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Wanneer een bom in het hart van Washington D.C. tot ontploffing komt, lijkt in eerste instantie alles te wijzen op een aanslag op de Britse premier. Op het moment dat de bom afging, verliet hij net per limousine het Witte Huis. De autoriteiten zijn er dan ook van overtuigd met een mislukte terroristische aanslag te maken te hebben. Om te helpen bij het onderzoek stuurt de Britse geheime dienst binnen een dag een van haar beste agenten naar de Verenigde Staten: Mary Chapman. Chapman, een ervaren en zeer gevaarlijke agent, komt algauw in contact met Oliver Stone, die getuige is geweest van de explosie. Wanneer de FBI, de Secret Service en de vele andere geheime diensten die betrokken zijn bij het onderzoek elkaar alleen maar wantrouwen en dwarsbomen, roepen Stone en Chapman de hulp in van Harry Finn, Annabelle Conroy en de overige leden van de Camel Club. Samen komen ze erachter dat de daders die avond mogelijk een ander doel voor ogen hadden. En alleen de Camel Club kan nu nog een ramp van ongekende omvang voorkomen...

Als een vriend hem wijst op een poort in de tijd naar 1958, krijgt een Amerikaanse leraar de kans om de geschiedenis te veranderen door de moord op Kennedy in 1963 te voorkomen.

The first novel in Elizabeth George's Young Adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for mystery and suspense novels with the paranormal

The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to his dead friend to protect his widow, Tracey. March 2011: Nick is in Moscow filling his days at a private gun range when he is lifted by heavies and taken to meet an oligarch. The oligarch wants Nick to track down his kidnapped wife and son. It transpires that the oligarch has married Tracey and so Nick is given the opportunity to fulfil his promise to Mong. Nick follows the trail from Mogadishu to Nairobi, from Courchevelski to Bristol, on a mission to unravel this complex and explosive plot. He eventually tracks down Tracey and her son and leads a rescue mission, all guns blazing, only to find that Tracey is dead and the boy is missing. There's only one man the boy can be with, and one place, which only Nick knows... Nick goes after him, and he has vengeance to wreak.

"Will Robie es un asesino a sueldo del gobierno americano que no ha fallado un objetivo en su vida. Hasta que decide no asesinar a una madre durmiendo junto a sus hijos. Entonces debe huir de los suyos y en su camino se cruza Julie, una chica de 14 tambien en plena huida. Robie la salva y poco a poco va descubriendo que sus destinos estan m©Łs unidos de lo que cree."--

Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he’s urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick’s help. His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She’s been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn’t meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she’ll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he’s become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who’s holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government. If he’s going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever…

Een Brits parlementslid geeft zijn geliefde een bijzonder verjaarscadeau: zij wordt geblinddoekt en geboeid naar hem toe gebracht, maar hierbij gaat iets heel erg mis.

Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

After the lawyer of an institutionalized alleged serial killer Edgar Roy ends up dead, Dean King and Michelle Maxwell must figure out whether Roy is really a killer or if other evil is afoot. By the #1 best-selling author of Deliver Us From Evil. 800,000 first printing.

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force. David Baldacci is one of the world's favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 110 million copies in print. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America.

Un audaz secuestro transforma una fiesta infantil en Camp David en una pesadilla de seguridad nacional. Sean King y Michelle Maxwell, exagentes secretos, se ven obligados a investigar para rescatar a la niña secuestrada. A medida que avanza la trama, la línea entre amigos y enemigos se vuelve confusa y peligrosa.

Cotton Malone is back and the stakes were never higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies buried in the past.

Een topgeheime Amerikaanse organisatie heeft zich gespecialiseerd in het geheel buiten de wet om elimineren van terroristen voordat deze kwaad kunnen aanrichten.

De vierentwintigjarige Kirstin Kvist verlaat Zweden om in Engeland te gaan werken. Via haar vriend komt de terecht op Lydstep Old Hall, een oud, verwaarloosd landhuis in Essex. Daar gaat ze voor John, een veertigjarige schizofrene man, zorgen. Bij aankomst beseft Kirstin dat ze in een ongewone familie is beland. Johns familieleden gunnen elkaar het licht in de ogen niet. Het enige wat hen bij elkaar houdt is Johns geld. Wanneer een van zijn zussen een relatie krijgt met een kunstschilder uit het dorp is dat de aanzet tot een reeks gruwelijke gebeurtenissen en lijkt het noodlot langzaam maar zeker onafwendbaar...

In Nextopia, timing is everything. And there is no better time than tomorrow. We live in an Expectations Society—a society where we are constantly striving towards our next job, the next big thing, the next date. In the Expectations Society, possibilities of finding happiness are endless. Meanwhile, it has never been harder to stay happy. This book will help you understand how this change in society and the human mind impacts business, love, and life itself. With a whole new set of ideas and theories about how expectations form the very essence of human nature, Micael Dahlen takes you on a journey towards Nextopia—a journey that never ends.

TOM CLANCY'S GREATEST CHARACTERS FACE THEIR DEADLIEST CHALLENGE. After nearly a decade, the master of international intrigue returns to a world rife with chaos, where power struggles threaten annihilation. In response, a secret entity known as the Campus was established under President Jack Ryan, tasked with hunting down and eliminating terrorists without oversight. This self-sufficient group operates independently of the American government, navigating a landscape where loyalty and justice are often disregarded. Covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his team at the Campus wage a silent war against global threats. They are joined by black ops warriors John Clark and "Ding" Chavez, along with Brian and Dominic Caruso and Mary Pat Foley. Their greatest challenge arises from a sadistic killer known as the Emir, a mastermind behind numerous horrific attacks who has evaded capture by law enforcement worldwide. The Campus is determined to change that, especially as the Emir plans a devastating strike against America. On a deadly manhunt, Jack Ryan Jr. follows in his father's footsteps, pursuing the Emir across the globe and into the intricate world of political maneuvering. As they race against time, an all-star cast of Clancy's characters unites to prevent a catastrophe that could threaten the very heart of the West, embarking on a desperate search for a madman who may be hiding in plain sight.

The pulsating new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The West will be brought to its knees. Only one man can find and stop the perpetrator -- but for the first time in his life Nick Stone doesn't want to play ball.

Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip.

Es una soleada mañana de otoño en la pequeña ciudad de Chester’s Mill, Claudette Sanders disfruta de su clase de vuelo y Dale Barbara, hace autostop en las afueras. Ninguno de los dos llegará a su destino. De la nada ha caído sobre la ciudad una barrera invisible como una burbuja cristalina inquebrantable. Al descender, ha cortado por la mitad a una marmota y ha amputado la mano a un jardinero. El avión que pilotaba Claudette ha chocado contra la cúpula y se ha precipitado al suelo envuelto en llamas. Dale Barbara, veterano de la guerra de Irak, debe regresar ahora a Chester’s Mill, el lugar que tanto deseaba abandonar. El ejército pone a Dale al cargo de la situación pero Big Jim Rennie, el hombre que tiene un pie en todos los negocios sucios de la ciudad, no está de acuerdo; la cúpula podría ser la respuesta a sus plegarias. A medida que la comida, la electricidad y el agua escasean, los niños comienzan a tener premoniciones escalofriantes. El tiempo se acaba para aquellos que viven bajo la cúpula. ¿Podrán averiguar qué ha creado tan terrorífica prisión antes de que sea demasiado tarde?

En esta colección de siete relatos de John Grisham, el autor nos transporta de nuevo a Condado de Ford, Misisipí.

Un hombre inocente, Donté Drumm, está a punto de ser ejecutado por un crimen que no cometió. El verdadero culpable, Travis Boyette, un asesino con un tumor cerebral, decide confesar su crimen. Sin embargo, convencer a las autoridades de la inocencia de Donté no será fácil.

Five rules to make a power play. Find your target, isolate your hostages, make your ransom demand, use violence if necessary and take the money and run. About a hostage situation. Thriller.

From the author of the best-selling Mafia exposé, Wiseguy , comes this inside story of the billion-dollar gambling industry and the secretive, dangerous men who run it. At the heart of this true tale of love, revenge, and murder Mafia-style are some of the most memorable characters in mob lore: Lefty, the brains of the mob's Vegas casinos; Tony Spilotro, the mob's muscle; and Geri, Lefty's adulterous show-girl wife.

Voormalig sas-kapitein Will Jackson heeft niets meer te verliezen. Zijn leven werd verwoest op de dag dat zijn familie omkwam bij een terroristische aanslag. Daarna trok hij zich terug uit actieve dienst en werd zijn militaire verleden slechts een vage herinnering.Nu zitten zijn voormalige bevelhebbers in grote problemen en als ze geen oplossing vinden, zullen duizenden onschuldige mensen sterven. Dus doen ze Jackson een aanbod dat hij niet kan weigeren. Maar in de duistere wereld van het internationale terrorisme zijn zaken zelden wat ze lijken. Will ontdekt dat iemand een spelletje met hem speelt, dat je niemand kunt vertrouwen en dat je soms vuur met vuur moet bestrijden

Includes 5 of King's short stories that were adapted for Hollywood films, with his personal commentary and introductions.

"Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself--an amoral, heartless killer--in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling series"--Provided by publisher.

Michael Brock tenía prisa. Se abría paso como podía en el escalafón de Drake & Sweeney, un enorme estudio de Washington D.C. Era una estrella emergente sin ningún tiempo que perder; no podía permitirse ni un respiro, ni detenerse a echar unas monedas en los vasos de cartón de los mendigos. No tenía tiempo para la conciencia. Pero un encontronazo violento con un hombre sin techo estuvo a punto de detenerlo. Michael sobrevivió, pero no su asaltante. ¿Quién era aquel tipo? Michael investigó y dio con un oscuro secreto, un secreto que involucraba a Drake & Sweeney.

A member of the jury for the century's most explosive trial against a giant tobacco company, Juror #2, a mysterious man with a past and a hidden agenda, joins forces with a beautiful woman on the outside to get the verdict he wants, no matter what the cost

Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix Cellini is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes. -- back cover

Jonathan Stride nunca ha deseado tanto ocuparse de una investigación como en el caso del asesinato del marido de Maggie, su más apreciada y estrecha colaboradora en el cuerpo de policía. Stride no alberga duda alguna sobre la inocencia de Maggie, pero precisamente por el vínculo que les une, no tiene más remedio que inhibirse y asignar la investigación a un compañero curtido en mil batallas que, al contrario que él, casi ha condenado a su compañera de antemano. Simultáneamente, su novia Serena acepta el encargo de uno de los peces gordos de la ciudad para actuar como intermediaria en un turbio asunto de chantaje que, si se hiciera público, podría hundir la carrera de su cliente. Nadando entre dos aguas y presa de una inquietud creciente al no poder ayudar a las dos mujeres más importantes en su vida, Stride comienza a atar cabos hasta darse cuenta que un extraño vínculo parece unir ambos casos. Como las pruebas se encargarán de mostrar, no sólo se enfrenta a un homicidio y una extorsión, sino a un frío y calculador asesino que no dudará en matar del modo más pavoroso con tal de satisfacer sus depravados instintos.

It’s late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham – an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he’s already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice known as ‘adventure sex’, a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue ... Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, The Birthday Present is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.

When self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle's marriage ends, he heads for Florida's Duma Key. Strange things begin to happen when he takes up painting and gets to know his elderly, reclusive neighbor. The plot contains profanity.

This book is set in Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach; 'The King of Swords'. An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune-teller and her scheming pimp son, then to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies and friends in very high places. Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad - and track down some answers. What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman, before death's shadow reaches his own front door?

Cotton Malone, el célebre agente norteamericano, vive retirado en Copenhague, donde regenta una librería. Su tranquila vida se ve truncada el día en que su hijo es secuestrado. El culpable no se detendrá ante nada para conseguir su objetivo. Y su objetivo es nada menos que la desaparecida biblioteca de Alejandría, donde se ocultaba un secreto que afecta a las tres principales religiones del mundo.

Wanneer de baas van een groot bedrijf de helft van zijn personeel moet ontslaan, blijkt gaandeweg dat hij niet meer iedereen kan vertrouwen.

The brilliant new global thriller from the master storyteller ...

Heden en verleden smelten samen in een historisch moordmysterie op de campus van Cambridge. Het lichaam van Elizabeth Vogelsang wordt gevonden in een rivier in Cambridge. De gepensioneerde historica, die werkte aan een controversiële biografie over Isaac Newton, klemt in haar hand een antieke prisma. Om te voorkomen dat haar geheimen in het graf verdwijnen, zegt Lydia, de ex-vriendin van Elizabeths zoon, toe de biografie te voltooien. Gaandeweg ontdekt zij dat de dood van Elizabeth verband houdt met een moord uit 1665. Haar onderzoek leidt haar naar een radicale herinterpretatie van de rol van alchemie en bovennatuurlijke krachten in Newtons leven. Maar op het moment dat ze zich lijkt te verliezen in de zeventiende eeuw, vinden er in het heden nog twee moorden plaats.

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback-for the mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy. Yes, Italians do play American football, to one degree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player-any former NFL player-at their helm. So Rick reluctantly agrees to play for the Panthers-at least until a better offer comes along-and heads off to Italy. He knows nothing about Parma, has never been to Europe, and doesn't speak or understand a word of Italian. To say that Italy holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Known for his meticulous, fascinating research, as well as his ability to create exciting plot twists that inevitably, a month or two later, seem to have anticipated real-life headlines, Ridley Pearson has genered praise as a "master" of the suspense novel. In Middle of Nowhere, the "Blu Flu" has struck the Seattle Police force and a majority of the officers are on a unofficial strike, with the exception of a few, including Detective Lou Boldt, who is committed to the job. When a string of robberies and the brutal assault of a female cop rock the city, the pressure of isolation threatens Boldt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make progress on both the assault and the robberies, but things soon spin out of control, and Bodt's refusal to drop the case puts his own life at risk. Filled with the fast-paced, spiraling action that has made Pearson's previous novels "irresistable" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) works of suspense that "grip the imagination" (People magazine), this offering from "the best thriller writer alive" (Booklist) is certain to keep the reader breathless.

Con la ayuda de un muerto, Blaze ha logrado perpetrar el crimen del siglo. Clay Blaisdell, llamado Blaze por todos, mide dos metros y pesa ciento treinta y seis kilos. Es un verdadero gigante. Sin embargo,hasta conocer a George Rackley nunca había hecho nada grande. George le enseñó cien maneras de estafar a la gente e ideó para él un plan ambicioso: secuestrar a un niño rico. La familia Gerard es multimillonaria y el nuevo retoño del clan valdrá muchos de estos millones. Solo hay un problema: cuando llega el momento de ponerlo todo en marcha, George, el cerebro de la operación (y de todo lo que hacen), muere. O quizá no. Por eso Blaze se encuentra huyendo desesperado de una tormenta y de la policía. Ha conseguido raptar al bebé, pero el secuestro se ha convertido en una carrera contrarreloj a través de los bosques infernales de Maine...

Who is Mr Clarinet? In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called 'Mr. Clarinet', who for years has been tempting children away from their families. But could the truth be even more shocking than the legend?

Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.

Drie vrouwen, allen gestorven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden. Patholoog-anatoom Jack Stapleton staat voor een raadsel. De eerste vrouw overlijdt na een plotseling, ernstig zuurstoftekort. Het tweede slachtoffer is de partner van een Iraanse diplomaat bij de VN. Het lijkt in eerste instantie zelfmoord, maar Jack ontdekt dat het een moord betreft. De derde dode was een kerngezonde vrouw. Tijdens het winkelen is zij plotseling overleden aan een acute vernauwing van de kransslagader. Jack moet in de zaak van het eerste slachtoffer erachter komen of zijn zwager terecht beschuldigd wordt van medische fouten. Hij wordt hierbij van alle kanten tegengewerkt en bedreigd.

Een jonge vrouw en haar vriend leiden een bestaan waarin seks en drugs belangrijk zijn: zij als nachtclubeigenares in Soho en hij als Ierse maffiabaas in New York.

'Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!"' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still lived in the same house in Clapham. But it had been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had been demolished. Ismay and Heather get on well. They always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what happened that August day. But now, with painful inevitability, hidden truths start to emerge.

From Northern Ireland to Europe to the U.S., the name Jig means terror. Jig is the most masterful, most elusive assassin in the world. Now, Jig is on his way to New York, to recover $10 million stolen from the IRA. And on his trail is a renegade British agent obsessed with catching him.

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government. One of these employees is former agent Hal Ambler. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients - Hal isn't crazy. Hal pulls off a daring escape, and now he's out to discover who stashed him there and why. But the world he returns to has changed. No one remembers him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler and, when he first looks in the mirror, the face he sees is not his own...

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware is invited to the idyllic Pacific island of Aruk by the esteemed scientist Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, to assist with organizing his papers. Initially, it seems like a perfect getaway, allowing Alex to enjoy time with Robin Castagna. However, the atmosphere quickly shifts as secretive guests and unsettling night visitors disrupt the tranquility. The cases Moreland reveals—a patient driven mad by a horrific act, a man who suffered from radiation poisoning decades ago, and a young woman found brutally murdered—appear unrelated, yet Alex senses a deeper connection. As he investigates, with support from LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex begins to uncover troubling truths hidden within Moreland's expansive estate. The shocking revelations he ultimately discovers come too late to prevent the escalating violence that endangers both the guilty and innocent on the island. With compelling characterizations and a gripping pace, the author masterfully explores real-life horrors and inner fears, delivering a suspenseful narrative that captivates from start to finish.

Basándose en una historia real, John Grisham se adentra en la vida de un hombre condenado injustamente a la pena de muerte: Ronald Keith Williamson, acusado del asesinato de una mujer. Tras doce años de prisión, sus abogados lograron demostrar su inocencia cinco días antes de la fecha en que debía ser ajusticiado.

Hacía casi dos años que Lisey Debusher Landon había perdido a su marido Scott, después de veinticinco años de matrimonio y de una intimidad tan profunda que a veces les daba miedo. Scott había sido un escritor muy premiado y de gran éxito y también un hombre muy complicado. Al principio de su relación, Lisey tuvo que aprender mucho de él sobre libros y sobre sangre. Más adelante supo que había un lugar donde Scott se refugiaba, un lugar que cerraba sus heridas y lo aterrorizaba a la vez, que le inspiraba todas las ideas que necesitaba para vivir pero que también podría devorarlo. Ahora le toca a Lisey enfrentarse con los demonios de Scott. Le toca a Lisey viajar a Boo'ya Moon. Lo que había empezado con la decisión de la viuda de ordenar los papeles de su marido famoso se convierte en un viaje casi mortal hacia la oscuridad que él habitó... La historia de Lisey, probablemente la novela más personal y más intensa de Stephen King. explora los orígenes de la creatividad, la tentación de la locura y el lenguaje secreto del amor.

Via een overloper wordt Jack Ryan op de hoogte gesteld van het bestaan van een Russisch complot om de paus te vermoorden.

Attorney Paul Madriani has reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. And Crone had motive: Kalista had accused him of sexual harassment, and she'd been angling for his job. When a key prosecution witness dies unexpectedly, leaving an incriminating note behind, it seems the case may be closed. But Madriani won't be satisfied of his client's innocence till he's established just who did murder Kalista Jordan...

London, 1593: It is three weeks before the murder of Christopher Marlowe, playwright and spy in Queen Elizabeth I's secret service -- a crime that remains unsolved to this day. Marlowe is hoping to find his missing muse as he sets off on a new intelligence assignment...and closes in on the secret that will seal his fate.New York City, present Renaissance scholar turned private eye Kate Morgan investigates a shocking heist and murder involving a mysterious, antique manuscript recently unearthed in central London. What secret lurks in those yellowed, ciphered pages...and how, centuries later, could it drive someone to kill?Propelling us from the shadows of the sixteenth-century underworld to the chambers of a clandestine U.S. intelligence unit, from the glitter of the Elizabethan court to the catacombs of ancient Rome, The Intelligencer's dual narratives twist, turn, and collide as they race toward a stunning finale.

The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective . . .

Estado de miedo es una novela de denuncia que ya está causando mucha polémica en EEUU e Inglaterra. Michael Crichton dedicó tres años a la investigación de los datos y cifras que nos facilitan los investigadores científicos sobre el calentamiento global de la tierra, lo que llamamos el efecto invernadero. Cuestiona y descarta muchos de ellos. Según Crichton no hay pruebas claras de calentamiento global. Afirma que hay organizaciones que manipulan datos para probar lo que a ellos les interesa. Además hay personas dispuestas a convertirse en activistas, en ecoterroristas, incluso a provocar catástrofes para publicitar su causa y "confirmar" sus predicciones. La novela es un thriller poderoso, convincente, fascinante y muy ágil. La historia es ficción pura pero lo que hay detrás es todo verdadero. Para apoyar su tesis incluye al final del libro apéndices y una bibliografía amplísima que demuestran la seriedad y profundidad de la investigación.

It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But when corporate security catches up with Adam Cassidy, a low ambition junior staffer at the high-tech behemoth, they call it something else: embezzlement, to the tune of nearly $80 grand. Ruthless CEO Nick Wyatt is impressed by Adam's scheming, and offers him one way out-take on the role of a rising corporate hotshot and infiltrate Wyatt's rival, Trion Systems. His mission is to get close to Trion's legendary founder Jock Goddard, and his ultra-secret "Project Aurora," and report back to Wyatt. With Wyatt pulling the strings and a dramatically improved identity, Adam is set up as Trion's new boy genius. Suddenly, he's got a sweet new Porsche, a closet full of $1,500 suits, and even a lovely lady who thinks he's a dream. But it's all just a mirage, because Adam is about to learn that nothing is what it seems and that it isn't paranoia...everyone is out to get him...

A finales del siglo XVII, en Salem, Nueva Inglaterra, Elizabeth Stewart es acusada de brujería y condenada a muerte. Trescientos años más tarde, Kim Stewart, una atractiva enfermera, hereda la finca de su antepasada y decide trasladarse allí en compañía de Edward, un investigador científico. Animados por el hallazgo de unos extraños hongos que aparentemente poseen propiedades terapéuticas, Edward y un grupo de científicos instalan un moderno laboratorio en la finca y proyectan convertir la especie en un fármaco cuya comercialización les rendirá una fortuna. Mientras tanto, Kim se dedica a investigar en los archivos históricos del lugar y descubre que Elizabeth utilizaba esos mismos hongos en sus preparados culinarios y que fue conducida a la hoguera por provocar estados de posesión diabólica. Inevitablemente, surgen preguntas inquietantes: ¿Acaso esos misteriosos hongos estimulan el despertar de los instintos más primarios? ¿Acaso pueden revivir repentinamente al hombre depredador que todos llevamos dentro?.

Als een Engelse lord een biografie schrijft over zijn overgrootvader, lijfarts van koningin Victoria, doet hij verontrustende ontdekkingen.

Een jurist die door het leger gedetacheerd is bij een belangrijk advocatenkantoor, heeft het sterke vermoeden dat de moord op zijn voorgangster iets te maken heeft met dit bedrijf.

De VS zijn vastbesloten het terrorisme met wortel en al uit te roeien. Maar de FBI, de CIA en de NSA worden zwaar gehinderd in hun werk door de strenge regels en richtlijnen van de Amerikaanse wet. En dus wordt er een nieuwe geheime dienst in het leven geroepen die geheel buiten de wet om opereert. Op initiatief van de vroegere president Jack Ryan wordt een groep talentvolle jongemannen bijeengebracht. Een van hen is Patrick Ryan jr., Jacks eigen zoon...

In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times , went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

Tijdens zijn nieuwe ambtstermijn ontdekt Jack Ryan dat het presidentschap er niet bepaald gemakkelijker op wordt: in de binnenlandse politiek wemelt het van de valkuilen; in Liberia is een revolutie gaande; de Aziatische economie raakt steeds verder in het slop; en uit Moskou komen verontrustende berichten over een mogelijke aanslag op de voorzitter van de SVR, de voormalige KGB. Een moordaanslag op hoog niveau in het toch al onstabiele Rusland, daar zit niemand op te wachten. Maar nog verontrustender is de mogelijke identiteit van de vermoedelijke daders. Zijn het politieke tegenstanders? Is het de maffia? Zijn het ontevreden ex-KGB-leden? Of - zo vraagt Ryan zich af - hebben we hier te maken met een veel acutere bedreiging? En hij heeft gelijk. Want nog voordat zijn beste spionnen, onder wie specialist geheime operaties John Clark, de kans hebben gehad de ware toedracht te achterhalen, treden er in China al krachten naar buiten die er angstwekkend extreme denkbeelden op nahouden. En als deze elementen erin zullen slagen hun ideeën te realiseren, dan zal de wereld voorgoed veranderen. Maar als ze falen... dan zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien.

De Amerikaanse geheime dienst komt via een overgelopen KGB-medewerker te weten dat hoge sovjetambtenaren een aanslag op de paus beramen. De vraag is alleen of de man de waarheid spreekt: berust het complot op werkelijkheid, of is het een valstrik? Op zoek naar de waarheid, raakt de nog onervaren CIA-medewerker Ryan verzeild in een dodelijk kat-en-muisspel tussen de Sovjet-Unie en de Verenigde Staten. Daarbij staat niet alleen het leven van de paus op het spel, maar ook het voortbestaan van de westerse wereld.

Een charmeur gaat relaties aan met vrouwen om er financieel beter van te worden, tot hij zelf slachtoffer wordt.

De privé-detectives Kenzie en Gennaro gaan met hulp van een veroordeelde drugshandelaar in Boston op zoek naar een ontvoerd vierjarig meisje.

This novel explores the dark side of boyhood as four boys engage in wargames in the English countryside. After one of them dies, their games intensify, turning against the adults they blame for their friend's death.

In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.

A pesar de su juventud, Clay Carter ve su futuro con cierto cinismo. Hace años que ejerce de abogado público de oficio y la situación no parece que vaya a cambiar. De ahí su resignación al abordar un nuevo caso que promete ser como tantos otros: debe defender a un adolescente acusado de asesinato, un hecho corriente en la ciudad de Washington. Sin embargo, cuando Clay empieza a indagar en el pasado de su cliente, se entera de que éste se hallaba bajos los efectos de un fármaco en fase de experimentación cuando cometió el crimen. El laboratorio creador del producto, ansioso de que el suceso no salga a la luz, le propone a Clay un pacto. Para cumplirlo, el joven abogado deberá estar dispuesto a jugar sucio. A pesar de sus reticencias iniciales, Clay acabará aceptando, al entender que ésta puede ser la oportunidad de su vida: la compañía es una de las empresas farmacéuticas más importantes del país. La misión promete ser dura por el complejo entramado de poder e intereses en juego, pero la tentación es demasiado grande: de la noche a la mañana, Clay podría convertirse en el nuevo rey de los pleitos.

Een voormalig advocaat is op de vlucht voor zijn baas wiens bankrekening hij geplunderd heeft.

Blood. That's what Martin Nanther's great-grandfather Henry was interested in. As Queen Victoria's faboured physician he became expert in diseases of the blood, particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. But, as Martin discovers whilst researching Henry's life, he was not just expert - he was obsessed. Yet reading between the lines of Henry's medical essays and diary, Martin begins to suspect that his great-grandfather was less than candid about both his life and work. What was he trying to conceal? Were the tragedies of his family life more than mere accidents? And what implications does it have for Martin, the blood doctor's descendant?

Todo es eventual es la primera colección de relatos de Stephen King tras nueve largos años. Publicados anteriormente en revistas, en Internet, leídos en público por el autor o bien inéditos, son textos sorprendentes, misteriosos, terroríficos. Puede que sea más conocido por el gran público por sus novelas, pero como cuentista sin duda también ocupa un lugar más que destacado, no sólo dentro de la literatura de terror, sino en la narrativa en general. Desde historias de encuentros con muertos y una habitación de hotel con fantasma asesino hasta escenas del realismo más directo y brutal, King nos transporta al mundo de su increíble imaginación.

"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. ©2000, 2001 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2001 Random House, Inc. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Saltarse la Navidad parece fácil, pero cuando se vive en una calle como Hemlock, sempiterna ganadora de los premios de decoración navideños, y en la que las fiestas son el acontecimiento más esperado del año, supone casi un suicidio social. En su intento por vivir una Navidad distinta, los Krank se convertirán en víctimas de un cúmulo de situaciones que les harán desear no haber tenido jamás tan estrambótica ocurrencia. En 2004 se estrenó su adaptación cinematográfica con el título "Christmas with the Kranks" (Conocida en español como "Una Navidad de locos"), comedia Dirigida por Joe Roth y protagonizada por Tim Allen y Jamie Lee Curtis.

Na de dood van hun vader ontdekken zijn beide dochters dat hij veel voor hen verborgen heeft gehouden, zelfs zijn naam.

Bestsellerauteur Michal Noonan is zichzelf neit meer na de plotselinge dood van zijn vrouw Johnanne. Hij krijgt geen letter meer op papier. Overdag doodt hij de tijd met kruiswoordpuzzels, 's nachts wordt hij geplaagd door nachmerreis over Johanna en hun zomerhuis Sarah Laughs in Maine. Die nachtmerries zijn zo realistisch dat Michael besluit naar Maine te gaan. Hij is ervan overtuigd dat hij eerst moet ontdekken wat een gekwelde Johanna hem probeert duidelijk te maken over Sara Laughs, het dorp en zijn vijandige bewoners, voordat hij draad van zijn leven weer op kan pakken...

En un lugar del sur de los Estados Unidos, en plena Depresión, Paul Edgecomb es un funcionario de prisiones encargado de vigilar la Milla Verde, un pasillo que separa las celdas de los reclusos condenados a la silla eléctrica. John Coffey, un gigantesco negro acusado de asesinar brutalmente a dos hermanas de nueve años está esperando su inminente ejecución. Tras una personalidad ingenua e infantil, Coffey esconde un prodigioso don sobrenatural. Cuando se presenta la ocasión de ponerlo en práctica, Edgecomb aprenderá que los milagros existen, incluso en los lugares más insospechados.

Now it has become increasingly clear that the shadowy Directorate is headed for some dangerous endgame - but no one knows precisely who they are and what they are planning. With Bryson their only possible asset, the director of the CIA recruits him to find, re-infiltrate, and stop the Directorate, but after years on the sidelines, Bryson's field skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, and his instincts suspect.".