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Ali Reynolds eNovella Box Set: A Last Goodbye and No Honor Among Thieves (Ali Reynolds Series)
by J. A. JanceAn ebook boxed set of No Honor Among Thieves and A Last Goodbye from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance. Also includes an excerpt of Jance's upcoming novel Man Overboard.
Alianza de Sangre (Coalición de Sangre #1)
by O. M. Suárez Ariel TachnaVolumen 1 de la serie "Coalición de Sangre"¿Pueden un mago desesperado y un amargado y desilusionado vampiro encontrar la manera de forjar la coalición que podría salvar al mundo? En un mundo sacudido por la guerra entre magos, los vampiros son vistos por muchos como seres inferiores a los humanos, como las estereotipadas criaturas de la noche que necesitan cazar a otros para sobrevivir. Pero a medida que la guerra se intensifica, los magos de la Milice se dan cuenta de que van a necesitar sacarse un as de la manga que incline la balanza a su favor, y la fuerza de los vampiros puede proporcionarles esa ventaja en la guerra contra los magos oscuros que buscan destruir el mundo tal y como se conoce hasta entonces. En un movimiento peligroso y como muestra de buena voluntad, los magos le piden al líder de los vampiros que se reúna con ellos para poder exponerle su causa. Un mago desesperado, Alain Magnier, y un amargado y desilusionado vampiro, Orlando St. Clair, se reúnen en París, y la suerte del mundo depende de que lleguen a un acuerdo: ¿se unirán los vampiros a la causa de los magos y formarán una coalición con ellos para poder ganar la guerra?
Alias #13: Faina
by J. J. Abrams Rudy Gaborno Chris HollierA Russian controller and his teenage daughter are taken hostage with merciless precision by a terrorist who fancies himself an artiste of chaos. After the CIA fumbles, Sydney and the black ops unit APO are called in for the rescue. The stakes are high. In less than forty-eight hours the controller must deliver a critical international forum speech, or the result will be widespread economic disaster. But sometimes even the best intel is incomplete. The true threat is bigger, and closer at hand, than anyone considered, and only an emotionally shattered teenage girl can make everything right -- or single-handedly cause a scale of tragedy unimagined.
Alias #14: Two of a Kind?
by Greg Cox J. J. AbramsTaking orders again from Arvin Sloane is enough for agent Sydney Bristow's life to feel turned upside down. But when an old adversary resurfaces and begs specifically for her help, Sydney is forced to confront ever-changing alliances -- and the disturbing question of just how much she and her former enemy have in common. United by an urgent goal but for separate reasons, an inconceivable team is forged. From the luxury hotels of downtown Singapore to the frenetic streets of New Orleans's French Quarter, Sydney finds herself with little time to decide if she's been given the chance to amend ancient history or if she's being lethally played.
Alias #15: Collateral Damage
by Pierce Askegren J. J. AbramsWhat begins as a routine assignment -- infiltrate a public building and retrieve monitoring equipment set up by APO -- goes horribly wrong. With the mission suddenly compromised, the true question becomes, Who's monitoring whom and why? Resourceful Sydney manages to complete the objective, but a split-second miscalculation during her escape endangers a civilian caught in the cross-fire. When haunting details of the victim emerge and the lead suspect is murdered, Sydney's carefully compartmentalized life threatens to unravel. Has she always made the right choices, knowing the inherent danger posed to those around her? Vaughn and Jack are understandably concerned. For a field agent, even the tiniest loss of focus can prove deadly....
Alias #16: Replaced
by Emma Harrison J. J. AbramsAgent Sydney Bristow has always held her own in the traditional boy's club of espionage. In fact, she's grown comfortable in her well-earned role as respected go-to girl. But with the recent addition of her half-sister, Nadia, dynamics inevitably shift as Sydney finds herself with a new partner, roommate, and -- even if unintentional -- competitor. APO's mission to retrieve a mysterious biological weapon is compromised, and in the melee Weiss is infected. Driven by concern and guilt, Sydney searches for the only known vaccine -- until her cover is blown and she must watch Nadia assume her field role next to Vaughn. But when Vaughn and Nadia's cover is blown, only Sydney and Nadia's collective strength can keep Sydney's "family" alive.
Alias #17: The Road Not Taken
by Greg Cox J. J. AbramsAfter one botched assassination attempt leads to the discovery of another high profile murder-for-hire in the works, Agent Sydney Bristow goes undercover to untangle a twisted plot of betrayal, terror, and revenge. Thrown into the midst of a dysfunctional yet extremely powerful family, Sydney must determine who is trustworthy and who is out for blood. Luckily, she has some experience in this field. With time running out and political alliances hanging in the balance, the APO operatives work together to infiltrate the family and determine the target of an impending deadly attack. Unfortunately, the intended victim could be anyone -- a world leader, an adulterous wife, a group of innocent civilians, even a fellow agent -- and the clock is ticking.
Alias #19: Vigilance
by Paul Ruditis J. J. AbramsSydney's conscience struggles with her job, which too often asks her to work with criminals she'd much rather put away. She understands the logic -- the small fish versus big fish pragmatism -- but that doesn't make acceptance easier. Someone else is less conflicted and is assassinating APO's shadier contacts. Only the calling card of a black star with the number 13 in its center hints at the culprit. When it becomes clear that a highly trained -- and lethal -- vigilante organization is interfering with APO's missions, Sydney must put aside her empathy and help shut down the mysterious "13 Stars." But after Sydney herself is mistaken for a freelance terror agent, she worries that the mistake is not so far from the truth. And now that she's marked, both her cover and her welfare are in immediate jeopardy.
Alias #20: Strategic Reserve
by Christina F. York J. J. AbramsAn oil pipeline leak in the Gulf of Mexico looks like sabotage, and APO is assigned to find the source using any means necessary. Sydney and Dixon visit the drilling platform and discover a likely suspect, but before they can corner him, he flees...in the APO helicopter. It seems the attack was a practice run for something bigger, and Sydney and Dixon must determine the real target before time runs out. There are other matters on the agents' minds too -- Dixon is concerned about his son, Steven, and Sydney is led to wonder, not for the first time, what it would be like to have a "normal" family. But there's no time for wistful thinking when the saboteurs' plot becomes clear...and threatens to throw the country into total chaos.
Alias #21: Once Lost
by Kirsten Beyer J. J. AbramsA strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. Out in the field again, Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles. Magrite has a dark secret that forces Sydney to confront her past, even as APO races to stop the distribution of a new and terrifying weapon.
Alias #22: Namesakes
by Greg Cox J. J. AbramsWhat's in a name? Apparently everything. A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret formula for a super-explosive. While Sydney and Dixon try to prevent the terrorist from creating a man-made tsunami aimed at the United States, Weiss and Nadia are tasked with catching the Alias Killer. Jack and Vaughn quietly embark on their own investigation into the alias killings and begin to suspect that the murderer may be an ex-coworker resentful of Sydney for shutting down the shadow organization SD-6 years ago. As Sydney struggles to stay focused and stop a ruthless man with mass destruction on his mind, she can't help but wonder, Will APO find the Alias Killer before another one of my unsuspecting namesakes pays the price?
Alias #23: Old Friends
by J. J. Abrams Steven HannaA terrorist cell based in China called Dark Cloud has devised a plan to release a deadly poison on entire nations using rocket technology. In true six degrees-of-separation style, Agent Sydney Bristow's friend from graduate school, Keiko Terajima, happens to be the daughter of a prominent Japanese physicist, and Dark Cloud needs his top-secret knowledge to carry out its devious plan. What's more, Keiko's married to Franklin, the son of an old colleague Jack Bristow killed years ago to protect Sydney. When APO learns that Franklin is part of an elite group of agents who marry women to gain access to information, Sydney begins to question his true intentions with Keiko. Tracing the connections leads deeper and deeper into the terrorists' plot -- with Keiko's father and husband at the centre. Suddenly, Sydney finds herself on a mission not only to prevent the poisonous rain from devastating a country, but to save her loved ones as well.
Alias #24: The Ghost
by J. J. Abrams Brian StudlerThe Ghost, a legendary figure who has gone by so many aliases his real identity is a mystery, has created a double-edged hallucinogen that is both a blessing to psychiatry and a powerful weapon that can ignite mass hysteria. When the mad scientist is double-crossed by one of his own minions, Agent Sydney Bristow must accompany him to his undercover clinic in Switzerland and help him learn which of his protégés stole the drug and sold it to a chemical weapons dealer. However, this plan doesn't sit well with Jack Bristow, who shares a past with the Ghost. . . . In fact, he thought he killed the man in a Vietnamese jungle years ago. Now Jack must determine if his mind is playing tricks on him, or if their wartime encounter was just another one of the Ghost's twisted psychological experiments. . . .
Alias #25: Mind Games
by Paul Ruditis J. J. AbramsAgents Sydney Bristow and Marcus Dixon are hot on the trail of a drug lord who has created a mind-control drug so potent that in the wrong hands it could be one of the world's most dangerous bioweapons. Determined to halt production of the substance, the agents go undercover as dealers. Their approach proves to be successful when the drug lord invites them to his estate -- the perfect chance for Sydney to snoop around and find the location of the main lab. But things don't go quite as planned. A government agency interferes with APO's mission; Sydney is forced to ingest a dose of the drug and commanded to turn on her APO counterparts; Dixon is taken hostage; and someone believed to be an ally turns out to be more foe than friend....
Alias #26: A Touch of Death
by Christina F. York J. J. AbramsA brilliant Alliance geneticist who disappeared years ago walks into a police station in Siberia wearing a hazmat suit and claims to be responsible for the deaths of his wife and three children. But before he can be questioned, he is kidnapped by his former employer, Gai Dong Jing, an ex-Alliance officer who is head of a terrorist network conducting bioweapon research of deadly proportions. With the threat of a worldwide epidemic looming, Sydney and the APO team must locate Jing and decode the toxic scientist's medical diary, which holds the answers to the virus he carries and the fate of the scientist's family. In the meantime, the highly contagious geneticist plans to rid himself of his illness in the most unimaginable way....
Alias Basil Willing
by Helen McCloyPsychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing is in a tobacconist's in Manhattan when another customer follows him into the shop, buys cigarettes, and leaves in a hurry. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.'Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why ...
Alias Emma
by Ava GlassEn equilibrio perfecto entre KILLING EVE y JAMES BOND, Alias Emma es una lectura exhilarante y propulsiva protagonizada por una espía tremendamente ingeniosa. Emma Makepeace tiene 12 horas para cruzar Londres con un activo al que ha de proteger. Para ello, deberá de esquivar todas las cámaras de la ciudad, pues Rusia las ha hackeado para encontrarla. Emma está a punto de pasar la noche más larga de su vida... Si sobrevive a ella. Nada sobre Emma Makepeace es real, ni siquiera su nombre. Es agente secreta y trabaja para la Agencia, una misteriosa organización gubernamental que acaba de encargarle su primera misión de envergadura. Su objetivo: poner a salvo a un hombre inocente, Michael Primalov, perseguido por el servicio secreto ruso. Para ello, deberán moverse sin ser descubiertos a través de Londres, una de las urbes más vigiladas del mundo. Pero cuando el enemigo hackea el famoso «anillo de acero» de la capital británica, Emma y Michael se ven obligados a evitar los cientos de miles de cámaras que documentan cada rincón. Su intención es llegar a la sede del MI6 antes del amanecer, pero los espías rusos les pisan los talones y la situación se recrudece cuando Emma pierde todo contacto con su enlace en la Agencia. Todo depende de ella. Y cualquier paso en falso hará que los maten. La crítica ha dicho:«Un thriller perfecto para los fans de la serie 24».Fortune «Alias Emma es uno de esos thrillers magníficos que te lees en un día y recuerdas durante años. Emma Makepeace es una excelente candidata para recoger el testigo de James Bond».James Patterson «Una lectura emocionante... ¡No podría haberme gustado más!».Lisa Jewell «Es adicción total. Una vez que empiezas a leer, ya no puedes parar».Lisa Gardner «Es un THRILLER con mayúsculas».Jonathan Kellerman «El ritmo de esta lectura jamás te da tregua».Robert Gold «Me dejó sin palabras».Cristina Alger «Apártate, James Bond... Hay una nueva heroína en la ciudad».Karen Cleveland
Alias Emma: A Novel
by Ava Glass&“A thrilling read . . . I could not have loved it more.&”—LISA JEWELL&“Emma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James Bond mantle.&”—JAMES PATTERSONIn this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city&’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed?Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth, she dives in headfirst. Emma must covertly travel across one of the world&’s most watched cities to bring the reluctant—and handsome—son of Russian dissidents into protective custody, so long as the assassins from the Motherland don&’t find him first. With London&’s famous Ring of Steel hacked by the Russian government, the two must cross the city without being seen by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city&’s streets, alleys, and gutters. Buses, subways, cars, and trains are out of the question. Traveling on foot, and operating without phones or bank cards that could reveal their location or identity, they have twelve hours to make it to safety. This will take all of Emma&’s skills of disguise and subterfuge. But when Emma&’s handler goes dark, there&’s no one left to trust. And just one wrong move will get them both killed.
Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret AtwoodThe bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
Alias Mommy
by Linda O. JohnstonRugged doctor Reeve Snyder had saved her and delivered her baby girl. He was her hero-the kind of man she would have liked to have as a friend...a lover...a father for her baby. If only.... Polly Black had been running from something-someone-when the accident had landed her in Reeve's care. He didn't want her gratitude; he wanted the truth, and he wanted her-for the three of them to be a family. Somehow he had to convince Polly that the only place worth running to...was straight into his arms.
Alias. Obra completa en colaboración
by Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy CasaresUN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La obra completa que escribieron juntos dos de los autores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX, ganadores del Premio Cervantes y del Nacional de Literatura CON PRÓLOGO DE ALAN PAULS «Borges y Bioy me enseñaron no sólo a escribir y leer, sino también a mirar el mundo».Antonio Muñoz Molina No ha existido en la literatura en español una amistad literaria tan notable y fértil como la que mantuvieron a lo largo de cincuenta años dos de los escritores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX: Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Cuando se conocieron, Borges era un autor de éxito, quince años mayor que Bioy, un joven fascinado por el surrealismo. Éste fue el comienzo de una asociación excepcional en la que inicialmente Borges adoptó el papel de mentor, pero poco a poco empezó a darse un aprendizaje mutuo. De esta colaboración surgieron una decena de títulos, entre los que se encuentran relatos fantásticos y novelas policíacas. El primero de sus libros en común, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, está protagonizado por un singular detective que resuelve casos sin moverse de la cárcel. Todas estas obras extraordinarias, creadas no por Borges ni por Bioy sino por «un tercer escritor» que aúna las mejores cualidades de ambos, y publicadas bajo los alias de Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch o por sus identidades reales, se reúnen ahora después de mucho tiempo en un único volumen prologado por Alan Pauls. La crítica ha dicho:«La suya fue una escritura monstruosa por poco frecuente y por desatada, y su producto, los hijos de la imaginación de ese escritor que algunos llaman “Biorges”, monstruosos. [...] Borges más Bioy es deliciosamente barroco, y a menudo los argumentos yacen bajo una acumulación ingente de chistes públicos y privados, eufemismos torpes y travestismo lingüístico que los hacen incomprensibles».Patricio Pron, La Vanguardia «Dos grandes de la literatura en español regresan con su obra cómplice y conjunta, una sinergia creadora nunca igualada. [...] Una lectura fulgurante».Santiago Ortiz Lerín, La Opinión de Málaga «Eran el mismo otro: un tercer escritor, inasimilable a uno tanto como al otro, profundamente excéntrico. De ahí que Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch sean algo más que seudónimos. Son escritores de derecho, tan autores como los autores que los inventaron».Alan Pauls «Empezamos a escribir de un modo que no se parecía ni a Bioy ni a Borges. Creamos de algún modo entre los dos un tercer personaje [...]. Ese personaje existe, de algún modo. Pero sólo existe cuando estamos conversando».Jorge Luis Borges «Borges y Bioy Casares: la fiesta de dos monstruos. [...] No hay entretenimiento comparable al de descubrirlos».Luis Chitarroni, Clarín «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes».Mario Vargas Llosa «Me gustaría ser Adolfo Bioy Casares. Quisiera ser Bioy porque siempre lo admiré como escritor y lo estimé como persona».Julio Cortázar «Borges es uno de los autores más extraordinarios del siglo XX».The New York Times «Bioy Casares tiene un encanto, un siniestro ingenio y una tristeza repentina que sólo un gran maestro de las letras puede ofrecernos».John Updike, The New Yorker «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos fascina. [...] Cumple con nuestro anhelo esencial en cuanto a las razones por que leemos».Harold Bloom
Alias the Lone Wolf: Large Print (Lone Wolf #3)
by Louis Joseph VanceOn the brink of retirement, the Lone Wolf risks everything for loveNearly forty years old, the Lone Wolf is, as his British Secret Service friend Wertheimer puts it, &“superannuated.&” His last adventure involved not just the surprise of meeting his grown daughter, but the twin shocks of seeing her fall in love with a secret agent and risk her own death at the hands of murderous Bolsheviks. The excitement has left Lanyard—or Monsieur Duchemin, as the British government prefers to know him—feeling slow and cranky. There is nothing to do, suggests Wertheimer, but retire from undercover work and leave England for good. Wertheimer more than suggests this, in fact; he demands it—for the Russians have made it known that they intend to kill the Lone Wolf and will tear apart London and every other corner of the British Isles to find him.Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson&’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Lanyard heads to the South of France. Hiking alone in the mountains, he goes to bed with the birds, rises with the sun, and considers what to do with the rest of his life. Visions of a dusty Parisian antique shop and Sunday afternoons with his grandchildren delight the Lone Wolf, but fate has something altogether different in store. In the eerie rock field of Montpellier-le-Vieux, he rescues a beautiful woman and her traveling party from highway bandits. Then the real danger begins.This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Alias the Saint
by Leslie CharterisSimon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.In three more classic tales, the Saint continues to push his luck in his own inimitable style. The Story of a Dead Man sees the Saint in a more mundane line of work - running an office and writing letters to the editor - until Inspector Teal comes to investigate the mysterious Mr Vanney and the Saint's real intentions come to light. In The Impossible Crime, a bored Saint tackles a most unlikely mystery: a man who has somehow been shot in a locked room. And in The National Debt Simon Templar stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things is happening . . . another job for the Saint!
Alibi
by Sydney Bauer"There she lay, her neck placed at a devilish angle on the Death Stone which acted like a pillow. " Set amongst the hallowed grounds of Deane University, the most expensive college in the country, America's privileged youth must allow nothing to jeopardise their chances to succeed. Nineteen-year-old Jessica Nagoshi, in her third year of economics at Deane, is the beautiful and intelligent heiress to her father's multi-million dollar empire and is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. David Cavanaugh, Boston's most sought-after defence attorney, is unwittingly forced into this high-society murder case when he must defend his young protégé James Matheson, final year law student at Deane. For in James he sees traces of his younger self - Matheson is dedicated, ambitious and unsullied by the nuances of a system more often driven by politics than justice. From the outset David realises the odds are against him. Unspoken alliances, corporate secrets, love, lust and a disastrous misplace of trust lead David down a road where nothing is as it seems.