Sommer 2008. Hundert Jahre sind vergangen, seit in Sibirien eine verheerende Explosion stattgefunden hat. Viktoria Vandenberg versucht mit zwei anderen deutschen Forschern dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Hat es sich um den Einschlag eines Meteoriten gehandelt? Leo, ein junger Hirte, erzählt Viktoria von seiner neunzigjährigen Großmutter, deren Vater zu den ersten Wissenschaftlern vor Ort gehörte. Die Alte beschwört Viktoria, ihre Nachforschungen einzustellen: Geister, böse Schamanen seien am Werk. Als sämtliche Stromgeneratoren ausfallen, scheinen die Prophezeiungen in Erfüllung zu gehen, erst recht als eine Serie von geheimnisvollen Todesfällen über die Forschergruppe hereinbricht. Doch Viktoria gibt nicht auf. Sie begreift, dass Leo den Schlüssel zu einer Wahrheit besitzt, die weitaus unglaublicher erscheint als ein Meteoriteneinschlag.

Sidney Sheldon "Schatten der Macht,originaltitel "Memories of Midnight". Der Reederkönig Demiris ist einer der geschäftlich erfolgreichsten Männer Griechenlands. Reichtum und Macht bedeuten ihm alles, und, um sie zu erhalten und zu mehren, schreckt er weder vor Korruption noch vor Intrigen zurück. Als er durch Treulosigkeit seiner Mätresse in seiner Eitelkeit gekränkt wird, inszeniert er ein mörderisches Spiel, in dem Jäger und Gejagte zu Opfern werden.

Meet Sonny: a recent graduate of medical school, a man of tremendous sexual prowess, a good sport, fine raconteur, stalwart friend — and cold-blooded, expert killer. His assignment: to murder one of the most closely guarded of all world leaders. His employer: another head of state, driven by a thirst for vengeance.Pursuing Sonny are Scimitar’s two other unforgettable characters. One is a meek young clerk at the British embassy in New York who must investigate the random murders of British citizens in the city — random, that is, except for the small green scimitars tattooed on their chests. The other is an American woman who falls under Sonny’s sexual thrall — until she discovers what he really is.Once the identity of his target is revealed, we know that Sonny cannot ultimately succeed, yet the suspense remains nerve-tingling. For he is an assassin of incomparable cunning, and the plan he devises is so ingenious that we cannot imagine how it could fail. To whet your appetite, it involves an innocuous pesticide, a cross-country train trip with astonishing erotic repercussions, the seating plan in the Baroque Room of New York’s Plaza Hotel, and an out-of-order lavatory midway up the steps of the Statue of Liberty.Written with masterful skill, Scimitar bristles with shocks, surprises, and arcane knowledge of the killer’s craft. You will read it quickly, for its pace is compelling. But you will remember it always.

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For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME. Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crimes, and he's determined to bring the current murderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from years ago.With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search will lead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into the realm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But his quest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whose troubled past reflects his own. As Daniel becomes attached to Alex, he discovers that she is also the object of the obsessed murderer. Soon, he will not only be racing to discover the identity of this macabre criminal, but also to save the life of the woman he has begun to love.

Un hombre recibe una carta que le urge a pensar en un número, cualquiera. Cuando abre el pequeño sobre que acompaña al texto, siguiendo las instrucciones que figuran en la propia carta, se da cuenta de que el número allí escrito es exactamente en el que había pensado. David Gurney, un policía que después de 25 años de servicio se ha retirado al norte del Estado de Nueva York con su esposa, se verá involucrado en el caso cuando un conocido, el que ha recibido la carta, le pide ayuda para encontrar a su autor con urgencia. Pero lo que en principio parecía poco más que un chantaje se ha acabado convirtiendo en un caso de asesinato que además guarda relación con otros sucedidos en el pasado. Gurney deberá desentrañar el misterio de cómo este criminal parece capaz de leer la mente de sus víctimas en primer lugar, para poder llegar a establecer el patrón que le permita atraparlo.

To the public, Sir Maxwell Tarn is known as a powerful self-made billionaire. To British intelligence, he is known as an international arms-dealer. Spreading blood and terror, the Americans call him Apocalypse. To James Bond and his partner Flicka, he's a maniac who must be stopped-because within reunited Germany, an army of thousands knows him as "der Fuhrer."

The X-Files meets Indiana Jones in Search for the Buried Bomber, the first in Xu Lei’s Dark Prospects series of thrillers steeped in archaeological myths and government secrets. During China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an elite group of prospectors famous for their work uncovering rare minerals to the mountains of rural Inner Mongolia. Their assignment: to bring honor to their country by descending into a maze of dank caves to find and retrieve the remnants of a buried World War II bomber left by their Japanese enemies. How the aircraft ended up beneath thousands of feet of rock baffles the team, but they’ll soon encounter far more treacherous and equally inexplicable forces lurking in the shadows. Each step taken—and each life lost—brings them closer to a mind-bending truth that should never see the light of day. Pride sent them into the caves, but terror will drive them out. Through the eyes of one of the prospectors, bestselling Chinese author Xu Lei leads readers on a gripping and suspenseful journey.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1njhxNe3wM

Brand new stories by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta.Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. By the mid-50s, the town had added Boeing to its claim to fame, but was still a mostly blue-collar burg that was infamously described as 'a cultural dustbin' by the Seattle Symphony's first conductor. Present-day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and Starbucks. The city is famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theatre, and club scene that many would have thought improbable just a few decades ago. But some things never change – crime being one of them. Seattle's evolution to high-finance and high-tech has simply provided even greater opportunity and reward to those who might be ethically, morally, or economically challenged (crooks, in other words). But most crooks are just ordinary people, not professional thieves or crime bosses – they might be your pleasant neighbor, your wife or lover, your grocer or hairdresser, your minister or banker or lifelong friend – yet even the most upright and honest of them sometimes fall to temptation.Within the stories of Seattle Noir, you will find: a wealthy couple whose marriage is filled with not-so-quiet desperation; a credit card scam that goes over-limit; femmes fatales and hommes fatales; a delicatessen owner whose case is less than kosher; a famous midget actor whose movie roles begin to shrink when he starts growing taller; an ex-cop who learns too much; a group of mystery writers whose fiction causes friction; a Native American shaman caught in a web of secrets and tribal allegiances; sex, lies, and slippery slopes… and a cast of characters that always want more, not less… unless…

Lord Worth, ruthless and fabulously wealthy, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business. His new offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, named Seawitch, is one of the biggest in the world, and will put his competitors out of business. To destroy it and therefore be able to inflate the price of oil at will, the competitors get together and send one man to deal with Lord Worth. The villain has a personal score to settle with Worth and kidnaps him and his daughters. Fortunately for Lord Worth, his two daughters are betrothed to the protagonists, Mitchell and Roomer, two former police detectives/now private investigators. They set trying to save Worth and his daughters from certain death, as the villain intends to leave them on Seawitch when he destroys it with a stolen nuclear weapon.

The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep…She loves her husband.       She’s obsessed by a stranger.She’s a devoted mother.       She’s prepared to lose everything.She knows what she’s doing.       She’s out of control.She’s innocent.       She’s guilty as sin.She’s living two lives.       She might lose both.

Lee Child's Reacher series (15 books in all) is a thundering force among modern thrillers. For the uninitiated, it follows the stoic, hulking, and streetwise Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who's now a drifter with a vast capacity for protective and retributive violence. The short story "Second Son" is a snapshot of the life of Reacher and his family circa 1974, while they're stationed on a military base in Okinawa. Upon arriving they immediately get into deep trouble that's compounded by some bad news. For those new to Child's writing, the action is interspersed with contemplative moments, such as when Jack's grandfather, a prosthetic-limb maker in Paris, recounts that "… a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves." This tightly constructed story pulls readers right to the end and is sure to find new fans for the series. -Paul Diamond

The next gripping, high-stakes thriller following Target Omega, in which special operator Mike Garin faces off against a lethal Russian assassin—and a devious plot to wreak chaos in America.Within mere weeks of thwarting a cataclysmic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the United States, Michael Garin, former leader of the elite Omega special operations unit, discovers that Russia has triggered an ingenious and catastrophic backup plan. Garin’s efforts to warn the administration of the new attack, however, fall on deaf ears. No one can believe that the Russians would initiate another strike of such magnitude so soon.Alone again, Garin turns to three people for help: Congo Knox, a former Delta Force sniper; Dan Dwyer, the head of a sprawling military contracting firm; and Olivia Perry, an aide to the national security advisor. Yet Garin and his ad hoc team are checked at every turn by the formidable Russian assassin, Taras Bor, who is directed by an individual seemingly able to manipulate the highest reaches of the US government.As evidence mounts that the Russian plot has been set in motion and that Bor is pivotal to its success, it’s up to Garin and his team to thwart an attack that will cause the death of millions and establish a new world order.