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The black sun

It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half-century. The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together. And the future of the world depends on their being stopped in time. In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy: the old man's severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three thefts. Could there possibly be a connection? Former art thief Tom Kirk certainly sees no reason to link the crimes when he is first asked to investigate. But when the stolen painting turns up alongside the amputated arm, he realizes that he has uncovered an elaborate trail of clues laid down in the dying days of the Third Reich by a secret order of SS knights. Clues leading to a fabled treasure lost in the ashes of war that is the key to a deadly game where the ultimate prize is life itself -- Tom's included.

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  • ""In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy - his severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three puzzling thefts. Could there possibly be a connection?" ... English book jacket."
  • "It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half century. . . . The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together--and the future of the world depends on his being stopped in time.In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy--his severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three puzzling thefts. Could there possibly be a connection?When former art thief Tom Kirk is first asked to investigate, the Prague theft certainly seems unremarkable enough--until the stolen painting turns up alongside the amputated human arm. As Tom digs deeper into the past, both items appear to be elements in an elaborate trail of clues laid down in the dying days of the Third Reich by a secret order of SS knights--clues that stretch from the remote mountains of Idaho to the snowy streets of St. Petersburg and ultimately lead to a fabled treasure lost in the ashes of war.Spurred on by the sinister light of the Black Sun emblem, ghosts from his past, and the poisonous manipulations of a deadly enemy, Tom finds himself trapped in a situation where the greatest prize of all is life itself--and not just his own. . . ."
  • "It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half-century. The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together. And the future of the world depends on their being stopped in time. In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy: the old man's severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three thefts. Could there possibly be a connection? Former art thief Tom Kirk certainly sees no reason to link the crimes when he is first asked to investigate. But when the stolen painting turns up alongside the amputated arm, he realizes that he has uncovered an elaborate trail of clues laid down in the dying days of the Third Reich by a secret order of SS knights. Clues leading to a fabled treasure lost in the ashes of war that is the key to a deadly game where the ultimate prize is life itself -- Tom's included."@en
  • "In London, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his hospital bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy-his severed left arm. In Fort Mead, Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the NSA museum and steals a second world war Enigma machine, lynching the guard who happens to cross their path. Meanwhile, in Prague, a frenzied and mindless anti-Semitic attack on a Synagogue culminates in the theft of a seemingly worthless painting by a little known Czech artist called Karel Bellak. A year has passed since Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief, decided to put his criminal past behind him and embark on a new career, on the right side of the law. Then three major thefts occur, and suddenly Tom is confronted with a deadly mystery and a sinister face from the past."
  • "In the aftermath of several bizarre crimes, Tom Kirk follows an elaborate trail of clues laid by SS secret agents throughout America and Europe in the final days of Nazi Germany that are believed to lead to a fabled treasure."
  • "Een voormalige Amerikaanse kunstdief wordt met zijn twee kompanen door de CIA ingeschakeld bij het oplossen van drie merkwaardige incidenten in Londen, Praag en de Verenigde Staten."
  • "A former art thief asked to investigate the theft of a seemingly worthless painting in Prague eventually finds it along with an arm severed from an Auschwitz survivor who died in London."@en
  • "A former art thief asked to investigate the theft of a seemingly worthless painting in Prague eventually finds it along with an arm severed from an Auschwitz survivor who died in London."

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  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Thrillery (romány)"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Thrillers (novels)"
  • "Detective novels"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detektivní romány"

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  • "Die schwarze Sonne : Thriller"
  • "Les héritiers du Soleil Noir"
  • "Sol negro"@es
  • "Sol negro"
  • "Die schwarze Sonne Roman; [Mystery-Thriller]"
  • "Czarne słońce"
  • "Czarne słońce"@pl
  • "De zwarte zon"
  • "The black sun"
  • "The black sun"@en
  • "Les héritiers du Soleil Noir : roman"
  • "Crno sunce"
  • "The black sun: Tom Kirk bk.2"
  • "Ho mauros helios"
  • "Černé slunce"

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