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Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no one's surprise--especially Troy's--are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington...

Sean Doyle faced danger, death, and other things he'd rather forget during his time in the Counter Terrorist Unit. But times change, even if Doyle doesn't. He's older, but no wiser, and the world he knew has changed. Now, he finds himself working as a private security consultant in Baghdad, still a city in turmoil. His job is to protect the men working on a new rail line from terrorist attacks.

Mack has grown up in an austere and chilly house, dominated by a joyless father. Unable to believe in God, he is far more attracted by the forbidden cartoons on television. Father and son clash fatally one day and it may be guilt which drives Mack to take up a career in the Church. This minister...

Der milliardenschwere Exzentriker Troy Phelan ist lebensmüde. Doch bevor er sich aus dem 13. Stock stürzt, verfasst er ein Testament, in dem er sein gesamtes Vermögen seiner der Familie bis dahin völlig unbekannten, unehelichen Tochter Rachel vermacht. Die Erbin arbeitet als Missionarin im brasilianischen Regenwald und interessiert das Erbe des Vaters nicht. Doch sollte O'Riley sie nicht rechtzeitig umstimmen können, fällt das gesamte Vermögen dem gierigen Phelan-Clan zu.

A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER! A haunted crypt, a bullied boy, and an artist’s will: a benevolent gesture or a satanic curse? When the body of a local artist is found mutilated inside a five-pointed star, DCI Tanner’s attention turns to the disciples of a Satanic cult. But when...

1937: Hitler sent an expedition to Tibet in search of the lost land of Thule. 1941: Himmler spent a huge fortune, and sacrificed the lives of hundreds to turn Wewelsburg Castle in Germany into a shrine to the SS. 2008: Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is astonished to discover that the gentle grandfather he thought he knew was a decorated war hero, serving in the Special Air Service in World War Two. And his grandfather has one more surprise.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
An eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil. They are all brought together by the startling secret of The Testament.

Imprisoned in Nicaragua, an NFL star must escape to the United States to warn the government of an impending terrorist attack - before the sinister forces of the international intelligence community silence him forever.

Habrá quien opine que las andanzas de un asesino no merecen ser incluidas en estas crónicas. Pero solo yo, que poseo una visión global, estoy en disposición de saber qué acontecimientos deben ser narrados. Y la historia del vampiro llamado Sombra tendrá el hueco que le corresponde.

Tal vez un hombre sin alma no sea un hombre. Puede que sea un monstruo, como aseguran algunos, o puede que sea mucho más que un hombre. Ni siquiera yo, que conozco toda la historia, me atrevo a juzgar a un ser único. El Gris, aquel que no tiene alma, es por definición un fenómeno insólito. ¿Cómo describir lo que siente un hombre sin alma? Tal vez ni siquiera se deba intentar.

Be careful which stones you look under ... An innocent walk through the woods turns sinister when Albert and Rex hear a cry for help. A desperate woman is trapped the wrong side of a high fence ... and she is being pursued. What follows is a situation more deadly than any they have faced before...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A disgraced corporate attorney ventures into a potentially lethal jungle, on a job no one wants, in this “entertaining page-turner” (USA Today) from the master of the legal thriller. In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his...

Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise - to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive - as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pursue him.

Llegó el momento de hablar de ella. Yo también me sucumbí a su hermosura, no fui diferente a tantos otros que descubrieron en ella la expresión máxima de la belleza física. Pero Nilia es mucho más que eso.

Tal vez un hombre sin alma no sea un hombre. Puede que sea un monstruo, como aseguran algunos, o puede que sea mucho más que un hombre. Ni siquiera yo, que conozco toda la historia, me atrevo a juzgar a un ser único. El Gris, aquel que no tiene alma, es por definición un fenómeno insólito. ¿Cómo describir lo que siente un hombre sin alma? Tal vez ni siquiera se deba intentar.

When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars - and discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk sinister interests that may be prepared to kill to keep their secrets. Time and tide wait for no man - or woman - and while biology obliges one of Faidate Investigations' team to finally undergo a long-delayed operation, history catches up with another.

Llegó el momento de hablar de ella. Yo también me sucumbí a su hermosura, no fui diferente a tantos otros que descubrieron en ella la expresión máxima de la belleza física. Pero Nilia es mucho más que eso.

From the Number One bestselling author of The Righteous Men comes this staggering religious conspiracy thriller. The Last Testament: It was written. It was lost. It will save us all. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient scroll in a...

Somewhere in Germany was hidden a manuscript that would rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Caspar Schulz. Once a prominent Nazi, and long believed to be dead, Schultz could soon be hailed as the author of the most shattering confessions ever to make print.

Deux soeurs, Apolline et Ursule, naissent à Bordeaux au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, dans un milieu très religieux. Apolline est mise dans un couvent, puis en sort pour retrouver sa soeur mourante et découvrir, à travers un manuscrit, le récit de ses aventures. Ursule, rebaptisée Olympe, a...