Advokát Mickey Haller má za sebou ťažké obdobie rekonvalescencie po poslednom prípade, pri ktorom takmer prišiel o život, a chystá sa vrátiť do veľkej hry americkej justície. Kým sa stihne poriadne usadiť na zadnom sedadle svojho lincolna, zavraždia jeho slávneho kolegu a on chtiac-nechtiac zdedí nesmierne výnosný prípad. Dokáže presvedčiť Harryho Boscha o svojej nevine a ubrániť sa vrahovi, ktorý zjavne ide aj po nasledovníkovi mŕtveho právnika?
V roku 1993 zmizla cestou zo supermarketu Marie Gestová. Na prípade jej zmiznutia pracoval detektív Harry Bosch, no nedokázal ho vyriešiť. Mladá žena sa nikdy nenašla. Bosch má spis Gestovej znova na stole, keď mu nečakane zavolajú z prokuratúry. Muž obvinený z dvoch ohavných zločinov je ochotný priznať sa k niekoľkým ďalším vrátane zmiznutia Marie Gestovej. Harry musí prijať priznanie muža, ktorého hľadal a nenávidel trinásť rokov. Keď sa dozvie, že v roku 1993 s partnerom prehliadli stopu, čo ich mohla priviesť k vrahovi, a zachrániť tak život deviatim ľuďom, jeho istota v role policajného detektíva sa začína rúcať.
Technický pokrok umožňuje testovať DNA aj v dávno uzavretých prípadoch. Výsledky niekedy ukazujú, že súdy poslali do väzenia nevinného. Aj v tomto prípade vyšlo najavo, že na obeti nebola DNA odsúdeného páchateľa. Najvyšší súd rozhodol o zrušení rozsudku všetkých predošlých inštancií. Prokuratúra by mohla páchateľa po desiatkach rokov vo väzení prepustiť, ale rozhoduje sa namiesto toho spustiť nový proces a Mickey Haller dostáva šancu skúsiť to, po čom vždy tajne túžil: namiesto obhajovania zločincov dostať jedného navždy za mreže. No potrebuje špičkového detektíva - a kto by už bol lepší ako jeho nevlastný brat Harry Bosch? Z anglického originálu Michael Connelly: The Reversal, ktorý vyšiel vo vydavateľstve Little, Brown and Company, New York 2010 preložil Patrik Frank.
Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down... As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.
Ex-SAS trooper Nick Stone is extremely highly trained. Clever, ruthless and very effective, it is no surprise that he is hired by British Intelligence. On deniable operations - one of the most dangerous lines of work. Sarah Greenwood is beautiful, intelligent and cunning - and the only woman Stone has ever truly opened up to. But now he has been ordered to hunt her down. Hotly pursued through the American wilderness, Stone finds himself at the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse. He must get to the heart of a terrifying conspiracy theory to which only Sarah holds the key. But will he manage to before the tension reaches boiling point?
Fifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York's Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory's origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease. In Central Park, a woman dies, while a witness watches, believing the brutal murder to be a prelude to a kiss. Mallory goes hunting the killer, armed with under the skin knowledge of the man's mind and the bare clue of a lie. Mallory holds on the one truth: everybody lies, and some lies can get you killed. And she knows that, to trap the killer, she must put her own life at risk, for this killer has taken a personal interest in her.
Nick Stone ex SAS, now with British Intelligence , discovers the seemingly sensless murders of fellow SAS soldier Kev Brown and his family in Washington, DC. Only Kelly, seven years old, has survived, and immediately the two of them are on the run from unidentified pursuers.
Novinár Jack McEvoy sa pred dvanástimi rokmi ocitol zoči-voči brutálnemu sériovému vrahovi s prezývkou Básnik. Zanechalo mu to hlboké jazvy na duši, no zároveň aj zaujímavý príbeh človeka, ktorý prežil osudové stretnutie a môže o tom rozprávať. Dnes je však z neho človek minulosti a stáva sa obeťou rozpočtových obmedzení ľ dostáva výpoveď z Los Angeles Times. Zlosť a vzdor ho nútia odísť vo veľkom štýle a využiť posledné dni v novinách na to, aby napísal najlepší článok svojho života. Jeho šanca prichádza v podobe Alonza Winslowa ľ šestnásťročného dílera drog, ktorý je vo väzení po tom, ako sa priznal k vražde jednej zo svojich zákazníčok. Tento prípad má všetko potrebné na Pulitzerovu cenu: dieťa narodené v chudobe, ktoré v živote nedostalo šancu ani nádej, takže sa vydalo jedinou možnou cestou vedúcou k drogám, násiliu a smrti. Jediný problém je v tom, že pri podrobnejšom skúmaní toho takzvaného priznania Jack zistí, že všetko zrejme bude inak...
In his third book the brilliant Andy McDermott sends Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase hurtling round the globe in search of the legendary sword Excalibur.
A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, packed with enough arms and ammunition to start a war.Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on taking out those responsible for the treachery - one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill and then shot through the head at point-blank range.And Nick Stone - ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - is next on the killer's list. He has only two options - fight or flight - but which do you choose when you don't know who you are up against?
A great novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers... They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava and lastly Eve. A lot has happened in the twenty years since. Detectives Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday - two of the leads on the case - have pursued very different paths. Gus has climbed to the heights of Detective Sergeant and built himself a reputation as a very good cop, whilst Dan has been drummed out of the force - his sleaze finally getting too much for his superiors. However, their paths are about to cross again. A boy named Asa - a close friend of Gus's teenage son - has been found in the public park, his skull shattered by gunfire. Now it seems that both men are once again in the path of this disturbed serial killer. THE NIGHT GARDENER is George Pelecanos's stunning crime thriller - the story of two very different men united by the maliciousness of a deadly attacker.
A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime . . .
Strafalcioni detti e ascoltati nelle librerie di tutta Italia, capolavori di contorsionismo e virtuosismi su classici di tutte le epoche e ultimissime novità. Capita così a uno sbalordito commesso di sentirsi domandare: "Dove posso trovare "II fu Mattia Bazar" di Luigi Pirandello?" e due minuti dopo: "Cerco un vecchio libro della Fallaci, "Cincillà"". Ma il comico involontario a volte non è il povero cliente, sta dall'altra parte dell'ipotetico bancone. Cliente: "Avete qualcosa sui Monty Python?" Commesso: "Deve chiedere al piano di sotto, settore guide turistiche, reparto alpinismo".
"Sotto Tiberio" è una storia di crimini e inganni che racconta di un uomo chiamato Gesù Cristo. Nei recessi della biblioteca Vaticana viene ritrovato un codice antichissimo, scritto in un latino elegante; narra di un tristissimus hominum, il più tetro fra gli uomini - l'imperatore Tiberio - e di Jesvs, detto Gesù. L'autore che l'ha scritto, nel primo secolo, è Gaio Fulvio Falconio, mandato in esilio da Tiberio nella misera terra di Cesarea. Eppure in quella terra Falconio percepisce subito un'aspettativa diffusa nell'aria, la promessa di una salvezza finale, sancita dal Libro sacro dei Giudei, dopo "un'eternità passata nell'attesa, nel lamento e nel pianto". Tutta una bugia, pensa l'aristocratico romano, ma che potrebbe essere raccolta e rilanciata: con parole nuove, come proprio lui aveva già fatto a Roma con l'imperatore, dando preziosi consigli, scrivendo discorsi costruiti con maestose parole, creando l'illusione di un nuovo dio. Perché non farlo anche qui in Giudea, creare un nuovo profeta e liberarsi di Roma? E per avidità naturalmente, per mungere le nascoste ricchezze di quel deserto. Ed ecco che davanti a lui - tra tutti i malridotti messia possibili, numerosi come mosche - si fa avanti uno strano accattone con gli occhi luminosi. Sono Gesù, dice, "nato dalla sporcizia, figlio del nulla". Insieme faremo miracoli, miracoli per denaro.
