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"Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling… some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today."- Jeffery Deaver

"One hell of a read, gut-wrenching and exciting." – Ken Bruen

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In Duluth, Minnesota, a young woman, Rachel Stoner, has gone missing. Cop Jonathan Stride, a sharply focused detective despite the stresses of his troubled personal life, is quick to suspect her stepfather of murder. And yet, he has his doubts. Even for a man accustomed to power, the accused seems remarkably convinced he'll go free. Could he be telling the truth? While Stride endeavours to make sense of the conflicting pieces of evidence, a young woman's body lies half-buried deep in the woods. But if it's not the body of Rachel, where is the missing girl? Is she dead, or is the terrible, unexpected fate that awaits Graeme Stoner one he does not deserve? In this dark, involving mystery, nothing is as it seems, and readers will be gripped to the very last page as the shocking truth gradually emerges.

In this stunning follow-up to Brian Freeman's remarkable debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get Stripped…

They looked like isolated cases: a hit-and-run and a celebrity murdered during a fling with a prostitute. No one could ever imagine they'd be linked to a brutal crime in Las Vegas 's steamy past-and that the race against the clock to corner a determined serial killer would stir up secrets long thought buried with the dead. As detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are called separately to investigate, they have no idea what they're stepping into: a world where desperate ambition rules and loyalties know no bounds, and where their own uncharted emotions and sexual desires will reach an explosive conclusion.

Shocking, twisted, with edge-of-your-seat suspense, Stripped pushes the limits of its heroes and keeps the reader turning ever page until the last plot twist.

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride knows his partner Maggie Bei is in trouble when she reports a deadly crime on a bitter winter night. She's obviously hiding a terrible secret, and her silence only feeds suspicion. Maggie isn't the only one keeping secrets in Duluth. A seductive young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a stash of lurid fantasies and a cryptic message: I know who it is. Following a twisted trail, Stride uncovers a sordid web of violence and voyeurism that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden. Stride isn't alone. His lover Serena Dial – a homicide cop turned private investigator – is chasing a blackmailer who knows all the city's dirty secrets. Even Maggie's. But as Stride and Serena hunt for a killer, a predator with a vicious past is hunting them – with a terrifying plan for revenge. Now every step they take to expose the truth brings them closer to a showdown amid the howling winds of a winter storm. Where survival in the blinding snow is measured in seconds. Where crimes can be buried forever.<

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike.<

Adventure fiction. June, 1808 – and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full… Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and ‘to take, sink, burn or destroy’ the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad – or face court-martial. And as if that wasn't hard enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesley… This is the seventh of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.<

El último morador de la vieja casona acababa de morir solo y abandonado por todos, y nadie quería saber nada de aquellas tierras malditas. Durante generaciones, los campos de dorados maizales situados en el corazón de Iowa habían sido el orgullo de los Hathaway y el sueño de la ambiciosa matriarca, Lavinia, obsesionada con encumbrar a la familia sin importarle a quién tuviera que destruir para conseguirlo.Ahora, su nieta menor, Meredith, que durante diecisiete años había intentado huir de los fantasmas que la acosaban, acababa de recibir una carta que la obligaba a mirar cara a cara el legado que había destruido el nombre antes célebre de los Hathaway.<

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems “the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List.” Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train “poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers,” and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.<

En una tranquila y solitaria playa, Bud y Jill deciden filmar sus adúlteras aventuras amorosas sin sospechar que se están convirtiendo en testigos de excepción de un hecho que conmocionará al mundo: un terrible estallido ilumina súbitamente el cielo. Doscientas treinta personas acaban de morir a bordo del vuelo 800 de la TWA, y el vídeo de los dos amantes puede ser la única prueba que demuestre lo que realmente ha ocurrido.Cinco años después, para John Corey y su mujer Kate Mayfield, miembros de la Fuerza Antiterrorista Federal, el caso no está aún cerrado. La sospecha de que se está encubriendo la verdad hace que retomen las investigaciones y que examinen las teorías que el gobierno se había encargado de probar como falsas. Su pesquisas les llevarán hasta el vídeo de los amantes, una prueba que compromete la versión oficial de la CIA y del FBI.<

It was originally published in 1938 as the third in the series, but is ninth by internal chronology.

In this ninth installment in the Hornblower series, the incomparable Horatio Hornblower, recently knighted and settled in as squire of the village of Smallbridge, has been designated commodore of his own squadron of ships, led by the two-decker and bound for the Baltic. It is 1812, and Hornblower has been ordered to do anything and everything possible, diplomatically and militarily, to protect the Baltic trade and to stop the spread of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. Though he has set sail a hero, one misstep may ruin his chances of ever becoming an admiral. Hostile armies, seductive Russian royalty, nautical perils such as ice-bound bays, assassins in the imperial palace—Hornblower must conquer all before he can return home to his beloved new wife and son, as his instructions are to sacrifice every man and ship under his command rather than surrender ground to Napoleon.<

In this, the tenth volume in C.S. Forester's series of classic naval adventure tales, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew—a dubious chore, but one that leads Hornblower, with the aid of his old love, Marie, to the glorious conclusion of his own battle with Napoleon.<

'Esta obra de ficción está basada en un rumor, divulgado por internet, sobre un plan de gobierno parecido al que yo he llamado Wild Fire. Espero que la historia que estoy a punto de contar solo tenga lugar en esta páginas....' Nelson DeMille. Durante la guerra fría, el equilibrio del planeta estaba garantizado por una política de destrucción mutua. Ambas superpotencias sabían que, si una lanzaba un ataque nuclear, la otra respondería en el mismo instante y las dos dejarían de existir. Para evitar que el adversario contase con la indecisión del presidente fue creado un plan que aseguraba que el ataque se lanzaría si su consentimiento. Ahora, en el Club Custer Hill, oficialmente un inocente refugio de montaña donde se reúnen los hombres más poderosos de América, se está elaborando una conspiración de alcance mundial que podría cambiar el curso de la historia: la Operación Wild Fire. Nelson DeMille es uno de los autores de best-sellers más vendido, leído y respetado en EE.UU. En Planeta hemos publicado Conjura de silencio, El juego del león y Isla Misterio. Un trepidante thriller en el que desafía al lector a cuestionarse sobre lo que cree saber sobre los líderes de su país.<

The eleventh tale of naval adventure in C.S. Forester's Hornblower series finds Horatio Hornblower an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, he must take on pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane. The war is over, but peaceful it is not.<