MICHAEL MARSHALL

En Pennsylvania, dos hombres asesinan a 68 personas en un restaurante de comida rápida. En California, una adolescente no regresa a casa y un asesino en serie se relame. En Montana, un hijo descubre que tal vez sus padres no esten muertos y sus vidas no sean lo que parecen. Tres incidentes. Las primeras señales de la llegada de los Hombres de paja. Nadie sabe quienes son, o por que matan, pero alguien debe detenerlos.

"Palmerston, Pennsylvania: due uomini con lunghi cappotti entrano in un McDonald''s all''ora di pranzo di un giorno qualunque e fanno una strage. Dieci anni dopo - a Santa Monica - un''adolescente viene vista dare indicazioni a un distinto turista, ma da quel momento si perde ogni sua traccia. Dopo la morte di entrambi i genitori in un incidente stradale, Ward Hopkins torna a Dyersburg, Montana, per presenziare al funerale e per scoprire un''inquietante verita proveniente dal proprio passato... "

Hold on to your night light. Michael Marshall is back. Ward Hopkins is afraid. He's seen something dreadful in the high plains of the Columbia River. It's sent him fleeing cross country, forever running. And in his wake, one by one, people are dying. Something's following Ward Hopkins. "A remarkable work of suspense...very much in the Dean Koontz vein of contemporary fiction." -Locus "Shocks and stuns to the last page." -Publishing News

The new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Straw Men and The Intruders is a heart-stopping tale ofsecrets, lies and our culpability in our own misfortunes On a beautiful summers afternoon four-year-old Scott Henderson walked out onto a jetty over a lake in Black Ridge, Washington State. He never came back. John Hendersons world ended that day, but three years later hes still alive. Living a life, of sorts. Getting by. Until one night he receives an email from a stranger who claims to know what happened to his little boy. Against his better judgement Henderson returns to Black Ridge, unleashing a terrifying sequence of events that threatens to destroy what remains of everything he once held dear. Bad things dont just happen to other people theyre waiting round the corner for you too. And when they start to make their way in through the cracks in your life, you wont know until its far too late

There are people out there in the shadows, watching, waiting. They are the forgotten. And theyre about to turn. From the international bestselling author of THE STRAW MEN.An intelligent and profoundly unsettling novel GUARDIANEngrossing and uncanny DAILY MAILHes in a class of his own INDEPENDENTFor David, it should have been the perfect day. But a chance encounter changes everything when a stranger follows him, and then passes by close enough to whisper: Remember me. Soon David realises that this man wants something from him ... something very personal, that he may have no choice but to surrender. Meanwhile, John Henderson does his girlfriend a favour and agrees to talk to a friend who believes shes being stalked by an ex-lover. But the problem is more complex than anyone could imagine.There are people out there in the shadows, watching, wanting to be with you. And theyll do whatever it takes to make that happen...

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Everythings going to plan - until someone steals his life...With a lucrative job, great marriage and a beautiful house, Bill Moore is a man with a plan. Its all working out just fine, until the day he finds a card left on his desk, printed with just one word: MODIFIED.From that moment, his life begins to change - at first barely noticeably, then in more and more disturbing ways. Bill soon finds out, in the most terrifying way, that he has become the subject of a dark and deadly game . . . and that he has no choice but to fight back.

A dazzling and disturbing short story which inspired the screenplay for the film The Island.Jack and Sue are living on borrowed time, spare parts in a society that treats them as scraps. When Manny seems to offer them a little humanity, should they question his intentions? And can they escape from these awful tunnels alive?Thriller, horror, science fiction, or mainstream, no genre is safe from the immense talent of Michael MARSHALL: A revelation for Le Monde, Gifted for Le Nouvel Observateur, A major writer according to The Guardian.(Re)discover one of Michael Marshalls most memorable tales, enriched with a soundtrack that will accompany you while you read. An immersive experience which is both ultrarealistic and uncanny, worthy of this striking text.Michael Marshall is the British prodigy of genre literature: he burst forth in SF with Only Forward and Spares, before establishing himself as one of the grand master of thrillers and terror with The Straw Men, Blood of Angels, and The Intruders, which have dominated bestseller lists in France and throughout the world. A regular contender for literary awards, he has had the film rights to two of his novels picked up by Steven Spielberg.

Une nouvelle fulgurante et dérangeante, qui inspira le scénario du film The Island.Jack et Sue sont des morts en sursis, des pièces de rechange pour une société qui les traite en rebuts.Quand Manny p

The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people. And soon theyll get around to you. Read all the books in the electrifying STRAW MEN trilogy by Michael Marshall. THE STRAW MENSarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago. But the key to Sarahs whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident, but they leave Ward a very strange message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true.. THE LONELY DEADA guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control. Meanwhile in Los Angeles a womans body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say, and a lot more work to do. And Ward Hopkins, an ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking death of his parents, is on the trail of his past, tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear, and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror. BLOOD OF ANGELSNotorious serial killer the Upright Man has escaped from prison, and the FBI have no idea where to look for him. His brother, Ward Hopkins, suspects he may have been aided by the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Wards parents. But apart from his girlfriend Nina, a discredited FBI agent, the only other person who believes the Straw Men exist is John Zandt, a former homicide cop turned lone vigilante. Wards brother was broken out for a reason. The Straw Men are planning something new and terrible. And only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies.

Tense and suspense-filled thriller from the author of The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead. Notorious serial killer the Upright Man has escaped from a supermax prison. The FBI have no idea how it happened, or where to start looking. Ex-CIA agent Ward Hopkins suspects the Straw Men, a shadowy conspiracy of killers with a macabre agenda. But apart from Wards girlfriend Nina, a discredited federal agent, the only person who believes the Straw Men even exist is John Zandt, a homicide detective obsessed with tracking down his daughters killers- and who is now wanted for murder himself. The terrifying thing is that Wards right- his brother was broken out for a reason. The Straw Men are planning something big. And now only Ward, Nina and Zandt stand between them and a spectacular act of carnage

Michael Marshalls unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy.Sarah tries to struggle, but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her throat. Nobody watching, the man says with hateful calm. I made it this way. I can walk where nobody sees.Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago.But the key to Sarahs whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident, but they leave Ward a bizarre message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true.As he begins to investigate his own past Ward finds himself drawn into the shadowy, sinister world of the Straw Men and into the desperate race to find Sarah, before her time runs out.