Ostrov Spyashchey Zhenshchiny

Aprel' 1937 goda. Torgovyy moryak Migel' Hordan Kiriazis, stoicheski vybrav storonu v ispanskoy grazhdanskoy voyne, neozhidanno dlya sebya poluchaet porazitel'noe zadanie: vo glave raznosherstnoy komandy naemnikov — tochnee, piratov — podryvat' sovetskie transporty, kotorye cherez Egeyskoe more dostavlyayut voennye gruzy v Ispaniyu respublikancam. Pribyv na bazu, raspolozhennuyu na kroshechnom ostrove Spyashchey Zhenshchiny, Hordan stalkivaetsya s ego vladel'cami — baronom Katel'osom i ego zhenoy Lenoy, voskhititel'noy zreloy zhenshchinoy, kotoraya v holodnom otchayanii ishchet spaseniya ot svoey bezvyhodnoy sud'by. A poka na more razvorachivayutsya epicheskie bitvy, a v serdcah bushuyut strasti, vdali ot ostrova, v Stambule, dvoe druzey, na grazhdanskoy voyne okazavshiesya v raznyh lageryah, razygryvayut svoyu shahmatnuyu partiyu, kotoraya priblizhaetsya k krovavomu endshpilyu... Arturo Peres-Reverte — byvshiy voennyy zhurnalist, proslavlennyy sozdatel' cikla o kapitane Diego Alatriste, obladatel' prestizhneyshih literaturnyh nagrad, avtor blestyashchih istoricheskih, voennyh, priklyuchencheskih i detektivnyh romanov, perevedennyh na sorok yazykov i razoshedshihsya obshchim tirazhom bol'she 27 millionov ekzemplyarov. Ego «Ostrov Spyashchey Zhenshchiny» — roman o voyne, dolge, mesti i lyubvi. Roman o more, gde ostaetsya lish' nesomnennoe. Druzhba. Vernost'. Tyazhelyy trud. Opasnost'. Lyubov' v more — zybkiy, nevernyy mirazh. Ona sushchestvuet, no verit' ey ne stoit. Vpervye na russkom!