Wie is onze toekomstige koning? Kroonprins Willem-Alexander lijkt inmiddels klaar voor de troon, maar daar is heel wat aan vooraf gegaan. Er bestonden twijfels over zijn geschiktheid en ook hijzelf leek niet altijd evenveel zin te hebben in de baan die onvermijdelijk op hem wacht. Hij vloog enkele keren (letterlijk en figuurlijk) stevig uit de bocht. Het leven van de veertigjarige prins wordt in dit boek kritisch onder de loep genomen.Zijn jeugd op Drakensteyn, zijn middelbare scho...

Crime is everywhere in postwar Los Angeles -- and so is Sgt. Joe Friday.From robbery detail to the Bunco Squad, from narcotics to homicide, he's on the job in radio's definitive police procedural series.Jack Webb dons Friday's badge (number 714) for twenty real-life tales of crime and investigation -- with only the names changed to protect the innocent! Ben Alexander co-stars as partner Frank Smith. Also heard in these broadcasts are radio regulars Jack Kruschen, Georgia Ellis, Vic Perrin,...

The 1959–60 television season was the height of success for the animated cartoon creative team of Messrs. Hanna-Barbera and one Daws Butler. Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw, and Baba Looey were household names with young and old alike. Huckleberry Hound fan clubs sprouted around the country.In this fourth volume of rarities, Butler prot├®g├® Joe Bevilacqua has once again uncovered recordings of the legendary voice genius that were thought lost and remaste...

Sergeant Joe Friday of the LAPD was arguably the most pivotal figure in radio drama's postwar shift toward ultra-realism. Just an ordinary plainclothes cop doing his job, and doing it with a meticulous attention to detail that revolutionized the way radio told its stories.Jack Webb stars Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero, Barney Phillips as Ed Jacobs, and Ben Alexander as Frank Smith in this collection of twenty absorbing crime dramas!Episodes Include: The Big Pair 09-21-50; The...

Before the Great War, Britain fought its first secret battle.In the spring of 1912, Alexander Templeman boards a night train expecting nothing more than a quiet journey north. Instead, he is drawn into a hidden world of spies, secrets, and pursuit. A world in which a single mistake can be fatal.Untrained and unprepared, Templeman finds himself trapped in the Scottish Lowlands by a brilliant and merciless enemy. With time running out and no one he can fully ...

An old-school espionage thriller in the classic tradition of John Buchan and Erskine Childers.October 1913. Europe teeters on the edge of chaos.British secret service agent, Alexander Templeman, is dispatched to Rome to stop a political assassination that could ignite a global war. But the deeper he digs, the more deadly the game becomes.Hunted through shadowy backstreets and glittering embassies, Templeman must outwit a familiar and ruthless foe, a...

A classic tale of espionage on the eve of the first world war.A murdered British civil servant. Stolen Government documents. A fleeing German agent. Events that presage a desperate new assignment for secret service agent Alexander Templeman.Tasked with helping to keep an escaping German scientist out of the hands of ruthless enemy agents, Templeman will soon find himself isolated and fighting for his very life. If the uncertain and inexperienced agent fails...

Before the Great War, Britain fought its first secret battle.In the spring of 1912, the nation appears calm and confident — yet beneath the surface a dangerous contest of secrets is already under way.Alexander Templeman, a young and respectable London solicitor, has no interest in intrigue or espionage. But when a chance encounter places him in possession of information others are prepared to kill for, his world is abruptly and violently transformed.

An old-school espionage thriller in the classic tradition of John Buchan and Erskine Childers.October 1913. Europe teeters on the edge of chaos.British secret service agent, Alexander Templeman, is dispatched to Rome to stop a political assassination that could ignite a global war. But the deeper he digs, the more deadly the game becomes.Hunted through shadowy backstreets and glittering embassies, Templeman must outwit a familiar and ruthless foe, a...

A classic tale of espionage on the eve of the first world war.A murdered British civil servant. Stolen Government documents. A fleeing German agent. Events that presage a desperate new assignment for secret service agent Alexander Templeman.Tasked with helping to keep an escaping German scientist out of the hands of ruthless enemy agents, Templeman will soon find himself isolated and fighting for his very life. If the uncertain and inexperienced agent fails...

Voor het oog van de camera ben je nooit alleen… Als ze geselecteerd wordt voor een gloednieuw datingprogramma grijpt Lucy de kans met beide handen aan. Dit is het moment voor een nieuwe wending in haar leven. Haar werk is monotoon, ze woont nog steeds samen met haar twee beste vrienden en haar liefdesleven is sinds haar ex Jonas al net zo enerverend en volwassen als haar woonsituatie. Ze is klaar voor avontuur én een nieuwe liefde. De opzet van het datingprogramma? Daten in doodsangst. Kan...

"Ce surnom était un simple pseudonyme derrière lequel je me cachais pour raconter mes histoires de ringard en short et en baskets. Rien, absolument rien de ce qui allait suivre n’était calculé. Casquette verte, à l’origine, c’est juste un délire qui m’a échappé, un tourbillon de concours de circonstances." Lorsqu’il intègre le monde du travail après des années festives en école de commerce, Alexandre Boucheix fume, boit et sort encore tous les soirs, tel un éternel étudiant. Depuis l’adole...