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A superb thriller from the writer of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. schovat popis

A pulse-pounding Matt Scudder story. schovat popis

Sara Tate is a prosecuting attorney with the Manhattan DA's office; her husband, Jared Lynch, a rising star in a Wall Street Law firm. They have a wonderful, happy, high-spirited, non-competitive marriage - until they accidentally find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom, and their relationship starts to fall apart. Worse, they are threatened by interested parties on each side of the case. The result is obvious: one of them will lose. The other one will die.

From Jonathan Nasaw, whose heart-stopping debut was hailed as "a superior thriller" ("The Washington Post") and "wickedly compelling" ("The Oregonian"), comes a new novel that takes readers into the depths of"Fear Itself"Is it possible to be scared to death? FBI Special Agent E. L. Pender thinks so -- when a man afraid of heights falls nineteen stories to his death and a woman terrified of blood is found with her wrists slashed. Could it be that the apparent suicides are actually the work of a twisted psychopath?To stop him, Pender joins forces with Investigative Specialist Linda Abruzzi, and before long they find themselves facing their own worst terrors -- and a madman who is as immune to fear as he is fascinated by it.

It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it.Geologist Ross Kelly has it a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes.An attempt to steal her translation of the Voynich leaves Lauren and their unborn child hovering on the brink of death, and Ross in the depths of despair. Encounters with a sinister Vatican priest and then a mysterious nun convince Ross to seek the centuries-old manuscript, which chronicles the ill-fated discovery of a mythic fabulous garden deep in the jungles of the New an Eden so terrible and miraculous it rewrites the book of Genesis and defies all reason.Although everyone tells him the story is surely an allegory, the possibility of the garden’s existence offers Ross the only hope of saving his wife and unborn child, and he decides to seek the garden out before it’s too late.But he is not alone. Racing against time, against a lethal assassin, and a fanatical priest, Ross’s quest will lead him to a place that might challenge everything he ever thought about the source of life on earth.

Verhalen die zich grotendeels tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog op zee afspelen.

A powerful Matt Scudder novel about love and loss. schovat popis

Neil Mannix wordt door zijn superieuren naar het Westafrikaanse Nyala gestuurd om een transport van uiterst kostbaar boormateriaal te begeleiden. Het land, een voormalige Britse kolonie, wordt door een lilitaire junta bestuurd en volgens Neils baas is de politieke situatie er 'redelijk stabiel'. Wanneer het konvooi de duizend kilometer lange tocht begint, merkt Neil al snel dat het broeit in Nyala. Het duurt niet lang of hij zit midden in een bloedige burgeroorlog en moet het opnemen tegen goed getrainde rebellen en saboteurs, wier doel het is het enorme konvooi te laten stranden.

Nineteen years after being tortured by the SS and set up for assassination, Richard Gardiner survives another attempt on his life, pursues revenge, and is himself pursued by a former colleague in British intelligence