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Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies on "Deep Storm," a research facility on the ocean floor. Deep Storm has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a site that may hold the key to a mystery steeped in centuries-old myth. Dr. Crane makes the descent and learns that routine drilling has uncovered the remains of mankind's most sophisticated ancient civilization: Atlantis. But the excavation team has been blighted with illness and the more time Crane spends in this strange submerged world, the more he suspects the facility conceals something more sinister. The supposed discovery of Atlantis might, in fact, be a cover for something deadly...Lincoln Child's Deep Storm is a superbly imagined, chillingly real blend of scientific detail and gripping adventure: the most ambitious novel to date from a master of suspense.

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world. But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean? When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew...and with potentially world-altering consequences.

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.

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 ...

Una diabólica presencia siembra el pánico en un lujoso trasatlántico: la nueva y endemoniada aventura del inspector Pendergast.Nuestro viejo conocido, Pendergast, y Constance, su protegida, investigan la desaparición de un misterioso objeto sagrado, portador de una gran maldad, en un remoto monasterio tibetano. Una pista los conduce hasta un lujoso trasatlántico de 3.000 pasajeros, donde comienzan a sucederse una serie de crímenes espeluznantes. Solo Constance, con el poder mental que ha adquirido en el monasterio, podrá enfrentarse a la oscura presencia…

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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.

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...

A long-lost experiment of unknown intent. . . A hidden room in a vast seaside estate. . . An investigator marked for danger. . . On a sprawling estate on the coast of Rhode Island, at the nations oldest and most prestigious think tank, an unfathomable tragedy takes place. No one knows what to make of the disturbing evidence left behind. Then reports begin to surface of increasingly bizarre behavior among the organizations distinguished scientists. Called upon to investigate these strange happenings, history professor and analyst of inexplicable phenomena Jeremy Logan comes across an ingeniously concealed room in a long-dormant wing of the mansion. What he discovers within may provide answersand, in the process, unleash a new wave of catastrophe.

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.

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

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