Bücher von Michael Gruber

Versicherungsverträge mit AuslandsberührungGerade im EU-Binnenmarkt, aber auch bei Online-Versicherungsverträgen, ist die Bestimmung jener nationalen Rechtsordnung, nach der ein grenzüberschreitender Versicherungsvertrag zu beurteilen ist, von eminenter praktischer Bedeutung."Internationales Versicherungsvertragsrecht" ist die erste monografische Darstellung dieses schwierigen Rechtsgebiets in Österreich. Das Buch enthält eine systematische Darstellung der kollisionsrechtlichen Anknüpfung von Versicherungsverträgen nach der Rom I-Verordnung und stellt das Gebiet der internationalen Versicherungsverträge nach dem neuesten rechtswissenschaftlichen Forschungsstand dar. Besonderer Wert wird auf die einschlägige Rechtsprechung des EuGH gelegt.

New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (The Denver Post), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspenseSomewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group. While her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims, Sonia tries to keep them all alive by working her way into the kidnappers' psyches and interpreting their dreams. With her knowledge of their language, her familiarity with their religion, and her Jungian training, Sonia confounds her captors with her insights and beliefs. Meanwhile, when the kidnappers decide to kill their captives, one by one, in retaliation for perceived crimes against their country, Theo races against the clock to try and save their lives.

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Michael Gruber's second novel to feature police detective Jimmy Paz is a chilling and remarkable work of intelligence and imagination. After a wealthy oilman plunges ten stories to his death from the balcony of a Miami hotel, Paz and the young cop who witnessed the fall discover a woman on her knees praying in the dead man's room. A motive and strong evidence point to the woman--Emmylou Dideroff--as the murderer, but she insists that she's innocent of the crime, while freely admitting her guilt in numerous other criminal acts and abominations. As her shocking confessions blur the lines between charity and vengeance, delusion and reality, Paz finds himself drawn once again into the unexplained . . . and into a collision with an evil of inconceivable power.

Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine covers. When he's offered a job restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he is at first, skeptical?he immediately sees it is more a forgery than a restoration. But he is soon seduced by the challenge and throws himself into the work, doing the job brilliantly.This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, a shady art dealer who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron. Wilmot is suddenly working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years, but without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from his past?not as memories but as if they are happening all over again. Soon, he believes he can travel back to the 17th century where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez. Wilmot begins to fantasize that as Velazquez, he has created a masterpiece and when the painting actually turns up, he doesn't know if he painted it or if he imagined the whole thing.Little by little, Wilmot enters a secret world of gangsters, greed and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundred of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.Miraculously inventive, this book cements Gruber's reputation as one of the most imaginative and gifted writers of our time.

Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his church. A few weeks later an Indian shaman arrives in South Florida, armed with a bag of totems and the fearsome power of his vengeful god. Detective Jimmy Paz, his wife, and their young daughter are being haunted by horrific dreams - terrifying visions of a giant jungle cat.

An artist born outside his time, Chaz Wilmot can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsboroughand he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. His unique abilities attract the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present, and soon Wilmot is working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years. But his creative burst is accompanied by strange interludesmemories that are not memories . . . and he begins to wonder if he is really the person he believes he is. When a previously unknown masterpiece by the Spanish painter Velzquez is discovered, the artist suddenly finds himself lost in a mirrored house of illusionsand propelled into a secret world of greed, lies . . . and murder.