Proprietor of a stud farm in Australia 's Snowy Mountains or muck-raking stable boy in Yorkshire? Danny Roke decides on the latter. It is the change of scene and the challenge that pushes Danny undercover, on the scent of a suspected racehorse dope scandal.
Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor,T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tank's ammunition and fuel tanks into great blowouts of orange-black flame. Four sleek, eighteen-foot long Tomahawk cruise missiles are headed for Beijing. It is Armageddon in Asia…
#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorNavy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in Brad Thor's hottest political thriller yet.Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Unfettered by the oversight of self-serving politicians, it reports only to a secret panel of military insiders. Its job is to target America 's enemies – both foreign and domestic – under a charter of three simple words: Find, Fix, and Finish.Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first ...
Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough-readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery-and ...
"Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes and a brutal deep-frozen landscape… Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist." – Lee Child***When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is on the brink of losing ...
It begins with an innocent request.One unremarkable winter morning, civil servant Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs one last favour done for him – now, today, at once.Eusden reluctantly agrees. But what should be a simple errand soon it turns into a race for life – his and Marty's.It takes him across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery that ...
A stunning new bestseller from Britain's most exciting crime writer What happens to a village when most of the houses are sold off as second homes, leaving only a handful of full time residents…? Squatters move in… What happens to a family when one of them turns bad…? The rest live in fear… What happens when Captain Nancy Smith returns from peace-keeping duties in Kosovo…? She finds a community at war… But whose side is she on…? And who – or what – is Fox Evil…? FOX EVIL, bringing crime uncomfortably close to home.
Veintitr?s a?os antes, Anna North hab?a sobrevivido a una pesadilla. Un loco la hab?a secuestrado y le hab?a cortado el dedo me?ique. En la actualidad, Anna viv?a en Nueva Orleans, escribiendo novelas de suspense bajo seud?nimo. Por fin se sent?a a salvo. Pero, s?bitamente, la vida de Anna dio un giro aterrador. La novelista empez? a recibir cartas misteriosas. Una amiga suya desapareci? de pronto. Allanaron su apartamento. Alguien hab?a comenzado a acosarla…Desesperada, Anna acudi? al inspector Quentin Malone, pero el polic?a estaba m?s preocupado por los recientes asesinatos de dos mujeres en el Barrio Franc?s. Sin embargo, tras el hallazgo de una tercera v?ctima, pelirroja como Anna y con el me?ique amputado, Malone comprendi? que la novelista era el nexo de uni?n entre los asesinatos y que pod?a ser la siguiente v?ctima…
‘No one does American small-town evil more chillingly… Slaughter tells a dark story that grips and doesn't let go' – The Times‘Without doubt an accomplished, compelling and complex tale, with page-turning power aplenty' – Daily Express‘Slaughter deftly turns all assumptions on their head… Her ability to make you buy into one reality, then another, means that the surprises – and the violent scenes – keep coming' – Time Out‘A great read… crime fiction at its finest' – MICHAEL CONNELLY‘A fast-paced and unsettling story… A compelling and fluid read' – Daily Telegraph‘Criminally spectacular' – OK!‘Slaughter knows ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies, Black Out, and Die For You comes a novel of corrosive secrets, tenuous connections, and the all-encompassing strength of a mother's faith.Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds – Maggie is positive Ricky had nothing to do with Charlene's disappearance, while Jones isn't as sure. With Charlene gone, the memory of another young girl who went missing some twenty years ago is haunting the town. That story didn't have a happy ending, and almost everyone has an unrevealed reason to keep the horror of it firmly in the past.As Jones and the police turn their focus on Ricky, Maggie must find out the truth about what happened all those years ago. In order to save her son and the young woman whose life hangs in the balance, she'll test the bonds of her community – and find out just how fragile they can be.
Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves the office, Cole and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops and conspiracies of silence. And before long, every cop in the LAPD is gunning for a pair of armed and dangerous killers Cole and Pike.
Paul Murray is an ex-Olympic runner, so his training is perfect for the rigors of bond trading for a London financial house. The pace is breakneck, the smell of success intoxicating. Paul has really found a home here, and maybe even the love of his life in his colleague Debbie Chater-until her lifeless body is dragged from the Thames.
With Dark Harbor, Stuart Woods proved yet again that he is the master of the popular crime novel. Now he outdoes himself with the newest addition to the series. Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on a job as a lawyer for a sleazy and clueless con man – and ends up getting embroiled in the underworld of the New York mafia. It started out as just another late night at Elaine’s, where Stone was eating a porterhouse steak and enjoying the company of his friends. But when Herbie Fisher, a notoriously not-so-sharp ...
It all begins when Freddy Funkhauser, an off-beat nine-year-old with a knack for science, embarks on an ambitious plan to win new customers for the family business, The Burger Castle. But when his secret invention ends up working better than he'd ever dreamed, his plans go wildly awry as his kooky companions wreak havoc in every corner of Freddy's world.David Baldacci now turns his tremendous thrill-creating talent to side-splitting storytelling in this hilarious adventure for middle-grade readers about fame, friends, and family.
Mr. January: Rafe Medici, extremely eligible millionaireStatus: Power is his only partnerSituation: He's a papa, and the last to knowFatherhood was not on his agenda. Yet once Rafe learned he had an heir, he was determined to get the child under his roof. Only the boy's guardian, Nicole Livingstone, stood between him and his desire. No one denied a Medici, and if it took seduction to win over Nicole, Rafe was happy to try. But in getting the beautiful woman to soften, this wealthy bachelor had best be certain she didn't get him to change his no-love rule.
Una novela ambientada en el Marruecos y el S?hara durante el a?o 1935, meses antes del estallido de la Guerra Civil. Una novela cuya trama tiene todos los atractivos de una aventura de ambiente ex?tico, amor apasionado y un levantamiento militar en Espa?a a punto de estallar. Una novela muy cinematogr?fica por las im?genes que sugiere y la descripci?n de los paisajes, en la que se recrean los escenarios y los di?logos. Una novela realmente entretenida por la historia que cuenta, bastante emotiva, realista, melanc?lica y de f?cil lectura.
New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns with the tenth installment of the Women of the Otherworld series.The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it's downright deadly.Elena Michaels, the Pack's chief enforcer, knows all too well the havoc 'mutts' can wreak. When they hear of a series of gruesome maulings and murders outside Anchorage, she and her husband, Clay, journey to Alaska in the dead of winter in order to hunt down the dangerous werewolves. Trapped in this savage, untamed winter realm, she and Clay learn more about their own werewolf heritage than they bargained for, tapping a little more into the wild nature of the beast within. With Elena back in the starring role, this is the book Kelley Armstrong fans have been waiting for.
From the land of the midnight sun, a compelling and dark thriller by a master of crime fictionThe autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg, and for Detective Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two seemingly unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. The investigation of a series of assaults and a string of child abductions take Winter to "the flats," the barren prairies of rural Sweden whose wastelands conceal crimes as sinister as the land itself. Winter must deduce the labyrinthine connections between the cases before it is too late and his own family comes into danger. Stylish, haunting, and psychologically astute, Frozen Tracks features characters who would be at home in any American procedural, but with a sensibility that is distinctly European. Frozen Tracks will appeal to fans of Henning Mankell and George Pelecanos, and to anyone who relishes superbly crafted crime novels.
