Lewis Cane is an ex-SOE operative who worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany. He stayed in Paris after the end of World War II, making a somewhat precarious living as a business expediter. One day he is approached by a lawyer, Henri Merlin, a former resistance comrade, with a job: a wealthy international financier, Maganhard, needs to be driven from Brittany to Liechtenstein in secrecy and within three days. The fact that the French S?ret? have an open arrest warrant out on Maganhard seemed like a simple problem. However, when half the hit-men in Europe start gunning for them, things get complicated quickly. As Cane races the clock, the police, and the assassins across France and Switzerland, whom can he trust? His alcoholic and trigger-happy bodyguard? Maganhard's mysterious private secretary who seemingly goes out of her way to create problems? Or his former Resistance contacts, who might or might not sell him out for the highest price?
Alberto Marini ha conseguido con su novela que me alegre de vivir en una casita de campo, sin porteros. Debo decir, que antes de saber que el libro exist?a supe de la pel?cula de Jaume Balaguer? -quien por cierto firma el pr?logo del libro- y no me enter? hasta despu?s, que se basaba en un gui?n de Alberto Marini.La historia me pareci? original desde el principio. Su planteamiento lo es, y es que pocas veces nos paramos a pensar en que nuestra vida podr?a estar en las manos de quien menos ...
Drew Mathias, zdolny elektronik i entuzjasta gier komputerowych, nie mia? ?adnego powodu, ?eby odebra? sobie ?ycie. Podobnie jak wzi?ty nowojorski adwokat S.T. Fitzhugh, wp?ywowy senator Peary czy Cerise Devane, przebojowa w?a?cicielka popularnego brukowca. Tych czworga nie ??czy?o nic poza tym, ?e postanowili odej?? z tego ?wiata. ?ledztwo nie przynios?o ?adnego rezultatu, ale porucznik Eve Dallas z nowojorskiej policji nie chce uwierzy?, ?e by?y to samob?jstwa. Kto jednak i dlaczego chcia?by pozbawi? ?ycia czworo niezwi?zanych ze sob? ludzi? I jak tego dokona??Porucznik Dallas postanawia mimo wszystko poszuka? odpowiedzi na te pytania. Oczywi?cie mo?e liczy? na pomoc ?wie?o po?lubionego m??a – superprzystojnego, superinteligentnego i bogatego Raorke’a – kt?ry kocha j? do szale?stwa i zrobi dla niej wszystko.
Grand Rapids Press A mind-boggling page-turner…Robin Cook has another sure bestseller.A storyteller of the most daring imagination…chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking. – Associated Press***A gigantic drug firm has offered an aspiring young doctor a lucrative job that will help support his pregnant wife. It could make their dreams come true-or their nightmares…
Nalini Singh pulls away another dark layer of sheer desire, revealing passions unknown in her latest novel about the world of the Psy.A woman returns from a leopard changeling's past, making him question his base animal instincts-and unlock the darkest secrets of his heart.
En 1958, cuando James Ellroy ten?a diez a?os, el cuerpo de su madre fue hallado en la cuneta de una carretera, en un peque?o pueblo cerca de Los ?ngeles. Nunca se descubri? al asesino y el caso qued? cerrado. Ellroy alcanz? el ?xito en su faceta de escritor de novelas tan radicales como provocativas, pero la memoria de la muerte de su madre no dej? de perseguirlo. En esta obra Ellroy da cuenta de la frustrada investigaci?n policial; de la vol?til trayectoria que tom? su vida a partir de aquel suceso tr?gico; de la ...
En su ?ltima pel?cula, James Bond renuncia a la categor?a de 007, abandona el servicio y parte hacia Montecarlo, al volante de su Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, para cumplir una misi?n distinta a todo lo que hab?a hecho hasta aquel momento. ?C?mo explicar el s?bito cambio de vida del hombre que ven?a siendo la m?s elogiada arma defensiva de cuantas ha tenido el Estado brit?nico? ?Y qu? imprevisibles consecuencias tendr? esta decisi?n para el juego internacional de fuerzas cuyo equilibrio nos permite a los ciudadanos corrientes dormir tranquilos? Bond ha sido ...
Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack – apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a susceptible businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sybilla becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, she becomes the most wanted person in Sweden.
The stakes have just been raised for psychologist Alan Gregory: His friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died at the office, mysteriously and suddenly. The police are baffled, leaving another apparent homicide unsolved in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan has the means to decipher Hannah’s clues, a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.The clock is ticking as Alan tracks one of Hannah’s most elusive patients; has she been kidnapped, or is she a runaway? The answers to both cases may be locked in the mind of a patient he has been treating for a schizoid personality disorder. In a maze of dilemmas that could cost him his career, or his life, Alan takes a bold risk that will have readers racing to the stunning conclusion of Missing Persons.Smart and fast-paced, Missing Persons showcases the rapid-fire dialogue and taut story lines that have made Stephen White the bestselling author that he is today.
For years, the operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner, who called himself “The Tortoise”, had baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But the Tortoise made a mistake of interfering with Don Micklem, millionaire settled in London, with friends in high places. And once Micklem was aroused, he tracked down the Tortoise to his lair in a remote place in Italy….
Amazon.com ReviewWhen confronted with the most challenging and the most personal case of her legal career, Bennie Rosato-an expert on police corruption-questions everything she has learned as a criminal attorney, and everyone she considers to be family. During a visit behind the bars of Philadelphia 's Central Corrections facility, Bennie is shocked to discover that an inmate bears a striking physical resemblance to herself. The prisoner, Alice Connolly, stands accused of murdering her cop boyfriend Anthony Della Porta, and the case reeks of a police conspiracy. Connolly convinces Bennie to defend her in court. Bennie feels ...
Murder and ghoulish mayhem are the order of the day in bestseller McCammon's colorful third thriller featuring "problem-solver" Matthew Corbett and his escapades in early 18th-century America. After confronting a criminal mastermind in (2007), Matthew finds himself a celebrity whose exploits have become sensational fodder for colonial tabloids. This heady attention contributes to a bad lapse of judgment when he and his senior associate, Hudson Greathouse, accidentally allow a brutal murderer, Tyranthus Slaughter, to give them the slip while they transport him to prison in Philadelphia. The rousing narrative details Matthew's dogged pursuit of the indestructible Tyranthus as the killer cuts a bloody swath through the Pennsylvania wilderness. McCammon shows a sure hand balancing scenes of Matthew's quiet contemplation with the cold-blooded carnage that makes his quarry's name so appropriate.
Acerca de Paul Helm 01 – MisteriosoEl inspector Paul Hjelm se enfrenta a un proceso de disciplina interno, con acusaciones de racismo incluidas, por disparar a un extranjero durante un secuestro con rehenes. Su impulsiva actuaci?n no ha sido entendida y, a pesar de que le ha convertido en un h?roe medi?tico, ha desbaratado su carrera. De pronto, una singular propuesta del superintendente Jan-Olov Hultin le sacar? de la pesadilla: en lugar del cese de sus funciones, Hultin propone unirse a un grupo de investigadores de ?lite a los que denomina Grupo A. La invitaci?n ...
The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie — where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the Fey kingdom.
