Ein gefährlicher Sniper in New York - und ein ehemaliger Cop und Astrophysiker als sein Widersacher. Hart, packend, ungewöhnlich!Während eines Blizzards wird in New York ein FBI-Mann in seinem SUV erschossen - von einem Dach und von einem offensichtlich äußerst fähigen Scharfschützen. Das FBI steht vor einem Rätsel - und wendet sich an den ehemaligen Polizisten Lucas Page, der nun als Professor an der Universität lehrt und Experte für Ballistik ist. Page weigert sich zunächst zu helfen - bis er erfährt, wer der Tote ist: sein ehemaliger Partner. Wer könnte einen Grund gehabt haben, ihn zu töten? Page findet heraus, von wo geschossen worden ist, doch als er wieder aus den Ermittlungen aussteigen will, geschieht ein zweiter Mord - auf dieselbe Art und Weise, erneut ist ein Polizist das Opfer und es folgen weitere Morde.-
A stifling heat wave rolls into New York City, amplifying the already critical level of tension in the fragile concrete ecosystem. The air tastes of electricity—the negative charge of bad things to come—but everyone hopes it’s just the temperature. Then, on the morning homicide detective Alexandra “Hemi” Hemingway finds out she is pregnant, a twisted serial killer makes his debut. And the heat goes up. Not for the faint of heart—American Woman is a relentless ride that takes you through the fractured world of a nascent killer. And you will never feel safe again.
People spend their entire lives staving off the dark - but no matter the measures taken, black paths and shadowy pits lurk in the unlikeliest of places, waiting to pull the unwary into the depths of despair. These eleven tales offer a morbid sampling of the many forms and fashions of terror - from the subtle prickling of neck hairs at the kiss of a ghostly breeze to the raw-throated screams and feverish clawing of a desperate fight for survival. Witness eleven people torn from their ordinary lives and cast into twisted realities that test their sanity, faith, and very will to live... A pilot must land a crippled aircraft on an impossible runway... A doctor feels far too much sympathy for his deformed patients... A schoolgirl's secret contract could cost her mother's soul... A woman whose pack rat obsessions hide the obscene... For these and seven others, the darkness comes from within and without, subtle, deadly...and relentless.
FBI independent contractor Jake Cole deciphers the language of murderers by reconstructing three-dimensional crime scene models in his head - a grim gift that has left his nerves frayed and his psyche fragile. When his father, an important American painter, is almost killed in an Alzheimer's-fueled accident, Jake is forced to come home and confront a past he spent a quarter of a century trying to forget. Once there, a brutal double homicide teaches Jake that even though he has forgotten about the past, it has not yet forgotten about him.
As Jake tries to make sense of his father's unhinged existence, he discovers thousands of seemingly meaningless canvases stacked in the studio - a bizarre trail of dust-covered breadcrumbs that Jake believes lead to a killer called the Bloodman. All of his work seems to come apart just as another malevolent beast descends on the town - a Category 5 hurricane that is as unstoppable as the murderer. Pinned between the two forces of nature, Jake realizes that old ghosts are on the move.
Bloodman will leave you reeling long after you have finished listening to it.
"A Sixth Sense-like take on Thomas Harris in his prime...Days after racing to the finish, and letting the book rattle around in the unconscious, the story still unsettles me." - National Post
"Jake Cole has to be one of the most compelling and tormented protagonists in recent crime fiction...Bloodman is a remarkable debut." - Booklist (starred review)
