The Library: Only a handful know it exists… It holds the world's most astonishing – and terrifying – information… But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time… is missing.Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved – and survived – the "Doomsday Killer" case… and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest – and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing – his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power.Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know – those that concern the future, world domination… and the end of everything.

La nueva novela del autor de La biblioteca de los muertos plantea un nuevo y aún más estremecedor reto: Encontrar un libro que revela el destino último de la humanidad.¿Qué harías si conocieras la fecha del fin del mundo?Cuando un hombre a las puertas de la muerte encarga a Will Piper la búsqueda de un libro, el ex agente del FBI no lo duda un instante. Un libro antiguo en el que va a descubrir un secreto estremecedor: una misteriosa epístola escrita por Félix, el último superior de la abadía de Vectis, deja constancia de los extraños acontecimientos relacionados con la biblioteca de los muertos y revela la naturaleza de la última fecha registrada: el 9 de febrero de 2027…el fin de la humanidad.Will deberá enfrentarse, entonces, a un dilema moral de difícil solución: revelar a la humanidad una verdad aterradora o callar para siempre.

Bretaña, año 777. En la abadía de Vectis crece Octavus, un niño sobre el que pesa una maldición: es el séptimo hijo engendrado por un séptimo hijo y la leyenda le vaticina poderes diabólicos. Octavus comienza a escribir una lista con fechas y nombres sin sentido. Cuando uno de los nombres y su fecha coinciden con una muerte en la abadía, el miedo se apodera de los monjes. Siglos después, los miembros de la Orden de los Nombres, descendientes todos de aquel niño, siguen escribiendo sin descanso para completar un misterioso listado de nombres y fechas… Hasta que empiezan a suicidarse.Estados Unidos, en la actualidad. Nueve personas han aparecido muertas en Nueva York, desconocidos que nada tenían en común. Solo una cosa les unía: todas las víctimas recibieron postales de ataúdes, que anunciaban el día en que morirían, poco antes de su fallecimiento. Son las aparentes víctimas de un asesino en serie difícil de atrapar, cuyas muertes desafían toda lógica…

"The debut of a startling new talent. Here is a story both incandescent and explosive. A seamless blend of modern-day thriller and historical mystery with an ending that left me breathless." – James Rollins***A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died – a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement.Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed – with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives – and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost…

Abbey of Ruac, rural France – A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains – and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring. When they discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realize that they've stumbled across something extraordinary. And at the very core of the labyrinth lies the most astonishing chamber of all, just as the manuscript chronicled. Aware of the significance of their discovery, they set up camp with a team of experts, determined to bring their find to the world. But as they begin to unlock the ancient secrets the cavern holds, they find themselves at the centre of a dangerous game. One 'accidental' death leads to another. And it seems that someone will stop at nothing to protect the enigma of the tenth chamber.