Reader's-Digest-Auswahlbücher
- 510 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
Dieser Autor erforscht die Spannung zwischen scheinbarer Routine und verstecktem Chaos, oft angesiedelt in unversöhnlichen städtischen Landschaften. Seine Werke zeichnen sich durch ein zügiges Tempo und ausgeklügelte Handlungsstränge aus, die den Leser in komplexe Szenarien hineinziehen. Durch spannende Erzählungen befasst sich der Autor mit Themen menschlichen Einfallsreichtums angesichts von Widrigkeiten und berührt häufig das Verbrechensmilieu und Konfrontationen mit Autoritäten. Seine Meisterschaft in der Spannungserzeugung und der realistischen Charakterisierung sorgen für eine unverwechselbare erzählerische Stimme.






Reader's Digest:Die Nadel / Ken Follett --Ein Nordlicht / Jacques Floch-Ribas --Der tödliche Biss / John Godey --Kudenow, oder, An fremden Wassern weinen / Arno Surminski.
A detective searches for the mysterious niece of millionaire Julian Massey and becomes caught up in the missing woman's complex personality and the chilling circumstances of her apparent kidnapping
Grand Central station, New York. 1-23pm. What starts as a normal day on the New York City subway becomes a race against time when a commuter train is hijacked. It is packed with passengers and the ransom is one million dollars. The NYPD frantically pursue the train on the city streets, but the question remains- the subway is a closed system - surely there is no way out... But the four hijackers, led by a mercenary named Ryder, have thought about this. And once they receive their ransom money, they plan to send the train off at top speed toward the terminal station where it will crash, killing all the passengers...
On a steamy night in Central Park, a sailor returning from South Africa gets mugged. What the mugger doesn't know is that the sailor is carrying a deadly Black Mamba-the most poisonous snake in the world. The sailor is murdered, the mugger is bitten, and the snake slithers off into the underbrush-and becomes the terror of Central Park.John Godey's fast-paced, no-frills prose keeps the action intense as the city authorities rush to capture the snake-and the populace tries to stay out of its way. With all the heart-pumping action of Jaws, but set in the center of one of the world's most populated urban centers, this book guarantees you'll never look at Central Park the same way again.
El mundo de Jack Albany se pone patas arriba cuando lo confunden con el músculo de la mafia. El actor es absorbido por el mundo del crimen organizado cuando los gánsteres a los que se ha dedicado traman el secuestro y al azar del alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York por la friolera de $ 10,000,000. Jack debe encontrar una manera de salir de la pandilla y asegurar la seguridad de su nuevo amor, Sally. Sobre el autor: John Godey es el autor de muchas novelas de crimen y misterio, incluyendo Nella, La serpiente, El talismán y el best seller internacional, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, se estrenó como una película del mismo nombre, protagonizada por Denzel Washington y John Travolta.