This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. These six feverishly unsettling works showcase some of the best suspense from prolific author, Joyce Carol Oates.
Jason Bourne returns in this stunning new thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, continuing Robert Ludlum's classic series.
London, 1930. A spate of violent deaths, the details too foul to print, has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake - the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge - is on the killer's trail. This is the first in a new series which combines a sharply observed sense of period with a pace that is bang up-to-date.
«BADLANDS»PARADISE VALLEY» F: CALMAN-LEVY He's the Lizard King a serial killer who haunts North America's highways and truck stops, preying on runaways and prostitutes. After years on the road, he's tired. The net is closing around him. It's time to end it.
For three years, Chief Investigator Cassandra 'Cassie' Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she has come close to taking him, but this time she surely has him. The trap is set and baited.
What happens next will cost three policemen their lives and Cassie her job. But she can't give up the hunt she refuses to believe the charred body they pull from the flames is the Lizard King's. Tracking two missing fourteen-year-old boys, Cassie alone takes to the road. A road from which, quite possibly, there is no return. A road that ends in Paradise Valley.
Paris, 1943. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Soldiers clad in field grey patrol the streets. Buildings have been renamed, books banned, art stolen and people disappeared. Amongst the missing is an Allied intelligence cell. Gone to ground? Betrayed? Dead? Britain's Special Operations Executive need to find out.
Michael North is a hero, with a bullet in the brain to prove it. It has rewired his neural pathways and heightened his sense of intuition. Working for an extra-governmental agency called The Board, North knows one thing for sure, he is very good at killing bad guys. But what happens when a hero is ordered to kill a good woman rather than a bad man? This is a very powerful political thriller.
The new thriller from Swedish crime writer of the year, Stefan Ahnhem, who has been described as more gripping than Jo Nesbø, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.
Red Rover, the blackest of black ops teams, is finished betrayed on a mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi deep in Pakistan. One of the team was killed, the remaining two barely escaped alive. This is the start of a new series that takes us into the dark heart of a terrifying conspiracy that threatens to change the balance of power across the globe.
An explosive mix of action and suspense, NEST is a landmark paranormal thriller from worldwide bestselling author Terry Goodkind. A dangerous journey to the back alleys of the darknet, to the darkest corners of our minds, and to the very origins of what it is to be human.
Rosa committed suicide 5 years ago. She was a brilliant young Cambridge student who had just lost her father, so her death was tragic but not unexpected. But is she really gone? Her boyfriend doesn't think so and one day gets an email from her. Find Me is an absorbing and intricately plotted thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.
Joe Pickett always knew there'd be a day of reckoning. Two years ago, his daughter was beaten and dumped by the side of a country road. Joe's determination to avenge her forced him into a catastrophic confrontation with the Cates clan that left three of them dead and put the two survivors behind bars. Now the youngest son is out of prison and back in town. Joe knows exactly why he's returned.
JENNY AARON # 1 Jenny Aaron was once part of an elite police unit tracking Germany's most dangerous criminals. She was the best. Until it all went wrong. A disastrous mission saw her abandon a wounded colleague and then lose her sight forever.
Now, five years later, she has learnt to navigate a darkened world. But she's still haunted by her betrayal. Why did she run?
Then she receives a call from the unit. They need her back. A prison psychologist has been brutally murdered. And the killer will only speak to one person...
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his 'white static', the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in the wild, sleeping under the stars.
But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he makes an unexpected discovery: a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives
Standalone, 2017, noch ô dt., Michael Tanner kommt zufälligerweise in den Besitz eines Laptops, ausgerechnet von einem US-Senatoren, der heikle Dateien enthält.
Der Senator tut alles dafür, diesen Laptop wieder zu erhalten.
Amerikanischer Autor, "Nick Heller-Novels" Michael Tanner is heading home from a business trip when he picks up the wrong laptop at airport security. The computer he takes home belongs to US senator Susan Robbins, and it contains top secret files that should never have been on there in the first place. With her career in politics on the line, Senator Robbins is determined to get her laptop back, whatever the cost...
Tanner is now a hunted man. But with the government against him, who can he trust to help him?