In Hungary, Viktor Orbán was re-elected as prime minister for a third successive four-year term. After Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, Mr Orbán is now the EU’s longest serving leader. In our latest issue, we look at Hungary’s history, why Mr Orbán refuses to adopt some EU policies, and the make up and aims of the Visegrád Group.
So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget
In bestseller Gardner's gripping 11th thriller, Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren, last seen in 2007's Hide, looks into the curious disappearance of Sandra Jones, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, from her South Boston home: Sandra's keys and purse were on the kitchen counter, nothing was disturbed, and her four-year-old daughter, Ree, to whom she was devoted, was asleep upstairs. The missing woman's reporter husband, Jason, becomes an immediate suspect because he refuses to answer questions and appears to have destroyed evidence. As a media frenzy envelopes the case, Warren's investigation reveals the couple's life as anything but perfect or normal.
When the attractive, wealthy Mr Bingley comes to live at Netherfield bringing his friend Mr Darcy with him, Mrs Bennet is delighted; she has five daughters to be married. However, things don't go as smoothly as he hoped: Mr Bingley abandons Jane, Mr Darcy clearly has no interest in Elizabeth and she refuses Mr Collin's proposal of marriage.
Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission, to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism's most notorious sponsors. But he doesn't know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, and therefore need a disaster for the present regime, Mitch refuses to die... the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation.
