作者彼得·阿特金斯，英国牛津大学林肯学院研究员。阿特金斯为世界著名的多产科普作家，已撰写了20多部书，其中包括影响甚广、知名度颇高的Moiecules和在世界范围内广被采用的教科书Physlcal Chemistry。

埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

柯林·施伯龙（Colin Thubron），1939年出生于英国伦敦，“英国皇家文学学会”会员，著有《在俄罗斯人当中》（Among the Russians）、《长城之后》（Behind the Wall）等旅行文学作品。曾获霍桑顿奖（Hawthornden Prize）、托马斯·库克（Thomas Cook）旅行文学奖，1984年由图书经销协会（Book Marketing Council）提名为当代二十位最佳旅行作家之一。

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, sc...(展开全部)

In a rural village deep in the mountains, mechanic Roy leads a quiet, simple life, but when his little brother, Carl, an entrepreneur, returns with a proposal for a grand hotel to revive the struggling town, dark secrets from their childhood threaten to resurface. As children, Roy defended his little brother against schoolyard bullies and vicious rumors, but his loyalty to fami...(展开全部)

In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sunday Times numb...(展开全部)

作者介绍 尤·奈斯博，风靡世界的挪威作家，北欧犯罪小说大师，挪威图书畅销排行榜常客。屡获北欧犯罪小说大奖，包括玻璃钥匙奖、书店业者大奖等，还获得英国国际匕首奖和美国爱伦·坡奖提名，作品被翻译成50种语言，在50多个国家出版，销量突破5000万册。 奈斯博曾是挪威知名的摇滚明星，白天任职于金融业，利用晚上和周末时间演出。不久，他考得金融分析师执照，被挪威知名证券公司高薪挖走。然而工作和乐团越来越难以兼顾，濒临崩溃的奈斯博决定休半年长假。他带着笔记本电脑，跳上飞机，前往澳大利亚，在那里写下了日后让自己声名大噪的“哈利·霍勒警探”系列的第一部——《蝙蝠》。 奈斯博受到英美犯罪小说名家的一致拥戴，迈克尔·康奈利称赞他是“我至爱的惊悚作家”。评论家称他是“挪威犯罪书写的毕加索”。他的读者族群广泛，涵盖纯文学、冷硬推理、黑色小说，以及通俗惊悚小说爱好者。