If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it?When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend, and offers Rain a choice: carry out a final assignment, or bear the responsibility for Dox's murder.For a professional like John Rain, the choice ought to be easy: Do the job-a series of three hits-then walk away. But how does Rain know Jim Hilger won't kill Dox anyway, once the ...
Esta conmovedora novela capta l?cidamente el tenso momento hist?rico de Rusia en las dos semanas previas al fracasado golpe de derecha, de agosto de 1991, entrelazado con los amores y desamores de sus personajes.En una trama minuciosamente urdida recibimos la m?s v?vida imagen de una naci?n inmersa en los pesares e incertidumbres de la rebeli?n, junto con la recreaci?n de la vida cotidiana de una ciudad minera rusa con su mundo de polic?as, bur?cratas e idealistas en pleno proceso de transici?n.En ese momento y circunstancias confluyen ...
Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star witness; and her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of her sister's baby. On top of it all, Maureen – who identifies all too readily with the underdogs of this world – has become embroiled in someone else's family feud.When an elderly stallholder at the flea market where Maureen and Leslie are selling illegally ...
En la tercera novela de la serie de Jan Fabel, un temible asesino que cree haberse reencarnado, se venga de aquellos que le traicionaron en una vida anterior…El detective Jan Fabel y su equipo se enfrentan a una serie de homicidios: un pol?tico de izquierdas y homosexual confeso, y un prestigioso cient?fico. Ambos fueron asesinados siguiendo el mismo m?todo: los cuerpos ten?an el cuero cabelludo seccionado y, sobre ellos, un pelo rojo te?ido en la escena, procedente de la misma cabeza y cortado veinte a?os antes.Fabel descubre que las v?ctimas pertenec?an a un grupo anarquista de los a?os 70. Mientras tanto, los dem?s miembros del grupo, que hab?an tratado de dejar atr?s su pasado, se dan cuenta de que un temible asesino va tras ellos.
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he’s been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as “resurrection men,” he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus’s own mistake. Now Rebus can’t determine if he’s been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects.When Detective Sergeant ...
When the world's all wrong and it needs setting right, who're you gonna call? Hugo Rune, of course: a man who offers the world his genius, and asks only, in return, that the world cover his expenses!
Walter Pettibone lleg? a su casa a las 7:30 p.m. para encontrarse con su familia y un centenar de amigos que le recibieron con el grito de . Era su fiesta de cumplea?os. Y, aunque no ten?a idea de la fiesta que le hab?an organizado, la verdadera sorpresa estaba por llegar. A las 8:45 p.m., una mujer con ojos del color de las esmeraldas y cabello rojo le entreg? una copa de champ?n. Y un sorbo del burbujeante l?quido despu?s… Walter estaba muerto.El nombre de la mujer es Julia Dockport y nadie en la fiesta sabe qui?n es. Pero la detective Eve Dallas la recuerda muy bien. Diez a?os atr?s, Eve fue la responsable de la encarcelaci?n de Julie. Y ahora, liberada por buena conducta, sigue teniendo las mismas intenciones de anta?o. Parece que quiere encontrarse de nuevo con Eve… en una reuni?n que ninguna olvidar?…
As he lies, bound and hidden, on the floor of his abductors' SUV, Carroll Monks is only dimly aware of the bizarre series of high-profile murders sweeping across the nation. What he thinks about instead, as they travel for hours deep into the Northern California wilderness, is that the face of one of his abductors belongsto his own son, Glenn – long estranged and living (the last Monksknew) on the streets of Seattle.The vehicle finally stops. When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off-the-grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. No one does steamy suspense like Brown (Chill Factor), as shown by this expert mix of spicy romance and sharply crafted crime drama. Det. Sgt. Duncan Hatcher, a sexy Savannah homicide cop, falls hard for Elise Laird, a dishy damsel-in-distress, the moment he spots her at a police awards dinner. Too bad she's married to Judge Cato Laird, who consistently subverts Hatcher's efforts to bring local drug lord Robert Savich to justice. When Hatcher and his feisty partner, Det. DeeDee Bowen, are called to the Laird home after Elise supposedly shoots an intruder ...
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. In Right As Rain George Pelecanos introduces a memorable new pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as 'A great writer' (The Times) who 'deserves to be listed among the best' (Observer).
Hired to protect Maisy Andrus-a vociferous supporter of the right to die-from a potential assassin, John Francis Cuddy must put his marathon training on a back burner to get involved with the Andrus case-a job that dredges up painful memories of his own wife's slow death.
Due to a stag that may or may not have been on the road, Matthew Cahill's vehicle is in a ditch. The tow truck driver, who believes Rush is a liberal, takes him to the "nuthouse" where Matt is going. After his driver mentions looking at the eyes to see the soul Matt peeks at the man and he sees beetles in the sockets as the guy says he plans a surprise for his ex and her beau in Tacoma to night.At Westland County Mental Health Center, Matthew set up an interview to discuss how to fight ...
Jimmy, Dave y Sean crecieron juntos en la secci?n peligrosa de Boston. Veinticinco a?os despu?s vuelven a reunirse, cuando la hija de 19 a?os de Jimmy es brutalmente asesinada. Sean, que ahora es polic?a, es asignado para resolver el caso. Adem?s de desenredar este crimen, Sean deber? estar pendiente de su amigo Jimmy, quien busca vengarse del asesino de su hija. Conectado al crimen por una serie de circunstancias, Dave se ve obligado a enfrentarse con los demonios de su propio pasado. A medida que la investigaci?n se concentra alrededor de estos tres amigos, se despliega una siniestra historia, que tiene que ver con la amistad, la familia y la inocencia perdida demasiado pronto.
'Our concern – and we've communicated this over the weekend to all stations – is that the opposition may be about to deploy an invisible.'An invisible is CIA speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: the terrorist who, because he or she is an ethnic native of the target country, can cross its borders unchecked, move around that country unquestioned and infiltrate its institutions with ease. An invisible on mainland Britain was the worst possible news. For Liz Carlyle, an MI5 Intelligence officer, this report from MI6 marks the start of an operation which will test her to the limit and ...
Becca Matlock is at the top of her profession, as the senior speechwriter for New York's popular governor. But then she receives the first in a series of deadly phone calls – calls which threaten both her life and the life of the governor. Becca reports the calls but after a while, the police stop believing that Becca is being stalked, even when the stalker kills to prove a point. Then the governor is shot. Becca flees to the safety of a friend's home in coastal Maine, Riptide. It might seem like a sanctuary to begin with but soon Becca finds herself at even greater risk.
Spring 1941. Britain, standing alone since Dunkirk; Russia, on the brink of entering the war; America, struggling to stay neutral. And in Germany, after ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during a Berlin air raid. The Germans think he's dead. The British know he's not. But where is he? MI5 convince US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so recruit England's first reluctant ally into a 'plain clothes partnership'. Captain Cal Cormack, a shy American 'aristocrat', is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney, fat, fifty, and convivial, and between them they scour London, a city awash with spivs and refugees. But then things start to go terribly wrong and, ditched by MI5 and disowned by his embassy, Cal is introduced to his one last hope – Sgt Troy of Scotland Yard…
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him — and for his abductor — lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood — and flesh — of others …
When a high-society party is crashed by a naked, knife-wielding, blood-covered man who "thinks" he might have killed someone, Eve Dallas must track down the crime, and the criminals. Everything points to Satanic ritual, but Eve doesn't believe in devil worship…
