Days after failing to arrive for a secret meeting with the Federal Reserve chairman, FBI agent Michael Hennessy’s body is found at the base of a cliff. But was it suicide or murder? A call from the chairman sends Gage hunting for the truth.As a desperately ill U.S. president prepares to hand over power to his vice president—a man in the thrall of religious extremists—Gage follows a trail of deceit and terror to a conspiracy that threatens to plummet the world into chaos. But for Gage, there is even more at stake. His wife is trapped between an uprising in Central China and the ruthless Chinese government. And unless Gage exposes the greatest treachery of our age before the clock counts down, Faith will die….Array
With billions of dollars at stake, every scientist in America is fighting to discover the next Prozac, the latest "feel good" drug. Using bacterial mould first uncovered during the Salem witch trials, Edward Armstrong isolates a stunningly effective anti-depressant.
Una historia de ins?lita confianza entre desconocidos que pone al descubierto la soledad y la violencia del poder en todas sus formas.`No hay fortaleza inexpugnable ni prisi?n que no contenga un defecto.`(Mercedes Soriano, Historia de no, Alfaguara, 1989).As? piensa el hacker que se infiltra en un ordenador ajeno con la intenci?n construir una relaci?n que salve a un amigo de las redes oscuras del tr?fico de informaci?n confidencial.`No hay fortaleza inexpugnable ni prisi?n que no contenga un defecto.`As? piensa la vicepresidenta del gobierno, que ...
A forensic mystery of the 1950s – After starting their risky venture of a private forensic consultancy, Doctor Richard Pryor – now a Home Office pathologist – and forensic biologist Angela Bray have now become firmly established. An apparent bizarre suicide in a remote Welsh farm starts them on a new investigation, which is followed by an unusual request from the War Office. And when a Cotswold veterinary surgeon is charged with poisoning his ailing wife, can Pryor's expert evidence save him from the gallows?
La novela narra el enfrentamiento entre dos j?venes de inteligencia privilegiada. Uno utiliza esta inteligencia de modo pr?ctico para adaptarse al mundo, el otro para la b?squeda de un conocimiento absoluto que le permita comprender el mundo. Esta b?squeda se ver? amenazada por la locura y el suicidio.
The most anticipated story in the blockbuster Dark-Hunter series. The never-before-revealed story of the Dark-Hunter leader, Acheron. He was made human in order to escape death, but in death he was reborn a god…Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. However, his human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Then, brought back against his will, Acheron became the sole defender of mankind.Only it was never that simple. For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden ...
The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn't loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world's biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced-out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair. She is under contract for one million dollars. A big bounty is on her beautiful head. She has to be killed, and quick. But Remo and Chiun have other ideas. Their assignment from CURE says protect her at any costs - and that means someone is going to have to pay a very high price.
CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn's eighth explosive thriller.It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose.When ...
Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative-and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer's work. That grim suspicion is confirmed when FBI agent Fiona Summers shares the details of two other killings with eerie similarities to Sam's case: The bodies in all three cases have been carefully posed. And when a fourth victim is discovered, the two investigators realize they're pursuing the same twisted quarry.
This latest gem from the British master concerns the wreckage wrought on a variety of Londoners by a womanizing con man who speaks in rhymes. Here, as in A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999), Rendell’s genius is to create characters so vivid they live beyond the frame of the novel. She pushes the ordinary to the point of the bizarre while remaining consistently believable. Araminta “Minty” Knox, the fragile center of the plot, is a 30-something woman, alone and obsessed with hygiene, who works in a dry-cleaning shop. All the world is a petri dish for Minty, who sees ...
Adi?s a Berl?n combina la realidad con la ficci?n, y el Christopher Isherwood de la novela, aun siendo el narrador, no es necesariamente el autor. Personajes marginales, a menudo c?micos, viven vidas desordenadas, hasta torpes, como exiliados en Berl?n, bajo la amenaza del horror que se avecina.La novela perdura como un documento acerca de una ciudad harapienta y corrupta -como lo eran en los a?os treinta el estado y el pueblo alemanes-, y la claudicaci?n ante el nazismo en ciernes y el ego?smo de un generalizado s?lvese quien pueda. El consumado oficio de Isherwood convierte el documento en literatura.
Novela de ficci?n polic?aca, en la que se atreve a rellenar la trama con altas dosis de sensualidad y humor. Dos ingredientes que el autor consigue difuminar en una intriga inteligente y de r?pida lectura.Por un lado aparece Alicia, una joven ladina que en las humildes calles de Cuba practica una excelente variante de la prostituci?n mientras sue?a el encuentro del adinerado marido. Alicia se pasea en bicicleta a la caza de cualquier extranjero rico que tenga la desventura (o la suerte) de encontrarse con ella en su camino. En ese momento ...
En el hospital m?s grande de Nueva York tiene lugar una serie de muertes, ante los ojos de la doctora encargada de las autopsias, inexplicables. El ?nico punto en com?n entre los pacientes muertos -todos gozaban de muy buena salud- es que pertenec?an al mismo seguro m?dico. Es la primera pista de una terrible historia en la que medicina, adelantos cient?ficos y negocios se enfrentan en una trama de gran suspense…
