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Og lige straks møder han et stort ét på en mennesketom vej i Arizona. En jeep er kørt direkte ind i det eneste træ i miles omkreds, og under den nådesløse ørkensol er intet, hvad det ser ud til at være. Få minutter efter er Reacher på vej ind i den nærliggende flække af en grænseby, som har kendt bedre dage. Ved siden af sig har han den tidligere soldat og nuværende FBI-agent Michaela Fenton, der forsøger at finde sin tvillingebror. Han er muligvis kommet i selskab med nogle farlige personer. Som Reacher meget vel kan få brug for at aflægge besøg. Deres leder har sat sig tungt på byen.

Den femte passager var Susan Mark. Hun var ensom, ikke på talefod med sin søn og en stor gåde. Sammen med en politikvinde og en hoben uudgrundelige forbundsansatte prøver Reacher at finde frem til, hvor dyb en afgrund Susan Mark egentlig var endt i, hvor mange liv der allerede var blevet ødelagt, og hvilke farer der her og nu truer ham selv. For et labyrintisk kapløb er begyndt hen ad Manhattans gader, hvor brutale og kompetente soldater på alle sider fører skyggekrig.

Syndebuk er tidligere udgivet under navnet ”En dyr affære”.

Alting begynder et sted … og for den militære elitepolitimand Jack Reacher var stedet Carter Crossing, Mississippi, helt tilbage i 1997.

En afsides jernbane. Et gerningssted. Et røgslør.

En ung kvinde er død, og bevismaterialet peger entydigt på en soldat fra en nærliggende militærbase. Soldaten har imidlertid magtfulde venner i Washington.

Keine Ehe ist, was sie zu sein scheint. Als Helen spät von einem Elternabend nach Hause kommt, freut sie sich auf einen schönen Abend mit ihrem Mann Ralph. In letzter Zeit lief es nicht mehr so gut zwischen ihnen. Zusammensitzen und ein Glas Wein trinken würde ihnen guttun und ihre Welt wieder in Ordnung bringen. Doch es kommt anders. Sie findet ihren Mann nicht auf dem Sofa, sondern am Fuße der Kellertreppe liegend. Ermordet. Und neben ihm steht seine Geliebte.

Fra en helikopter højt over den øde californiske ørken bliver en mand kastet ud i natten ... I Chicago erfarer en kvinde, at et elitehold af tidligere militære efterforskere er ved at blive udslettet en efter en ... Og på gaden i Portland bliver Jack Reacher – soldat, politimand, helt – revet ud af sin strejfertilværelse af en kodebesked, som kun ganske få andre ville kunne forstå. Lige fra de første chokerende optrin i Lee Childs højenergiske nye roman bliver Jack Reacher sendt som en kniv i hjertet på en sammensværgelse, der slår hans gamle venner ihjel – og er på vej mod noget endnu værre.

Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out and Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground—dead.

A "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainment Weekly). The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the...

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...

To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero -- or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story...

BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and...

From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia...

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...

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately...

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...

Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned...

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 fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect...

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by...

Mi guardo intorno e vedo il nulla. Proprio ciò che cercavo. Questa cittadina di confine non ha niente da offrire: nessun negozio decente, nemmeno un posto dove bere un buon caffè. Qui non ci viene nessuno in vacanza: qui ci si arriva solo se si ha un motivo. Io un motivo ce l’ho. E se non ce l’ho, lo trovo. Sempre. Per questo, quando osservo la scena che ho di fronte, non posso non farmi qualche domanda. Una strada deserta dell’Arizona, un fuoristrada schiantato contro l’unico albero nel raggio di miglia e miglia, nessuna traccia del guidatore. Domande che esigono una risposta.

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.

Ryder Huntington was my first and only broken heart. I promised no one would tear me up like his sweet words and broken promises ever again. I didn't expect the first time I landed a high-paying interior design job for an MLB player would be the day we met again. And I certainly didn't expect Ryder would bring with him cops, handcuffs, and words like "breaking and entering." Now he wants to make up for the misunderstanding. Well, that ship has sailed, I think.