Chris Pavone Libros

From Edgar Award-winning Chris Pavone, author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller (fans of The Expats will be excited to see a few characters from Pavone's first book pop up here as well).

A woman wakes up to discover her new husband is missing and sets out on a wild race of power, politics, and revenge.

As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets of her own past.

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage - and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start a new. She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done - playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored. Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life

After the events of The Expats, Kate Moore and her husband Dexter have settled into a new life in Paris--playing tennis in the Jardins du Luxembourg and sipping coffee over Le Monde at the Cafe de Flore. The last thing she expects when she hears sirens while dropping her kids off at school is for her entire life to be turned upside down. With a suicide bomber outside the Louvre, a tech CEO and old nemesis of Dexter's missing, and no orders coming from Langley, Kate must partner with a French agent to figure out who is orchestrating the attack. Minute by minute, she comes closer to the truth--that the past she hoped she left behind might be closer than she thinks. And if she can't stop the shadowy figure behind it all, Paris may never be the same. Sophisticated plotting, psychologically nuanced characterization, and an unbeatable Paris setting make this the next bestseller from Chris Pavone.

Will Rhodes is a travel writer, recently married, and barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse. Soon Will's bad choices--and dark secrets--take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from Dublin to the Mediterranean to the cliffs of Iceland. As he's inexorably drawn into a web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications--and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.

Die zentrale Frage des Buches dreht sich um die moralischen Grenzen und Entscheidungen in extremen Situationen. Die Protagonisten sehen sich mit herausfordernden Umständen konfrontiert, die sie zwingen, über ihre Werte und Loyalitäten nachzudenken. Ihre Entscheidungen haben weitreichende Konsequenzen, die nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben, sondern auch das Schicksal anderer beeinflussen. Das Werk thematisiert Mut, Opferbereitschaft und die Suche nach dem richtigen Weg in einer Welt voller Unsicherheiten.

Een ex-CIA-agente heeft haar verleden verzwegen voor haar man, die ze samen met hun twee kinderen is gevolgd naar Luxemburg, waar hij als IT-er werkt voor een bank tenminste, dat denkt zij.