Hugo Kuipers Libri

Nel penitenziario di Cold Mountain, lungo lo stretto corridoio di celle noto come "Il Miglio Verde", i detenuti come lo psicopatico "Billy the Kid" Wharton o il demoniaco Eduard Delacroix aspettano di morire sulla sedia elettrica, sorvegliati a vista dalle guardie. Ma nessuno riesce a decifrare l'enigmatico sguardo di John Coffey, un nero gigantesco condannato a morte per aver violentato e ucciso due bambine. Coffey è un mostro dalle sembianze umane o un essere in qualche modo diverso da tutti gli altri?

Als een vriend hem wijst op een poort in de tijd naar 1958, krijgt een Amerikaanse leraar de kans om de geschiedenis te veranderen door de moord op Kennedy in 1963 te voorkomen.

Tijdens zijn nieuwe ambtstermijn ontdekt Jack Ryan dat het presidentschap er niet bepaald gemakkelijker op wordt: in de binnenlandse politiek wemelt het van de valkuilen; in Liberia is een revolutie gaande; de Aziatische economie raakt steeds verder in het slop; en uit Moskou komen verontrustende berichten over een mogelijke aanslag op de voorzitter van de SVR, de voormalige KGB. Een moordaanslag op hoog niveau in het toch al onstabiele Rusland, daar zit niemand op te wachten. Maar nog verontrustender is de mogelijke identiteit van de vermoedelijke daders. Zijn het politieke tegenstanders? Is het de maffia? Zijn het ontevreden ex-KGB-leden? Of - zo vraagt Ryan zich af - hebben we hier te maken met een veel acutere bedreiging? En hij heeft gelijk. Want nog voordat zijn beste spionnen, onder wie specialist geheime operaties John Clark, de kans hebben gehad de ware toedracht te achterhalen, treden er in China al krachten naar buiten die er angstwekkend extreme denkbeelden op nahouden. En als deze elementen erin zullen slagen hun ideeën te realiseren, dan zal de wereld voorgoed veranderen. Maar als ze falen... dan zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien.

Nel quarto romanzo del ciclo de La Torre Nera ritroviamo Roland di Gilead, Eddie, Susannah e Jake intrappolati in una carrozza di Blaine il Mono, il treno teleguidato dalla stessa intelligenza malefica che ha sterminato la cittadina di Lud. L'ultimo cavaliere si salva vincendo una sfi da davvero particolare... solo per ritrovarsi in un'America alternativa, spopolata da una misteriosa superinfl uenza. In un mondo che "va avanti" sempre più rovinosamente, è infatti facile sconfi nare in luoghi e tempi paralleli attraverso le sottilità, le insidiose porte per l'altrove via via più frequenti. Nello spiegare ai suoi compagni di avventura che cosa sia questo fenomeno, Roland è costretto a rituffarsi nel proprio lontanissimo passato e, in una notte che pare senza fine, narra la tragica storia di Susan Delgado, del loro amore immortale e di una sfera magica che sembra scaturita da un'antica leggenda...

Dopo che una gru si abbatte sul suo pickup, Edgar Freemantle deve far fronte a una vita diversa. Devastato nel fisico, e non solo, dapprima cerca di accoltellare la moglie e poi di strangolarla con la mano sinistra (l'altra mano l'ha persa, con tutto il braccio destro, nell'incidente). Apparentemente ristabilito, lascia le sue proprietà alle due figlie e alla moglie, che ha deciso di divorziare da lui, e si stabilisce su una solitaria e paradisiaca costa della Florida, Duma Key, dove affitta una grande villa rosa sulla spiaggia. Proprietaria di tutta la zona è l'anziana Elizabeth Eastlake, una signora non del tutto lucida che allerta subito Edgar di un grande pericolo che lo minaccia. Intanto Edgar si scopre una dote inaspettata di pittore: i quadri che comincia a dipingere, specie quando il braccio amputato gli procura delle sensazioni fantasma, rivelano un talento eccezionale, non solo dal punto di vista artistico... Proprio quando la sua vita sembra ricomporsi, anche grazie alla comprensione della ex moglie e al costante affetto delle figlie, che lo sostengono a distanza nella sua nuova attività artistica, il passato di Elizabeth viene a interferire violentemente con il presente di Edgar.

America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . . It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life . . . and perhaps his own.

Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he’s urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick’s help. His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She’s been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn’t meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she’ll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he’s become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who’s holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government. If he’s going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever…

Drie vrouwen, allen gestorven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden. Patholoog-anatoom Jack Stapleton staat voor een raadsel. De eerste vrouw overlijdt na een plotseling, ernstig zuurstoftekort. Het tweede slachtoffer is de partner van een Iraanse diplomaat bij de VN. Het lijkt in eerste instantie zelfmoord, maar Jack ontdekt dat het een moord betreft. De derde dode was een kerngezonde vrouw. Tijdens het winkelen is zij plotseling overleden aan een acute vernauwing van de kransslagader. Jack moet in de zaak van het eerste slachtoffer erachter komen of zijn zwager terecht beschuldigd wordt van medische fouten. Hij wordt hierbij van alle kanten tegengewerkt en bedreigd.