Greg thinks of himself as an average American teenager, until he learns that his parents are Soviet spies. When their operation is exposed, their hasty retreat to Russia marks the beginning of an odyssey and awakening for Greg. His quest to return to the only life he knows and to Jessica, a girl he recently met, only becomes possible when he befriends Alexei, a red Army vet determined to defect.Their attempted escape is laced with humor, as well as tragedy, as the Chernobyl nuclear...

Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire! Yet the truth behind the historical character--voevode, warlord--of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona.Vlad Dracula faithfully follows his life story as hostage, fugitive, prince, and prisoner, as well as his legend. His principality of Wallachia was caught between two voracious predators: th...

Read Sid Jaconson's posts on the Penguin BlogTwo legends of the comic book industry bring to life the story of gore and lust that inspired Dracula.Vlad the man had a devilish streak-a vicious temper, a passion for women, and a thirst for revenge.Vlad the ruler was a true devil-a relentless torturer, a brutal murderer, and a paranoid leader whose megalomania would be his own undoing.Responsible for the merciless deaths of thousands, ...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "adventurous and inspiring" historical novel from a New York Times– bestselling author ( Library Journal )."Rich in incident and vivid in historical detail, [ The Physician ] is a pleasure." —( The New York Times ).

**The New York Times Bestseller!“Absolutely riveting.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest MindsImagine HBO’s Game of Thrones, but set in the mesmerizing world of the Ottoman Empire. This book sweeps you into a realm of political intrigue, fierce passion, and a heroine who won't back down. Fans of Victoria Aveyard’s THE RED QUEEN or Sabaa Tahir’s AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, won't want to miss this novel, the first in...

At the dawn of history, an epic war is about to begin in the deadly quest for honour.The city of Sumer, ruled by a brutal murderer and his vicious, power hungry sister, is poised to give birth to the mightiest empire in history. No one stands a chance as it brings a bloody war to all those who stand in its way, determined to crush and enslave those on its borders.The little city state of Akkad must prepare its fledgling nation to fight for its very survival...

Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The Night goes on, in dread. The world goes on, in dread. The ice builds and slides southward.New kings come. A new empress will rule. Another rump polishes the Patriarchal Throne.But there is something new under the sun. The oldest ...

Ethan Gage is back in The Trojan Icon, the richest novel yet in the New York Times bestselling series of historical thrillers. Hurtling from the snowy palaces of Russia’s St. Petersburg to the shadowy harem of Constantinople in 1806, the novel’s characters conspire and compete for a Trojan relic that can give invincibility to empires.   The action begins when the American adventurer and his wife, Astiza, are recruited to steal two Polish swords from the world’s most fo...

Vlad: The Last Confession is a novel about the real man behind the Bram Stoker myth. It tells of the Prince, the warrior, the lover, the torturer, the survivor and, ultimately, the hero.Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man…and a contradiction.His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved…a...

From the New York Times–bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history": A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire ( USA Today).In another, very different timeline—one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be—the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our own.Having lost his family to the ravages of smallpox, Basil Arg...

A biography of the real fifteenth-century Wallachian leader known as Vlad the Impaler, who inspired the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker.Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth century.Vlad Dracula also served as the inspiration for Bram Stoker's class...

The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915.This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the Turkish government's deportation order. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while hoping for the Alli...