Lincoln Child

In downtown Manhattan, workers on a construction site breach a long-forgotten basement, unearthing a charnel house: thirty-six bodies, systematically dismembered and carefully immured at least 130 years ago.Its just the kind of case to intrigue the unorthodox and enigmatic FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast. But hes not the only interested party. Soon after the bodies are discovered a killer strikes. Their victims corpse bears the same precise mutilations as the bodies in the basement.The nightmare has begun. Again.Fast-moving, sophisticated and bursting with surprises ... Theres nothing else like them WASHINGTON POST.Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life DAVID BALDACCI.

Behind the gates of a fabulous Hamptons estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast comes upon the carnage of a gruesome and seemingly supernatural crime. The smouldering remains of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. The hoofprint singed into the floorboards and the smell of brimstone recall the legendary horrors that befall those who make a pact with the Devil.Pendergast combs New York, hoping for a simple explanation: a villain who is merely human. But his search takes him beyond the exclusive clubs and luxury penthouses of Manhattan to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where 30 years before four men may have conjured something unspeakable.

Two skeletonized corpses are pulled from the sewage-choked waters of Manhattans Humboldt Kill. Both are headless, their bones scored with teethmarks. It is by no means certain the teethmarks are postmortem.Believing that the bodies must have been washed out of the citys sewers, Lieutenant Vincent DAgosta of the NYPD, FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and anthropologist Dr Margo Green descend into a dark labyrinth of tunnels and subterranean galleries forgotten by those who walk the streets above. They will be led deep underground, far from the light, to confront their very worst fear...A collision between past and present that will leave you breathless LEE CHILD.A positively delicious serving. Great fun to the last page ANNE RICE.

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE.After 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, pursuing Constances kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN THIS WORLD, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred and it may already be too late...

Un nuevo thriller de los autores Preston & Child con la ingeniería genética de fondo.En el desierto de Nuevo México, un enigmático centro de investigación lleva a cabo un ambicioso proyecto cient

60 SOUTH:NOTHING BUT SEA, ICE AND UNFETTERED STORMS.BUT TWO MILES DOWN, SOMETHING IS STIRRING.Five years ago, Eli Glinn led a mission to recover a 25,000-ton meteorite the largest ever discovered from a remote island off the coast of South America. It ended in disaster when their ship foundered and broke apart in a vicious storm.But now, two miles down in dark Antarctic waters, something is growing. A vast, grotesque structure is simultaneously reaching up towards the waves and burrowing deep into the sea floor. Eli Glinns worst fear has been realised. He has no choice but to return to the Southern Ocean and attempt to annihilate an entity that threatens the existence of the planet.But, as he will discover, the entity has no intention of going quietly.

En esta nueva aventura, Gideon Crew se enfrenta al caso más peligroso de su historia. "Esa cosa está creciendo de nuevo. Hay que destruirla. Y hay que hacerlo ya." Hace cinco años Eli Glinn trató de recuperar un meteorito gigantesco de una isla remota en el cabo de Hornos, en la punta de Sudamerica. La mision acabo en desastre, pues su embarcacion se hundio en una tormenta salvaje en aguas antarticas y arrastro el cargamento a las profundidades del oceano. Perecieron mas de cien tripulantes, y Eli Glinn quedo paralitico. El meteorito, sin embargo, no era una simple piedra. Ese organismo complejo llegado del espacio ha echado raices en el fondo marino y esta creciendo. O se destruye o el planeta esta condenado. La ºnica esperanza es que Glinn y su equipo lo aniquilen, tarea para la que requieren la experiencia de Gideon en armas nucleares. No obstante, pronto descubriran que el "meteorito" tiene ideas propias y entre ellas no se haya quedarse tranquilo.

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler. There's no such thing as too great a risk for a man living on borrowed time. Gideon Crew is out of a job. It is the least of his worries: his doctor has just told him he has only months to live. His employer, Effective Engineering Solutions, has shut up shop; its enigmatic boss has disappeared without a trace. There's no other option for Gideon and his colleagues but to clear their desks. And that's when Gideon and Manuel Garza discover a computer programme that, left running for five years, has finally cracked the code it was attacking. It has deciphered the infamously enigmatic hieroglyphs of the Phaistos Disk. For a century, the ancient stone tablet defied interpretation, but now Gideon and Manuel have a lead on an undiscovered civilization, long-lost beneath the sands of the Egyptian Sahara. As a man doomed by an inevitably fatal brain syndrome, Crew needs little persuasion to embark on one final adventure. 'Relentless mayhem ... [A] thrill-a-minute read' KIRKUS REVIEWS. 'Their most expertly executed entertainment yet ... A big-boned thriller, one that will make a terrific movie' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Descente en enfer Au moment où l'inspecteur du FBI, Aloysius Pendergast, est sur le point de retrouver sa femme Hélène, elle est kidnappée sous ses yeux dans Central Park. Il se lance alors dans

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is anticipating a further discovery, the first of its kind in history: Narmer's famed crown, supposedly possessed of mythical powers, is thought to be buried with him.The dig is located in the Sudd, a nearly impassable swamp in northern Sudan and one of the most forbidding places on earth. And amid the nightmarish tangle of mud and dead vegetation, a series of harrowing and seemingly inexplicable occurrences has the team living in fear of a centuries-old curse. With a monumental discovery at stake, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions...and alarm.With The Third Gate, master storyteller Lincoln Child breaks new ground and introduces a fascinating new protagonist to the thriller genre.

En los profundos abismos oceánicos se oculta el mayor hallazgo arqueológico de todos los tiempos: la legendaria Atlántida... ¿o el origen de todo mal?Los trabajadores de una plataforma petrolífera en pleno Atlántico Norte están contrayendo graves enfermedades causantes de brotes psicóticos. El doctor Crane sospecha que todo ello está relacionado con la Deep Storm, una nave submarina de investigación científica que aparentemente ha dado con la legendaria Atlántida. Pero Crane está cada vez más seguro de que dicho hallazgo es una tapadera que encubre algo mucho más siniestro… y mortífero. Aventura en estado puro, con giros argumentales espectaculares y una sólida base científica. El tema de la Atlántida y de las investigaciones submarinas despierta gran interés entre los lectores.

Qui, sinon le Malin, a tué Jeremy Grove, le critique d'art dont le corps calciné a été retrouvé dans le grenier de sa demeure. fermé de l'intérieur ? Une chaleur suffocante, une insoutenable odeur de soufre et, surtout, reconnaissable entre toutes, cette empreinte de pied fourchu. Lorsqu'un deuxième cas tout aussi mystérieux de combustion spontanée est signalé, le doute n'est plus permis. Sauf pour l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast, du FBI, qui ne peut accepter cette hypothèse effrayante.

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

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En una larga bóveda olvidado en el New York Museum of Natural History descansa un tesoro: la tumba de Senef, durante la campaña napoleónica en Egipto en el Valle de los Reyes fue descubierta. Ahora, de nuevo abierto al público - pero cuando el trabajo de restauración, hay un muerto. ¿Es la primera víctima de una antigua maldición? Agente especial Aloysius Pendergast tiene otra sospecha: El crimen lleva el manuscrito de un helado maníacos igualmente brillante. Y esto se aplica a nadie más que su propio hermano Diógenes ...