TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defence lawyer are long behind him. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange emails?
An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people - including the fiancée of Covert-One's Lt Col. Jon Smith. Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens millions of lives was planned... Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight the deadly virus. As the death toll mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them.
Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s feared vicar general, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry. Shardlake and his young protégé uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason, and when two other murders are revealed, they must move quickly to prevent the killer from striking again.
A sus setenta y ocho años, Emma Harte es una de las mujeres más ricas y poderosas del mundo. Tan segura de sí como despiadada, emplea el dinero como una arma y la adversidad como un instrumento. Desde su juventud demostró una iniciativa y una inteligencia inusuales, las cuales, combinadas con una ambición insaciable y un fé rreo optimismo, le permitieron erigir un imperio financiero. Sólo una pieza faltó para que su triunfo fuese completo: la felicidad personal
De mensheid heeft atoomkracht ontdekt en gekozen voor de bom, de sleutel gevonden voor genetische wonderen en gekozen voor biologische oorlogvoering. De wereld heeft geluk gehad, deze keer. Op de puinhopen wordt een nieuw bestaan opgebouwd. De dreiging steekt echter de kop weer op. Er is een prijs voor dromen die werkelijkheid worden. Moet de mensheid dit offer brengen? "Loze waan" ontwikkelt met grootse verbeeldingskracht de karakters en situaties die we kennen uit "Geliefde zoon" (P 1-882).