Jiří Kobělka Book order (chronological)

Tchaj-wan, jehož budoucnost může ovlivnit světovou ekonomiku, technologický vývoj i podobu mezinárodních vztahů, představuje jedno z nejméně pochopených míst současnosti. Zároveň však ostrov stojí v samém centru geopolitického soupeření mezi Čínou a Spojenými státy americkými. Chris Horton, novinář působíci na Tchaj-wanu více než deset let, přináší strhující pohled na čtyři století jeho bouřlivých dějin i zápasu o vlastní identitu a popisuje jeho proměnu v jednu z nejvyspělejších demokracii světa. Národ ve stínu je nejen příběhem odolnosti a touhy po sebeurčení, ale nabízí také klíč k pochopení jednoho z nejnebezpečnějších ohnisek dnešní světové politiky. Horton přesvědčivě ukazuje, proč na osudu ostrova může záviset budoucnost celého světa.

The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV and featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight. A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with just mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.

The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. They are calling it the 'million-dollar bullet': a sniper shot from a near-impossible distance. But there is no crime scene investigation, no evidence, and no co-operation from the local Bahamian police. Ambitious New York district attorney Nance Laurel won't let it go. This murder has all the hallmarks of a contract killing, and she has evidence that the order came from the highest levels of the US government. Putting her career on the line, she calls in independent investigators: Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs. No strangers to controversy, their reputation for seeing what others miss is unparalleled, and she knows they will risk everything - even their lives - to seek the truth . . .

We are in a new era. From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Xi and Modi, self-styled strongmen have become a central feature of global politics. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against 'globalist' elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiment of their nation. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. How and why did this new style of authoritarian leadership arrive? How likely is it to lead the world into war and economic collapse? And what liberal forces are in place, not only to keep these strongmen in check but to reverse the trend? The Age of the Strongman explores these essential questions and offers a bold new portrait of our world.

"Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her boss, Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Allison's being stalked by her ex-husband, Jon Merritt, whose former profession as a police detective makes him uniquely suited for the hunt. And he's not alone. Two hitmen are also hot on her heels--a pair of thugs who take delight not only in murder but in the sport of devising clever ways to make bodies disappear forever. As Shaw ventures further into the wilderness, the truth becomes as hard to decipher as the forest's unmarked trails, and peril awaits at every turn"--

When a woman arrives home to her Manhattan apartment to find that her personal items have been rearranged while she slept, police initially dismiss her complaint. Nothing was stolen, and there's no sign of breaking and entering. But when the same woman turns up dead, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate the murder. The soon learn that the murderer calls himself "the Locksmith." He is obsessed with locks, slipping into homes in the dead of night and tying his victims up with knots or locks, ultimately strangling them.Their hunt for the killer is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's previous cases. He is removed from the case, and must investigate the Locksmith in secret to untangle the mysteries behind the psychotic killer before he can set his ultimate trap.

A haunting true story of a serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California in the 70s and 80s, this narrative follows the gifted journalist who tragically died while investigating the case, which was ultimately solved in April 2018. The work is introduced by Gillian Flynn and features an afterword by Patton Oswalt. For over a decade, a violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California and ten sadistic murders in Southern California, eluding capture by multiple police forces and top detectives. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara, creator of TrueCrimeDiary.com, became determined to find the psychopath she named "the Golden State Killer." She meticulously examined police reports, interviewed victims, and engaged with online communities obsessed with the case. The masterpiece she was writing at the time of her sudden death offers a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the devastation he caused, while also portraying McNamara’s obsession and relentless pursuit of the truth. This utterly original and compelling work has been hailed as a modern true crime classic, fulfilling Michelle's dream of helping to unmask the Golden State Killer.

One of Popsugar’s Best New Books for Summer 2020 A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love—and herself—in this hilarious and heartfelt novel. It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong postcollege European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her status as most successful moneymaker is unquestioned. When her introverted mathematician father announces he's getting remarried, Chelsea is forced to acknowledge that her life stopped after her mother died and that the last time she can remember being happy, in love, or enjoying her life was on her year abroad. Inspired to retrace her steps—to find Colin in Ireland, Jean Claude in France, and Marcelino in Italy—Chelsea hopes that one of these three men who stole her heart so many years ago can help her find it again. From the start of her journey nothing goes as planned, but as Chelsea reconnects with her old self, she also finds love in the very last place she expected.

Detektiv Harry Bosch pracuje pro malé policejní oddělení v San Fernandu, kde vyšetřuje dvojnásobnou vraždu v lékárně. Stopy vedou do nebezpečného světa obchodování s léky na předpis. Aby odhalil vrahy, rozhodne se pro práci v utajení, čímž se dostává do temné říše organizovaného zločinu spojeného s vysoce návykovými opioidy. Tato riskantní mise může skončit tragédií. Sara Smytheová, hlavní hospodyně londýnského hotelu, se v roce 1884 přestěhuje do Ameriky, aby se stala správkyní nového luxusního domu Dakota. V tomto impozantním bytovém komplexu ji čeká dobrodružství, láska a intriky, které zásadně ovlivní její život i životy dalších generací. Robin se vrací domů po tom, co opustila svou dysfunkční rodinu. Po neúspěšné loupeži, při které byli postřeleni její otec, jeho druhá žena a nevlastní dcera, zjišťuje, že se minulost vrací s plnou silou a situace se může ještě zhoršit. Šerif Hank Worth z Bransonu v Missouri se potýká s vyšetřováním krádeže léčivé kůry stromů, když objeví mrtvolu v lese. Situace se zhoršuje, když najde další tělo a zároveň se snaží obhájit svou funkci ve volbách, čelí překážkám a komplikacím. Dokáže vyřešit zamotaný případ a zvládnout politické tlaky?

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North' LEE CHILD __________________________ North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war. A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth. Now, she must go undercover in the world's most deadly state. Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister...and herself. ___________________________ 'Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD

V publikaci jsou ve zkrácené formě obsaženy čtyři romány současných amerických autorů.Odvrácená strana konce Michaela Connellyho je román se dvěma detektivními liniemi – Harry Bosch pátrá po sériovém násilníkovi a paralelně rozplétá případ umírajícího milionáře, který zjišťuje, komu připadne jako dědictví jeho obrovský majetek. Pravidla lásky a pravopisu od Mary Simsesové jsou lehčím čtením o nelehkém pádu na dno a síle opět vstát a začít věřit na lásku. Tesákový potok Paula Doirona zavádí čtenáře do divoké přírody státu Maine, kde je nalezeno uprostřed močálu pohřbené novorozeně. Lesní správce Mike Bowditch se pouští do oprašování případu dávného únosu, který s vraždou nejspíše souvisí. Poslední ze čtveřice románů je Penzion pro svobodné dámy Fiony Davisové o životě v New Yorku 50. let a na počátku 21. století – a o setkání, které dvěma ženám zásadně změní život.

Lincoln Rhyme is back - and he and Amelia Sachs must contend with a killer who seems to be targeting couples just as they start out on their lives together. Now a NBC TV series.

Co napsat o knize, která obsahuje krimipovídky od šestatřiceti mistrů tohoto žánru? Mezi nejslavnějšími autory najdeme Jefferyho Deavera, Jo Nesbøa, Borise Akunina a Ruth Rendellovou. Nicméně, další autoři nejsou zde jen do počtu. Erudovaný editor Maxim Jakubowski pečlivě vybral každou povídku tak, aby čtenáře chytly a nepustily. Výsledkem je antologie, která uchvátí a překvapí, přičemž každá povídka nabízí něco jedinečného. Mezi příběhy najdeme například „Zločin za zločin“ od Giorgia Falettiho, „Rumpole a vánoční prázdniny“ od Johna Mortimera, „Sérum“ od Jo Nesbøa, či „Opravdu mizerný den“ od Camilly Läckbergové. Dále se zde objevují „Jahodový strom“ od Ruth Rendellové, „Když konečně přišel“ od Ingera Jalakase, a „Vánoční dárek“ od Jefferyho Deavera. Každý příběh je jedinečný a přináší jiný pohled na kriminální zápletky. Tato antologie, sestavená Maximem Jakubowskim, je skvělým výběrem pro všechny milovníky krimi žánru, kteří hledají napětí a překvapení na každé stránce.

Get ready for the biggest thriller of 2018... What did she see? It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers. But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of Katie Bishop, a member of Brighton, social elite. Her husband Brian appears to be in the clear--he was in another town at the time, sound asleep. But Grace begins to suspect the presence of a doppelganger: is someone else--almost identical to Bishop--involved in the crime?

From the author of 'Little Children' and now a major new TV series, 'The Leftovers' asks what if one day some of us simply vanished? And some were left behind? Following the sudden disappearance of thousands of citizens, Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to bring a sense of hope to his traumatised community, but his family has fallen apart in the wake of disaster. Kevin's wife has joined a homegrown cult, and his son is a disciple of the prophet Holy Wayne. Only Jill, Kevin's daughter, remains, and she's no longer the sweet student she once was. Written with a rare ability to illuminate our everyday struggles, 'The Leftovers' is a startling novel about love, connection and loss.

Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called into the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to get to the truth of Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. For Charles Singleton had a secret – a secret that may strike at the very heart of the United States constitution, and have disastrous consequences for human rights today. And Sachs is going to have to search a crime scene that’s 140 years old before she can stop the killer.

Svazek obsahuje zkrácené verze čtyř úspěšných románů oddychových žánrů od současných angloamerických autorů. Jednotlivé tituly jsou doplněny stručnými informacemi o jejich tvůrcích. Hrdinou thrilleru „Muž s absolutní pamětí“ Davida baldacciho je Amos Decker, jenž dostal do života danajský dar - hypertrofovanou paměť, schopnou uchovat neuvěřitelné množství informací. Když ho neznámý vrah připraví o ženu a dceru, možná se Amosova anomálie bude hodit. Romantický žánr zastupuje Richard Paul Evans románem „Slib pod jmelím“. Čerstvě rozvedená, osamělá hrdinka je v něm překvapena návrhem neznámého muže předstírat v předvánoční době, že je jeho partnerkou. Kdo ví, k čemu takové předstírání může nakonec vést... „Dokonalé ticho“ anglické autorky Rosamund Luptonové je thriller o putování matky s hluchou dcerou polární krajinou za otcem, který se ztratil při požáru inuitské vesnice na severu Aljašky. Detektivní thriller „Kulka“ od Mary Louise Kellyové pracuje s motivem postupného odhalování doposud skryté záhadné minulosti hlavní hrdinky Caroline Cashionové, ve které se skrývá nevyřešený zločin.

It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancâee, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, For one man's disaster is another man's fortune... Dead Simple is the stunning first novel in the number one bestselling Roy Grace series from award-winning author, Peter James.

Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, engage in a two-day race against time when a twisted killer, exploiting the modern world's drive toward sustainable energy, uses an everyday energy source as a weapon.

When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared. Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas of her past safely behind her, she's beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. But then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort - it's so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again. And this time, no one - not even Caffery - can help her ...

Dick Francis - Hurikán: Perry Stuart, meteorolog z britské televizní stanice BBC, se rozhodne strávit dovolenou na Floridě a spolu se svým kolegou si splnit dávný sen: proletět okem hurikánu. Místo jedinečného zážitku však musí bojovat o přežití na pustém ostrově v Karibském moři a rozplétat intriky bezohledných podnikavců. Jeffery Deaver - Ďáblova slza: Washingtonský starosta dostane dopis, v němž neznámý vyděrač vyhrožuje vysokými oběťmi na životech, pokud do dvanácti hodin nedostane dvacet milionů dolarů v hotovosti. FBI se nemá čeho chytit a minuty ubíhají. Jejich jedinou nadějí je specialista na zkoumání dokumentů Parker Kincaid. Nicholas Sparks - Nezapomenutelná cesta: Když bylo Landonu Carterovi sedmnáct, život se mu navždy změnil. To se psal rok 1958, Landon končil střední školu a rozhodně se nehodlal zatěžovat starostmi dospělých. A ani ve snu ho nenapadlo, že by se mohl zamilovat, natož do dcery místního faráře. Ale srdce mu velelo jinak. John Nichol - Stinger: V osmdesátých letech CIA dodávala afghánským mudžáhidům řízené střely typu Stinger, které se nikdy nepodařilo získat zpět. Nebezpečné zbraně skončily v rukou teroristů a je třeba je zničit za každou cenu. Do afghánských hor tedy zamíří speciální komando, jehož členem je i pilot RAF Sean Riever.

From the bestselling Sunday Times author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's chilling series that inspired the film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington, and is now a major NBC TV series. Companies know everything about you. So does he. He knows you, better than you even know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder . . . Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder - and while the evidence clearly shows he did it, Rhyme agrees to check things out. All too soon the entire case is turned on its head when it turns out that his cousin, along with others, is being cleverly framed by a killer who knows far too much about his victims . . . 'Another corker . . . precision-engineered to keep the reader turning the pages without a hitch' Evening Standard

The suspense is relentless in The Treatment , an emotional powerhouse of a thriller that brings back Jack Caffery, the detective from Mo Hayder’s acclaimed novel Birdman . A masterful blend of psychological insight and forensic detail, Hayder’s latest thriller is as chilling as it is heartbreaking, a gritty, gripping tour de force of suspense. It is a perfect summer day in London’s up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been taken prisoner in their own home and their young son has disappeared. But the final horror of their terrifying ordeal is still to be revealed. Called in to investigate, Jack Caffery tries desperately to make sense of the meager clues found at the crime scene. But the echoes of a devastating disappearance in his own past make it impossible for him to view the crime objectively. And as Jack digs deeper, as the disturbing parallels between past and present mount, the real nightmares begin... From the Paperback edition.

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.

'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' Jeffery Deaver And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In 'Beautiful' former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker's death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated 'Triangle' Pete finds a true crime book - and uses the lessons contained therein to kill Mo's lover. The award-winning 'Without Jonathan' introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she married Jonathan, with a man she met through the personals. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is about to meet is killing a housewife in another part of town... And in the brand-new 'The Christmas Present', we see a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before.

When Special Agent Kathryn Dance - a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation - is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel 'Son of Manson' Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier - a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult members were sloppy - Not only were they apprehended, they even left behind a survivor - the youngest of the Croyton daughters, who, because she was in bed hidden by her toys that terrible night, was dubbed the 'Sleeping Doll'.

"Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot, Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller."--Mystery Lovers News Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant, and very private man, Taylor signs on . . . only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to kno--including a plentitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer. . . . "The characters are well drawn, the plot is fast paced, and the writing avoids totally the usual trappings of blockbusterdom. . . . An intelligently written thriller."--Booklist

It's the night of the full Cold Moon - the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a ruthless killer calling himself the Watchmaker. His obsession with time drives the Watchmaker to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last minutes on earth. Amelia is not only Lincoln's eyes and ears at crime scenes on the Watchmaker case, but she's now running her own homicide investigation - her first case as lead detective. The policewoman's unwavering efforts in pursuing the killers of a businessman, who left behind a wife and son, sets into motion clockwork gears of its own, with consequences reaching to people and events that will endanger not only many lives but Lincoln's and Amelia's future together.

Harry Bosch v roce 1993 udělal vše pro dopadení vraha mladičké Marie Gestoové, ale jeho snaha skončila neúspěchem a případ se stal jeho profesní noční můrou. Vše se změní, když okresní státní zástupce oznámí, že byl chycen dvojnásobný vrah, který je ochoten doznat se k dalším zločinům, včetně vraždy Marie. Bosch poslouchá doznání muže, kterého hledal a nenáviděl dlouhá léta, a uvědomuje si, že v roce 1993 přehlédl klíčovou stopu, která mohla zabránit devíti dalším vraždám. Nyní se musí vyrovnat s vlastními výčitkami a zároveň poslouchat arogantního vraha, což ohrožuje jeho profesní čest a integritu. Emma Websterová prožívá šťastný den, když se po půlroční známosti s Davidem vdává a odjíždí na líbánky do odlehlého srubu. Její radost však rychle přehluší šok, když na ni zaútočí maskovaný muž se sekyrou. Svatební noc stráví v nemocnici a čelí nejistotě, když policie začíná podezřívat jejího manžela. Dvanáctiletá dívka a její mladší bratr se v lesích Idaha stanou svědky vraždy a musí utéct před čtveřicí pachatelů. Najít někoho, komu by mohli důvěřovat, se ukáže jako obtížné, a osud je může zavést na nečekaná místa, kde se hrdinové a padouši mísí.

Location scouting is to the film business what Switzerland is to war. John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking, with a promising Hollywood career - until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he's a location scout, who travels the country in search of shooting sites for films. When he rides down Main Street, locals usually clamor for their chance at fifteen minutes of fame. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam experiences a very different reception - his illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and Pellam is suddenly center stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust, and conspiracy, which have a stranglehold on this less-than-picture-perfect locale.

Výběr z tvorby známého amerického autora kriminálních příběhů obsahuje tři romány typické pro různá období jeho rozsáhlého a čtenáři oblíbeného díla.

Set in South East London, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery follows the Met's crack murder squad on their grisly mission of tracking down a sadistic sexual serial killer who has claimed five victims already.

It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty.Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation and to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed "the conjurer." As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.

Hollywood location scout John Pellam thought the scenic backwater town of Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect site for an upcoming gangster film. Until real bullets leave two people dead and one cop paralysed. Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto the crime scene just moments before the brutal hits. Now the feds and local police want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. And a mysterious blonde just wants him. Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that deal will imitate art, as the film shoot - and his life - race toward a breathtakingly bloody climax. schovat popis

The third Lincoln Rhyme thriller takes the quadriplegic detective deep into the swamps of North Carolina on the trail of a desperate kidnapper...

Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to stop the Ghost before he can track down and murder the two surviving families who have vanished deep into the labyrinthine world of New York City's Chinese community. Over the next forty-eight hours the Ghost ruthlessly hunts for the families while Rhyme, aided by a policeman from mainland China, struggles to find them before they die and Sachs pursues a very different kind of policework - forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may have consequences going to the core of her relationship with her partner and lover, Lincoln Rhyme.

Nicholas Bryson spent years as a deep cover operative for the American secret intelligence group, The Directorate. After a disastrous mission, Bryson was retired to a new identity. Now, years later, his cover is cracked and Bryson learns that The Directorate was not what it claimed to be - and that he was, in fact, a pawn being used against his country's interests. The Directorate is headed for a dangerous endgame, and the CIA recruits Bryson to stop them. But after years on the sidelines, Bryson's field skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, his instincts suspect and he no longer knows who - if anyone - can be trusted.

Escaping from a mental hospital, paranoid schizophrenic Michael Hrubek begins a desperate hunt for the woman who identified him as a vicious murderer.

When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murder is like a big, challenging computer hack: every time he succeeds, he must challenge himself anew— by taking his methodology to a higher level, and aiming at bigger targets. Desperate, the head of The California State Police Computer Crimes Division frees Wyatt Gillette, imprisoned for hacking, to aid the investigation — against the loud protests of the rest of the division. With an obsession emblematic of hackers, Gillette fervently attempts to trace Phate’s insidious computer virus back to its source. Then Phate delivers a huge blow, murdering one of the division’s own — a “wizard” who had pioneered the Internet — and the search takes on a zealous intensity. Gillette and Detective Frank Bishop — an old-school homicide cop who’s accustomed to forensic sleuthing — make an uneasy team. But with a merciless and brilliant killer like Phate in their cross hairs, and his twisted game reaching a fever pitch, they must utilize every ounce of their disparate talents to stop him.

A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. They should never have stopped. Waiting for them are three heartless men just escaped from prison — each with nothing to lose. And now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. They make their stand in an abandoned slaughterhouse, and it is there that Lou Handy, a murderer and the convicts’ ringleader, announces his terms: to kill one captive an hour unless his demands are met. What follows is a twelve-hour siege of noose-tight tension — and a war of nerves between Handy and the FBI’s senior hostage negotiator, Arthur Potter. Dead Silence, based on A Maiden’s Grave, was made into a movie, starring James Garner and Marlee Matlin. It was filmed by HBO in 1997.

A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers. London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues... Set against this merciless butcher is DCI Red Metcalfe, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body count rises, Red's own tortured past begins to turn against him - and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer... The most compelling and suspenseful British thriller to come along in years, and Boris Starling is a startling and powerful talent to watch. Messiah is guaranteed to haunt your dreams...

As the subject of a biography, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's masterly biography is a fascinating interpretation of the life of a girl destined to die a martyr.

A killer who staged a rush-hour massacre in Washington threatens a repeat unless he is paid $20 million. Handwriting expert Parker Kincaid joins forces with FBI agent Margaret Lukas to catch him.

Lincoln Rhyme tracks down a terrifying serial killer in the second in the series.

Alex McAuliff has just received an offer he can't refuse. A company called Dunstone Ltd will pay him two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's interior - and they require his absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence are aware of the deal, and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone despatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. Now it's too late to turn back. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. He already knows about Dunstone...which means he knows too much.

The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist". Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. --Amazon.com

V knize představuje Peter Lemesurier některá proroctví tohoto slavného věštce a přikládá k nim svůj zcela nový, revoluční, vědecky podložený výklad. Ani Lemesurierův výklad však není nijak radostný. Ještě pro toto století předpovídá masivní invazi muslimských, asiatských a „rudých” hord do Evropy. Vzhledem k nekompetentnosti evropských vůdců pak bude obsazena a zničena velká část Evropy, zejména jižní. Až těsně před britským pobřežím budou tyto hordy odraženy a zahnány zpět. Teprve pak nastane v Evropě období míru a prosperity, která potrvá padesát sedm let... Zajímavá je i úvodní obecná část této knihy. V ní Lemesurier rozebírá obecné zákonitosti Nostradamova proroctví a připomíná nejčastější chyby, jichž se dosavadní vykladači dopouštěli. Pro ty, kteří se k proroctví stavějí skepticky, připravil Lemesurier malý bonbónek: výběr z nejznámějších Nostradamových proroctví, která se již v minulosti naplnila. Jejich přesnost a detailnost je ohromující až děsivá. Protože, je-li Nostradamus stejně přesný i pokud jde o budoucnost, pak nezbývá než konstatovat: Bůh nám pomáhej...

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