When The Sacred Ginmill Closes
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A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. schovat popis






A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. schovat popis
A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story. schovat popis
When faced with the choice of saving your own life or the life of the person you love the most, how do you choose? Sara Tote, a Manhattan assistant D.A. is very much in love with her defense attorney husband, Jared, but is on the verge of losing her job. So her colleagues coerce her into taking a case marked for the star prosecutor in hopes of securing her future at the D.A's office. But the case is far more complicated--and deadly--than it first appears. Sara receives a threat: Win the case, or Jared will be killed. And it gets worse. Jared is strong-armed into defending the prime suspect, and he too is instructed to win at all costs or risk Sara's death. In court and at home, husband and wife go head-to-head while harboring the terrible secret of their motives. In a battle of rollercoaster emotions and painful betrayals, Jared and Sara must face the unthinkable truth: No matter who wins, the other dies.
Ein Serienkiller tötet Menschen basierend auf ihren Ängsten. FBI-Agent Pender erhält kurz vor seiner Pensionierung einen Hinweis auf den Mörder, was ein spannendes Duell zwischen den beiden auslöst.
It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it.Geologist Ross Kelly has it a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes.An attempt to steal her translation of the Voynich leaves Lauren and their unborn child hovering on the brink of death, and Ross in the depths of despair. Encounters with a sinister Vatican priest and then a mysterious nun convince Ross to seek the centuries-old manuscript, which chronicles the ill-fated discovery of a mythic fabulous garden deep in the jungles of the New an Eden so terrible and miraculous it rewrites the book of Genesis and defies all reason.Although everyone tells him the story is surely an allegory, the possibility of the garden’s existence offers Ross the only hope of saving his wife and unborn child, and he decides to seek the garden out before it’s too late.But he is not alone. Racing against time, against a lethal assassin, and a fanatical priest, Ross’s quest will lead him to a place that might challenge everything he ever thought about the source of life on earth.
A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck.
A powerful Matt Scudder novel about love and loss. schovat popis
It is longer than a football pitch, weighs 550 tons, and moves at five miles per hour. Its job - and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. But Nyala erupts into civil war - with Mannix at the centre of the conflict.