公元2012年10月11日，一次超高能量的强子对撞机实验引发了无人能够想象的后果。世界范围内，时间场被扭曲，每隔二十个小时，一切都会还原到10月11日早上6点47分的状态，除了人们的记忆之外。时间的循环无穷无尽，一个不可思议的新纪元由此开始。韩方，北京一名最普通的大学生，和朋友们一起经历了这个新纪元最初的震惊和灾难。在每况愈下的混乱局势中，他们必须设法自救。此后的世界被疯狂和愚昧所席卷，他们的生活分崩离析，在黑暗的时代中仍坚守着希望。经历种种劫难后，一个自称受到时间之神指引的神秘教派又在全球范围兴起，教主保罗似乎掌握了幕后真相，通过精心安排的计划把人类带向不可知的未来。 当令人窒息的真相逐步揭开时，韩方发现，在这片时间的废墟上，他和一个神秘的少女竟然肩负着世界最后的希望，可他们将如何拯救这
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, twoCatholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to reach a group ofEskimos and convert them. Upon reaching their destination, thepriests were murdered. Over the next three years, one of theArctic’s most tragic stories became one of North America’sstrangest and most memorable police investigations and trials. Anear-perfect parable of late colonialism, as well as a richexploration of the differences between European Christianity andEskimo mysticism, Bloody Falls of the Coppermine possesses theintensity of true crime and the romance of wildernessadventure.
The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wrywit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peakof his originality and the height of his powers...Wounded in theline of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in ruraleastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows isfound shot to death on the family patio. The victims werebiologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be anincubator for germ warfare.Suddenly, a local double murder takes onshattering global implications -- and thrusts Corey and twoextraordinary women into a dangerous search for the secret of PLUMISLAND....
Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be ...The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet ...the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the CostaBrava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, doubleagent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There wasnothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in onefrantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sawhis Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S.and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautifulbetrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by atop-level mole with the world in his fist-- Parsifal.
Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has neverbeen so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Danielsmay have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she's still knee-deepin paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone tohire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging thanshe thought it would be-now that the Order is disparaging her goodname, and many potential clients are afraid of getting on the badside of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate's mate.So whenAtlanta's premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with avampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work.Turns out this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to getto the bottom of it-fast, or the city and everyone dear to hermight pay the ultimate price.
Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormalkind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents hergreatest challenge.
Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But . . . 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. A modern masterpiece, "The Godfather" is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.
According to Mayan doomsday prophecy, 12/21/12 marks the endof the world in a global cataclysm that can only be prevented bythe Nightkeepers, magical warriors enlisted to fight the rise ofthe underworld demons. To fulfill the final prophecy theNightkeepers must find their mates, but when Lucius and Jade arecharged with rescuing the Mayan sun god, they try to ignore theirgrowing attraction. Unless they can confront their own demons andaccept that love isn't a weakness, even destiny might not be ableto save them...
'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.' Stephen King, from the Introduction. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror ...
Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerousman in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has aplan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the worldfrom her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who isworking under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stophim, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerfutriumph on earth.
Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of thepsychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his mostriveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novelabout a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forcesthe brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his ownfallibility. Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant,borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to AlexDelaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Laurenresists--angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologistchalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challengingprofession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stagparty's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are stickenwith shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after,Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alexdisregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective MiloSturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover,Robin Castagna, in order to pursu
Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? It is no secret that King is one
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character andexploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people ofsouthern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christianand pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events tocreate a striking work of great power and beauty. Genealogies.
With more than 500,000 copies of her books in print in theUnited States, Donna Leon continues to find new fans for herriveting Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. In "Death andJudgment," a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on atreacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, inSanta Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboardan intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the twotragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedyVenetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches farbeyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venicebefore Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what isreally going on.
