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Robert McCammons einzigartige historische Kriminalreihe um den ›Problemlöser‹ Matthew Corbett im noch jungen Amerika des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Wir befinden uns im Winter des Jahres 1703 und Matthew Corbett wird noch immer von den Schatten seines Aufeinandertreffens mit dem berüchtigten Massenmörder Tyranthus Slaughter verfolgt. Als eine Reihe unerklärlicher Explosionen Manhattan erschüttert, sieht sich Matthew mit einem neuen Problem konfrontiert....
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A dirt farmer in Southern Indiana in the year 1924 chose to name his son after a famous baseball player who would someday enter the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Little did anyone know at the time, including that famous player, just how much that decision would mean to that son and the generations to follow. That was the beginning of a love affair with baseball that would identify this family, a love that would begin with the Washington Senators and...
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Two short novels featuring the vampiric gunslinger who seeks vengeance and justice across the Old West, from the New York Times—bestselling master of horror.
He was once a husband, father, lawyer, and Civil War soldier. Now he is a vampire struggling to hold onto his last thread of humanity-and to destroy the one who made him.
In I Travel by Night, Trevor Lawson handles matters from his lair at the Hotel Sanctuaire in New Orleans. When a prominent...
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Robert McCammons einzigartige historische Kriminalreihe um den ›Problemlöser‹ Matthew Corbett im noch jungen Amerika des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Matthew Corbett hat einen lukrativen, wenn auch ungewöhnlichen Fall angenommen: Er soll eine schöne Frau zu einem Kostümball eskortieren. Was als angenehme Abwechslung beginnt, verwandelt sich jedoch schnell zu einem Mordfall. Ein sechzehnjähriges Mädchen wurde auf einer der örtlichen Plantagen erstochen,...
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Robert McCammons einzigartige historische Kriminalreihe um den ›Problemlöser‹ Matthew Corbett im noch jungen Amerika des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Wir schreiben das Jahr 1703, und »Problemlöser« Matthew Corbett wird vermisst. Sein Kampfgefährte Hudson Greathouse versucht Matthews letzten bekannten Spuren nachzugehen. Zuerst scheint es, als wäre Matthew Corbett gestorben, doch dann finden sich Hinweise darauf, dass man ihn des Mordes an einer jungen...
6) The Listener
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The New York Times–bestselling author "masterfully combines historical thriller and supernatural horror . . . [for] fans of occult thrillers like those by Dean Koontz" (Booklist, starred review).
Economic collapse. Crushing unemployment and breadlines crowding city streets as crime spirals out of control. The Great Depression has enough misery for all, and some to spare. But for angel-faced grifter John Partlow, the American South in 1934...
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The New York Times–bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense.
From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers. Now author Robert McCammon presents eight gripping stories featuring the professional problem solver and his associates...
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MISTER SLAUGHTER ist eine rasant abenteuerliche Verbrecherjagd vor historischem Hintergrund, die an Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lector und ein wenig an Sweeney Todd erinnert. {Elitist Book Reviews}
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In Robert McCammons meisterhaftem dritten Teil der historischen Thriller-Reihe um Matthew Corbett erweckt er erneut die Kolonialwelt Amerikas zu schillerndem Leben.
Matthew, der mittlerweile als "Problemlöser" für die New Yorker Zweigstelle der...
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Swans Song - Buch 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt Der legendäre Endzeit-Thriller. Düster, brutal und mit epischer Wucht erzählt. In diesem Endzeit-Thriller beschreibt der Bestsellerautor die Welt nach der atomaren Apokalypse. Die menschliche Zivilisation bricht zusammen und die wenigen Überlebenden werden in eine vorindustrielle Welt katapultiert, in der sie zu hungrigen Bestien mutieren. Der nukleare Winter senkt sich wie ein Leichentuch über die...
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Swans Song - Buch 2: Das scharlachrote Auge Eine erkaltete, hoffnungslose Welt. Heimgesucht von einer uralten bösen Macht. Er ist der Mann mit dem scharlachroten Auge, der Mann der vielen Masken. Er vereint die Kraft der menschlichen Gier und des Wahnsinns. Er durchstreift das nuklear verstrahlte Land auf der Suche nach einem Kind, dem Mädchen mit dem Namen Swan. Das Kind muss vernichtet werden, denn es besitzt die Gabe. Swan kann dem toten Boden...
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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier. Russian Emigr E Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France,...
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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier. Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France,...
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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier. Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France,...
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The Hunter from the Woods marks the much-anticipated return of Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of Robert McCammon's classic, The Wolf's Hour. These all-new, interlinked stories offer a full measure of McCammon's trademark narrative excitement, and comprise a fascinating composite portrait of a unique fictional creation.
The volume opens with a pair of brief glimpses into Michael's early life in Russia and his initial recruitment into the...
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For Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society’s clutches. In the decades since, he has roamed late nineteenth-century America, doing what good he can as he travels by night, combating evils mundane and...
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In I Travel by Night, master of horror Robert McCammon introduced the tortured and instantly unforgettable vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson All Matters Handledas he searched for his maker, LaRouge, in hope of becoming human once more. It wove a tale about the terrors of the Dark Society, featuring the gothic sensibilities of old New Orleans, and the unforgiving violence of the untamed frontier of 1886. Now McCammon returns to Lawson's gripping journey...
17) Stinger
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A UFO crash sends a small Texas town into uproar The sun rises on Inferno and Bordertown: patches of civilization carved out of the tough Texas earth, watching each other and waiting to see which dies first. The copper mine is finished, and both towns-one for the whites and one for the Mexicans-are wasting away. Now a pair of mysterious visitors is about to make them shrink faster. The black ball lands first. A small sphere, snapped off of an...
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Came the time when the two travelers knew night would catch them, and shelter must be found. God and Satan are at war in the colonial Carolina town of Fount Royal, and even the citizens suspect that a witch is behind the tragedies that have plagued the town. The chief suspect is the beautiful and haunted widow Rachel. Traveling judge Isaac Woodward and his bright young clerk Matthew Corbett arrive to conduct a trial-and uncover the true evil at work...
19) Mine
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A mother fights to rescue her newborn from a six-foot-tall madwoman No one knows Mary Terrell's real name. She killed a man during the climax of the Summer of Love, and for two decades she has changed her name and location regularly, always keeping watch over her shoulder for the FBI. She has three passions: LSD, firearms, and children. She visits toy stores a few times a week, picking out a baby doll to take home and treat as a child. The new...
20) The Wolf's Hour
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On the eve of D-Day, a British secret agent with unique powers goes behind Nazi lines Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied...