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David Morrell

    24 de abril de 1943

    David Morrell es un novelista cuyas obras a menudo profundizan en temas de supervivencia, identidad y la resiliencia humana frente a probabilidades abrumadoras. Su escritura se caracteriza por una acción intensa, suspense psicológico y una profunda exploración de las motivaciones de los personajes. Morrell crea magistralmente narrativas que generan tensión y atraen a los lectores a historias convincentes, examinando a menudo los aspectos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana.

    David Morrell
    The Protector
    Assumed Identity and Extreme Denial
    Inspector of the Dead
    Murder as a Fine Art
    The League of Night and Fog
    Primera Sangre
    • The League of Night and Fog

      • 396 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      David Morrells international thrillers have no equal. Among his classic novels, this story stands as one of his most exciting and brilliant works a globe-spanning tale that brings together two generations of men and women bound by one murderous legacy. From the Vatican to the Swiss Alps, from Australia to the heartland of America, the two masterful operatives known as Saul and Drew are being drawn together to solve a violent riddle: Why have ten old men been abducted from around the world? When the agents, weary of their own covert wars, begin to investigate, they are pulled into a terrifying cycle of revenge that began in the heart of World War II and is now forcing sons to pay for their fathers darkest sins

      The League of Night and Fog
      4,5
    • Murder as a Fine Art

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      The notorious author Thomas De Quincey turns detective in a harrowing Victorian thriller from master storyteller David Morrell, which won the Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery 2014.

      Murder as a Fine Art
      4,3
    • The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire seems to be hanging from a thread. Then the murders start. members of London's elite are found dead with names of assassin's who have failed to kill Queen Victoria. Based on actual attempts to kill Queen Victoria, Inspector of the dead brilliantly merges fact with fiction to bring a violent era of Victorian England to life.

      Inspector of the Dead
      4,3
    • Assumed Identity: The story of Brendan Buchanan, undercover intelligence operative, a man forced to assume the most elusive and treacherous identity of all-his own. Extreme Denial: Steve Decker is one of America's most accomplished anti terrorist operatives, when a bungled covert operation kills 23 people and puts the blame on Decker.

      Assumed Identity and Extreme Denial
      4,3
    • Hired by a brilliant scientist who is seeking protection from a powerful drug lord, Cavanaugh, a bodyguard and former member of Delta Force, is shocked when his teammates are killed in a vicious attack that implicates his new employer. Reprint.

      The Protector
      4,3
    • First Blood

      • 238 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      From New York Times bestselling author David Morrell comes the novel upon which the box office superhit Rambo was based. First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang up from the pages of First Blood to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small town cop who doesn't know whom he's dealing with -- or how far Rambo will take him into a life-and-death struggle through the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky. This time when Johnny comes marching home be afraid. Be very afraid.

      First Blood
      4,2
    • Ruler of the Night

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      In the third Victorian mystery from prizewinning author David Morrell, the notorious Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey investigates a truly unprecedented murder - the first to ever take place on the railways.

      Ruler of the Night
      4,2
    • Double Image

      • 469 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      He has walked through the valley of death and man's depravity. Now war photographer Mitch Coltrane is trying to escape his memories. As he loses himself in a world of art and obsession in L.A., a haunting photograph of a woman pulls him into the mystery of a beautiful starlet during Hollywood's golden age. But past and present are about to collide. A living woman, eerily like the woman in his photograph, comes into his life. So does a killer--straight from the hell that Coltrane survived. Deception, double identities, and murderous revenge will shatter his new life and force Coltrane to perform the ultimate act of courage--not with a camera, but with a gun.

      Double Image
      4,0
    • The Fifth Profession

      • 498 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a spectacular thriller, in which a former Navy SEAL and a Japanese samurai master are bound together in a terrifying past that never happened.

      The Fifth Profession
      4,0