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La extraordinaria novela de un hombre maldito en su búsqueda por encontrar la fuente de su pesadilla y revertirla antes de convertirse en... nada en absoluto. El abogado Billy Halleck disfruta de su vida de excesos. Tiene todo: una casa cara en Connecticut, una familia amorosa... y cincuenta kilos de más que su médico le advierte que serán su perdición. En un momento de descuido, Halleck comete homicidio involuntario al atropellar a una anciana que cruza la calle. Sin embargo, cuenta con poderosas conexiones locales y se libra con un simple aviso, lo que enfurece al misterioso y anciano padre de la mujer, quien busca venganza con una sola palabra: "Thinner". Ahora, Halleck, aterrorizado, ve cómo el peso que antes le costaba perder disminuye rápidamente. Pronto no quedará nada de Billy Halleck... a menos que pueda localizar la fuente de su pesadilla viviente y revertir lo que le ha sucedido antes de que se consuma por completo.

Theresa was a quietly satisfied young teacher by day. But when the sun went down, her life was an endless, faceless whirl of bars and beds and men she'd never seen before and wouldn't see again. If she couldn't find love, she took chances on men who were better than no men at all. And learned, with each new night and each new nightmare, that finding her man was only the beginning.

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.In this classic masterwork, le Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin.

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave - 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.