Cody Mcfadyen Libri

Smoky ricorda quella notte. L'orrore l'ha marcata con tinte indelebili e i sogni continuano a ravvivarne il ricordo. C'era lui quella notte in casa sua e dopo di lui tutto ciò che amava è morto. Suo marito, sua figlia. E dopo averle lacerato l'anima, il coltello che ha usato si è accanito anche sul suo volto, regalandole una maschera che non può più togliere. L'agente speciale Smoky Barrett non è ancora pronta a tornare al suo lavoro nell'FBI, prendere in mano la pistola sembra essere diventata la cosa più difficile al mondo. Le serve ancora tempo. Ma quel demone non ha intenzione di concederglielo, ha bisogno di lei per sentirsi vivo, e per il suo perfido e sofisticato gioco pretende il miglior avversario possibile. Sa che il solo modo per stanarla è ferirla ancora, colpirla lì dove è più vulnerabile, perché a quel punto l'istinto della caccia si risveglierà in lei. E la sfida sarà finalmente aperta.

FBI Agent Smoky Barrett and her team are called in by the Director himself to investigate a murder committed on a flight from Texas to Virginia. They find that they are dealing with a serial killer who has already struck a truly horrific number of times. He kills people with the deepest, darkest secrets and is using them to target and destroy his victims. The case is about to go public, with all the accelerated power of the internet behind it and public hysteria is not far behind. Smoky is under intense pressure to get results, yet the team has never been faced with such an apparently insoluble problem. Who will the next victim be? Everyone in the world has secrets. Even Smoky.

A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It's as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen's stunning debut SHADOW MAN. Now caring for her murdered friend's mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge...

"The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims "The Stranger" killed her adoptive family, that he's been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her. No one has. Until now." "Special Agent Smoky Barrett is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nation's elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they'll have to be to deal with this case." "For another vicious double homicide reveals a killer embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an "artist" who's molding sixteen-year-old Sarah into the perfect victim - and the ultimate weapon. But Smoky Barrett has another, more personal reason for catching The Stranger - an adopted daughter and a new life that are worth protecting at any cost." "This time Smoky is going to have to put it all on the line. Because The Stranger is all too real, all too close, and all too relentless. And when he finally shows his face, if she's not ready to confront her worst fear, Smoky won't have time to do anything but die."--Provided by publisher

A businessman who deals in revenge, in another shocking case for FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team

FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesn't know how to run - and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from high school has been brutally murdered, she finds herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her. Face to face.

Evolviere! – David starrt den Brief an, in dem nur dieses eine Wort steht, und schon kehren die grausamen Erinnerungen zurück: wie seine alleinstehende Mutter tödlich verunglückte, als er sechs Jahre alt war. Wie er zusammen mit zwei weiteren Kindern von einem Mann adoptiert wurde, den sie "Vater" nennen sollten. Wie dieser seine Adoptivkinder mit Brutalität und Grausamkeit dazu bewegen wollte, zu "evolvieren." Zwanzig Jahre später hat David sich zum angesehenen Schriftsteller entwickelt, doch die Schatten seiner Vergangenheit scheinen nicht ruhen zu wollen. Damals hatten die Kinder einhellig Vaters Tod beschlossen und sind ein großes Wagnis eingegangen. Hat Vater überlebt? Beginnt der Albtraum für David von Neuem?

Smoky Barrett ist zurück An einem kalten Oktobertag werden Smoky Barrett und ihr Team nach Denver, Colorado, gerufen. Im Haus der Familie Wilton ist Schreckliches geschehen: Die gesamte fünfköpfige Familie wurde ermordet, und der Täter hat durch eine mit Blut geschriebene Botschaft Smoky mit der Lösung des Falles beauftragt. Doch das Unheil ist weit größer, denn die Wiltons sind nicht die einzigen Opfer. Insgesamt drei Familien wurden in der gleichen Nacht und in unmittelbarer Nähe voneinander getötet. „Komm und lerne“, lautet die Botschaft an Smoky. Es wird ein grausamer Lernprozess, das Böse in seiner reinsten Form, in seiner tiefsten Abgründigkeit zu spüren. Smoky gelangt an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit. Und weit darüber hinaus. Nach Ausgelöscht und Das Böse in uns der neue Psychothriller aus der Smoky Barrett-Reihe von Cody Mcfadyen - Hochspannung mit Gänsehaut-Potenzial!.