Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair. But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentor's manipulation . . . even as the stakes are being raised to far more perilous heights.
From the highly acclaimed international bestselling author Glenn Meade comes a riveting and spellbinding new thriller. In Berlin a political activist is gunned down in the street. In Paraguay a smuggler is killed in a hit-and-run. And then an elderly German businessman puts a gun in his mouth in his luxurious South American mansion. Joseph Volkmann, a member of an elite European security force, finds himself drawn into the mystery of the brutal deaths, investigating a link between the seemingly random cases that cost the journalist who connected them his life.For Volkmann a painful journey lies ahead, leading him from barren Mexican ranches to Italian ports and abandoned German monestaries, a journey that will force him to confront his own ghosts and a people he has long mistrusted. At first Volkmann has little to go on-only an inconclusive taped conversation and the charred remains of an old, torn black-and-white photograph that may hold the key to a momentous, horrific plan promising to turn the clock of European history back half a century. What makes this plan all the more terrifying is that it may reflect actual events unfolding today.Heralded by critics and fans as the next Robert Ludlum or Frederick Forsyth, Glenn Meade has done it again with Brandenburg–a sizzling read, packed with action, great characters, and an engaging story.
Doctor Eric Kensing is living in fear that he is about to be indicted for the death of a patient. That patient was his boss, Tim Markham. But Kensing and Markham aren't just connected by work - Kensing's wife is one of Markham's many lovers. It's not looking good for Kensing, so he enlists the help of lawyer Dismas Hardy. Some say Kensing is not worth saving, although others say that Kensing is a special doctor, prepared to do anything to save a patient's life, even defying proper medical procedure. Despite all the damning evidence, Hardy becomes increasingly sure that Kensing is innocent. Against mounting pressure for an arrest, Hardy knows that the only way to save Kensing is to find the real murderer. And like Kensing, he seems to be working within a system that is set up to thwart him and any attempt at real justice...
Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry's tail. And then there's the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they're in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense...unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.
An American journalist arrives in present-day Moscow to investigate his father's suicide in 1953. But his father was involved with a CIA mission so sensitive that both the American and Russians will do anything to keep its details secret. From the author of BRANDENBURG.
In 1943, America thought it had rounded up all the German spies on its soil. Now Germany's greatest weapon - a woman with special talents, both for tradecraft and for death - is headed home with critical information about the still-developing atomic bomb, and the Allies chief hope for stopping her is a British agent with agendas of his own. Originally recruited into MI5 to pose as a double agent, he's been telling Germans that he'd do anything to free his wife, a prisoner of a German concentration camp in occupied Poland. This happens to be true. The question is: how much would he really do to set her free? Where are his loyalties exactly?As the two spies play cat-and-mouse across three countries, the ambiguities deepen, each figure showing new sides, each action providing new twists, until at last both agents are swept into a series of climaxes as breathtakingly unpredictable as they are inevitable.
Een jaar nadat hij zich teruggetrokken heeft uit de advocatuur, wordt een succesvol advocaat gevraagd op te treden als speciale aanklager in een zaak tegen een collega.
Een goudschat in een gezonken kruiser lokt een machtige wapenhandelaar, die bij zijn louche deals wordt gesteund door enkele Amerikaanse regeringsfunctionarissen.
«Se esiste una storia adatta a una notte senza luna, mentre ulula il vento e dal buio giunge uno scricchiolio, eccola.» In una sonnolenta cittadina universitaria, un serial killer semina il terrore con la scomparsa di tre ragazze. La polizia e i cittadini sono impotenti di fronte a questa catena di delitti. Inizialmente, i sospetti ricadono su estranei e un gruppo di attivisti politici, ma quando queste piste si esauriscono, la paura e la diffidenza invadono la comunità, come un morbo misterioso. Ognuno inizia a sospettare del vicino, scatenando un'autentica isteria. Nessuno è al sicuro: il rispettabile direttore del giornale, il poliziotto con un'amicizia inopportuna, il farmacista zelante, il parrucchiere alla moda, l'ambizioso preside e persino il narratore, un professore che ospita giovani studentesse. Con l'incubo che si diffonde, tutti sospettano di tutti, e qualcuno inizia a pensare alla giustizia fai-da-te. Questo romanzo ha entusiasmato Stephen King, che lo ha collocato tra i grandi della letteratura americana, definendolo un'opera con una prosa surreale e un intreccio robusto, capace di toccare profondamente i sentimenti dei lettori. Un libro ricco, spaventoso e pienamente soddisfacente.
Un thriller e una storia d'amore. Siamo nel 1876 a Wigan, la più famosa miniera nel nord dell'Inghilterra. A Jonathan Blair, un avventuriero appena rientrato dall'Africa, viene chiesto di indagare sulla misteriosa scomparsa di un giovane, promesso sposo della figlia del potente vescovo locale. Scomparsa o delitto? Blair è convinto che il fatto sia legato all'ossessione di quel giovane per Rose, una delle molte ragazze che lavorano in miniera. Ma la sua indagine lo porta in realtà a scoprire i misteri di una città piena di odi e risentimenti, e di nemici che lo minacciano, e... incontro a Rose, al suo fascino pericoloso.
Het begint in 1957. Een zesjarig jongetje speelt tijdens een stortbui met een papieren bootje in de goot. Plotseling verdwijnt het bootje in een kuil. Als het jongetje op zijn knieën valt en in het donkere gat tuurt, staren een paar felgele ogen hem aan... Meer dan twintig jaar later slaan twee jongens op straat een man meedogenloos in elkaar en gooien hem in het water. Hun slachtoffer wordt door een clown uit het water gehaald, maar het lijkt alsof de clown zijn tanden zet in de oksel van de man... En dit is nog maar het begin van een reeks onverklaarbare, angstaanjagende gebeurtenissen die het plaatsje Derry plotseling teisteren...
L'errore di un computer, l'incoscienza di pochi uomini e si scatena la fine del mondo. Il morbo sfuggito a un segretissimo laboratorio semina morte e terrore. Il novantanove per cento della popolazione della terra non sopravvive all'apocalittica epidemia e per i pochi scampati c'è una guerra ancora tutta da combattere, una lotta eterna e fatale tra chi ha deciso di seguire il Bene e appoggiarsi alle fragili spalle di Mother Abagail, la veggente ultracentenaria, e chi invece ha scelto di calcare le orme di Randall, il Senza Volto, il Male, il Signore delle Tenebre. Nel 1978 Stephen King ha pubblicato una prima versione di questo romanzo; dopo oltre dieci anni, l'autore lo presenta per la prima volta restituito alle forme e alla lunghezza originali, riscrivendo di fatto il romanzo per una nuova generazione di lettori e sviluppando a ruota libera la sua titanica impresa narrativa.
