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Smoky Barrett ist zurück An einem kalten Oktobertag werden Smoky Barrett und ihr Team nach Denver, Colorado, gerufen. Im Haus der Familie Wilton ist Schreckliches geschehen: Die gesamte fünfköpfige Familie wurde ermordet, und der Täter hat durch eine mit Blut geschriebene Botschaft Smoky mit der Lösung des Falles beauftragt. Doch das Unheil ist weit größer, denn die Wiltons sind nicht die einzigen Opfer. Insgesamt drei Familien wurden in der gleichen Nacht und in unmittelbarer Nähe voneinander getötet. „Komm und lerne“, lautet die Botschaft an Smoky. Es wird ein grausamer Lernprozess, das Böse in seiner reinsten Form, in seiner tiefsten Abgründigkeit zu spüren. Smoky gelangt an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit. Und weit darüber hinaus. Nach Ausgelöscht und Das Böse in uns der neue Psychothriller aus der Smoky Barrett-Reihe von Cody Mcfadyen - Hochspannung mit Gänsehaut-Potenzial!.

Gänsehaut-Garantie: Der Thriller Der Menschenmacher von Bestsellerautor Cody Mcfadyen Evolviere! - David starrt den Brief an, in dem nur dieses eine Wort steht, und schon kehren die grausamen Erinnerungen zurück: wie seine alleinstehende Mutter tödlich verunglückte, als er sechs Jahre alt war. Wie er zusammen mit zwei weiteren Kindern von einem Mann adoptiert wurde, den sie „Vater“ nennen sollten. Wie dieser seine Adoptivkinder mit Brutalität und Grausamkeit dazu bewegen wollte, zu „evolvieren.“ Zwanzig Jahre später hat David sich zum angesehenen Schriftsteller entwickelt, doch die Schatten seiner Vergangenheit scheinen nicht ruhen zu wollen. Damals hatten die Kinder einhellig Vaters Tod beschlossen und sind ein großes Wagnis eingegangen. Hat Vater überlebt? Beginnt der Albtraum für David von Neuem? Cody Mcfadyen beweist mit diesem brutalen, emotionalen Thriller wahre Erzählkunst. Cody Mcfadyen wurde 1968 im texanischen Fort Worth geboren. Nach einer abgebrochenen Highschool-Ausbildung arbeitete er, unter anderem, im sozialen Dienst und als Drogenberater, ehe er sich in den 1990ern schließlich völlig der Schriftstellerei widmete. Mcfadyen lebt heute mit seiner Tochter in Südkalifornien und gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Krimi-Autoren weltweit.

In the fourth heart-stopping thriller from this supremely gifted storyteller ("Booklist"), FBI agent Smoky Barrett is chasing a serial killer who's in it for the money--and the ultimate price may be Barrett's life.

Smoky Barrett conosce bene la morte. L'ha vista in faccia molte, troppe volte. E il suo lavoro, all'FBI, dove dà la caccia ai serial killer più spietati. Studia il loro modo di ragionare, li insegue, li stana. Non ha paura di scavare nell'oscurità, neppure dopo che quella stessa oscurità ha inghiottito anche lei, rubandole il marito e la figlia, brutalmente uccisi da uno psicopatico. Anche Sarah conosce bene la morte. Ha solo sedici anni, eppure nei suoi occhi non c'è più luce. Fin dal giorno del suo sesto compleanno, quando lui, lo Straniero, è apparso per la prima volta sulla soglia di casa. Da allora quell'uomo e il suo viso nascosto dietro a un collant non l'hanno più lasciata. Lo Straniero trae il suo godimento dal dolore di Sarah e uccide tutti quelli che lei ama. Prima si è portato via la sua famiglia, poi la stessa sorte è toccata a chiunque abbia cercato di aiutarla. Morte dopo morte, finché lei è rimasta sola. Sarah ha solo una speranza per uscire da questo incubo: Smoky. Perché Smoky sa guardare nel buio. E dare un volto alla morte.

A lie, a long-ago affair, a dark desire—everyone has secrets they take to the grave. No one knows that better than FBI special agent Smoky Barrett. But what secret was a very private young woman keeping that led to her very public murder? That’s the question Smoky and her handpicked team of experienced manhunters are summoned to answer by the FBI director himself. As a mother, Smoky knows the pain of losing a child. As a cop with her own twisted past, she takes every murder personally. Brilliant, merciless, righteous, the killer Smoky is hunting this time is on his own personal mission. For in his eyes no one is innocent; everyone harbors a secret sin. Soon Smoky will have to face the secret she’s carefully hidden even from her own team—and confront a relentless killer who knows her flaws with murderous intimacy.

A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It's as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen's stunning debut SHADOW MAN. Now caring for her murdered friend's mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge...

"The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims "The Stranger" killed her adoptive family, that he's been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her. No one has. Until now." "Special Agent Smoky Barrett is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nation's elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they'll have to be to deal with this case." "For another vicious double homicide reveals a killer embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an "artist" who's molding sixteen-year-old Sarah into the perfect victim - and the ultimate weapon. But Smoky Barrett has another, more personal reason for catching The Stranger - an adopted daughter and a new life that are worth protecting at any cost." "This time Smoky is going to have to put it all on the line. Because The Stranger is all too real, all too close, and all too relentless. And when he finally shows his face, if she's not ready to confront her worst fear, Smoky won't have time to do anything but die."--Provided by publisher