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'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer'A talented storyteller' The Times'A cinematic epic' Daily MailWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist... Antarctica.Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.Praise for Tom Rob Smith 'A remarkable achievement' Jeffery Deaver'Amazing' Lee Child'Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling' Mark Billingham'Truly original and chilling' Jojo Moyes'Tom Rob Smith's mastery of suspense will make any reader's heart pound' Financial Times'A thrilling, intense piece of fiction' Observer'Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story' New York Times'Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying' Daily Mail'A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat' Stylist'A powerful page-turner' GQ'Taut and atmospheric' Irish Independent'Masterly... read this and shiver' Telegraph

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From the bestselling author of Child 44, a virtuosic, highly-anticipated new novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors trying to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist . . . Antarctica. Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most inhospitable environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. While they cling to life on the ice, the vestiges of their past swept away, they must also confront the most urgent of challenges: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the cold? Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a truly masterful epic.

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From the bestselling author of Child 44 and The Farm, a gripping and emotional contemporary thriller about an unexpected romance between two people from very different worlds: one from the high-powered ranks of investment banking and the other from a hard partying world of clubbing and youthful excess. Danny—gregarious, hedonistic, and romantic—falls in love with the enigmatic and brilliant Alex. Then Alex disappears. When Danny finds Alex’s body, he is forced to pursue the truth behind his death. This volume of complete scripts is a brilliant companion to the award-winning BBC series.

From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

Unione Sovietica, 1956. Stalin è morto da tre anni quando il suo successore, Nikita Crushev, presenta alla nazione il famoso Rapporto Segreto che denuncia i crimini del dittatore. Subito si scatena la sete di vendetta contro chi aveva ciecamente eseguito gli ordini del partito e inizia la caccia alle streghe: gli eroi di un tempo, la stessa polizia, vengono marchiati come criminali e i criminali diventano vittime innocenti. La vita di molti continua ad essere in pericolo, compresa quella di Leo Demidov, l'ex agente della Sicurezza di Stato indimenticabile protagonista di Bambino 44. Tre anni prima ha compiuto un'impresa eroica per fermare un assassino, e come ricompensa ha ottenuto l'incarico di fondare a Mosca un Dipartimento Omicidi. Leo si sta impegnando duramente perchè sia fatta giustizia, e, al contempo, cerca di costruirsi una nuova vita con la moglie Raisa. Ma il suo passato lo ossessiona: non solo le due bambine che lui e Raisa hanno adottato gli rinfacciano il ruolo avuto nell'assassinio dei genitori naturali, c'è anche qualcuno che non è disposto a dimenticare, che cova un odio implacabile verso di lui e minaccia la sua famiglia. Qualcuno, a lui molto vicino, pronto a trasformarsi in un vendicatore senza pietà... La disperata missione personale di Leo per salvare la sua famiglia lo condurrà -in una drammatica escalation- dalle atrocità del più terribile gulag siberiano al turbolento sottobosco della malavita, per piombare poi in una Budapest messa a ferro e fuoco dalla sanguinosa rivolta ungherese. E in un inferno nel quale la redenzione è fragile come il vetro.