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    Detonator
    A Gambling Man
    Memory Man
    The Fallen
    Long Shadows
    Redemption
    • FBI Special Agent Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in the latest Memory Man thriller in David Baldacci's number one New York Times bestselling series.Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by an unfamiliar man. But he instantly recognizes the man's name: Meryl Hawkins. He's the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective. Though a dozen years in prison have left Hawkins unrecognizably aged and terminally ill, one thing hasn't changed: He maintains he never committed the murders. Could it be possible that Decker made a mistake all those years ago? As he starts digging into the old case, Decker finds a startling connection to a new crime that he may be able to prevent, if only he can put the pieces together quickly enough...

      Redemption
    • Long Shadows is the seventh Amos Decker thriller from internationally bestselling author David Baldacci.Memory man FBI agent, Amos Decker, returns in this action-packed thriller to investigate the mysterious and brutal murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard at her home in an exclusive, gated community in Florida.Things are changing for Decker. He is in crisis following the suicide of a close friend and receipt of a letter concerning a personal issue which could change his life forever. Together with the prospect of working with a new partner, Frederica White, Amos Decker knows that this case will take all of his special skills to solve.Judge Julia Cummins seemingly had no enemies and there was no forced entry to her property. Close friends and neighbours in the community apparently heard nothing, and Cummins' distraught ex-husband, Barry, and teenage son, Tyler, both have strong alibis. Decker must first find the answer to why the judge felt the need for a bodyguard, and the meaning behind the strange calling card left by the killer.As the investigation deepens, the body count rises, and Decker and White discover a trail which leads back to a past presidential campaign and an unsolved crime surrounding those in power at the very highest level.Greed, deceit, deception and corruption at the very heart of power.Someone has decided that it's payback time.[Bokinfo]

      Long Shadows
    • The Fallen

      • 420 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania
      4,1(2290)Ohodnotiť

      Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville, Pennsylvania, visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. With the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker realizes that the recent string of deaths is only one small piece of a much larger scheme -- with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville. But when one mistake could cost him everything, Decker finds that his previously infallible memory may not be so trustworthy after all

      The Fallen
    • 'Amos Decker would forever remember all three of their violent deaths in the most paralyzing shade of blue. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. He would never be free from it.' When Amos Decker returned home eighteen months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job as a detective, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police, Mary Lancaster, visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murder of his family, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them. As Decker comes to terms with the news, tragedy strikes at the local school. Thirteen teenagers are gunned down, and the killer is at large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional footballer, he gained a remarkable gift - and the police believe that this unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer. Amos must endure the memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he is left with only one option. Memory Man by David Baldacci will stay with you long after the turn of the final page.

      Memory Man
    • The gripping second historical crime novel in David Baldacci’s Private Investigator Archer series, following the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.

      A Gambling Man
    • Detonator

      • 432 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania
      3,9(540)Ohodnotiť

      Betrayed and left for dead high in the Alps, Nick Stone is in trouble. He knows only one thing for certain - someone, somewhere wants to kill him. Not much protection in the pursuit of a gang of faceless men who trade in human misery. But this run-of-the-mill close protection task is about to become Stone's most personal mission yet.

      Detonator
    • House of Joy

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania
      3,4(18)Ohodnotiť

      Bubbly, rich, delicate and delightful, the champagne of the famous House of Peine is everything that Clementine Peine is not. She lost her sparkle, along with the love of her life many years before, and now she's lost her miserable papa too. Still, at least now the precious House is hers. Or is it? First her wicked sister Mathilde returns, determined to poison the future the same way she poisoned the past. Then, out of the blue, a third sister appears - the enchanting but equally unwelcome young Sophie - claiming their surname and causing ancient family rivalries, long-ago love affairs and forgotten scandals to come bubbling to the surface. The glory days Clementine has dreamed of for so long have never seemed further away. But as her cherished grapes must blossom and blend to reinvent themselves and become something truly magnificent - so must she. Only then can the House of Peine become a House of Joy.

      House of Joy
    • Bar U kohúta

      • 336 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      3,6(741)Ohodnotiť

      Traja kamaráti Mark, Todd a Zola študujú na treťotriednej súkromnej právnickej škole, čaká ich posledný semester, promócia, potom advokátska skúška. Doteraz verili, že im škola zaručí dobre platenú prácu, aby rýchlo splatili horibilné študentské pôžičky. Po tragickej udalosti sú však nútení zamyslieť sa. Žiadna významná právnická firma nemá záujem o absolventov ich školy. Situácia na trhu práce je beznádejná. Keď sa trojica dozvie, že sa stali obeťami grandiózneho podvodu, zrodí sa v ich hlave plán, ale ak ho chcú uskutočniť, musia odísť zo školy. Šialenstvo? Možno. Trojica priateľov sa púšťa do zdanlivo nerovného boja s miliardárom Hindsom Rackleym. Ako sa skončí súboj Dávida s Goliášom? Podarí sa trom neskúseným študentom podviesť ostrieľaného podvodníka?

      Bar U kohúta
    • Tajomstvo Gray Mountain

      • 384 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
      3,5(60850)Ohodnotiť

      V roku 2008 americké megafirmy hromadne prepúšťajú, aby sa udržali nad vodou aj počas finančnej krízy. Mladá právnička Samantha Koferová však s výpoveďou dostane aj netradičnú ponuku – ak príjme prácu v neziskovej organizácii, po roku sa môže vrátiť. A tak nedobrovoľne odchádza do virgínskeho mestečka Brady, ďaleko od Washingtonu a New Yorku, kde doteraz žila. Samantha sa ocitá vo svete ovládanom veľkými banskými spoločnosťami, ktoré rozhodujú o bytí a nebytí tamojších obyvateľov, dozvedá sa o ich nekalých praktikách a bezohľadnom drancovaní prírody. Nelegálne skládky uhoľného kalu, ekologické katastrofy, úmrtia, to je len zlomok hrôzy, ktorú majú tieto spoločnosti na svedomí. Šanca na zastavenie ich činnosti či odškodnenie postihnutých rodín je mizivá. Samantha sa postupne stáva stredobodom pozornosti pochybných indivíduí najatých banskou spoločnosťou. Do hry vstupujú usvedčujúce dokumenty – ukradnuté materiály s citlivými informáciami – a situácia sa vyostruje. O život prichádzajú ďalší nevinní.

      Tajomstvo Gray Mountain
    • Take Someone Like Me

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
      3,0(69)Ohodnotiť

      Libby believed her life was perfect with her loving family and supportive friends. However, as she navigates her daughter's teenage mood swings and another child's existential questions, she begins to see the more challenging aspects of motherhood.

      Take Someone Like Me