Para el abogado Michael Haller, defender al magnate de Hollywood Walter Elliot de la acusación de doble asesinato es lo que en la jerga de su oficio se llama un filón: mucho dinero, publicidad gratuita durante el juicio y una investigación plagada de contradicciones y muy fácil de desmontar. Pero cuando los filones son una trampa, pueden acabar con tu carrera profesional y, lo que es peor, con tu vida.
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one... Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.
The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down.As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy.Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense — the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.
The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.
British agent Nick Stone, charged with locating his former lover, CIA double agent Sarah Greenwood, finds the danger escalating as he receives orders to kill Sarah, becomes a target himself, and, finally, joins Sarah to fight a worldwide conspiracy, in the sequel to Remote Control. Reprint.
Fifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York's Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory's origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease. In Central Park, a woman dies, while a witness watches, believing the brutal murder to be a prelude to a kiss. Mallory goes hunting the killer, armed with under the skin knowledge of the man's mind and the bare clue of a lie. Mallory holds on the one truth: everybody lies, and some lies can get you killed. And she knows that, to trap the killer, she must put her own life at risk, for this killer has taken a personal interest in her.
Ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone is working in the USA when an old friend, Kevin, tips him off about the Canary Wharf bombing. Nick flies to see him, only to find that Kevin and his family have been brutally murdered. McNab also wrote Bravo Two Zero.
Crime reporter Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line. With cuts being made, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will the journalism's highest honor: a Pulitzer Price. Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But he soon realizes that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police radar. Jack is off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before — but The Scarecrow knows he's coming...
In his third book the brilliant Andy McDermott sends Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase hurtling round the globe in search of the legendary sword Excalibur.
Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why? Stone's only chance of survival is to carry the fight to his attackers - but first he must uncover a trail of clues that leads from his own dark and complex past into the heart of a chilling conspiracy that threatens us all...
A great novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers... They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava and lastly Eve. A lot has happened in the twenty years since. Detectives Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday - two of the leads on the case - have pursued very different paths. Gus has climbed to the heights of Detective Sergeant and built himself a reputation as a very good cop, whilst Dan has been drummed out of the force - his sleaze finally getting too much for his superiors. However, their paths are about to cross again. A boy named Asa - a close friend of Gus's teenage son - has been found in the public park, his skull shattered by gunfire. Now it seems that both men are once again in the path of this disturbed serial killer. THE NIGHT GARDENER is George Pelecanos's stunning crime thriller - the story of two very different men united by the maliciousness of a deadly attacker.
A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime . . .
"Sotto Tiberio" è una storia di crimini e inganni che racconta di un uomo chiamato Gesù Cristo. Nei recessi della biblioteca Vaticana viene ritrovato un codice antichissimo, scritto in un latino elegante; narra di un tristissimus hominum, il più tetro fra gli uomini - l'imperatore Tiberio - e di Jesvs, detto Gesù. L'autore che l'ha scritto, nel primo secolo, è Gaio Fulvio Falconio, mandato in esilio da Tiberio nella misera terra di Cesarea. Eppure in quella terra Falconio percepisce subito un'aspettativa diffusa nell'aria, la promessa di una salvezza finale, sancita dal Libro sacro dei Giudei, dopo "un'eternità passata nell'attesa, nel lamento e nel pianto". Tutta una bugia, pensa l'aristocratico romano, ma che potrebbe essere raccolta e rilanciata: con parole nuove, come proprio lui aveva già fatto a Roma con l'imperatore, dando preziosi consigli, scrivendo discorsi costruiti con maestose parole, creando l'illusione di un nuovo dio. Perché non farlo anche qui in Giudea, creare un nuovo profeta e liberarsi di Roma? E per avidità naturalmente, per mungere le nascoste ricchezze di quel deserto. Ed ecco che davanti a lui - tra tutti i malridotti messia possibili, numerosi come mosche - si fa avanti uno strano accattone con gli occhi luminosi. Sono Gesù, dice, "nato dalla sporcizia, figlio del nulla". Insieme faremo miracoli, miracoli per denaro.
