Chris Carter

The terrifying new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I AM DEATH. After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring. The video call request comes from her best friend, Karen Ward. Tanya takes the call and the nightmare begins. Karen is gagged and bound to a chair in her own living room. If Tanya disconnects from the call, if she looks away from the camera, he will come after her next, the deep, raspy, demonic voice at the other end of the line promises her. As Hunter and Garcia investigate the threats, they are thrown into a rollercoaster of evil, chasing a predator who scouts the streets and social media networks for victims, taunting them with secret messages and feeding on their fear.

'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option. Forced to make a sickening choice, Hunter must sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet. The LAPD, together with the FBI, use everything at their disposal to electronically trace the transmission down, but this killer is no amateur, and he has covered his tracks from start to finish. And before Hunter and his partner Garcia are even able to get their investigation going, Hunter receives a new phone call. A new website address. A new victim. But this time the killer has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.

Un cuerpo descuartizado se encuentra frente al aeropuerto internacional de Los Ángeles. En su garganta una nota inserta con un mensaje: Soy la Muerte. El detective Robert Hunter está seguro de saber quien es el asesino. Pero poco a poco se sospecha que el esta persiguiendo al hombre equivocado. Y el verdadero culpable esconde un secreto terrible....

Seven days after being abducted, the body of a twenty-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart, placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she had been tortured and murdered in a most bizarre way. But the surprises don't end there. This killer likes to play, and he left a note lodged inside his victim's throat. Detective Robert Hunter, who leads LAPD's Special Section, Ultra Violent Unit, is assigned the case. But almost immediately a second body turns up. Hunter knows he has to be quick. Surrounded by new challenges as every day passes, Detective Hunter finds himself chasing a monster. A predator whose past hides a terrible secret, whose desire to hurt people and thirst for murder can never be quenched - for he is DEATH.

La amenazante sombra de un hombre de piernas terroríficamente largas. Una mueca fantasmal. El rostro de una mujer deformado por el terror. Lo que debiera haber sido una rutinaria fotografía de pasaporte se convierte en la materia de las peores pesadillas, como un preludio del horrible crimen que ocurrira. El agente especial del FBI Fox Mulder cree que la foto es la tarjeta d identidad del asesino: la grotesca proyeccion de unamente enferma y retorcida. Pero, antes de que pueda probar su teoria, contempla la fotografia de la que sera la siguiente victima del maniaco: su compañera, Dana Scully...

The compulsive new novel from the author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Caller and Gallery of the Dead.AS ADDICTIVE AS A TV BOXSET!'Every story one day comes to an end.'As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University.As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPDs Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter had become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer the FBI had ever encountered. Now, after spending three and a half years locked in solitary confinement, Lucien has finally managed to break free. And hes angry.

Er sagt, du hast keine Wahl. Er sagt, du kannst nur zusehen. Es liegt nicht in deiner Macht, seine Taten zu verhindern. Aber es gibt immer Wege. Und du wirst jeden einzelnen gehen. Bis du ihn gefunde

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery. The suspect claims he is a pawn in a huge labyrinth of lies and deception - can he be believed? The case is immediately handed over to the FBI, but this time they're forced to ask for outside help. Ex-criminal behaviour psychologist and lead Detective with the Ultra Violent Crime Unit of the LAPD, Robert Hunter, is asked to run a series of interviews with the apprehended man. These interviews begin to reveal terrifying secrets that no one could've foreseen, including the real identity of a killer so elusive that no one, not even the FBI, had any idea he existed ...until now.

El cuerpo de una mujer brutalmente asesinada es hallado en una cabaña abandonada en el Parque Nacional de los Los Angeles. Desnuda, atada a dos postes de madera y con la piel del rostro desollada -cuando aún seguía con vida. En la nuca tiene grabado un extraño símbolo, un crucifijo doble: la firma de un psicópata conocido como el Asesino del Crucifijo. Pero no es posible porque el Asesino del Crucifijo fue arrestado y ejecutado dos años atrás. ¿Podría tratarse de un imitador? ¿Alguien que ha tenido acceso a los detalles de los primeros asesinatos, detalles complejos que nunca se hicieron públicos? ¿O acaso, el detective Robert Hunter tendrá que hacer frente a lo inconcebible? ¿Andará aún suelto el auténtico Asesino del Crucifijo, dispuesto a embarcarse de nuevo en una matanza indiscriminada y sádica, eligiendo a sus víctimas al azar y provocando a Hunter, incapaz de cogerle? Robert Hunter y su novicio compañero están a punto de adentrarse en una pesadilla que supera toda imaginación y donde el concepto de una muerte rápida no existe.

A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he's ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit.Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?'Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?' the officer at the end of the line asks. 'Because if you don't . . . I'm sure you will once you get here.'Robert Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene he has ever attended. It is made even more disturbing when the autopsy reveals a poem, left by the killer, inside the body of their victim.Soon, another body is found. The methods and signature of the murder differs, but the level of violence used suggests that the same person is behind both crimes. Hunter's fears are confirmed when a second part of the poem is found.But this discovery does more than just link the two killings - it suggests that this is the work of a serial murderer.With no forensic evidence to go on, Robert Hunter must catch the most disciplined and systematic killer that he has ever encountered, someone who thrives on the victims' fear, and to whom death is a lesson that needs to be taught.From #1 Sunday Times and multi-million copy bestselling author, Chris Carter, comes the most compelling and ruthless Robert Hunter thriller yet.