John Katzenbach, maestro del suspense psicológico y autor superventas de El psicoanalista y Jaque al psicoanalista, nos mantiene en vilo con esta nueva novela sobre el enfrentamiento mortal entre un grupo de psicópatas y dos adolescentes.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta y Easy se hacen llamar los Muchachos de Jack, en honor a Jack el destripador. Entre ellos no se conocen más que por una plataforma en la Deep Web donde comparten su verdadera pasión: llegar a ser artistas del asesinato. Cuando Connor y Nikki violan la intimidad de su chat, la furia de estos psicópatas se desencadena y no se detendrá ante nada.
Con una inteligencia feroz planean como venganza la muerte de los dos adolescentes junto con sus familias. Sin embargo, Connor y Niki no son como el resto de las víctimas de estos asesinos en serie. La pesadilla comienza y solo hay dos opciones: dejarse cazar o sobrevivir.
Vuelve el maestro del thriller con una nueva novela de acción trepidante en la que nada de lo que ocurre es lo que parece ni nadie es quien dice ser.
Por el autor de El psicoanalista y Jaque al psicoanalista.
Cuando Maeve desaparece sin dejar rastro, su hija Sloane no se sorprende: si su madre tenía que desaparecer, solo podía ser en extrañas circunstancias . Sin embargo, esta vez es distinto: al cabo de unos días de la desaparición de su progenitora, Sloane recibe un paquete que esta misma le ha mandado, con varios miles de dólares, la escritura de su casa y un arma. También hay una nota con las siguientes palabras: Vén delo todo. Quédate la pistola. Practica. Huye. Ahora. A solo dos semanas de graduarse como arquitecta y en medio de esta encrucijada personal, Sloane recibe la oferta de trabajo de un misterioso millonario que quiere construir seis memoriales para seis personas que murieron, de nuevo, en extrañas circunstancias. A medida que Sloane investiga esas muertes, el consejo de su madre se hace cada vez más presente. ¿En quién puede confiar ahora Sloane? ¿Tendrá tiempo de seguir las indicaciones de su madre cuando llegue al final del laberinto que ha ido creando su siniestro empleador?
Timothy 'Moth' Turner is a postgrad student and recovering alcoholic. Estranged from his family, Moth's only lifeline is his uncle Ed. When Ed doesn't turn up for a meeting, Moth gets worried. Ed is found shot dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide, but Moth can't believe his uncle would take his own life. And soon, after a little bit of digging, Ed is on the trail of a psychopathic killer known only as Student #5...
A master of the modern psychological thriller, internationally bestselling author John Katzenbach is an unrivaled investigator of that most primal human motive revenge. A tense, penetrating novel, The Dead Student follows a young man set on avenging the uncle who saved his life, no matter the consequences. Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moths mentor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Moth bikes to his office only to discover a grisly scene his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. Deeply shaken, Moth dials 911 and waits for the police, who pronounce the death a suicide. Two words are scrawled across Ed's prescription pad: My fault. But Moth refuses to believe that his uncle would take his own life. Devastated and confused, he calls on the only person he thinks he can trust: Andrea Martine, an ex-girlfriend he has not spoken to in four years, a young woman who is struggling through her own trauma. Each battling their inner demons, Moth and Andy travel into dark, unfamiliar territory, intent on finding out the truth about Ed's death and circling ever closer to a devious mind that will flinch at nothing to achieve his own goal of revenge.
“No one has ever done what I intend to do. Three wildly different victims. Three distinct locations. Three different deaths. All on the same day. Within hours of each other. Deaths that tumble together like dominoes. Each one falling against the next. Click. Click. Click.”
Three red-headed women—One, Two, and Three—do not know one another though they live only a few miles apart. Each is being hunted by a psychopath intent on committing three perfect murders, works of such artistic brilliance that they will be written about and studied in Universities for decades to come. The women know they have been marked for death—they just don’t know when it is to happen, or how, or by whom. Or why.
Redhead One is a fifty-one-year-old single doctor. Redhead Two, a thirty-three-year-old middle school teacher. Redhead Three is a seventeen-year-old prep school student. Their tormenter seems to be everywhere and know everything about them, able to orchestrate fear so excruciating as to be unbearable. He is the Big Bad Wolf, and he is determined to rewrite the ending of the Red Riding Hood fairy tale into a slaughter of the innocents
A retired university professor has just been diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease. Returning home from the doctor's office, he witnesses a pretty young girl being kidnapped. Believing the police are dragging their feet, he vows to find her on his own. He knows that if he doesn't act, she may never be found alive.
Jennifer Riggins, the kidnapped girl, is being held prisoner by a depraved couple who have started an exclusive website called "What Comes Next." Viewers can watch her terrifying ordeal in real time, and thousands tune in for each episode of her ongoing nightmare. Jennifer has been named "Number Four." Her life is just beginning, and her only hope is a man whose life is nearing its end.
