Michael Nation Libros

Based on the screenplay by Melissa Mathison. What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures? You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend... Filmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone....and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home. --from back cover of paperback version

El doctor Richard Kimble es juzgado por el asesinato de su esposa, y condenado a morir por inyección letal. Él sabe que es inocente y cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de escapar, no duda en aprovecharla. Se convierte así en un fugitivo de la ley, siempre en busca del verdadero asesino, un hombre manco en cuya existencia nadie cree. Samuel Gerard, un policía obsesionado por su trabajo, se encargará de darle caza...

La intriga de esta novela est basada en la idea de un crimen sin mviles, un crimen perfecto: dos desconocido acuerdan asesinar cada uno al enemigo del otro, proporcionndose as una coartada indestructible.Bruno -alcohlico, con problemas edpicos, homosexual, latente- viaja en el mismo tren que Guy -ambicioso, trabajador, adaptado-.Empieza a conversar y Bruno, demonacamente, fuerza al otro a hablar, a descubrir su punto dbil, la nica grieta en su ordenada existencia: Guy quisiera verse libre de su mujer, que le traicion y que puede ahora obstaculizar su prometedor futuro. Bruno le propone un pacto: l matar a la mujer y Guy, a su vez, al padre de Bruno, a quien ste odia.Guy rechaza tan absurdo plan y lo olvida, pero no as Bruno, quien, una vez cumplida su parte, reclama al horrorizado Guy que cumpla con la suya...

Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. You murder my father, and I'll murder your wife,' he suggests. So begins Guy's journey into a world of madness, lies and death.

When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes for Kitty. He is taking her mother away from her, but what can Kitty do to get her old life back?

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