Hugo Kuipers Books

Stephen King's international bestselling - and highly acclaimed - novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.

Now in mass market paperback, this collection features four riveting, never-before-published novellas from Stephen King, along with a new short story, "Under the Weather." In “1922,” Wilfred Leland James confesses to the awakening of a dark stranger within himself when his wife, Arlette, suggests selling their family homestead, leading to a gruesome path of murder and madness. “Big Driver” follows cozy-mystery writer Tess, who encounters a stranger on a back road in Massachusetts after a book club meeting. Violated and left for dead, Tess seeks revenge, confronting the stranger within herself. “Fair Extension,” the shortest tale, offers a darkly humorous twist as Dave Streeter makes a deal with the devil, trading his cancer for a lifetime of resentment. In another gripping story, Darcy Anderson discovers the horrifying truth about her husband while searching for batteries in the garage, leading to a shocking revelation that ends their good marriage. Like King’s previous works that inspired enduring films, this collection showcases his mastery of the long story form, delivering intense narratives that explore the darker sides of human nature.

Als een vriend hem wijst op een poort in de tijd naar 1958, krijgt een Amerikaanse leraar de kans om de geschiedenis te veranderen door de moord op Kennedy in 1963 te voorkomen.

Tijdens zijn nieuwe ambtstermijn ontdekt Jack Ryan dat het presidentschap er niet bepaald gemakkelijker op wordt: in de binnenlandse politiek wemelt het van de valkuilen; in Liberia is een revolutie gaande; de Aziatische economie raakt steeds verder in het slop; en uit Moskou komen verontrustende berichten over een mogelijke aanslag op de voorzitter van de SVR, de voormalige KGB. Een moordaanslag op hoog niveau in het toch al onstabiele Rusland, daar zit niemand op te wachten. Maar nog verontrustender is de mogelijke identiteit van de vermoedelijke daders. Zijn het politieke tegenstanders? Is het de maffia? Zijn het ontevreden ex-KGB-leden? Of - zo vraagt Ryan zich af - hebben we hier te maken met een veel acutere bedreiging? En hij heeft gelijk. Want nog voordat zijn beste spionnen, onder wie specialist geheime operaties John Clark, de kans hebben gehad de ware toedracht te achterhalen, treden er in China al krachten naar buiten die er angstwekkend extreme denkbeelden op nahouden. En als deze elementen erin zullen slagen hun ideeën te realiseren, dan zal de wereld voorgoed veranderen. Maar als ze falen... dan zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien.

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And the Tower is closer...

When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. Even though he has lost an arm. And even though the hand he uses is the one he lost.

Wanneer rechercheur Maggie Bei op een winternacht een dodelijke misdaad rapporteert, wéét inspecteur Jonathan Stride dat zij in de problemen zit. Maggie verbergt een verschrikkelijk geheim. En haar zwijgen wordt steeds verdachter. Maggie is niet de enige die geheimen heeft. Een jonge vrouw, die dol was op bizarre seksuele spelletjes, is verdwenen. Ze heeft een cryptische boodschap achtergelaten: Ik weet wie het is. Stride probeert een web van geweld en voyeurisme te ontsluieren, maar iemand is bereid moorden te plegen om dat te verbergen. Samen met zijn geliefde, politieagente Serena Dial, jaagt Stride op een chanteur die alle smerige geheimen van de stad kent. Zelfs die van Maggie...

America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway -- her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life... and perhaps his own.

Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he’s urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick’s help. His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She’s been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn’t meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she’ll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he’s become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who’s holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government. If he’s going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever…

Drie vrouwen, allen gestorven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden. Patholoog-anatoom Jack Stapleton staat voor een raadsel. De eerste vrouw overlijdt na een plotseling, ernstig zuurstoftekort. Het tweede slachtoffer is de partner van een Iraanse diplomaat bij de VN. Het lijkt in eerste instantie zelfmoord, maar Jack ontdekt dat het een moord betreft. De derde dode was een kerngezonde vrouw. Tijdens het winkelen is zij plotseling overleden aan een acute vernauwing van de kransslagader. Jack moet in de zaak van het eerste slachtoffer erachter komen of zijn zwager terecht beschuldigd wordt van medische fouten. Hij wordt hierbij van alle kanten tegengewerkt en bedreigd.