fb2L to R (Western Style). There's one thing worse than dying. It's coming back to do it again and again.When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji's escape, or to his final death?
Карло Лукарелли в сегодняшней Италии – автор триллеров номер один!
Блестящий стилист, ученик знаменитого Алессандро Баррико, Лукарелли возвел расследование кровавых преступлений в область искусства и, как Акунин в России, сделал для итальянцев чтение детективов модным занятием.
Среди множества бестселлеров Лукарелли особой популярностью пользуются романы о полицейском инспекторе Грации Негро – красивой и отважной женщине, которая расследует ужасающие своей жестокостью преступления серийных убийц-маньяков.
Как героиня Джоди Фостер из бессмертного «Молчания ягнят», она вступает в яростный интеллектуальный поединок с преступником. Ежечасно рискуя жизнью, балансируя на грани дозволенного, Грация Негро дразнит убийцу и выманивает его на свет, как хищного зверя. Провокационно-двусмысленные отношения между ними создают напряжение такого накала, что финала-взрыва ждешь, как глотка долгожданного воздуха…
Предупреждаем: Карло Лукарелли – мастер совершенно неожиданного финала!
NYPD sharp-shooter Bobby is called to a domestic incident. It's an address the police have visited before – a volatile husband and wife who routinely battle out their marriage. But this time it's different. Through his sights from the building opposite, Bobby can see the husband pointing a gun at his wife and child. As the husband moves to shoot his wife, Bobby gets a clear shot and shoots the man in the head. The wife, shaking and terrified, turns to face Bobby through the shattered window and mouths the words 'thank you'. Then all hell breaks loose. The man Bobby has shot is the son of one the city's most important judges. His wife, Catherine, has long been suspected of abusing their son. It seems Bobby has just killed the only man who could have protected the child. Meanwhile, Mr Bosu is back on the streets. A man who committed a crime so heinous, he was sentenced to life in prison at the tender age of twenty-two. A man so seriously committed to death and destruction, he found a way to continue to commit murder, even while behind bars. A man so feared, his fellow prisoners consider him a sort of inmate bogeyman. Now he's been "accidentally" released. In the past, Mr. Bosu has preyed on children. Now, as a freshly released felon, he's trying something new – murder for hire. He figures he's good at killing, and he always needs money, so why not combine the two interests? He's smart, he's unbelievably strong, and after spending twenty-five years locked behind bars, he possesses just a little bit of rage… Bobby, Catherine, Mr Bosu – all three tied together in a devil's pact, in a way they can't imagine…
They need all their wits to survive. But a language barrier could leave them dead in the water.
Anne-Marie Legrand is excited to begin her career as an au pair in Sweden. But when the young Swiss woman’s flight from Geneva is struck by lightning, both the plane and her dreams come crashing down to Earth. Waking up bloodied and confused, she’s terrified when she discovers the only other survivor is a middle-aged man muttering in a foreign tongue.
Scottish banker Killian Gordon may be a world traveler, but he knows next to nothing about wilderness survival. Stuck with a woman he can’t understand, he struggles to take charge of the mismatched pair as they explore their surroundings. But the untamed land and endless sea surrounding them tells him no one will be coming to their rescue.
Focusing her efforts on building a sturdy shelter, Anne-Marie battles to keep morale alive with her disgruntled comrade. But with days on the island turning into weeks, Killian fears the odds of living through this nightmare are rapidly declining as the looming Scandinavian winter ensures a lonely and frozen death.
Will they face an even crueler fate than their fellow passengers?
Alone Together is a standalone survival novel. If you enjoy unlikely duos, dramatic landscapes, and adrenaline-fueled endurance, then you’ll love Cristelle Comby’s desperate tale of stamina and strength.
Myron Bolitar siempre ha soñado con la voluptuosa mujer fatal que acaba de entrar en su despacho para pedirle ayuda. Tiene unas curvas de locura, pero está embarazada de ocho meses, y eso pone fin a todas las posibles fantasías de Bolitar. La antigua estrella del tenis Suzze T y su marido, Lex, una estrella del rock, son clientes, y a lo largo de los años Myron ha negociado multitud de contratos para la preciosa pareja. Pero ahora Lex ha desaparecido y la muy embarazada Suzze llora, convencida de que los rumores colgados en la red poniendo en duda la paternidad del bebé hayan alejado al hombre que ella jura es el padre de su hijo.
“Harlan Coben es el maestro moderno del “agárrate y no te menees” desde la primera página, para dejarte completamente noqueado en la última.” Dan Brown
Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked – and something even more horrific is set free.
Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring.
Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait – a disturbingly heightened intelligence.
To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her and is now an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, Jack Menard.
Together, the two must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery tied to fractal science and genetic engineering, all to expose a horrifying secret that traces back to humankind's earliest roots.
But can Lorna stop what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden before it threatens not only the world but also the very foundation of what it means to be human?
When a freak accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a “ghost”, with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What’s worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk — and it has recently been fired.
The next day Stride learns that a Duluth college student has vanished and worries that the two incidents are related. But what would have put an ordinary young woman in the crosshairs of a man who has all the hallmarks of an assassin for hire?
Stride’s investigation of the girl’s disappearance leads him onto the set of a film crew in Duluth, where a movie based on a case from his own past is being made. The actor playing Stride is Hollywood royalty, an award-winning icon who has charmed his way to the top of the box office.
But Stride soon hears whispers that his alter ego has a dark side and, in trying to expose the truth, discovers that he has made a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to protect his reputation.
From cult phenomenon to award-winning literary sensation, “the sexiest action figure since James Bond” (Seattle Weekly) returns in an exhilarating new thriller.
It doesn’t matter how well trained you are, how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always.
That’s what Aud Torvingen teaches the students in her self-defense class. But the question is whether Aud really believes this lesson herself-and if not, what it will take for her to learn it.
Aud has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her self-defense classes spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.
She helps people put their demons to rest.
But she has a few of her own…
In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years.
When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her—and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today?
And then, the unthinkable happens, and Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most…and fight back.
Sometimes you can leave the past, but you can never escape.
Told with the trademark powerful storytelling that has had critics praising her work as “Gripping” (Kirkus), “Jaw-dropping” (Publishers Weekly) and “Crackling with suspense” (People magazine), ALWAYS WATCHING shows why Chevy Stevens is one of the most mesmerizing new talents of our day.
Il cadavere di una donna dalle mani spappolate viene ritrovato al Central Park di Manhattan. In assenza di impronte e di documenti il detective Palanski identifica la vittima in base al nome sull'etichetta della giacca: è Cathy Mallory, geniale e irriducibile cane sciolto della sezione Crimini Speciali della Polizia di New York, recentemente sospesa dal servizio per motivi disciplinari. Quando il notiziario di mezzogiorno la informa della propria morte, Mallory si getta nelle indagini con foga. E scopre che la vittima è in realtà Amanda Bosh, venticinquenne da tempo coinvolta nella relazione con un facoltoso uomo sposato. Per stanare l'assassino Mallory è pronta a tutto, persino a trasformarsi in un vera e propria esca umana.
Fresh out of college, a young man is hired by a high-end travel agency. His fears that he might be in over his head prove to be well-founded when he is dispatched to a potential new destination, Playa Amazonia. Twenty hours of traveling leads him to a luxurious hotel, the world's most beautiful beach — and an encounter with a highly unusual invasive species.
Roberto Bolaño publica ahora una novela que escribió 22 años atrás y que reconoce como un juguete a la medida de sus curiosidades de entonces: Amberes. Estructurada a partir de capítulos breves que se entrecruzan, la novela acude a un uso embrionario de recursos que en el futuro expresará a plenitud: los personajes excéntricos y las situaciones raras de la vida nómada, donde brilla una prosa de enorme calidad. La anarquía feliz.
Un policía perdido entre Castelldefels y Barcelona, una pelirroja de la que todos hablan pero nadie ha visto, un vagabundo jorobado que vive en un bosque, un asesinato congelado en la memoria de unos pocos, escenas sadomasoquistas que aparecen como relámpagos… Una novela que transcurre a orillas de un mar desierto, durante un largo otoño y que es una nueva muestra del prodigioso talento narrativo de Roberto Bolaño.
Más que una novela, Amberes es un embrión narrativo. De haberse leído en el momento en el que, según Roberto Bolaño (Santiago de Chile, 1953), fue escrita, quizá no hubiera sido posible imaginar que poco más de tres lustros después el mismo autor se encontraría escribiendo Los detectives salvajes (1998). Hoy, es evidente que Bolaño aviva el pulso de la literatura hispanoamericana, igual que, digamos, Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, 1941), único escritor con el que puede establecerse un arbitrario parangón, y que en 1980 publicó su insuperable opera prima, Respiración artificial. Así bien, esta primera novela no declarada de Bolaño se antoja como un caótico big bang de estilo.
La prosa de Amberes es impecable, sí, mas no es posible saber qué tanto fue convertida a la voz actual de Bolaño, las atmósferas, por su parte, son notables, inspiradas quizá en el peor de los sueños recurrentes del autor y que parecen la emulación temprana de un David Lynch que apenas comenzaba entonces, como Bolaño mismo, a gestarse.
De una trama es imposible hablar, dado que no existe (y tampoco importa que exista): hay un policía que busca resolver un crimen, una pelirroja desaparecida, un jorobadito mexicano que habita el bosque en donde se proyectará una película y una serie de escenas casi pornográficas estelarizadas por el policía y una mujer tal vez demasiado joven, además de la súbita aparición de un tal Roberto Bolaño, quizá el extranjero del que se hace mención de vez en cuando.
Entonces, ¿qué es Amberes y por qué su lectura invita al asombro, la admiración y la reseña? Ya la llamé un embrión narrativo, metáfora de la concepción de una prosa, así que diré que también se trata del revés de un divertimento, más aún, del subconsciente, entendido como tropo, de una novela que (todavía) no existe.
Dividido en 56 partes (peculiar mitosis: el libro apenas cuenta con 119 páginas e incluye un puñado de diagramas muy parecidos a aquellos con los que concluye Los detectives salvajes), Amberes es a la vez un thriller de corte noir pornográfico y un ejercicio de flujo de conciencia a ratos lúcido, luminoso, y a otros confuso, más oscuro que turbio, en suma, un límbico claroscuro compuesto por instantes narrativos cuyo orden es más un capricho que una necesidad argumental, lo que no significa que Amberes carezca de pies o de cabeza, aunque resultan difíciles de discernir cuando a un embrión se observa.
Amberes es una primera novela, si acaso en el prolífico cajón de Bolaño no hay otra, allí escondida al fondo: tanto Los detectives salvajes como La literatura nazi en América (1996) tuvieron sus codas, a saber Amuleto (1999) y Estrella distante (1996), respectivamente. Y tanto Monsieur Pain (1999) como Nocturno de Chile (2000) son un par de nouvelles, éstas sí declarados divertimentos si se les compara con la ya monolítica Los detectives salvajes.
Thane Coder lleva una existencia que muchos envidiarían: un buen trabajo en la poderosa compañía King Corp, una mujer hermosa, un generoso salario… Un sueño hecho realidad pero que, como él mismo confiesa, no es suficiente. Cuando el dueño de la compañía anuncia que cederá el mando de la empresa a su hijo Scott, Thane decide que el puesto ha de ser suyo al coste que sea. Espoleado por la ambición de su esposa y cómplice, recurre al asesinato, al engaño, a los contactos con criminales… Matar le resulta cada vez más fácil, incluso tanto como engañar al FBI y a la mafia, pero pronto queda claro que Thane ha entrado en una espiral de locura para la que sólo hay un final.
Ambrose Bierce y la Reina de Picas: San Francisco, finales de la década de 1880. Un joven auxiliar de imprenta y aspirante a reportero, Tom Redmond, se une al temido escritor y editor del semanario satírico The Hornet, Ambrose Bierce, para investigar una serie de brutales asesinatos de prostitutas cometidos en un barrio de la emergente ciudad. El asesino, conocido como el Destripador de Morton Street, deja siempre un naipe del palo de picas sobre los cuerpos desnudos de sus víctimas. Las conjeturas iniciales, así como las pruebas practicadas, apuntan a que tras la salvaje cacería podría estar una poderosa familia de nuevos ricos de dudosa integridad aliada con los inmorales y a menudo violentos propietarios del monopolio del ferrocarril. Para Tom Redmond, que teme por la vida de la joven por la que se siente atraído, resolver el misterio es de importancia capital, para «el amargo» Bierce es sólo una nueva oportunidad para alimentar su guerra particular contra los magnates de la minería y de la todopoderosa Southern Pacific Railroad y sus políticos títeres. Ambrose Bierce y la Reina de Picas es tanto una narración de ambientación histórica como una apasionante novela de misterio, el retrato que realiza Oakley Hall -autor de la novela de culto llevada al cine Warlock (1958) y especialista en la historia del Oeste americano- dando vida al genial escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce resulta impecable. En esta novela Hall va más allá de la habitual recreación literaria a partir de determinados hechos reales y nos ofrece una subyugante y peculiar historia policiaca, en la que cada capítulo se abre con una corrosiva definición tomada de El Diccionario del Diablo, la patibularia y desternillante recopilación de aforismos de Ambrose Bierce.
Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City’smulti-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live.
An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down — and, despite the attackers’ efforts, it’s not Michael Bennett.
New York’s top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett’s children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise.
Bennett taps his best investigators and sources, and they fan out across the five boroughs. But the leads they’re chasing turn out to be phantoms. The assassin takes advantage of the chaos, enticing an officer into compromising Bennett, then luring another member of Bennett’s family into even graver danger.
Michael Bennett can’t tell what’s driving the assassin. But he can tell it’s personal, and that it’s part of something huge. Through twist after twist, he fights to understand exactly how he fits into the killer’s plan, before he becomes the ultimate victim.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with yet another explosive thriller, introducing the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first assignment.
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world… and then tragedy struck.
Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America 's shores. Stansfield directs his protégé, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command-men who do not exist.
What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.
Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesn't know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.
As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn's latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation's ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.
Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for the next war. The rise of Islamic terrorism is coming, and it needs to be met abroad before it reaches America's shores. Stansfield directs his protegee, Irene Kennedy, and his old Cold War colleague, Stan Hurley, to form a new group of clandestine operatives who will work outside the normal chain of command—men who do not exist.
What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Kennedy finds him in the wake of the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. Two-hundred and seventy souls perished that cold December night, and thousands of family and friends were left searching for comfort. Mitch Rapp was one of them, but he was not interested in comfort. He wanted retribution.
Six months of intense training has prepared him to bring the war to the enemy's doorstep, and he does so with brutal efficiency. Rapp starts in Istanbul, where he assassinates the Turkish arms dealer who sold the explosives used in the Pan Am attack. Rapp then moves onto Hamburg with his team and across Europe, leaving a trail of bodies. All roads lead to Beirut, though, and what Rapp doesn't know is that the enemy is aware of his existence and has prepared a trap. The hunter is about to become the hunted, and Rapp will need every ounce of skill and cunning if he is to survive the war-ravaged city and its various terrorist factions.
As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn's latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation's ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin.
