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On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation....

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?

Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortuneteller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow.

Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.

Hangt er een vloek over Jimmy’s leven? Het begint op de dag van zijn geboorte, tevens de sterfdag van zijn grootvader. Vlak voor zijn overlijden heeft de grootvader een angstaanjagend visioen over hem: Hij zal tussen zijn twintigste en dertigste levensjaren vijf gruwelijke dingen meemaken. Het zullen de medicijnen wel zijn, denkt zijn vader. Maar wanneer hij op zijn sterfbed opmerkelijke details over Jimmy’s geboorte weet te voorspellen, hangt er plotseling een duistere wolk boven het kersverse gezin. Wat voor onheil staat Jimmy te wachten?

Wanneer wordt Billy wakker uit deze angstaanjagende nachtmerrie? De jonge barman moet de harde werkelijkheid onder ogen zien wanneer hij een briefje krijgt van een onbekende met de volgende boodschap: "Als je dit briefje niet naar de politie brengt en die erbij betrekt, dood ik een lieftallige blonde onderwijzeres.

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.

Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail. It’s a premonition, and a chance to make reparations for a failure from his past he can’t even remember. This time, Nameless must do everything in his power not to fail those who trust him with their lives.

Un enfant et un chien peuvent-ils sauver l'humanité ? Woody, 11 ans, est autiste et doué pour la télépathie. Avec l'aide de Kipp, un golden retriever lui aussi doté d'une intelligence supérieure, il tente de déjouer les plans d'un tueur génétiquement modifié et de ceux qui ont créé ce monstre. Le nouveau suspense de Dean Koontz, auteur n°1 des ventes du New York Times. Un enfant qui peut sauver le monde. Un homme qui veut le détruire. Woody Bookman, 11 ans, n'a pas dit un mot depuis sa naissance. Pas même quand son père est mort dans un prétendu accident.

It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye. What it triggers in Nameless is uncontrollable rage and brutal retribution. What it reveals is a clue to his forgotten past. Is it a breach on his handler’s part? Or a test? Either way, something’s not right.

This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future. The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution. It’s also time for Nameless to discover who he is and was, and what brought him to this fateful endgame. But will the truth be a breaking point? Or a turning point?

A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past. Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number. What’s more, their chilling symbol of totalitarian control is now linked to the highest powers in the country.

Danny, 10 ans, est mort dans un effroyable accident. Et Tina, sa mère, n'a jamais pu identifier son corps. Un an plus tard, des signes prouvent pourtant à Tina que son fils est toujours en vie. Dès lors, elle n'a qu'une obsession : le retrouver et découvrir la vérité.

Die Augen der Finsternis von Bestsellerautor Dean Koontz ist ein packender Thriller um die Suche einer Mutter nach ihrem Sohn - eine Reise, die eine tödliche Bedrohung für die ganze Welt offenbart Ein Jahr ist vergangen, seit Tina Evans ihren Sohn Danny bei einem tragischen Unfall verloren hat. Als sie eines Morgens sein altes Kinderzimmer betritt, wartet an Dannys Kreidetafel eine Nachricht auf sie: NICHT TOT. Hat sich jemand einen makaberen Scherz erlaubt? Oder steckt ein anderer, ein unheimlicherer Grund dahinter?

Als Ex-FBI-Agentin Jane Hawk im Tod ihres Mannes ermittelte, stieß sie auf eine Verschwörung von höchstem Ausmaß: Eine elitäre Gruppe, die Arkadier, haben sich vorgenommen, die USA nach ihren Vorstellungen umzugestalten. Dazu nutzen sie Nano-Kontrollmechanismen, die ihrem Opfer den freien Willen rauben. Die sogenannten "Angepassten" führen aus, was ihnen gesagt wird - und wenn es der eigene Selbstmord ist. Immer mehr Arkadier fürchten die Enttarnung durch Jane. Je höher sie in deren Ränge vorstößt, desto gefährlicher wird es für sie - und ihren fünfjährigen Sohn Travis.

A deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series. Lucia - current last name, Rickenbah - has made a fortune by marrying rich men who tend to drop dead. But the superstitious blonde believes in more than money and murder. Nameless’s job is to scare a confession out of Lucia, and as the psychological warfare escalates, even he may be in for a shock.

Joe Mandel is a perfectly ordinary guy from a perfectly ordinary town - a college student and community volunteer who dreams of one day publishing a novel. When a series of strange intuitions leads him to a crime in progress, Joe jumps headlong into danger without hesitation. In the aftermath, he wonders about the uncanny impulse that suddenly swept over him. Until new friend Portia Montclair, the strangely wise daughter of the local police chief, explains to him what sent him ricocheting around town like a crazy pinball.

What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know. In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker. For Nameless, the case is breaking down his defenses, and it may force him to face his memories.

A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives - a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood. Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He’s seen it in his visions. Now it’s time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?

A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident - and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt. Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also THE go-to facility in assisted dying. For a cut, they make impatient heirs happy. Nameless must concoct a scheme just as cunning.