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David Liss

    1 de enero de 1966

    Este autor se sumerge en periodos históricos con una cautivadora atención al detalle, ambientando a menudo sus narrativas en bulliciosos lugares como el Londres del siglo XVIII y el Ámsterdam del siglo XVII. Sus obras exploran las vidas de personajes únicos que operan en los márgenes de la sociedad, desde un antiguo púgil convertido en cazador de recompensas hasta un comerciante de café. La habilidad del escritor para entrelazar tramas emocionantes con un rico contexto histórico y dilemas éticos revela desafíos tanto pasados como presentes.

    David Liss
    Mystery Men - Premiere Edition
    A Conspiracy of Paper
    The Whiskey Rebels
    A Spectacle of Corruption
    El mercader de café
    La compañía de la seda
    • In the wake of Shadowland, Hell's Kitchen has a new protector - the Black Panther! He has no kingdom, no Vibranium and no high-tech safety net - just bloody knuckles and the will to prove himself in a foreign land. T'Challa will create a new life, a new identity, and become a new kind of hero. But with Daredevil gone, the bad guys are coming out to play, and a deadly nemesis - Vlad the Impaler - plots his bloody rise to power. Soon, the new Man Without Fear will face Fear Itself! And when a killer starts targeting people that T'Challa had previously saved, the Panther must go on the prowl to show exactly why he is the most dangerous man alive! COLLECTING: BLACK PANTHER: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR 513-523; BLACK PANTHER: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE 523.1, 524-529

      Black Panther: The Man Without Fear - The Complete Collection2018
      3,5
    • Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      His name was Professor James Moriarty, known to many as The Napoleon of Crime and the master of a vast association of thieves, extortionists, smugglers, fences, and ladies of questionable virtue. And, over Reichenbach Falls in 1891, he fell to his doom alongside his arch rival, the glory-seeking detective Sherlock Holmes... or did he?

      Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives2016
      3,4
    • Mystery Men - Premiere Edition

      • 120 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      Introducing Marvel's all-new, never-before-seen heroes of the 1930s! With a new evil washing over an unsuspecting New York City, the Operative, the Aviatrix, the Surgeon, the Revenant and Achilles blast through dangers from blood-soaked mob warehouses to monster-infested mansions, and fight to blow the lid off a conspiracy that could bring the nation itself to its knees! Award-winning historical thriller novelist David Liss (Black Panther: The Man Without Fear) and acclaimed artist Patrick Zircher (Spider-Man Noir) weave an edge-of-your-seat and in-continuity adventure intertwined with America's most scandalous crimes! Before the Invaders...before the Twelve...who were the Mystery Men? COLLECTING: MYSTERY MEN 1-5

      Mystery Men - Premiere Edition2012
      3,6
    • Black Panther. Urban Jungle

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      In the aftermath of Shadowland, T'Challa emerges as the new protector of Hell's Kitchen, lacking resources but driven to prove himself. As he navigates this dangerous urban landscape, he faces rising threats, including Vlad the Impaler. Join national best-selling author David Liss and Francesco Fracavilla in this thrilling new chapter.

      Black Panther. Urban Jungle2011
      3,5
    • Watchlist

      • 404 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Watchlist is a unique collaboration by twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion. In turn, the other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing each novel to its startling conclusion.The Chopin Manuscript Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frédéric Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans.The Copper Bracelet Harold Middleton returns in this explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript as he’s drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.Note: Print edition of the two original audio serialized novels,The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet.

      Watchlist2010
      3,5
    • Zombie

      An Anthology of the Undead

      • 500 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      An all-original anthology of stories from some of today's hottest supernatural and fantasy writers, 'Zombie' provides a new take on death and resurrection.

      Zombie2010
      3,6
    • The Whiskey Rebels

      • 548 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes calling when Saunders’s old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the creation of the Bank of the United States. Meanwhile, on the western Pennsylvania frontier, Joan Maycott and her husband, a Revolutionary War veteran, hope for a better life and a chance for prosperity. But the Maycotts’ success on an isolated frontier attracts the brutal attention of men who threaten to destroy them. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders–both patriots in their own way–find themselves on opposing sides of a plot that could tear apart a fragile new nation.

      The Whiskey Rebels2009
      3,8
    • La compañía de la seda

      • 496 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      David Liss, ganador del prestigioso premio Edgar, sorprende con una magnífica novela, protagonizada por un peculiar investigador que debe desentrañar un complot en torno al comercio de la seda con las colonias británicas de ultramar... Londres, 1722. En la época de apogeo del mercado de importación de seda y especias, Benjamin Weaver, judío de extracción humilde, ex boxeador y cazarrecompensas, se ve acorralado por el excéntrico y misterioso millonario Cobb para que investigue en su provecho. Muy pronto Weaver se ve sumergido en una maraña de corrupción, espionaje y competencia desleal cuyo trasfondo son los más oscuros intereses económicos y comerciales.

      La compañía de la seda2007
      3,9
    • Thriller

      Stories to Keep you Up all Night

      • 744 páginas
      • 27 horas de lectura

      Offering heart-pumping tales of suspense, this collection of over 30 thriller stories features the biggest names in fiction, including Lee Child, Alex Kava, James Siegel, Christopher Reich, Michael Palmer and many more.

      Thriller2007
      3,5
    • El mercader de café

      • 376 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Amsterdam, 1659. En la primera bolsa de valores del mundo, la riqueza se hace y se pierde en un instante. Miguel Lienzo, un hábil comerciante de la comunidad judía de origen portugués, lo ha perdido todo por el repentino hundimiento del mercado del azúcar. Obligado a vivir de la caridad de su mezquino hermano, está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea por cambiar su suerte. En contra de las reglas de la comunidad judía, decide asociarse con la seductora Geertruid en un osado plan para monopolizar el tráfico de una nueva mercancía: el café. Para triunfar, Miguel tendrá que arriesgarlo todo y poner a prueba los límites de su astucia; al tiempo que se enfrenta a un enemigo que no se detendrá con tal de verlo caer.

      El mercader de café2003
      3,8
    • A Conspiracy of Paper

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family - until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps - and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, <i>A Conspiracy of Paper</i> will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years ...

      A Conspiracy of Paper2001
    • Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves. In A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER, Weaver must investigate a crime of the most personal sort, involving the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockdealer. To find the answers, Weaver contends with a garrulous prostitute who knows too much about his past, estranged relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a group of powerful men in the world of finance who have disguised their business dealings with an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock speculation - a way of life that poses great risk for investors, but real danger for Weaver and his family.

      A Conspiracy of Paper2000
      3,8
    • Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election

      A Spectacle of Corruption1974
      4,0