Carlos Fuentes w tej niedu?ej, ale fascynuj?cej bogactwem nastroj?w i przemy?le? opowie?ci, m?wi, ?e "wszystko, co ukryte, czeka po prostu na nasze uwa?ne spojrzenie". Pozornie banalny romans, stanowi?cy g??wny w?tek powie?ci, eksploduje dramatyzmem, sk?aniaj?c czytelnika do zastanowienia si? nad zagadk? mijaj?cego czasu i odradzaj?cej si? w kolejnych wcieleniach mi?o?ci.Zag??biaj?c si? w "podw?jny", stworzony przez Fuentesa ?wiat, znajdujemy odpowied? na pytania, kt?re przed nami stawia. Ale mo?e nie b?dzie to odpowied? jednoznaczna, lecz inna dla ...
In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal – giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the victim – and by the killer's history with Roarke. As danger closes in and the body count rises, Eve must find a way to stop the cycle of violence and revenge, and shove the past back where it belongs.
A new heroin syndicate, using military weapons and a faction of the Mexican army, has eliminated all the other gangs in Mexico. Their operation now stands invincible.Able Team cuts its way into the action, careering into open war against the drug ring. But everyone, even the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, is plotting war against Able Team!In and above the streets of Mexico City, the world's most crowded metropolis, the men of Able Team fight for survival from attack on all sides. Over the roar of battle, Blancanales yells at a Mexican army lieutenant, "We have been tricked by your government and by ours! Betrayal is everywhere! How do you expect us to take this insanity?"
A former Marine and Las Vegas vice cop, Nathan Fox has seen it all and then some. Heading up security for the Onyx Casino is tame compared to his past, but it's not his only job. Working for the Reliance Group is his real passion project. His current case: a missing woman. His mission: to find her. But soon Nathan must deal with a stubborn – and stunning – journalist who's nosed her way into the investigation…and into Nathan's fantasies.
Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths her way through these classical detective stories with customary panache… Greenwood’s character is irresistibly charming, and her stories benefit from research, worn lightly, into the Melbourne of the 1920s period. Impressive as she may be, Phryne Fisher, her activities and her world are never cloying thanks to Greenwood’s witty, slightly tongue-in-cheek prose. As usual, it’s a delightfully frothy, indulgent escape with an underlying bite. На английском языке
Starred Review. While Miles's patients start remarking about loved ones not seeming to be themselves, he merely chalks it up to paranoia. However, when he becomes witness to a distinct but subtle change in the personality of some townspeople, he and his friends realize something is afoot. Their fears are realized as they stumble upon faceless corpses and strange pods. But the pod people are spreading fast, and Miles is running out of places to hide and people to help him. Finney's classic tale of alien invasion is recreated anew with more terror than the book or the film. ...
A nine year old boy is found raped and murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach resort in southern Italy. A Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused in what looks like a hopeless case taken on by Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this is a relentless suspense novel that goes way beyond the genre.
Non c’? morbosit? apparente dietro le azioni del serial killer che tiene in scacco la citt? di New York. Non sceglie le vittime seguendo complicati percorsi mentali. Non le guarda negli occhi a una a una mentre muoiono, anche perch? non avrebbe abbastanza occhi per farlo. Una giovane detective che nasconde i propri drammi personali dietro a una solida immagine e un fotoreporter con un passato discutibile da farsi perdonare sono l’unica speranza di poter fermare uno psicopatico che nemmeno rivendica le proprie azioni. Un uomo che sta compiendo una vendetta terribile per un dolore che affonda le radici in una delle pi? grandi tragedie americane. Un uomo che dice di essere dio.
Two brothers must confront their past, one a mafia hitman the other a budding senator, which has set them on very different paths…A dark, atmospheric thriller with a plot that will keep you guessing until the last moment.
From Publishers WeeklyHaving ditched her Orchid Beach, Fla., police chief post, returning supersleuth Holly Barker opts for a CIA career in Woods's by-the-numbers thriller, the fourth in the Barker series (Blood Orchid). Barely through basic training at a highly regimented CIA "training farm," Barker's class is suddenly enlisted to track down calculating killer (and opera buff) Teddy Fay (first seen in Woods's Capital Crimes). An ex-CIA agent himself, Fay uses insider information to continue assassinating international political figures who also happen to be enemies of the U.S. Barker stakes out the Metropolitan Opera House, and narrowly ...
This time around, Hood is running the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river – the massive and illegal flow of handguns and automatic weapons that fuels the bloody cartel wars south of the border. Gunrunners by nature aren't exactly ethical, but the lengths they'll go to, and the innocent lives they'll risk, are shocking even to Hood. Most shocking of all is the close personal connection Hood finds wrapped up in events south of the border – a connection that shakes him to his core.
Die alte aufgegebene Irrenanstalt im Wald ist nicht verlassen. Oh nein. In den W?nden wimmelt es vor ... vor Wahnsinn? Jack Reed st??t im Wald von Wisconsin auf ein verlassenes Geb?ude, das einst eine bekannte Heilanstalt war. Vor fast 60 Jahren wurde sie aus d?steren Gr?nden aufgegeben. Jack will das alte Haus sanieren, um dort ein Ferienhotel zu er?ffnen. Doch es beherbergt gef?hrliche Geheimnisse: 135 geisteskranke Patienten verschwanden mithilfe von Druiden-Magie »in die W?nde« - und dort leben sie noch immer. Nun h?lt sie nichts mehr auf ... Angef?hrt von dem b?sartigen Quintus kidnappen sie Jacks kleinen Sohn und fordern die R?ckkehr des Priesters, der sie damals einfing ...
Herido en acto de servicio, John Corey, detective de la brigada de homicidios de la polic?a de Nueva York, se recupera en un pueblecito de Long Island habitado por agricultores, pescadores y, por lo menos, un asesino. Tom y Judy Gordon, una joven y atractiva pareja de bi?logos conocidos de Corey, han sido hallados en su jard?n con sendas balas en la cabeza. Los primeros indicios apuntan a un robo frustrado, pero el rumor de guerra bacteriol?gica que salpica al centro de investigaci?n de patolog?as animales de Long Island hace que circule el ...
