Lincoln Child

? Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie haben sich in einer Höhle verirrt. Es ist dunkel und kalt. Die Taschenlampe haben Sie verloren. Sie müssen raus hier, egal wie, und tasten sich am Boden entlang, als Ihre Hand plötzlich etwas Warmes findet. Vor Schreck weichen Sie zurück - um gleich noch einmal zu fühlen, was es sein könnte ... ? In einer Kleinstadt geschehen grausame Morde. Sie erinnern an Indianermythen und ein historisches Massaker. Viele glauben, dass die Geister der Toten zurückgekehrt sind, um Rache zu nehmen. Special Agent Pendergast verfolgt eher irdische Spuren: die Gen-Experimente an Mais, mit deren Hilfe die Stadt zu neuer Blüte kommen soll, scheinen außer Kontrolle geraten zu sein. Oder steckt doch noch etwas ganz anderes dahinter?

Im Tal des Teufels Vor tausenden von Jahren hat im amerikanischen Südwesten ein mysteriöser Indianerstamm Straßen gebaut und Städte errichtet, bis diese Kultur auf rätsel- hafte Weise zusammenbrach. Der Hauptort, die goldene Stadt Quivira, verschwand für immer. Die Expedition, die das Geheimnis aufdecken soll, kämpft nicht nur gegen Hitze und Wüstensand ? ihr Gegner ist das Böse an sich. Eine hochbrisante Mischung aus Archäologie, Technik, Horror und Spannung. "Preston und Child schreiben Klasse-Thriller mit Grusel-Touch und Krimis zum Unter-die Decke-Kriechen." Brigitte "Spannung und Horror pur bis zur letzten Seite". Berliner Morgenpost

On a visit to her family's abandoned Santa Fe ranch, archaeologist Nora Kelly discovers an old letter, written from her father to her mother, now both dead. What perplexes Nora is the fact that the faded envelope was mailed and postmarked only a few weeks earlier. Her father had vanished into the remote canyon country of Utah 16 years before, searching for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold, whose legend has captivated explorers since the days of Coronado. Upon reading the letter, Nora learns that her father believed he had, in fact, located the lost city. But what happened to her father, and who mailed the letter? In her quest for answers, Nora mounts a fresh expedition to follow her father's path and find Quivira. In doing so, she hopes not only to solve her own personal mysteries, but many of the mysteries of her profession as well. Will she discover the archaeological site of a lifetime-or risk her life and the deadly dangers of the desert for nothing?

New York wird von einer Serie grauenhafter Morde an Obdachlosen heimgesucht. Das Geheimnis kommt aus der Tiefe: "Devil's Attic", Dachboden des Teufels, heißt das Tunnelsystem unter den Straßen der Stadt. Ein Thriller an der Grenze zwischen Alptraum und Wirklichkeit. "Spannung und Horror pur bis zur letzten Seite!" Berliner Morgenpost

When a team of archaeologists is savagely massacred in the Amazon Basin, all that survives are several boxes of relics and plant specimens. When the relics finally find their way to a museum in New York there are strange repercussions.

An exciting supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Preston and Child, featuring archaelogist and FBI assistant Nora Kelly.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes THE Agent Pendergast origin story - an event for longtime fans of the beloved series and for new readers who want to start at The Beginning.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes THE Agent Pendergast origin story - an event for longtime fans of the beloved series and for new readers who want to start at The Beginning.

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York's deadliest serial killer: Pendergast's own ancestor...and Constance's greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken... Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life - but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set... Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help--for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move...and awaiting his own chance to strike. A vengeful angel will not be deterred... Meanwhile, as Pendergast focuses on saving the unstable Constance in her fanatical quest for vengeance, she strikes out on her own: to rescue her beloved siblings from a tragic fate and take savage retribution on Leng. But Leng is one step ahead and has a surprise for them all...

FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene take a final stand against the deadliest serial killer in the history of New York: Pendergast's own ancestor, Dr. Enoch Leng. The latest thrilling timeslip adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series from Preston and Child. A desperate bargain is broken... A clever trap is set... A vengeful angel will not be deterred... Having travelled back in time to Victorian-era New York City to save her siblings, Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Dr. Leng, but she is betrayed and left incandescent with rage. Agent Pendergast is determined to assist Constance, who is now on a fanatical quest for vengeance. And Diogenes, Pendergast's brother, also takes a trip out of his own time, offering to help the duo for unexplained reasons of his own. Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, watching Dr. Leng’s every move and awaiting a chance to strike. But Constance strikes out on her own, intent on savage retribution. Yet Dr. Leng is one step ahead of everyone, and still has a macabre surprise in store...'Get ready for the ride of your life' David Baldacci on Preston and Child

Preston & Child revelan uno de los secretos mejor guardados de la historia de los Estados Unidos en la nueva aventura de Nora Kelly: Qu ocurri realmente en ROSWELL en 1947? Tras su fulminante despido del Instituto Arqueol gico de Santa Fe, Nora Kelly acepta hacerse cargo de un proyecto financiado por un fil ntropo millonario: investigar el famoso incidente Roswell, donde en los a os cuarenta hubo un te rico contacto alien gena posteriormente encubierto por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Un examen pormenorizado de las im genes realizadas con un radar de penetraci n terrestre revela el escenario de un crimen cerca del lugar: dos cad veres sometidos a la acci n de alg n tipo de cido para dificultar su identificaci n y con un orificio de bala en sus cr neos, junto con un extra o artefacto de metal plateado. El hallazgo, en terreno federal, supone la entrada en escena del FBI y la llegada de la agente especial Corrie Swanson, que no tardar en descubrir que las v ctimas eran dos agentes de la antigua Uni n Sovi tica que operaban en territorio americano. A medida que Nora y Corrie profundizan en la investigaci n, surgen m s preguntas que respuestas, y una conspiraci n muy poderosa parece dispuesta a todo para proteger la verdad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From New York Times bestsellers Preston and Child, archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson are tasked with the mysterious deaths of two people found at a site where a UFO allegedly crashed decades before. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora's excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable, Corrie's homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets--and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York's deadliest serial killer: Pendergast's own ancestor...and Constance's greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken... Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life - but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set... Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help--for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move...and awaiting his own chance to strike. A vengeful angel will not be deterred... Meanwhile, as Pendergast focuses on saving the unstable Constance in her fanatical quest for vengeance, she strikes out on her own: to rescue her beloved siblings from a tragic fate and take savage retribution on Leng. But Leng is one step ahead and has a surprise for them all...

In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City, a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.

Prikvel k znamenitoj serii detektivnykh romanov o Dzheke Richere. Kanun novogo, 1990 goda. Ot serdechnogo pristupa umiraet general armii SSHA. Nichego neobychnogo, kazalos by, v etom net, odnako obstojatelstva ego smerti vyzyvajut mnogo voprosov. Vysokij chin najden obnazhennym v nomere neprigljadnogo motelja, i dezhurnomu ofitseru voennoj politsii Dzheku Richeru prikhoditsja ekhat na vyzov. On vyjasnjaet, chto iz nomera pokhischen generalskij portfel, v kotorom predpolozhitelno byli sverkhsekretnye bumagi, a vskore nakhodit telo vdovy, ubitoj v sobstvennom dome toj zhe nochju. "Zachistka" prodolzhaetsja: odnogo za drugim unichtozhajut dvukh soldat spetsnaza. Proiskhodjat perestanovki v vysshem komandovanii. I kto-to vnutri ogromnogo bastiona, kotorym javljaetsja amerikanskaja armija, ochen khochet podstavit Dzheka Richera - ranee neprikasaemogo sledovatelja osobogo otdela, - chtoby sdelat ego kozlom otpuschenija dlja tekh, kto privyk ubivat... Vsem poklonnikam detektivnogo zhanra - kniga, ot kotoroj nelzja otorvatsja! Proizvedenija Li Chajlda neizmenno zanimajut pervoe mesto v spiske bestsellerov po vsemu miru, a chislo prodannykh knig prevysilo sotnju millionov ekzempljarov. Li Chajld - laureat mnogikh literaturnykh nagrad, v tom chisle on udostoilsja zvanija "Avtor goda" v chest dnja rozhdenija britanskoj korolevy (2019).