Everitt, a journalist, is called in to take over a colleague's assignment: an interview with a convicted murderer on the day he is to be executed. Everitt suspects Beachum is the wrong man and must act fast if he is to prove Beachum's innocence and save him from the deadly injection.
MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author. Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course. But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.
Closer...They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.and closer...At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians.and closer...Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
V prológu svojho najnovšieho románu nás autor prenáša do minulosti: ocitáme sa v ponurom svete Nového Anglicka koncom 17. storočia, v časoch, keď tamojší obyvatelia žili v prísnom zovretí puritánskych mravov. Uprostred krutej zimy sa začína v meste Salem a jeho okolí šíriť čudná choroba. Postihnuté osoby, najmä mladé ženy, majú zvláštne záchvaty, spojené s halucináciami. Od podozrenia, že ide o pôsobenie nečistých síl, k prepuknutiu honu na bosorky je len krôčik... Po stopách tejto historickej udalosti sa roku 1994 púšťajú Kim Stewartová, potomok jednej z popravených salemských bosoriek a talentovaný biochemik Edward Armstrong. Zatiaľ čo Kim usilovne hľadá pravdu o osude svojej dávnej príbuznej v kope dokumentov na rodinnej usadlosti, Edwardovi sa podarí vedecky odôvodniť podstatu "salemského diabla". Je ním neznámy druh halucinogénnej huby, z ktorej Edward izoluje nový alkaloid, ktorý by sa mohol stať liekom storočia, lebo je schopný vytvoriť z každého človeka harmonickú osobnosť. Edward a Kim sa presťahujú na usadlosť, no ich životné cesty sa pomaly rozchádzajú. A tak medzitým, čo Kim postupne nachádza svoje ja prostredníctvom ponoru do minulosti, Edward je omámený vidinou bohatstva. Zrádza svoje princípy, zabúda na osobné šťastie a vrhá sa na jedinú úlohu - pripraviť novú látku do výroby. V úsilí urýchliť celý proces začne neznámy preparát testovať na sebe a na kolegoch...
An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall. Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumbing the darkness of the human spirit, has come upon a source of light at its core. Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail over suffering. “It’s the novel closest to my heart....I’m deeply moved that Oprah Winfrey has selected this novel for Oprah’s Book Club, a family novel presented to Oprah’s vast American family.”—Joyce Carol Oates
Dove sono le stelle? Perché chi si avvicina ai confini del drive-in muore orribilmente? E chi può avere interesse a tenere in ostaggio una folla istupidita, imbarbarita, inferocita, costretta oltretutto a vedere ininterrottamente "La notte dei morti viventi"? E la paura dilaga, anche al di qua degli schermi giganti su cui scorrono le immagini. Mentre in un primo momento a coloro che tentavano la fuga dal drive-in era riservata una fine orrenda, ora le cose sembrano andare diversamente: pare ci sia qualche temerario che possa varcare la soglia impenetrabile oltre la quale si vede solo il buio assoluto...