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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...

Still Life With Crows: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden...

La première enquête de l'inspecteur Pendergast, prequel d'une série de 22 romans vendus à plus de 30 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Où l'on découvre Aloysius Pendergast, jeune recrue au bureau de la Nouvelle-Orléans du FBI, sur les traces d'un tueur en série qui ampute ses...

After a shoot-out leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie Swanson finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds she cannot shake off an overwhelming feeling of guilt. As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she realizes she needs the help of her old enemy, archaeologist Nora Kelly. 

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence...

New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child pair up to present the unforgettable character Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master and thief. At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four...

A captivating action and adventure thriller from bestselling duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky...

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to...

A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has...

Un squelette de femme est découvert dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique. Puis un second... Tout sauf un hasard, les deux jeunes femmes se connaissaient... La nouvelle aventure, la cinquième, de Nora Kelly et Corrie Swanson, du FBI, mêlant archéologie, suspense et enquête policière. La...

Medicine Creek, localité paisible du Kansas. Quand le shérif Nazen découvre le cadavre dépecé d'une inconnue au milieu d'un champ de maïs, il se demande s'il ne rêve pas : le corps est entouré de flèches indiennes sur lesquelles ont été empalés des corbeaux. Œuvre d'un fou ? Rituel satanique ? Il faut le flair de Pendergast, l'agent du FBI, pour comprendre que cette sinistre mise en scène annonce une suite.

In this dark thriller from bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Special Agent Pendergast stalks his wife's traitors from Scotland to New York City, where he discovers layers of deception and conspiracy that will shatter everything he believed to be true. Yesterday, Special...

Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West...

Pendergast parviendra-t-il à regagner indemne le XXIe siècle ? Dans le New York des années 1880, Constance Greene n'a pu déjouer les plans du Dr Leng, le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Manhattan. Pas plus que l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast n'a su empêcher le savant diabolique de commettre un nouveau forfait. Leng croit avoir gagné la partie, mais il ignore que Diogène, le frère psychopathe de l'inspecteur, a suivi son aîné et qu'il rôde désormais dans les rues du quartier de Five Points.

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...

The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At 4,000 tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new...

La 19e enquête de l'inspecteur Pendergast, du duo de choc Preston & Child (n°1 des ventes du New York Times), le conduit en Floride, aux sources d'une rivière maudite, où des émules du Dr Mengele se livrent à d'inavouables expériences...

Brimstone: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast...

Der Auftakt einer neuen Serie um die junge Archäologin Dr. Nora Kelly und FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson vom Besteller-Duo Preston & Child. Ein hochspannender Mix aus Indiana-Jones-Archäologie, einer wahren geschichtlichen Begebenheit und einem atemberaubenden Spannungsplot.

Es lauert tief am Meeresgrund, und es wächst unaufhaltsam. Bei einer Expedition in die Antarktis ging vor Jahren ein riesiger Meteorit über Bord. Noch immer liegt er auf dem Grund der eisigen See. Eli Glinn, Chef von Effective Engineering Solutions, leitete damals die Expedition, in deren Verlauf über hundert Menschen starben. Nun drängt die Zeit: Der Meteorit hat sich inzwischen als Alien-Lebensform entpuppt, als Samenkapsel, aus der ein gigantisches Gewächs mit Fangarmen geworden ist.