Peter Leonard showed remarkable maturity for a first-time novelist in Quiver, his debut novel. In Trust Me, he reaches for new heights as he crafts a classic noir thriller loaded with double- and triplecrosses. The first mistake Karen Delaney made was entrusting $300,000 to her boyfriend, Samir, the head of an illegal bookmaking operation. The second was breaking up with him because Samir holds a $300,000 grudge. Months later, Karen sees an opportunity when two thieves break into her house in the middle of the night. She proposes a scheme to Samir's safe. But almost immediately Karen realizes she's in over her head as things begin to spin out of control.Trust Me moves at breakneck speed through the affluent suburbs of Detroit and Chicago as Karen is pursued by O'Clair, an over-the- hill heavy who works for Samir and wants the money for his own retirement; by Ricky, Samir's nephew who sees the money as a way to pay off his own massive gambling debts; by the thieves who've been double-crossed; and by two ruthless hit men who view the money as their stake in the American dream.

Короткая строка кода на экране компьютера, который случайно обнаруживает Алекс Пейтон, оказывается номером банковского счета еврейской семьи, открытым в начале Второй мировой войны. Эта находка круто меняет жизнь Алекс. Загадочный счет является опекунским, поэтому нацисты не смогли узнать фамилию настоящего владельца денег. Находясь более полувека в швейцарском банке, счет вырос до огромной суммы.В поисках ключей к разгадке судьбы еврейской семьи Алекс окунается в пучину коррупции и предательства. С каждым шагом расследования она, сама того не ведая, подвергает себя и наследников опасности — опасности раскрыть тайну, которая может стоить жизни.

Короткая строка кода на экране компьютера, который случайно обнаруживает Алекс Пейтон, оказывается номером банковского счета еврейской семьи, открытым в начале Второй мировой войны. Эта находка круто меняет жизнь Алекс. Загадочный счет является опекунским, поэтому нацисты не смогли узнать фамилию настоящего владельца денег. Находясь более полувека в швейцарском банке, счет вырос до огромной суммы.В поисках ключей к разгадке судьбы еврейской семьи Алекс окунается в пучину коррупции и предательства. С каждым шагом расследования она, сама того не ведая, подвергает себя и наследников опасности — опасности раскрыть тайну, которая может стоить жизни.

After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He’s found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when Claire’s newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor’s newly peaceful life is shattered as he tries to find out why.Chasing Claire’s leads, Trevor unearths evidence of a shocking secret that-if it actually exists-every government and terrorist organization around the world would do anything to possess. Suddenly it’s up to Trevor, along with a teenage genius who gives new meaning to the phrase “too smart for his own good,” to make sure that secret doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. But Trevor is about to discover that good and evil can look a lot alike, and nothing is ever black and white: not even the truth.

Jeannie Ferrami, psycholog prowadząca na Jones Falls University badania naukowe w dziedzinie genetyki, dokonuje zaskakującego odkrycia. Przeglądając bazy danych, natrafia na parę jednojajowych bliżniaków, urodzonych w odstępie kilku tygodni przez dwie różne matki. Jeden z nich jest odsiadującym wyrok mordercą i sadystą, drugi Steven Logan, sprawia wrażenie wzorowego obywatela. Nieoczekiwanie Steven zostaje oskarżony o brutalny gwałt, zeznania ofiary nie pozostawiają wątpliwości, że to on jest sprawcą przestępstwa. Przekonana o niewinności Stevena Jeannie podjmuje wysiłki, by rozwiązać zagadkę i oczyścić go z zarzutów. Poszukiwania naprowadzają ją na ślad tajnych eksperymentów medycznych z okresu "zimnej wojny". W eksperymenty zamieszane są bardzo wpływowe osoby, a nawet jej sponsor na uniwersytecie. Gra toczy się o wysoką stawkę: miliony dolarów i ambicje prawicowych polityków, którzy pragną przywrócić "integralność rasową" Ameryki. Czy Jeannie uda się odnaleźć trzeciego bliźniaka – klucz do wyjaśnienia tajemnicy – zanim padnie sama ofiarą zabójcy?

Strzelanina w szkole podstawowej w spokojnym miasteczku w Oregonie. Są zabici i ranni. Mieszkańcy żądają najwyższej kary dla oskarżonego. Rainie Conner, policjantka prowadząca śledztwo, podejrzewa jednak, że prawdziwym zabójcą jest ktoś inny. Ale nie wie, że morderca wciąż krąży w pobliżu. I że jest coraz bliżej swojej następnej ofiary…

Porucznik Lindsay Boxer, kierująca wydziałem zabójstw w San Francisco, jest przypadkowym świadkiem eksplozji bomby w willi magnata przemysłowego Mortona Lightowera. Z poświęceniem ratuje kilkuletniego chłopca ze zgliszcz domu. Kilka dni później ma miejsce kolejne zabójstwo przemysłowca, tym razem przy pomocy potężnej trucizny. Do serii zbrodni przyznaje się w e-mailu wysłanym do przyjaciółki Lindsay, reporterki San Francisco Chronicle, grupa lub osoba podpisana jako August Spies (czyli?Sierpniowi Szpiedzy"). Ogłasza, iż prowadzi wojnę przeciw?chciwym i skorumpowanym" i co trzy dni będzie zabijał kolejne osoby. Ponieważ w mieście ma wkrótce odbyć się szczyt G-8, cała sprawa nabiera szczególnej rangi. Tropy zamachowców prowadzą Lindsay i FBI do środowiska uniwersyteckiego Berkeley, ośrodka radykałów z lat 60., oraz ekscentrycznego profesora Rogera Lemouza, eksperta od spraw globalizacji. Kiedy z ręki tajemniczego Augusta Spiesa ginie najbliższa przyjaciółka Lindsay, trzy kobiety tworzące nieoficjalną grupę dochodzeniową (policjantka, lekarz sądowy i reporterka) poprzysięgają mu zemstę…

Swashbuckling counter Spy Alex Hawke returns in New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell's most explosive tale of international suspense to date.There dwells, somewhere in Russia, a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is only speculated upon, only whispered about in American corridors of power and CIA strategy meetings. Though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings – and pulling them hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever thought possible.The Russians have their finger on the switch to the European economy and an eye on the American jugular. And, most importantly, they want to be made whole again. Should America interfere with Russia's plans to "reintegrate" her rogue states, well then, America will pay in blood.In Ted Bell's latest pulse-pounding and action-packed tour de force, Alex Hawke must face a global nightmare of epic proportions. As this political crisis plays out, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, but a new tsar, a signal to the world that the old, imperial Russia is back and plans to have her day. And in America, a mysterious killer, known only as Happy the Baker, brutally murders an innocent family and literally flattens the small Midwestern town they once called home. Just a taste, according to the new tsar, of what will happen if America does not back down. Onto this stage must step Alex Hawke, espionage agent extraordinaire and the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the absolute madness borne and bred inside the modern police state of Vladimir Putin's 'New Russia'.

Swashbuckling counter Spy Alex Hawke returns in New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell's most explosive tale of international suspense to date.There dwells, somewhere in Russia, a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is only speculated upon, only whispered about in American corridors of power and CIA strategy meetings. Though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings – and pulling them hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever thought possible.The Russians have their finger on the switch to the European economy and an eye on the American jugular. And, most importantly, they want to be made whole again. Should America interfere with Russia's plans to "reintegrate" her rogue states, well then, America will pay in blood.In Ted Bell's latest pulse-pounding and action-packed tour de force, Alex Hawke must face a global nightmare of epic proportions. As this political crisis plays out, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, but a new tsar, a signal to the world that the old, imperial Russia is back and plans to have her day. And in America, a mysterious killer, known only as Happy the Baker, brutally murders an innocent family and literally flattens the small Midwestern town they once called home. Just a taste, according to the new tsar, of what will happen if America does not back down. Onto this stage must step Alex Hawke, espionage agent extraordinaire and the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the absolute madness borne and bred inside the modern police state of Vladimir Putin's 'New Russia'.

They’d thought that violence would protect them during the brief period before other people obligingly died off, like some disaster novel; then they’d inherit the earth. Allison knew better, had known it since Bert had shot the driver of the Trans Am: the violence would never stop.

See the two sides of humanity that arise when disaster occurs: humanitarian and power-grabber.

Solar flares have been erupting with unusual violence and frequency on the surface of the sun. With the ozone reduced by at least fifty per cent, ultraviolet radiation was penetrating the atmosphere.

It burned into the cells of plants and animals; crops were withering, and livestock was going blind. Humans could scarcely venture outside in daylight without eye protection, and light-skinned people needed sunblock cream on exposed skin, or they would start to burn in less than a minute.

Existing in this new world are Don Kennard, his wife Kirstie, and Robert Anthony Allison, a big time movie director. Don is in a research submersible when a tsunami passes over him toward the west coast of the US, targeted directly at San Francisco's bay area, where Kirstie is working.

Patchy communication on shortwave radios gives San Francisco some time to get residents to higher ground. Power, which was already rationed, and water along with other necessities previously provided by the city are badly damaged and the people are just trying to survive.

Follow the Kennards and Allison as they try to figure out how to survive in the broken infrastructure of the disaster zone that has become the world.

«No debería contar nunca nada», empieza por decir el narrador de esta historia, Jaime o Jacobo o Jacques Deza.Y sin embargo su tarea va a ser la contraria, contarlo todo, hasta lo aún no sucedido, al ser contratado por un grupo sin nombre que durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial creó el M16, el Servicio Secreto británico, y que aún funciona hoy en día de manera tal vez degradada, o acaso ya bajo diferente auspicios.El protagonista regresa a Inglaterra, en cuya Universidad de Oxford había enseñado muchos años atrás, «por no se seguir cerca de mi mujer mientras ella se me alejaba». Y allí descubre que, según Sir Peter Wheeler, viejo profesor retirado «con demasiados recuerdos», él también pertenece al reducido grupo de personas que posee un «don» o maldición: el de ver lo que la gente hará en el futuro, el de conocer hoy cómo será sus rostros mañana, el de saber quiénes nos traicionarán o nos serán leales.

«Ojalá nunca nadie nos pidiera nada, ni casi nos preguntara, ningún consejo ni favor ni préstamo, ni el de la atención siquiera… Ojalá nadie se nos acercara a decirnos "Por favor", u "Oye, ¿tú sabes?", "Oye, ¿tú podrías decirme?", "Oye, es que quiero pedirte: una recomendación, un dato, un parecer, una mano, dinero, una intercesión, o consuelo, una gracia, que me guardes este secreto o que cambies por mí y seas otro, o que por mí traiciones y mientas o calles y así me salves".»Así comienza Baile y sueño, el segundo y penúltimo volumen de Tu rostro mañana, probablemente la obra cumbre novelística de Javier Marías. En él se nos sigue contando la historia, iniciada en Fiebre y lanza, de Jaime o Jacobo o Jacques Deza, español al servicio de un grupo sin nombre, dependiente del MI6 o Servicio Secreto británico, cuya tarea y «don» es ver lo que la gente hará en el futuro, o conocer hoy cómo serán sus rostros mañana.Baile y sueño nos abisma una vez más en la embrujadora prosa de su autor y nos lleva a meditar sobre tantas cosas que creemos hacer «sin querer», incluidas las más violentas, y que por eso acabamos por convencernos de que «apenas si cuentan» y aun de que nunca se hicieran.

The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat?DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity. Robert Poole. Jack of all trades and master conman. The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole's victims they encounter . . . and the more motives they uncover for his murder. But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle?And when the past returns to haunt Frieda's present, she finds herself in danger. Whoever set out to destroy Poole also seems determined to destroy Frieda Klein.Sometimes the mind is a dangerous place to hide.

Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer hero of The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respected doctor who saved Penn's life in a hiking accident when they were boys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. When the nude body of a young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked – but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder.On the surface, Kate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, she'd been accepted to Harvard and carried the hope and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life – one about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his instinct and agrees. Yet before he can begin, both men are drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence. Drew reacts like anything but an innocent man, and Penn finds himself doubting his friend's motives and searching for a path out of harm's way.More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi. At Shad's order, Drew is jailed, the police cease hunting Kate's killer, and Penn realizes that only by finding Kate's murderer himself can he save his friend's life.With his daughter's babysitter as his guide, Penn penetrates the secret world of St. Stephen's, a place that parents never see, where reality veers so radically from appearance that Penn risks losing his own moral compass. St. Stephen's is a dark mirror of the adult world, one populated by steroid-crazed jocks, girls desperate for attention, jaded teens flirting with nihilism, and hidden among them all – one true psychopath. It is Penn's journey into the heart of his alma mater that gives Turning Angel its hypnotic power, for on that journey he finds that the intersection of the adult and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth behind Kate Townsend's death, his quiet Southern town will never be the same.

Los ordenadores de la librería donde trabaja Woody no funcionan correctamente, aparecen errores en los catálogos y los pedidos desaparecen sin dejar rastro. La muerte por atropello de un empleado marca el inicio de la debacle: un dependiente acusa a otro de acoso sexual; otro pierde la habilidad de leer; los monitores de seguridad muestran cosas que se arrastran entre las estanterías y desaparecen antes de que nadie pueda encontrarlas…Los húmedos y silenciosos seres que han estado merodeando en el sótano pueden ser lentos, pero son inexorables. Esta librería no es un refugio. Es la puerta hacia un infierno como no hay otro igual.Ramsey Campbell es el maestro de la novela psicológica, por encima de Stephen King, y su talento para transmitir lo más enrevesado de la mente humana no tiene parangón en la narrativa moderna. Sus novelas han sido adaptadas a la gran pantalla en dos ocasiones: Los sin nombre de Jaume Balagueró y El segundo nombre de Francisco Plaza.