Nada es nunca lo que parece. Y menos si David Gurney est? involucrado.Han pasado seis meses. David Gurney apenas ha conseguido reincorporarse a una cierta normalidad despu?s de haberse encontrado al borde de la muerte tras resolver el caso m?s peligroso al que se hab?a enfrentado. Madeleine, su esposa, est? preocupada: ha sido diagnosticado con s?ndrome de estr?s postraum?tico; nada parece alegrarle.Hasta que recibe una llamada. Connie Clark, la periodista que cre? la leyenda de superpoli, lo puso en la portada de una revista y lo catapult? a la ...
In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder – one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma – and discovers that everyone has it wrong.The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel. Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes ...
David Gurney se sent?a casi invencible… hasta que se top? con el asesino m?s inteligente con el que jam?s hab?a tenido que enfrentarse.Dave Gurney, el protagonista de la primera novela de John Verdon, Se lo que est?s pensando, vuelve para afrontar el caso m?s dif?cil de su carrera, una batalla con un adversario implacable que no solo es un inteligente y fr?o asesino, sino que no tiene reparos en atacar directamente al punto d?bil de Gurney: su esposa.Ha pasado un a?o desde que el exdetective ...
Un hombre recibe una carta que le urge a pensar en un n?mero, cualquiera. Cuando abre el peque?o sobre que acompa?a al texto, siguiendo las instrucciones que figuran en la propia carta, se da cuenta de que el n?mero all? escrito es exactamente en el que hab?a pensado. David Gurney, un polic?a que despu?s de 25 a?os de servicio se ha retirado al norte del Estado de Nueva York con su esposa, se ver? involucrado en el caso cuando un conocido, el que ha recibido la carta, le pide ayuda para encontrar a su autor con urgencia. Pero lo que en principio parec?a poco m?s que un chantaje se ha acabado convirtiendo en un caso de asesinato que adem?s guarda relaci?n con otros sucedidos en el pasado. Gurney deber? desentra?ar el misterio de c?mo este criminal parece capaz de leer la mente de sus v?ctimas en primer lugar, para poder llegar a establecer el patr?n que le permita atraparlo.
When he was the NYPD's top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers – by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace. There was always a trace, Gurney believed.Except what if one day there wasn't?Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying ...
An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation.Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a simple declaration, 'Think of any number.picture it.now see how well I know your secrets.' Amazingly, those who comply find that the letter writer has predicted their random choice exactly. For Dave Gurney, just retired as the NYPD's top homicide investigator and forging a ...
