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Child 44 is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith, and features disgraced MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Stalin's Soviet Union.
The novel is based on real Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Rostov Ripper, who was responsible for 52 murders in communist Russia. In addition to highlighting the problem of Soviet-era criminality in a state where "there is no crime," the novel also explores the paranoia of the age, the education system, the secret police apparatus, orphanages, Homosexuality in the USSR and mental hospitals.
The book is the first part of a trilogy. The second part is called The Secret Speech and also features the character of Leo Demidov and his wife, Raisa.
Child 44 was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2009.
YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO MAKE A DECISION:
Let a kidnapper take your child, or watch your son die.
Choose!
Sadie O’Connell is a bestselling author and a proud mother. But her life is about to spiral out of control. After her six-year-old son Sam is kidnapped by a serial abductor, she nearly goes insane. But it isn’t just the fear and grief that is ripping her apart. It’s the guilt. Sadie is the only person who knows what the kidnapper looks like. And she can’t tell a soul. For if she does, her son will be sent back to her in “little bloody pieces”.
When Sadie’s unfaithful husband stumbles across her drawing of the kidnapper, he sets into play a series of horrific events that sends her hurtling over the edge. Sadie’s descent into alcoholism leads to strange apparitions and a face-to-face encounter with the monster who abducted her son—a man known only as… The Fog.
FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years he's been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he's returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest.
Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock the mystery of her troubled past. Instead, she is assailed by nightmares and the vision of a child who vanished from The Lodge years ago. And an FBI agent is trying to convince her that she isn't crazy but that she has a rare gift, a gift that could catch a killer.
Quentin knows that this is his last chance to solve a case that has become a dangerous obsession. But can he persuade Diana to help him, knowing what it could cost her? For something cold and dark and pure evil is stalking the grounds of The Lodge. Something Diana may not survive. Something Quentin never felt before: the chill of fear.
Jack Tannis es un veterano de la Guerra Fría, quien formó parte de una campaña para salvaguardar la tecnología militar de los Estados Unidos de aquellos que pretendían hacérsela llegar a sus enemigos, la Unión Soviética. David Harper, por otra parte, fue una vez identificado como el miembro vital de una tendenciosa conspiración que ambicionaba poner en aprietos a los Estados Unidos y a sus aliados. Aunque Tannis no estaba convencido de la culpabilidad de Harper, las pruebas eran difíciles de rebatir, por lo que Tannis mantuvo sus dudas para sí, y David Harper fue declarado traidor.
Décadas más tarde, Tannis se verá obligado a recordar el incidente cuando una misteriosa llamada, en nombre de Harper, le encamina hacia el Centro Naval de Armas en China Lake, donde descubrirá el cadáver de un refugiado político de la Alemania del Este, lo que le llevará a reabrir el caso Harper. Mientras tanto, David Harper, que anda forjándose una carrera como fotógrafo de la naturaleza, también tendrá que recordar el pasado de forma macabra, por lo que empezará a reconsiderar aquellas circunstancias que le llevaron a la desgracia.
Jack Tannis es un veterano de la Guerra Fría, quien formó parte de una campaña para salvaguardar la tecnología militar de los Estados Unidos de aquellos que pretendían hacérsela llegar a sus enemigos, la Unión Soviética. David Harper, por otra parte, fue una vez identificado como el miembro vital de una tendenciosa conspiración que ambicionaba poner en aprietos a los Estados Unidos y a sus aliados. Aunque Tannis no estaba convencido de la culpabilidad de Harper, las pruebas eran difíciles de rebatir, por lo que Tannis mantuvo sus dudas para sí, y David Harper fue declarado traidor.
Décadas más tarde, Tannis se verá obligado a recordar el incidente cuando una misteriosa llamada, en nombre de Harper, le encamina hacia el Centro Naval de Armas en China Lake, donde descubrirá el cadáver de un refugiado político de la Alemania del Este, lo que le llevará a reabrir el caso Harper. Mientras tanto, David Harper, que anda forjándose una carrera como fotógrafo de la naturaleza, también tendrá que recordar el pasado de forma macabra, por lo que empezará a reconsiderar aquellas circunstancias que le llevaron a la desgracia.
Brutalny zabójca zabija młode samotne kobiety przeprowadzając na nich zabieg wycięcia macicy bez znieczulenia. Policja ustala, że podobna seria zabójstw miała miejsce dwa lata wcześniej, a ich sprawca został zastrzelony przez doktor Cordell – jedyną ofiarę, której udało się ujść z życiem. Teraz znów czuje się zagrożona. Jej sprzymierzeńcem jest detektyw prowadzący śledztwo. Czy obie sprawy i obu zabójców coś łączy?
Chuck Chandler, a Key West tennis pro, tends to choke in his big matches, a tendency he must overcome when he meets Harry Carras and his beautiful wife Clare, and becomes a suspect in Harry's death.
The fight against terrorism has reached the next level — and now America will really go to war.
A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of Chinese ground troops move against a neighboring Muslim nation, while a provocation unleashes generations of pent-up violence between the mainland and Taiwan. With U.S. troops still on the ground in the Middle East and “Ganistan,” and an American president forced by rapidly unfolding events to make decisions on the fly, the most dangerous threat is the one no one sees.
For off the fog-shrouded coast of Washington State, a staggering attack will flood the Northwest with American refugees and force the bravest and the best of U.S. Special Forces under the toughest of the tough, General Douglas Freeman, into a pitched, desperate battle to find a shadow enemy — before he strikes the next terrifying blow against the United States.
Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and criminal psychologist Marina Esposito have just returned from their honeymoon and are spending the Easter weekend in Suffolk with their baby daughter Josephina and Phil's adoptive parents.
But their rural idyll is cruelly destroyed. After a devastating arson attack on the cottage, Josephina goes missing.
With Phil in a coma, Marina is alone when she receives the first phonecall.The kidnappers say that if Marina ever wants to see her daughter alive again, she has to do exactly what they say…
Stone Barrington and his friends are vacationing in Maine when their leisure is suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. To make matters worse, the inclement conditions allow for a menacing adversary to sneak in unnoticed and deliver a chilling message. Soon it becomes clear that the target of the incident is one of Stone’s closest companions, and that these enemies have a grander scheme in mind.
From the bustling streets of New York City to the sun-drenched shores of Key West, Stone intends to nab the criminals that appear behind him at every step. But his search only leads him further down a trail of peril and corruption, and he’ll soon find that at the end of the road is a more dangerous foe than he could have imagined...
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"Cielo Azul" – in Dangerous Women (2005); a Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb story (backstory to A Darkness More than Night)