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.
En la costa de Maine se encuentra una misteriosa isla en la que, según cuenta la leyenda, hay enterrado desde hace siglos un tesoro de incalculable valor. Pero sobre él pesa una terrible maldición: todos los que han intentado recuperarlo han muerto en extrañas circunstancias.
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security
« Énigmologue » de renommée mondiale, Jeremy Logan s'est spécialisé dans l'investigation et l'interprétation des phénomènes étranges et paranormaux. Mais quand il est recruté par le millionnaire Port
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 Pendergast 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.
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 une
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.
En la decimocuarta entrega de la serie del inspector Pendergast, la siniestra sombra de una venganza ancestral amenaza la vida del agente del FBI.A las nueve y veinte de la noche llaman al timbre de la residencia neoyorquina del agente especial Aloysius Pendergast y la fiel Constance Greene acude a abrir. En el umbral aparece Alban, el hijo de Pendergast, cuyo cuerpo atado con cuerdas gruesas cae estrepitosamente al suelo. Esta muerto. Su padre sale a la calle y persigue sin exito a un sospechoso coche negro. Un informe dictaminara mas tarde que el cadaver no presentaba signos de violencia, ni restos de alcohol o drogas. A Alban le partieron el cuello en un crimen planeado al detalle e impecablemente ejecutado, obra de profesionales.Al dia siguiente el teniente Peter Angler, encargado del caso, habla con el padre de la victima y su actitud le desconcierta. Pendergast le informa de que apenas tenia relacion con su hijo, se declara incapaz de especular sobre las causas del crimen y aparentemente no tiene interes en cooperar con la investigacion policial. Pero, en cuanto llega a casa, Pendergast accede a la base de datos de homicidios no resueltos y localiza los resultados de ADN del llamado Asesino de los Hoteles, cuya brutalidad mantuvo en vilo a Manhattan...
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...
