En el hospital m?s grande de Nueva York tiene lugar una serie de muertes, ante los ojos de la doctora encargada de las autopsias, inexplicables. El ?nico punto en com?n entre los pacientes muertos -todos gozaban de muy buena salud- es que pertenec?an al mismo seguro m?dico. Es la primera pista de una terrible historia en la que medicina, adelantos cient?ficos y negocios se enfrentan en una trama de gran suspense…
Mickey Haller, tytu?owy “Lincoln Lawyer”, to adwokat, kt?rego biuro mie?ci si? g??wnie na tylnym siedzeniu jednego z jego czterech samochod?w marki Lincoln. Prawnik, kt?ry przemieszcza si? mi?dzy oddalonymi od siebie wydzia?ami s?du w Los Angeles, podejmuje si? obrony klient?w r??nego pokroju. S? w?r?d nich pijani kierowcy, recydywi?ci, dilerzy narkotyk?w… Dla Hallera prawo jest rzadko kwesti? winy i niewinno?ci – to tylko negocjacje i manipulacja. Jedynie w wyj?tkowych sytuacjach w gr? wchodzi sprawiedliwo??.Playboy z Beverly Hills, aresztowany za zaatakowanie poznanej w barze ...
Cuando el reci?n ascendido a capit?n de la divisi?n de narc?ticos del Departamento de Polic?a y Seguridad de Nueva York Jonah McMasters y su mujer regresan un d?a antes de sus vacaciones, esperaban con ilusi?n reencontrarse y pasar m?s tiempo con su inteligente y vivaz hija de diecis?is a?os.Pero ni sus peores pesadillas les pod?an haber preparado para la escena del crimen que les est? aguardando. La joven Deena ha sido brutalmente violada y asesinada y las pruebas evidencian un crimen que horrorizar?a incluso al ...
Riley Crane se despert? completamente vestida, cubierta de sangre y con una pistola bajo la almohada. Pero lo que resultaba m?s aterrador a?n era que no recordaba lo sucedido la noche anterior. En realidad, apenas recordaba las tres semanas anteriores.Riley es un camale?n: ex oficial del ej?rcito y ahora agente federal asignada a la Unidad de Cr?menes Especiales, posee el don de la clarividencia y la capacidad de fundirse con su entorno, de ser lo que elija. Especialista de la UCE en lo oculto, ha sido enviada por su jefe, el enigm?...
Etiopia nieodleg?ej przysz?o?ci. Trwa wojna domowa, oddzia?y ONZ usi?uj? opanowa? chaos. Na pograniczu z Somali? polski patrol zestrzeli? niezidentyfikowany ?mig?owiec.Jeden z ?o?nierzy zosta? ranny. Z Addis Abeby wylatuje komisja maj?ca zbada? szcz?tki maszyny. Na pok?adzie sanitarnego ?mig?owca znajduje si? kapitan-lekarz Jacek Szczebielewicz i pewna czarnosk?ra dziewczyna. Nikt nie podejrzewa, ?e kolejny rutynowy lot zmieni si? w masakr?. Kilkudziesi?ciu osamotnionych ?o?nierzy musi stoczy? prawdziw? wojn?, najbardziej krwaw? i tragiczn?, jak? Wojsko Polskie stoczy?o od roku 1945.
Earthquake aftershocks trap Mayor Patrick O'Shea and his assistant Briana Bliss in an elevator. But emergency services are stretched to the limit with 911 calls. The mayor and Briana wait. And passions flare…Briana Bliss planned to use her job as Mayor Patrick O'Shea's assistant to get back at him for allegedly destroying her uncle's political chances. But she's unprepared for the way Patrick makes her feel. And in the close confines of the stalled elevator, Patrick and Briana give in to the attraction that's been sizzling between them for months. Now how will Briana ever prove to Patrick that she acted out of love…and not revenge?
Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished.And with her, nearly all of civilization.Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters – people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong.In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a harrowing quest to get Ruthie back. Few people trust an outsider, let alone a woman who became a zombie and somehow turned back, but she finds help from an enigmatic outlaw, Smoke. Smoke is her savior, and her safety.For the Beaters are out there.And the humans grip at survival with their trigger fingers. Especially when they learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared, and desired, of weapons in a brave new world…
She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. On an island with a glass shore – relic of some even more ancient conflict – she discovers she is to be hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes she is the last obstacle before their faith's apotheosis. She has to run, knowing her only hope of finally escaping the Huhsz is to find the last of the ancient, apocalyptically powerful but seemingly cursed Lazy Guns. But that is just the first as well as the final step on a search that takes her on an odyssey through the exotic Golterian system and results in both a trail of destruction and a journey into her own past, as well as that of her family and the system itself;a journey that changes everything.
For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.Including:* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special ops cell.* James Grady writing about an Arab undercover FBI agent with an active cell.* Joseph Finder riffing on a Boston architect who's convinced his Persian neighbors are up to no good.* John Lawton concocting a Len Deighton-esque story about British intelligence.* Stephen Hunter thrilling us with a tale about a WWII brigade.Full list of Contributors:James Grady, Charles McCarry, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, John Lawton, John Weisman, Stephen Hunter, Gayle Lynds, David Morrell, Andrew Klavan, Robert Wilson, Dan Fesperman, Stella Rimington, Olen Steinhauer
La desaparici?n de una estudiante, Philippa Balfour ?ni?a rica rebelde, hija de un banquero bien acomodado e influyente? conduce a la polic?a a dos posibles pistas: la primera relacionada con la aparici?n de una mu?eca de madera en un min?sculo ata?d abandonado en un paraje rural, a poca distancia de la casa de los Balfour; la segunda, su participaci?n en un juego de rol a trav?s de Internet dirigido por un misterioso gur? cibern?tico. Dos posibles pistas que vinculan casos antiguos de asesinatos no resueltos con otros m?s recientes. La polic?a, de Lothian y Borders, se pone en marcha, mientras Rebus investiga los deslavazados antecedentes hist?ricos de cr?menes sin resolver y la agente Siobhan Clarke sigue la pista virtual del misterioso «Programador», cuyas enrevesadas claves acaban dirigiendo los pasos de la investigaci?n. Las vidas, virtuales y reales, dependen ahora de una fracci?n de segundo.
ON ALERT.A nuclear bomb has gone missing. At the same time Room 59, a covert unit of the International Intelligence Agency created to fi ght terrorist cells, intercepts a communiqu? from U.S. Border Patrol agent Nathaniel Spencer. A known terrorist, thought to be dead, is back in business..AND UNDERCOVERTracy Wentworth is working for the Department of Homeland Security when she's contacted by Room 59 for an inside job. Aligned with Agent Spencer and backed up by Room 59's considerable resources, they are to assess and eliminate the threat, using any means necessary. But as they delve deeper into Mexico's criminal underworld, it soon becomes clear that someone is planning a massive attack against America.one that would render the entire nation completely defenseless!
Ken McNutt es un locutor de radio londinense que se fragua enemistades por doquier, debido a la insaciable s?tira social y pol?tica que despliega a trav?s de las ondas. En una de las muchas fiestas de la alta sociedad a las que asiste conoce a Celia, una mujer misteriosa y atractiva que le relata, entre otras cosas, un accidente que la convirti? para siempre en dos personas distintas. Poco despu?s, se entera de que ella es una mujer casada con un mafioso, y a partir de ese momento su vida entera en una vor?gine de aventuras y peligros.
Una excelente y asombrosa obra de suspense psicol?gico. Un asesino que tiene aterrorizado Miami elige como interlocutor a un reportero de uno de los peri?dicos m?s importantes de la ciudad. Se establece entonces una relaci?n casi enfermiza en la que el reportero intenta ganarse la confianza del asesino sin que ?ste se aperciba, a la vez que pretende desenmascararlo.
Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel.It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor.You see, Moose has never met Al Capone, but a few weeks ago Moose wrote a letter to him asking him to use his influence to get his sister, Natalie, into a school she desperately needs in San Francisco. After Natalie got accepted, a note appeared in Moose's freshly laundered shirt that said: Done.As this book begins, Moose discovers a new note. This one says: Your turn. Is it really from Capone? What does it mean? Moose can't risk anything that might get his dad fired. But how can he ignore Al Capone?
A collection of storiesAn albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitl?n R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy in the pages of her award-winning second novel, Threshold (2001), then went on to write several more short stories and a novella about this unlikely heroine, each a piece of what has become an epic dark fantasy narrative. Alabaster finally collects all these tales into one volume, illustrated by Ted Naifeh (Gloomcookie, How Loathsome, Courtney Crumrin, Polly and the Pirates, etc.).
Es brauchte nur einen Funken — und sie hatten die H?lle unter Wasser!Sie waren jetzt 93 Tage auf See, davon 81 Tage unter Wasser. Eingesperrt in dem Atom-U-Boot, einem gro?en, st?hlernen, graugestrichenen Sarg.81 Tage unter Wasser. Keine Sonne, keine frische Luft, kein Wind in den Haaren, kein blauer Himmel, keine W?rme auf der Haut, keine Weite — nur drangvolle Enge in der k?nstlich erleuchteten Welt, die aus G?ngen, Stahltreppen, Schatten, Kabelgewirr und Instrumenten zu bestehen schien.Und dann kamen die M?dchen an Bord…Konsalik hat einen Super-Thriller geschrieben. Er schildert ein Drama auf See, dessen Spannung sich von Seite zu Seite steigert. Ein an und f?r sich harmloses Ereignis weitet sich aus zu einer Bedrohung des Weltfriedens.
Alejandro Magno es uno de los personajes m?s fascinantes de nuestro pasado y algunos de los mejores cultivadores de novela hist?rica le han dedicado obras inolvidables. Doherty se suma a esta pl?yade de narradores situ?ndose en la primavera del a?o 334 a.C., cuando Alejandro se dispone a invadir Persia, iniciando la que hoy conocemos como la batalla del Gr?nico.
The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The details of Ben's harrowing story-and his experiences with a ...
