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A secret chamber.A mysterious shipwreck.A murder in the desolate salt marshes.A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated.Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts.Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches'' colony, long believed to be abandoned?A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town-one with deep roots in Exmouth''s grim history. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face...

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 him 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.

Soirée paisible au 891 Riverside Drive, la résidence new-yorkaise d’Aloysius Pendergast… jusqu’à ce qu’un inconnu dépose devant la porte d’entrée le cadavre de l’un des pires ennemis de l’inspecteur…

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCEAfter 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, chasing Constances kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late...

The New York Museum of Natural History is built over a subterranean labyrinth of neglected specimen vaults, unmapped drainage tunnels and long-forgotten catacombs. And there''s something down there. When the mutilated bodies of two young boys are discovered deep within the museum''s bowels, Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta of the NYPD fears a homicidal maniac may be at large. FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast believes they may be facing something much worse. As the death toll mounts, and with the opening of the museum''s new ''Superstition'' exhibition just days away, the two men must work together to prevent a massacre. ''Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life'' DAVID BALDACCI.

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. It''s just the kind of case to intrigue the unorthodox and enigmatic FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast. But he''s not the only interested party. Soon after the bodies are discovered a killer strikes. Their victim''s corpse bears the same precise mutilations as the bodies in the basement. The nightmare has begun. Again. ''Fast-moving, sophisticated and bursting with surprises ... There''s nothing else like them'' WASHINGTON POST. ''Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life'' DAVID BALDACCI.

Two skeletonized corpses are pulled from the sewage-choked waters of Manhattan''s 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 city''s sewers, Lieutenant Vincent D''Agosta 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.

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler. There''s no such thing as too great a risk for a man living on borrowed time. Gideon Crew is out of a job. It is the least of his worries: his doctor has just told him he has only months to live. His employer, Effective Engineering Solutions, has shut up shop; its enigmatic boss has disappeared without a trace. There''s no other option for Gideon and his colleagues but to clear their desks. And that''s when Gideon and Manuel Garza discover a computer programme that, left running for five years, has finally cracked the code it was attacking. It has deciphered the infamously enigmatic hieroglyphs of the Phaistos Disk. For a century, the ancient stone tablet defied interpretation, but now Gideon and Manuel have a lead on an undiscovered civilization, long-lost beneath the sands of the Egyptian Sahara. As a man doomed by an inevitably fatal brain syndrome, Crew needs little persuasion to embark on one final adventure. ''Relentless mayhem ... [A] thrill-a-minute read'' KIRKUS REVIEWS. ''Their most expertly executed entertainment yet ... A big-boned thriller, one that will make a terrific movie'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

El inefable detective Pendergast vuelve a Nueva York, esta vez tras los pasos de una secta que practica rituales vudú… Un periodista muere acuchillado en su piso, pero las cámaras de seguridad del ed

William Smithback, reporter au New York Times, et sa femme Nora Kelly, archéologue au Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, sont sauvagement agressés dans leur appartement de l'Upper West Side de Manhattan. Si Nora en rechappe, Smithback, lui, est tue...Le meurtrier est rapidement identifie par des temoins et des cameras de videosurveillance. Il s'agit de leur etrange et sinistre voisin, Fearing... pourtant mort et enterre depuis plusieurs jours deja !Un tel mystere ne peut laisser insensible le celebre inspecteur Pendergast, du FBI. Epaule par son acolyte, l'inspecteur Vincent d'Acosta, il fera tout pour retrouver le meurtrier de son ami.Leur enquete va les mener a une secte secrete, La Ville, cachee depuis deux siecles dans la partie boisee de Manhattan. Y a-t-il un rapport entre cette secte, qui se livre entre autres a des sacrifices d'animaux, et la resurrection en zombies tueurs de Fearing puis de... Smithback ?L'enigme va donner du fil a retordre a nos deux enqueteurs, d'autant qu'Alexander Esteban, ancien realisateur specialiste de films gore de serie Z, entre dans la valse. Forcement macabre... Quelle est la vraie raison de sa haine farouche a l'egard de La Ville ?

Aloysius Pendergast est contacté par un sculpteur à qui on a volé une collection de vins rares. Il se rend à Exmouth, petit village de pêcheurs situé au nord de Salem, dans le Massachusetts. Peu aprè

An epic thriller from 1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston perfect for fans of Michael Crichton Extinction explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age Erebus Resort occupying a magnificent hundred thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths Irish Elk and giant ground sloths in their native habitat brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation When a billionaire s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco terrorists Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators As killings mount and the valley is evacuated Cash and Colcord must confront an ancient intelligent and malevolent presence at Erebus bent not on resurrection but extinction Reviews for Extinction A creepy and creative variation on Jurassic Park as smart and spine chilling as the best of Michael Crichton Publishers Weekly A thriller as breathlessly riveting as you would expect from a genre master like Douglas Preston but much more too it s meaty and thought provo

Cuando los submarinistas de la policía encuentran dos esqueletos unidos en un óseo abrazo entre el lodo de un río de Manhattan, Margo Green, conservadora del Museo de Historia Natural, es invitada a colaborar en la investigacion. Sin embargo Margo pronto descubre que no solo la necesitan por sus conocimientos antropologicos. Las autoridades solicitan su ayuda por razones que ella intenta olvidar: su experiencia el año anterior en el enfrentamiento con una horrenda bestia que andaba suelta por los sotanos del museo. Los esqueletos no solo presentan señales de violencia, sino tambien grotescas anormalidades que apuntan inequivocamente a una sola cosa: el despertar de una pesadilla dormida

Après une mauvaise rencontre dans les marais d'Exmouth, Massachusetts, l'agent spécial du FBI Aloysius Pendergast est porté disparu. . . Bouleversée par la perte de son protecteur, Constance Greene s

Douglas Preston Lincoln ChildDarkness - Wettlauf mit der ZeitEine neuer Fall fur Special Agent PendergastEin eigenartiger Geruch stromte ins Zimmer, erdig, wie verrottete Pilze. Die Luft schien dicker zu werden, sich zusammenzuziehen und zu etwas Dichterem zu verklumpen. Und dann begann es, sich zu bewegen In einem tibetischen Kloster will Aloysius Pendergast endlich Frieden finden, doch den Monchen wird eine Reliquie gestohlen, die in den falschen Handen zu einer gefahrlichen Waffe werden kann. Pendergasts Ermittlungen fuhren ihn nach London und auf das Kreuzfahrtschiff Britannia. Der Dieb ist mit der Reliquie an Bord und kurz nach dem Auslaufen wird fur die ahnungslosen Passagiere aus dem geplanten Luxusurlaub ein wahrer Hollentrip Der neue Bestseller des Erfolgsduos Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

Douglas PrestonCredo. Das letzte GeheimnisThrillerDarf der Mensch es wagen, die Geheimnisse Gottes zu entschlusseln?In einem geheimen Labor geschieht das Unfassbare: Wissenschaftler finden einen Weg, mit Gott zu kommunizieren!Aber ist das tatsachlich moglich? Wahrend ein TV-Prediger die Offentlichkeit gegen die Blasphemie aufhetzt, versucht Spezialermittler Wyman Ford im Auftrag der Regierung herauszufinden, was wirklich in der Forschungseinrichtung geschieht. Ihm bleibtnur wenig Zeit, denn vor den Toren des Labors formiert sich ein wutender, zu allem entschlossener Mob