fb2Пригород Бостона Чарлзтаун породил столько банковских грабителей и налетчиков на инкассаторские фургоны, сколько не вырастил бы никакой другой уголок мира. В этом захватывающем романе жертвой воровской банды становится Клэр Кизи, управляющая одного из местных банков. Налетчики берут ее в заложницы, а затем освобождают, однако Дуг Макрей, глава и вдохновитель нерушимой команды бандитов, не может выкинуть девушку из головы. Сбросив маску и спрятав оружие, он начинает встречаться с Клэр в обычной жизни, и вскоре становится ясно, что их влечение взаимно…
Антология остросюжетных детективных романов различных авторов.
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Город воров (Чак Хоган)
Смерть длиною в двадцать лет (Ариэль Уинтер)
Смерть стоит за дверью (Билл Флойд)
Детектив (Артур Хейли)
The story begins with an urgent phone call from the remote rain forests of the Congo. Drs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are summoned to a mining camp where a deadly virus has killed everyone within its reach. Desperate to stop it, they bomb the area, resealing a uranium cave that had housed and nurtured the virus for centuries.
Two years later, the disease reemerges in America, devastating the small New England town of Plainville. Stephen Pearse is now head of the FBI-like Bureau of Disease Control; Peter Maryk, a man gifted with a highly advanced immune system, now runs the bureau’s clandestine special pathogens section of disease detectives. Since their return from Africa, the two men have become bitter enemies divided by opposing scientific philosophies. But together they must track down the virus as it continues to spring up in isolated incidents, each time becoming increasingly calculating, cunning and human-like as it drops its plague across the landscape. The battle intensifies as it becomes clear that the Plainville virus is being spread by one particular human host — giving the virus a name and a face.
Their search involves the last survivor of the Plainville outbreak, a young woman, who is now immune to the virus. Her blood is the serum of life in the face of viral death, making her a critical target. Pearse and Maryk must keep her safe, while formulating a plan to get to the killer before he gets to the woman.
A deadly war of nerves between perfectly matched opponents.
The law descends in force as local police officials, Montana State Troopers, National Guard helicopters, a United States Marshals Special Operations Group, and the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team converge on Paradise Ridge. When state-of-the-art surveillance technology fails to prevent the murder of a federal marshal, the FBI recalls from operational exile its ranking veteran crisis manager: a brilliant but unstable negotiator named John T. Banish.
As casualties mount on both sides, Paradise Ridge becomes a tinderbox. Banish must pry a heavily armed, ruthlessly cunning criminal out of hiding while, at the foot of the mountain, a massive gathering of Ables’s outraged supporters threatens to turn into a full-scale riot.
More than a high-stokes face-off between a lawbreaker and the law, what takes place over the course of nine agonizing days in Montana is a contest of wills and wits as intensely personal as The Fugitive or The Hunt for Red October. One of this year’s most talked-about novels, soon to be a major motion picture, THE STANDOFF grabs you on page one and simply cannot be put down. This is a remarkable fiction debut — a bottle that no one dares win; a tactical and psychological duel more harrowing than anything you have ever experienced.