Anders Pieterse Knihy

Concludes the fantasy series. The dragon charmer, Prospero's children.

Bundel verhalen met de Schotse inspecteur Rebus in de hoofdrol.

The 5th Inspector Rebus novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author.

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a nip out of his victims, and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Inspector Rebus is called down from Edinburgh to track down the killer.

Zbierka poviedok z pera svetoznámeho autora thrillerov obsahuje štrnásť temných príbehov, ktoré majú jedno spoločné – vo fiktívnom svete Stephena Kinga je všetko možné. V druhej časti je týchto sedem poviedok: Teória L.T. o zvieracích miláčikoch, Cestný vírus smeruje na sever, Obed v Gotham Café, Ten pocit, ktorý sa dá opísať len po francúzsky, 1408, Jazda na Strele, Švrťdolár pre šťastie. Napínavé, prízračné a desivé príbehy pochádzajú z obdivuhodne plodnej tvorivej dielne azda najväčšieho rozprávača našich čias.

Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard. In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?

English fantasy at its finest, the first in this exciting new trilogy steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld. A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side...? This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero's Children steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld, and is destined to become a modern classic.

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind -- BOOK COVER.

MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round to protect him. But some of those friends - particularly his wife's associates - are not so squeaky clean themselves. Initially Detective Inspector Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? - but with the disappearance of Jack's wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why ...

"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket