Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith

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Moscow, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying regime families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? An ambitious secret police offiver, Leo Demidov has spent his career arresting anyone who steps out of line. Suddenly his world is turned upside down when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must risk both their lives to save the lives of others. Inspired by a real-life investigation, Child 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a totalitarian world. It is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.

Für sein Land würde Leo Demidow alles tun. Für seine Frau würde er sterben. Für ihren Tod muss es einen Schuldigen geben. Und Leo wird ihn finden ... Moskau 1950. Der schwarze amerikanische Sänger Jesse Austin besucht die Sowjetunion, um sein idealistisches Bild des Kommunismus zu überprüfen. Damit Austin nicht hinter die Kulissen des für ihn inszenierten Alltags schauen kann, wird ihm Geheimdienstoffizier Leo Demidow an die Seite gestellt. Doch trotz Leos Einsatz kommt es fast zum Eklat. Fünfzehn Jahre später reist Demidows Frau Raisa mit ihren beiden Töchtern nach New York, wo ein Konzert sowjetischer und amerikanischer Schüler für Entspannung im Kalten Krieg sorgen soll. Auch Jesse Austin wurde eine Rolle in dem Spektakel zugewiesen. Der Abend endet mit mehreren Toten, und nur ein Mann weiß, was wirklich geschah: Agent 6. Und eines Tages wird Leo ihn finden.

From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's A Perfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad...I need the police...Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears are realised and a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he demands only one thing: that he is allowed toinvestigate and find the killer who has struck at the heart of his family. Crippled by grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other option than to take matters into his own hands, thousands of miles from the crime scene. In a surprising, thrilling story that spans decades and continents - from the backstreets of 1960s New York to the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s - Leo will stop at nothing as he hunts the one person who knows the truth: Agent 6.

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...

Starring Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Rampling and Jim Broadbent, this gripping, contemporary, emotional thriller from Tom Rob Smith, bestselling author of Child 44 and The Farm, tells the story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds. Danny - gregarious, hedonistic and romantic - falls in love with the enigmatic and brilliant Alex. Then Alex disappears. When Danny finds Alex's body, he is forced to pursue the truth behind his death. This volume of complete scripts is a brilliant companion to the ratings-winning BBC1 series first shown in November 2015 and set for DVD release in May 2016.

If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son...Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad...I need the police...Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer'Stunning' Publishers Weekly'Absolutely captivating' BooklistWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own.There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist... Antarctica.Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.

An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer'Stunning' Publishers Weekly'Absolutely captivating' BooklistWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own.

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. INCLUDING A FOREWORD FROM JOSEPH KANON. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN OVER 30 LANGUAGES An ambitious secret police officer, Leo Demidov believes he's helping to build the perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large - a threat the state won't admit exists - Demidov must risk everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to expose the truth. A THRILLER UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ But what if the danger isn't from the killer he is trying to catch, but from the country he is fighting to protect? Nominated for seventeen international awards and inspired by a real-life investigation, CHILD 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a totalitarian world. From the screenwriter of the acclaimed television series, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY.

What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist Antarctica.Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanitys future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.

En su segunda novela tras el éxito fulgurante de El niño 44, Tom Rob Smith pone al agente secreto de la policía soviética Leo Demidov en el disparadero al sufrir el secuestro de una de sus hijas a ma

Relato trepidante, imposible de abandonar antes del final, esta primera novela del escritor ingles Tom Rob Smith retrata con inusual realismo el ambiente claustrofóbico y la crueldad del estalinismo. Heroe de guerra y agente del servicio de seguridad de la Union Sovietica, Leo Stepanovich Demidov cree ciegamente en la propaganda oficial, que sostiene que su pais es el paraiso de la igualdad y la fraternidad sobre la Tierra, una alianza de ciudadanos libres y trabajadores prosperos que merece la pena defender de sus multiples enemigos con todos los medios imaginables, incluidos la delacion, la represion y el castigo severo a los infractores. Pero el dia que lo obligan a espiar a su propia esposa por supuesta traicion a la patria, a Demidov comienza a caersele la venda de los ojos. En efecto, ni sus condecoraciones ni su inmaculada hoja de servicios le sirven para evitar ser degradado y expulsado de Moscu. Obligado a incorporarse a la milicia en una ciudad industrial, se encuentra con el caso de una serie de asesinatos de niños que las autoridades han dado sospechosamente por cerrado. Con muy poco que perder, y convencido de que un despiadado criminal anda suelto, Demidov se lanza a resolver el misterio por su cuenta, una decision arriesgada que l

Unión Sovietica, 1956: la muerte de Stalin marca el principio del fi n de un sistema donde la policía actuaba como criminales. Aunque Jruschev promete reformar el país, hay fuerzas que no son capaces ni de olvidar ni de reconciliarse con los nuevos tiempos. Leo Demidov, antiguo oficial del Ministerio parala Seguridad Estatal, se enfrenta a su propio pasado. Sus hijas, el y su mujer, se encuentran en un grave peligro: alguien trata de ejecutar despiadadamente su particular venganza.

¿A quien creer? ¿Cómo evitar caer en un juicio equivocado? Del autor de El niño 44, llega este impactante thriller psicológico. Apenas han pasado unas horas desde que la vida de Daniel ha sufrido un vuelco radical. Esa misma mañana, mientras regresaba a casa del supermercado, una llamada inquietante ha roto el hilo de sus pensamientos: Chris, su padre, le informa de que su madre ha sido ingresada en un sanatorio, presa de delirios. Antes siquiera de sobreponerse al impacto, otra llamada igualmente perturbadora estalla en sus oidos. Esta vez es la voz temblorosa de su madre, Tilde, asegurandole que Chris es un mentiroso, que ella no esta loca, que ha salido del centro por su propio pie, pero que teme por su vida y se encuentra de camino a Londres para verlo y explicarselo todo. Asi, en cuestion de horas, Daniel escuchara dos versiones opuestas de la crisis. Con una creciente sensacion de horror, descubrira que bajo la faz de una apacible vida de jubilados, la relacion entre sus padres es de una tension y una paranoia insoportables. Ante su asombro, surgen del pasado secretos familiares, incluso posibles crimenes, y un retrato aterrador de sus seres mas queridos, que lo fuerzan a descifrar la verdad y lo emplazan a la

¿A quién creer? ¿Cómo evitar caer en un juicio equivocado?Del autor de El niño 44, llega este impactante thriller psicológico.Apenas han pasado unas horas desde que la vida de Daniel ha sufrido un vuelco radical. Esa misma mañana, mientras regresaba a casa del supermercado, una llamada inquietante ha roto el hilo de sus pensamientos: Chris, su padre, le informa de que su madre ha sido ingresada en un sanatorio, presa de delirios. Antes siquiera de sobreponerse al impacto, otra llamada igualmente perturbadora estalla en sus oidos. Esta vez es la voz temblorosa de su madre, Tilde, asegurandole que Chris es un mentiroso, que ella no esta loca, que ha salido del centro por su propio pie, pero que teme por su vida y se encuentra de camino a Londres para verlo y explicarselo todo.Asi, en cuestion de horas, Daniel escuchara dos versiones opuestas de la crisis. Con una creciente sensacion de horror, descubrira que bajo la faz de una apacible vida de jubilados, la relacion entre sus padres es de una tension y una paranoia insoportables. Ante su asombro, surgen del pasado secretos familiares, incluso posibles crimenes, y un retrato aterrador de sus seres mas queridos, que lo fuerzan a descifrar la verdad y lo emplazan a la dificil decision de tomar partido por uno de ellos.¿A quien creer? ¿Como evitar caer en un juicio equivocado? ¿Acaso su vida ha sido una gran mentira? A Daniel no le queda otro remedio que volar a Suecia e investigar por su cuenta, aunque su propia identidad pueda salir dañada por la verdad.La critica ha dicho... Innovadora en su estructura y estilisticamente impactante, La granja supone un logro sorprendente. Jeffery DeaverSmith ha construido una historia inteligente y fascinante; una que toma caminos inesperados para hacer mas compleja y profunda su milimetrada trama.The Seattle TimesLa granja es una novela tan buena que la devoraras con avidez y luego sentiras envidia de todo aquel que aun no la haya leido.The Independent¿Puede haber algo mas perturbador que descubrir que no puedes confiar en tu propiamadre? Quiza sea descubrir que no puedes confiar en tu propio padre. Esta es la trama de La granja, un thriller psicologico que indaga en el miedo a perder a un padre.New York Times Book Review