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Când Jack Reacher hotărăște să coboare din autobuz în Margrave, un orășel liniștit din Georgia, își închipuie că singurul lui motiv e să viziteze locul unde a murit marele chitarist de blues Blind Blake. E o zi ploioasă și tot ce vrea e să găsească un restaurant unde să mănânce și să bea o cafea. Dar în Margrave tocmai s a produs prima crimă din ultimii treizeci de ani. Iar Jack Reacher, străinul venit de curând în oraș, devine primul suspect. Așa că, la nici jumătate de oră de la sosire, este reținut și dus la închisoare.

După ce partenera lui dintr-o aventură mai veche îl abandonează într-o cameră de motel, Jack Reacher își reia călătoria fără o țintă anume și lasă norocul să-i aleagă calea. Ajunge astfel la un banal magazin de amanet unde îi atrage atenția un obiect ciudat: un inel de absolvent al Academiei Militare West Point – un trofeu greu de obținut și la care titularul n-ar renunța ușor. Și mai ciudat este că inelul descoperit de Reacher pare să fi aparținut unei femei.

Pentru Jack Reacher, evenimentele din 11 septembrie 2001 au adus o schimbare practică a stilului de viaţă. Pe lângă periuţa de dinţi pliabilă, acum poartă asupra lui şi o carte de identitate cu fotografie. Totuşi, nimeni nu-i poate da de urmă. Aşa că, atunci când un membru al fostei sale unităţi militare găseşte o cale de a-i transmite un mesaj, Reacher ştie că e vorba de ceva foarte serios: Vreau să aduni laolaltă vechea unitate.

Jack Reacher își propune să traverseze America din Maine până în California. Însă nu ajunge prea departe. Pe o șosea din New England vede un indicator cu numele unei localități în care n-a fost niciodată — Laconia —, orașul unde s-a născut tatăl lui. Așa că hotărăște să facă un ocol. În același timp, în apropiere, mașina unui cuplu canadian rămâne în pană. Cei doi vor să ajungă la New York să vândă ceva de mare preț. Dar iată-i rătăciți într-un ținut complet necunoscut, singurul loc unde pot înnopta fiind un motel izolat și cam dubios.

Gideon Crew n'a plus qu'un an à vivre et aspire à un peu de tranquillité. Mais le gouvernement américain fait de nouveau appel à lui quand Chalker, l'un de ses anciens collègues du laboratoire nucléaire de Los Alamos, prend une famille en otage. Gideon est dépêché sur place pour tenter de le raisonner, mais les forces spéciales abattent finalement le forcené... Les autorités découvrent alors que Chalker, qui s'était converti à l'islam, était irradié.

En 2008, neuf alpinistes ne sont jamais revenus d'une expédition dans le Nouveau-Mexique. Les recherches menées aux abords de leur campement ont montré qu'ils ont été contraints de fuir une menace terrifiante, certains à peine vêtus alors que le blizzard faisait rage. Seuls six corps ont été retrouvés, et l'affaire de la Montagne de la mort n'a jamais été résolue. Quinze ans plus tard, la découverte de deux nouveaux cadavres permet la réouverture du dossier.

Roaring Fork, station huppée du Colorado. L'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast, du FBI, arrive juste à temps pour éviter que sa protégée, Corrie Swanson, ne passe dix ans derrière les barreaux. Cette dernière, qui enquête sur la mort de onze mineurs prétendument dévorés par un ours, en 1876, s'est en effet mis à dos les autorités locales, dont les juteux projets immobiliers pourraient être mis à mal.

Collective Tales Publishing presents 101 new dreadful lessons. Each trimmed down to exactly 101 appalling words for your repulsive reeducation. Depicting a wide range of subjects, we visit the classics, such as vampires, mummies, and werewolves, but we also venture into the darkness and shockingly horrific. Like an absurd Aesop’s Fable, you’ll study the failings of students who were unwilling to learn. You’ll see victims get their payback. You’ll experience tangles and knots on a whirlwind of misbehavior. We guarantee lessons will be learned, whether you want them to or not.

Actionreicher Cold-Case-Thriller mit cooler Frauen-Power. Old Bones – Das neunte Opfer ist der 4. Thriller der Bestseller-Autoren Preston & Child um FBI Agentin Corrie Swanson und Archäologin Nora Kelly. Ein Leichenfund in einer Höhle beschert FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson ihren neuen Fall: Die beiden Toten gehören zu einer Gruppe von neun Wanderern, die 2008 auf ungeklärte Weise ums Leben kamen. Von einer winterlichen Rucksacktour in den Bergen von New Mexico kehrte keiner der neun zurück – doch man fand damals trotz intensiver Suche nur sechs Leichen.

Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. The binge-worthy new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

A young mother is left alone with her two young children for a week while a serial killer hunts in her community. In a near panic, she prays to God, whose existence she thinks questionable, issuing him an ultimatum: prove You exist. He does. This is her true story.

Is your guide to finding the truth when your gut is telling you something’s not right. This isn’t about playing detective—it’s about getting real answers. Whether you’ve noticed strange behavior, changed routines, or just have a nagging feeling, this book walks you through what to look for, where to start, and what steps to take next.

How to Catch a Cheating Husband is your guide to finding the truth when your gut is telling you something’s not right. This isn’t about playing detective—it’s about getting real answers. Whether you’ve noticed strange behavior, changed routines, or just have a nagging feeling, this book walks you through what to look for, where to start, and what steps to take next.

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

This is your no-BS, step-by-step guide to launching a career in private investigation. Written by Ken Childs, founder and lead investigator of Paramount Investigative Services, Inc., this book skips the fluff and gets real about what it’s like to start from scratch. Ken doesn’t just talk theory—he’s been there, building his own business from the ground up.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE 2025 JACK REACHER THRILLER Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. First – a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the...

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.

Diesen Mann unterschätzen Kriminelle nur ein Mal – der neue Fall für Jack Reacher. Am Busbahnhof von Gerrardsville, Colorado, beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher, wie eine Frau vor einen fahrenden Bus gestoßen wird. Es gelingt ihm nicht, den Täter dingfest zu machen. Doch er gerät so ins Visier skrupelloser Verbrecher, die jeden Zeugen eliminieren wollen. Nichts darf ihre Operation gefährden. Allerdings haben sie nicht mit einem Mann wie Reacher gerechnet. Als der bedroht wird, geht er sofort zum Gegenangriff über.

I sat at the table, staring at her, immersed in the events of that fateful day. It was a pivotal moment when Miguel's well meaning interference only served to confuse things more. His effort to rewrite history and construct a new road simply pushed us farther back from our initial target. The agreement I'd made with the devil was already sealed, and no amount of time travel or age tampering on Earth could ever reverse it.

Diesen Mann unterschätzen Kriminelle nur ein Mal – der neue Fall für Jack Reacher

Am Busbahnhof von Gerrardsville, Colorado, beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist Jack Reacher, wie eine Frau vor einen fahrenden Bus gestoßen wird. Es gelingt ihm nicht, den Täter dingfest zu machen. Doch er gerät so ins Visier skrupelloser Verbrecher, die jeden Zeugen eliminieren wollen. Nichts darf ihre Operation gefährden. Allerdings haben sie nicht mit einem Mann wie Reacher gerechnet. Als der bedroht wird, geht er sofort zum Gegenangriff über.