Альпинист Джек Фернесс обнаружил в пещере Гималайских гор череп неизвестного науке человекоподобного существа. Вскоре он вернулся туда с командой специалистов. Но один из них — не тот, за кого себя выдает. Его злая воля грозит гибелью и ученым, и обнаруженному ими уникальному виду.

Бойтесь зла, ибо оно сильно и многолико...

Бойтесь смерти, ибо она хитра и изворотлива.

Это известно испокон веку, но об этом забыли возводившие небоскребы. И тогда началось нечто странное и страшное. Замерзшие трупы находят в лифте, смертью веет от воздуха сверхсовременных кондиционеров, смерть царит за герметически закрытыми дверьми, кровь льется по лестницам. Что – то поселилось в здании – что-то, чье могущество беспредельно, что – то, что играет с людьми как с игрушками, ломая их для собственногобезжлостного удовольствия...

Philip Kerr, who sold his four previous novels to Hollywood for thousands of dollars, has worked out the art of writing the book of the film. A Five Year Plan has the ingredients — drugs, girls, high-octane climax — and all in a single boat. But this is no ordinary boat. It is a massive floating container, containing yet more boats, in which there are an assortment of glamorous cross-Atlantic travellers: a famous actor, a crook, an FBI agent, and a holdful of porn stars off to the Cannes Film Festival.

The crook is taking his drug money to the launderers in Russia. The FBI agent, Kate Furey, is after the crook in more ways than one: she wants to put him away and she also wants to bed him. The attraction is not...

In the new St. Petersburg everyone is driven: by hunger, by fear, by greed. The state shops are empty and among struggling private enterprise organised crime is flourishing. An investigator from Moscow is sent by the overstretched militia to learn more about the burgeoning Russian mafia. No one knows more about the subject than detective Yevgeni Ivanovich Grushko: determined and laconic, he pursues the mafia with a single-mindedness verging on obsession.

A Molotov cocktail is thrown through the window of a fancy restaurant. Grushko is suspicious when he finds its cold room stacked high with prime cuts of meat. Mikhail Milyukin, a prominent wound in the back of his head. In the boot lies a Georgian gangster, his mouth shot to pieces in gruesome admonition. As Grushko investigates Milyukin’s murder, a bloody and brutal war breaks out between the gangster factions, but this does not explain all the loose threads. Why had the Department tapped Milyukin’s phone? Why had Milyukin tried to hire a bodyguard two days before his death? Why was a pimp, whom Milyukin had helped put in the zone, let out after serving only half his sentence, and why was Milyukin’s widow holding out on them?

As Grushko and the investigator unravel a tangled web of deviousness and brutality, they reveal a truth which is far more disturbing than anything they had imagined, and whose consequences threaten even Grushko’s own family. Dead Meat, Philip Kerr’s gripping and tense new thriller, gives a fascinating insight into the dark side of life in the new Russia.

In 2069 mankind is on the verge of extinction. 80 % of the population have P2; a virus that will kill them within ten to fifteen years. The only cure is a course of drugs and a complete transfusion of healthy blood.

Blood is life. The latest World Association of Blood Banks price for one litre of healthy human blood is $1.84 million. The world’s blood banks are protected by state of the art security systems. The most secure bank of alt Is not even on Earth. The First National Blood Bank is on the moon. Its security systems are Impregnable.

Dallas knows this. He designed them. And now he is bent on revenge on the company that has betrayed him. Dallas is about to attempt an Impossible bank raid. To succeed he will need the help of the Second Angel. If he succeeds mankind has a future...