Hugo Kuipers Book order (chronological)

Wanneer een bom in het hart van Washington D.C. tot ontploffing komt, lijkt in eerste instantie alles te wijzen op een aanslag op de Britse premier. Op het moment dat de bom afging, verliet hij net per limousine het Witte Huis. De autoriteiten zijn er dan ook van overtuigd met een mislukte terroristische aanslag te maken te hebben. Om te helpen bij het onderzoek stuurt de Britse geheime dienst binnen een dag een van haar beste agenten naar de Verenigde Staten: Mary Chapman. Chapman, een ervaren en zeer gevaarlijke agent, komt algauw in contact met Oliver Stone, die getuige is geweest van de explosie. Wanneer de FBI, de Secret Service en de vele andere geheime diensten die betrokken zijn bij het onderzoek elkaar alleen maar wantrouwen en dwarsbomen, roepen Stone en Chapman de hulp in van Harry Finn, Annabelle Conroy en de overige leden van de Camel Club. Samen komen ze erachter dat de daders die avond mogelijk een ander doel voor ogen hadden. En alleen de Camel Club kan nu nog een ramp van ongekende omvang voorkomen...

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.

The first novel in Elizabeth George's Young Adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for mystery and suspense novels with the paranormal

The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to his dead friend to protect his widow, Tracey. March 2011: Nick is in Moscow filling his days at a private gun range when he is lifted by heavies and taken to meet an oligarch. The oligarch wants Nick to track down his kidnapped wife and son. It transpires that the oligarch has married Tracey and so Nick is given the opportunity to fulfil his promise to Mong. Nick follows the trail from Mogadishu to Nairobi, from Courchevelski to Bristol, on a mission to unravel this complex and explosive plot. He eventually tracks down Tracey and her son and leads a rescue mission, all guns blazing, only to find that Tracey is dead and the boy is missing. There's only one man the boy can be with, and one place, which only Nick knows... Nick goes after him, and he has vengeance to wreak.

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…

Een Brits parlementslid geeft zijn geliefde een bijzonder verjaarscadeau: zij wordt geblinddoekt en geboeid naar hem toe gebracht, maar hierbij gaat iets heel erg mis.

Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

After the lawyer of an institutionalized alleged serial killer Edgar Roy ends up dead, Dean King and Michelle Maxwell must figure out whether Roy is really a killer or if other evil is afoot. By the #1 best-selling author of Deliver Us From Evil. 800,000 first printing.

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force. David Baldacci is one of the world's favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 110 million copies in print. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America.

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.

The President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan. And that is where Executive Orders begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as caretaker for a year, and now suddenly, an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush in on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral - all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington, D.C., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the United States - some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so great even he cannot imagine it.

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.

Een topgeheime Amerikaanse organisatie heeft zich gespecialiseerd in het geheel buiten de wet om elimineren van terroristen voordat deze kwaad kunnen aanrichten.

De vierentwintigjarige Kirstin Kvist verlaat Zweden om in Engeland te gaan werken. Via haar vriend komt de terecht op Lydstep Old Hall, een oud, verwaarloosd landhuis in Essex. Daar gaat ze voor John, een veertigjarige schizofrene man, zorgen. Bij aankomst beseft Kirstin dat ze in een ongewone familie is beland. Johns familieleden gunnen elkaar het licht in de ogen niet. Het enige wat hen bij elkaar houdt is Johns geld. Wanneer een van zijn zussen een relatie krijgt met een kunstschilder uit het dorp is dat de aanzet tot een reeks gruwelijke gebeurtenissen en lijkt het noodlot langzaam maar zeker onafwendbaar...

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.

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.

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.

A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King. 1922 The story opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, following their move to Hemingford, Nebraska onto land willed to Arlette by her father. Big Driver Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences. Fair Extension Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a deal with the devil but, as always, there is a price to pay. A Good Marriage Darcy Anderson learns more about her husband of more than twenty years than she would have liked to know when she literally stumbles upon a box under a worktable in their garage.

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.

Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt, to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea, Ford County features a vivid cast of attorneys, crooks, hustlers, and convicts. Through their stories he paints a unique picture of lives lived and lost in Mississippi. Completely gripping, frequently moving and always entertaining, Ford County brims with the same page-turning quality and heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers, and is proof once more why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.

When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, enters a small-town Missouri church, he carries a dark secret about the disappearance of high school senior Nicole Yarber nearly a decade ago. Despite extensive searches, Nicole's body was never found, leaving her hometown in despair. Now, Donte Drumm, a young black athlete wrongfully convicted of her murder, awaits execution in less than a week. Robbie Flak, Donte's dedicated lawyer, has spent nine years and all his resources fighting for justice, but he is out of options. The only hope lies in Travis Boyette's confession, which could exonerate Donte if it can be acted upon in time. The urgency of the situation intensifies as the clock ticks down to the execution date. John Ray Grisham, Jr., born on February 8, 1955, is a renowned American author celebrated for his legal thrillers. He has won the Galaxy British Book Awards and is one of only two authors to sell two million copies in a first printing. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, practicing criminal law for about a decade. He began writing in 1984, with his first novel, A Time To Kill, published in 1989. By 2008, his works had sold over 250 million copies globally, and several have been adapted into films. His bestselling titles include The Firm, The Testament, and The Broker, translated into 29 languages.

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.

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.

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

Includes 5 of King's short stories that were adapted for Hollywood films, with his personal commentary and introductions.

"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.

Michael was a rising star at "Drake and Sweeney", a giant Washington DC firm with 800 lawyers. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Michael did some digging, and found a dirty little secret, which involved "Drake and Sweeney".

The jury in a Mississippi tobacco trial appears to be manipulated and controlled.

Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix Cellini is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes. -- back cover

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...

It’s late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham – an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he’s already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice known as ‘adventure sex’, a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue ... Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, The Birthday Present is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.

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.

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?

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.

Wanneer de baas van een groot bedrijf de helft van zijn personeel moet ontslaan, blijkt gaandeweg dat hij niet meer iedereen kan vertrouwen.

The brilliant new global thriller from the master storyteller ...

Heden en verleden smelten samen in een historisch moordmysterie op de campus van Cambridge. Het lichaam van Elizabeth Vogelsang wordt gevonden in een rivier in Cambridge. De gepensioneerde historica, die werkte aan een controversiële biografie over Isaac Newton, klemt in haar hand een antieke prisma. Om te voorkomen dat haar geheimen in het graf verdwijnen, zegt Lydia, de ex-vriendin van Elizabeths zoon, toe de biografie te voltooien. Gaandeweg ontdekt zij dat de dood van Elizabeth verband houdt met een moord uit 1665. Haar onderzoek leidt haar naar een radicale herinterpretatie van de rol van alchemie en bovennatuurlijke krachten in Newtons leven. Maar op het moment dat ze zich lijkt te verliezen in de zeventiende eeuw, vinden er in het heden nog twee moorden plaats.

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent, Arnie, find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds Arnie finally locates just such a team and informs Rick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a starting quarterback-for the mighty Panthers of Parma, Italy. Yes, Italians do play American football, to one degree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player-any former NFL player-at their helm. So Rick reluctantly agrees to play for the Panthers-at least until a better offer comes along-and heads off to Italy. He knows nothing about Parma, has never been to Europe, and doesn't speak or understand a word of Italian. To say that Italy holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.

Master storyteller Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) presents this gripping and remarkable New York Times bestselling crime novel about a damaged young man who embarks on an ill-advised kidnapping plot—a work as taut and riveting as anything he has ever written. Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (“cancer of the pseudonym”), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades—an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense. Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he?

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?

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 they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up 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 is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.

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.

Een jonge vrouw en haar vriend leiden een bestaan waarin seks en drugs belangrijk zijn: zij als nachtclubeigenares in Soho en hij als Ierse maffiabaas in New York.

'Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!"' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still lived in the same house in Clapham. But it had been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had been demolished. Ismay and Heather get on well. They always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what happened that August day. But now, with painful inevitability, hidden truths start to emerge.

From Northern Ireland to Europe to the U.S., the name Jig means terror. Jig is the most masterful, most elusive assassin in the world. Now, Jig is on his way to New York, to recover $10 million stolen from the IRA. And on his trail is a renegade British agent obsessed with catching him.

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government. One of these employees is former agent Hal Ambler. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients - Hal isn't crazy. Hal pulls off a daring escape, and now he's out to discover who stashed him there and why. But the world he returns to has changed. No one remembers him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler and, when he first looks in the mirror, the face he sees is not his own...

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware is invited to the idyllic Pacific island of Aruk by the esteemed scientist Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, to assist with organizing his papers. Initially, it seems like a perfect getaway, allowing Alex to enjoy time with Robin Castagna. However, the atmosphere quickly shifts as secretive guests and unsettling night visitors disrupt the tranquility. The cases Moreland reveals—a patient driven mad by a horrific act, a man who suffered from radiation poisoning decades ago, and a young woman found brutally murdered—appear unrelated, yet Alex senses a deeper connection. As he investigates, with support from LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, Alex begins to uncover troubling truths hidden within Moreland's expansive estate. The shocking revelations he ultimately discovers come too late to prevent the escalating violence that endangers both the guilty and innocent on the island. With compelling characterizations and a gripping pace, the author masterfully explores real-life horrors and inner fears, delivering a suspenseful narrative that captivates from start to finish.

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence a book no American can afford to miss."

Stephen King's biggest selling hardback of all time, set to be a paperback phenomenon

Hoofdinspecteur Wexford onderzoekt de verdwijning van twee tieners en hun oppas.

Via een overloper wordt Jack Ryan op de hoogte gesteld van het bestaan van een Russisch complot om de paus te vermoorden.

London, 1593: It is three weeks before the murder of Christopher Marlowe, playwright and spy in Queen Elizabeth I's secret service -- a crime that remains unsolved to this day. Marlowe is hoping to find his missing muse as he sets off on a new intelligence assignment...and closes in on the secret that will seal his fate.New York City, present Renaissance scholar turned private eye Kate Morgan investigates a shocking heist and murder involving a mysterious, antique manuscript recently unearthed in central London. What secret lurks in those yellowed, ciphered pages...and how, centuries later, could it drive someone to kill?Propelling us from the shadows of the sixteenth-century underworld to the chambers of a clandestine U.S. intelligence unit, from the glitter of the Elizabethan court to the catacombs of ancient Rome, The Intelligencer's dual narratives twist, turn, and collide as they race toward a stunning finale.

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.

This novel is another thriller from the bestselling author of 'Jurassic Park' and 'Prey'. Drawing on his past as a Harvard Medical School student and his ongoing study of the world of technology, Crichton's gripping fiction is grounded in scientific fact culled from the latest academic journals.

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...

The bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times) confronts one of the most compelling issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. When neuroscientist Edward Armstrong begins dating Kimberly Stewart, a descendant of a woman who was hanged as a witch at the time of the Salem witch trials, he takes advantage of the opportunity to delve into a pet theory: that the “devil” in Salem in 1692 had been a hallucinogenic drug inadvertently consumed with mold-tainted grain. In an attempt to prove his theory, Edward grows the mold he believes responsible with samples from the Stewart estate. In a brilliant designer-drug transformation, the poison becomes Ultra, the next generation of antidepressants with truly startling therapeutic capabilties. But who can be sure the drug is safe for consumers? Who defines the boundaries of “normal” human behavior? And if the drug’s side effects are proven to be dangerous—even terrifying—how far will the medical community go to alter their standards of acceptable risk?

Als een Engelse lord een biografie schrijft over zijn overgrootvader, lijfarts van koningin Victoria, doet hij verontrustende ontdekkingen.

Een jurist die door het leger gedetacheerd is bij een belangrijk advocatenkantoor, heeft het sterke vermoeden dat de moord op zijn voorgangster iets te maken heeft met dit bedrijf.

De VS zijn vastbesloten het terrorisme met wortel en al uit te roeien. Maar de FBI, de CIA en de NSA worden zwaar gehinderd in hun werk door de strenge regels en richtlijnen van de Amerikaanse wet. En dus wordt er een nieuwe geheime dienst in het leven geroepen die geheel buiten de wet om opereert. Op initiatief van de vroegere president Jack Ryan wordt een groep talentvolle jongemannen bijeengebracht. Een van hen is Patrick Ryan jr., Jacks eigen zoon...

Never make an enemy of a murderer. In 1970, The Ford County Times , one of Mississipi's more colourful weekly newspapers, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out, Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling, dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life', and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

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.

Een charmeur gaat relaties aan met vrouwen om er financieel beter van te worden, tot hij zelf slachtoffer wordt.

De privé-detectives Kenzie en Gennaro gaan met hulp van een veroordeelde drugshandelaar in Boston op zoek naar een ontvoerd vierjarig meisje.

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.

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.

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...

Een voormalig advocaat is op de vlucht voor zijn baas wiens bankrekening hij geplunderd heeft.

Blood. That's what Martin Nanther's great-grandfather Henry was interested in. As Queen Victoria's faboured physician he became expert in diseases of the blood, particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. But, as Martin discovers whilst researching Henry's life, he was not just expert - he was obsessed. Yet reading between the lines of Henry's medical essays and diary, Martin begins to suspect that his great-grandfather was less than candid about both his life and work. What was he trying to conceal? Were the tragedies of his family life more than mere accidents? And what implications does it have for Martin, the blood doctor's descendant?

Takes readers down a road less travelled, this title features dark tales. It also includes the story of LT who has a theory about pets which can make you stop and think before giving one as a present to a loved one.

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...

"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. This is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to.

Imagine a year without Christmas. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

Sie waren Papas ein und alles, aber sie hatten keine Ahnung, wer Papa in Wirklichkeit war. Die älteste Tochter Sarah beginnt, die Lebensgeschichte des verstorbenen Vaters zu schreiben. Sarah taucht ein in die Untiefen eines Lebens, das wie das Meer an der Küste von Devonshire, an der der Familiensitz liegt, morsche Bruchstücke freigibt. Zum Vorschein kommen beängstigende Details eines Doppellebens.

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 it has become increasingly clear that the shadowy Directorate is headed for some dangerous endgame - but no one knows precisely who they are and what they are planning. With Bryson their only possible asset, the director of the CIA recruits him to find, re-infiltrate, and stop the Directorate, but after years on the sidelines, Bryson's field skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, and his instincts suspect.".

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."