Фейт Локхарт случайно узнает, что против её ведомства ЦРУ готовит заговор.

Её решение — дать показания извечным врагам ЦРУ — агентам ФБР.

Но предатель, работающий на заговорщиков, успевает их предупредить. По следу опасной свидетельницы отправляются лучшие «чистильщики» ЦРУ.

И тогда частный детектив Ли Адамс получает от таинственного работодателя секретное задание: любой ценой спасти Фейт!

Кто сказал, что мир загадочных преступлений остался в далеком прошлом, в переулках викторианского Лондона или в итальянских кварталах Нью-Йорка «гангстерских сороковых»?

Мир преступлений — за порогом респектабельных буржуазных особняков и в лабораториях компаний, разрабатывающих революционные компьютерные программы, в залах суда, где царят интеллектуальные хищники с высшим юридическим образованием, и в кабинетах, где ведут свои изощренные игры со злом агенты ФБР.

Мир преступлений — в нелепом взрыве авиалайнера и в скандальных видеозаписях, фиксирующих прошлое «богатых и знаменитых».

Это — «холодные финансовые войны» конца тысячелетия. Войны, которые ведутся уже за ТОТАЛЬНЫЙ КОНТРОЛЬ…

КТО СКАЗАЛ, что мир загадочных преступлений остался в далеком прошлом, в переулках викторианского Лондона или в итальянских кварталах Нью-Йорка «гангстерских сороковых»?Мир преступлений — за порогом респектабельных буржуазных особняков и в лабораториях компаний, разрабатывающих революционные компьютерные программы, в залах суда, где царят интеллектуальные хищники с высшим юридическим образованием, и в кабинетах, где ведут свои изощренные игры со злом агенты ФБР.Мир преступлении — в нелепом взрыве авиалайнера и в скандальных видеозаписях, фиксирующих прошлое «богатых и знаменитых».Это — «холодные финансовые войны» конца тысячелетия. Войны. которые ведутся уже за ТОТАЛЬНЫЙ КОНТРОЛЬ...

Жуткая травма головы, полученная на футбольном поле, не только оборвала спортивную карьеру Амоса Декера. Теперь он – обладатель абсолютной памяти и способен запоминать буквально все, что когда-либо видел или слышал. Что ж, внезапно обретенная суперспособность пришлась как нельзя кстати для его новой работы – службы в полиции, а затем в ФБР.

Обычно команде, в которой работал Амос, поручали старые запутанные дела. Но внезапно на их головы свалился самый что ни на есть «свежак». А все потому, что Декер, идя утром на службу, стал свидетелем сразу двух смертей. Какой-то мужчина, находясь прямо у входа в здание Главного управления ФБР, застрелил идущую мимо женщину, а затем пустил пулю себе в голову…

Одинокий охотник, преследующий волка на бесплодных землях Северной Дакоты, обнаруживает труп женщины. Кто-то сделал ей вскрытие — только, похоже, на этот раз обошлись без стола, морга и экспертизы…

Вскоре стало ясно, что смерть Айрин Крамер заслуживает расследования ФБР. Дело в том, что у нее буквально нет прошлого. Об этой школьной учительнице никто ничего не знает — откуда она родом и кем является на самом деле… Ей явно было что скрывать.

Следователя ФБР Амоса Декера, обладающего абсолютной памятью, и его коллегу Алекс Джеймисон вызывают для поиска ответов в маленький городок в Северной Дакоте. В самом сердце нефтедобывающей индустрии расцветают самые гнусные пороки общества, подпитываемые быстрыми и большими деньгами. Местные очень не любят, когда суют нос в их дела, так что жизнь чужака не стоит здесь и ломаного цента. Однако на помощь Декеру приходит неожиданный союзник…

Одинокий охотник, преследующий волка на бесплодных землях Северной Дакоты, обнаруживает труп женщины. Кто-то сделал ей вскрытие — только, похоже, на этот раз обошлись без стола, морга и экспертизы…

Вскоре стало ясно, что смерть Айрин Крамер заслуживает расследования ФБР. Дело в том, что у нее буквально нет прошлого. Об этой школьной учительнице никто ничего не знает — откуда она родом и кем является на самом деле… Ей явно было что скрывать.

Следователя ФБР Амоса Декера, обладающего абсолютной памятью, и его коллегу Алекс Джеймисон вызывают для поиска ответов в маленький городок в Северной Дакоте. В самом сердце нефтедобывающей индустрии расцветают самые гнусные пороки общества, подпитываемые быстрыми и большими деньгами. Местные очень не любят, когда суют нос в их дела, так что жизнь чужака не стоит здесь и ломаного цента. Однако на помощь Декеру приходит неожиданный союзник…

Их было два брата — Джон и Майкл. Два непримиримых соперника во всем. Два юриста — но первый так и остался второсортным адвокатом в небольшом городке, а второй поднялся до уровня помощника судьи Верховного суда США. Они не общались несколько лет, но все-таки их было двое. А теперь остался только один. И ему предстоит забыть былую неприязнь и разобраться с тайной смерти брата. И отомстить за него…

Их было два брата – Джон и Майкл. Два непримиримых соперника во всем. Два юриста – но первый так и остался второсортным адвокатом в небольшом городке, а второй поднялся до уровня помощника судьи Верховного суда США. Они не общались несколько лет, но все-таки их было двое. А теперь остался только один. И ему предстоит забыть былую неприязнь и разобраться с тайной смерти брата. И отомстить за него…

Вега Джейн и приятелите й са преминали през Мочурището с надеждата, че отвъд него ще намерят отговори на всичките си въпроси. Вместо това откриват нова опасност, по-страшна от всичко, с което са се сблъсквали досега. Маладоните, древният враг, са построили своя империя, в която властват магията и жестокостта. Хората са поробени и по-страшното е, че дори не съзнават това.

Единствено Вега Джейн може да събуди желание за бунт у тях и да спре бавния геноцид. Достатъчно е да повярва в себе си и да разбере истината за семейството си и за способностите си.

Подгответе се за шеметни обрати и действие, което няма да ви позволи да спрете дори и за миг.

Evoking the golden age of crime, and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes A Gambling Man, from one of the world’s bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.

A lucky roll of the dice

California, 1949. Aloysius Archer is on his way to start a new job with a renowned Private Investigator in Bay Town. Feeling lucky, he stops off at a casino in Reno, where he meets an aspiring actress, Liberty Callahan. Together, they head west on a journey filled with danger and surprises — because Archer isn’t the only one with a secretive past.

A risk worth taking

Arriving in a town rife with corruption, Archer is tasked with finding out who is doing everything they can to disrupt the appointment of a top official. Then two seemingly unconnected people are murdered at a burlesque club. In a tight-lipped community, Archer must dig deep to reveal the connection between the victims.

All bets are off

As the final perilous showdown unfurls, Archer will need all of his skills to decipher the truth from the lies and finally, to prove she’s a star in the making, will Liberty have her moment in the spotlight?

**Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 *New York Times* bestselling author David Baldacci.**

The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal--or all three.

Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible--plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their...

The security system is state of the art. The carpeting costs a thousand dollars a square foot. It’s the perfect place for a lovers’ tryst between a rich man’s trophy wife and the most powerful man in the world.

But someone is watching. And when the lovemaking turns deadly, someone will know the truth — and the full, penetrating reach of...

Can the President of the United States get away with murder? The fictional answer to this question has set the literary world on fire and transformed David Baldacci into a household name and overnight success. Going beyond the classic works of John Grisham and Robert Ludlum, ABSOLUTE POWER combines the highest levels of political intrigue with big-money law, cutting-edge forensics, and the riveting search for a truth hidden within the power of the Oval Office.

Luther Whitney is a rare combination of thief and honorable man. Now he’s the invisible eyewitness to an event that, if ever revealed, would shake America to its very roots. Inside the walk-in safe of a billionaire’s mansion, through the vault’s one-way-mirrored door, Luther can see everything that happens in the master bedroom just a few feet away. A woman is brutalized, and a cover-up is set in motion by the President’s most trusted aides. And the eyewitness is running for his life.

From a million-dollar-a-job assassin to the punishing battles of a legal empire, from White House state dinners to the microscopic evidence unearthed from a string of gruesome murders, ABSOLUTE POWER masterfully plumbs the depths of human greed, power, and corruption. This is truly the reading experience of the year: thrilling, shattering, and as provocative as it is relentlessly suspenseful.

FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s search for her twin sister, Mercy, coincides with military investigator John Puller’s high-stakes case, leading them both into a global conspiracy from which neither of them will escape unscathed.

Ever since Mercy was abducted after a brutal incident when the girls were just six years old, Atlee has been relentless in her search for the truth. Now, just as time is running out on her investigation, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet — the identity of her sister’s kidnapper: Ito Vincenzo. Last known location: New Jersey.

As Atlee and her assistant, Carol Blum, race to track down Vincenzo, they run into Pine’s old friend John Puller, who is investigating Vincenzo’s family for another crime involving a military installation.

Working together, Pine and Puller pull back the layers of deceit, lies and cover-ups that strike at the very heart of global democracy. And the truth about what happened to Mercy is finally revealed.

And that truth will shock Atlee Pine to her very core.

All that glitters... 1952, Los Angeles. It is New Year’s Eve and PI Aloysius Archer is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood actress Liberty Callahan when they’re approached by Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter who would like to hire him, as she suspects someone is trying to kill her.

Murder and mystery A visit to Lamb’s Malibu residence leaves Archer knocked unconscious after he stumbles over a dead body in the hallway; and Lamb seems to have vanished. With the police now involved in the case, a close friend and colleague of Lamb’s employs Archer to find out what’s happened to the screenwriter.

The City of Angels — or somewhere much, much darker? Archer’s investigation takes him from the rich, glamorous and glitzy LA to the seedy, dark side of the city, and onward to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas, just now hitting its stride as a hot spot for celebrities and a money-making machine for the mob. In a place where cops and crooks work hand in hand, Archer will cross paths with Hollywood stars, politicians and notorious criminals. He’ll almost die several times, and he’ll discover bodies and secrets from the canyons and beaches of Malibu and the luxurious mansions of Bel Air and Beverly Hills to the narcotics clubs of Chinatown.

With the help of Liberty and his PI partner Willie Dash, Archer will risk everything and leave no stone unturned in finding the missing Eleanor Lamb, and in bringing to justice killers who would love nothing better than to plant Archer six feet under.

Will Robie, highly trained assassin and the US government’s most indispensable asset, is called to London.

An imminent terrorist attack threatens the Underground and with the US next in line, Robie is the perfect choice to stop it before it begins.

He knows he has one chance to succeed. One chance to save London. One chance to make it safely home to find out what has happened to fellow agent Jessica Reel following their last deadly mission together.

But Robie is about to learn that even if he succeeds, the worst is yet to come.

The game has started. Now only he can end it...

John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he’s fought for decades to leave his past career behind, Stone has no choice but to say yes.

Then Stone’s mission changes drastically before it even begins. It’s the night of a state dinner honoring the British prime minister. As he watches the prime minister’s motorcade leave the White House that evening, a bomb is detonated in Lafayette Park, an apparent terrorist attack against both leaders. It’s in the chaotic aftermath that Stone takes on a new, more urgent assignment: find those responsible for the bombing.

British MI-6 agent Mary Chapman becomes Stone’s partner in the search for the unknown attackers. But their opponents are elusive, capable, and increasingly lethal; worst of all, it seems that the park bombing may just have been the opening salvo in their plan. With nowhere else to turn, Stone enlists the help of the only people he knows he can trust: the Camel Club. Yet that may be a big mistake.

In the shadowy worlds of politics and intelligence, there is no one you can really trust. Nothing is really what it seems to be. And Hell’s Corner truly lives up to its name. This may be Oliver Stone’s and the Camel Club’s last stand.

David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell – former Secret Service agents turned private investigators – in their most surprising, personal, and dangerous case ever. . .

KING AND MAXWELL

It seems at first like a simple, tragic story. Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, learns the awful news that his father, a soldier, was killed in action in Afghanistan. Then the extraordinary happens: Tyler receives a communication from his father. . after his supposed death. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle to solve the mystery surrounding his father. But their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target? Sean and Michelle soon realize that they've stumbled on to something bigger and more treacherous than anyone could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets, Sean and Michelle are determined to help and protect Tyler – though they may pay for it with their lives.

Since his astounding debut novel, Absolute Power, David Baldacci has delivered a series of stunning, bestselling thrillers — plunging readers into riveting, fast-paced dramas between the innocent and corrupt, killers and their targets. In his extraordinary new work, Baldacci uses his unsurpassed storytelling skills to explore the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the...

It took ten seconds for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI’s super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley toward a drug dealer’s lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him.

Now coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together with the help of his psychiatrist, Dr. Claire Daniels. To do so, he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush — and find the only other person who came out of that alley alive... a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared.

‘Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...’

It is thirty years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the room they shared as young children. Notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, was caught and convicted of other murders, and while there’s no proof, Atlee believes he knows what happened to Mercy. Tor still resides in a high-security prison in Colorado.

Assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States, Atlee has never stopped the search for her sister, and, wracked with survivor’s guilt, she has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. She will always ask herself, ‘Why her, and not me?’.

Now, Atlee is called in to investigate a case in the Grand Canyon when a mule is found dead with strange carvings on its body, and its rider missing. She knows about killers and perhaps understands them better than any profiler in the FBI, but it soon becomes clear that she will need to put her skills to the ultimate test in this investigation.

It seems that Atlee will now have to confront a new monster.

And face the one of her nightmares.

When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench.

What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count — from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband — but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack?

Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner — Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White — and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present... and forces him to reckon with his future. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down a twisted tunnel of secrets, crimes, and scandal — at the end of which lies Decker’s deadliest threat yet.