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.
A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog." A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog." Four minutes past the hour, four times the terror, four tales for the price of one!
When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.
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.
With a stunning new cover look, King's classic tale of survival sees a young mother and her son trapped in a car by a horrifyingly familiar monster. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats. And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him . . .
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...
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon. Meet Charlie--and see what happens when innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror.... --back cover
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?
Der New-York-Times-Bestseller: Verrat verjährt nicht! 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: CIA-Agent Henry Pelham ist nervös. Nach Jahren wird er seine Kollegin Celia Favreau wiedersehen, mit der er in Wien eine kurze Beziehung hatte. Zusammen versuchten sie in jener Nacht fieberhaft, das Leben der Passagiere zu retten. Nun hat die interne Ermittlung der CIA den Fall neu aufgerollt. In einem Restaurant treffen sich Henry und Celia. Was als Gespräch unter ehemals Vertrauten beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem packenden wechselseitigen Verhör, das schließlich die Wahrheit über den Verrat von Wien ans Licht bringt. Ein genial spannend erzählter Politthriller über eine Welt, in der Loyalität nicht mehr belohnt wird.
Different Seasons contains four stories with an interlacing of horror that capture the dark corners of our times. In Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in this sinister slammer, and a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's too late. And brace yourself for icy shock in three more stunning novellas of suspense. Four young boys come face to face with life, death and hints of their own mortality....A teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil... A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death. The greatest horror master of our time turns the screws of suspense to lock you into terrifying tension and nerve-tingling twists.
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
Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful, is a cheat at Canasta and a crook on a massive scale in everyday life. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the richest man in the country intends to do with his ill-gotten gains.
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.
Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't the one the police are expecting to hear. It's a little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying.
A collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered, a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems.
Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction...
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...
Born a Parsi in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen, an orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, he returns to India. Once 20 years ago, Dr Darwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, he is reacquainted with the murderer.
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.
Twenty-three short works include vampire thrillers, ingenious imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, a teleplay from "Tales of the Darkside," and a nonfiction Little League story
SPECTRE - the international terrorist organization led by Blofeld - is holding
the world to ransom with two stolen nuclear weapons. Operation Thunderball is
launched to stop them, and, in a race against time, Bond travels to the
Bahamas to uncover the stolen bombs before SPECTRE can put its deadly plan
into action.
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.
Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter.
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.
Bond is off to Harlem, the kingdom of Mr Big, black master of crime and voodoo baron. The trail of terror, treachery and torture leads from New York's black underworld to the shark infested island in the sun that Mr Big calls his own.
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.
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.
'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' In Casino Royale, the first of Fleming's 007 adventures, a game of cards is James Bond's only chance to bring down the desperate SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. But Bond soon discovers that there is far more at stake than money.
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.
