Toby Temple, grande divo cinematografico e televisivo, e grande canaglia, e adorato dal pubblico e temuto dai colleghi. Ma e anche il piu solo degli uomini. Tutto cambia quando incontra la sensuale e misteriosa bellezza Jill Castle.Ma il fuoco della passione trasforma ben presto la bella favola rosa in tragedia.Un romanzo avvincente, drammatico e intenso.
Toby Temple, grande divo cinematografico e televisivo, e grande canaglia, e adorato dal pubblico e temuto dai colleghi. Ma e anche il piu solo degli uomini. Tutto cambia quando incontra la sensuale e misteriosa bellezza Jill Castle.Ma il fuoco della passione trasforma ben presto la bella favola rosa in tragedia.Un romanzo avvincente, drammatico e intenso.
All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world. Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens-young widows of two of the victims-encounter each other in New York, where they have been asked to meet with Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG. He assures them that he is using all available resources to find out who is behind the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of near escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why? Forced together for protection, suspicious of each other and everyone around them, and trying to find answers for themselves, the two widows embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them. Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, full of shocking twists, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter all of our lives, the long-awaited Are You Afraid of the Dark? is Sidney Sheldon at the top of his game.
Bestselling novelist Sheldon's memoir is reminiscent of his colorful novels, a rags-to-riches yarn replete with struggle, an indomitable hero and eventual glamour. It opens with a 17-year-old Sheldon preparing to commit suicide in Chicago in 1934. "[L]onely and trapped," he wanted to attend college but couldn't afford it. Thankfully, his father intervened, and the young man got a new lease on life. He went from being an RKO theater usher to a struggling songwriter, then a top-flight Hollywood screenwriter in a few short years. For the next 30-odd years, Sheldon wrote and directed films, meeting studio honchos and stars like Kirk Douglas, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. The author's impressive achievements include a WWII flying stint, a screenwriting Oscar for 1947's The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, a Tony for writing the 1959 Broadway hit Redhead, the creation of four classic TV series (including I Dream of Jeannie) and several bestsellers (Bloodline; The Sands of Time; etc.). Yet these accomplishments came with bouts of depression and the death of a child. While the book is long on Sheldon's Hollywood and television days, it skimps on his domestic and publishing lives. Still, that shouldn't stop Sheldon's legions of fans from lapping this up.
Todos los ingredientes de la Mafia que definen su peculiar modo de actuar, aparecen expuestos al desnudo. Entre las intrigas de la política y la justicia de Nueva York, la ambición y el crimen, una joven y bella abogada lucha obstinadamente para defender su integridad profesional y salvar la vida de su hijo.
