Опустошен от разкритието за убийството на жена си Хелън, специалният агент от ФБР Пендъргаст търси отмъщение. Но това няма да е лесна задача. Докато преследва предателите на съпругата си от мъгливите тресавища на Шотландия, през шумните, изпълнени с тълпи улици на Ню Йорк, до мрачните блата из Луизиана, той е принуден да се разрови по-дълбоко и в миналото на Хелън. И потресен открива, че Хелън може да е била съучастник на собствения си убиец. Сваляйки един след друг пластовете на измамата, Пендъргаст осъзнава, че конспирацията е много по-дълбока – обхваща цели поколения и е много по-чудовищна, отколкото той някога изобщо си е представял. И всичко, в което е вярвал, всичко, на което се е надявал, всичко, което е мислел, че разбира… може би е ужасна лъжа.

Специален агент Алойшъс Пендъргаст – един от най-интересните съвременни герои – се завръща в спиращия дъха нов роман на Дъглас Престън и Линкълн Чайлд. Отдавна забравена семейна тайна изскача от миналото, за да преследва специалния агент на ФБР Пендъргаст... Историята започва с убийство. Един от най-опасните и неумолими врагове на Пендъргаст е открит убит пред собствената му входна врата. Пендъргаст няма представа кой е отговорен за убийството и защо трупът е оставен пред неговия дом. Загадката носи всички белези на съвършеното престъпление, включително една тайнствена следа: парче тюркоаз, намерено в стомаха на починалия. Скъпоценният камък отвежда Пендъргаст в една изоставена мина на брега на калифорнийското езеро Солтън. Скоро той научава, че става дума за нещо повече от призрачен епизод във фамилната история: преследва го умел убиец, търсещ отмъщение за древна несправедливост. Агентът бързо се оказва в плен на зловещ и хитър план...

Разследването на един наглед обикновен частен случай се превръща в сложна и заплашителна история. Много по-страшна, отколкото специалният агент на ФБР Алойшъс Ш. Л. Пендъргаст може да си представи. Пендъргаст заминава в своето ретро „Порше“ за тихото крайбрежно градче Ексмут в Масачузетс заедно със своята повереничка Констънс Грийн, за да разследва кражбата на безценна колекция от вина в Нова Англия, собственост на известния скулптор Пърсивал Лейк. Ексцентричен като всеки човек на изкуството, той живее в стар морски фар – най-старата сграда в околността северно от Салем… Но в мазето на фара, където е била съхранявана колекцията, намират нещо много по-обезпокоително: зад стелажите за бутилки има зазидана ниша, в която някога е лежал окован човешки скелет… Специален агент Алойшъс Пендъргаст – един от най-интересните и завладяващи герои в съвременната криминална литература – се завръща в спиращия дъха нов роман на Дъглас Престън и Линкълн Чайлд „Аленият бряг“.

Специален агент Пендъргаст е изчезнал и никой не знае дали е жив или мъртъв. Повереницата му Констънс Грийн потъва в дълбока скръб и се оттегля от света в неговото имение в Ню Йорк. Но един стар, добре познат враг се завръща и нарушава самотата й. Констънс е отвлечена. Верният й бодигард Проктър се впуска в преследване през три континента, за да я спаси, но е подмамен в още по-ужасен капан. И двамата се вкопчват в невероятната надежда, че Пендъргаст е жив и ги търси. Докато Проктър открие истината, се задвижва ужасяващ механизъм. Може би вече е твърде късно…

A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. A GHASTLY ENIGMA WITH NO APPARENT SOLUTION. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene — and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. With an ocean of possibilities confronting the investigation, no one is sure what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And they desperately need to know: are the victims still alive? A WORTHY CHALLENGE FOR A BRILLIANT MIND. In short order, Pendergast finds himself facing the most complex and inexplicable challenge of his career: a tangled thread of evidence that spans seas and traverses continents, connected to one of the most baffling mysteries in modern medical science. Through shocking twists and turns, all trails lead back to a powerful adversary with a sadistic agenda and who — in a cruel irony — ultimately sees in Pendergast the ideal subject for their malevolent research.

A Jack Reacher Novel – #23 Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been – the town where his father was born. He thinks, what’s one extra day? He takes the detour. At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They’re stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It’s a strange place … but it’s all there is. The next morning in the city clerk’s office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place? So begins another nail-biting, adrenaline fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That’s for damn sure.

A Jack Reacher Novel – #24 Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child. It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right. In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening? The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.” – Ken Follett “Reacher is so irresistible a character that he draws fans from every demographic.” – Booklist (starred review) “Child is at the top of his game in this nail-biter.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Jack Reacher Novel – #22 A bad day. For someone. Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It’s tiny. It’s a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher’s a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s OK, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing. He’s still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me, and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don’t get in his way.

Published together for the first time, and including a brand-new adventure, the complete Jack Reacher short story collection 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 of our age. A new Reacher novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously only published as individual ebooks: Second Son, Deep Down, High Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars; and so is every Reacher short story that Child has written so far. Read together, they 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.

A Jack Reacher Novel – #25 Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire. As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there’s nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town’s data, records, information . . . and secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his name. Reacher is intrigued. There’s more to the story. The bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder – all centered on a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what he’s up against. Rule one: if you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side.

A Jack Reacher Novel – #6 The secretive, closed organization that invites Jack Reacher in is the Secret Service, the organization that protects the Presidency. Someone who was once close to Reacher’s brother, needs help in her new job. Her new job? Saving the Vice President of the United States from being assassinated.

A Jack Reacher Novel – #7 Amazon.com Review Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child's six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade. The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck's son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father – and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell blueprints of a secret weapon to Iraq but was murdered before he could pull it off. Or so Reacher thinks, until he spots Quinn in the crowd at a concert in Boston. As usual, Child ratchets up the tension and keeps the reader in suspense until the last page, although his enigmatic hero hardly ever seems to break a sweat. In the tough guy tradition, Reacher and his creator are overdue for a breakout, and this muscular, well-written mystery might be the one. From Publishers Weekly The promo copy on the ARC of Child's new thriller proclaims, "We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you're probably not reading yet." Hopefully the "six-figure" marketing campaign promised by Child's new publisher will make that statement obsolete, because readers will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging thriller this spring season. Child is a master of storytelling skills, not least the plot twist, and the opening chapter of this novel spins a doozy, as a high-octane, extremely violent action sequence sees Child hero Jack Reacher rescue a young man, 20-year-old Richard Beck, from an attempted kidnapping before the rug is pulled out from under the reader with the chapter's last line. The rest of the novel centers on the Beck family's isolated, heavily guarded estate on the Maine coast where Reacher takes Richard. Richard's father is suspected by Feds of being a major drug dealer and the kidnapper of another Fed, and also seems to have ties to a fiend who killed Reacher's lady 10 years before, someone Reacher thought he'd killed in turn, in a vengeance slaying. Tension runs high, then extremely high, as Reacher, ingratiating himself with the dealer and hired on as a bodyguard, pokes around the estate, looking for the kidnapped Fed and evading and/or disposing of in-house bad guys as they begin to suspect he's not who he seems. But then little in Child's novels is as it at first seems, and numerous further plot twists spark the story line. What makes the novel really zing, though, is Reacher's narration – a unique mix of the brainy and the brutal, of strategic thinking and explosive action, moral rumination and ruthless force, marking him as one of the most memorable heroes in contemporary thrillerdom. Any thriller fan who has yet to read Lee Child should start now.

In a new short story available exclusively as an ebook, Jack Reacher’s spending the holidays in California. The last thing he expects is a blizzard – or a visit from the world’s deadliest assassin. On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, he’s sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly couple – and two members of Britain’s Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. That’s when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.

Известный британский историк и археолог популярно и увлекательно рассказывает о корнях и дальнейшем развитии древней арийской цивилизации. Основываясь на археологических, антропологических и лингвистических исследованиях, он рассказывает о происхождении ариев и о дальнейшем их расселении в бассейне Средиземного моря.

Крупнейший специалист по древней истории профессор Гордон Чайлд в этой наиболее значительной своей работе предлагает оригинальную концепцию ранней истории человечества. Она основана на европейской точке зрения, согласно которой «главная традиция», оказавшая влияние на эллинистическое Средиземноморье, связана с Египтом и Месопотамией. В соответствии с намерениями и поставленными задачами Чайлд открывает свою книгу периодом каменного века и заканчивает упадком Римской империи. Автор ярко описывает жизнь первобытных народов периода палеолита, мезолита и неолита, прослеживает подъем культур железного века вплоть до достижения кульминации в результате объединения значительной части Европы благодаря деяниям Александра Великого. Завершается рассказ главой, содержащей точку зрения автора на закат и падение Древнего мира.

Убийцы проникают в Секретную службу Соединенных Штатов. Их мишенью является новоизбранный вице-президент. В Вашингтоне понимают, что им нужен человек со стороны, способный противостоять террористам. И выбор падает на Джека Ричера.

Джек Ричер не сомневается: женщина, сидящая в нескольких шагах от него в вагоне нью-йоркской подземки, представляет крайне опасную и неотвратимую угрозу. Времени на решение — считаные секунды. Сокращенная версия от «Ридерз Дайджест»

Маргрейв — крохотный идеальный городок. Настолько идеальный, что это пугает. Бывший военный полицейский Джек Ричер, ведущий кочевой образ жизни, приходит в Маргрейв, намереваясь покинуть город через пару дней. Однако в этот момент в Маргрейве происходит первое убийство за тридцать лет. Его вешают на Ричера, единственного чужака в городе. И для него начинается кошмар... первым действием которого становятся выходные в тюрьме, на этаже смерти, в обществе заключенных, отбывающих пожизненное заключение. По мере того, как начинают просачиваться отвратительные тайны смертельного заговора, поглотившего весь город, растет счет трупам. И смерть становится эпидемией.

Чтобы избежать неприятностей с полицией маленького техасского городка, отставной военный полицейский Джек Ричер вынужден срочно уносить оттуда ноги. Он голосует на дороге, идущей через раскаленную жарой пустыню, и, к его удивлению, возле него останавливается роскошная машина. За рулем сидит красивая женщина, ее зовут Кармен Грир, и она вовсе не добрая самаритянка. У Кармен Грир есть некий план, и она считает, что Ричер как нельзя лучше подойдет для его выполнения. План этот довольно прост, но звучит настолько дико, что Ричер предпочел бы заживо поджариться на техасском солнце, чем согласиться помогать этой женщине. Однако она умеет убеждать, и Ричер вступает в игру, ценой которой может стать его жизнь. Ли Чайлд – один из лучших современных авторов, работающих в жанре детектива-экшн. Его герой Джек Ричер стал поистине культовой фигурой, воплощением несгибаемого героя-детектива. Впервые на русском языке!