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The world's biggest supercollider, the Torus, was built to rreveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or is it an attempt to challenge God on the very throne of heaven?

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, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: In ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse-far worse-than mere Armageddon.

A brilliant FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori

Un hombre ha sido asesinado en Nuevo México. Antes de morir le ha entregado a Tom Broadbent una libreta llena de mensajes cifrados. Un monje, ex criptoanalista de la CIA, intentará descifrar su contenido, mientras unos desconocidos acechan a Tom, que comprende que está en peligro de muerte. Tráfico de información, científicos sin escrúpulos. Una sólida intriga que conduce a un hallazago sin precedentes: un tiranosaurio en perfecto estado de conservación que podrá explicar, entre otras cosas, por qué se extinguieron los dinosaurios.

El agente del FBI está encarcelado por culpa de su hermano, el malvado Diógenes, mientras este prepara su golpe más espectacular: una masacre en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Nueva York el día de la inauguración de la tumba de Senef, recién restaurada por nuestra vieja conocida Nora Kelly. ¿Podrá Pendergast evitar la catástrofe y derrotar definitivamente al maléfico Diógenes?

Una cómica parábola sobre la similitud entre simios y humanos. Desde que llegó a casa ha sido una hija más para la familia Archibald. Pero cuando esta mona que sabe conversar, que conoce el lenguaje de los signos y tiene sentido del humor, llega a la pubertad y, con esta, a experimentar los primeros deseos sexuales, comienzan los problemas. Porque a Jennie no le gustan los monos que le traen como pretendientes, sino los humanos. Se rescata asi la primera novela de Douglas Preston, un encantador e inteligente relato donde ciencia y aventura se dan la mano.

A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes.A seemingly quotidian private case turns out to be more sinister than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have imagined.Pendergast, with his ward Constance Greene, has arrived in Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the cellar, they find something considerably more macabre: a bricked-up niche clearly built to hold a body, now suspiciously bare. Could it be the robbers real aim was to remove a mouldering skeleton?Exmouth is a town with a grim past, and this skeleton may be testament to an ancient transgression. When a murdered corpse is discovered in the surrounding salt marshes, Pendergast will have to wonder if the sins of the past live on...

A corpse, stiff with rigor mortis and bound in heavy ropes, has been dumped on the doorstep of FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast.The murder has the hallmarks of the perfect crime - no witnesses, no motive, no evidence - save for one enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California''s desolate Salton Sea where an ingenious killer is determined to make him pay for the long-buried sins of his forefathers.But Pendergast already knows what is at stake, for the dead man left on his doorstep wasn''t just anyone, it was his son.

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, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts.Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches'' colony, long believed to be abandoned?A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town-one with deep roots in Exmouth''s grim history. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face...

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCEAfter a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.A SHOCKING RETURNSick with grief, Pendergasts ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive--only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNTProctor, Pendergasts longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constances kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late...

Douglas Preston Lincoln ChildDarkness - Wettlauf mit der ZeitEine neuer Fall fur Special Agent PendergastEin eigenartiger Geruch stromte ins Zimmer, erdig, wie verrottete Pilze. Die Luft schien dicker zu werden, sich zusammenzuziehen und zu etwas Dichterem zu verklumpen. Und dann begann es, sich zu bewegen In einem tibetischen Kloster will Aloysius Pendergast endlich Frieden finden, doch den Monchen wird eine Reliquie gestohlen, die in den falschen Handen zu einer gefahrlichen Waffe werden kann. Pendergasts Ermittlungen fuhren ihn nach London und auf das Kreuzfahrtschiff Britannia. Der Dieb ist mit der Reliquie an Bord und kurz nach dem Auslaufen wird fur die ahnungslosen Passagiere aus dem geplanten Luxusurlaub ein wahrer Hollentrip Der neue Bestseller des Erfolgsduos Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

Douglas PrestonCredo. Das letzte GeheimnisThrillerDarf der Mensch es wagen, die Geheimnisse Gottes zu entschlusseln?In einem geheimen Labor geschieht das Unfassbare: Wissenschaftler finden einen Weg, mit Gott zu kommunizieren!Aber ist das tatsachlich moglich? Wahrend ein TV-Prediger die Offentlichkeit gegen die Blasphemie aufhetzt, versucht Spezialermittler Wyman Ford im Auftrag der Regierung herauszufinden, was wirklich in der Forschungseinrichtung geschieht. Ihm bleibtnur wenig Zeit, denn vor den Toren des Labors formiert sich ein wutender, zu allem entschlossener Mob