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Pequeño Jaco Farino, el último patriarca de una familia de la mafia, quiere muerto a Kurtz y está mandando a pelotones de asesinos a sueldo a por él. La bella Angelina Farino, hermana de Pequeño Jaco, ha vuelto de Sicilia y tambien tiene sus propios y mortiferos planes para el detective. Por si eso fuera poco, un violinista moribundo le pide a Kurtz que encuentre al asesino de su hija. Al principio rechaza el caso, pero pronto se encuentra tras la pista de un hombre que no es solo autor de la muerte de una niña, sino un despiadado asesino en serie; un maestro del cambio de identidad con el poder suficiente para enviar cien hombres a la caza del duro detective.

In un cosmo costituito di varie dimensioni, il 19 maggio 1845, l'Erebus e la Terror, due velieri, salpano dall'Inghilterra alla ricerca del leggendario Passaggio a Nordovest; verranno ritrovate anni dopo intrappolate nel ghiaccio artico. Sulla base di un documentato episodio storico, Simmons crea un'allucinante avventura nei ghiacci che fonde ricerca storica, romanzo horror e narrazione mitologica, lasciando con il fiato sospeso fino all'epilogo geniale e imprevedibile.

En este libro, algunos de los autores más conocidos del género fantásticoy de misterio exploran la leyenda del clásico y seductor monstruo creado por Bram Stoker.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.

It''s the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean. Lucas thinks of it as a demotion-a babysitting job for a famous writer who has decided to play spy, assembling a team of misfits including an American millionaire, a twelve-year-old Cuban orphan, a Spanish jai alai champion and more in a would-be espionage ring Hemingway dubs the "Crook Factory." But when Hemingway uncovers a critical piece of intelligence that both threatens his life and endangers the political landscape, the fate of the free world and the life of one of its most preeminent writers lies in the hands of the FBI''s most ruthless agent.

June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the three men strike for Everest's peak and the most vicious climate on earth. As the winds rise and the temperature and oxygen levels drop, Deacon and his companions hear howls in the distance. Some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain, sending them scrabbling blindly into Everest's dangerous heights to escape it. Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew - but can they escape the same hideous fate? A gripping thriller by a master of the genre, The Abominable blends historical fact with spine-tingling drama - this is one of the most chilling and unforgettable novels you will ever read.

Parece que alguien ha decidido que el ex detective privado Joe Kurtz no merece ni un momento de sosiego. Cuando se despierta en el hospital con una herida de bala en la cabeza, sabe que el intento de asesinato no puede haber sido ordenado mas que por dos personas: la bella y letal Angelina, cabecilla de los Farino, una de las familias de la mafia de Bufalo, o Toma Gonzaga, el mayor rival de Angelina, quien tiene sus propias rencillas con Kurtz.Lo extraño es que, cuando sale del hospital, ambos pretenden contratar sus servicios para averiguar quien esta diezmando sus tropas. Atrapado entre la mafia y la policia, ignora que su verdadero enemigo es un maniaco que esta esperando para atacar?

Parece que alguien ha decidido que el ex detective privado Joe Kurtz no merece ni un momento de sosiego. Cuando se despierta en el hospital con una herida de bala en la cabeza, sabe que el intento de asesinato no puede haber sido ordenado mas que por dos personas: la bella y letal Angelina, cabecilla de los Farino, una de las familias de la mafia de Bufalo, o Toma Gonzaga, el mayor rival de Angelina, quien tiene sus propias rencillas con Kurtz.Lo extraño es que, cuando sale del hospital, ambos pretenden contratar sus servicios para averiguar quien esta diezmando sus tropas. Atrapado entre la mafia y la policia, ignora que su verdadero enemigo es un maniaco que esta esperando para atacar

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams - a member of the family that has given the United States two Presidents. Quickly, the investigators deduce that there's more to Clover's death than meets the eye - with issues of national importance at stake. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus - his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. The disturbed Holmes has faked his own death and now, as he meets James, is questioning what is real and what is not. Holmes' theories shake James to the core. What can this master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power - possibly Moriarty - that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows? And what was Holmes' role in Moriarty's rise? Conspiracy, action and mystery meet in this superb literary hall of mirrors from the author of Drood.

En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada británica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, están atrapados en el hielo del Ártico. En su anhelada busca del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada por continuar su marcha y completar su expedicion, rodeados del frio polar y de inminentes peligros, solo pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar. Poco a poco, los dias van pasando y las condiciones de supervivencia se vuelven mas extremas; temperaturas que superan los cincuenta grados bajo cero, provisiones de comida escasas, el deterioro de los barcos o la llegada de enfermedades van mellando la esperanza de la tripulacion. Por si fuera poco, la extraña presencia de una criatura bestial y misteriosa hace que los hombres crean que se enfrentan no solo a las condiciones naturales mas adversas, sino tambien a fuerzas sobrenaturales que superan, por momentos, sus creencias y su razon. Con el tiempo y la llegada de las primeras muertes, fantasmas como el de la rebelion, el motin o el canibalismo hacen su entrada en escena, en un panorama desolador. Basada en hechos reales, El Terror es una magnifica novela en la que Dan Simmons consigue que el lector se sienta, aterido, uno mas de los tripulantes extraviados en el Polo. La verdadera historia de una legendaria expedicion al Artico, transformada en una excitante y extraordinaria novela en la linea del mejor Stephen King o Patrick O'Brian.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.

The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition after the creature kills its original leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing equally on his own strengths as a seaman and the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued, Crozier sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until Crozier begins to fear there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare.