CODY MCFADYEN

La agente Smoky Barret conoce muy bien el lado oscuro del alma humana. Ella misma tiene el cuerpo y el espíritu marcados por las horribles cicatrices que le han dejado los asesinos a los que ha dado caza durante años. Ahora se enfrenta a un caso muy extraño: la policia encuentra a toda una familia asesinada y launica superviviente, Sarah aparece cubierta de sangre. Ella solo quiere hablar con Smoky, a la que narra la terrible historia de su vida marcada por la venganza de quien llama el extraño, un hombre dispuesto a acabar con cualquiera que ofrezca a Sarah una pizca de amor. Smoky se enfrenta a un sadico inteligente y despiadado al que va a ser muy dificil detener.Con El hombre sombra, Cody McFadyen irrumpio de forma espectacular en el mundo del thriller. En El rostro de la muerte nos devuelve a su protagonista, Smoky Barret, en una espiral de tension que nos obliga a contener el aliento hasta el brutal desenlace.

Nach dem Mord an einer Freundin folgt FBI-Agentin Smoky Barrett der Fahrte des Killers. Doch die Spuren, die der eiskalte Serienmorder hinterlasst, sind so blutig, dass ihr ganzes Konnen gefragt ist. Die Zeit arbeitet gegen sie, und mit jedem neuen Verbrechen gelangt Smoky zu einer erschreckenden Erkenntnis: Der Morder mochte sich einen Traum erfullen - ein Traum, der fur viele zum Albtraum werden konnte ...

La agente Smoky Barret conoce muy bien el lado oscuro del alma humana. Ella misma tiene el cuerpo y el espíritu marcados por las horribles cicatrices que le han dejado los asesinos a los que ha dado caza durante años. Ahora se enfrenta a un caso muy extraño: la policia encuentra a toda una familia asesinada y launica superviviente, Sarah aparece cubierta de sangre. Ella solo quiere hablar con Smoky, a la que narra la terrible historia de su vida marcada por la venganza de quien llama el extraño, un hombre dispuesto a acabar con cualquiera que ofrezca a Sarah una pizca de amor. Smoky se enfrenta a un sadico inteligente y despiadado al que va a ser muy dificil detener.Con El hombre sombra, Cody McFadyen irrumpio de forma espectacular en el mundo del thriller. En El rostro de la muerte nos devuelve a su protagonista, Smoky Barret, en una espiral de tension que nos obliga a contener el aliento hasta el brutal desenlace.

The woman had been missing for almost eight years. Someone watched her, stalked her, kidnapped her, and held her captive in the dark all that time. No ransom demand, and no suspects. No answers, even now that the woman has been found -- thrown from an unmarked car in front of a beachside wedding -- alive but unbearably traumatised. All she can do is scream. Tracking a kidnapper who appears to have no motive, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team are plunged into the most sinister and disturbing case of their careers. Then they start to find the others.

Un cuerpo lleno de cicatrices y pesadillas cada noche es todo lo que le queda a Smoky. La mejor jefa de equipo del FBI nunca imaginó que ella también sería una víctima, que una noche un maníaco entraria en su casa y mataria a su marido y su hija. Aunque ella misma acabo con el asesino, ahora solo le queda una soledad insoportable. Sin embargo, descubre otro buen motivo para vivir: otro psicopata, que se considera a si mismo descendiente de Jack el destripador, esta dejando un reguero de cadaveres. Smoky reune a su viejo equipo y vuelve a convertirse en una eficaz cazadora. Pero su presa parece saberlo todo sobre ella: escarba en los secretos mas intimos de Smoky y saca a la luz recuerdos a los que nadie podria enfrentarse sin perder la cordura.Cody Mcfadyen lleva la novela de asesinos en serie hasta un territorio que nadie se habia atrevido a explorar. Un relato que sorprende, conmociona, aprieta el corazon del lector en un puño y no lo suelta hasta la ultima pagina.

FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run -- from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesn't know how to run -- and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from high school has been brutally murdered, she finds herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her. Face to face.

This electrifying debut thriller takes the serial-killer novel where it's never dared to go before. Years after a madman shattered Special FBI Agent Smoky Barrett's life, a new and fascinating killer is coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live. Note: This synopsis may refer to a different edition of this book.

The woman had been missing for almost eight years.Someone watched her, stalked her, kidnapped her, and held her captive in the dark all that time. No ransom demand, and no suspects. No answers, even now that the woman has been found thrown from an unmarked car in front of a beachside wedding alive but unbearably traumatised.All she can do is scream.Tracking a kidnapper who appears to have no motive, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team are plunged into the most sinister and disturbing case of their careers.Then they start to find the others.

Un cos ple de cicatrius i malsons cada nit és tot el que li queda a Smoky. La millor cap dequip del FBI mai no va imaginar que ella també seria una víctima, que una nit un maníac entraria a casa seva i mataria el seu marit i la seva filla. Encara que ella mateixa va acabar amb lassassi, ara nomes li queda una solitud insuportable. Tanmateix, descobreix un altre bon motiu per viure: un altre psicopata, que es considera a si mateix descendent de Jack el destripador, esta deixant una reguera de cadavers. Smoky reuneix el seu vell equip i torna a convertir-se en una eficaç caçadora. Pero la seva presa sembla saber-ho tot sobre ella: furga en els secrets mes intims de Smoky i treu a la llum records als que ningu no podria enfrontar-se sense perdre el seny.Cody Mcfadyen porta la novel·la dassassins en serie fins un territori que ningu no shavia atrevit a explorar. Un relat que sorpren, commociona, estreny el cor del lector a un puny i no el deixa anar fins a lultima pagina.Amb la seva primera novel·la, Cody Mcfayden ha fet un pas mes enlla en el genere dels assassins en serie i ha irromput amb força al mon del thriller literari amb la seva primera novel·la. Viu a California, al costat de la seva dona i la seva filla. Actualment treballa en una segona obra protagonitzada tambe per la detectiva Smoky.

Everyone has a secret they dont dare tell anyone.Hell kill you for yours.Cody McFadyen has shocked even the most jaded suspense fans with Shadow Man and The Face of Death. Now comes a thriller that outdoes them all, featuring a psychopath on a perverse crusade of murder. And the one woman who can stop him has a secret that will change her from the hunter to the hunted.A lie, a long-ago affair, a dark desireeveryone has secrets they take to the grave. No one knew that better than FBI special agent Smoky Barrett. But what secret was a very private young woman keeping that led to her very public murder? And what kind of killer was so driven and so brazenly daring that hed take her life on a commercial airliner thirty thousand feet in midair, a killer so accomplished that hed leave only a small souvenir behind?These are the questions that bring Smoky and her hand-picked team of experienced manhunters from L.A. to the autumn chill of Washington, D.C., by order of the FBI director himselfand at the special request of a high-powered grieving D.C. mother.As a mother, Smoky knows the pain of losing a childit nearly killed her once before. As a cop with her own twisted past, she takes every murder personally, which is both her greatest strength and her only weakness. Brilliant, merciless, righteous, the killer Smoky is hunting this time is on his own personal mission, whose cost in innocent human lives hes only begun to collect. For in his eyes no one is innocent; everyone harbors a secret sin, including Smoky Barrett. Soon Smoky will have to face what shes so carefully hidden even from her own teamand confront a flawless killer who knows her flaws with murderous intimacy.

Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the bestuntil a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him deadbut her life was shattered forever. Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman whos lost everything, what is there left to lose? Shes about to find out. In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like hima new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers attempts to understand him. And hes issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live. The killer videotaped his latest crimean act of horror that left a child motherlessthen sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever. Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive againand shes about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother . . . and a merciless killers next victim.

FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesnt know how to run - and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from high school has been brutally murdered, she finds herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her. Face to face.

Imagine a serial killer who has already struck a horrific number of times. A killer who discovers peoples secrets -- the deepest, darkest secrets we keep even from ourselves -- and uses them to target and destroy his victims. The case begins with a shock, and the twists keep coming, when FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team investigate a murder brazenly committed on a flight from Texas to Virginia. Who will the next victim be? Everyone in the world has secrets. Even Smoky.