"While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story master. Deaver is back with sixteen stories in the tradition of O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe."--BOOK JACKET.
Andrea Carlo Cappi Livres






Comeback: A Parker Novel
- 292pages
- 11 heures de lecture
The thief Parker teams up with some crooks to steal half a million dollars from a TV evangelist. But one cannot keep his mouth shut and Parker is on the run, pursued by people on both sides of the law.
Stephanie Plum's uncle has disappeared and Grandma thinks he has been abducted by aliens. Things turn serious when Stephanie finds a photo of dismembered body parts in his desk. Meanwhile, she has to bring in bail-jumping, vertically-challenged Randy Briggs.
The Twelfth Card
- 546pages
- 20 heures de lecture
Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are back! A hitman is out to kill a young girl in Harlem. In order to save her Lincoln has to solve a cold case that's over 150 years old. Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history—in the bestseller that proves “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver” (San Jose Mercury News).
The mysterious disappearance of treasure hunter and tomb raider Maxwell Broadbent sends his three sons on a search for their father, who has hidden himself and his treasures.
Utopia
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Utopia, a theme park featuring high-tech computers and robotics, becomes the scene of a confrontation between the engineer who designed the park's wizardry and a gang of criminals who are holding the park's visitors hostage to their demands.
In 1943, a submarine returning from a secret mission is attacked, its vital cargo believed lost . . . Three quarters of a century later, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt is asked to help locate a missing person: the scientist responsible for the design of the revolutionary Poseidon's Arrow submarine. This craft is so advanced and dangerous that any government would kill to possess it - and not just its designer has disappeared, so have the final plans. But this is no simple search. It leads Pitt from Washington to the Panama jungle, draws in the full resources of NUMA, and slowly unravels a deadly conspiracy which seeks to bring the world to its knees - and only Pitt can prevent it. A non-stop page-turner filled with heart-in-the-mouth thrills, Poseidon's Arrow is Clive Cussler at his magnificent, peerless best. 'The Adventure King.' Sunday Express 'Cussler is hard to beat.' Daily Mail
Anno Domini 1315: Giovanni XXII convoca per una delicata indagine il nobile Galcerán de Born, cavaliere degli Ospitalieri. Sono trascorsi anni da quando è stato ufficialmente sciolto l'Ordine dei Templari, in passato eroi delle Crociate e ora eretici condannati al rogo. Eppure il Papa sospetta che alcuni Templari superstiti stiano tramando contro di lui. Troppi interrogativi rimangono aperti: perché i tre principali accusatori dei Templari, l'inquisitore Guglielmo di Nogaret, il re di Francia Filippo IV e papa Clemente V, sono tutti morti in circostanze misteriose? Dove si è nascosta la flotta dei Templari? Dov'è il loro tesoro? E la biblica Arca dell'Alleanza? Tocca a Galcerán, al novizio Jonas e all'enigmatica Sara investigare...
Partita a scacchi per Sherlock Holmes
- 290pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Tre romanzi brevi su Sherlock Holmes e Auguste Dupin. SHERLOCK HOLMES, AUGUSTE DUPIN E IL MATCH DEL SECOLO – Negli Stati Uniti si svolge il primo campionato del mondo di scacchi e il giovane Sherlock Holmes sfida il maturo Auguste Dupin in una singolar tenzone epistolare che consiste nel riuscire a dedurre l'andamento e l'esito finale del match fra l'ultimo dei giocatori romantici e il primo dei moderni. IL FANTASMA – Parigi, 1900. La Sûreté si rivolge ad Auguste Dupin, da anni in pensione, per impedire al Fantasma, ladro astutissimo e assassino spietato, con l'incredibile capacità di assumere le altrui sembianze, di portare a termine una clamorosa rapina. IL MIGLIOR GIOCO – Parigi, 1902. Il Fantasma ha messo gli occhi sul "Gran Visir", preziosissima statuetta di madreperla, esposta al Torneo Internazionale di Scacchi in corso al Grand Circle. Il Vice ispettore Juve della Sûreté tenta d'impedire il colpo chiedendo aiuto a Auguste Dupin.



