Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into thewoods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were neverseen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, twodecades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland,the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, grief at the loss ofhis sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he isknown, is now dealing with raising his 6-year old daughter aloneafter his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and arapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distract him from his pasttraumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found withevidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of theprosecutor's family are threatened. Is this body one of the camperswho disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Copehas to confront so much he left behind that summer 20 years ago:his first love, Lucy, his mother who abandoned the family, and thesecrets that his parents might have been hiding even fro
On the eve of the Globe's production of "Hamlet,"Shakespearean scholar Kate Shelton is given what is claimed to bethe Bard's long-lost work. When a killer decides to stagetheatrical murders as flesh-and-blood realities, Shelton mustdecipher a string of clues before anyone else dies.
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name isDeucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, asleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with asecret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks thestreets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for thehumanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor iscool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now themesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricaneapproaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin tospin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and thefuture of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests withVictor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human.Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the originalmanifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in theultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his madcreator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’smalignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity thatsteps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and apurpose, beyond imagining.
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Book De*ion While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, MartieRhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her owntraumatic autophobia, a fear of herself. Amazon.com Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Nightand Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory isnonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz haswritten before. Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer witha loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her bestfriend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of openspaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapysessions. Suddenly and inexplicably, Martie herself beginsexhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder, fearing herselfcapable of inflicting great harm on her loved ones. At the sametime, Dusty's brother Skeet also succumbs to irrational mentalbehavior and tries to throw himself from a roof. It soon becomesclear that these four
Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living theAmerican Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home tofind a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, coveredentirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyesand mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious,he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping soundand looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart.And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be tornapart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth,something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something thathe can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life, and he doesn't know why.He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress hemeets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. Hehas too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Becausethe vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning onTommy's computer screen: "The deadline is dawn."Tickt
What's the truth behind the legend of the hound of theBaskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast that's haunting the lonelymoors? Enter Sherlock Holmes to find the answer, in this, the onlyfull-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the mostpopular and enduring detective series ever written.
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is wherehe was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as theylearn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shutshim safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when OldNick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nickhas held her captive for seven years. Through determination,ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life forJack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. Shedevises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son'sbravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just howunprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmaticfive-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and thelimitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executednovel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
Twelve Years a Slave, a chronicle of the amazing ordeal of a free African-American kidnapped from Washington, D.C., and impressed into slavery in Louisiana, is one of the most compelling and detailed slave narratives in existence. Although a best-selling book in its time, Solomon Northup’s narrative has existed in the shadow of more academically prominent and popularly celebrated narratives like The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). Nonetheless, Northup’s account of his kidnapping and enslavement is a masterpiece of historical detail, and the narrative has been noted for its easily researched and widely corroborated elements. The text and story were virtually unchallenged by Southern apologists or partisans of the era. Northup resists the urge to laud himself as an exemplary character or focus solely his own experience, giving contemporary readers a remarkable account of the lives of the slave community as a whole. As an educated man, torn from freedom and plunged into slavery, he
全书由一篇简介开始，简介的内容其实就象是聊天，作者与读者之间的聊天。写这篇文章时候的小花絮，那篇文章的灵感来自哪里，另外一篇写完之后的感受，诸如此类的话题，对于阅读理解后面的文章有一定的帮助。 这本集子的标题“烟与镜”的含义是，魔术师靠镜子与烟雾来表演，镜子能映照出实像，而45度斜放的镜子会让你看到假象，让你以为你所看到的是真的，这个概念在若干篇里都有出现。小说都是镜子，用来反映这个世界，而奇幻小说也是镜子，是魔术师常用的45度斜放的镜子，甚至是凹凸不平的变形镜，它们可以告诉我们一些事情，一些平时看不到的事情。读完所有的故事，你是不是也会看到一些平时看不到的事情呢？ An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath anold fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightlybattle to protect his unwary adoptive fami
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends sincechildhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become atop cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrousconfrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw.And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowanto bring him in alive -- if only Catlow would give him thechance...
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two boys watch ashiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway andhis younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when achance encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing a bloodyand explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after deadbody in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone madand a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only allyis a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of fouryears. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Marktalk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggiewill do anything to protect her client -- even take a last,desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost themboth their lives.
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty andferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by NobelPrize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbableadventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master.Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, isrooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett oneof the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
The office of the public defender is not known as a trainingground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there toolong and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in areal firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young mancharged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just anotherof the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on aconspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself inthe middle of a complex case against one of the largestpharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind ofenormous settlement that would totally change his life—that wouldmake him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king oftorts...
