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Fever Dream: An Agent Pendergast Novel Fever Dream: An Agent Pendergast Novel
Автор: Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 2013
   At the family home in Louisiana, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is laying to rest his wife's possessions — a job he's been putting off since her tragic death twelve years ago. But whilst examining her property, he makes a startling discovery — one that leads him to believe Helen's death was not accidental... With the help of his trusted friend Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's final days. It's a journey that takes him deep into the dark heart of her past, to a hidden obsession and top-secret information that some people would do anything to protect. But as the hunt for Helen's murderer ventures into the Bayou, Pendergast find himself faced with a killer question: just who was the woman he married?
 
Impact Impact
Автор: Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2013
   Wyman Ford is called up for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. Meanwhile, a brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast. Two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island anxious to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated and the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of the crater on Mars — and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting...' A superb read! Thoughtful and flat-out entertainment — a page-turning thriller. You'll be up all night with this book' — Jeffery Deaver on Blasphemy.
 
The Wheel of Darkness The Wheel of Darkness
Автор: Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 2010
   Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world A stunning dance of death and mystery, “The Wheel Of Darkness” takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet.
 
Tyrannosaur Canyon Tyrannosaur Canyon
Автор: Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 2010
   A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galatic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest United States known as... Tyrannosaur Canyon? The stunning new masterwork from the acclaimed bestselling author recently hailed by «Publishers Weekly» as 'better than Crichton'.
 
Thunderhead Thunderhead
Автор: Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2001 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 2009
   Explorers have always been captivated by the search for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold. Nora Kelly's father vanished during one expedition 16 years earlier and now the young archaeologist is on a quest to discover what happened to him.
 
Ice Limit Ice Limit
Автор: Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 2013
   In the desolate reaches of southern-most Chile, a remarkable discovery has been made. It is a massive meteorite whose very existence will change science and perhaps mankind. When an expedition is sent out strange things start to happen.
 
Still Life with Crows Still Life with Crows
Автор: Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2004 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 2008
   Medicine Creek, Kansas. In a town where nothing changes, where Main Street is a two-block stretch of old and dusty businesses, a peculiar and ghastly murder has taken place. The body was mutilated and placed carefully in an elaborate tableau in the middle of the endless cornfields. Cool-eyed and smooth FBI Agent Pendergast arrives to discover a community in terror, a community he must turn inside out to find the killer who can only be one of them. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family-before the killer strikes again.
 
Cemetery Dance Cemetery Dance
Автор: Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 500 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 2011
   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 Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbour — a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private — and decidedly unorthodox — quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived...
 
The Monster of Florence The Monster of Florence
Автор: Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2009 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2011
   The mass market edition of New York Times bestselling author Doug Preston's hugely successful nonfiction crime story written in the vein of such commercially successful and high quality books as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In the tradition of the popular, upscale nonfiction of John Berendt and Erik Larson, Preston presents a gripping real-life account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.
 

 

 

 

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