Russell Andrews Knihy

A mysterious figure known as Gideon hires writer Carl Granville to transform a heavily redacted collection of diary entries, articles, and letters into a work of fiction. The task promises a substantial reward of a quarter of a million dollars, but it comes with a strict confidentiality clause. As Granville delves into the obscured content, he must navigate the dangers of uncovering explosive secrets while grappling with the ethical implications of his assignment.

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he realises that his wife's murder was the catalyst of all that followed.

After East Hampton, New York, is hit by a terrorist bombing, local cop Justin Westwood discovers that someone is targeting specific people to murder, and disguising these actions with what appear to be "suicide bombings," in this latest work by the bestselling author of "Aphrodite."

Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate not accidental. As he retraces the woman's movements in the hours before her death he learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As he attempts to unravel the puzzle he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - though if he'd known what was in store he'd have stuck to handing out parking tickets.A thriller of such tension and action that it should come with its own oxygen supply.

Depuis l'âge de dix ans, depuis que, sous ses yeux, sa mère a été précipitée par un dément du dix-septième étage de la tour où elle travaillait, Jack Keller souffre d'acrophobie. Un mal qui ne fait qu'empirer lorsque, trente années plus tard, son épouse Caroline, avec qui il a fondé une prospère chaîne de restaurants, est elle aussi assassinée et jetée par la fenêtre d'un de leurs établissements. Série noire ? Affreuse coïncidence ? Jack serait prêt à le croire. Mais quand Kid, son fils adoptif, tombe à son tour du balcon de son appartement et se fracasse le crâne, Jack Keller estime que la sinistre plaisanterie n'a que trop duré. "Suicide", avance la police. Impossible, décrète Jack, qui décide alors de mener sa propre enquête. Celle-ci sera sanglante. Et vertigineuse... Un thriller hitchcockien, au rythme effréné, sans le moindre temps mort. Vertiges ne se lit pas, il se dévore.

Kumirom detskikh let Dzheka Kellera byl Ikar - pobeditel' vysoty, geroj grecheskikh mifov, slishkom blizko podletevshij k Solntsu. Sam zhe Dzhek ispytyval boleznennyj strakh vysoty posle togo, kak man'yak na glazakh mal'chika ubil ego mat', vykinuv zhenschinu v okno semnadtsatogo etazha neboskreba, a potom popytalsya sdelat' to zhe samoe s Dzhekom. S tekh nor proshlo tridtsat' let, i Dzheku Kelleru, schastlivo zhivuschemu v brake, preuspevayuschemu biznesmenu, pochti udalos' zabyt' o tragedii, kotoraya proizoshla s nim v detstve. Odnako proshloe vozvraschaetsya samym uzhasnym obrazom. Nekto, znayuschij o detskikh koshmarakh Dzheka, namerenno prevraschaet ego zhizn' v ad, ubivaya blizkikh Kelleru lyudej. I, chtoby vyigrat' skhvatku, Dzheku Kelleru pridetsya ne tol'ko najti prestupnika, no i pobedit' svoj strakh vysoty.