsmarine's capital ships, the Ar 196 flew an assortment of combat missions during World War II, including coastal patrol, submarine hunting, light bombing, general reconnaissance and convoy escort sor...

An illustrated history of a remarkable aircraft, the Dornier Do 24, which served both military and humanitarian purposes.Perhaps the most seaworthy flying boat ever built, the elegant, tri-motor Dornier Do 24 served with both the Allied and Axis forces in very different parts of the globe during World War 2, garnering an excellent reputation along the way. This study uses archival records, first-hand accounts and revealing photographs to illuminate the combat caree...

Hoe kon Jacks broertje slachtoffer zijn geworden van de verdrinkingsdood? Hij was toch een goede zwemmer?Jack Mullen, een jonge rechtenstudent, is met stomheid geslagen wanneer hij het gruwelijke nieuws hoort over zijn broer Peter. Naast het intense verdriet wordt hij geleid door onbegrip en immense vastberadenheid om erachter te komen wat er echt met Peter gebeurd is. Tijdens zijn onderzoek stuit hij op een invloedrijke man… Wat had zijn broertje met hem te maken? 'Slotpleidooi' i...

Wat doe je als je beste vriend beschuldigd wordt van een drievoudige moord? En is het verstandig om samen te werken met je ex?Advocaat Tom Dunleavy heeft voor een nieuwe opdracht de beste advocaat van het land nodig: zijn ex-vriendin Kate Costello. De problemen van Dante Halleyville, een vriend van Tom, stapelen zich op wanneer hij wordt beschuldigd voor een drievoudige moord vlakbij de villa van een bekende filmster. Het zou de rechtszaak van de eeuw worden… Iets wat Tom goed kan ...

The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised - dead. The police are calling the drowning an accident. Jack knows that's not right. Someone wanted his brother dead.But the establishment says otherwise. Jack tries to uncover what really happened on the beach that night, only to confront a wall of s...

Als een midlifecrisis in een wonderlijk succesverhaal uitmondt!Het gaat niet goed met Travis McKinley. Een uitdovend huwelijk, haast geen band met zijn kinderen, een baan die hij haat. Maar dan ontdekt hij een onverwacht talent: Travis is een geweldige golfer. Hij besluit zijn kans te wagen, neemt ontslag en traint voor de PGA Senior Tour.James Patterson is bekend als thrillerschrijver, maar met de Travis McKinley-boeken slaat hij een heel andere toon aan: hartverwarmende v...

Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. But his clients are the people he grew up with, the people who make a living serving the rich.When an old friend, Dante Halleyville, is arrested for a triple murder near a movie star's mansion, Tom agrees to represent him, and recruits super lawyer, and ex-girlfriend, Kate Costello to help fight the case.As Tom wonders if he can ever get Kate to forgive him for his pa...

Det. Darlene O'Hara uncovers a missing college girl's deadly double life in the #1 New York Times bestselling author's "killer of a thriller" (Dennis Lehane).New York City, 2005. Escaping a troubled past, Francesca Pena came to the city and reinvented herself. At New York University, her beauty and charisma are the envy of her privileged pals, yet no one knows the real Francesca—who, after a night of drinking, is now missing.Detective Darlen...

**A classic summer thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time.When New York law student Jack Mullen learns that his brother has drowned, he knows it can't be an accident . . .**Jack Mullen is in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident — someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise.As Jack tr...

A classic summer legal thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time.Dark mysteries invade East Hampton as a struggling lawyer fights to save an old friend from being framed for murder.Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small, with occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. So, when he is hired to defend a local man accused of a triple murder in East Hampton, he knows that he has found the ca...