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Un crimen terrible, un detective profesional y una chica misteriosa ocuparán a Flanagan en esta aventura. Una noche es asesinado el párroco del barrio, un anciano tan bondadoso e inofensivo que resulta inconcebible que alguien pudiera tener algo en su contra. Oriol Lahoz, detective y culpable a los ojos de todos, contratará a Flanagan como ayudante para desenmascarar al auténtico asesino.

Los autores Fernando Ángel Moreno y Gabriel Díaz ponen patas arriba el género del thriller franquista con esta obra de apariencia sobrenatural en la que un agente del gobierno en el Madrid de los años sesenta intenta desentrañar el misterio de la inexplicable muerte de un niño. En su investigación se cruzarán desde conspiraciones a espías en una historia tan negra y ácida como la propia España que fue y sigue siendo.

The daughter of an American politician has been kidnapped by white supremacists in Namibia. The kidnappers are demanding their own homeland in the heart of Africa and want to use the girl as leverage. The American government can’t agree to the demands but are reluctant to mount a high profile rescue mission. They need a deniable operation, and who better than the SAS to do the dirty work?

The final classic radio adventures of The Green Hornet were crafted for their times. In these exciting episodes, the Green Hornet (portrayed by Jack McCarthy) and Kato (Paul Carney) combat communism and communist sympathizers, take down crooked politicians, and smash rackets on the waterfront.

Ciudad de Dios es, a su vez, producto de un estudio de la antropóloga Alba Zaluar sobre la favela Ciudad de Dios, de donde el autor de esta obra fue su habitante. Asimismo, Lins fue integrante del equipo de investigación de Zaluar. De ahí que estas páginas sean una fiel mirada sociológica sobre el fenómeno que aquejó a la sociedad carioca en la década de los noventa, cuando explotó una caótica guerra por la droga.

Azul marino, última novela de la serie policiaca de Rosa Ribas y Sabine Hofmann, cierra magistralmente la trilogía protagonizada por la joven periodista Ana Martí. Barcelona, 1959. Mientras la Sexta Flota norteamericana permanece fondeada en el puerto, alterando la rutina de una ciudad en plena dictadura, un marinero estadounidense es asesinado en un antro del Barrio Chino en lo que a primera vista no parece más que una simple reyerta arrabalera.

The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself - entering a host’s body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military’s breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing forces trying to steal it. What’s more, a single man has somehow harnessed the new power and has become something more than human - godlike.

They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change’s extreme weather conditions have brought about a “perfect storm” of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year. The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and a strangely benevolent cult tries to keep everyone insanely sane. Here, plutocratic evil takes advantage of Stormland’s lawlessness.

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And no one is a better friend than hitman-for-hire Lex Harper. When a mate from his past ends up in a Bolivian prison, Harper doesn’t think twice about going to his aid. Beatings, rapes and murders are an everyday occurrence in the prison. But the only way to break his friend out is for Harper to put his own life on the line, in a place where death comes quickly and only the strong survive. Getting into the prison is easy enough – but can Harper get out? And how many people will he have to kill to make it back?

En mitad del desierto de Tejas se levanta un pequeño pueblo, tranquilo, cuya comunidad vive en paz y sosiego cuando un crimen despierta viejos temores. Woods Lane comienza a sufrir en sus propias carnes una serie de acontecimientos difíciles de controlar por los agentes de la oficina del Sheriff.

Argentina, en el periodo inmediatamente anterior a la sangrienta dictadura de Videla, un grupo parapolicial, bajo el nombre de la Triple A (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina), se está encarnizando con todo aquel que osa oponerse a los designios del hombre fuerte del país: José López Rega, apodado el Brujo por su afición a la magia negra.

Hadley was on the run, seeking safety from a man she once vowed to love forever. Becoming a club girl for the Brothers by Blood MC guaranteed her protection, and at the same time, allowed her to embrace her sexuality with no judgments or guilt. Only things weren't as simple as she'd anticipated. She never expected Leo and his curly haired daughter to steal her heart, and for emotions to come into play. Could she risk her life on the chance he might feel the same?

Ike Singer is a demolitions expert, or master blaster. He is second to none at his craft, knows every type of explosive known to man, and is the one everyone turns to when they need a safe, controlled explosion. Despite being at the very top of his profession, a personal mistake that led to catastrophe nearly brought Ike's life to ruin. He has spent every day since atoning for that sin and trying to piece his family back together. And after a great deal of work and soul-searching, Ike believes he has finally moved on. 

After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, 16-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the 20th century. Caleb’s moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill.

He survived The Scourge, defeated The Cartel, and escaped The Dwellers. Now he wants revenge. After a brutal attack on his homestead, Marcus Battle seeks to find the men who took away his second chance at life in a postapocalyptic world. When he finds them, they'll wish they'd left him alone.

Mick McCreary is an oilman out of a job. His only possessions are a plane ticket to Singapore, a month's pay in Indonesian rupiahs and the luck of the Irish. When the mysterious Mr Rubensohn approaches him with the offer of a breathtaking salary for a drilling operation on a remote island - no questions asked - he thinks that luck is running with him once more. But then he meets the beautiful Lisette, and within 24 hours he is involved in murder, intrigue and an international fraud of frightening proportions.

Vor genau einem Jahr haben Franz und Toni mit der Arbeit auf der Baustelle aufgehört; sie haben die "Kellen abgeputzt, die Hände im Kübel gewaschen, das Haar zurückgekämmt - und dann ... ein neues Leben begonnen". Doch nun, nach diesem Jahr, sitzen sie da: voller Sehnsucht, aber ohne Geld. Wie aus einem gleichzeitig luftigen und doch schweren Traum taucht da der Doktor Kasparek auf und überredet die beiden mühelos zum großen Coup. Und tatsächlich ist plötzlich sackweise Geld vorhanden.

***When you’re working undercover the smallest mistake can cost you your life. 'A riveting read full of tension and suspense with a vivid cast of characters and an enticing plot.' *Heather Burnside ** Detective Constable Bailey Morgan has been out of the undercover game since her last job went...

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

After exposing and dismantling a deep-state conspiracy that nearly destroyed his life, Ryan Decker finds his covert skills have put him on the radar of influential Senator Steele. Now Steele needs his help. Two patrol agents were killed in a bizarre explosion near the US-Mexico border—and the evidence doesn’t line up with the official story.