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The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.

“A cross between The Hot Zone and ’Salem’s Lot.” —Entertainment Weekly “I cannot wait to see where Del Toro and Hogan take us next.” —James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Bloodline The wait is over! Guillermo del Toro, one of Hollywood’s most popular and...

“The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past decade.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn’t get much better than this.” —Nelson DeMille The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that...

Flying dark, a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. When they come across a mazelike stone fortress, it’s no refuge from the wolves and the freezing wind. It’s more like a trap. What they discover can stop the heart—or worse. As terror takes a new shape, the real battle for survival begins in this unrelenting serialized novel from Academy Award–winning filmmaker and writer Guillermo del Toro.

A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in the Tian Shan mountains. The men are accustomed to danger. Now they’re growing accustomed to fear. Team leader Liev and his band of survivors are stranded in the bitter winds with little hope of rescue—or outlasting the wolves that have scented blood. In the distance is the apparent sanctuary of an abandoned stone fortress. That an ancient bulwark even exists on this forsaken summit is beyond comprehension. So is what lies on the other side of its walls.

In this "masterly" thriller from the acclaimed author of The Town, the right‑hand man of one of the most infamous mob bosses in American history goes on a dangerous mission (New York Times Book Review). In the late 1970s, The Outfit, led by Tony Accardo, has the entire city of Chicago in its...

Four masked men - thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown - take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple tasks. But career criminal Doug MacRay didnt plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire.

Atemlose Spannung garantiert! New York. Eine geheimnisvolle Seuche verwandelt die Bewohner der Stadt einen nach dem anderen in Vampire. Eine kleine Gruppe von Menschen stellt sich ihnen entgegen, doch der Kampf scheint aussichtslos: Die Seuche droht den gesamten Planeten zu befallen – und damit das Ende der menschlichen Zivilisation einzuläuten. Nachdem ein mysteriöser Vampirvirus New York befallen hat, droht sich die Seuche nun über das ganze Land, ja die ganze Welt zu verbreiten.

Nachdem ein mysteriöser Vampirvirus New York befallen hat, droht sich die Seuche nun über das ganze Land, ja die ganze Welt zu verbreiten. Ephraim Goodweather, der Chef des New Yorker Seuchenpräventionsteams, hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den blutrünstigen Monstern, die die Straßen der Stadt unsicher machen, die Stirn zu bieten.

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives—making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo re-emerges in America, they must set aside their differences in order to stop a potential worldwide epidemic. Using the blood of one woman who is immune to the disease, they create a serum that might work—if the disturbingly cunning virus doesn't have plans of its own.

In this gripping thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can't get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without his mask and gun, Doug introduces himself, and their mutual attraction is undeniable - as are the risks of a relationship. Doug imagines a life away from bank robberies and Charlestown. But before that can happen, the crew learns that there may be a way to rob Boston's venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park.

No one in town knows for sure why Don Maddox remains in the small town of Black Falls, Massachusetts - or why a man with no law-enforcement background took a part-time patrolman's position on a police force more feared than trusted. What is known is that he has been asking a lot of questions in his off-hours about the cops' activities and about the recent incursion of crystal meth into the area. But why is he so concerned with the sudden disappearance of a local sex offender?

The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.... A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.... A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.... An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.... An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.

Als die junge FBI-Agentin Odessa Hardwick zusammen mit ihrem Partner, dem hochdekorierten Agenten Walt Leppo, zum Haus eines Mörders gerufen wird, bietet sich ihr ein Bild des Grauens. Der Mann hat seine gesamte Familie bestialisch abgeschlachtet und die Polizeibeamten attackiert, ehe er getötet werden konnte. Einzig die kleine Tochter des Täters hat überlebt. Walt will sich um das verstörte Kind kümmern - und rastet plötzlich völlig aus. Odessa ist gezwungen, ihn zu erschießen. Im Moment seines Todes glaubt sie, einen schwarzen Schatten zu sehen, der Walts Körper verlässt.

A horrific crime that defies explanation, a rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation spirals out of control in this heart-pounding thriller. Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo...

As sombras do mal: As fitas de Blackwood conta a história do encontro improvável entre a agente do FBI Odessa Hardwicke e o enigmático Hugo Blackwood. Ao testemunhar um crime brutal e inexplicável e se ver forçada a tirar a vida do companheiro de trabalho, Odessa passa a questionar sua sanidade e seu futuro. Ela não consegue entender o que de fato aconteceu, mas tem uma única certeza: viu um vulto saindo do corpo do amigo, uma presença aterrorizante e maligna que jamais se apagará de sua mente.

Ein Hörbuch wie ein Hollywood Blockbuster! Für Ephraim Goodweather, den Chef des New Yorker Seuchenpräventionsteams, ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. Für die gesamte Menschheit ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. In dieser Nacht kommt auf dem J.F.K. Flughafen eine gerade aus Europa gelandete Maschine unvermittelt zum Stehen, der Pilot bricht den Funkverkehr ab, alle Lichter erlöschen. Goodweather trommelt seine Leute zusammen, und gemeinsam betreten sie das Flugzeug. Es bietet sich ihnen ein gespenstisches Bild: Die Passagiere sitzen aufrecht in ihren Sesseln und rühren sich nicht.

Für Ephraim Goodweather, den Chef des New Yorker Seuchenpräventionsteams, ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. Für die gesamte Menschheit ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. In dieser Nacht kommt auf dem John-F.-Kennedy-Flughafen eine gerade gelandete Maschine unvermittelt zum Stehen, der Pilot bricht den Funkverkehr ab, alle Lichter erlöschen. Goodweather trommelt seine Leute zusammen, und gemeinsam betreten sie das Flugzeug. Es bietet sich ihnen ein gespenstisches Bild...

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in chapter five of The Boy in the Iron Box, they soon find that even the best-laid plans can backfire. With the morale of the team fraying, Liev makes a vow. He’s not going to leave anyone behind until the last stand is seen through to its cold and bitter end. On this night, it’s Liev who lies in wait to face everything he’s feared. It’s nothing like he expected.

Their radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate mercenaries, the worst is yet to come in chapter three of The Boy in the Iron Box: the box is empty. In the wake of an inexplicable disappearance, Liev and his men use their tactical skills to last the night—by going hunting. Following a small, bare footprint in the snow leads only to the realization that someone, or something, is hunting them.