As the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey, and an inevitable reunion with Eddie
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for.
Emocionante novela protagonizada por Mia, una excepcional pianista, que logra escapar de la persecución nazi, se incorpora a la resistencia judía, y más tarde al servicio de espionaje francés.
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...
In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
Pulsando las teclas con dedos temblorosos, Ted accedió a la base de datos consultada en la biblioteca. Esta vez, se saltó la búsqueda por síntomas y fue directamente al archivo ‘Peste’: "Existen tres formas de enfermedad, todas provocadas por un mismo microbio. En la forma bubónica, los primeros síntomas incluyen fiebre, dolor de cabeza e hinchazón leve de los ganglios linfáticos, especialmente en el cuello y la entrepierna. Sin tratamiento, la enfermedad progresa rápidamente hacia síntomas más graves, como marcada hinchazón de los nódulos linfáticos con hemorragia en los tejidos circundantes." Ted se palpó el cuello, dudando de lo que su instinto ya consideraba seguro. Continuó leyendo: "Si no se trata, la peste bubónica puede convertirse en peste neumónica, donde las bacterias invaden el sistema respiratorio, volviéndose altamente contagiosa." Fuera de sí, Ted calculó que su malestar había comenzado unas cuarenta y ocho horas atrás. Cerró los ojos, apoyándose en su asiento, sintiendo cómo su corazón bombeaba sangre cargada de bacterias. Alucinante, pensó. Estamos en el siglo XXI, no en la Edad Media. ¿Cómo ha podido suceder? ¿Qué ocurre cuando la peste bubónica, ausente durante tanto tiempo, reaparece en la sociedad moderna? La historia presenta dos relatos paralelos: en el siglo XIV, el médico Alejandro Canches escapa de la ejecución por realizar una autopsia y recorre la Europa de la Peste Negra, siendo finalmente enviado
