Alan Glynn Bücher

Eine kleine weisse Pille macht aus dem unscheinbaren Eddie einen geistigen Überflieger und reichen Mann. Doch auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere muss er feststellen, dass er ohne die Pille nicht mehr leben kann und sie alles andere als harmlos ist ....

From Alan Glynn--the author of Limitless-- comes Receptor, an irresistable thriller that reveals the origins of MDT-48 and the consequences of unlocking the human mind. On a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier. Ned doesn't know it, but he has just become a participant in Project MK-Ultra, a covert, CIA-run study of mind-control techniques. The experience transforms Ned, pulling him away from his wife and young son and into the inner circles of the richest and most powerful people of his day. In a matter of months, he is dead. It is a tragedy Ned's family struggles to understand, then tries to forget . . . but some skeletons refuse to stay buried. More than sixty years later, Ned's grandson Ray is introduced to a retired government official who claims to know the details of Ned's life and death. Ray is prepared to dismiss the encounter, until he discovers that the now-elderly man once worked for the CIA. Ray digs deeper, and begins to question everything as he uncovers rumors of a mysterious "smart drug"--a fabled black-market cognitive enhancer called MDT-48

A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office.

From the prize winning author of Limitless'An enthralling psychological thriller-cum-tragedy.' IRISH TIMES'Insidious and ingenious.' GUARDIANAfter a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him.Then he spots Teddy Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men couldn't be more different - except for one thing: in appearance, they're identical.Danny becomes obsessed with Trager, and before long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent. But what does Danny find there? Who does he become? And is there a route home?

Imagine a drug that makes your brain function in a fantastically efficient way, tapping in to your fundamental resources of intelligence and drive. Imagine a drug that could make you read and remember entire books in a matter of hours, or learn a foreign language in a day. Imagine a drug that could make you process information so fast you can see the patterns on the stock market. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug. It's a pill called MDT-48. It's a Viagra for the brain, a designer drug that's redesigning his life. Eddie's not the only one doing MDT, but with his dealer shot dead and Eddie escaping with a large stash, he's the only one with a supply. And while the drug is helping Eddie make the sort of money he's only dreamed about, he's also beginning to suffer its side-effects ...

Jimmy Gilroy má napsat životopis herecké hvězdičky, která zahynula při havárii vrtulníku. Jenže tu něco nesedí. A na světlo začnou vycházet podivné náznaky a podezření. Okruh záhadných hráčů se rozrůstá: bývalý irský premiér, majitel velké těžební společnosti, kandidát na prezidenta USA, pološílený diktátor z Konga… A právě tam se všechny nitky sbíhají. Jaké hrůzy se odehrály v zapadlém koutě Afriky, právě když tam byl na obchodním jednání prezidentský kandidát J. J. Rundle? Jaká tajemství ukrývá tropické peklo a proč jeho vražedné prsty sahají daleko za oceán? "Krvavá země" se totiž nemusí skrývat jen v divokých afrických pralesích. New York Times Book Review - Alan Glynn dokáže navodit tolik napětí a vzrušení, že se jeho čtenáři rozhodně nemusejí uchylovat k nebezpečným a nelegálním stimulantům, jako jsou například drogy. Alan Glynn získal za knihu Krvavá země v roce 2011 irskou výroční cenu za nejlepší krimi román roku.