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Pendergast resuelve los casos como nadie, pero en esta ocasión tal vez ni siquiera el pueda ayudarnos... Una trágica desaparición Tras un horrible enfrentamiento en las costas de Exmouth, Massachusetts, el agente especial Pendergast desaparece sin dejar rastro y los rumores de su muerte no tardan en extenderse. Un sorprendente retorno Destrozada, Constance busca refugio en los antiguos aposentos de la mansion familiar, el numero 891 de Riverside Drive, donde una oscura figura del pasado aguarda para capturarla. Una persecucion internacional Proctor, el guardaespaldas de Pendergast, se pone en marcha sin dilacion siguiendo la pista al secuestrador de Constance a traves de oceanos y continentes, adentrandose en territorios desconocidos y hostiles con tal de salvarla. Pero en un mundo en el que todo es blanco o negro nada es lo que parece Para cuando Proctor descubre la verdad se ha puesto en marcha una maquinaria aterradora. Pero puede que sea demasiado tarde...La critic

Leyendas apaches, minas abandonadas y experimentos secretos en la segunda entrega de la nueva serie de Preston & Child que mezcla arqueología, historia, asesinato y suspense. Corrie Swanson, jo

En la decimoquinta entrega de la serie protagonizada por el agente especial Pendergast, una terrible amenaza acecha bajo la aparente tranquilidad de una población costera cercana a Salem. El agente especial Pendergast acepta una investigacion privada en Exmouth, localidad costera cercana a Salem. Tiene que resolver el robo de una valiosa coleccion de vinos propiedad del escultor Percival Lake y de su compañera Carole. Para ello viaja al lugar de los hechos acompañado de su ayudante Constance Greene. En la pared de la bodega de la casa, antigua residencia del farero, descubre un nicho con restos humanos muy antiguos. Lake comenta en ese momento que la proximidad de Salem, mas la numerosa poblacion de mosquitos chupasangre en las marismas que rodean Exmouth, han provocado gran cantidad de leyendas y rumores referidos al pueblo. Entonces el cuerpo de una persona asesinada aparece en las marismas. La unica pista es una serie de esculturas misteriosas. ¿Podrian tener estos simbolos demoniacos alguna relacion con la colonia de brujas que vivian en las inmediaciones hace tiempo? Puede que Constance sea la unica que de verdad comprenda el peligro que tanto ella como Pendergast y los habitantes de Exmouth estan a punto de afrontar...Reseña:

In downtown Manhattan, workers on a construction site breach a long-forgotten basement, unearthing a charnel house: thirty-six bodies, systematically dismembered and carefully immured at least 130 years ago.Its just the kind of case to intrigue the unorthodox and enigmatic FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast. But hes not the only interested party. Soon after the bodies are discovered a killer strikes. Their victims corpse bears the same precise mutilations as the bodies in the basement.The nightmare has begun. Again.Fast-moving, sophisticated and bursting with surprises ... Theres nothing else like them WASHINGTON POST.Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life DAVID BALDACCI.

Behind the gates of a fabulous Hamptons estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast comes upon the carnage of a gruesome and seemingly supernatural crime. The smouldering remains of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. The hoofprint singed into the floorboards and the smell of brimstone recall the legendary horrors that befall those who make a pact with the Devil.Pendergast combs New York, hoping for a simple explanation: a villain who is merely human. But his search takes him beyond the exclusive clubs and luxury penthouses of Manhattan to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where 30 years before four men may have conjured something unspeakable.

Two skeletonized corpses are pulled from the sewage-choked waters of Manhattans Humboldt Kill. Both are headless, their bones scored with teethmarks. It is by no means certain the teethmarks are postmortem.Believing that the bodies must have been washed out of the citys sewers, Lieutenant Vincent DAgosta of the NYPD, FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and anthropologist Dr Margo Green descend into a dark labyrinth of tunnels and subterranean galleries forgotten by those who walk the streets above. They will be led deep underground, far from the light, to confront their very worst fear...A collision between past and present that will leave you breathless LEE CHILD.A positively delicious serving. Great fun to the last page ANNE RICE.

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE.After 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, pursuing Constances kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN THIS WORLD, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred and it may already be too late...

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary city is cursed: to enter it is a death sentence. They call it the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artefacts and an electrifying story of having found the City but then committed suicide without revealing its location.Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a single-engine plane carrying a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but a lost civilization.To confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, plagues of insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. They emerged from the jungle with proof of the legend... and the curse. They had contracted a horrifying, incurable and sometimes lethal disease.Suspenseful and shocking, filled with history, adventure and dramatic twists of fortune, The Lost City of the Monkey God is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

60 SOUTH:NOTHING BUT SEA, ICE AND UNFETTERED STORMS.BUT TWO MILES DOWN, SOMETHING IS STIRRING.Five years ago, Eli Glinn led a mission to recover a 25,000-ton meteorite the largest ever discovered from a remote island off the coast of South America. It ended in disaster when their ship foundered and broke apart in a vicious storm.But now, two miles down in dark Antarctic waters, something is growing. A vast, grotesque structure is simultaneously reaching up towards the waves and burrowing deep into the sea floor. Eli Glinns worst fear has been realised. He has no choice but to return to the Southern Ocean and attempt to annihilate an entity that threatens the existence of the planet.But, as he will discover, the entity has no intention of going quietly.

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.

FACELESS VICTIMS.Dozens of identical shoes have washed up on the beach in the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida. They appear completely ordinary but for one thing each contains a crudely severed human foot.A SEA OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.Faced with an incomprehensible puzzle and ever more confusing pathology reports, the local police call on FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast for his expertise. But with no answers and endless possibilities they are left with only questions: What has happened, and why? Where have the feet come from? And are the victims still alive?A FIENDISH CHALLENGE FOR A BRILLIANT MIND.Soon Pendergast finds himself entrenched in one of the most complex and inexplicable challenges of his career. A tangled web of evidence that spans seas and continents leads towards a dark Cold War secret and a powerful adversary. An adversary with a sadistic agenda and his sights on the perfect subject for his malevolent research...

VERSES FOR THE DEAD

En esta nueva aventura, Gideon Crew se enfrenta al caso más peligroso de su historia. "Esa cosa está creciendo de nuevo. Hay que destruirla. Y hay que hacerlo ya." Hace cinco años Eli Glinn trató de recuperar un meteorito gigantesco de una isla remota en el cabo de Hornos, en la punta de Sudamerica. La mision acabo en desastre, pues su embarcacion se hundio en una tormenta salvaje en aguas antarticas y arrastro el cargamento a las profundidades del oceano. Perecieron mas de cien tripulantes, y Eli Glinn quedo paralitico. El meteorito, sin embargo, no era una simple piedra. Ese organismo complejo llegado del espacio ha echado raices en el fondo marino y esta creciendo. O se destruye o el planeta esta condenado. La ºnica esperanza es que Glinn y su equipo lo aniquilen, tarea para la que requieren la experiencia de Gideon en armas nucleares. No obstante, pronto descubriran que el "meteorito" tiene ideas propias y entre ellas no se haya quedarse tranquilo.

Before he can return to New York from Miami, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is called to investigate something very strange that has happened on the west coast of Florida. Dozens of human feet, identically clad in blue have washed up on beaches. All exhibit unmistakeable signs of violence. Beyond that, nothing is known about the feet, except that they are fresh and haven't been in the water long.Pendergast reluctantly makes his way to the barrier islands off South Florida to investigate a case he believes to be outside his area of expertise and his interest. Once there, he finds the case both disturbing and intriguing, and is drawn into the mystery almost against his will. A preliminary pathology report indicates the feet were chopped, torn, or even wrenched from their bodies in the crudest of ways. Over the next few days, still more continue to wash in, until the number tops one hundred.Soon the case begins to take a most surprising and complex turn, and Pendergast finds it necessary to call in Special Agent Armstrong Coldmoon for a risky and very specific undercover assignment. And when, at last, the true origin of this awful gift from the sea becomes clear, the former partners are forced to confront an enemy, and a horror, more powerful and deadly than any they have faced before.

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who--with brutal precision--begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well.Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack--and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger--Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.

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

En el segundo caso de Gideon Crew, timador, genio y ladr#n de talento extraordinario, el FBI acude a #l para que negocie con un cient#fico nuclear enloquecido. Un cient#fico nuclear enloquecido retiene a punta de pistola a una familia inocente, mata a uno de sus miembros y provoca un enfrentamiento con la polic#a dif#cil de resolver. En Nueva York detectan part#culas radioactivas en un almac#n donde pocas horas antes se hab#an manipulado los componentes de una bomba at#mica. Todo indica que se est# preparando un ataque terrorista para destruir la ciudad dentro de diez d#as. Solo diez d#as. El FBI acude a Gideon Crew para que negocie con el cient#fico y siga la pista de un grupo terrorista hasta las monta#as de Nueva M#xico. Sin embargo, nada de lo que descubre all# se corresponde con lo que el FBI hab#a planeado en un primero momento. Rese#a:"La trama avanza como si se tratara de un cohete fuera de control hacia un final inesperado."Kirkus Reviews