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Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Erstveröffentlichung
1984
Band (Reihe)
-
Typ
Buch
Genre
Belletristik: Roman
Auflage
Titel
Sprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Verlag
Simon & Schuster Publishing
Jahr
1994
Seitenanzahl
310
ISBN
-
EAN
-
Ausgabe
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
Erstauflage
Inhalt/Klappentext
Only Harold Robbins himself could surpass the sweeping excitement of The Carpetbaggers or the sensuality of Goodbye, Janette.
In Descent from Xanadu he has done just that: he has written the most powerful and compelling novel of his career, one that takes us into the very heart of our own deepest desire - to live forever!
At the center of this shocking and powerful story about one man's obsessive quest for immortality is Judd Crane - a man of unimaginable wealth, determined to overcome death whatever the cost....
Crane has everything he could want: power. money, women. From his luxuriously appointed 747 he controls governments, industries, a vast web of business interests. There is nothing he cannot buy - perhaps even eternal life itself.
Ruthless, sexually magnetic, brilliant, Crane will not accept the ordinary laws of aging and mortality any more than he will play by the rules of ordinary men in business or in his pursuit of sex. With the help of a beautiful doctor, protégée of the world's leading expert in delaying the aging process, Crane sets out on a dangerous, obsessive quest to defeat age and death that will carry the reader into a world of passion, luxury and desperate intrigue.
Crane's search for immortality takes hin from China to Yugoslavia, from his own opulent private island to a secret atomic city in the remote Brazilian jungle, from the boardrooms in which he controls his vast financial empire to the laboratories where he subjects his own body to the most sophisticated and dangerous of experimental techniques to delay the aging process, risking his own life in search of his dream....
In the pursuit of his dream, Crane is willing to spend billins, to sacrifice his entire empire if need be, to give up the woman he loves, to fight the agents of countries who will kill to steal his secrets - until, at the very brink of success, Crane redicovers his humanity.
Descent from Xanadu is Robbins' most powerful novel, richly erotic, unfailingly exciting, with a theme that goes to the center of everybody's deepest desires and fantasies. It confirms Harold Robbins' reputation as America's master storyteller.
In Descent from Xanadu he has done just that: he has written the most powerful and compelling novel of his career, one that takes us into the very heart of our own deepest desire - to live forever!
At the center of this shocking and powerful story about one man's obsessive quest for immortality is Judd Crane - a man of unimaginable wealth, determined to overcome death whatever the cost....
Crane has everything he could want: power. money, women. From his luxuriously appointed 747 he controls governments, industries, a vast web of business interests. There is nothing he cannot buy - perhaps even eternal life itself.
Ruthless, sexually magnetic, brilliant, Crane will not accept the ordinary laws of aging and mortality any more than he will play by the rules of ordinary men in business or in his pursuit of sex. With the help of a beautiful doctor, protégée of the world's leading expert in delaying the aging process, Crane sets out on a dangerous, obsessive quest to defeat age and death that will carry the reader into a world of passion, luxury and desperate intrigue.
Crane's search for immortality takes hin from China to Yugoslavia, from his own opulent private island to a secret atomic city in the remote Brazilian jungle, from the boardrooms in which he controls his vast financial empire to the laboratories where he subjects his own body to the most sophisticated and dangerous of experimental techniques to delay the aging process, risking his own life in search of his dream....
In the pursuit of his dream, Crane is willing to spend billins, to sacrifice his entire empire if need be, to give up the woman he loves, to fight the agents of countries who will kill to steal his secrets - until, at the very brink of success, Crane redicovers his humanity.
Descent from Xanadu is Robbins' most powerful novel, richly erotic, unfailingly exciting, with a theme that goes to the center of everybody's deepest desires and fantasies. It confirms Harold Robbins' reputation as America's master storyteller.
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