Robert Ryan

Sorprende esta autobiografía del que se puede considerar el último torero estadounidense, Robert Ryan; y lo hace por innumerables motivos: el emocionante carácter de lo insólito del caso, el enfoque intimo de una experiencia rica y unica, un sentir exquisito sobre la tauromaquia, su escritura excepcional Desde sus primeras paginas un bellisimo relato sobre el nacimiento de la sorprendente vocacion por el toreo de un chico californiano sin la mas minima cercania al mundo taurino Ryan da cuenta de una sensibilidad especial para el arte, la recreacion literaria y la emocion. Una vez dentro del mundo taurino, el recorrido por su periplo como matador esta lleno de datos, riqueza y matices; ya en Mexico, con su padre taurino, el maestro Pepe Ortiz, o en su salto a España, de manos de los hermanos Lozano. Ademas del sabroso dato para la historia, Ryan, poeta, grabador, pintor y siempre torero, deja aqui lo mas granado de su memoria, una reflexion unica sobre la intimidad y profundidades del toreo y, seguramente, sus mejores paginas como escritor. ¿Como un gringo nacido en Los Angeles puede llegar a comprender, a sentir, a vivir y desarrollar de una manera tan pura la Tauromaquia?En un tiempo resultadista, de busqueda de seguidores y likes por la via rapida, sin ningun pudor en algunos casos, darse una vuelta por la vida de este artista es un valioso balsamo espiritualNo les suena el nombre, ¿verdad? Pues descubranlo, es Robert Ryan, un torero americano de Estados Unidos. Abran la puerta de esta historia escrita en exquisita prosa poetica.~ JOSE TOMAS, del prologo a este libro

EL TOREO DE CAPA es una recopilación fiel de todo tipo de suertes presentes en las tauromaquias clásicas y de las que han ido apareciendo tras la revolución belmontina –aquellas cinco verónicas sin e

A stunning Dr Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock. The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners. With the Allied blockade, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel. Watson, though, isn''t so sure. Something isn''t quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve. If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from his old friend, Sherlock Holmes...

A sweeping epic historical novel about Lawrence of Arabia, one of the most compelling characters in British history, from bestselling author Robert Ryan. 1915: While the war in Europe escalates, a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, awaiting his chance for action. His superiors, however, have consigned him to the Map Room at GCHQ. But there''s more to Lieutenant Lawrence than meets the eye. A man of immense energy, he runs a network of agents across the Levant. Lawrence is convinced that an Arab revolt is the only way to remove the Ottoman presence, and leave a free self-governed Arabia. Soon, alarming reports reach him of trouble in Persia, orchestrated by infamous German agent Wilhelm Wassmuss. Intent on taking down Wassmuss and, at the same time, unlocking the secret of his success, Lawrence assembles a small group and travels to Persia...

Jim Barry and his wife Belle live a comfortable suburban life in New Jersey, until a young boy is killed in a freak accident - and the grieving father demands an extraordinary restitution: Jim Barry must replace the sinister Stefan Sebastayens son with his own, or the whole family will be slaughtered... Meanwhile single-mother Wendy Blatand is trying hard to bring up her son Pete in an Arizona trailer-park while working as a waitress - until one night Pete is abducted...

In the flamboyant Twenties, Englishman William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist were fierce rivals racing their elegant Bugattis on the glittering European race circuits. Not only is the World Championship in their sights, but they have both fallen for the sensuous charms of the extravagantly beautiful Eve Aubicq. But when war breaks out, everything changes. Paris is in the iron-grip of German occupation and Robert and William join the Special Operations Executive to help the French Resistance undermine the brutal occupying regime. Their missions involve utmost courage and daring in the face of the horrors of war. Based on a true story of British covert activity and the French Resistance during the Second World War, this is a gripping novel of heroism, self-sacrifice, love and betrayal.

Laura McGill is determined to track down her missing sister, but is in danger of getting caught up in a country on the brink of the Cold War. She is waiting on a street corner in Piccadilly, London, with a Colt .32 in her handbag. Laura is desperate to find out what happened to her sister Diana. Both were Special Operation Executive spies during World War Two. One night in 1944, Diana was flown into occupied France but never returned. Could she still be alive? James Hadley Webb, the man who sent Diana on her final mission, is now a spy in Berlin. Despite attempts to stop her, Laura travels to Germany to confront him and soon becomes caught in the crossfire of a bloody turf war fought between the East and the West for control of the city...

For gamblers and fun-seekers, Atlantic City is a place to chase your dreams. But for taxi driver Ed Behr, its where his personal nightmare is all too real. He is haunted by violent flashbacks to his time in prison and sustained only by his obsession with finding Honey, the girl who promised him everything. Then he recognises one of the old gang from the days before the bad things happened that got them all sent down. Except for Billy Moon, that is, who went on to bigger and better things while they were left to rot. And now Ed has a plan thats going to reunite the gang, make enough dough, and sort out Billy Moon once and for all. Maybe even get Honey back too. Thats if he doesnt get them all killed first...

A lot of people know that the city of Seattle burned down in 1889. And its common knowledge that when it was rebuilt, much of the old city remained, buried beneath the modern streets. But nobody really knows whats down there any more... Now a suspected psycho and the eight-year-old girl hes taken hostage during a bungled heist are about to find out, when they crash through the floor of an abandoned warehouse into a street no one has walked down for a hundred years.Pursued by an ex-Vietnam Tunnel Rat brought in by the Seattle PD - a man with one or two mental problems of his own - Hilton Badcock has no choice but to drag young Ali further into the underground maze in search of a way out. But the deeper they go into this strange, secret world, the weirder and more dangerous things get...

Deep in Englands green and pleasant land something evil lurks Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmes stalwart companion, is back home, fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields. The horrors of war weigh heavy on his mind, and now his task is to help rehabilitate soldiers suffering from the crippling effects of shell-shock. But the war is not yet over and in one corner of England lies a secret, one that the establishment is determined to keep under wraps. For in the woodlands of the lush countryside, the government is building the secret weapon which will win the war for Britain. Here, they are developing the land ship - never-before-seen tanks which the army is convinced will end the stalemate on the Western Front. But then disaster strikes. After a training exercise in one of the tanks, eight men are mysteriously struck down, seven of them dead. There is just the one survivor, and hes not talking. It is clear something is horribly wrong, and the army calls in the only man who will know how to solve the mystery: Dr John Watson.Praise for The Dead Can Wait: The Dead Can Waitis in no sense pastiche, but a seriously good, very readable, well-researched novel incorporating the First World War, detection and espionage The TimesIn a year when there are going to be thousands of books about WWI published, this will be one of the first, and I am prepared to bet, one of the best. Its a cracking, fulfilling, utterly satisfying read and you should get a copy now... Manda Scott Praise for Dead Mans Land: A hugely powerful depiction of wartime horror, a cunning murder mystery and a brilliant re-invention of Dr John Watson. Conan Doyle would most definitely approve! Mark Billingham

A stunning Dr Watson thriller perfect for all fans of Sherlock.The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is held in a notorious POW camp deep in enemy Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners. With the Allied blockade, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel. Watson, though, isnt so sure. Something isnt quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve. If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from his old friend, Sherlock Holmes Robert Ryan is the key heir apparent to Conan Doyle Barry Forshaw, Financial Times Praise for Dead Mans Land: A hugely powerful depiction of wartime horror, a cunning murder mystery and a brilliant re-invention of Dr John Watson. Conan Doyle would most definitely approve! Mark Billingham A vivid account of life in the trenchesthis is a genuinely fascinating and finely researched piece of war fiction Daily ExpressA page-turning read Daily MailPraise for The Dead Can Wait: Seriously good, very readable, well-researched novel The TimesA cracking, fulfilling, utterly satisfying read Manda Scott A clever and interesting period piece Literary Review

A collection of six stories, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyles originals and adapted to feature much-loved Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmess long-suffering sidekick.

A stunning Dr Watson thriller from the bestselling author of Dead Mans Land, The Dead Can Wait and A Study in Murder. The skies above London hum with danger. And in the Channel enemies lie in wait... Autumn, 1917. London is not the city that Dr John Watson and Sherlock Holmes once bestrode like giants. Terror has come from the sky and Londoners are scurrying underground in fear. Then a twin tragedy strikes Watson. An old friend, Staff Nurse Jennings, is on a boat-ambulance torpedoed in the Channel with no survivors. And his concert-going companion, Sir Gilbert Hardy, is kidnapped. Then comes the gruesome ransom demand, for Sir Gilbert and four others, which will involve terrible mutilation unless the demands are met. Help comes from an unlikely source when Watson finds himself face-to-face with his old ruthless adversary, the "She Wolf" Miss Pillbody. She makes him a remarkable offer and so an unlikely partnership is formed - the enemy spy and Sherlock Holmess faithful companion, a detective duo which will eventually uncover a shocking case of state-sponsored murder and find Watson on board a German bomber, with a crew intent on setting London ablaze. Praise for The Sign of Fear: I so look forward to these books: joining Watson and the ageing Holmes again is one of the literary highlights of the year. They are everything I could ask for in a novel: emotional intelligence, high drama, compassion and a cast of characters that is at once utterly familiar and utterly fresh. Truly if the great man himself had written these, he couldnt possibly have done better Manda Scott Praise for The Dead Can Wait:Seriously good, very readable, well-researched novelThe TimesA cracking, fulfilling, utterly satisfying read Manda ScottA clever and interesting period pieceLiterary Review Robert Ryans The Dead Can Wait was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Daggar Award in 2014.

Where better to get away with murder than a place where thousands are dying every day?Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in their thousands every day. So one more death shouldnt be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes former sidekick Dr John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised. The face has a blue-ish tinge, the jaw is clamped shut in a terrible rictus and the eyes are almost popping out of his head, as if the man had seen unimaginable horror. Something is terribly wrong. But this is just the beginning. Soon more bodies appear, and Watson must discover who is the killer in the trenches. Who can he trust? Who is the enemy? And can he find the perpetrator before he kills again? Surrounded by unimaginable carnage, amidst a conflict thats ripping the world apart, Watson must for once step out of the shadows and into the limelight if hes to solve the mystery behind the inexplicable deaths. A vivid account of life in the trenchesthis is a genuinely fascinating and finely researched piece of war fiction Daily Express A hugely powerful depiction of wartime horror, a cunning murder mystery and a brilliant re-invention of Dr John Watson. Conan Doyle would most definitely approve! Mark Billingham

In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever. When war is declared, Ulrike flees Germany for the safety of England but is instead cruelly imprisoned as an enemy alien. Her only hope of rescue is Cameron, who, despite his better judgement, is falling in love with her. And then Erich is captured by the British and incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in England. He faces interrogation by Cameron Ross, the one man who stands between him and Ulrike, the woman who means more to Erich than life itself.