Bantam books Past Tense Чайлд Ли

Это просто голос, вырванный из эфира: "Американец хочет сто миллионов долларов" • Для чего? От кого? Сейчас 1996 год, и Советов давно нет. Но теперь у нас появился новый враг. В квартире в Гамбурге группа элегантно одетых молодых саудовцев планирует что-то грандиозное • Утром ему вручили медаль, а днем отправили обратно в школу • Джек Ричер только что вернулся с секретного задания. Армия похлопывает его по спине и отправляет в школу, где учатся всего трое: детектив, агент ФБР и аналитик ЦРУ. Их назначение? • Чтобы найти этого американца. И то, что он продает. И перед кем • Книга на английском языке • It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars' • For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy

Две женщины-армейские летчицы высокого полета. Оба знакомы с Джеком Ричером. Обоих вынудили уволиться со службы • Теперь они оба мертвы • Найдены в их собственных домах, голыми, в ванне, полной краски. Очевидные жертвы военнослужащего. Одиночка, умный парень, с которым нужно свести счеты • Безжалостный мститель • Такой же человек, как Джек Ричер • Книга на английском языке • Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service • Now they're both dead • Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle • A ruthless vigilante • A man just like Jack Reacher

Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life • Hour Sixty-One • Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat • Hour Thirty-One • A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice.If she's going to live to testify, she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her • Hour Zero • Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs

This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume • Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age • Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher's past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world • The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time • The other stories in the collection are • Second Son • James Penney's New Identity • Guy Walks Into a Bar • Deep Down, High Heat • Not a Drill • Small Wars • All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts

"Джек Ричер, или В розыске" — роман английского писателя Ли Чайлда, вышедший в 2012 году. Семнадцатая книга из серии о бывшем военном полицейском Джеке Ричере, сиквел романов "Джек Ричер, или 61 час" и "Джек Ричер, или Это стоит смерти" • Разобравшись с очередным смертельно опасным делом, Джек Ричер твердо решил добраться до Вирджинии и наконец познакомиться с женщиной, которую так часто слышал по телефону, но никогда не видел. Как обычно, передвигаться по стране он предпочел на попутном транспорте. Ждать пришлось долго - никто не хотел пускать в свой автомобиль огромного громилу подозрительного вида. Наконец какие-то люди - двое мужчин и женщина - согласились подвезти его, причем чуть ли не до места назначения. Но через некоторое время Ричер начал понимать: эти люди вовсе не "какие-то"

Тяжелая работа детектива, полицейского, спецагента – чисто мужская, так считалось издавна. Женщины уже давно с этим не согласны. В век равноправия полов и развития высоких технологий на первый план стали выходить интеллект, технические навыки и профессионализм, заменяя собой грубую силу и умение быстро стрелять. Кто же все-таки лучше в этом деле? Чтобы получить ответ, автор мировых бестселлеров Ли Чайлд собрал в одну команду своих самых известных собратьев по перу и разбил их на пары – мужчина против женщины. Своих героев свели в профессиональной дуэли Кэти Райх и Ли Чайлд, Вэл Макдермид и Питер Джеймс, Сандра Браун и Си Джей Бокс, Диана Гэблдон и Стив Берри, Лиза Скоттолайн и Нельсон Демилль…

Someone - or something - is haunting the Titanic • Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes • Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet • Bringing together Faustian pacts, the occult, tales of sirens and selkies, guilt and revenge, desire and destiny, The Deep offers a thrilling, tantalizing twist on one of the world's most famous tragedies

James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy is an extraordinary, life-changing book. Perhaps you, like millions of readers, have discovered in its pages a new vision of coincidences in your own life, the energies involved in communicating with others, and the purposes behind human history • Now, this companion handbook to that inspiring work helps you intensify and expand the exciting knowledge contained in each of the nine insights of The Celestine Prophecy. Through detailed explanations and carefully designed exercises, you can uncover further revelations about your family and partners, and the ways your past has been a preparation for the special contribution you can make to the world today

AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years, where the tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands • On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or Bringer of Victory as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that her lover, Caradoc - betrayed, captured and kept hostage in Rome - will never return to her • She decides to leave Mona and to take the fight to the Eceni heartland where it is needed most. But the once proud Eceni are a downtrodden and defeated people who are forbidden to worship their old gods, and now scrape a living from the once fertile land • Across the sea in Hibernia, Breaca's half-brother Ban, struggles to make peace with his fractured past

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected • When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever • Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do horrific things • When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past

When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find bodies are piling up around them - seemingly unconnected with their case. And what's more all the clues point to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years, so he can't be killing again, can he? • As Angie and Patrick try to find out what kind of human being could perform such horrifying acts of rape, mutilation, torture and dismemberment, they discover that the killer's motive is disturbingly rooted in their own distant past. In a series of heart-stopping climaxes that grow ever more terrifying and bloody, the two work frantically with the Boston cops, the FBI, the local Mafia, and the folks from their old neighbourhood to unearth the killer before they become victims themselves

Can her heart be mended too? • After losing her fiance and her dream job in the same week, Garland Fairford's life is turned upside down • Having recently met a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford - through her work as a historical costumier, Garland is intrigued when Honey reveals she is opening a Wedding Dress museum in Lancashire. With nothing to lose, Garland accepts the offer of a job there • What she doesn't expect is to come face-to-face with a ghost from her past - her old friend, Thom, who mysteriously disappeared years ago • As Garland begins reading the stories behind each of the beautiful wedding dresses, and sets about repairing both them and her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?