fb2From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage and Leaving Berlin comes a riveting novel about two brothers bound by blood, divided by loyalty.
In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It’s a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank’s motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible.
And at first Frank is still Frank—the same charm, the same jokes, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for “the service.” He finds himself dragged into the middle of Frank’s new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat and mouse game that only one of the brothers is likely to survive.
Defectors is the gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it’s also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister. Filled with authentic period detail and moral ambiguity, Defectors takes us to the heart of a world of secrets, where no one can be trusted and murder is just collateral damage.
How hard could you fight?
Max’s recent radio communications weigh heavily on him. He has to decide if he’s going to venture out from the camp into the outside world. Learning what’s happening outside the hunting grounds could prove invaluable. But a dangerous journey into the unknown could be his last.
Georgia has finally recovered from her injuries. She quickly takes charge. She knows it’s not long before the next fight. They need to do everything they can to get ready. But what if the next threat arrives too early?
Art doesn’t recognize the man he’s become. He’s a soldier on the wrong side of it all. He does what he’s told. But is there anything he won’t do? He knows the consequences for disobeying direct orders. Will his conscience catch up with him?
Defending Camp is book 6 of The EMP, a post-apocalyptic survival thriller series. It deals with real people fighting for their survival every inch of the way.
El rico empresario Dinos Kustas, conocida figura de la noche ateniense y propietario de un lujoso restaurante y varios clubs nocturnos, es asesinado de madrugada.
Todo apunta a que ha sido víctima de un ajuste de cuentas de la mafia. Sin embargo, para el comisario Kostas Jaritos algo no encaja: cuatro disparos hechos casi a ciegas no parecen obra de un profesional. Cínico, escéptico y obstinado, el investigador recorre las calles de Atenas, corroída por los intereses internacionales y la delincuencia, en busca de respuestas.
Desde los bajos fondos hasta las altas esferas, Jaritos se adentrará en el lado más sórdido de la Grecia contemporánea, al tiempo que desvela un oscuro entramado de blanqueo de dinero y corrupción.
Temperance Brennan Book #1
The first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review) from the #1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs.
Her life is devoted to justice – even for those she never knew.
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Québec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern – and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her – her best friend and her own daughter – in mortal danger…
“A genius at building suspense” (Daily News, New York), Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan books are both “accomplished and chilling” (People) and “ripe with intricate settings and memorable characters” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
Deja Dead is the first novel by Kathy Reichs starring Temperance Brennan. It won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.The novel is set in Montreal, Quebec where a series of women are found brutally murdered.They are brutally hit on the head and their dead bodies are packed in plastic bags and buried.
Nada es nunca lo que parece. Y menos si David Gurney está involucrado.
Han pasado seis meses. David Gurney apenas ha conseguido reincorporarse a una cierta normalidad después de haberse encontrado al borde de la muerte tras resolver el caso más peligroso al que se había enfrentado. Madeleine, su esposa, está preocupada: ha sido diagnosticado con síndrome de estrés postraumático; nada parece alegrarle.
Hasta que recibe una llamada. Connie Clark, la periodista que creó la leyenda de superpoli, lo puso en la portada de una revista y lo catapultó a la fama, quiere pedirle ayuda. Su hija Kim está realizando un documental sobre las familias de las víctimas de un asesino en serie al que nunca atraparon, el Buen Pastor, y Connie quiere que Gurney supervise sus investigaciones y la guíe. En parte por aburrimiento y en parte por hacerle un favor a Connie, Gurney acepta.
Sin embargo, esto no será más que el principio. Incapaz de ponerle coto a su curiosidad y a su necesidad de resolver cada una de las incógnitas que se le presentan, David Gurney se verá arrastrado a una investigación para descubrir la verdadera identidad del asesino. Un asesino que es tan imprevisible como peligroso.
Si en Sé lo que estás pensando te asombró y en No abras los ojos te aterró, con Deja en paz al diablo, John Verdon consigue lo inesperado: sorprender al lector a cada página hasta dejarlo sin aliento.
As the former mistress of a notorious crime boss, Angelica Barnes struggles to lead a normal life – but it seems that every avenue she takes is filled with pain, mayhem, and danger.
Angelica Barnes has been released from prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, having served a five-year sentence for being complicit in the illegal activities of her ex-boyfriend, Robert Santiago. She's a convicted felon, and integrating back into society hasn't been easy – that is, until she accepts an offer she can't refuse and moves to New York City. But her hopeful dreams of a better life are shattered when she winds up having to fall back on her past life to make ends meet.
Unbeknownst to Angelica, an old foe sits in the shadows, choosing the right moment to reel her back into his grasp. Unable to defend herself, Angelica becomes a prisoner of her former life, but with the help of a friend, Angelica executes a daring escape to be free of her enemy forever. But will she ever really be free?
It is 2023. Scientist David Proctor is running for his life. On his trail is Saskia Brandt, a detective with the European FIB. She has questions. Questions about a bomb that exploded back in 2003. But someone is hunting her too. The clues are in the shattered memories of her previous life.
Déjà Vu takes the reader on a startling journey through a possible future, though digital minds, and through the consequences of the choices we make. It is the debut novel by Ian Hocking.
Literary awards: Red Adept Indie Awards winner for Science Fiction (2011)
Oskar, un niño solitario y triste que vive en los suburbios de Estocolmo, tiene una curiosa afición: le gusta coleccionar recortes de prensa sobre asesinatos violentos. No tiene amigos y sus compañeros de clase se mofan de él y le maltratan.
Una noche conoce a Eli, su nueva vecina, una misteriosa niña que nunca tiene frío, despide un olor extraño y suele ir acompañada de un hombre de aspecto siniestro. Oskar se siente fascinado por Eli y se hacen inseparables. Al mismo tiempo, una serie de crímenes y sucesos extraños hace sospechar a la policía local de la presencia de un asesino en serie. Nada más lejos de la realidad.
Dexter, przystojny i czarujący potwór, wciąż trzyma się swojej zasady: morduje tylko innych morderców. Nikt nie podejrzewa, że wzorowy pracownik policyjnego laboratorium nocami staje się katem twórczym wirtuozem zbrodni. Nikt, poza jednym wścibskim policjantem. Ciekawski sierżant to pierwszy problem naszego bohatera. Drugi to utalentowany rywal, przy którym metody pracy Dextera wydają się dziecinną zabawą…
Dexter, znany z Demonów dobrego Dextera uroczy potwór w ludzkiej skórze, w drugim thrillerze Jeffa Lindsaya wciąż trzyma się swojej zasady: zabija tylko innych seryjnych zabójców. Nikt nie podejrzewa, że wzorowy pracownik policyjnego laboratorium nocami staje się katem, który wymierza swoją sprawiedliwość. Nikt, poza jednym wścibskim policjantem. Tak, sierżant Doakes to pierwszy problem Dextera. Drugi: wyrafinowany morderca, przy którym "metody pracy” Dextera wydają się jemu samemu dziecinną zabawą. Ale najgorsze, że coś łączy te dwa problemy…
Один из участников онлайн-игры «Мир волшебников», Томас Геллерт, внезапно исчезает во время очередной игровой миссии. И хотя его персонаж остается онлайн в игре, самого Томаса как будто бы стерли с лица земли. Его последними словами в чате онлайн-игры были откровения, из которых следует, что наш мир – это виртуальный симулякр, подобный «матрице», и Томас только что был из него извлечен.
Боевая подруга Томаса, Мина Хинриксен, безуспешно пытается привлечь внимание органов правопорядка к исчезновению своего друга, но не в силах преодолеть рубежи полицейской бюрократии, поскольку обстоятельства преступления даже для нее самой выглядят как сюжет блокбастера братьев Вачовски. Единственная надежда Мины – это команда комиссара Айзенберга, занимающаяся расследованием преступлений в Интернете и являющаяся для полицейского департамента Берлина таким же странным недоразумением, как и случай с исчезновением Томаса.
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Undercover agent Callie Carpenter is closing in on her elusive target, but she needs one man: Jammer, aka Shane McMasters – her target's right-hand guy and (coincidentally) an über-hottie Callie can't resist. And she won't!
Callie's playing a dangerous game. She can be as irresistible and ruthless as her persona demands.
But inevitably, even the most sensual games – involving good wine, good food and great sex – must come to an end. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is an undercover seduction.with a delicious side of danger!
Puede que me conozcas como Meredith Nic Essus, princesa del reino de las Hadas. O quizás, como Merry Gentry, detective privado de Los Ángeles. Tanto en el Mundo de las Hadas como en el mundo de los mortales, mi vida es objeto de intrigas reales y dramas célebres. Entre los míos, me he enfrentado a enemigos terribles, soportado la traición y maldad de mi familia y cumplido con el deber de engendrar un heredero… todo por el derecho de reclamar el trono. Pero le he dado la espalda a la Corte y a la corona, eligiendo el exilio en el mundo de los humanos… y en brazos de mis amados Frost y Oscuridad.
Puede que haya rechazado la monarquía, pero no puedo abandonar a mi gente. Alguien está matando hadas, lo que tiene desconcertado al Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles y profundamente trastornados a mis guardias y a mí. Los de mi especie no son fáciles de matar o capturar… al menos, no por mortales. He de llegar al fondo de este espantoso asunto, aunque eso signifique enfrentarme a Gilda, el Hada Madrina, mi rival por la lealtad de las hadas de la ciudad de Los Ángeles.
Pero suceden las cosas más extrañas. Mortales a los que una vez sané usando la magia, de pronto obran milagros, un impactante fenómeno que siembra el caos en las relaciones entre humanos y hadas. Aunque yo soy inocente, soy sospechosa de realizar actividades mágicas ilícitas.
Creía que había dejado atrás la sangre y la política en mi turbulento reino. He soñado con llevar una vida idílica en la soleada ciudad de Los Ángeles al lado de mis amados. Pero ha llegado el momento de despertar y darme cuenta de que el mal no tiene fronteras y de que nadie vive para siempre… ni siquiera si son mágicos.
In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, the secrets of his past starkly revealed. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw – the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth – witnesses the murder of a mysterious man, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner in tow, begins to realise that there has to be another organization at work that rivals his own in secrecy…Meanwhile, half a world away, journalist Katie James is working on a story of international importance. But shortly after meeting with a potential inside source she is smuggled unconscious onto an aeroplane, headed to an undisclosed destination. In the days to come, Katie and Shaw will be reunited in a deadly dual of nerve and wits against a surprising, secretive enemy and lead around the world at a breakneck pace. Filled with the breathtaking plot turns and remarkable characters that only David Baldacci can deliver, this is the most explosive thriller of the year.
Released for the first time in trade paperback, this is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood.
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
A deadly battle for world supremacy… a planet poised on the brink of doom… a force that is the Earth’s last hope…
With the development of the world’s greatest fleet of super-stealth fighter craft and a crew of highly skilled pilots to fly them, the US Air Force believes it is invincible.
But that confidence is shattered when the best of their craft, Delta Green, disappears, leaving four dead bodies in its wake.
Certain that it has been hijacked, a team of sky-fighters led by Colonel Kevin “Snake Eyes” McKenna leap into action to prevent the war machine falling into the wrong hands.
Its awesome arsenal of weaponry has the power to bring the earth to the brink of disaster.
Annihilation is imminent unless the technological behemoth is stopped in time.
A battle in space rages as the world balances on the brink of calamity…
First published April 1st 1993