Penguin The People vs. Alex Cross Паттерсон Джеймс

On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas • A father has taken his children and ex-wife hostage. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, the man is dangerously unstable. The lives of everyone in that house are hanging by a thread • As this suburban nightmare is unfolding, another far greater threat is approaching. It will be a terrorist attack on a scale never before seen in Washington, DC, and when nobody expects it

The President's children have been kidnapped • Detective Alex Cross is investigating the shocking crime, but someone powerful is trying to keep him off the case • Just days later, a deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Cross fears that the stakes are much higher than he first thought - America is under attack • If Cross stands a chance of finding the missing children and preventing an event that could change the fate of the nation, he must make a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in

Target: Head OF State • Alex Cross and his family join men and women from across the nation lining the streets of Washington, DC to mourn the unexpected death of the president • Target: United States Cabinet • With the country still in shock, the assassination of a prominent senator strikes another devastating blow to the heart of the nation's capital • Target: Alex Cross • Cross is called on to lead the FBI investigation to find America's most wanted criminal. But what follows will plunge the country into chaos, and draw Cross into the most important case of his life

Они напали на его семью. Теперь детектив Алекс Кросс жаждет мести • Кросса шокирует новость о жестокой расправе над его племянницей. Он клянётся покарать убийцу и вскоре выясняет, что его племянница вращалась в самых экстравагантных кругах Вашингтона. В кругах, представители которых могут воплотить в жизнь любую фантазию, но примкнуть к ним могут далеко не все • Кросса ждёт столкновение с очень важными, защищёнными и опасными людьми из высших эшелонов общества, готовыми на всё, чтобы их тайны не вышли на свет • И чем ближе Кросс к поимке убийцы, тем больше улик, которые подводят его к откровению, способному потрясти весь мир • "Меня зовут Алекс Кросс" - шестнадцатая книга из цикла "Алекс Кросс" Джеймса Паттерсона • Книга на английском языке • They came for his family

Alex Cross faces his toughest case yet in the explosive new thriller from multi-million copy bestseller James Patterson • A killer strikes under cover of darkness, triggers no alarms, and leaves no evidence behind • Detective Alex Cross is on the hunt of a killer who is targeting entire families around Washington, DC • But Cross isn't the only one investigating - a charismatic true-crime author has spotted patterns in the case of 'The Family Man' killer that others have missed • It's up to Cross to determine whether the writer's theories are fact or fiction - before another family falls victim

A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross • When a glamorous socialite and a high school principal are found murdered, the shocking double homicide dominates tabloid headlines • Detective Alex Cross knew both victims well, especially Kay who had been his patient once. And maybe more • Alex's former Metro Homicide Partner tracks the slain principal's final movements to Alabama where Alex investigates Kay's past. They discover that although she had many enemies, all of them needed her alive • The more the investigators push, the more resistance they find, and Alex is left facing a desperate choice between breaking trust and losing his way

'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' • Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary relationship with his Russian secretary Sonia, who he watches silently in her room opposite his apartment. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension

"Записи Асперна и другие истории" - замечательная новая подборка рассказов Генри Джеймса, исследующая взаимосвязь между искусством и жизнью • В этом томе собраны семь самых лучших рассказов Генри Джеймса, все они посвящены взаимосвязи между искусством и жизнью. В "Записях Асперна" критик полон решимости заполучить в свои руки бумаги великого поэта, спрятанные в выцветшем венецианском доме. "Автор Бельтраффио", "Урок мастера" и "Фигура на ковре" посвящены тревожным встречам наивных молодых людей со своими литературными героями. В "Средних годах" умирающий романист начинает осознавать свой потенциал, в то время как "Настоящая вещь" и "Гревилл Фэйн" исследуют напряженность между художественным и коммерческим успехом. Эти истории творческой жизни раскрывают Джеймса с его ироничной, провокационной стороны

A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross • When a glamorous socialite and a high school principal are found murdered, the shocking double homicide dominates tabloid headlines • Detective Alex Cross knew both victims well, especially Kay who had been his patient once. And maybe more • Alex's former Metro Homicide Partner tracks the slain principal's final movements to Alabama where Alex investigates Kay's past. They discover that although she had many enemies, all of them needed her alive • The more the investigators push, the more resistance they find, and Alex is left facing a desperate choice between breaking trust and losing his way

Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? • Only hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse: 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' • Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question • The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets • Details that make it clear M is planning to destroy much more than Cross's reputation

They strike under cover of darkness, trigger no alarms, and leave no evidence behind • Detective Alex Cross is hunting a killer who targets families around Washington, DC. But Cross isn't the only one investigating • A charismatic true-crime author has spotted patterns in the actions of 'The Family Man' that others have missed • It's up to Cross to determine whether the writer's theories are fact or fiction

The internet was meant to set us free • Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and venture capitalists? And, in light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that mean for democracy, our delicately balanced system of government that was created long before big data, total information and artificial intelligence? In this urgent polemic, Jamie Bartlett argues that through our unquestioning embrace of big tech, the building blocks of democracy are slowly being removed. The middle class is being eroded, sovereign authority and civil society is weakened, and we citizens are losing our critical faculties, maybe even our free will