Name: ¿Arde Nueva York? (in Spanish)
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Author: Larry Collins
ISBN: 9788408050889

Type

Physical Book

Author

Larry Collins

Dominique Lapierre

Publisher

Planeta

Collection

general

Language

Spanish

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25x16 cm

ISBN

9788408050889

ISBN13

9788408050889

Edited in

España

Synopsis "¿Arde Nueva York? (in Spanish)"

Los inventores del bestseller moderno vuelven para arrastrar a los lectores a una nueva aventura apasionante.

Nueva York, septiembre de 2004. A seis semanas de su reelección, George W. Bush se enfrenta al más estremecedor chantaje terrorista. Un grupo de extremistas, dirigidos por Bin laden, ha conseguido introducir en Manhattan una bomba nuclear. Los terroristas han anunciado que la harán estallar a no ser que el presidente de EE.UU. obligue a los israelíes a retirarse de los territorios palestinos ocupados. Junto con su consejera Condoleeza Rice y el alcalde de Nueva York, Michael Bloomberg, el Presidente deberá buscar la manera de evitar la catástrofe nuclear y resolver la crisis. Los maestros de la narrativa Dominique Lapierre y Larry Collins, autores de obras tan importantes como ¿Arde París? o Llevarás luto por mí, o Jerusalén o Esta noche, la libertad, vuelven con este formidable thriller absorbente en el que la realidad y la ficción se mezclan de forma magistral para conducir al lector por el complejo entramado político de nuestros días.

Larry Collins

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He was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1951. In Paris (1953-1954) he met Dominique Lapierre, with whom he has written five of his great bestsellers. In 1956, he moved to Rome as deputy editor-in-chief and in November of that same year he was appointed correspondent in Beirut for the Middle East. In 1959, he took over Newsweek in Beirut, which gave him the opportunity to cover a time full of political and social unrest in countries like India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. In 1961, Newsweek named him head of its Paris office, allowing him to come into contact with circles of Algerian armed violence. In 1962, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre decided to join their experience as reporters. In October of that same year, and with the imminent intervention of the US army in Vietnam, Larry Collins took charge of the Newsweek branch in Saigon. But that same day, both he and Dominique Lapierre received an offer from Reader's Digest to write two books, which would turn into many more.

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Dominique Lapierre

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Since he fell in love with India while writing his bestsellers, he allocates half of his royalties and donations from his readers to humanitarian efforts in the slums of Kolkata, in the poorest rural areas of Bengal, and also in Africa and South America. Since 1982, the writer and his wife have helped save thousands of children sick with leprosy or suffering from other physical and mental issues, and have cured a million people with tuberculosis. The organization they founded, Action pour les Enfants des Lépreux de Calcutta (www.cityofjoyaid.org, www.citedelajoie.com), funds numerous programs year after year. For this humanitarian work and his books about the history of the Indian subcontinent, Dominique Lapierre received on May 5, 2008, from the hands of the President of India, the highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. This official recognition had been especially requested by seventy-five thousand patients who had been healed thanks to Dominique Lapierre.

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