?mier? przysz?a po nich niespodziewanie z bia?ej pustki.Maj roku 1845. Kierowana przez sir Johna Franklina ekspedycja wyrusza na statkach Erebus i Terror ku p??nocnym wybrze?om Kanady na poszukiwanie Przej?cia P??nocno-Zachodniego. 129 oficer?w i marynarzy wie, ?e czeka ich wiele miesi?cy trud?w, siarczystego mrozu, g?odu, walki z lodem, ?niegiem, huraganowymi wiatrami, zw?tpieniem i chorobami. Nie myl? si?. Spotyka ich to wszystko, a tak?e co? jeszcze. Co? niewyobra?alnie gorszego. Co?, co czai si? w arktycznej pustce, ?ledzi ka?dy ich ruch, karmi si? l?kiem i przera?eniem. ...
Autor opowiada o prawdziwej wojnie. Kre?li barwne postaci dziennikarzy, operator?w, t?umaczy i d?wi?kowc?w, pracuj?cych dla prasy i telewizji na frontach. Zmusza do refleksji nad etyk? na granicy ?ycia i ?mierci, na terytorium Komancz?w."gdzie instynkt ka?e zatrzyma? samoch?d i zawr?ci?. Gdzie drogi s? puste, a domy obr?cone w ruiny, i zawsze wydaje si?, ?e zaraz zapadnie zmrok; idziesz przyklejony do muru, w kierunku padaj?cych w oddali strza??w i s?yszysz chrz?st swoich krok?w na pot?uczonym szkle. (…) i cho? nikogo nie widzisz, wiesz, ?e jeste? obserwowany. To tam, gdzie nie widzisz luf, ale lufy widza ciebie".
Alex Delaware nigdy jeszcze nie spotka? si? z podobnym przypadkiem. Pi?cioletni Woody Swope jest bardzo ci??ko chory, a jednak jego rodzice nie wyra?aj? zgody na kuracj?, kt?ra mo?e uratowa? mu ?ycie. Alex jedzie do szpitala, by przekona? ich do zmiany decyzji. Na miejscu okazuje si?, ?e zar?wno rodzice, jak i syn znikn?li, a w obskurnym pokoju hotelowym, w kt?rym si? zatrzymali, pozosta?? tylko plama krwi a pod?odze… Delaware i jego przyjaciel, detektyw z wydzia?u zab?jstw, Milo Sturgis, nie maj? wyboru – b?d? musieli dzia?a? na pograniczu prawa. Przenikaj? zatem do amoralnego p???wiatka, w kt?rym mo?na kupi? wszystko: narkotyki, marzenia i seks…
Al regresar de viaje, una joven traductora encuentra muerta a su vecina de abajo. La v?ctima es una se?ora mayor, encantadora y sin enemigo aparente. En la casa est? todo en orden pero unas gotas de sangre junto a la cabeza del cad?ver llaman su atenci?n y decide llamar a la polic?a, de esta manera el caso queda en manos de Brunetti. El informe forense determina que la mujer tuvo un ataque al coraz?n y la sangre obedece a que al caer al suelo se golpe? la cabeza, pero hay liger?simos indicios de violencia. Aunque nada apunta a un delito criminal, Brunetti tiene una intuici?n, no sabe qu? es lo que no cuadra, pero no se conforma con esta explicaci?n e investiga. El famoso comisario deber? descubrir si se trata de una muerte natural o hay algo criminal en ella.
El peque?o Francesco, de nueve a?os, es hallado muerto en el fondo de un pozo de la ciudad de Bari. Inmediatamente las investigaciones culpan a un senegal?s indocumentado que vende baratijas en la playa. Las pruebas son categ?ricas. Parece evidente que es el autor del crimen. El juicio ser? un simple tr?mite. El acusado, condenado a cadena perpetua. Y caso cerrado. Sin embargo hay alguien dispuesto a demostrar su inocencia. Guido Guerreri, un abogado de mediocre y mon?tona existencia, asume la defensa del acusado m?s como un desaf?o para encauzar su vida y su profesi?n que como una b?squeda de justicia. Una justicia que podr?a llegar desde el testigo menos esperado… O que quiz? no llegue jam?s. Este sorprendente legal thriller a la italiana se atreve a deshacer de un plumazo los convencionalismos del g?nero y consigue mantener en vilo al lector hasta la ?ltima p?gina.
La doctora Temperance Brennan acaba de llegar a Montreal para cubrir el puesto de directora del Departamento de Antropolog?a forense de la provincia de Qu?bec. Atr?s ha dejado una situaci?n matrimonial delicada y una ?poca de trabajo nada f?cil, por lo que Temple acaricia la perspectiva de un relajante fin de semana. Antes, sin embargo, debe personarse en el lugar donde la polic?a acaba de encontrar un cad?ver descuartizado y meticulosamente clasificado en bolsas de pl?stico.El singular proceder del asesino le resulta terriblemente familiar a la forense, y en ...
In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal…and of one woman's search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives. Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare…The 37th HourOn a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, ...
In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in Hunter's most intense and exotic thriller to date.Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived.More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. ...
When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies – but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face – with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.
As San Francisco 's most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching-waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city's most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it's the perfect murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home.As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed-a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the ...
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood red lipstick.The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling walks in on a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is an empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria.
Allison Leahy is the Democratic presidential candidate. Her opponent is Lincoln Howe, a prestigous African-American. During the battle for the lead, Howe's grandaughter is kidnapped. Allison has to put aside her political ambitions if she is to save the life of an innocent child.
If Princess Diana had been murdered, what sort of man would have killed her? Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain’s The Accident Man surprises the reader at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident. But when Carver is to carry out a job in a tunnel in Paris, and when the job goes wrong for him, and when he is pursued by the very ...
Everything starts somewhere…For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.Reacher is ordered undercover – to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of ...
A chilling story of modern terrorism from the grandmaster of international intrigue.The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File-the books of Frederick Forsyth have helped define the international thriller as we know it today. Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is in a way that few have ever been able to equal.And the world as it is today is a very scary place.When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation ...
Ben Hope was an elite soldier before his troubles forced him to quit the army. Now he's using his skills to rescue kidnapped children. But when Ben is approached by a millionaire businessman to trace an ancient lost manuscript whose secret could save a dying girl, he finds himself embarking on the strangest mission of his life. With fiendish codes to crack and dangerous enemies in hot pursuit, Ben teams up with Roberta Ryder, a beautiful American scientist. The trail leads them from Paris to the ancient Cathar strongholds of the Languedoc. There lies an astonishing secret which has been hidden through the ages.
