The trouble with the Mulholland family, Prudence decided, was that they were all in love with the wrong people. She'd been overjoyed when Pendle, her super-cool barrister boyfriend, invited her home for the weekend to meet his family. At least she might get some reaction out of him - so far he hadn't so much as made a pass at her, after the first night when he'd nearly raped her. But home turned out to be a decaying mansion in the Lake District, and family were his glamorous, scatty mother who forgot the mounting bills by throwing wild parties, and brothers, Ace, dark and forbidding, and Jack, handsome, married and only too ready to take over with Pru if Pendle didn't get a move on. It was only when she noticed the way Pendle looked at Jack's wife Maggie that it began to dawn on Pru that there was more to this weekend than met the eye. It looked like a non-stop game of changing partners

Сильный повелевает слабым – так устроен мир. Бесправный крестьянин трепещет перед жадным бароном. Барон дрожит перед всесильным герцогом. Герцог заискивает перед императором. И даже император не чувствует себя в безопасности, ведь где-то высоко, сквозь выжженное радиацией небо, вниз посматривает Господь со своими ангелами… И неважно, что барон носит моторизированную экзо-броню, а герцог латает слабую плоть генетическими снадобьями. Главный закон мира всегда неизменен. Сильный будет повелевать слабым. Во веки веков. Гримберт, маркграф Туринский, самоуверенно полагает, что в силах управлять этим законом. Талантливый интриган и манипулятор, уверен, что хорошо знает людей и стоит в шаге от осуществления своего давнего замысла. Настолько, что совсем не задумывается о том, что будет, если он, допустил ошибку. Впервые недооценив врага. Боевая антиутопия, меха с роботами-рыцарями и славными героями, которые непрочь захватить власть или пройти тяжелый путь исправления совершенных ошибок. Prudentia – первая книга трилогии Раубриттер

It’s 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie’s former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke’s retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, Bernie was summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler’s mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wants the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder — the consequences wouldn’t bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther’s adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany