Dieser Autor ist bekannt für seinen unverwechselbaren Erzählstil, der sich mit den Komplexitäten der menschlichen Psyche und vielschichtigen Handlungssträngen befasst. Seine Werke erforschen häufig Themen wie Einsamkeit, die Suche nach Identität und den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Mit meisterhafter Präzision webt er spannende Geschichten, die den Leser in einen Wirbel von Ereignissen ziehen und zur Selbstreflexion anregen. Sein literarischer Einfluss ist in zahlreichen zeitgenössischen Werken spürbar.
Originally published in 1969, the second of eight best-selling Great Brain titles continues the story of J. D., a nine-year-old boy living in Utah in 1897, and his older brother Tom, aka The Great Brain, a silver-tongued con artist with a genius for making a profit. New episodes follow Tom as he teaches Britches Dotty how to be a girl, scoops his Papa's own newspaper, and convinces the whole town that there's a prehistoric monster on the loose.
Bestselling author of numerous books, screenplays, and magazine articles, Hynd has proven himself to be a master of espionage fiction. Truman's Spy is set against the highly-charged backdrop of the Cold War, and as the political climate heats up, Hynd's fascinating characters--including J. Edgar Hoover and Harry Truman--play out a chilling game of deception that threatens the free world.
William Thomas Cochrane, an FBI agent with a history of successes against German military intelligence, is chosen by J. Edgar Hoover to intercept the mysterious agent, code-named Siegfried, reputedly stalking President Roosevelt
From the masterful author of Ghosts and The Prodigy comes a tale of gripping suspense in which the line between real and unreal, good and evil, is frighteningly blurred.In the small Connecticut town of Wiltshire, James Corbett, senior member of a local outlaw family, has been hideously murdered. For Ellen Wilder, editor of the local newspaper, the gruesome killing is as disturbing as the irrational fears that have suddenly woven themselves into her mind and left her doubting her own sanity. For state police detective Michael Chandler, whose haunting near-death experience has left him with an uncanny way of sensing things, the murder is only a hint of what is to come.But nothing could have prepared either of them for the return of Franny Corbett. A hulking child of a man and the blackest sheep in a family of black sheep, his eerie presence may have ushered in all of these bizarre and frightening events. Soon the town of Wiltshire will be shaken again. For in a car sunk beneath the surface of a glimmering blue lake, floats another body. And the killing has just begun....
Moving to Southern California is a dream come true for Bill and Rebecca Moore and their two children. Their L.A. neighborhood is an oasis of serenity. Nearby is a star studded cemetery, a tribute to the myth and glamor of a Hollywood that has never really died. There is even an eerie legend about their house that the Moores find quaint--until their son and daughter vanish.
