The Library: Only a handful know it exists… It holds the world's most astonishing – and terrifying – information… But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time… is missing.Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved – and survived – the "Doomsday Killer" case… and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest – and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing – his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power.Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know – those that concern the future, world domination… and the end of everything.
La nueva novela del autor de La biblioteca de los muertos plantea un nuevo y a?n m?s estremecedor reto: Encontrar un libro que revela el destino ?ltimo de la humanidad.?Qu? har?as si conocieras la fecha del fin del mundo?Cuando un hombre a las puertas de la muerte encarga a Will Piper la b?squeda de un libro, el ex agente del FBI no lo duda un instante. Un libro antiguo en el que va a descubrir un secreto estremecedor: una misteriosa ep?stola escrita por F?lix, el ?ltimo superior de la abad?a de Vectis, deja constancia de los extra?os acontecimientos relacionados con la biblioteca de los muertos y revela la naturaleza de la ?ltima fecha registrada: el 9 de febrero de 2027…el fin de la humanidad.Will deber? enfrentarse, entonces, a un dilema moral de dif?cil soluci?n: revelar a la humanidad una verdad aterradora o callar para siempre.
Breta?a, a?o 777. En la abad?a de Vectis crece Octavus, un ni?o sobre el que pesa una maldici?n: es el s?ptimo hijo engendrado por un s?ptimo hijo y la leyenda le vaticina poderes diab?licos. Octavus comienza a escribir una lista con fechas y nombres sin sentido. Cuando uno de los nombres y su fecha coinciden con una muerte en la abad?a, el miedo se apodera de los monjes. Siglos despu?s, los miembros de la Orden de los Nombres, descendientes todos de aquel ni?o, siguen escribiendo sin descanso para completar ...
"The debut of a startling new talent. Here is a story both incandescent and explosive. A seamless blend of modern-day thriller and historical mystery with an ending that left me breathless." – James Rollins***A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died – a ...
Abbey of Ruac, rural France – A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains – and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring. When they discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realize that they've stumbled across ...
