V tieni mafie
Drsný a zároveň dojímavý mafiánsky román o úpadku jednej celej generácie. Autor so znalosťou veci analyzuje príčiny formovania prvých zločineckých skupín, teritoriálne rozdelenie moci a vplyv podsvetia na politickú klímu v krajine. Jozef Karika sa neskrýva za pseudonym,…
Za Čínu spravedlivější
Můj zápas jako právníka s největším komunistickým státem světa. „Uvěřitelné příběhy můžete napsat. Neuvěřitelné se musejí stát.“ Narodil se v jeskyni, čas mu napovídaly jen hvězdy. A přesto se Kao Č’-šeng dokázal přes veškerou nepřízeň osudu stát jedním z nejlepších p…
K čemu jsou dobří rampelníci
Víte, k čemu jsou dobří rampelníci?! - Bodejť byste to mohli vědět... Prozradíme vám jen, že jsou to skřítci, kteří se narodí ve starém opuštěném hnízdě na Třešňovém kopci a za pomoci kmotříka Větru se naučí všechny pro život nezbytné věci: hrát si, koupat se v kapičkác…
Soudruzi chachaři
Kniha odtajňuje pozoruhodnosti pracovního procesu v ostravské Nové huti Klementa Gottwalda za časů socialismu. Právě tam soudruzi chachaři ze všech sil socialismus budovali. Jak pracovali, co pili a kdo vlastně byli soudruzi chachaři?
The Three Musketeers
All for one and one for all! The three musketeers - Porthos, Aramis and Athos - are the most daring swordsmen in France, and special bodyguards to the king. When d'Artagnan comes to Paris to join their ranks, they become the greatest friends of his life. when a villaino…
Touch of Death
The eighth step into the Darkness takes place on the American side of the Atlantic. It features two short stories by a single author – Texas native Robert Ervin Howard. Sadly enough, Howard died at age 30, but he still managed to create several immortal heroes – and was…
Forgotten Shoes
Summer has started and a group of six friends who call themselves the Bombardiers have so many plans. First on the agenda? Finally explore the half-ruined house in Acacia Street everyone is so afraid of. No one has stepped inside for years. Except for cats. Hundreds of …
Stories of Sherlock Holmes
In the Boscombe Valley Mystery, Turner kills his blackmailer McCarthy to prevent McCarthy's son marrying his daughter and claiming all of his property. In the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Holmes foils Mr Ryder's plans to steal a precious jewel and frame a plumber fo…
Planes of Existence
The fifth step into the Darkness is called Planes of Existence, and it is a solo ride by the feature author of the whole series in three parts. In them, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, practically unread and unknown during his life, but a source of inspiration after his deat…
The fate of soldier Havlík or we fought under Husák
What if military service wasn't just discipline and duty… but a carefully staged absurd comedy? Set in socialist Czechoslovakia during the tense early years of "normalization" after the Warsaw Pact invasion, this book follows a group of university students assigned to b…
Murderers
The fourth step into the Darkness is called Murderers, and it takes the listener into the realm of vampire stories and haunted houses. The first – The Tomb of Sara – was written by English navy officer, and writer, Frederick George Loring. It was one of the very first s…
Co nebude v dějepise
Syrové reportážní a dokumentární svědectví o tom, jak okupaci prožívali "lidé všedního dne" vyšlo hned po válce v roce 1945. Autorem knihy s názvem Co nebude v dějepise je prozaik a novinář spjatý s historií Lidových novin Bedřich Golombek.Golombek zapsal z minimálního …
Absurdities
A story about a generation born in Czechoslovakia after World War II, who attended elementary school in the 1950s, enjoyed the delights of the 1960s at university, and with the onset of so-called normalization after the occupation of the country by Warsaw Pact troops, e…
Sounds in the Dark
The third step into the Darkness is called Sounds in the Dark. It begins with a short story written in 1921 by American master horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft called The Music of Erich Zann. The author himself considered the story to be one of his masterpieces, …
Zápasy slepého muže - Život a doba komunisty Klementa Lukeše
České dějiny 20. století by nebyly úplné bez příběhu Klementa Lukeše (1926–2000). Po roce 1945 se nadchl pro politiku komunistické strany, která člověku se závažným zdravotním handicapem (byl nevidomý) dala nečekanou šanci: Svěřila mu školení stranických kádrů. Jako vyc…
The turn of the Screw
A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she …
Kontraktor
Kontraktora si najímajú súkromné osoby, firmy a politici, aby ich ochraňoval a sprevádzal na nebezpečných misiách. Kontraktor je telesne zdatný, psychicky odolný, dobre znáša ťažké podmienky a v krajnom nebezpečenstve sa rozhoduje s chladnou hlavou. Skôr ako autor Peter…
BUSINESS RISK BUSTER INTERVENES 1
Do you run a business? Then you have to hear this true story! Every entrepreneur wants to be successful, but even a seemingly small mistake can sometimes cause big trouble. In the first part, the business risk buster strikes at a car showroom where two co-owners cannot…
Is history repeating itself?
World history is contradictory. On the one hand, it is certainly fascinating with the number of courageous deeds and glorious victories that moved human society forward. And if that failed, then at least with heroic defeats that positively influenced national consciousn…
Jen se nesmířit s ničím, co je nespravedlivé
Zvukový portrét novináře, publicisty a rozhlasového reportéra dr. Franty Kocourka, který zemřel v Osvětimi 13. 5. 1942. Z archivních záznamů a dochovaných textů, z nichž mj. plyne, že dr. Kocourek se neváhal přít ani s německou cenzurou, připravil Tomáš Černý. Spoluprac…
Trouble...
Five friends. One Prague pub. A lifetime of conversations shaped by history. They met as young men in the late 1960s students with dreams, ambitions, and endless debates over cards and drinks. What began as casual gatherings soon became a ritual: a place to talk about l…