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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?

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.

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.

Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in...

L'inspecteur Pendergast est désemparé. Sa pupille Constance Greene est parvenue à retourner dans le New York des années 1880 pour sauver sa sœur avant qu'elle serve de cobaye au sinistre Dr Leng, l'ancêtre de Pendergast devenu son pire ennemi.

Having travelled back in time to Victorian-era New York City to save her siblings, Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Dr. Leng, but she is betrayed and left incandescent with rage. Agent Pendergast is determined to assist Constance, who is now on a fanatical quest for vengeance. And Diogenes, Pendergast's brother, also takes a trip out of his own time, offering to help the duo for unexplained reasons of his own.

FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time to New York City in the late 1800s to embark on a dangerous quest: to stop the era's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng from bringing his plans to fruition. If she does, she can finally prevent the events that led to the shocking deaths of her sister and brother. Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Agent Pendergast is desperate to reunite with Constance before she gets stuck in the past forever..

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 fabulous heist: on the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305 - Portland to Seattle - with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night...and into history. A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: 50 years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins - sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.

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...

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 investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has...

En 1987, en el corazón de la selva amazónica, un equipo de científicos encuentra la talla de un enigmático dios adorado por una tribu de salvajes. El extraño ídolo es enviado a Nueva York, donde queda arrumbado en los sótanos de un enorme y antiguo museo. Poco después, los científicos son masacrados por los indígenas y todo el proyecto cae en el olvido.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers...

Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast has come a long way in his time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation - facing down supernatural evils, ancient terrors, and even stepping outside his own timeline to counter a Victorian-era serial killer. Now, venture back to the start of his story, as we learn the truth behind Pendergast's early days with the FBI, and discover the first chilling cases he worked on - all with deadly consequences almost guaranteed.

Pendergast parviendra-t-il à regagner indemne le XXIe siècle ? Dans le New York des années 1880, Constance Greene n'a pu déjouer les plans du Dr Leng, le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Manhattan. Pas plus que l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast n'a su empêcher le savant diabolique de commettre un nouveau forfait. Leng croit avoir gagné la partie, mais il ignore que Diogène, le frère psychopathe de l'inspecteur, a suivi son aîné et qu'il rôde désormais dans les rues du quartier de Five Points.

In New Mexikos Badlands, einer bizarr geformten Wüstenregion, wird das Skelett einer Frau gefunden. Offenbar ist sie nackt in die Wüste gelaufen und qualvoll verdurstet. Ihre Hände halten noch immer zwei seltene Artefakte fest: blitzende Steine, die von den alten Chaco-Völkern zur Götterbeschwörung verwendet wurden. Hat die Frau Selbstmord begangen – oder war sie eine Opfergabe? FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson bittet die Archäologin Nora Kelly um Unterstützung bei dem Fall. Als eine weitere gemarterte Leiche entdeckt wird, deutet alles auf den Beginn einer makabren Serie hin.

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.

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...