'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 ...
Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning home from Iraq with an “other than honorable” discharge, he’s finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet. Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago ’s prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She’s ready for anything the job can throw at her. Until Jason’s brother, a prominent community activist, is murdered in front of his own son. Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city’s power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child – and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.
Gabriel Espada, un c?nico buscavidas sin oficio ni beneficio, quiz? el m?s improbable de los h?roes, tiene ante s? una misi?n: descubrir el secreto de la Atl?ntida.La joven ge?loga Iris Gudrund?ttir intuye que se avecina una erupci?n en cadena de los principales volcanes de la Tierra y confiesa sus temores a Gabriel. Para evitar esta cat?strofe, que podr?a provocar una nueva Edad de Hielo, Gabriel tendr? que bucear en el pasado. El hundimiento de la Atl?ntida le ofrecer? la clave para comprender el comportamiento an?malo del planeta.Una mezcla explosiva de ciencia y arqueolog?a y, sobre todo, aventura en estado puro.
Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, policiers dans la fameuse section criminelle du 36, Quai des Orf?vres, tentent de se remettre d'un drame qui a failli les s?parer. Ils essaient de faire un enfant, en vain. Et ? quelques jours de No?l, ce qui les attend est loin d'?tre l'annonce d'un heureux ?v?nement. ? l'heure o? tout le monde rentre se r?chauffer, le froid, la mort et les souvenirs maudits guettent.Une affaire d'envergure d?marre alors. Christophe Gamblin, journaliste de faits divers, est retrouv? mort de froid, enferm? dans son cong?lateur. Sa coll?gue ...
Aurora boreal fue galardonada con el Premio a la Mejor Primera Novela Negra por la Asociaci?n Sueca de Escritores de Novela Negra, y Det blod spillts, la segunda entrega de la serie, con el Premio a la Mejor Novela Negra Sueca.El cuerpo de Victor Strandgard, el predicador m?s famoso de Suecia, yace mutilado en una remota iglesia en Kiruna, una ciudad del norte sumergida en la eterna noche polar. La herman de la v?ctima ha encontrado el cad?ver, y la sospecha se cierne sobre ella. Desesperada, pide ayuda a su amiga de infancia, la abogada Rebecka Martinsson, que actualmente vive en Estocolmo y que regresa a su ciudad natal dispuesta a averiguar qui?n es el verdadero culpable. Durante la investigaci?n s?lo cuenta con la complicidad de Anna-Maria Mella, una inteligente y peculiar polic?a embarazada. En Kiruna mucha gente parece tener algo que ocultar, y la nieve no tardar? en te?irse de sangre.
Situada en la m?tica ciudad de Sparta, en Nueva York, Ave del para?so es una punzante y v?vida combinaci?n de romance er?tico y violencia tr?gica en la Norteam?rica de finales del siglo XX. Cuando Zoe Kruller, una joven esposa y madre, aparece brutalmente asesinada, la polic?a de Sparta se centra en dos principales sospechosos, su marido, Delray, del que estaba separada, y su amante desde hace tiempo, Eddy Diehl. Mientras tanto, el hijo de los Kruller, Aaron, y la hija de Eddy, Krista, adquieren una mutua obsesi?n, y cada uno cree que el padre del otro es culpable. Una cl?sica novela de Oates, autora tambi?n de La hija del sepulturero, Mam?, Infiel, Puro fuego y Un jard?n de poderes terrenales, en la que el lirismo del intenso amor sexual est? entrelazado con la angustia de la p?rdida y es dif?cil diferenciar la ternura de la crueldad
La investigadora privada Kinsey Millhone tiene problemas para llegar a fin de mes el d?a en que no tiene m?s remedio que aceptar el rutinario encargo de buscar a la hermana de Mrs. Danziger, Elaine. Ahora bien, cuando llega al apartamento de ?sta y se encuentra con que lo ocupa otra enigm?tica mujer, cuando Mrs. Danziger le pide de pronto que abandone el caso, cuando se entera de que, pocos d?as antes de la desaparici?n de Elaine, su vecina y compa?era de bridge ha sido brutalmente asesinada y su casa ha desaparecido bajo las llamas, cuando el sobrino drogadicto de ?sta sabe m?s de lo que dice, cuando se producen misteriosos registros, extra?as injerencias y, finalmente, otro asesinato, a la obstinada y meticulosa Kinsey Millhone el asunto le va pareciendo todo menos rutinario. Y cuanto m?s investiga, m?s se ve envuelta en un diab?lico laberinto de espejos en el que nada -excepto el peligro- es en realidad lo que parece ser.
Wise-cracking, female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, is hired to find a missing sister. However, when the trail leads to Florida, Kinsey finds herself caught up in a dangerous case involving fire-raising, burglary and murder.
Kto m?g? porwa? syna Jacka Coldrena, znanego golfisty, kt?ry z ogromn? przewag? prowadzi w mistrzostwach USA? Podejrzenia padaj? na dawnego asystenta Jacka, Lloyda Rennarta. Tymczasem okazuje si?, ?e Rennart p?? roku wcze?niej pope?ni? samob?jstwo. A je?li ?yje i tylko upozorowa? w?asn? ?mier?? A mo?e Chad sfingowa? porwanie? Myron Bolitar podejmuje si? odnale?? ch?opca – po raz pierwszy bez swojego niezawodnego przyjaciela Wina, kt?ry z niewiadomych powod?w odmawia udzia?u w ?ledztwie. Jedyny trop, jakim dysponuje, to karta kredytowa zaginionego, z kt?rej kto? ci?gle korzysta. I tym razem klucz do wszystkich zagadek kryje si? w przesz?o?ci…
Siedzimy przed komputerem w domu i odpoczywamy, surfuj?c po Internecie. Cieszymy si? z ciszy i samotno?ci. Ale czy naprawd? jeste?my sami?Niekoniecznie, je?li wzi?? nas na cel haker, a na dodatek socjopata. ?ledzi nasze e-maile i rozmowy na czacie; krok po kroku nas poznaje: czym si? zajmujemy, co nas interesuje, kim s? nasi znajomi, ile p?acimy za dom, samoch?d itd. Kiedy ju? nas dobrze pozna, postara si? podej?? i zaatakowa?, a w?wczas w?tpliwe, czy ujdziemy z ?yciem…
Tom 2 cyklu „Z archiw?w NUMA”.Pradawna legenda, rewolucyjne odkrycie i najs?ynniejszy obok Dirka Pitta bohater Cusslera w pojedynku z szale?cem opanowanym ??dz? w?adzy.Rok 1991. Brazylijska uczona dokonuje epokowego odkrycia. Ale jej samolot przepada gdzie? nad Ameryk? Po?udniow?…Rok 2001. Kurt Austin i cz?onkowie NUMA napotykaj? u wybrze?y Kalifornii stado martwych wieloryb?w. Usi?uj?c odkry? przyczyn? ?mierci zwierz?t, docieraj? do tajnego podwodnego laboratorium, opuszczonej bazy lotniczej na Alasce, a wreszcie do serca wenezuelskiej d?ungli i tajemniczego plemienia – stra?nik?w niewyobra?alnego sekretu. I ujawniaj? zbrodniczy plan, kt?rego celem jest panowanie nad ?wiatem…
The Edgar® Awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone.Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever ...
San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill – accused in a string of murders – when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless style, becomes suddenly tentative in his opening statement, leading Hunt to suspect he's been threatened – suspicions that are all but confirmed when Hunt is shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as an ominous note is sent to Savich at the Hoover Building: You deserve this for what you did. Security tapes fail to reveal who delivered the note. Who is behind the shooting of Judge Ramsey Hunt? Who sent the note to Savich? And what does it all mean? Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to find out… watching their backs all the while.
Fairstein, former chief of the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, returns with her ninth legal thriller starring prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. The author's own expertise again adds to the credibility of her fiction, in terms of courtroom banter, pacing, and those small "you couldn't make this up" details, such as the fact that shopping carts are the current favored receptacles for attorneys' case files. Her plotting is steady if formulaic. The big flaw in Fairstein's writing is that she has a tin ear when it comes to how people talk; her dialogue, often progressing in parallel ...
Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner.Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot. Doyle's daughter, Erin, is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while she's in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erin 's boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And that's not the worst of it.Robinson's latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in.
Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on Kindra in Flagrante computer delicto. When they're mistakenly signed up for sensual couples counselling, co-workers Jared and Candy are shocked.
Undercover enforcer Sean Dillon tackles a new crisis as Presidential skeletons threaten to burst from the closet – in the dramatic new thriller from the master of suspense, the author of the international bestsellers Day of Reckoning, Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it’s threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: a close relative ...
Introducing Australia's most acclaimed crime-thriller writer to North American audiences with his first two books in his award-winning Jack Irish series.A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he's still cooking for one. When Danny turns up dead, Jack is forced to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.With suspenseful prose and black humor, Peter Temple builds an unforgettable character in Jack Irish and brings the reader on a journey that is as intelligent as it is exciting.
Zack Walker is back and on the job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first assignment Zack stumbles upon a homicide that may be linked to a gang that's been terrorizing the city’s high-end shopping district. Suddenly, he finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock – a ruthless criminal with a disturbing obsession. As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foes blur, Zack must be ever vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or in his own imagination. Heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad.
It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address – a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message:'Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love…'For child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling trespass outside his home, a sickening act of ...
