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As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

Henry Stasik, an Internal Affairs agent for the globe-spanning Coalition, is no stranger to crooked agents or scandals. He's a truth-junkie. An addict. But when international celebrity Anastasia Danicheva specifically demands his presence at a police station, everything changes. The Coalition, which has brought peace through uniting the world under a single banner, wants her dead. But none of their case against her adds up.

Nach einer turbulenten Trennung hat sich Polizist Matthew Haldon in die Abgeschiedenheit seiner Hütte im tiefen Wald zurückgezogen. Umgeben von der Stille der Natur und seinen treuen Hunden, hat er sich in die Routine seines Jobs geflüchtet, ohne zu ahnen, dass das Schicksal ihm eine unerwartete Wendung bereithält Er rechnet nicht damit, die Liebe wiederzufinden, schon gar nicht mit der Frau, die er während eines Schneesturms am Straßenrand stehen sieht. Als Matt feststellt, dass Holly Cook nirgendwo hin kann, lädt er sie ein, in seiner Hütte zu übernachten.

Through twenty years of prosperity and progress, King Everson and Queen Allegra have lovingly nurtured peace between the once mortal enemies, Indira and Mano. The war which nearly drowned both worlds in chaos is merely a memory. But peace can be fragile... Unexplained tremors beneath the ground can no longer be ignored. They grow stronger each day, impossible to miss. Some claim it's nothing. Others, that it foretells the apocalypse. This new and unforeseen threat opens old wounds and creates fresh fissures within the palace, throwing the court into a maelstrom of palace intrigue.