Carsten Stroud Libros

Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes random attacks on London and other raids, even more threatening, are perpetrated by the Resistance. Nathaniel and Bartimaeus travel to Prague, enemy city of ancient magic, but while they are there uproar breaks out at home and Nathaniel returns to find his reputation in tatters. Can he rescue it from his Machiavellian adversaries in the government bent on his destruction? A thrilling sequel in which the relationship between the young magician and the djinni remains as teasing and complex as ever.

When two plane crashes set off a spellbinding chain reaction of murder, inadvertent kidnapping, corporate corruption and financial double-dealing, Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh has to investigate. To add to his worries, he and his wife, Kate, have also just taken in brutally orphaned Rainey Teague. Something bothers Nick about Rainey - and it isn't just that the woman in charge of attendance at Rainey's school has suspiciously disappeared. In fact, people have long been disappearing from seemingly placid Niceville, including, most disturbingly, Kate's father. Using his files, Kate and Nick start to unearth Niceville's blood-stained history, but something (or is it Nothing?) stands in their way ...

Ex-cop turned boat minder Rick Broca comes across the wreckage of an airplane, and it quickly becomes apparent that the pilot he rescued from the water is not who he claims to be.

When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of old pawn shop in town. CCTV shows Rainey there one minute and then gone the next. In the days that follow, any hope Rainey's family has of finding him alive starts to fade but then Rainey is found - alive but in a coma, and there's no telling when, or if, he'll ever wake up...One year on, Kavanagh is still haunted by the case. And now another member of the town - this time an elderly woman - has been reported missing. It's as though she vanished into thin air. Once again, Kavanagh's on the case and, as he starts to dig back through the town's history, he can't help but notice that Niceville has a much higher than average number of stranger abductions...

Jack Vermillion is seeing red. So is Earl V. Pike. So is a smart, beautiful NYC detective named Casey Spandau. For Jack, it began when Earl asked for a little favor--one former soldier to another. With Jack’s son in serious trouble with the law and his shipping company, Black Water Transit , about to hit the big time, Jack saw a chance to be a good father, a good citizen, and a good CEO--by ratting out Earl V. Pike to the feds. It was a monumental mistake.Now Pike is mad. Bodies are piling up. And all the backstabbers are coming out of the woodwork in Jack’s rattled world. Jack’s only detective Casey Spandau, who began her week hunting for a sex criminal and ended up with Earl V. Pike--a man using guile, skill, and one astounding long-range weapon to kill everyone who gets in his way. For Casey and Jack Vermillion, making Earl V. Pike angry has turned into a cross-country nightmare. But taking him down will be even worse.

Having changed careers to avoid the hard knocks of police work, Rick Broca rescues a downed sea pilot and becomes suspicious that the man is not who he appears to be before an attack propels him into an adventure involving espionage and voodoo. Reprint.

A week in the life of an N.Y.P.D. Homicide detective.

Een ex-politieman uit New York redt tijdens een orkaan tussen Cuba en Florida een neergestorte piloot uit zee, hetgeen verstrekkende gevolgen heeft.

In Niceville, einer Kleinstadt im Süden der USA, geraten die Dinge vollends außer Kontrolle: An einem Wochenende werden mehrere Menschen brutal ermordet. Die Täter berichten von einer mysteriösen Stimme, die sie angestachelt habe. Sind sie besessen? Ermittler Nick Kavanaugh ist zunächst damit beschäftigt, seine Familie zusammenzuhalten, die vom Adoptivsohn Rainey tyrannisiert wird. Aber was ist der Grund dafür, dass sich in Niceville scheinbar normale Menschen in eiskalte Killer verwandeln? Der Schlüssel zu allem liegt in der mit pechschwarzem Wasser gefüllten Senke am Rande der Stadt. Während Nick und seine Helfer versuchen, das Böse zurückzudrängen, hat es sich schon längst in den Köpfen der Menschen eingenistet. Ist es überhaupt noch aufzuhalten? Endlich: Der Abschluss der Niceville-Trilogie! ›Der Aufbruch‹ ist ein rasanter, sich über alle Genregrenzen hinweg-setzender Mix aus Hardboiled-Thriller, Mystery und Horror – hochgelobt vom großen Stephen King. Niceville-Trilogie: Band 1: Niceville Band 2: Die Rückkehr Band 3: Der Aufbruch