Po dwóch latach niepowodzeń i błędnych decyzji Mickey Haller gotowy jest wrócić do pracy w sądzie. Kiedy hollywoodzki adwokat Jerry Vincent zostaje zamordowany, Haller przejmuje jego największą sprawę: obronę Waltera Elliotta, wpływowego producenta filmowego, oskarżonego o zabójstwo swojej żony i jej kochanka. W trakcie przygotowań do rozprawy, która prawdopodobnie okaże się jego wielką szansą powrotu na szczyt, Haller spostrzega, że być może będzie kolejną ofiarą zabójcy Vincenta. W tym momencie wkracza detektyw Harry Bosch, zdeterminowany, by odnaleźć mordercę. Obaj mężczyźni muszą zacząć trudną współpracę...
When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one... Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.
Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down... As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.
In the backwoods of the American South, an ex-SAS officer now workng for British Intelligence embarks on a terrifying mission to find a woman who holds the key to a dark and deadly conspiracy.
Fifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York's Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory's origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease. In Central Park, a woman dies, while a witness watches, believing the brutal murder to be a prelude to a kiss. Mallory goes hunting the killer, armed with under the skin knowledge of the man's mind and the bare clue of a lie. Mallory holds on the one truth: everybody lies, and some lies can get you killed. And she knows that, to trap the killer, she must put her own life at risk, for this killer has taken a personal interest in her.
Nick Stone ex SAS, now with British Intelligence , discovers the seemingly sensless murders of fellow SAS soldier Kev Brown and his family in Washington, DC. Only Kelly, seven years old, has survived, and immediately the two of them are on the run from unidentified pursuers.
Crime reporter Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line. With cuts being made, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will the journalism's highest honor: a Pulitzer Price. Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But he soon realizes that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police radar. Jack is off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before — but The Scarecrow knows he's coming...
A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, packed with enough arms and ammunition to start a war.Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on taking out those responsible for the treachery - one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill and then shot through the head at point-blank range.And Nick Stone - ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - is next on the killer's list. He has only two options - fight or flight - but which do you choose when you don't know who you are up against?
A great novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers... They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava and lastly Eve. A lot has happened in the twenty years since. Detectives Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday - two of the leads on the case - have pursued very different paths. Gus has climbed to the heights of Detective Sergeant and built himself a reputation as a very good cop, whilst Dan has been drummed out of the force - his sleaze finally getting too much for his superiors. However, their paths are about to cross again. A boy named Asa - a close friend of Gus's teenage son - has been found in the public park, his skull shattered by gunfire. Now it seems that both men are once again in the path of this disturbed serial killer. THE NIGHT GARDENER is George Pelecanos's stunning crime thriller - the story of two very different men united by the maliciousness of a deadly attacker.
Strafalcioni detti e ascoltati nelle librerie di tutta Italia, capolavori di contorsionismo e virtuosismi su classici di tutte le epoche e ultimissime novità. Capita così a uno sbalordito commesso di sentirsi domandare: "Dove posso trovare "II fu Mattia Bazar" di Luigi Pirandello?" e due minuti dopo: "Cerco un vecchio libro della Fallaci, "Cincillà"". Ma il comico involontario a volte non è il povero cliente, sta dall'altra parte dell'ipotetico bancone. Cliente: "Avete qualcosa sui Monty Python?" Commesso: "Deve chiedere al piano di sotto, settore guide turistiche, reparto alpinismo".
"Sotto Tiberio" è una storia di crimini e inganni che racconta di un uomo chiamato Gesù Cristo. Nei recessi della biblioteca Vaticana viene ritrovato un codice antichissimo, scritto in un latino elegante; narra di un tristissimus hominum, il più tetro fra gli uomini - l'imperatore Tiberio - e di Jesvs, detto Gesù. L'autore che l'ha scritto, nel primo secolo, è Gaio Fulvio Falconio, mandato in esilio da Tiberio nella misera terra di Cesarea. Eppure in quella terra Falconio percepisce subito un'aspettativa diffusa nell'aria, la promessa di una salvezza finale, sancita dal Libro sacro dei Giudei, dopo "un'eternità passata nell'attesa, nel lamento e nel pianto". Tutta una bugia, pensa l'aristocratico romano, ma che potrebbe essere raccolta e rilanciata: con parole nuove, come proprio lui aveva già fatto a Roma con l'imperatore, dando preziosi consigli, scrivendo discorsi costruiti con maestose parole, creando l'illusione di un nuovo dio. Perché non farlo anche qui in Giudea, creare un nuovo profeta e liberarsi di Roma? E per avidità naturalmente, per mungere le nascoste ricchezze di quel deserto. Ed ecco che davanti a lui - tra tutti i malridotti messia possibili, numerosi come mosche - si fa avanti uno strano accattone con gli occhi luminosi. Sono Gesù, dice, "nato dalla sporcizia, figlio del nulla". Insieme faremo miracoli, miracoli per denaro.
