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A talented detective duo must unmask a sinister child smuggling ring and expose the corruption in a world rocked by war. Four and a half years after the terrorist bombing plot of 1916, expert detective Randall Blackburn is ready to face his toughest case yet. When a San Francisco mayor recruits him and his adopted daughter Vignette Nightingale to bust a horrifying child smuggling ring, Randall plunges into a sinister investigation with roots f...

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A determined detective must stop a murderous fanatic at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair in this riveting second installment of the Nightingales Detective Series. Nine years after San Francisco's great Earthquake and Fires, the city is on the brink of a new era. The World's Fair is opening to herald the completion of the Panama Canal and display the wonders of the new technological age. But danger lurks behind the glittering façade, as a mu...

As a serial killer stalks his victims in the fiery ruins of the 1906 earthquake, the police detective hunting him must protect a pair of adolescent orphans. It's 1906, and people from across the country are flocking to San Francisco, a growing center of industry and culture. But to some, the city is a place of unspeakable sin, and the Great Earthquake is seen as a day of reckoning for the immoral masses. In the quake's aftermath, another type ...

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New Jersey, 1895. Un uomo scruta nella notte, in cerca dei bagliori di un incendio di cui ha avuto notizia. L'uomo è Thomas Edison, il celeberrimo inventore, un nome che è quasi sinonimo di elettricità. Ma c'è un altro uomo che ha in questo campo importanti meriti. Quello che sta bruciando è il suo laboratorio. E certo non è un caso." In un romanzo-verità, Anthony Fiacco ricostruisce vita e vicissitudini di Nikola Tesla, geniale e poliedrico i...

Questo non è il racconto dell'onda furiosa della Grande Storia sul destino di un popolo. Non solo questo. È una storia piccola, che ha il nome e il volto di una bambina. Zubaida vive nel deserto dell'Afghanistan, in un villaggio che la "guerra al terrore" non ha ancora travolto. Ha nove anni. Non sa niente del mondo oltre il suo villaggio, poco della travagliata storia del suo paese, dei cingolati dell'Armata Rossa, della lotta dei mujaheddin,...

It is a monumental task, this getting into the mind of a man as complex and extraordinary as Tesla. Anthony Flacco is up to the task. IN THE MATTER OF NIKOLA TESLA: A ROMANCE OF THE MIND reads at times like a psychological exploration worthy of Dostoyevsky, at other times like one of John le Carre's espionage novels, and even sometimes like Joseph Campbell's mythical 'hero's journey.'" -NY JOURNAL OF BOOK REVIEWS This fictionalized story of...

And you wonder: How the hell did this guy go on to be a loving father and grandfather? How did he bury all that crap? That's a story in itself." -Clint Eastwood, director of THE CHANGELINGThe film story of young Sanford Clark and his forced participation in the Wineville Murders was covered in Clint Eastwood's movie, THE CHANGELING, but for answers to the questions Eastwood posed after completing the project, turn to the true story of the Wine...

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From award-winning author Anthony Flacco comes a powerful tale of madness in a picture-perfect family, and a betrayal that saved a life, to tie in to the Discovery ID mini series

This exhilarating historical debut novel in the tradition of Caleb Carrs "The Alienist" is set in the heart of a disaster--the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--that sill reverberates a century later.

From the author of "The Last Nightingale" comes an exhilarating historical thriller set against the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair.