Daniel Easterman

La invitación a visitar una de las antiguas librerías de El Cairo desatará una serie de terribles acontecimientos en la vida de Jack Goodrich. Después de que le muestren una espada de valor incalculable que supuestamente pertenecio al Profeta Mahoma, Jack regresa a su casa rebosante de emocion. Pero entonces empieza la pesadilla. Un thriller tenso y envolvente de escala internacional que plantea una pregunta escalofriante: ¿Como detener una yihad antes de que comience?

May, 1942Entrenched in the searing sands of Libya, a group of soldiers uncover a tomb. Buried in the ancient dust and they find a macabre crown of thorns and the devastatingly powerful Spear of Destiny. Theyve discovered the last resting place of Christ.Sixty years laterGerald Usherwood and his old army pal Max Chippendale reunite with friends and family to trade stories and spread Christmas cheer. Dark shadows visit the old friends in the cold of a winter night and make them pay the ultimate price for the secrets they stole. Geralds grandson, DCI Ethan Usherwood, is left to piece together the mystery behind the killings and to uncover the treasure they kept hidden for so many years.Stunning locations brilliantly portrayed, a riveting battle for survival, and a desperate hunt for the ultimate truth; Spear of Destiny is undeniably Daniel Eastermans most powerful thriller to date.

Un académico descubre un antiguo pergamino. Asustado, pide ayuda al doctor Jack Gould. Juntos descubrirán que el documento contiene los pensamientos y las creencias de Jesús, que difieren radicalmente de lo aceptado por la tradicion catolica.

Mayo de 1942. Mientras lleva a cabo una misión exploratoria por las ardientes arenas de Libia, un grupo de soldados británicos descubre una tumba. Sepultadas bajo el polvo milenario del desierto, aparecen una macabra corona de espinas y la poderosa y mortifera Lanza del Destino.Lo que acaban de encontrar es el lugar donde reposan los restos de Cristo.Sesenta años mas tarde, Gerald Usherwood y su antiguo compañero del ejercito, Max Chippendale, se reunen para recordar viejos tiempos y compartir la alegria navideña. Los dos antiguos veteranos reciben, sin embargo, una siniestra visita en mitad de la gelida noche invernal, y acaban pagando muy caros los secretos que sustrajeron en su dia. Gerald, con la garganta abierta, aparece clavado en la pared de su biblioteca en una brutal escenificacion de la crucifixion; su compañero de armas sufre una suerte no menos espantosa.El nieto de Gerald, el comisario Ethan Usherwood, debera desentrañar el enigma que hay detras de ambos asesinatos, y descubrir el tesoro que los dos amigos mantuvieron escondido durante tantos años.Escenarios espectaculares, una vibrante lucha por la supervivencia y una caceria frenetica para llegar a la revelacion final.

La invitación a visitar una de las antiguas librerías de El Cairo desatará una serie de terribles acontecimientos en la vida de Jack Goodrich. Después de que le muestren una espada de valor incalculable que supuestamente pertenecio al Profeta Mahoma, Jack regresa a su casa rebosante de emocion. Pero es entonces cuando empieza la pesadilla.Un thriller tenso y envolvente de escala internacionalque plantea una pregunta escalofriante: ¿Como detener una Yihad antes de que comience? Los thrillers de Daniel Easterman son siempre, como minimo, fascinantes, elegantemente escritos y aterradoramente creibles. Val McDermidDaniel Easterman posee en su haber una larga lista de thrillers cargados de tension, con tramas exoticas e internacionales... Es capaz de tejer redes de intriga sostenidas en referencias historicas y mitologicas que desafian la imaginacion, solidamente unidas por agujeros de bala y derramamientos de sangre. Cada uno de sus libros es un ejemplo perfecto del genero. The Times

A young boy is kidnapped and his captors make outrageous ransom demands. Desperate, the boys father calls upon his estranged brother-in-law for help. Yosef Abuhatseira is the perfect man for the job: an Israeli patriot, a born hunter, a one-man army of survival skills. Yet nothing Yosef has ever experienced can prepare him for what the rescue mission reveals. The kidnapping, it seems, is only the beginning. Soon a series of killings leads Yosef to the sickening realization that someone is murdering survivors of Auschwitz. Now he must penetrate the deadly wall of secrecy that surrounds the organization responsible, before they can let loose another Final Solution on humanity.

The inexplicable kidnapping of young William Wylam is the opening shot of a very personal war for his father. Wylam pursues the kidnappers to India, and then into the snowclad vastness of Tibet. Caught up in a deadly international intrigue, the boy may now be held inside a hidden Buddhist monastery. With the beautiful Chindamani--not quite a goddess but no mere mortal--Wylam fights desperately to resue his son, seen by some as the reincarnation whose special role has been prophesied, used by others as a convenient pawn in a war of unfolding nightmares.

A fast-paced thriller combining the forces of fear, love, heroism and extraordinary adventure. In northern India a twelve-year-old boy is being interrogated by three intelligence officers. A tape-recorder turns; there is no air conditioning, no fan. Everyone but the boy is sweating: his tale is so incredible that none dares believe it. The child appears to be the reincarnation of a dead British secret agent: his knowledge is that of a grown man, Matthew Hyde, who disappeared in Chinas Sinkiang province whilst investigating the links between Iraqi nuclear scientists and Chinese research bases. Somewhere -- and only the boy knows the secret -- there is a massive conspiracy to supply Saddam Hussein with a weapon against which there can be no defence. From the corridors of power in London to the lost cities of the Taklamakan desert, this crackling novel encompasses fear, love, heroism and extraordinary adventure.

The tombs have always been there beneath the city of Jerusalem. At first obscure, then hidden, then lost entirely, it was a place where death went about its business unseen. Where the living had become the dead and their mourners had in turn been mourned. And then, in 1968, a discovery is made that is so shattering that the reverberations echo through time. For the tombs also guard a secret: a 2,000-year-old prize that men would kill- and die- for. In the same year, in Dublin, young Patrick Canavan experiences the intense passion of first love for Francesca Contarini. But Francesca shares the secret of the tomb and her knowledge is deadly with repercussions that stretch far into the future. More than twenty years later, Canavan finds himself prisoner of a KGB agent, being questioned about an ancient brotherhood: The Brotherhood of the Tomb.

In an Iranian suburb, seven men meet a macabre and voluntary death. They choose to die rather than be captured and interrogated, leaving only one mysterious clue to their identities and mission. Seven more immediately take their place, to carry out the task of assassinating seven rulers, including the U.S. President. One thing stands in their way, CIA agent Peter Randall.

In near-future Ireland the members of the Muslim Leaders Conference are being held to ransom by a reincarnated David Koresh. Head of security, Decian Carberry, endeavours to get to the bottom of the

It is wartime and John Ridgeforth has been smuggled, his mission deadly secret, into a country which he thought he knew, thought he loved. It is a country where public lynchings are condoned; where concentration camps are rife; where neighbour spies on neighbour, and lovers are dangerous enemies; where Jews, Blacks, Communists are branded with the letter K. A country where K stands for kike; and for the Ku Klux Klan. K carries us into a nightmare world which is also uncannily close to truth and our worst fears, most haunting dreads. We have seen fanaticism; now we see what could so easily have been all our yesterdays.

Within days of his attempted murder, David Rosen, an American archaeologist, learns that his parents and four of his colleagues have been killed. Convinced that the deaths are linked, Rosen and Leyla, the beautiful Palestinian guide who becomes his lover, are quickly involved in trying to stop a scheme intended to bring about the destruction of Israel and the rebirth of the Nazi Reich.