From Publishers WeeklyThemes from Patterson's popular adult titles When the Wind Blows and The Lake House waft through this YA thriller, the author's first in the genre. Wood stars as Maximum Ride, 14-year-old leader of a band of kids who have escaped the lab where they were bred as 98% human and 2% bird (wings being a key component) and developed a variety of other-worldly talents. In Patterson's unusual universe, Max and her young cohorts are soon forced to rescue one of their own-a girl named Angel-from a pack of mutant wolf-humans called Erasers. Wood nails Patterson's often adult-beyond-their-years ...
When an angry, unemployed chemist unleashes a bio-terrorist attack against women and children, the president of the United States asks Donovan Creed to get involved. It's just one more thing on Creed's plate.
Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. Some seven years ago, Marcia Muller decided to show readers different views of her sleuth by relating cases through the eyes of McCone's colleagues.McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as a novella and a short story narrated by the agency's investigator Rae Kelleher, a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley, ...
It’s a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot’s gone missing, and he’s taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner’s been in over his head before. This time, however, he’s in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries… and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena. Tanner’s always been a sucker for a pretty face and a curvaceous body, especially one that’s wrapped in leopard skin. But this red hot renegade daughter of a local missionary is a man-eater. Which means this time Tanner’s goose is well and truly cooked.
V. I. Warshawski, detective privado, intenta resolver una serie de asesinatos que comienzan con la extra?a muerte de su amiga Consuelo y su beb? en una lujosa cl?nica, ?Hubo negligencia? ?Qui?n mat? al joven m?dico negro que la atend?a? Al mismo tiempo tiene que luchar con los problemas dom?sticos habituales: la dieta desordenada, los efectos del fanatismo religioso o la dura vida de Chicago.
Un m?dico se ha atrevido a introducir un veneno mortal dentro del c?rculo del emperador de China. El juez Di recibe el encargo de investigar el Gran Servicio M?dico, una instituci?n ?nica en el mundo que recoge todos los conocimientos m?dicos y forma a los mejores sabios del imperio. De la acupuntura a la farmacopea, Di emprende la b?squeda de un asesino brillante y temible y nos lleva a descubrir los refinamientos del arte m?dico chino.
Captain "Kat" Kim, leader of the all-female Medusa squad, lives by the warrior's code. Trained in an ancient warrior tradition, she can scale a wall in complete silence. But when she's paired with Special Forces Captain Jeff Steiger, she faces new danger.Steiger is all-American, from his blue eyes to his sun-streaked hair, and his laid-back manner goes against Kat's control-freak ways. When the two hunt for a high-end art thief, their opposite styles combust. And as mysterious commandos turn the job deadly, Kat must ditch her steely discipline and surrender to the desire that threatens to take them both down…
A series of "accidents" at nuclear power stations across the United States is destabilizing America's energy program.In the fallout of this highly complex plot, the United States will be forced to rely on Third World oil, oil whose flow is controlled by the Russian KGB.Mack Bolan must push to the core of this sabotage before a full-scale disaster occurs. But it's a race with a temperature gauge that goes only one way — straight toward a nuclear meltdown.
Персонажей романа «Memento mori» известной английской писательницы Мюриэл Спарк преследуют по телефону – неизвестный голос повторяет одну и ту же фразу: «Помните, что вас ждет смерть». Полиция бессильна...
Персонажей романа «Memento mori» известной английской писательницы Мюриэл Спарк преследуют по телефону – неизвестный голос повторяет одну и ту же фразу: «Помните, что вас ждет смерть». Полиция бессильна...
Персонажей романа «Memento mori» известной английской писательницы Мюриэл Спарк преследуют по телефону – неизвестный голос повторяет одну и ту же фразу: «Помните, что вас ждет смерть». Полиция бессильна...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close—the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
Intrigada por el silencio que se hab?a originado a sus espaldas, lentamente, la mujer comenz? a darse la vuelta. De pronto, una luz brillante ceg? sus ojos, dej?ndola inm?vil, en medio de la calle, como suele sucederle a las presas indefensas. En mil?simas de segundo, el estrepitoso rugir de un motor y el chirriar de unos neum?ticos le congelaron la sangre y le hicieron ver que no tendr?a escapatoria. Cuando el coche la derrib?, su cuerpo y la misteriosa fotograf?a que llevaba en sus manos salieron disparados hacia el g?lido aire ...
