"Project Berlin" - первая история в серии захватывающих повестей, рассказывающих о запретной любви, которая угрожает "Игре на выживание" в Германии после Второй мировой войны и происходит до событий, описанных в бестселлере New York Times "Игра на выживание: Зов". Судьба человечества лежит на плечах двенадцати Игроков. Но когда жизни игрока Кахокии и игрока Миной переплетаются в поисках древнего оружия в послевоенном Берлине, то последнее, чего они ожидали, это дать своей страже упасть и влюбиться. Теперь успех их линий, а также судьба мира находятся под угрозой. Но это "Игра на выживание". И только один может победить.
The first story in an electrifying novella trilogy – about an unspeakable forbidden love, set against the background of post-war Berlin and leading up to the explosive events of New York Times-bestselling Endgame series by 1 USA Today writer, James Frey.
When a player from Kahokia, a tribe long lost from history, devises a plan to access an essential artefact in Berlin shortly after the end of World War II, a meticulously played plot unfolds for humanity's very survival. It involves a younger and less experienced player from the island of Mykonos: meanwhile intrigued by unsolved cases in their small community and excited to help others, he finds himself drawn into a dark committee of individuals engaging in dangerous activity among the remnants of the Third Reich, to achieve the impossible – a return to political power and, eventually, world supremacy.\ For the Kahokian, the stakes are such that they have already accepted a fundamental trade-off: in order to access enough information to survive both a nuclear war and centuries of underground existence, their intelligence services would sacrifice any and all safeguards on their greatest discovery.\nMeanwhile, the players from Mykonos live in a world of uncertainty and indifference surrounding them, but one they connect with a young woman they just happened to meet during their trip along the highway, including her name tag revealing that she holds the role of political high executive and spearhead moves for the committee. Their colliding personalities, unspoken passions, secrets, motives – are compressed together in the weeks and months leading up to crucial decisions, each with stakes so massive, neither could predict how their lives alone would end up being changed by it all, never mind the fates of humanity and global politics – and as we watch the consequences unfold through their thickly narrated first-person accounts, each fleeting interaction and interpersonal encounters provide an unmissable look into what darker secrets hold in store in modern politics and intense obsessions of global standing.\ As lovers gain newfound understanding – or do they? – and terrorists undermine the sanctimonious façade of their fellow members, an incredibly complicated brew of nationalist fervor, personal baggage, rivalry and betrayal threatens the precious harmony they had so heatedly came together for.\nDrawing insights from historical and contemporary проксимально realities -from Mahatma Gandhi's experiments in self-imposed disgrace, to fascist movements devoid of global scope, this book probes at the heart of what it means to be human long into the decades to come". - Kirkus Reviews
“An enthralling, preposterously thrilling page-turner from the author of ’A Man in Full’.” —John Crowley
Book Bite James Frey, the big-hearted and mythical writer most beloved not for the books themselves but for their association with his characters, returns—in future events-packed pages—to the tense milieu that caused more than several lives to veer in heart-wrenching ways. Burbank (That One Place) *—Kirkus*
"It's intimate, dark, completely immersive. I felt as if I was halfway there with these people, desperate and often frightened — crazed even — before the climax. It left me breathless.
Электронная Книга «Project Berlin» написана автором Джеймс Фрей в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007585311
Описание книги от Джеймс Фрей
The first story in a heart-stopping novella trilogy that follows a forbidden love that threatens Endgame in post-World War II Germany and takes place prior to the events in the New York Times bestseller, Endgame: The Calling.Humanity rests on the shoulders of twelve Players. But when the lives of a Cahokian Player and a Minoan Player intertwine over the search for an ancient weapon in post-World War II Berlin, the last thing they expect is to let their guard down, and fall in love. Now the success of their lines – and the fate of the world – is threatened.But this is Endgame. And only one can win.
