1990. Neither South nor North Korea is a member of the UN, so the two states are actively seeking diplomatic allies in African countries that have a voice in the Organization. While the staff of both embassies in Mogadishu are busy with intrigue and backstabbing, for 10 years the ongoing civil war in Somalia has been engulfing the capital.
Teenager Ikking is not too close to the traditions of his heroic tribe, which has been waging war with dragons for many years. The boy unexpectedly befriends the dragon Toothless, who helps him and the other Vikings to see the world from a completely different perspective.
The story of the heroic fight for the lives of two Port Oratory police officers, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, who were trapped under the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001, after they themselves were sent to the scene of the terrorist attack to help the victims...
Marybeth Medina, deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, learns of the death of her former supervisor Ray King. In an attempt to find the killers, she takes Ray's clue and contacts Christian Wolff, a brilliant autistic mathematician and shadow auditor with killer skills. Enlisting the support of his brother Braxton, Christian gradually puts all the pieces of the puzzle together, but King's killers aren't slumbering either.
A young screenwriter Joe Gillis is broke, he is pursued by creditors, he has nothing to eat, it seems to him that his life is over. The car, on which he sets off mindlessly and aimlessly to an unknown destination, suddenly because of a flat tire swerves and flies into the courtyard of the mansion of the famous in the past and fading in the present movie star Norma Desmond.
Nick Laine's wife is suffering from dementia. Their daughter Marianne has a guarded secret that no one can explain, she will start a relationship with a convict that will change everything for everyone forever in a timeless love story.
The time of the Napoleonic Wars. Her Majesty's warship "Surprise", sailing the Atlantic, was unexpectedly attacked by a huge unknown ship that appeared out of the fog. Thanks to the courage and ingenuity of the crew, the Surprise manages to escape death. Despite heavy damage and losses, Captain Jack Aubrey, nicknamed Lucky, decides to pursue the enemy and sets off on a chase that will take him to the end of the world.
October 1990. Joe Deacon, a middle-aged deputy sheriff nicknamed Deaky, is sent on a minor assignment to Los Angeles. Five years earlier, he was a respected detective there, but one investigation ruined his life and his health. Dickie meets a young, ambitious colleague, Jim Baxter, who is working on a series of murders suspiciously similar to those unsolved five years earlier. Dickie decides to stay on the job, determined to see the case through to the end and track down the killer at any cost.
Japan, second half of the 16th century. Shingen, Takeda Shingen's younger brother, saves from death a petty thief condemned for execution who resembles the daimyo like two drops of water. The warlord opposes Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, all trying to capture Kyoto, so when Shingen is mortally wounded, he instructs his subordinates to conceal his death for three years so as not to demoralize his own troops or inspire his enemies. His double, the so-called kagemusha, enters the scene.
1950, somewhere in the Middle East. Extravagant tycoon Ja-Ja Korda survives a series of assassination attempts and embarks on a grand transcontinental project called “The Phoenician Scheme.” In an effort to protect his empire, Corda appoints his daughter Lisl as his sole heir, pulling her out of a convent. They must face numerous enemies, political intrigues, and fight for the future of their family, their business, and all of Phoenicia.
