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État de Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, 29 ans, est docker. Intelligent, loyal et réservé, il n'a jamais vraiment trouvé sa place au sein du clan des Irlandais qui règne sur une partie de la ville. Son rêve : fuir loin de cet endroit où il n'a pas d'avenir. Mais lorsque Paulie Moretti, mafieux d'une famille italienne jusque-là amie, s'affiche avec sa nouvelle conquête, Hélène de Troie des temps modernes, Danny se retrouve mêlé à une guerre sans merci à laquelle il ne peut échapper.

In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms. As the younger generation does battle with drug dealers and crooked cops, they learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents' history.

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule - "You don't get personal, you don't get emotional. Whatever you do, you don't get involved" - and plunges into the case.

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client—but he’s tempted to do the job himself.

From the master of crime fiction comes an unexpectedly whimsical short story about this San Diego surfer whose life plan is working perfectly until he meets a wealthy woman at an art gallery opening (the hors d’oeuvres), falls in love, and then has to masquerade as an upstanding member of society.

One September morning, Doug accidentally runs right into another surfer on the beach. There are rules about these things. The other guy should call Doug a jerk, Doug should say, "my bad", and they should both paddle back out and move on. Problem is, the other surfer doesn't want to move on. He wants to fight. And for once in his life, Doug wants to fight back.

A string of high-level jewel heists up and down the Pacific Coast Highway has gone unsolved for years, mostly because the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls “Crime 101”. Police attribute the thefts to the Colombian cartels. But Detective Lou Lubesnick’s gut says it’s the work of just one man. Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score, and Lou breaks all the rules of "Crime 101".

1951: Die CIA, die Nikolai Hel inhaftiert und gefoltert hat, macht ihm ein Angebot: Seine Freiheit gegen den Tod des sowjetischen Botschafters in Peking...

City in Ruins / (Spanish edition) has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

The Border has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

QUAND TOUT LE SYSTÈME EST POURRI. AUTANT JOUER SELON SES PROPRES RÈGLES. Denny Malone est le roi de Manhattan North, le leader charismatique de La Force, une unité d élite qui fait la loi dans les rues de New York et n hésite pas à se salir les mains pour combattre les gangs, les dealers et les trafiquants d armes. Après dix-huit années de service, il est respecté et admiré de tous. Mais le jour où, après une descente, Malone et sa garde rapprochée planquent pour des millions de dollars de drogue, la ligne jaune est franchie.

Wer schützt uns vor denen, die uns schützen? Denny Malone, Detective des NYPD, und seine Elitetruppe tun alles, um in den Straßen von Manhattan für Ordnung zu sorgen, auch wenn das bedeutet, sich über das Gesetz hinwegzusetzen. Beim größten Einsatz gegen den Heroinhandel in der Geschichte New Yorks aber behalten sie mehrere Millionen Dollar und Drogen für sich. Warum auch nicht? Immerhin bestehlen sie damit nur die bösen Jungs.

At loose ends after four years in the Royal Navy, young James Harrington stumbles on an advertisement for an ‘Estate Manager’ and eagerly applies for the position. However, the job is not exactly what James expects. Navy Commander Hamilton Sterrett plans to completely refurbish an old estate and former girl’s school, Ironwood, which was left vacant for decades after rumours of its libertine past forced its doors to close.

When Tim Kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a Hell's Angel, he's pretty much a dead man. It's his third crime and, according to California law, that gives him "life without the possibility of parole". Killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in California. That's when the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him to Don Huertero, northern Mexico's drug kingpin, for a captured DEA agent.

Una novela del autor de superventas de los New York Times y recipiente del premio Raymond Chandler, Don Winslow, acerca del padrino de la mafia Sam Giancana--parecido en estilo y contendio a The Cartel.

Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que no puede escapar. Ahora depende de él atravesar la brecha para proteger a su familia.

The English Manor House has long been a world apart where landed gentry freely indulge in their passions, not only for outdoor sports, but the indoor variety as well. Lascivious activities are enthusiastically, pursued by lusty men and sensual women behind large and imposing stone walls, hidden from prying eyes. In that bygone era – the 1920s, relations between men and women were not as progressive as they are today. Hopefully, modern listeners won’t be too terribly offended by the less-than-sensitive treatment young Philippa Gresham-Cantwell is made to endure.

Special Agent Mallory Channing of the National Bureau of Investigation has to fight every inch of the way to forge a career in that entrenched, male-dominated bureaucracy. Beautiful, intelligent, and well-educated, she’s determined to prove herself by volunteering for the most dangerous assignments. But nothing in her training can prepare her for the peril she faces when she finds herself taken far from civilization and deposited into a remote, barbarous world – one ruled by strong, ruthless men.

Two novellas about men obsessed with women who are both captive and captivating. “Breedlowe’s Obsession,” that’s what the old boys called it, most often followed by a nudge, and a knowing wink. But they would never know, or even suspect, the lengths to which that obsession will be carried, once their former classmate has acquired the necessary wealth and considerable leisure to fully indulge his insatiable appetite for feminine beauty.

Das Hörbuch mit allen sechs Geschichten aus "Broken" – gesprochen von Dietmar Wunder, der deutschen Stimme von James-Bond-Darsteller Daniel Craig! Sechs packende Geschichten voller Verbrechen und Korruption, Schuld und Gerechtigkeit, Verlust und Verrat, Rache und Vergebung von Bestsellerautor Don Winslow. In Broken schickt er einige seiner beliebtesten Charaktere wie Ben, Chon und O aus "Zeit des Zorns" in eine Welt voller Schwerverbrecher und Kleinkrimineller, besessener Polizisten, denen Job und Leben zusetzen, Privatdetektive, Kopfgeldjäger und Flüchtiger.