Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph. In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising...

Defending a client accused of killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy dating to World War II in this enthralling installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the "mercy killing" of her aged father, Robert Brauer. Insisting she's innocent, Emma tells Paul about a package sent to her father shortly before he entered the hospital. Bequeathed to him by a member of his unit from World War II, the box contains a key and a slip of paper. Emma fears that this package is connected to her father's death. When Paul's young assistant Sofia is murdered, Madriani is...

Любознательный человек часто задается вопросами, ответов на которые не существует. Просто потому, что проверить, «что будет, если…», невозможно. Кто победил бы в битве – Александр Македонский или Чингисхан? Кто быстрее и изящнее разобрался бы в тайне преступления – Шерлок Холмс или Эркюль Пуаро?.. Но на сей раз звезды современного мирового детектива и триллера воплотили в жизнь уникальную задумку – свели под одной обложкой главных персонажей своих романов. Впервые фантазии авторов сталкивают лицом к лицу Джека Ричера и Ника Хеллера, Грея Пирса и Коттона Малоуна, Линкольна Райма и Лукаса Дэвенпорта – кумиров миллионов читателей по всему миру. Противостояние героев – и их создателей… Кто...

Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide! In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters — such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme — in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos: • Patrick Kenzie vs....