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Adán Barrera, capo del cartello della droga piú potente del mondo, è rinchiuso in un carcere di San Diego in isolamento. Art Keller, l'agente della Dea che lo ha arrestato dopo avergli ucciso il fratello e lo zio, vive nascosto in un monastero del New Mexico, dove fa l'apicoltore e cerca di dimenticare una vita di menzogne e false identità. Quando Barrera riesce a farsi trasferire in un carcere messicano e a riprendere le redini del cartello, ...

Boone Daniels è un ex poliziotto, che ormai vive per il surf: per lui, uscire in pattuglia non significa più affrontare i criminali piccoli e grandi di San Diego, ma le onde dell'oceano. E la sua nuova squadra è fatta di surfisti come lui: stravaganti, eterni ragazzi innamorati del rischio e delle traiettorie più difficili e perfette. Quando però una avvocatessa lo coinvolge nell'indagine su una colossale truffa a un'assicurazione, dovrà rinun...

È l'autunno del 1951 e la Guerra di Corea è in pieno svolgimento. Nikolaj Hel, ventiseienne, ha trascorso gli ultimi tre anni della sua vita in una cella di isolamento nelle mani dei soldati americani. Hel è un maestro di hoda korosu, uno stile di combattimento che permette di uccidere l'avversario a mani nude, parla sei lingue e ha affinato uno straordinario "sesto senso", una sorta di acuta percezione di pericolo imminente. Ha insomma tutte ...

This explosive novel takes you deep inside the drug trade, a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

Boone Daniels lives to surf, working as a PI only enough to keep himself in fish tacos and in the water. But he is also obsessed with the unsolved case of a girl who was abducted while he was on the police force. He blames himself for not saving her, but now, unexpectedly, he might have a chance to make amends.

Neal Carey grew up on the wrong side of the law, until an exclusive institution called the Bank recruited him for private-eye training. Now he must put his skills to use to find the missing teenage daughter of a prominent senator.

Trevanian's Shibumi was a landmark bestseller, and one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century - now Don Winslow returns with the prequel, SATORI. It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu or "naked kill, " fluent in over six languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense...

New York: late 1958. Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier, safer life as a private investigator. Manhattan in the late 50s is alive with new possibilities, new sounds, and new faces, including young presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally. Withers is assigned as a bodyguard for Keneallys girlfriend at ...

Shamus Award winner Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, and a chronic disappearing act. When Neal catches up with him, he can s...

Sometime student and detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun, but his new task doesnt sound dangerous. All he has to do is pull off the ultimate makeover: turn Polly Pageta gum-chewing, foul-mouthed, big-haired broadinto a lady in time to testify in a rape case against the head of the Family Cable Network and Americas most beloved family man. But Polly isnt cooperating, a...

Graduate student Neal Careys three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally overbut his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battlea task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada. To ...

Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organizations. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture.Neal thinks this assignment wil...

Frank Machianno, an affable, funny, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, has his own life turned upside down when his past revisits him in the form of a wise-assed kid who knows that Frank was once Frankie Machine, the most feared hit man in the west-coast Mafia.

Neal Carey hat die Frau fürs Leben gefunden und ein Zuhause und könnte jetzt endlich seine Doktorarbeit beenden, wären da nicht Joe Graham und die »Bank«, die wieder einmal eine Gegenleistung dafür erwarten, dass sie Neals Leben finanzieren. Der neue Auftrag scheint immerhin mehr als einfach zu sein: Neal soll aus der großmäuligen Tussi Polly Paget eine seriöse Lady machen, bevor sie gegen einen landesweit bekannten Fernsehmoderator aussagt. A...

Drei Jahre sind seit Neal Careys letztem Fall vergangen. Drei Jahre innerer Einkehr in einem chinesischen Kloster. Doch dann steht plötzlich Joe Graham vor ihm, und mit der Ruhe ist es endgültig vorbei. Denn die »Bank« braucht Neal, um Cody McCall zu finden, den zweijährigen Sohn einer Hollywood-Produzentin. Cody wurde von seinem Vater entführt und in die Wildnis von Nevada verschleppt. Um den Kleinen zu finden, muss Neal nicht nur seine Cowbo...

Zu viel Wodka und eine brennende Zigarette - ein klarer Fall, scheint es. Doch Jack Wade, der Star der Abteilung für Brandstiftung des Orange County Sheriff Department, glaubt nicht an einen Unfall, als er in den Trümmern einer abgebrannten Villa auf die Leiche einer jungen Frau stößt. Sein Job ist es, die Sprache des Feuers zu entziffern. Und bald wird die Sache so heiß, dass er Gefahr läuft, sich die Finger zu verbrennen ... Abtrünnige KGB-...

Dave Collins ist Elite-Soldat. -- Seine Familie stirbt bei einem Anschlag. -- Seine Regierung unternimmt nichts. -- ZEIT FÜR VERGELTUNG. Dave Collins ist ein hochdekorierter Ex-Soldat und Sicherheitschef des JFK-Flughafens. Als Terroristen ein Flugzeug über New York zum Absturz bringen, sterben seine Frau und sein Sohn. Dave Collins fordert Vergeltung, doch die US-Regierung handelt nicht. Also nimmt er die Sache selbst in die Hand. Er stell...

Robert Pendleton ist ein Chemiegenie, was er entwickelt, bedeutet nicht nur Fortschritt, es bedeutet vor allem Reichtum und Macht. Als er plötzlich verschwindet, sind alle in Aufruhr: die CIA, die chinesische Regierung und die »Bank«, die sehr viel Geld in Pendletons Forschung investiert hat. Neal Carey soll ihn wiederfinden - ein Routinejob, wie er glaubt, bis er auf die schöne und geheimnisvolle Li Lan trifft. Im dunklen Herzen Chinas soll N...

Allie Chase, die minderjährige, rebellische Tochter eines prominenten Senators, ist in die Underground-Szene Londons abgetaucht. Neal hat nur wenige Tage Zeit, um Allie aus dieser Hölle voller Junkies, Drogendealer und Schläger zu befreien, damit sie pünktlich zum Wahlkampf aufgeräumt und strahlend an der Seite ihrer Eltern auftreten kann. Doch was der Untergrund aufzubieten hat, ist nichts gegen das, was Neal an der Oberfläche erwartet - fall...

Encuadernación: Rústica cosida. Colección: Roja & Negra.Un thriller que traspasa lñas fronteras del género y combina magistralmente elementos de la película Pulp Fiction con la sensualidad de California.En los Reyes de lo Cool, la precuela de Salvajes, Don Winslow nos presenta a Ben, Chon y O (Ofelia), tres amigos que viven a tope en Laguna Beach. Estamos en 2005, al sur California. Chon es un tipo, duro marine de profesión, que espera ser env...