From Publishers WeeklyIf Cook's skills as a writer were as finely tuned as his sense of timing, his 14th medical thriller (after Terminal) would be a lot more rewarding. Current political events guarantee that a suspense novel centering on health care management will be topical and at least potentially fascinating. Unfortunately, stock characters, stilted dialogue and improbable heroes and villains make for difficult reading here. Idealistic young doctors David and Angela Wilson take positions at a state-of-the-art medical center in a small Vermont town partly because they see it as an ideal spot for their daughter, who ...
Lust will make a fool of any man, but it is only love that can truly ruin him. So says Victor Carl, the ethically adventurous Philadelphia lawyer who usually ends up doing the right thing, but, as his law partner says, often for all the wrong reasons.Late one night Victor gets a panicked phone call from an old law school classmate. Guy Forrest claims he has just found the body of his fiancee lying murdered in the house they shared. The victim is Hailey Prouix, for whose love Guy had abandoned his children, his job, his wife, ...
Historia zaczyna si? wr?cz banalnie, ale to wszystko pozory. W strzelaninie na posterunku dw?ch zamaskowanych bandyt?w zabija policjanta, rani komendanta Jeffreya Tollivera i bierze zak?adnik?w, w?r?d kt?rych jest lekarka Sara Linton, jego by?a ?ona. Bezwzgl?dni napastnicy nie zg?aszaj? ?adnych roszcze?. Pozostali w mie?cie koledzy po fachu – Lena i Frank – usi?uj? gor?czkowo ustali? to?samo?? zab?jc?w…
Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he’ll be the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, California ’s nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. ...
Trwa wojna Chin z Indiami. Do akcji wkracza ameryka?ski supernowoczesny bezza?ogowy okr?t podwodny. USS Snarc zostaje jednak porwany. Chi?czycy zamierzaj? wystrzeli? jego pociski na Stany zjednoczone. Amerykanie musz? za wszelka cen? zniszczy? aSnarcaa. Przeciwko niemu wyrusza eksperymentalny okr?t podwodny dowodzony przez admira?a Pacina…
The sleepy calm of Marble Springs, Florida, is shattered when an unknown Englishman ruthlessly shoots his way out of the courtroom, abducting the lovely Mary Ruthven at gun-point and tearing out of town in a stolen car. Who is he? What is his concern with the girl, with the General's secluded house and with the great oil-rig twelve miles out in the Gulf of Mexico? Who are his three enemies?Set against a Sub-tropical background, this is a novel of revenge. From the opening of sudden disaster to the final reckoning — on a dusty high road at noon, in a garden by night, in the steel jungle of the oil-rig and on the sea-bed below it — the tension mounts inexorably. Alistair MacLean's story-telling has never been more brilliants or his grip on the reader more cruelly exciting.
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream.Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she’s destined to die horribly-live on the Internet-while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter. Her family’s only hope rests with Kate Donovan, an FBI agent who took on the same sadistic killer once before… and lost. Blamed for another girl’s gruesome murder, Kate’s been fighting to clear her name. But she agrees to join the hunt for Lucy-and reluctantly steps back into her worst nightmare.With time running out before the bloody webcast airs, Kate teams up with forensic psychiatrist Dillon Kincaid to get inside the head of her twisted quarry, zero in on his chamber of horrors, and reach Lucy before grim history repeats itself and another innocent’s brutal death goes hideously live.Face the fear. Speak its name. See its face.
That's what Tim Blake finds himself asking when his daughter Sydney vanishes into thin air. At the hotel where she was supposedly working, no one has ever heard of her. Even her closest friends can't tell him what Sydney was really doing in the weeks before her disappearance. Now as the days pass without a word, Tim is forced to face not only the fact that Sydney is missing but that the daughter he's loved and nurtured, the daughter he thought he knew as well as anyone, is a virtual stranger. As he retraces Sydney 's steps, searching for ...
Wroc?aw, wiosna 1945 roku. Sze??dziesi?ciodwuletni, zawieszony w obowi?zkach oficer Eberhard Mock prowadzi prywatne ?ledztwo w sprawie zab?jstwa pasierbicy znanej antyfaszystki. Do?wiadczony przez ?ycie bohater przemierza bombardowane miasto, nieustannie nara?aj?c si? na ?mier?. Musi wybiera? pomi?dzy potrzeb? wyja?nienia sprawy a ch?ci? zapewnienia bezpiecze?stwa ?onie, pomi?dzy ucieczk? z Breslau a pozostaniem w mie?cie.„Festung Breslau” to mistrzowsko skonstruowany krymina?, czerpi?cy z najlepszych tradycji gatunku, niebanalny i zaskakuj?cy. Znakomity j?zyk wsp??tworzy zagadkowy nastr?j, trzymaj?ca w napi?ciu intryga powoli ods?ania przed ...
Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it…
Paddy Meehan discovers that one of the boys charged with the murder of toddler Brian Wilcox is her fiance Sean's cousin, Callum. Soon Callum's name is all over the news, and her family believe she is to blame. Shunned by Sean and by those closest to her, Paddy finds herself dangerously alone.
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer in a Colorado mountain townA man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten.Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border. Barely escaping with her life and sanity intact, she finds work as ...
Manhattan ’s top sex crimes prosecutor stares at the shocking headline in the morning newspaper, reading her own obituary. But Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is very much alive. The body found by police on the secluded road leading to Alexandra’s country house on Martha’s Vineyard belonged instead to the internationally acclaimed Hollywood star, Isabella Lascar.Isabella had borrowed Alex’s home for a quiet holiday. Police found her body tall and slim, like Alex in a car rented in Cooper’s name, without any form of identification, and her face blown away by the shotgun ...
As the prestigious world of professional golf prepares for the Masters Golf Tournament at Georgia 's elite Augusta National Golf Club, a cunning killer waits in the shadows to unleash his own lethal game.
