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Christopher Brookmyre

    6 settembre 1968

    Christopher Brookmyre è un romanziere scozzese le cui opere intrecciano magistralmente politica, commento sociale e azione con un forte stile narrativo. La sua scrittura è spesso associata al genere Tartan Noir. Brookmyre è noto per il suo approccio unico al genere, dove profonde sfumature sociali e riflessioni politiche guidano trame avvincenti. I suoi romanzi offrono ai lettori un'accattivante miscela di umorismo intelligente e temi che fanno riflettere.

    One fine day in the middle of the night
    Want you gone
    A Snowball In Hell
    Flesh Wounds
    Il paese della menzogna
    La magica arte del furto
    • La magica arte del furto

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Il luogo d’incontro è la più grande banca di Scozia, piena di ostaggi e di rapinatori armati; e gli occhi sono l’unica parte di lui che lei riesce a vedere sotto la maschera. Lei è Angelique De Xavia, l’agente dei reparti speciali che viene messo in campo per le missioni impossibili. E lui, la mente che c’è dietro a tutto questo. L’inafferrabile genio del furto surreale. Il re della rapina dadaista. Come altro definire quelle coreografiche danze con cui cinque uomini vestiti da clown sono penetrati nella Great Northern Bank di Glasgow? O i metodi improbabili e raffinati con cui stanno intrattenendo gli ostaggi? Tutta l’arte di Zal si fonda sulla potenza dell’illusione, la capacità di sorprendere le aspettative degli avversari con stupefacenti diversivi. Angelique di lui sa solo il nome. Il suo unico scopo è dargli la caccia fino alla morte. Sempre che prima non sia il fascino di lui a catturare lei... Ci sono rischi che Zal può correre senza compromettere il suo obiettivo finale. Che è molto più ampio di quella banca. Forse tentare di sedurre Angelique è solo una manovra di depistaggio. Ma è una manovra i cui effetti non possono essere del tutto calcolabili. Il momento di scoprire le carte si avvicina. Angelique è sulle sue tracce. La polizia in stato di allerta. I maghi sul palcoscenico. Tutto è pronto per la rapina del secolo. Una scatola magica piena di sorprese che si dipanano con la precisione di un thriller d’azione da megaproduzione, in cui tra un colpo di scena e l’altro si alternano spettacolari rapine e seducenti illusioni. Ironico, lucidamente tagliente, ben congegnato e… decisamente romantico!

      La magica arte del furto
    • Flesh Wounds

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him.

      Flesh Wounds
    • A Snowball In Hell

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      He's alive. Simon Darcourt, professional assassin par excellence, only now behaving more like an amateur serial killer with attitude. And it's up to Angelique De Xavier to bring his particular brand of mayhem to a halt.

      A Snowball In Hell
    • Want you gone

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      The eighth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. The award-winning, million-selling author of Black Widow brings a twist-filled story of secrets and lies. What if your deepest secret was revealed? Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her. Who would you turn to? Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything. What would you be capable of? Thrown together by a vindictive and mysterious mutual enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they might be each other's only hope.

      Want you gone
    • Gavin is creating a unique 'holiday experience', every facility any tourist who hates abroad will ever want, will all be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. To test the facilities he's hosting a reunion for his old school (none of his ex-classmates can remember him, but what the heck, it's free). He is so busy showing off that he doesn't notice that another group have invited themselves along -- a collection of terrorist mercenaries who are occasionally of more danger to themselves than to the public. And they in turn are unaware that Inspector MacGregor has got wind of their activities. Within twenty-four hours Gavin's dream has blown to the four winds, along with a lot of other things. Fast, rabidly funny, and seriously over the top.

      One fine day in the middle of the night
    • Dead Girl Walking

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      The sixth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession. Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers the hidden price of fame. From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in on him...

      Dead Girl Walking
    • Black widow

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing' Ian Rankin *****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year***** *****WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Novel of the Year***** Twists abound in the brilliant new psychological thriller from master author Chris Brookmyre - perfect for readers of The Girl on the Train, I See You and Disclaimer. Did she do it? Did he deserve it? Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing. Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she's been waiting for. Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairytale romance. But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairytales, and tasks maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling Black Widow... 'Black Widow is a stand-out thriller' Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer

      Black widow