Gordon Thomas

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.

The most important event of World War Two. The bombing of Hiroshima is told for the first time from first-hand sources. Myth and reality are finally separated from the planning of the mission to that moment over Hiroshima when the atomic age was born.

This is the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906: It contains never before published documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths and expose the real villains and heroes The last big earthquake in the United States came at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. No one knows when the next, even more devastating earthquake will come to San Francisco, but one will come. Gordon Thomas and...

Meet Jesus again for the very first time. This modern dramatization of the known facts presents a passionate portrait of Christ's life and brings new light to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene, and Mary and Martha of Bethany. In The Jesus Conspiracy, skilled journalist and novelist Gordon Thomas offers a thoughtful account of the life of Jesus in a gripping "you are there" fashion. By pairing current archaeological and anthropological...

Op 18 april 1906 werd San Francisco getroffen door een aardbeving met een kracht van 7.9. De stad was slecht voorbereid op de ramp, maar wat volgde was nog veel schokkender dan de beving zelf. Duizenden mensen op de vlucht voor de brandhaarden. De enorme materiële schade door kansloze pogingen het vuur te controleren. Het leger dat iedereen die leek te plunderen neerschoot. Thomas en Morgan-Witts reconstrueren de eerste paar dagen na de ramp en doen...

Ademloos sta je voor het beroemde schilderij Guernica van Picasso. Maar hoe langer je kijkt hoe gruwelijker de details. Dit zijn niet zomaar wat figuren, hier vindt een afschrikwekkende slachting plaats. Maar wat gebeurde er precies in 1937 in het Baskische stadje? De Spaanse Burgeroorlog en de eerste tekenen aan de wand van de op handen zjinde Duitse agressie smelten samen. Stond Franco werkelijk toe dat de nazi's hun krijgskunst op dit vredige plattelandsdorpje...

A complete and up-to-date account of the two oldest and still the most powerful, secretive intelligence services in the world: MI5, the security service, and MI6, the secret intelligence service, which have been in existence for over a century. This is a story of spectacular triumphs, treachery, their frigid relationship, their untold work with the CIA, Mossad and the spy services of Europe, and their part in the fight against terror. It is also the...

"In our deserts the makers of deadly perfume have worked hard to provide us with the weapons to defend ourselves and destroy the Zionists should they ever attack us, or their allies, should they, too, dare to attack us." -Saddam Hussein. In the aftermath of the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Mossad agent David Morton has carte blanche to stop terrorist Khalil Raza from releasing a form of anthrax capable of wiping out millions in minutes. A megalomaniac terrorist...

"En toen alles geregeld was, kon het oogsten beginnen." In Bangkok een hart, in Mexico-Stad een lever, in Delhi een paar ogen, en nu in Washington twee nieren. Het werk van ritualisten, of een kannibalistische seriemoordenaar? Onderzoeksjournalist David Morton denkt van niet. De slachtoffers leefden nog toen hun organen werden gerooid, en de wonden waren te precies. Het wereldwijde spoor van verminkte lijken duidt op internationale orgaanhandel, waarin...

On a remote island in Central America, David Morton must foil Dr. Gustav Romer, who performs transplants for the elite of the crime world with organs harvested from those killed by a sinister organization.