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Tom Wood

    1 gennaio 1978

    Questo autore è noto per la sua avvincente esplorazione di temi che appaiono nella sua vasta serie e nelle opere autonome. Le sue narrazioni spesso approfondiscono intricati paesaggi psicologici e trame avvincenti. Si concentra su trame ricche di suspense e personaggi con cui il lettore può identificarsi, mantenendolo coinvolto. Le sue opere offrono una miscela unica di brivido e profonda indagine umana.

    Tom Wood
    The Final Hour
    Landscapes
    The Game
    Blood Debt
    La caccia
    Nemico
    • Victor ha un talento naturale per l'omicidio. Sicario abile e spietato si trova costretto a lavorare per conto di un misterioso agente della CIA: tre sconosciuti, tre colpi. Ma il lavoro non è veloce e pulito come avrebbe voluto. Man mano che il killer elimina le sue vittime, si rende conto che il gioco si fa sempre più complesso, intricato e letale. Nel suo mestiere non è sempre facile tracciare una linea netta tra nemici e alleati, ma Victor si accorge di essere nel mezzo di una guerra segreta, dove l'unica regola è l'assenza di regole. Non tarda a scoprire di essere uno strumento nelle mani di poteri più forti e, soprattutto, di essere lui stesso nel mirino: l'assassino perfetto è diventato il bersaglio perfetto. Con una donna da proteggere, accerchiato da agenti segreti del Mossad, potenti trafficanti di armi internazionali e squadre omicide al soldo di ignoti avversari, Victor sceglierà di non fidarsi più di nessuno. La posta in gioco si alza minuto dopo minuto.

      Nemico
      4,3
    • La caccia

      • 439pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      A hitman must be anonymous, amoral... and alone Victor is the face in the crowd you don't see, a perfect assassin with nothing to live for. But when an old friend turns to him for help, he finds he can't refuse. For once his objective isn't to kill, but to protect. Hunted through the streets of London by ruthless enemies, Victor needs to be more than just a bodyguard... but his every move leads danger closer to the very person he's vowed to defend.

      La caccia
      4,1
    • Blood Debt

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      The non-stop action-packed new Victor novel from bestseller Tom Wood, master of the assassin thriller.

      Blood Debt
      4,6
    • The Game

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Full of white-hot tension and edge-of-the-seat action, The Game confirms Tom Wood as the most talented British thriller writer today, and Victor as the most unique antihero.

      The Game
      4,4
    • Landscapes

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      These three volumes of Tom Wood’s new work, Landscapes, are drawn from the artist’s extensive unseen and unpublished landscape work. The first volume concentrates on Wood’s photographs made in response to the West of Ireland, County Mayo, the landscape of his birthplace and childhood and an area he has returned to as an artist almost every year since 1975. Taken over decades, views of this wild and remote landscape, many of them glimpsed from the car, bus or train during his journeys there, are combined with fragile fragments of surviving family photographs, video stills, and intimate and affectionate portraits of day-to-day life within a rural community. The second volume consists of Wood’s landscapes predominantly made within Merseyside, where he lived and worked for 25 years, from 1978–2003. In this more urban environment, his landscapes encompass pictures of people’s homes and gardens, parks, wastelands, and the river Mersey. Wood moved to Wales in 2003 to address what he has referred to as “the matter of landscape.” His open and experimental approach to photography means he is constantly pushing its formal and conceptual possibilities. Selected from the photographs he has been making in Wales, the third volume is the most formally abstract of the three books and includes many photographs taken with a panoramic camera — complex, optically rich pictures with multiple points of view and focus.

      Landscapes
      5,0
    • The Final Hour

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      AUTHOR OF THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB HIT BETTER OFF DEAD 'Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive' Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X From bestselling author Tom Wood comes a unique and gasp-inducing Victor thriller that turns all your expectations on their head . . . Former CIA agent Antonio Alvarez has been tracking a vicious murderer for years, a nameless hitman responsible for numerous homicides. Once, the Agency deflected him away from his search, but now promotion has given him a second chance to right the past. Only problem is, the killer has vanished. Thousands of miles away, the professional known as Victor has stopped working - recently he began to care; he made mistakes. But there's another assassin, Raven, who needs his help - and she is hard to refuse . . . Enter a world of betrayal, tension and twists perfect for fans of Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, The Nowhere Man), James Swallow (Nomad, Exile) and Terry Hayes (I Am Pilgrim, Day of the Locust). 'Great, page-turning stuff' James Swallow, author of Nomad and Exile 'Very Few British writers are as good at the action thriller' Sunday Express

      The Final Hour
      4,3
    • AUTHOR OF THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER BETTER OFF DEAD From hot thriller author Tom Wood comes the latest breathtaking Victor novel, The Day of the Jackal meets Jason Bourne, with a thoroughly modern twist. 'Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive' Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X Even a killer can be a hero If the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass, it is long since buried, along with his many victims. Yet some men are so evil even Victor accepts they must die for reasons other than just money. One such is Milan Rados, a former commander in the Serbian army who has escaped trial at The Hague to become a formidable criminal power. Tracking down and killing this brutal man will win Victor a reprieve for his own recent crimes on British soil. But Victor isn't the only one who wants Rados dead. A woman, whose family was butchered on the tyrant's orders, will do anything to see Rados' blood spilled on the snow of Eastern Europe. Now Victor has an unlikely ally - but an army stands between them and justice.

      Time to Die
      4,3
    • A Quiet Man

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      The action-packed, gripping, twisty new Victor thriller from Tom Wood is his best yet, and sees the mysterious assassin search for a missing mother and her child in a town full of secrets.

      A Quiet Man
      4,2
    • Traitor

      • 464pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      SOMEONE'S SET HIM UPSOMEONE'S GOING TO DIEWhen Victor is arrested for a murder that, for once, he didn't commit, escape must surely be inevitable for a hitman of his ferocity.Yet someone wants Victor put away, and he finds himself behind bars, incarcerated by police who have no idea of the monster they are dealing with and have, apparently, tamed.Quickly, however, his fellow the prisoners realise that he's not trapped in there with them: they are in a cage, with the most dangerous of enemies. And Victor has a traitor to find.

      Traitor
      4,2
    • Lethal assassin Victor lands in the middle of a Guatemalan cartel war in the latest nonstop thriller from the international bestselling author of The Final Hour. KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE... Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition: her sister. Heloise has been battling Maria for control of the cartel in an endless and bloody war. Now Victor decides who survives. An easy job if it weren't for the sudden target on his back. ...AND THEIR ENEMIES CLOSER. Victor's not the only one on the hunt. Someone else has Maria in the crosshairs and will do anything to get the kill. In the middle of cartel territory with enemies closing in from all sides, Victor must decide where to put the bullet before one is placed in his head....

      Kill for Me
      4,1