Michael Cordy Libri

«Il libro più misterioso del mondo»: così viene definito il manoscritto Voynich, scoperto nel 1912 in una biblioteca gesuita. Composto da 232 pagine, è adornato da disegni di piante sconosciute, figure femminili bizzarre e simboli astronomici, ma soprattutto è scritto in una lingua indecifrabile. Le sue interpretazioni sono state molteplici: alcuni lo considerano un testo segreto dei Catari, altri un’opera di un alchimista boemo. Anche l’esercito americano ha tentato di decifrarlo senza successo. Lauren Kelly, docente a Yale, crede di aver trovato la chiave per tradurre il manoscritto e si prepara a lavorarci quando un ladro irrompe in casa sua, rubandole il computer e lasciandola in fin di vita. Ross, il marito di Lauren, è sconvolto ma comprende che non è stata una semplice rapina. Viene contattato dal capo dei gesuiti, che richiede gli appunti di Lauren, e da una suora che crede che il manoscritto sia la mappa per il giardino dell’Eden, un luogo straordinario e terribile. Spinto dal desiderio di salvare Lauren, Ross parte per la giungla amazzonica, ignaro che qualcuno lo osserva, intenzionato a trovare il giardino prima di lui.

The stunning new high-concept thriller from a master of the genre. In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls. To the police, she herself is a mystery.She appears on no government records, has no past and can't even tell the police her own name. Christened Jane Doe and suffering terrifying hallucinations, she is assigned to Nathan Fox, a forensic psychiatrist struggling with his own demons after witnessing his parents' murder as a child. Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity. Then a sequence of brutal killings terrorizes the city and Fox learns that Jane is the only cryptic link between the unrelated victims. To solve the murders, discover who Jane is and diagnose her condition, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past... and his own.

The year is 2008, and there is an epidemic of violent crime in the United States. Project Conscience promises to bring a radical solution to the crime problem, treating criminals with gene therapy. But some involved have a sinister agenda.

When Professor Bacci inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing, he is determined that the world benefits from his discovery. A private Swiss bank steps in, owned by the secretive Kappel family, and offers to fund Bacci’s drug. What Bacci doesn’t know is the Helmut Kappel has his own plan for abusing the drug’s power; a cynical nightmare of breathtaking arrogance far removed from Bacci’s naïve vision. Only two people can stop Kappel’s dark vision. One is Bacci’s daughter Isabella, a doctor dedicated to saving lives. The other is Kappel’s son and heir, Max, a man raised to feel no emotion and show no pain, a killer apparently incapable of love. But before they confront Kappel they must first confront their feelings for each other.

Lucifer The Light Age has dawned. Light divides the universe into two: day and night. Good and evil. Life and death. Now its power, harnessed by a new generation of optical computers, attempts to answer mankind’s last great question: What happens to us when we die? But this is perilous knowledge, as Dr. Miles Fleming, a brilliant young neurologist discovers. To find the truth he must challenge the certainties of both science and religion, and embark on a journey that jeopardizes his most basic assumptions and beliefs. On reaching the final terrifying revelation he realizes that there are perhaps some things mankind should never know. For shining a light on the truth can sometimes reveal the darkest recesses of hell itself.

At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr. Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid the devastating secrets of an ancient brotherhood awaiting a new messiah, Tom Carter must search for answers to the mysteries that have challenged humankind since the death and resurrection of the greatest Healer who ever walked the Earth. Because suddenly Carter's life, the life of his little girl, and the fate of the world hang in the balance ... After two thousand years, the wait is over ...

Az amerikai kertváros lakóit egy éjjel velőtrázó sikolyok hangja riasztja fel álmából. Egy ismeretlen fiatal nő fejszével a kezében ketrecbe zárt fiatal lányok megmentésére siet... A szépséges védőangyal személyazonossága ismeretlen. Fogalma sincs, hogy került oda, csupán megérezte a gonoszt az épület falain keresztül.Az amnéziás, újságírók által ,,Jane Doe"-nak keresztelt jövevény iszonyatos hallucinációktól gyötörten az ifjú Nathan Fox pszichiáter kezei alá kerül, aki maga is saját démonaival küzd. Ketten próbálják megfejteni, ki is a lány valójában.A különleges érzékeléssel megáldott Jane azonban csupa talány.S közben a megválaszolatlan kérdések száma egyre csak nő. Brutális gyilkosságok sora kergeti őrületbe a titokzatos bűntények előtt tanácstalanul álló rendőröket.Dr. Fox azonban rájön, hogy vonzó páciense és az áldozatok között rejtélyes kapcsolat van. Hogy kiderítse a pszichopata indítékát, a férfinak el kell vonatkoztatnia evilági tapasztalataitól, és szembesülnie a lány sötét, ,,indigókék" múltjával. És a sajátjával...Az amerikai sikerszerző érzékien borzongató thrillerében, mely egy trilógia első darabja, a gyilkos elme veszedelmesen pengeéles képét rajzolja meg, zsigeri élményt szerezve olvasójának.Ahol 5 érzék találkozik, egy 6. megszületik...