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L'agente dell'FBI Aloysius Pendergast ha sempre fatto di tutto per tenere lontano dai guai la collega Constance Greene. Ma stavolta potrebbe essere molto difficile proteggere quella donna straordinaria ed enigmatica. Durante l'ultimo caso, a Savannah, il trio Pendergast, Coldmoon e Greene ha trovato una macchina che consente di viaggiare nel tempo e Greene l'ha usata per catapultarsi nella New York di fine Ottocento, a Five Points, il peggiore dei bassifondi di tutta la città dove lei stessa, quasi un secolo e mezzo prima, ancora bambina, si aggirava infreddolita e vestita di stracci.

Quella della "Spedizione Donner" è una storia vera che ancora oggi risveglia paure ataviche e curiosità morbose. Rimanda al 1846, quando una carovana di pionieri diretti in California rimase bloccata per mesi dalla neve nella Sierra Nevada. Alcuni di loro morirono di stenti dopo poco tempo. Altri, stipati nello spazio soffocante dei carri, portati alla follia dai morsi del freddo e della fame, si abbandonarono al cannibalismo. Quasi nessuno si salvò.

Sulla battigia di Sanibel Island, placida località balneare al largo della costa sudovest della Florida, la mareggiata ha sospinto un insolito tipo di spazzatura: decine di scarpe, restituite dalle onde alla terra, appesantite da un macabro dettaglio che lascia intravedere un gioco incomprensibile, violento, perverso. Né l'FBI, né la Guardia costiera, né le autorità locali sembrano in grado di stabilire a chi appartengano o da dove provengano. Una domanda, in particolare, esige una risposta urgente: le vittime di quel gioco malato sono ancora vive?

Un fermacravatta, otto mozziconi di sigaretta e un castello di teorie. È ciò che si lascia dietro il dirottatore del volo Portland-Seattle che il 24 novembre 1971 ha preso in ostaggio i passeggeri, liberandoli solo a fronte di 200.000 dollari di riscatto. Rimasto sull’aereo, ha poi ordinato al pilota di fare rotta verso Città del Messico e si è paracadutato scomparendo nella notte.

In Polish: A stunning story of the trailblazing expedition into the heart of the most dangerous jungle in the world, full of venomous snakes, jaguars, and sandflies which spread infections. This is were the legendary, cursed City of the Monkey God was supposed to be. Many years of expeditions didn't show any results, until Steve Elkins, a documentalist, discoverer, and laureate of the Emmy Award, managed to find the position of the mistery Pre-Columbian city thanks to the use of modern laser technology.

Bloomsbury presents Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Cynthia Farrell. The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a...

In this latest installment of the number-one NYT best-selling series, FBI Agent Pendergast faces the strangest, most challenging puzzle of his career, when bodies - drained to the last drop of blood - begin appearing in Savannah, GA. A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B...

Gideon Crew n'a plus que quelques mois à vivre. Pourtant, une fois encore, il est contacté par Glinn, le patron de l'EEC- une officine travaillant en sous-main pour le gouvernementaméricain.Gideon- as de l'informatique et cambrioleur à ses heures-, reçoit l'ordre de voler une page d'un...

La nouvelle série du duo de choc Preston & Child (n°1 des ventes du New York Times), mêlant archéologie, suspense et enquête policière, met en scène l'archéologue Nora Kelly et la jeune Corrie Swanson, du FBI. Par Preston & Child les créateurs de l'inspecteur Pendergast. UNE AVENTURE DE...

With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals. Erebus Resort...

Brimstone: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast...

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to...

Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can...

Brought to you by Penguin. A BBC, Financial Times and Cosmopolitan What to Read in 2024 pick Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a...

Dance of Death: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can...

La première enquête de l'inspecteur Pendergast, prequel d'une série de 22 romans vendus à plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Où l'on découvre Aloysius Pendergast, jeune recrue au bureau de la Nouvelle-Orléans du FBI, sur les traces d'un tueur en série qui ampute ses...

Un squelette de femme est découvert dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique. Puis un second... Tout sauf un hasard, les deux jeunes femmes se connaissaient... La nouvelle aventure, la cinquième, de Nora Kelly et Corrie Swanson, du FBI, mêlant archéologie, suspense et enquête policière. La...

Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous “Lost City of the Monkey God” tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that illuminate our past.

An obligatory listen for the lovers of dark thrillers and the character of Aloysius Pendergast. It was supposed to be an easy business - stealing the collection of precious wine can only scare the owner of the cellar. Agent Pendergast and Constance didn't expect to find a walled up human skeleton in the bucolic seaside town of Exmouth. This seemingly idyllic place is hiding a much darker secret connected to the witches who fled Salem in 1692...

A famous writing duo returns with another part of the most unpredictable thriller series. FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast hasn't come back from his latest mission. What's more, Constance was kidnapped from his New York residence. But in the world of agent Pendergast, nothing is what it seems. Constance, in love with Pendergast, will become painfully aware of that truth, as well as Diogenes, Aloysius' brother, whom she hates. Will these two be joined again by some shared business? Is Pendergast still alive? The answers to these nagging questions are hidden in the obsidian chamber.