Lincoln Child

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...

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.

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.

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Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is anticipating a further discovery, the first of its kind in history: Narmer's famed crown, supposedly possessed of mythical powers, is thought to be buried with him.The dig is located in the Sudd, a nearly impassable swamp in northern Sudan and one of the most forbidding places on earth. And amid the nightmarish tangle of mud and dead vegetation, a series of harrowing and seemingly inexplicable occurrences has the team living in fear of a centuries-old curse. With a monumental discovery at stake, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions...and alarm.With The Third Gate, master storyteller Lincoln Child breaks new ground and introduces a fascinating new protagonist to the thriller genre.

Qui, sinon le Malin, a tué Jeremy Grove, le critique d'art dont le corps calciné a été retrouvé dans le grenier de sa demeure. fermé de l'intérieur ? Une chaleur suffocante, une insoutenable odeur de soufre et, surtout, reconnaissable entre toutes, cette empreinte de pied fourchu. Lorsqu'un deuxième cas tout aussi mystérieux de combustion spontanée est signalé, le doute n'est plus permis. Sauf pour l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast, du FBI, qui ne peut accepter cette hypothèse effrayante.

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En una larga bóveda olvidado en el New York Museum of Natural History descansa un tesoro: la tumba de Senef, durante la campaña napoleónica en Egipto en el Valle de los Reyes fue descubierta. Ahora, de nuevo abierto al público - pero cuando el trabajo de restauración, hay un muerto. ¿Es la primera víctima de una antigua maldición? Agente especial Aloysius Pendergast tiene otra sospecha: El crimen lleva el manuscrito de un helado maníacos igualmente brillante. Y esto se aplica a nadie más que su propio hermano Diógenes ...

A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation- Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world. The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy couple - they were Eden's first perfect match. Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quick - and quiet - investigation into the deaths. Lash's investigation inadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has kept at bay for years, and his involvement becomes more personal and dangerous than he could have imagined. When a second Eden 'super-couple' is found dead, Richard Silver, the company's brilliant and reclusive founder, has no choice but to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets