Richard Doetsch

Michael Saint Pierre es un ex ladrón de guante blanco que lleva una vida honrada junto a su esposa. Cuando a ella le diagnostican una enfermedad terminal, Michael decide acepta un último trabajo para poder afrontar el costoso tratamiento paliativo de su mujer. Todo lo que debe hacer es robar un tesoro de un museo vaticano. Lo que Michael ignora es que tras el robo le aguarda una terrible sorpresa, un secreto que no sólo pondrá en peligro su vida sino que condenará definitivamente a toda la humanidad.

A man is given the chance to go back in time in one hour increments to prevent the murder of his wife, a crime that the police think he committed. A man is given the chance to go back in time in one hour increments to prevent the murder of his wife, a crime that the police think he committed.

From the international bestselling author of the modern masterpiece (The Providence Journal) The 13th Hour comes an unputdownable thriller about one mans race against time to find his wife and catch a revenge-blinded assassin.Jack Keeler wakes up one bright June morning to the shock of his life: a half-healed gash over his right eye, a hastily stitched together bullet wound in his shoulder, an intricate tattoo in a foreign script covering the length of his forearm, and a front-page headline that reads NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT ATTORNEY JACK KEELER IS DEAD. He has until dawn to piece together what happened and to find his missing FBI agent wife.With nothing to lose, he embarks on a twisting, turning, adrenaline-charged adventure that uncovers an ancient people lost to legend, an assassin who will stop at nothing to avenge his death sentence, a diary whose contents foretell the future, and a curious mystery hidden deep inside the countrys most dangerous prison. Full of nonstop action, mind-bending switchbacks and psychological puzzles, it will keep you up far into the deepest hours of the night (Bookreporter).

An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . . Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, KC, is connected to Simons case. With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul in search of the mysterious artifact that landed Simon behind bars in the first place: a map containing the location of a holy place lost to the mists of time, a repository of knowledge and treasure predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Testing their courage and wits, Michael and his team are forced to plot a series of daring thefts that take them inside some of the citys most celebrated (and heavily guarded) sanctums, from the imperial harem of Topkapi Palace to the tombs of the Hagia Sophia itself. More than priceless artifacts are at stakethe lives of loved ones and perhaps the fate of humanity itself hang in the balance. A globe-trotting adventure that wings from the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, The Thieves of Darkness confirms Richard Doetschs place as the modern-day master of pulse-pounding suspense.

A mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse! The 13th Hour is the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life. Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows shes dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken -- and completely innocent. At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question: "If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?" He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julias real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future. In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julias murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasnt set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julias life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined. A surprising and utterly original thriller, The 13th Hour is pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations.

In a world of dark and light, where East meets West, a horrific act of violence propels former thief Michael St. Pierre into a mystery that began five hundred years ago. . . . In Richard Doetschs next unforgettable Thieves thriller, Michael and his ex-girlfriend KC Ryan have been blackmailed by a U.S. Army colonel. They are to travel to opposite ends of China, and each is responsible for stealing a piece of an ancient puzzle: a diary and a compass. With their lives dependent on each others success, they must face off against the complex underworld of the Chinese triads, a twisted female assassin, and a madman whose only desire is to possess the secrets held within the pages of the diaryknowledge that would give him enormous power and lead to the downfall of nations. Moving from the glittering casinos of Macau to its dark and dangerous backstreets; from the palace at the heart of Chinas Forbidden City to the medieval castles of Spain; from the seaside mansions along the Amalfi Coast to an uncharted Pacific island, Michael is in a race against time. He has less than five days to uncover a five-hundred-year-old mysteryand to save KC from certain death.

The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth.An explosive ancient secret.A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican.In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instantto steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keysone gold, one silverthat protect the secret of salvation.But a surprise awaits Michael St. Pierre deep inside the Vatican, an ancient secret so explosive, it sends him running for his lifefrom the streets of Rome to a small stone church in Israelwith two stolen keys and a terrible realization: the consequences of his desperate, brazen act are far greater than he could ever have imagined. For the treasure he has uncoveredthe gleaming prize buried within the most clandestine structure on earthis about to bring him face-to-face with an enemy more shocking, frightening, and insidious than anyone can guess....

Beneath the Kremlin lies a shocking ancient truth.And its about to be stolen.Since the times of Ivan the Terrible, generations of Russian leaders have turned the Kremlin into a fortress within a fortress, stocking its labyrinthine underground with secret vaults, elegant chambers, and priceless treasures. Now a master thief has the ultimate motivation to stage an assault on the Kremlins inner sanctum. Two lives depend on it. Thousands of years of religious faith hinge on it. And a mans conscience, skill, and passion will not let him fail.For Michael St. Pierre, historys most daring heist is only one piece of an intricate puzzle reaching from an ancient monastery in Scotland to a hideaway in Corsicawhere a madman has built an empire of terror. Haunted by his own family secrets, and surrounded by the precious few people he can trust, Michael will take on a mission that will make him the most hunted man in the world. But when an astounding truth, buried deep beneath the Kremlin, erupts with shattering force, he may unleash a relic too dangerous to possess.

La continuación de Los ladrones del cielo. Algunos tesoros escondidos nunca deberían ver la luz.Desde los tiempos de Iván el Terrible, generaciones de líderes rusos han convertido el Kremlin en una fortaleza, equipando el laberinto que forma su subsuelo con camaras acorazadas y tesoros de valor incalculable. Michael St. Pierre, maestro entre ladrones, tiene la mayor de las motivaciones para orquestar un asalto al santuario del poder ruso: dos vidas estan en juego. Y miles de años de creencias religiosas penden de su exito o su fracaso.

El robo parecía sencillo, pero el castigo sería universalEl encargo parecía fácil: entrar y robar unas llaves. Michael lo aceptó: necesitaba pagar el tratamiento de su esposa enferma. Ignoraba que iba a trabajar para su peor enemigo, el mas espantoso rostro del Mal...