Thomas Perry

En esta quinta entrega de las aventuras del matrimonio de cazadores de tesoros, el descubrimiento de un ancestral libro maya desencadenará una terrible lucha para hacerse con sus secretos, en la que Sam y Remi Fargo se veran implicados. Sam y Remi Fargo se encuentran en la costa oeste de Mexico cuando la noticia de los terribles efectos de un terremoto cerca de la frontera pone al matrimonio en marcha. Decididos a ayudar en todo lo que puedan, parten a toda velocidad con su yate hacia la zona afectada. Ya en las aldeas damnificadas de la costa llega a sus oidos la noticia de un pueblo indigena que se ha quedado aislado cerca del Volcan Tacana. Sin dudarlo ni un segundo, los Fargo organizan una expedicion de rescate. Pero durante la travesia Sam tropieza con lo que parece ser una tumba maya, aflorada de bajo tierra por causa del seismo y que contiene, ademas, una urna sellada en cuyo interior se ha guardado durante siglos un manuscrito precolombino. Se trata de un hallazgo excepcional, de valor incalculable... y los saqueadores estaran dispuestos a todo por hacerse con el. Reseña:Un magnifico entretenimiento para los fans de la aventura.Booklist

En este apasionantethriller Sam y Remi Fargo deberán superar uno de los retos más difíciles y peligrosos a los que jamás se han enfrentado: hallar el tesoro perdido de Atila, rey de los hunos.Sam y Remi Fargo participan en una excavacion arqueologica altamente secreta donde realizan un hallazgo que les llevara a perseguir un tesoro de valor inestimable. Las pistas les conducen hasta la tumba escondida de Atila el Huno, quien fue enterrado con una gran fortuna en oro y joyas. Pero este sitio arqueologico milenario ha sido saqueado y nunca se ha recuperado el botin.En busca del tesoro perdido, viajaran a Hungria, Italia, Francia, Rusia y Kazajistan, y descubriran otras cinco tumbas historicas profanadas.El matrimonio Fargo se vera envuelto en una trama criminal en la que aparecen codiciosos cazadores de tesoros, un estafador ruso que se hace pasar por un refinado hombre de negocios y un hungaro despiadado que afirma ser descendiente directo de Atila y que no se frenara ante nada ni nadie para conseguir apropiarse de los tesoros del gran rey de los hunos.La critica ha dicho...Otra aventura de ininterrumpido y trepidante suspense.Library JournalLos fans tendran mucho mas que unas cuantas horas de lectura frenetica.Kirkus Review

When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. How could Phil leave her penniless? What was he going to do with the money? to take out Kramer''s widow, he figures there''s a bigger secret at work_and maybe a bigger payoff. Cuando Phil Kramer resulta muerto de un disparo en una desierta calle de los suburbios en mitad de la noche, su esposa, Emily, se queda con una cuenta de banco vacia y un monton de preguntas. ¿Como ha podido Phil dejarla sin un penique? ¿Que iba a hacer con el dinero?

Un hombre de negocios de Portland ha sido asesinado a tiros en la bañera de su casa. A la hora de investigar el crimen, la detective de Homicidios Catherine Hobbes cuenta con dosúnicas pistas: algunos cabellos rubios de mujer y el hecho de que la victima fuera primo de un importante mafioso de LosAngeles. Para complicar aun mas las cosas, Hobbes se ve obligada a colaborar en la resolucion del caso con Joe Pitt, un investigador privado tan mujeriego y arrogante como atractivo.La rubia que aparece junto al fallecido en la grabacion de la camara de seguridad de un hotel,¿es su pareja, su asesina o ambas cosas a la vez? Mientras le siguen el rastro por varios estados del oeste del pais, Hobbes y Pitt descubriran que no se encuentran ante una criminal cualquiera. Porque esa misteriosa mujer muestra una capacidad camaleonica para cambiar de aspecto fisico, parece haber sido responsable de varias muertes mas y, sobre todo, sabe que la mejor forma de escapar de un cazador es acabando conel.Nightlife es un thriller de ritmo endiablado que viene a saldar una vieja cuenta pendiente: por fin el lector español puede sumergirse en el escalofriante universo de Thomas Perry, elogiado por Stephen King como uno de los seis grande...

Jane Whitefield is a fiercely intelligent, wildly resourceful Native American woman. For ten years, she worked in a most unusual profession, helping people escape from their enemies and become runners, for whom she created new identities. Until she got married and promised her new husband, a surgeon in Amherst, New York, that she would give up her job and settle for a quieter, less dangerous life.

When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization - but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he cant say no.Initially brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe enough to require an all-out investigation by the FBI, Duncan quickly finds himself in conflict with a syndicate far more violent than first suspected. As the investigation develops, he begins compiling a murder book, the notebook in which a detective keeps records, interviews, photos - everything he needs to build his case. But his scrutiny of the gang soon makes Duncan a target. And Ellen, too.A thrilling and suspenseful tour of crime-addled midwestern towns, Murder Book is signature Thomas Perry, with characters you wont soon forget, crisply-described action sequences and breathlessly tense plotting that will keep you racing through the pages.

A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is at first reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahls three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb. And it quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual mastermind - one whose intended target seems to be the Bomb Squad itself.As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of violence puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. The Bomb Maker is Thomas Perrys biggest, most unstoppable thriller yet.

Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michaels life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lions den - the States - to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to stop them.Eddies Boy jumps between Michaels current predicament and the past, as we glimpse the days before he became the Butchers Boy, the highly skilled hit man who exacted revenge on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Hes meticulous in his approach as he attempts to pit two prominent mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies one by one. But will he be able to escape this new wave of young contract killers, or will the years finally catch up to him?

Una noche, cuando regresa a casa del trabajo, Wendy Harper es brutalmente atacada con un bate de béisbol. El agresor huye al verse descubierto, pero Wendy sabe que volverá a por ella y que la próxima vez no se permitira mas errores. Por eso recurre a Jack Till, un ex agente del Departamento de Policia de Los Angeles que la ayuda cortar cualquier lazo con su pasado para iniciar otra vida bajo una nueva identidad. Seis años mas tarde, Till sigue sintiendose orgulloso de su labor en aquel caso. Pero Eric Fuller, el antiguo socio de Wendy, acaba de ser acusado de su asesinato. Y el detective solo podra demostrar su inocencia si saca a la luz lo que el mismo se encargo de esconder. Till se lanza a investigar el paradero de Wendy, pero no es el unico. Porque para el matrimonio formado por Sylvie y Paul Turner, dos asesinos a sueldo amantes del tango, la caza no ha hecho mas que comenzar. Con Silencio, Thomas Perry vuelve a dar la razon a Stephen King y a todos quienes lo consideran uno de los grandes escritores vivos de novelas de suspense. Personajes llenos de fuerza y matices, persecuciones cargadas de tension y un ritmo que no dara respiro al lector hacen de Silencio una lectura imprescindible para los amantes del mejor thriller.

Jane Whitefield is a fiercely intelligent, resourceful Native American woman, who''s also very beautiful. For ten years, she worked in a very unusual profession, helping people escape from their enemies and become runners, for whom she created new identities that would never be uncovered. Until she got married and promised her new husband, a surgeon in Amherst, New York, that she would give up her job and settle into a happy, quiet life. But when a bomb explodes in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young girl, who is pregnant and has been tracked across the country by a team of hired killers. That night, regardless of the vow she made to her husband, Jane has to revisit old skills and old contacts. Saving the life of one last victim is going to send Jane off on a mission that could be a rescue operation ndash; or a chance for revenge.

Una noche de verano, el detective Phil Kramer muere de un disparo en la cabeza. A la mañana siguiente, antes incluso de recibir la noticia, su socia y esposa Emily descubre que Phil vació los fondos de la agencia y de su propia cuenta personal. Mientras tanto, el asesino Jerry Hobart recibe un nuevo encargo: acabar tambien con la vida de Emily. Ignorante de que podria ser la proxima victima, Emily se lanza a investigar el pasado de su marido. Hobart, por su parte, no tiene las cosas mucho mas claras. ¿Y si, tras cumplir con su cometido, el mismo se convirtiera en el unico e incomodo cabo suelto del asunto? Entre adulterios y mentiras, la unica fidelidad de este libro es la que sentira el lector hacia Thomas Perry. Una vez mas, el escritor ha hecho buenas las palabras de Stephen King como creador de unos personajes inolvidables en una historia llena de revelaciones sorprendentes y de un suspense electrizante.

A tour-de-force novel of suspense by the Edgar-winning author of The Butcher's Boy. He came to England to rest. He used to be the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him.

A year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn, Jane Whitefield has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife - or so she thinks. One morning, returning from a long run, shes met by an unusual sight: the female leaders of the eight Seneca clans waiting in her driveway. Janes childhood friend from the reservation is wanted by the police for murder, and the clan mothers believe she is the only one who can find him.So Jane sets out to retrace a journey she took with Jimmy when they were fourteen years old, and soon discovers that the police arent the only ones after her childhood friend. As the chase intensifies, the number of people caught up in the deadly plot grows, and Jane is the only one who can protect those in danger...

Murder has always been easy for the Butchers Boy - its what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, can work her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it.Includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A finalist for the Barry Award for Best ThrillerTo all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big dogs and a grown daughter with a life of her own. But most sixty-year-old widowers dont have multiple drivers licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country and two Beretta nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run.Now, the toppling of a Middle Eastern government suddenly makes Dan Chase, and the stunt he pulled thirty-five years ago as a young hotshot in army intelligence, a priority again. Racing across the country and beyond, Chase must reawaken his survival instincts to contend with the history he has spent his adult life trying to escape, coming face to face with an army veteran-turned-agent who plays the game just as he once did.Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move almost faster than a speeding bullet (Wall Street Journal) and The Old Man is no exception.

Six years ago Wendy Harper was running for her life. Jack Till, an ex-cop turned private eye, helped her disappear. He did a very good job of it and even Jack has no idea where she might be. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out. Jack must find her before a pair of hired assassins do. The assassins, a husband and wife team, are as sinister as they come, and when their shadowy employer looks like he is going to double cross them, finishing the job is no longer enough.