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.
Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime? For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead. A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Dave Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home . . . Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.
King's highly acclaimed novel, now with a stunning new cover look. WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the fourth volume in his series. Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world, and slipped into the next. It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.
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 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...
After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer – an old friend of Sean King – to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. A rash of terrifying events begins to unfold and it is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not? But the more they dig into his past, the more they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths, and dead ends that make filtering the facts nearly impossible. As each new theory brings a new revelation, King and Maxwell will be pushed to the limit. Could this deadly case be the one that leaves the duo permanently parted?
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.
Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so many abused or dead children they may already be over the edge. As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, a police force seething with lethal secrets, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts. Caught in a deadly tangle of lies and betrayal, they must confront the horror of what the world can inflict on its children in order to unravel a riddle that's anything but child's play.
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.
Newly named head of Rainbow, an elite multinational task force, John Clark faces the world's greatest fear - international terrorism. And following each terrifying new outbreak - the ghosts from his own dark past. The challenge of a new mission is just what Clark needs, but the opportunities come faster than he expected. Hostage-taking at a Swiss bank. The kidnapping of an international trader. Carnage at a theme park in Spain. Each incident seems separate, yet the timing disturbs Clarke. Is there a connection? Is he being tested? Or is there a bigger threat out there, from terrorists so extreme that no government is ready to admit their existence? 'Action packed and full of guns and suspense... a skilfully-crafted plot and high readability.' Express
Een FBI-agent, wiens ouders bij een bomontploffing van een Amerikaans vliegtuig zijn omgekomen en wiens zoon verlamd raakte, opent een wilde jacht op de dader.
The young son of a Russian oligarch is kidnapped. His father will pay anything, do anything, stop at nothing to get him back. Up to now, everything he has tried has failed. He needs the one man with the know-how, the means and the guts to complete the mission: ex-SAS trouble-shooter Nick Stone... But for Nick, the mission will take him to the poorest and most violent country on the planet, Somalia - a lawless land, ripped apart by civil war and famine, fought over by drug-fuelled, gun-crazy clan fighters. They want to make the world to sit up and take notice - any way they can... Dead Centre takes you to the reality behind the headlines, into the poorest and most violent country on the planet, a place that no sane person would choose to be. Andy McNab has been there, seen it, done it. No other thriller writer can take you so close to the action.
A runaway Jumbo jet has crashed into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead along with most of the Cabinet and Congress. Dazed a confused, the man who only minutes before was confirmed as the new caretaker Vice-President is told that he is now President of the United States.President John Patrick RyanBut how do you run a government with out a government? Where do you begin? Ryan knows that the eyes of the world are on him now - and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, in Tehran and even in Washington, there are those eager to take advantage. Soon they will make their moves; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so even he could not imagine it.'
Nick Heller returns in an explosive new thriller. When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out. A close friend of the family, Nick is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents well-protected by wealth and position, Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good...
Shattered...by a mindless act of violence that changed his life forever, James Dewitt decided to become a cop. Shackled...by a web of red tape and corruption, Dewitt now fights desperately to solve a string of murders cleverly staged to look like suicides. Submerged...in the deranged world of the psychopathic mind, Dewitt struggles to outwit the killer-the man they call the "trapper"-before it's too late...and to use every fingerprint and every fiber-and every last ounce of his strength-to escape the ultimate evil.
In Nextopia, timing is everything. And there is no better time than tomorrow. We live in an Expectations Society—a society where we are constantly striving towards our next job, the next big thing, the next date. In the Expectations Society, possibilities of finding happiness are endless. Meanwhile, it has never been harder to stay happy. This book will help you understand how this change in society and the human mind impacts business, love, and life itself. With a whole new set of ideas and theories about how expectations form the very essence of human nature, Micael Dahlen takes you on a journey towards Nextopia—a journey that never ends.
From the author of the best-selling Mafia exposé, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-dollar gambling industry and the secretive, dangerous men who run it. At the heart of this true tale of love, revenge, and murder Mafia-style are some of the most memorable characters in mob lore: Lefty, the brains of the mob's Vegas casinos; Tony Spilotro, the mob's muscle; and Geri, Lefty's adulterous show-girl wife.
Als een Amerikaanse contract-moordenaar hoort dat hij een dodelijke ziekte heeft, zet hij een prijs op zijn leven, maar moet vluchten als blijkt dat de gestelde diagnose fout was.
Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man—Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet—can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator. President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all—and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths—to save not only the victim but the entire free world.
A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat, into a national security nightmare.Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell don't want to get involved. But years ago Sean King saved the First Lady's husband, then a senator, from political disaster. Now the president's wife presses Sean and Michelle into a desperate search to rescue a kidnapped child. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them--and the line between friend and foe impossible to define . . . or defend.
A bomb has been detonated in what looks like a terrorist plot directed at the President and the Prime Minister. In the aftermath, British MI5 agent Mary Chapman, an experienced, operative with an agenda of her own, is sent to assist and coordinate the investigation alongside American authorities.
For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before. Something no one wants to see. Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little Tall Island's oldest residents, suffers an unspeakably violent death. While her blood dries, Andre Linoge, the man responsible sits calmly in Martha's easy chair holding his cane topped with a silver wolf's head...waiting. Linoge knows the townsfolk will come to arrest him. He will let them. For he has come to the island for one reason. And when he meets Constable Mike Anderson, his beautiful wife and child, and the rest of Little Tall's tight-knit community, this stranger will make one simple propoisition to them all: "If you give me what I want, I'll go away."
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.
LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery. But LuAnn won't do it. Less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson's offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems her only hope. However, ten years later, LuAnn secretly returns to the United States to begin a new life with Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky as her own. But a canny reporter has picked up her trail, as have the FBI - and Jackson. Matt Riggs is the only person who can help her. But is help what Matt intends or is he too closing in for the kill? 'Baldacci cuts everyone's grass - Grisham's, Ludlum's, even Patricia Cornwell's - and more than gets away with it' PEOPLE magazine
In a terrifying trip across America, young Jack Sawyer is searching for the
Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him
into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic
struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Five rules to make a power play. Find your target, isolate your hostages, make your ransom demand, use violence if necessary and take the money and run. About a hostage situation. Thriller.
Cotton Malone is back and the stakes were never higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies buried in the past.
Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those responsible proves they will stop at nothing to get their hands on a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story
The #1 bestselling author reflects on the filming of five of his most popular short stories, each tale included in this collection. Those movies are The Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Children of the Corn, The Mangler, and Hearts in Atlantis. Includes an introduction, his brief personal commentary, and behind-the-scenes insights by Stephen. The Subterranean Press edition of Stephen King Goes to the Movies is -- so far -- the only hardcover edition scheduled, and features full-color movie poster illustrations -- one for each story -- by Vincent Chong.
It is the middle of the 12th century . . . On the banks of the Nile, in a city alive with intrigue, Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. In the shadow of the Grey Mosque, generals vie for power and influence under the scheming eyes of a venal grand vizier. Warring factions use murder and terror to silence their opponents. Egypt bleeds - and the scent draws her enemies in: the swaggering Shirkuh, who serves the Sultan of Damascus, and Amalric, king of Jerusalem, whose greed is insatiable and whose Crusader knights are hungry for a fight. Yet all is not lost. In a distant land, there lives an old man who holds the power of life and death over the Moslem world. He has decided to help the Caliph and sends his greatest weapon. A single man. An Assassin. The one they call the Emir of the Knife...
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book 'Riding the Bullet', terror becomes déjà vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It is in French' and LT has a theory about pets which will make you stop and think before giving one as a present to a loved one - along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
"Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself--an amoral, heartless killer--in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling series"--Provided by publisher.
It's a bright Autumn morning in the small town of Chester's Mill. Claudette Sanders is having a flying lesson and Dale Barbara is hitching a ride out of town. Neither make it to their intended destinations, for an invisible barrier has descended over the town.
This book is set in Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe
are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like
another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn
up: the victim's family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card in the
dead man's stomach; 'The King of Swords'. An increasingly bloody trail leads
Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune-teller and her scheming pimp son, then
to the infamous Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the most feared criminal in
Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies and friends in
very high places. Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Max
and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad - and track down some
answers. What is the significance of the King of Swords? What makes those who
have swallowed the card go on a killing spree just before they die? And can
Max find out the truth about Solomon Boukman, before death's shadow reaches
his own front door?
A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica. 350,000 first printing.
Voormalig sas-kapitein Will Jackson heeft niets meer te verliezen. Zijn leven werd verwoest op de dag dat zijn familie omkwam bij een terroristische aanslag. Daarna trok hij zich terug uit actieve dienst en werd zijn militaire verleden slechts een vage herinnering.Nu zitten zijn voormalige bevelhebbers in grote problemen en als ze geen oplossing vinden, zullen duizenden onschuldige mensen sterven. Dus doen ze Jackson een aanbod dat hij niet kan weigeren. Maar in de duistere wereld van het internationale terrorisme zijn zaken zelden wat ze lijken. Will ontdekt dat iemand een spelletje met hem speelt, dat je niemand kunt vertrouwen en dat je soms vuur met vuur moet bestrijden
This novel explores the dark side of boyhood as four boys engage in wargames in the English countryside. After one of them dies, their games intensify, turning against the adults they blame for their friend's death.
Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom...
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole - code-named Talbot - inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets - leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now...
Nikolaus Martin, born in Leitmeritz and raised in Prague, led a carefree life filled with friends, nightclubs, and history until the Nazis annexed his hometown and invaded Prague in March 1939. This memoir captures the harrowing journey of a young man ensnared by the Prague Gestapo. It unfolds like an adventure novel, detailing Martin's three failed attempts to escape Nazi terror, culminating in his imprisonment at the Small Fortress in Terezin. The narrative begins with the trial of an SS guard he encountered in prison and shifts to his life before the war, where he experiences the gradual escalation of Nazi oppression. Friends and family are targeted; one friend is deported, another's father is killed, and a third is executed. Martin is arrested at work but released the same day, only to face forced labor and further attempts to flee. After being caught trying to escape to Switzerland, he goes into hiding but is eventually betrayed and re-arrested. Miraculously, he is transferred to a less harsh job as the war nears its end. He survives a typhus epidemic and witnesses the chaos in Prague post-war, reflecting on the darker sides of human nature. Disillusioned by the political climate, he plans to defect but is recalled just before the Communist takeover. Ultimately, he escapes to the West on skis, navigating a tumultuous period with a blend of humor and realism.
TOM CLANCY'S GREATEST CHARACTERS FACE THEIR DEADLIEST CHALLENGE. After nearly a decade, the master of international intrigue returns to a world rife with chaos, where power struggles threaten annihilation. In response, a secret entity known as the Campus was established under President Jack Ryan, tasked with hunting down and eliminating terrorists without oversight. This self-sufficient group operates independently of the American government, navigating a landscape where loyalty and justice are often disregarded.
Covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his team at the Campus wage a silent war against global threats. They are joined by black ops warriors John Clark and "Ding" Chavez, along with Brian and Dominic Caruso and Mary Pat Foley. Their greatest challenge arises from a sadistic killer known as the Emir, a mastermind behind numerous horrific attacks who has evaded capture by law enforcement worldwide. The Campus is determined to change that, especially as the Emir plans a devastating strike against America.
On a deadly manhunt, Jack Ryan Jr. follows in his father's footsteps, pursuing the Emir across the globe and into the intricate world of political maneuvering. As they race against time, an all-star cast of Clancy's characters unites to prevent a catastrophe that could threaten the very heart of the West, embarking on a desperate search for a madman who may be hiding in plain sight.
Troy Phelen is one of the richest men in the United States. He is also looking for a way to die. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab, he knows returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world and went to live and work with a primitive tribe in the deepest jungles of Brazil. These three lives collide in a unique blend of legal suspense and adventure - and none of their lives will be the same after the revelation of the startling secrets of the Testament.
'Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened' (from the Author's Note). HEARTS IN ATLANTIS comprises of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War: In 'Low Men in Yellow Coats' 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest ... and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In 'Blind Willie' and 'Why We're in Vietnam', two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in 'Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling' Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.
Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In The Bear and the Dragon , the future is very near at hand indeed. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR--the former KGB--with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail...the consequences will be unspeakable. Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.
An innocent man is facing execution, and only a guilty man can save him. For every wrongly imprisoned individual, a guilty party remains free, indifferent to the injustice. Time reveals that the authorities are convinced of their case, leaving the real criminal feeling fortunate. He watches as the trial unfolds for the person wrongfully accused, relieved when the verdict is guilty, and amused by the self-congratulation of the police and prosecutors. Travis Boyette embodies this guilty party. In 1998, he abducted, raped, and murdered a popular high school cheerleader in a small East Texas town, burying her body to prevent its discovery. He is astonished when the police arrest and convict Donté Drumm, a local football star, sentencing him to death row. Nine years later, Travis is paroled in Kansas for a different crime, while Donté is just days away from execution. Suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, Travis decides to confess for the first time in his life. However, he faces the daunting challenge of convincing the legal system that an innocent man is on the brink of execution.
Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail
When a people-trafficker bites the dust in Dubai, and a gangland money-launderer has a fatal car accident in San Francisco, both deaths bear the hallmarks of a Sam Carver 'accident'. But Carver is no longer supposed to be in the game. He'd sworn to leave that life behind. So his old contacts at MI6 want to know why Carver has gone off the reservation. Who is paying him? And who will be his next target? Someone is setting Carver up, framing him for crimes he didn't commit - a copycat killer, motivated by revenge. He wants to crush Carver, and then to beat him at his own game by hitting the world's most prominent target, the new President of the United States.
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. Whe
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unraveling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence, of the present but the nightmares of his past.
The pulsating new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two
Zero. A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam
every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters
will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The West
will be brought to its knees. Only one man can find and stop the perpetrator
-- but for the first time in his life Nick Stone doesn't want to play ball.
It is the 1950s in Arkansas, the cotton season and to the Chandler family it means hard work, temporary workers and a host of complications. A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford
County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was
assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of
the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and... číst celé
After a violent encounter with a homeless man, talented corporate lawyer Michael finds himself out in the streets, lucky to be alive, and holding a top-secret file belonging to his former employers.
Known for his meticulous, fascinating research, as well as his ability to create exciting plot twists that inevitably, a month or two later, seem to have anticipated real-life headlines, Ridley Pearson has genered praise as a "master" of the suspense novel. In Middle of Nowhere, the "Blu Flu" has struck the Seattle Police force and a majority of the officers are on a unofficial strike, with the exception of a few, including Detective Lou Boldt, who is committed to the job. When a string of robberies and the brutal assault of a female cop rock the city, the pressure of isolation threatens Boldt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make progress on both the assault and the robberies, but things soon spin out of control, and Bodt's refusal to drop the case puts his own life at risk. Filled with the fast-paced, spiraling action that has made Pearson's previous novels "irresistable" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) works of suspense that "grip the imagination" (People magazine), this offering from "the best thriller writer alive" (Booklist) is certain to keep the reader breathless.
A wave of babynappings has gripped the West Coast, and when the Pied Piper, known for leaving a penny flute with his victims, strikes in Seattle, homicide detective Lou Boldt is drawn into the investigation. Temporarily assigned to Intelligence to spend time with his wife during her chemotherapy, Boldt's task is to keep the FBI from interfering with the Seattle Police Department's efforts. However, FBI agent Gary Flemming proves to be a formidable opponent, seemingly undermining the SPD's work. The situation escalates when the Pied Piper abducts Boldt's daughter, threatening her life unless he obstructs both the FBI and SPD. Torn between duty and desperation, Boldt teams up with John La Moia, his homicide replacement, and police psychologist Daphne Matthews. Together, they create a covert task force to track the abductor while evading federal oversight. As they uncover how the Pied Piper has evaded capture and targeted his victims, the pursuit intensifies, spanning from Seattle to Portland and New Orleans, culminating in a gripping climax in Washington's Skagit Valley. With strong character development and expert pacing, the narrative promises a thrilling experience.
Who is Mr Clarinet? In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called 'Mr. Clarinet', who for years has been tempting children away from their families. But could the truth be even more shocking than the legend?
Attorney Paul Madriani has reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical researcher, is charged with the murder of a colleague: twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. Forensic evidence links her murder with material in Crone's garage. And Crone had motive: Kalista had accused him of sexual harassment, and she'd been angling for his job. When a key prosecution witness dies unexpectedly, leaving an incriminating note behind, it seems the case may be closed. But Madriani won't be satisfied of his client's innocence till he's established just who did murder Kalista Jordan...
John Smith, born Indian, struggles to find his heritage amidst a bigoted and angry community that is looking for a serial killer who scalps his white victims
When thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife Lizzie, and their children. It seems so cruel that an apparently fatal illness should claim him, a survivor of Afghanistan and Iraq, when he still has so much left to live for.
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in "deep storage" former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is one of the few who is so dangerous that he is in complete isolation from other patients, kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients in the facility: Ambler isn't crazy.With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Ambler manages to first clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then executes a daring escape. On the loose and barely one step ahead of the retrieval teams sent after him, he is out to discover who had him stashed in the psychiatric hospital and why.But the world he returns to isn't the one he so clearly remembers - friends and longtime associates don't recognize him, and there are no official records of any person named Hal Ambler. With no resources and his unknown enemies closing in on him, Ambler has to uncover the truth of who he was and figure out what it is about him - remember what he knows - that makes him such a danger that someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.
It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But when corporate security catches up with Adam Cassidy, a low ambition junior staffer at the high-tech behemoth, they call it something else: embezzlement, to the tune of nearly $80 grand. Ruthless CEO Nick Wyatt is impressed by Adam's scheming, and offers him one way out-take on the role of a rising corporate hotshot and infiltrate Wyatt's rival, Trion Systems. His mission is to get close to Trion's legendary founder Jock Goddard, and his ultra-secret "Project Aurora," and report back to Wyatt. With Wyatt pulling the strings and a dramatically improved identity, Adam is set up as Trion's new boy genius. Suddenly, he's got a sweet new Porsche, a closet full of $1,500 suits, and even a lovely lady who thinks he's a dream. But it's all just a mirage, because Adam is about to learn that nothing is what it seems and that it isn't paranoia...everyone is out to get him...
A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.'There hadn't been anything like
De Amerikaanse geheime dienst komt via een overgelopen KGB-medewerker te weten dat hoge sovjetambtenaren een aanslag op de paus beramen. De vraag is alleen of de man de waarheid spreekt: berust het complot op werkelijkheid, of is het een valstrik? Op zoek naar de waarheid, raakt de nog onervaren CIA-medewerker Ryan verzeild in een dodelijk kat-en-muisspel tussen de Sovjet-Unie en de Verenigde Staten. Daarbij staat niet alleen het leven van de paus op het spel, maar ook het voortbestaan van de westerse wereld.
It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation- he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. Kyle realises that he no longer owns his own future - that he must do as his blackmailers tell him, or the video will be made public, with all the unpleasant consequences. What price do they demand for Kyle's secret? It is for Kyle to take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world. Kyle won't be working for this company, but against it - passing on the secrets of it's biggest trial to date, a dispute worth billions of dollars to the victor. Full of twists and turns and reminiscent of The Firm, The Associate is vintage John Grisham.
His new international bestseller The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...
Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware receives an enticing invitation for a three-month stay on the idyllic Pacific island of Aruk, where he is to assist the esteemed Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland in organizing his papers. With the promise of a light workload, Alex looks forward to enjoying the island's beauty alongside his romantic interest, Robin Castagna. However, the allure of paradise quickly fades as strange houseguests, unsettling nighttime occurrences, and the mysterious Dr. Moreland overshadow his stay. The cases Moreland reveals—a patient driven to madness, a man who suffered from radiation poisoning after a nuclear blast, and a young woman found brutally murdered—seem unrelated, yet Alex suspects a deeper connection. As he investigates, with assistance from LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, he begins to unravel a web of secrets hidden within Moreland's estate. The shocking truth he uncovers will come too late to prevent the impending violence that looms over the island, threatening both the guilty and the innocent. With masterful characterizations and a gripping pace, the author explores real-life horrors and deep-seated fears, creating a suspenseful narrative that captivates from beginning to end.
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best.
Nicholas Bryson spent years as a deep cover operative for the American secret intelligence group, The Directorate. After a disastrous mission, Bryson was retired to a new identity. Now, years later, his cover is cracked and Bryson learns that The Directorate was not what it claimed to be - and that he was, in fact, a pawn being used against his country's interests. The Directorate is headed for a dangerous endgame, and the CIA recruits Bryson to stop them. But after years on the sidelines, Bryson's field skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, his instincts suspect and he no longer knows who - if anyone - can be trusted.
Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son . . . Once Matt Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Stromsoe joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard to run La Eme, the brutal Mexican Mafia; before a vengeance-obsessed Tavarez blew away everything Stromsoe loved, leaving him physically and emotionally broken. Years later, Mike Tavarez is in prison for life, controlling his vast criminal empire from within a maximum security facility. Matt Stromsoe has rebounded from rock bottom to become a private investigator—and he's starting to feel something for Frankie Hatfield, the beautiful local TV weather forecaster he's been hired to protect from a stalker. But powerful, dangerous people are becoming too interested in Frankie's remarkable experiments with rain. And bars alone won't keep Tavarez from his ultimate goal: to make Matt Stromsoe suffer the unendurable torment of losing everything . . . again .
Mary Jago, separated from the bullying Alistair, has moved into a house in Regent's Park - Here she becomes embroiled in events that endanger her life.
'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone...
