A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation- Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world. The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy couple - they were Eden's first perfect match. Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quick - and quiet - investigation into the deaths. Lash's investigation inadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has kept at bay for years, and his involvement becomes more personal and dangerous than he could have imagined. When a second Eden 'super-couple' is found dead, Richard Silver, the company's brilliant and reclusive founder, has no choice but to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets
Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction's most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D' Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal - one who has had 20 years to plan the world's most ...
Lincoln Child, esta vez en solitario, nos ofrece un relato tremendamente imaginativo y trepidante con buenas dosis de ficción científica, en torno a la inteligencia artificial. Tras el éxito de Edén, una agencia matrimonial informatizada que se precia de ser inafalible, se encuentra un superordenador que quizás ha empezado a pensar por su cuenta. Mientras tanto, comienzan a producirse los primeros sucidios de las parejas de Edén...
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.
Un científico suicida, una habitación olvidada y un proyecto secreto: un nuevo reto para el enigmatólogo Jeremy Logan en esta cuarta entrega de la serie techno-thriller más inquietante
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...
A long-lost experiment of unknown intent. . . A hidden room in a vast seaside estate. . . An investigator marked for danger. . . On a sprawling estate on the coast of Rhode Island, at the nations oldest and most prestigious think tank, an unfathomable tragedy takes place. No one knows what to make of the disturbing evidence left behind. Then reports begin to surface of increasingly bizarre behavior among the organizations distinguished scientists. Called upon to investigate these strange happenings, history professor and analyst of inexplicable phenomena Jeremy Logan comes across an ingeniously concealed room in a long-dormant wing of the mansion. What he discovers within may provide answersand, in the process, unleash a new wave of catastrophe.
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 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.
El misterio que rodea a la mujer de Pendergast se hace cada vez m#s impenetrable y el inspector descubre que en realidad no sab#a casi nada del pasado de su esposa. Despu#s de averiguar que la muerte de su esposa Helen no fue un accidente, el agente especial del FBI Aloysius Pendergast tiene una sola meta en la vida: la venganza. Implacable, persigue a los que lo traicionaron por las marismas de Louisiana, las calles de Nueva York y hasta los p#ramos desolados de Escocia. Sin embargo, lo que descubre solo le enturbia su visi#n de lo sucedido: Helen podr#a haber sido part#cipe de su propio asesinato. Las capas del embrollo son m#ltiples y esconden un complot cuyo origen se encuentra generaciones atr#s y que parece ser m#s monstruoso de lo que jam#s pudiera haber imaginado. Pendergast percibe que todo lo que cre#a y todo lo que entend#a podr#a basarse en una mentira horrenda. Nada es lo que parece.
