A woman is found dead, raped and covered obscene graffiti. This is unremarkable; London is a world of elaborate technology, violence and squalor, and serial murder has reached epidemic proportions. A new killer emerges, however, who has other targets, ones which have alarming consequences for the government. Chief Inspector ‘Jake’ Jakowicz is put in charge of the investigation, which will require all her powers of reason and intuition.There has been a breach in the security of the Lombroso computer system, which screens people for their predisposition to violent criminality. Aided by Chung, a computer expert, and Dr Jameson Lang, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, Jake begins to build a profile of a criminal mind that has adopted the name (and the thought processes) of one of the world’s greatest thinkers. In an age where faith is lost and reality is mutable, logic has become the killers driving force. His voice emerges: sharp, engaging and dismayingly rational. ‘The concept of killing: the assertion of one’s own being by the denial of another. Self-creation by annihilation.’ His name is ‘Wittgenstein’. A chilling philosophical dialogue ensues between Jake and the murderer, where concepts of meaning, logic, and of consciousness are endowed with the importance of life and death.A Philosophical Investigation is a powerfully gripping and thought-provoking thriller which takes the reader on a terrifying journey into the head of a serial killer, and to the heart of murder itself.

An omnibus of novelsThese three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany – richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines.

1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which resides within the Tower walls, and he has accepted an appointment from the King of England and Parliament to investigate and prosecute counterfeiters whose false coins threaten to bring down the shaky, war-weakened economy. Ellis may lack Newton’s scholarly mind, but he is quick with a pistol and proves himself to be an invaluable sidekick and devoted apprentice to Newton as they zealously pursue these criminals.While Newton and Ellis investigate a counterfeiting ring, they come upon a mysterious coded message on the body of a man killed in the Lion Tower, as well as alchemical symbols that indicate this was more than just a random murder. Despite Newton’s formidable intellect, he is unable to decipher the cryptic message or any of the others he and Ellis find as the body count increases within the Tower complex. As they are drawn into a wild pursuit of the counterfeiters that takes them from the madhouse of Bedlam to the squalid confines of Newgate prison and back to the Tower itself, Newton and Ellis discover that the counterfeiting is only a small part of a larger, more dangerous plot, one that reaches to the highest echelons of power and nobility and threatens much more than the collapse of the economy.

En la ciudad de Los Angeles se inaugura un modernísimo rascacielos in-formatizado regido por un superordenador al que han puesto el nombre de Abraham. De pronto, en el edificio se empiezan a producir extrañas muertes -primero un técnico informático, después un guarda de seguridad…- que la policía no sabe si catalogar como accidentes o asesinatos. Los dos principales sospechosos son el estudiante que encabeza las manifestaciones contra el propietario de la constructora, un multimillonario de origen chino simpatizante del Gobierno comunista de Pekín, y uno de los técnicos del equipo del arquitecto responsable del proyecto, que se ha peleado con él. Otra posible explicación es que el edificio, según las teorías de una empresa en embrujos tradicionales chinos, está maldito. Pero acaso el verdadero culpable no sea humano ni tenga nada que ver con antiguas brujerías… Philip Kerr ha escrito un apasionante tecno-thriller protagonizado por un superordenador capaz de poner en jaque a policías, arquitectos y técnicos informáticos. Como el Hal de 2001: Una odisea en el espacio, Abraham no está dispuesto a limitarse a cumplir órdenes…

Jack Furness, a world-famous mountaineer, is scaling one of the highest peaks in Nepal when he slips and falls into a crevasse. In the snow he finds a fragment of skull preserved in almost immaculate condition, and on returning home presents it to his ex-girlfriend, Dr. Stella Swift, a paleoanthropologist at Berkeley. Stella is intrigued. The skull, when she examines it, seems to be a rare example of an early hominid, a form of ape-man which science had yet to classify. She also discovers that the skull is not millions of years old, but alarmingly recent.Stella and Jack set about organising a new expedition to the Himalayas, to rediscover more of the fossil material, and maybe even to track down a living example of this strange creature. But they have problems: there are threats of a nuclear war, and there is a narrow gap of time in which they can make their trip safety. And Jack becomes quickly aware that one member of their team may have a secret mission that may conflict with their own.The story of expedition, and of what Stella and her team find there, make Esau one of the most heart-stoppingly exciting thrillers of recent years.

La gran novela sobre el yetiUn alpinista y una antropóloga se embarcan en una expedición al Himalaya en busca de lo que podría ser el eslabón perdido, pero los demás miembros de la expedición tienen propósitos ocultos.

JUST BECAUSE FOOTBALL’S A GAME, DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO PLAY FAIR.Scott Manson needs to leave England. His career managing London City football team is over, and it cuts deep to watch them play on without him.But finding a job in the star-studded world of international football is harder than it looks. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation. And in Barcelona, he’s hired not as a football manager, but as a detective. Barca’s star player is missing, and they need to find him fast.Scott has a month to track him down. As he follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters corrupt men, wicked women, and the rotten core of the beautiful game...

In the heart of a huge, beautiful new office building in downtown Los Angeles, something has gone totally, frighteningly wrong. The Yu Corporation Building, hailed as a monument to human genius, is quietly snuffing out employees it doesn't like. The brain of the building can't be outsmarted or unplugged — if the people inside are to survive, they'll have to be very, very lucky.

Corre el año 1954 y las cosas no son sencillas para Bernie Gunther. El Gobierno cubano le ha obligado a espiar a Meyer Lansky, y cualquiera puede imaginarse que meter las narices en los asuntos de un conocido mafioso no puede ser bueno para la salud. Así que, harto de ese engorroso trabajo, Gunther consigue una embarcación con el objetivo de huir a Florida. Sin embargo, la suerte no está de su lado, ya que tras la fuga es arrestado y devuelto a Cuba, donde es encarcelado. En su estancia en prisión conoce a personajes curiosos, como Fidel Castro o Thibaud, un agente que ejerce de enlace entre la CIA y el servicio de inteligencia francés. Thibaud no es buena compañía para Bernie y no tarda en demostrarlo al hacerle una propuesta que el detective no tiene más remedio que aceptar: debe volver a Alemania para alojarse en una prisión y hacer allí un trabajo sucio que puede acabar costándole la vida.

The beautiful game just got ugly.In Athens, where London City is set to play Olympiacos in the Champion’s League, the temperature is high, and tempers even higher. Greece is rioting and manager Scott Manson is keeping his team on a tight leash. There must be no drinking, no nightlife and no women. After the game, they are to get back to London refreshed and ready for a crucial match at home stadium Silvertown Docks.But Scott didn’t plan for death on the pitch. When City’s star striker collapses mid-match, it shocks the nation. Is it a heart attack? Or something more sinister? As the Greek authorities mount a murder investigation, Scott Manson must find the truth — and fast — to get his team home in time.The second Scott Manson thriller from bestselling crimewriter Philip Kerr.

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations – a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin 's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. The discovery of two bodies – one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer – involves Bernie in the lives of two hotel guests. One is a beautiful left-wing journalist intent on persuading America to boycott the Berlin Olympiad; the other is a German-Jewish gangster who plans to use the Olympics to enrich himself and the Chicago mob. As events unfold, Bernie uncovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are prepared to spend to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolution Cuba, the country to which Bernie flees from Argentina at the end of A Quiet Flame.

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death.But this time, it's murder.Scot Manson: team coach for London City FC and all-round fixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him.But now the team's manager has been found dead at their home stadium.Even Scott can't smooth over murder... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

En Pálido Criminal Bernie Gunther, pese a su nula simpatía por los nazis, es obligado por el general de las SS Reinhard Heydrich a reincorporarse a la Kripo con la misión de dar caza a un psicópata que ha violado, torturado y asesinado a varias adolescentes arias. Bajo el mando de su amigo el Kriminaldirektor Arthur Nebe y con el grado de Comisario, Gunther regresa a una policía cada vez más cercana a la Gestapo e inicia una investigación contrarreloj para evitar que el asesino siga matando. Pero la investigación se complicará cuando en la misma se vean involucrados varios miembros relevantes de las SS interesados por el ocultismo que tienen un especial odio a los judíos, como Otto Rahn, Karl Maria Wiligut o el mismísimo Heinrich Himmler.

Dave Delano conoce la libertad después de cinco años alojado a costa del estado. Un alojamiento que ha merecido por encubrir a un apreciado mafioso de Florida, Tony Nudelli, al cual, desde luego, no le hace ninguna ilusión la liberación de Delano: después de cinco años a la sombra, uno puede volverse un tanto vengativo…Pero el ex preso viene con las mejores intenciones. De hecho, propone a Nudelli un plan para hacerse en alta mar con un fabuloso envío de dinero -negro, por supuesto- que va a remitirse a Rusia. Una cantidad que arreglaría la vida de los más exigentes. La que también quiere cambiar su vida es Kate Furey, agente del FBI destinada en Miami, que ha detectado un cargamento de cocaína que va a ser enviado a Europa. Interceptarlo significa para Kate no sólo un éxito profesional sino, sobre todo, escapar de la rutina de un trabajo burocrático.