When The Sacred Ginmill Closes
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- 10 hodin čítania
A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. schovat popis






A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. schovat popis
A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story. schovat popis
A powerful Matt Scudder novel about love and loss. schovat popis
From Jonathan Nasaw, whose heart-stopping debut was hailed as "a superior thriller" ("The Washington Post") and "wickedly compelling" ("The Oregonian"), comes a new novel that takes readers into the depths of"Fear Itself"Is it possible to be scared to death? FBI Special Agent E. L. Pender thinks so -- when a man afraid of heights falls nineteen stories to his death and a woman terrified of blood is found with her wrists slashed. Could it be that the apparent suicides are actually the work of a twisted psychopath?To stop him, Pender joins forces with Investigative Specialist Linda Abruzzi, and before long they find themselves facing their own worst terrors -- and a madman who is as immune to fear as he is fascinated by it.
It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it.Geologist Ross Kelly has it a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes.An attempt to steal her translation of the Voynich leaves Lauren and their unborn child hovering on the brink of death, and Ross in the depths of despair. Encounters with a sinister Vatican priest and then a mysterious nun convince Ross to seek the centuries-old manuscript, which chronicles the ill-fated discovery of a mythic fabulous garden deep in the jungles of the New an Eden so terrible and miraculous it rewrites the book of Genesis and defies all reason.Although everyone tells him the story is surely an allegory, the possibility of the garden’s existence offers Ross the only hope of saving his wife and unborn child, and he decides to seek the garden out before it’s too late.But he is not alone. Racing against time, against a lethal assassin, and a fanatical priest, Ross’s quest will lead him to a place that might challenge everything he ever thought about the source of life on earth.
Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two new stories collected here for the first time.
Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom, and their relationship starts to fall apart. Worse, they are threatened by interested parties on each side of the case. The result is obvious: one of them will lose. The other one will die.
It is longer than a football pitch, weighs 550 tons, and moves at five miles per hour. Its job - and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix - is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. But Nyala erupts into civil war - with Mannix at the centre of the conflict.
DISPARADOR DE VENGANZA Durante casi media vida, el exagente Richard Gardiner ha enterrado sus dolorosos recuerdos de traición y tortura, de aquel tiempo de pesadilla en las sangrientas mazmorras de la Gestapo y la horrible doble traición que siguió cuando la libertad parecía estar al alcance de su mano. El campo de batalla se encuentra entre viejos amigos y enemigos. La búsqueda es del hombre que siempre traicionó y asesinó por encargo. El hombre conocido como LOBO...