Hernán Sabaté Vargas Books

#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work. Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.

The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice - until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm ...

It is 1918 and Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. As ever the Diogenes Club is at the heart of British Intelligence and Charles Beauregard and his protege Edwin Winthrop go head-to- head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron...

IT'S NOT JUST A GAME WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE ... Ben Richards is a desperate man. He has no job and no money, and his young daughter urgently needs medical attention. Out of options, he signs up for The Running Man: an ultraviolent reality television competition where the stakes could not be higher. Ben must stay alive for thirty days while an elite strike force, trained to kill, hunts for him. He will win a billion dollars if he can survive for a month. So far, no one has lasted longer than eight days. Can Ben Richards win this ultimate game of life and death?

This book is a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina; Hammer's deputy, Virginia West; and Andy Brazil, a young reporter assigned to ride with the police as they go about their jobs.

Scándalo (1986) es una novela que revela, de manera lúcida y despiadada, los miedos y obsesiones de un escritor que ha alcanzado una edad avanzada, explorando la frágil frontera que separa el estudio de los gestos violentos y depravados de su comisión efectiva. A los sesenta y cinco años, Suguro es apreciado por lectores, críticos y colegas, aunque hay voces que ironizan su rigor moral y reticencia respecto a los problemas sexuales. Todo parece indicar que lo espera una vejez tranquila junto a su esposa, pero este escenario se desmorona en el momento en que una mujer lo acusa de que la vida que lleva contradice flagrantemente las premisas sobre las que se fundamentan sus escritos, denunciándolo como un cliente asiduo de burdeles y sex-shops en Tokio. Suguro, amenazado por un periodista vengativo con desatar un verdadero escándalo en la prensa, se ve obligado a desentrañar el misterio de esta acusación y descubre así la existencia de un doble suyo, un "gemelo maligno" con inclinaciones sadomasoquistas. Con su inigualable maestría, Endo nos ofrece en Scándalo una meditación sutil sobre la identidad, el arte y el mal.