Sci-fi z nedaleké budoucnosti líčí temnými barvami industriální svět, nikoli nepodobný totalitě. Zábavu apatickým masám obstarává jediný televizní kanál, který vysílá obskurní zvrácené soutěže, z nichž nejdrsnější a nejpopulárnější je Běh o život. Vybraný jedinec, v tomto případě Ben Richards, je vypuštěn do ulic Ameriky jako lovná zvěř. Po dvanácti hodinách ho začnou pronásledovat profesionální Lovci, podporovaní mnoha udavači z řad televizních diváků. Prchající zoufalec sahá pod vidinou odměny ve výši milionu dolarů k těm nejkrutějším prostředkům, aby pronásledovatele setřásl.
Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror.... THE LANGOLIERS You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell. SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare. THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid. THE SUN DOG You are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity. You are in the hands of Stephen King at his mind-blowing best, with an extraordinary quartet of full-length novellas.
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.
For use in schools and libraries only. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local Sherriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case of his career. Back in the Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape. But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments - even the infamous Mrs Sigsby - suspect. Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, THE INSTITUTE is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.
'If you read only one novel this Summer, make it this one' (Daily Mail). THE OUTSIDER is a compelling and chilling suspense novel, which will delight all readers of King's crime thrillers, including the Hodges trilogy.
Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her. There on a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat.
Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will
gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room .' James Patterson The heart-pounding
follow-up to The Poison Artist called ';an electrifying read' by Stephen
Kingthat shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied
Zločinecká skupina Société Anonyme se inspiruje dílem slavného umělce Marcela Duchampa a jejími oběťmi se stávají mladí lidé z celého světa. Hlavní hrdinka románu, která se do jejich spárů rovněž dostává, se prostřednictvím studia Duchampových děl a výprav do opuštěných industriálních objektů snaží přijít věcem na kloub. Mysteriózní román s neobvyklým námětem tak provádí čtenáře prostředími, do nichž se v běžných dobrodružných knihách jen tak nedostane a v nichž většinou nejde o nic menšího než o život.
Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has every had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole - a cave inhabited by sick bats. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has written.
How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. He's lasted longer than he should have...
From the author of THE SHINING, CARRIE and THE DEAD ZONE, this is Stephen King's most mesmerizing and menacing novel yet...It is the story of a sinister government agency, a fteful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. As PLAYBOY said, 'King does this better than anyone else. We finished the book about three non-stop hours after we picked it up.
Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel Selected by The Sunday Times as one of the top page-turners of summer 2017 FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD WINNING FARGO AND LEGION TV SERIES 'Hawley's sublime prose glows on every page in this literary thriller of the highest quality' Daily Mail THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT. BUT FATE IS BLIND. A private jet plunges into the sea. The only survivors are down-on his luck artist Scott Burroughs and JJ Bateman, the four year old son of a super-rich TV executive. For saving the boy, Scott is suddenly a hero. And then, as the official investigation is rapidly overtaken by a media frenzy, it seems he may also be a villain. Why was he on the plane in the first place, and why did it crash?
Flughafen Wien, 2006: Auf dem Rollfeld steht ein Airbus mit einhundertzwanzig Passagieren an Bord, den Terroristen in ihre Gewalt gebracht haben. Die CIA vor Ort hat die Chance, die Geiselnahme zu beenden und Blutvergießen zu verhindern. Doch ihr Plan wird verraten – alle Passagiere kommen ums Leben. Der entscheidende Anruf kam aus dem Quartier der CIA. Kalifornien, 2012: Der Fall wird neu aufgerollt, und CIA-Agent Henry trifft nach Jahren seine ehemalige Kollegin und Geliebte Celia wieder. Beide haben in jener Nacht fieberhaft versucht, das Leben der Passagiere zu retten. Oder etwa nicht?
There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick. And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir . . . --back cover
Goldfinger is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Ian Fleming. Another classic in the James Bond series, this story see's 007 meet the mysterious Auric Goldfinger who is a clever cheat. Soon, Bond discovers he is part of an evil plan which could kill many people. Can he prevent it in time?
Every night the whole nation watched the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants tried to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't the one the police are expecting to hear, in Stephen King's classic chiller, now reissued in the stunning new graphic cover style.
Carrie was the outcast at school, struggling with games and social cues, becoming the target of her peers' cruelty. Her mother instilled a sense of sinfulness in her, repressing Carrie's unique ability to move objects with her mind. This power manifested in small ways, like moving marbles or locking doors, but was kept hidden as part of her secret life. A moment of kindness at her senior prom offered Carrie a glimpse of self-worth, but a subsequent act of cruelty unleashed her powers in a terrifying way. This pivotal night transformed her abilities into a means of horror and devastation, as she caused a lighted candle to fall and locked the doors, leading to catastrophic consequences.
This deluxe special edition features an introduction by Stephen King, an afterword by Tabitha King discussing themes of adolescent terror and sexuality, and a unique oversized design with two-color interior printing. It includes high-quality paper, stunning full-color dust jacket artwork by Tomislav Tikulin, and interior paintings on glossy stock. The edition is a collectible print run, significantly smaller than the millions of copies sold over the past 40 years, making it a special addition for fans and collectors alike.
A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house... Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia. The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles - until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret...
A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event.
Thriller z konce 90. let 20. století se odehrává střídavě v New Yorku, Hongkongu a Číně.
Bývalý policista Artie Cohen, původem ruský židovský emigrant, je požádán svým přítelem, židovským obchodníkem s diamanty, o pomoc. Ve své kanceláři totiž nalézá mrtvou čínskou dívku. Stopy Artieho zavedou nejen do rozrůstající se Čínské čtvrti v New Yorku, ale i do Hongkongu, který má být brzy předán pod čínskou správu a na prodej je zde úplně všechno a všichni. Ve hře jsou kromě nelegálního přistěhovalectví z Číny do USA i nečisté praktiky při adopci čínských dětí a nový druh heroinu. Artie se s pomocí přátel pouští do nerovného a nikdy nekončícího boje s čínskou mafií.
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is back with a powerful new collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.In story after story, the long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling will take you to places you've never been before. On a roller-coaster through the macabre and the monstrous, via cutting-edge explorations of good and evil - and onto a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball.You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you...
When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind; he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs.
No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. On a red-eye flight from L. A. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane. But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out . . . A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.
V této knize poprvé v češtině vycházejí literární scénáře kultovního televizního seriálu Městečko South Park, které na rozdíl od dabovaného televizního textu nejsou ochuzeny o žádné jazykové nuance anglického originálu. Po celosvětovém úspěchu televizního seriálu a nemenším úspěchu celovečerního filmu prezentovali autoři své buřičské názory v dokumentárním filmu o vzniku seriálu, v němž tři čtvrtě hodiny seděli v bazénu s Japoncem, který nepromluvil. Nyní přicházejí s první knihou scénářů obsahující pět velice zdařilých příběhů, jejichž komično těží z formálního rozporu nevinných dětských postaviček a jejich konání a výroků. A tak se setkáváme s Kennym, Ericem Cartmanem, Stanem a mnoha dalšími.
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.
V této knize poprvé v češtině vycházejí literární scénáře kultovního televizního seriálu Městečko South Park, které na rozdíl od dabovaného televizního textu nejsou ochuzeny o žádné jazykové nuance anglického originálu. Po celosvětovém úspěchu televizního seriálu a nemenším úspěchu celovečerního filmu prezentovali autoři své buřičské názory v dokumentárním filmu o vzniku seriálu, v němž tři čtvrtě hodiny seděli v bazénu s Japoncem, který nepromluvil. Nyní přicházejí s první knihou scénářů obsahující pět velice zdařilých příběhů, jejichž komično těží z formálního rozporu nevinných dětských postaviček a jejich konání a výroků. A tak se setkáváme s Kennym, Ericem Cartmanem, Stanem a mnoha dalšími.
V knize je více než 200 zvláště vybraných reprodukcí uměleckých děl, které čtenáře bezprostředně uvádějí do světa symbolů. Jsou doplněny asi 130 fotografiemi, na nichž je zachycena bohatá symbolika Východu i Západu ve všech údobích existence lidstva.
Jádrem knihy je podnětný vizuální "rejstřík", který zahrnuje všechny typy významných symbolů - mandal a bludišť, bytostí žijících na zemi, v moři a ve vzduchu, bájných draků, sexu a plodnosti, mýtických bohů a bohyň, architektury církevní i světské, nebe a pekla, květin a drahokamů, nebeských bytostí a mnoha dalších pojmů. Autor se rovněž podrobně zabývá velkými symbolovými systémy - od I-ťing ke zvěrokruhu - a ukazuje cestu, jak je mohou k sebepoznání tvořivě využít i lidé skeptičtí k astrologii a vykládání budoucnosti.
Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered. M takes the attack personally and sends James Bond to protect King's daughter Elektra in Turkey. With nuclear weapons expert Dr Christmas Jones at his side, Bond travels to the Caspian sea where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally before the final confrontation in a nuclear submarine.
Live and Let Die is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Ian Fleming. Another classic Bond mission, see’s 007 in Jamaica investigating the underworld criminal ‘Mr Big’, who is suspected to be involved with Soviet spy operations. Caught up in dangerous situations and beautiful girls, Bond must complete his mission.
Záhady druhé světové války se vrací k doposud k největšímu válečnému konfliktu na naší planetě. Autor sbíral ke knize materiál po více než dvě desetiletí. V průběhu téměř čtvrtiny století detailně prozkoumal celou řadu předních vojenských archivů. Výsledkem Breuerova úžasnéhoúsilí je vynikající dílo, popisující řadu skutečných případů, které nám budou mnohdy připadat zcela neuvěřitelné. Rovněž šíře autorova záběru je fascinující. Jeho kniha obsahuje více než sto napínavých a často velice záhadných příběhů. Dočteme se strhující vyprávění od německého přepadení Polska přes útok na Pearl Harbour až po tichomořskou válku. Jedním z příkladů je historie americké ponorky Tang, která v průběhu námořních bojů zničila více japonských lodí než kterékoliv jiné americké válečné plavidlo. Jeji poslední torpédo rovněž zasáhlo cíl - avšak cíl naprosto neočekávaný...
Bill Unwin, in his 50s, looks back over his life and past. From his university rooms, he studies old family diaries from the mid-Victorian era. Excerpts from the diaries throw light on his own life - his feelings of hurt, revenge and family betrayal.
Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Magie nám osvětluje cíle a prostředky mágů, kteří se přenášeli do jiných světů, aby naplnili ty nejneuvěřitelnější sny a vyvolali zvláštní proměny. Dozvíme se něco o alchymii, čarodějnictví, numerologii, věštectví, tajích magie a orientální magické tradici.
Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Kniha symbolů Láska přináší množství mileneckých tradic a připomíná čtenáři Kupida, Venuši, Erota a Afroditu, seznamuje ho s jazykem květin a milostných medailonků, se symboly vášně, svádění a stálosti, s afrodisiaky a symboly plodnosti i s romantickou symbolikou Měsíce a hvězd.
Nakladatelství Paseka odhaluje v nadčasových textech a živých ilustracích řady dárkových knížeček úžasné významy symbolů. Kniha symbolů Sny zkoumá záhady našich snů, dotýká se takových témat, jako jsou jungiánské archetypy, tělo, rodina, znamení a věštba i sny o pádech a létání. Úchvatná cesta bludištěm nevědomí zaujme každého, kdo se zajímá o svět za zavřenýma očima.
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People.In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.
Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children have walked in procession with solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding ..
Three agents from the United Nations Anti-Crime Organization had a mind-boggling mission: to find out who stole six kegs of plutonium from a European train. But that wasn't the end of the case. It turned out that only five kegs contained plutonium. The sixth held something even worse. Just as John Gardner has continued the work of Ian Fleming, Alastair MacNeill now maintains the excitement of Alistair Maclean.
Korean edition of James Bond series, CASINO ROYALE by Ian Fleming who is the world famous creator of James Bond. Series 1. Translated by Hong Seong Yeong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Ironický nadhled nad životem a pichlavý humor, vlastní všem autorovým hrdinům, neopouští ani protagonistu románu Jak nevodit policii za nos, filmového kritika Careyho Thorpa, který se nedobrovolně ocitne na šikmé ploše - a zároveň se nechtě musí stát i amatérským detektivem. Kniha nabízí toto typicky westlakeovské "morální ponaučení": když už jste spáchal vraždu, nespěte proboha alespoň s ženou inspektora vyšetřujícího váš případ......
The Halloween tricks began with the bloody upper torso of a human body, and suddenly Detective Steve Carella was in the midst of evil involving a psychopath and a gang of children with loaded shotguns.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication. If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander’s dark and deadly past…a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception—and horror—as finally there is only one left standing.
Ambiciozní soudce Nejvyššího soudu státu New York Allen Sturdivant touží po funkci guvernéra státu.Nešťastnou náhodou se zaplete do procesu vraždy své milenky.V něm nakonec po těžkém vnitřním boji mezi svými osobními a společenskými zájmy podlehne.
