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Jefferson Parker

    26 december 1953

    T. Jefferson Parker is een bekroonde auteur wiens werk zich beweegt op het snijvlak van spanning en diep psychologisch inzicht. Zijn verhalen worden geprezen om hun ingewikkelde plot en meesterlijke karakterontwikkeling. Parker duikt in de donkere kanten van de menselijke natuur en onderzoekt de motivaties die tot onvermijdelijke conflicten leiden. Lezers kunnen meeslepende verhalen verwachten die de grenzen van moraal en rechtvaardigheid testen.

    Jefferson Parker
    Summer of Fear
    Swift Vengeance
    De engeltjes van Horridus
    Wraak in Laguna
    Littekens van de nacht
    Geen rust voor de doden
    • 2023

      The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story’s subjects—an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts the dog, who she names Felix after the veterinarian who saved him. In investigating Felix’s past, Bettina discovers that his life is nothing like what she assumed. For one thing, he’s not a Mexican street dog at all. A former DEA drug-sniffing dog, Felix has led a very colorful, dangerous, and profitable life. With Bettina’s story going viral, some interesting people are looking for Felix, making him a target—again.Bettina soon finds herself drawn into a deadly criminal underworld from which she and her beloved dog may not return.

      The Rescue
    • 2022

      A Thousand Steps

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      3,5(2662)Tarief

      A Los Angeles Times Bestseller! A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she's just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn't believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver's license and ask out the girl he's been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it's up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don't trust the hippies and the hippies don't trust the cops, uncovering what's really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it's not already too late.

      A Thousand Steps
    • 2020

      What if the client who's hired you can't be trusted...and the woman you're looking for doesn't want to be found? With Then She Vanished, three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times-bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker delivers a new and pulse-pounding thriller. Private Investigator Roland Ford has taken a job for a fellow Marine and a rising politician, Dalton Strait. Strait is contending with unexplained bombings of government buildings in his district...but that is not why he hired Ford. Strait's wife, Natalie, has gone missing, leaving behind a cryptic plea for help. Strait has made many enemies during his time in politics--including some of his own family members--all of whom could be looking for revenge. But as Ford digs into the details of a troubled marriage, Natalie's disappearance becomes more and more complicated. Meanwhile, the bombings in the city intensify, with a mysterious group known only as the Chaos Committee claiming responsibility. Ford soon learns that the seemingly random attacks may be connected to the case he's on--and suddenly, his hunt for a missing woman might decide the fate of an entire city.

      Then She Vanished
    • 2019

      The Last Good Guy

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen
      3,7(737)Tarief

      In this electrifying thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, PI Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet. When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity evangelist--and, finally, to the girl herself. The Last Good Guy is Ford's most challenging case to date, one that will leave him questioning everything he thought he knew about decency, honesty, and the battle between good and evil...if it doesn't kill him first.

      The Last Good Guy
    • 2018

      Swift Vengeance

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen
      4,1(73)Tarief

      In this incendiary thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a friend in terrible jeopardy. Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsay Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last." Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with San Diego-based FBI agent Joan Taucher, who is tough as nails but haunted by what sees as the Bureau's failure to catch the 9/11 terrorists, many of whom spent their last days in her city. As the killer strikes again, Ford and Taucher dash into the fray, each desperate for their own reasons--each ready to risk it all to stop the killer from doing far more damage.

      Swift Vengeance
    • 2017

      The Room of White Fire

      • 341bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      3,8(113)Tarief

      "A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him."--Dust jacket.

      The Room of White Fire
    • 2016

      Crazy Blood

      • 290bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      "The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born while his mother was in prison, and Wylie are half-brothers. They inherit not only superb athletic skills but an enmity that threatens to play out in a lethal drama on one of the fastest and most perilous ski slopes in the world. Three powerful and unusual women have central roles in this volatile family feud: Cynthia, bent on destroying Wylie; his mother Kathleen, determined to protect him; and April Holly, a beautiful celebrity snowboarder, on track to win Olympic Gold. But, as Wylie falls in love with April and they begin to imagine a life away from the violence that has shattered his family, history threatens to repeat itself and destroy them both. Combining exquisite writing with breathtaking scenes of high stakes skiing, CRAZY BLOOD is an unforgettable story of two brothers on a ruthless quest for supremacy"--

      Crazy Blood
    • 2012

      Geen rust voor de doden

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen
      3,9(71)Tarief

      Zesentwintig auteurs drukken elk hun stempel op het verhaal en bouwen de spanning op naar een explosieve finale. Wanneer Christopher Thomas, curator van het McFall Art Museum in San Francisco, wordt vermoord en zijn lijk in een ijzeren maagd in een Berlijns museum wordt gevonden, is zijn vrouw Rosemary de hoofdverdachte. Ze wordt berecht, veroordeeld en geëxecuteerd. Tien jaar later is ex-rechercheur Jon Nunn ervan overtuigd dat men de verkeerde ter dood heeft gebracht. Hij wil iedereen die aanwezig was tijdens de nacht dat Christopher stierf, bijeenroepen om de waarheid te achterhalen. Maar de moordenaar stelt alles in het werk om ervoor te zorgen dat het verleden begraven blijft... Met medewerking van: David Baldacci (Introduction) Jeff Abbott Lori Armstrong Sandra Brown Thomas Cook Jeffery Deaver Diana Gabaldon Tess Gerritsen Andrew F. Gulli Peter James J.A. Jance Faye Kellerman Raymond Khoury John Lescroart Jeff Lindsay Gayle Lynds Philip Margolin Alexander McCall Smith Michael Palmer T. Jefferson Parker Matthew Pearl Kathy Reichs Marcus Sakey Jonathan Santlofer Lisa Scottoline R.L. Stine Marcia Talley

      Geen rust voor de doden
    • 2011

      Na prašné dálnici poblíž hranice mezi USA a Mexikem je sražen autem a pohozen v poušti Mike Finnegan. Jako zázrakem přežije a dostává se do nemocnice v malém pohraničním městečku Buenavista. Venku, u hraniční řeky Iron River, probíhá krutá válka mezi pašeráky drog, zbraní a alkoholu a federálním týmem pod vedením Charlieho Hooda. Mike Finnegan zjišťuje, že ani za okny nemocničního pokoje neztratil své zázračné schopnosti, a dokáže předvídat krvavé události, které se teprve stanou…

      Železná řeka
    • 2009

      Kriminální thriller o ozbrojené lupičce se odehrává v roce 2008 v Los Angeles a jeho okolí. Dvaatřicetiletá Suzanne Jonesová, na první pohled spořádaná svobodná matka tří synů, žije ve skutečnosti dvojím životem. Nikdo netuší, že právě ona je nepolapitelná Allison Murrietová, potomek pověstného mexického desperáta, vynikajícího jezdce, střelce a zloděje koní z poloviny 19. století. Během 18 měsíců ozbrojená a skrytá pod maskou a parukou kradla luxusní automobily a vyloupila více než třicet obchodů. Policie se zatím marně snaží chytit ji při činu a odhalit její totožnost. Osudnou se jí stane až noční výprava za diamanty v tržní hodnotě čtyř set padesáti tisíc dolarů, kterými chtěl zadlužený makléř zločineckému gangu splatit půjčku. V areálu autoservisu, kde se měla uskutečnit transakce, nalezne mrtvého obchodníka a devět zastřelených gangsterů. Od chvíle, kdy se zmocní diamantů, se její život ocitá v ohrožení. S pomocí detektiva z oddělení vražd se pokouší uniknout obávanému zabijákovi, který se vydal po jejích stopách.

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