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In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaos and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major best-selling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many.

Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called "Lost Camp" of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism. Benton tells Kelly he has stumbled upon an amazing find: the diary of one of the victims.

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.

Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below on "Deep Storm", a stunningly advanced science-research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top-secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to an ancient mystery.

After a shoot-out leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie Swanson finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds she cannot shake off an overwhelming feeling of guilt. As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she realizes she needs the help of her old enemy, archaeologist Nora Kelly.

Forced to leave her post at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, Nora Kelly is left without a job and without any prospects. So when billionaire Lucas Tappan invites her to lead his excavation of the infamous Roswell landing site, she has no choice but to make a decision that could destroy her reputation. Armed with a healthy dose of scepticism, Nora reluctantly agrees to visit the site. When the preliminary scans of the area reveal a suspected Native American burial site, Nora takes a closer look.

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god-king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to believe that the greatest prize of all - Narmer's crown - might be buried with him. No crown of an Egyptian king has ever been discovered, and Narmer's is the elusive crown of the two Egypts.

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world.

Before he can return to New York from Miami, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is called to investigate something very strange that has happened on the west coast of Florida. Dozens of human feet, identically clad in blue, have washed up on beaches. All exhibit unmistakable signs of violence. Beyond that, nothing is known about the feet, except that they are fresh and haven't been in the water long. Pendergast reluctantly makes his way to the barrier islands off South Florida to investigate a case he believes to be outside his area of expertise and his interest.

New York Times best seller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.

At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning - and dreadful - discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why?

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, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.

Der Auftakt einer neuen Serie um die junge Archäologin Dr. Nora Kelly und FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson vom Besteller-Duo Preston & Child. Ein hochspannender Mix aus Indiana-Jones-Archäologie, einer wahren geschichtlichen Begebenheit und einem atemberaubenden Spannungsplot.

Agent Gideon Crew erhält den Auftrag, aus einer Ausstellung in New York eine Seite aus einer berühmten frühmittelalterlichen Handschrift zu stehlen. Ein gefundenes Fressen für den begnadeten Kunstdieb - der Coup gelingt. Auf dem Pergament schimmert eine alte Seekarte hindurch. Sie kündet von einer Reise, die vor Jahrtausenden in der Ägäis begann und zu einer Karibikinsel führte. Dort gab es offenbar eine Heilpflanze, die Kranke gesund macht und das Leben verlängert. Die Aussicht auf ein Milliardengeschäft!

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.

FBI Agent Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search.

William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Eyewitnesses claim and the security camera confirms the killer seen leaving the building was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead.

Er ist brillant. Er kennt keine Angst. Und er ist eine tickende Zeitbombe: Gideon Crew hat ein Aneurysma im Gehirn, das ihn jederzeit töten kann...

Es lauert tief am Meeresgrund, und es wächst unaufhaltsam. Bei einer Expedition in die Antarktis ging vor Jahren ein riesiger Meteorit über Bord. Noch immer liegt er auf dem Grund der eisigen See. Eli Glinn, Chef von Effective Engineering Solutions, leitete damals die Expedition, in deren Verlauf über hundert Menschen starben. Nun drängt die Zeit: Der Meteorit hat sich inzwischen als Alien-Lebensform entpuppt, als Samenkapsel, aus der ein gigantisches Gewächs mit Fangarmen geworden ist.

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.