In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
An action-packed international thriller following assassin John Rain from Brazil to the casinos of Macau and the dark streets of Hong Kong. Atmospheric, sophisticated, and incredibly suspenseful.
Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultra-fast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben's information is demanding more. Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates—three close friends from childhood, each strategically placed near the seats of Washington power—and to his beautiful, whip-smart fellow clerk, Lisa Schulman.But trust is a dangerous commodity in the nation's capital. And when lives, careers, and power are at stake, loyalties can shatter like glass . . . and betrayals can be lethal.
Rain has a new employer, Israeli intelligence organization the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila; and a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol' boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: that by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has already taken.
Driven to the edge a nervous breakdown by his failure to capture Spider - one of Amercina ́s most notorius serial killers - FBI agent Jack Salzman decides to quit his job and move to Italy. But when the head of one of Spider ́s victims is posted to Jack ́s f
From the Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes this classic Crichton page-turner, weaving together heart-pounding thrills with cutting-edge technology. In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles - micro-robots - has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey. As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague, and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute science fact, PREY takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence - in a story of breathtaking suspense.
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own...
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.".
Un reportage immediato e viscerale. Cattura l'orrore surreale della guerra.
Gennaio 2007: la guerra in Iraq segna il passo e il rischio di affondare nelle sabbie mobili di un conflitto senza fine spinge il presidente George W. Bush ad annunciare una nuova strategia che comporta l'invio di ulteriori truppe. A tale scopo vengono inviati in Iraq molti giovani soldati pieni di ottimismo, tra i quali i componenti del 2° battaglione, 16° reggimento di fanteria americano. Il loro compito è pattugliare una delle zone più pericolose di Baghdad. Per quindici mesi il reporter David Finkel (vincitore del Premio Pulitzer) ha vissuto con loro, seguendoli passo passo praticamente in ogni sanguinosa tappa della loro avventura. Il racconto della sua esperienza è questo libro: un ritratto implacabile e sconvolgente della vera faccia della guerra moderna. Ogni operazione di pattugliamento è uno snervante gioco al massacro, ogni mucchio di rifiuti può nascondere un ordigno pronto a esplodere, dietro chiunque può celarsi la volontà di colpire. I giorni, le settimane passano. Moltissime sono le vittime, tra morti e feriti. Tutti gli uomini del battaglione che attraversano questa spaventosa terra di nessuno ne usciranno radicalmente trasformati. Queste pagine ci restituiscono i loro volti, le loro storie, le loro vite di ragazzi alle prese con la prova più estrema. E il reportage non si limita a raccontare l'orrore quotidiano dell'Iraq tra agguati, colpi di mortaio e pattugliamenti, ma si occupa delle conseguenze più terribili e meno note di ogni conflitto: il carico di lutto, dolore e incubi che questi ragazzi si portano dentro una volta tornati a casa, segnati per sempre dai loro mesi in Medio Oriente, dalle loro avventure di bravi soldati. Straziante e durissimo, terribilmente vero: I bravi soldati - accolto negli USA da un immenso successo di pubblico e di critica - è già considerato un classico del suo genere.
