David Baldacci

MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN ESTADOS UNIDOSEl autor superventas n.º 1 del New York Times presenta a una extraordinaria nueva protagonista que deberá enfrentarse al mismo tiempo a nuevas amenazas... y a antiguas pesadillas.Atlee Pine vive marcada por la terrible experiencia que vivio en su infancia: cuando tenia seis años, un desconocido secuestro a su hermana gemela, Mercy, y nadie volvio a verla nunca mas. Tres decadas despues, Atlee se ha convertido en una agente del FBI con extraordinarias capacidades, rebelde, valiente y autosuficiente.Sin embargo, entre sus muchas cualidades no figuran la misericordia o la capacidad de perdonar. Su cometido es perseguir y atrapar a criminales en la zona del Gran Cañon, que conoce al detalle.Cuando se produce una extraña muerte por apuñalamiento en un area frecuentada por turistas, Atlee es apartada del caso abruptamente y debera decidir entre cumplir las ordenes o arriesgar su carrera para tratar de averiguar la verdad.La critica ha dicho: Un thriller epico: de ritmo vertiginoso, trazado con maestria y vividamente ambientado en el Gran Cañon y sus alrededores. Desde el primer capitulo hasta el ultimo giro, esta novela te cautiva por completo. Un debut impresionante que promete convertirse en una gran serie. La agente Pine es uno de esos personajes eternos.Douglas Preston

Un caso abierto en un pueblo lleno de secretos en el que desenterrar el pasado puede ser mucho más peligroso de lo que parece.Hace treinta años la hermana gemela de la agente del FBI Atlee Pine fue secuestrada. Tenia solo siete años y, aunque todo el mundo da por hecho que fue asesinada, para Atlee es un caso que no dara por cerrado hasta descubrir que ocurrio. Unas vacaciones forzosas la llevan de vuelta a su antiguo hogar y Atlee reune algunas pistas con los recuerdos de personas que conocieron a la familia. Sus padres, abrumados por la culpa, se separaron tras la tragedia; el padre acabo suicidandose, y poco despues la madre la abandono. La aparicion del cadaver de una mujer en plena calle cubierta con un velo de novia la obliga a dejar a un lado su investigacion y a concentrarse en atrapar al asesino antes de que vuelva a actuar.La critica ha dicho: Secretos y giros en casi cada pagina... una historia con aires goticos. Un relato brillante que te mantendra despierto mas alla de la medianoche.Providence JournalUn misterio criminal que asusta.Associated PressBaldacci firma una nueva novela con una trama llena de giros en la que las paginas avanzan practicamente solas. Su estilo invita al lector a entrar en la accion rapidamente, de la que no pueden escapar en un recorrido salvaje. Baldacci se guarda la mayor sorpresa para el final, un momento culminante e inesperado con el que deja a sus lectores expectantes hasta su proximo libro.BookReporter.comPocos autores son capaces de enganchar a sus lectores tanto y tan rapido como David Baldacci.The Real Book SpyBaldacci es un maestro de los thrillers llenos de giros y vueltas, mantiene al lector en tension hasta el final, donde le espera una gran sorpresa.Florida Times-Union

Eigentlich sollte Jack der glucklichste Mensch der Welt sein, hat er doch gerade erst eine todliche Krankheit besiegt. Doch er kann sich nicht recht daruber freuen, zu sehr schmerzt die Trauer um seine kurzlich verstorbene Frau Lizzie. Nunbleiben ihm nur noch seine drei Kinder. Doch die wollen nichts mehr von ihm wissen. Um das Familiengluck zu retten, beschliet Jack, mit ihnen den Sommer an der Kuste von South Carolina zu verbringen - so, wie Lizzie es sich immer gewunschthatte. Dabei muss er die Erfahrung machen, dass einige Wunden nur langsam heilen. Und manche sogar nie.

In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters. FACE OFF includes the first meeting of Ian Rankin's Rebus and Peter James' Roy Grace; a case for Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, as well as a page-turning mystery starring Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Joseph Finder's Nick Heller. Edited by international bestseller David Baldacci, this exclusive page-turning collection is one of a kind. Read on to discover the full list of author and character pairings: Lee Child's Jack Reacher + Joseph Finder's Nick Heller Ian Rankin's John Rebus + Peter James' Roy Grace Michael Connelly's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch + Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme + John Sanford's Lucas Davenport Linwood Barclay's Glen Garber + Raymond Khoury's Sean Reilly Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper + Steve Martini's Paul Madriani Steve Berry's Cotton Malone + James Rollins' Gray Pierce Lisa Gardner's D.D. Warren + MJ Rose's Malachai Samuels T. Jefferson Parker's Joe Trona and John Lescroart's Wyatt Hunt Heather Graham's Michael Quinn + F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child's Aloysius Pendergast + R.L. Stine's Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy

Government operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel are faced with a lethal mission. An attack from North Korea looks likely as US involvement in an attempted coup is revealed, and a bond of trust has been broken at the very highest level. Chung-Cha is a young woman who was raised in the infamous Yodok concentration camp. It's a place where honour, emotion and compassion don't exist. Cold, calculating and highly skilled, Chung-Cha has been trained to kill. And the task she has been given is to destroy the enemy at all costs. A dangerous and deadly operation of cat and mouse plays out between East and West. But who will be the hunter and who will be the hunted when the true target is finally revealed ...?

From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author, David Baldacci, The Escape is the third title in this fast-paced, breathtaking series.Military CID investigator John Puller has returned from his latest case to learn that his brother, Robert, once a major in the United States Air Force and an expert in nuclear weaponry and cyber-security, has escaped from the Army's most secure prison. Preliminary investigations show that Robert - convicted of treason - may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run, and he's the military's number one target.John Puller has a dilemma. Which comes first: loyalty to his country, or to his brother? Blood is thicker than water, but Robert has state secrets which certain people will kill for. John does not know for sure the true nature of Robert's crimes, nor if he's even guilty. It quickly becomes clear, however, that his brother's responsibilities were powerful and far-reaching.With the help of US intelligence officer Veronica Knox, both brothers move closer to the truth from their opposing directions. As the case begins to force John Puller into a place he thought he'd never be - on the other side of the law - even his skills as an investigator, and his strength as a warrior, might not be enough to save him. Or his brother.

The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that the two assassins succeed, but that they do not survive. As they prepare for their mission, Reel faces a personal crisis that could well lead old enemies right to her doorstep, resurrecting the ghosts of her earlier life and bringing stark danger to all those close to her. And all the while, Robie and Reel are stalked by a new adversary: an unknown and unlikely assassin, a woman who has trained her entire life to kill, and who has her own list of targets--a list that includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel.

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack. Enter Harper Brown. An agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she orders Decker to back off the case. The murder is part of an open DIA investigation, one so classified that Decker and his team aren't cleared for it. But they learn that the DIA believes solving the murder is now a matter of urgent national security. Critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government--or worse, an international terrorist group--and an attack may be imminent.Decker's never been one to follow the rules, especially with the stakes so high. Forced into an uneasy alliance with Agent Brown, Decker remains laser focused on only one goal: solving the case before it's too late.

One man demands justice . . .John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father - a highly decorated army veteran - may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrives on the scene, he realizes that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother - even if it means proving that his father is a killer.. . . the other seeks revengePaul Rogers has just been paroled after spending ten years in a high-security prison for murder. And with his freedom comes a desire to pay back old debts. Harbouring a dark past that changed him in unimaginable ways, Rogers embarks on a journey across the country, set on a path of revenge against the people who took away his humanity.

No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past. One man demands justice ...John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father - a highly decorated army veteran - may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrives on the scene, he realizes that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother - even if it means proving that his father is a killer...the other seeks revenge Paul Rogers has just been paroled after spending ten years in a high-security prison for murder. And with his freedom comes a desire to pay back old debts. Harbouring a dark past that changed him in unimaginable ways, Rogers embarks on a journey across the country, set on a path of revenge against the people who took away his humanity. As both men uncover a trail of deception that stretches back decades, they soon realize that the truth will bind them together in ways they could never have imagined.

Un projet unique dans le monde du noir et un concept simple : 2 auteurs, parmi les plus grandes voix actuelles du genre, font se rencontrer leurs héros respectifs en dehors de leurs romans et de leur cadre habituel. Au menu par exemple : un crime dans le monde de la musique pris en charge par Roy Grace et John Rebus qui les amene d'Edimbourg a Brighton, ou encore l'enquete qui conduit Harry Bosch de L. A a Boston ou il rencontrera Patrick Kenzie, enquetant sur la meme affaire, mais pour des raisons differentes. 11 aventures inedites pour les fans du genre et pour tous les autres !

Baldacci, DavidSummoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.

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