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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, awash in wealth and decadence... An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning... An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most--himself...

In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City, a charnel house is discovered. Inside are...

White Fire: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers mysterious connections between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a fabled, long-lost Sherlock...

Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she...

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by...

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence...

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe...

Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she...

The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At 4,000 tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new...

IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect...

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately...

Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West...

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTH A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. It begins with murder. One of...

A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes. A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene...