Nazi-occupied Budapest, Winter 1944. The Russians are smashing through the German lines. Miklos Farkas breaks out of the Jewish ghetto to find food - at the Nazis' headquarters. There he is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the...
Meet Yael Azoulay, the brilliant and beautiful behind-the-scenes negotiator for the United Nations. Tasked with persuading an Afghan warlord -- and friend of hers -- to surrender to the Americans, she is quickly pulled into a dangerous world of secre...
Yael Azoulay does the United Nations' dirty work by cutting deals that most of us never hear about. Equally at home in the caves of Afghanistan, the slums of Gaza, or corporate boardrooms all across the world, Yael believes the ends justify the means...
In this action-packed, suspenseful sequel to the international thriller The Geneva Option, U.N. covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within America’s military-industrial complex to the Mid...
Yael Azoulay, covert negotiator for the UN Secretary General, has made a powerful enemy in Clarence Clairborne, head of Washington, D.C. lobbying and security firm the Prometheus Group. He’s fixated on revenge -- and Yael knows it. She’s definite...
Set in the long, hot Hungarian summer of 2015―and revealing the hidden, criminal world beneath Budapest’s glittering facade―DISTRICT VIII is the first novel in the new Detective Balthazar Kovacs mystery series. Life’s tough for a Gypsy det...
When Gypsy cop Balthazar Kovacs is called out at dawn to his brother Gaspar's brothel, he know it's bad news. A customer has died in the VIP room. Worse still, he's an Arab diplomat, connected to a massive investment program from the G...
Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Danube Blues Hungarian crime trilogy.
Budapest, January 2016. The Danube is grey and half-frozen, and the city seems...