Hammer: 191 books

**A riveting crime novel from the internationally bestselling authors of The Hanging and The Girl in the Ice--the fifth book in the Konrad Simonsen series. Sixteen children and four adults are killed in a devastating boat crash in Copenhagen. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is...

Award winning author and journalist Joshua Hammer tracks down the haunts of Arthur Conan Doyle and his favorite sleuth.

Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer. On a warm spring evening in 1982, thirty-seven-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the West Side parking...

In Jerusalem archeologists labor to discover what lies beneath the Temple Mount, the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of Gods glory for 3,000 years and remains at the crossroads of the three great monotheistic religions. Here, award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer discovers, interpretations of ancient history are being shaped by modern-day politics.

To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post). In the 1980s, a young adventurer...

This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with...

In this searing, “indisputable page-turner” (Associated Press), a town’s dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest’s unthinkable last act—in the vein of The Dry and Where the Crawdads Sing. In Riversend, an isolated Australian community afflicted by an endless...

Montana Kid Hammer continues his distinct brand of American old fashion storytelling tradition with, Back in the Saddle Again, the second novel in The Old West Adventures of Ornery and Slim cowman series. Ornery, a schoolteacher and Civil War survivor turned veteran cowhand, and Slim, a young Philadelphia...

The lush peaks of Iraqi Kurdistan are irresistible to a certain breed of bold backpacker: Theyre exotic, beautiful, and way off the beaten track. But when three young Americans were arrested by Iranian border guards last July after straying too far down a trail, the costs of adventure travel got a lot...

Unlock the powerful truths that shattered ancient beliefs and paved the way for the new and revolutionary religion that became Judaism. This is a unique look at the Torah—the foundation of Jewish existence—and the revolutionary teachings of Moses embedded within it that gave birth to Judaism...

The last thing I remember is the girls playing with my hair. It is curled on my forehead and they stroke it gently while I fall asleep. I wake up suddenly, my body wracked with hot piercing pain. Im in a car thats hurtling through the night, and all around me is darkness. Im lying across someones...

The agenda: nine powerful and practical business ideas for today’s world of fierce competitors and even fiercer customers. These are tough times for business. Pressures from all sides are greater than ever. The old solutions don’t work anymore, and the silver bullets of the late 1990s have...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich BWL - Revision, Prüfungswesen, Note: 1,00, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Rechnungswesen, Steuerlehre und Wirtschaftsprüfung), Veranstaltung: Seminar mit Bachelorarbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund der immer rasanter...

Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called to...