Jan Mellema Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Een laatste klus voor Evan 'Nowhere Man' Smoak. Vroeger was hij Orphan X – een geheim agent die moordaanslagen pleegde namens een overheid die zijn bestaan ontkende – maar dat leven ligt voorgoed achter hem. Nu helpt Evan Smoak als de "Nowhere Man' iedereen die in de problemen zit en zich tot niemand anders kan wenden. Het is een zelfopgelegde boetedoening die van de kille moordenaar langzaam maar zeker weer een man met een geweten heeft gemaakt, waardoor hij begint te geloven dat een normaal leven mogelijk is. En dus neemt Evan een besluit. Nog één keer zal hij iemand van dienst zijn die zijn hulp nodig heeft, maar daarna zal de Nowhere Man ophouden te bestaan. Een allerlaatste klus. Alleen zou deze hem weleens fataal kunnen worden….

Het lichaam onder water zinkt snel. Het zal vele jaren stil en ongestoord blijven liggen, maar op het land begint de nachtmerrie pas net. Wanneer inspecteur Erika Foster een tip krijgt dat er bewijsmateriaal voor een grote narcoticazaak verstopt ligt in een ongebruikte groeve in een buitenwijk van Londen, gaat ze direct tot een zoekactie over. In de dikke modder worden inderdaad drugs gevonden, maar ook het skelet van een kind. De overblijfselen worden snel geïdentificeerd als de elfjarige Jessica Collins: het vermiste meisje dat zesentwintig jaar geleden overal in het nieuws was. Om het verband tussen de nieuwe en de oude zaak te vinden, moet Erika dieper graven en meer zien te ontdekken over de uiteengevallen familie Collins en de oude inspecteur die destijds op deze zaak was gezet: een vrouw die nog altijd wordt geplaagd door het trauma van de onopgeloste moord. Al snel realiseert Erika zich dat iemand niet wil dat deze zaak ooit wordt opgelost, en dat die persoon er alles aan doet om te voorkomen dat Erika de waarheid achterhaalt. Is de dader dichter bij dan ze denkt?

Knox presents the city as pungently and uncompromisingly as Ian Rankin does Edinburgh Guardian

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group—Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it’s different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West.Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play—forces that can be traced to Washington itself.

When Colorado carpenter Grady Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Grady, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Grady and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here an innocent man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all… At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend, Samantha, and his life. One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and there’s even a chance of getting Samantha back in his life. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive in the mail—a heart pendant, a box of Valentine candy hearts. And, most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video accompanied by a chilling message: Your heart belongs to me. In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She’s the spitting image of the twenty-eight-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest. And she’s come to take it back.

A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and The Good Guy

Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds. He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days. Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing Prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...

No ordinary cop, he's never happier than when he's working undercover, consorting with criminals and fighting to bring them to justice. What they cannot know is that their enquiries will take them both into the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs - and one of them into the rifle sights of the enemy.