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Hugo Kuipers

    The Innocent
    Ostrov Duma Key
    Čaroděj a sklo
    Nextopia
    Černočerná tma
    Zelená míle
    • The Edge of Nowhere

      • 496 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení

      Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets sixteen years old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted as a ten-year-old by the town's Deputy Sheriff. Derric has a secret that no one on Whidbey Island knows. Derric and Becca form an un-severable bond. Becca is convinced that she's the only person who can truly help him, and just maybe Derric can convince Becca that life is too short to live on the run.

      The Edge of Nowhere2012
      3,4
    • Dead centre

      • 537 stránek
      • 19 hodin čtení

      Somalian pirates have kidnapped the son of a Russian oligarch. He has tried everything to get the boy back. Now he needs the one man who can succeed in the mission - ex-SAS trouble-shooter, Nick Stone.

      Dead centre2012
      4,0
    • America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career... THE INNOCENT It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life... and perhaps his own.

      The Innocent2012
      4,2
    • Zwarte beertjes: De verrassing

      Literaire thriller

      • 275 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      Een Brits parlementslid geeft zijn geliefde een bijzonder verjaarscadeau: zij wordt geblinddoekt en geboeid naar hem toe gebracht, maar hierbij gaat iets heel erg mis.

      Zwarte beertjes: De verrassing2011
    • De zesde man / druk 1

      • 366 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      In de ultrabeveiligde staatsgevangenis Cutters Rock wordt seriemoordenaar Edgar Roy gevangengehouden, in afwachting van zijn rechtszaak. Het is vrijwel zeker dat hij veroordeeld zal worden. Privedetectives Sean King en Michelle Maxwell worden door Roys advocaat Ted Bergin, een oude vriend van King, gevraagd hem bij te staan. Maar onderweg naar hun eerste bespreking treffen King en Maxwell het levenloze lichaam van Bergin in zijn auto aan. Hij is vermoord. In een poging te achterhalen wat er precies gebeurd is, neemt King, die tevens advocaat is, de verdediging van Roy op zich. Samen met Maxwell gaat hij op zoek naar antwoorden op vragen die iedereen uit de weg gaat. Want is Edgar Roy inderdaad een moordenaar? En wie heeft Ted Bergin vermoord? En waarom is de FBI zo geïnteresseerd in deze zaak? Wanneer King en Maxwell in Roys verleden beginnen te graven, komen ze tegenover een zeer machtige vijand binnen de overheid te staan. Maar terwijl de dreigementen aan het adres van de twee onderzoekers steeds serieuzer worden en de muur tussen hen en de waarheid steeds hoger lijkt te worden, krijgen ze hulp vanuit een onverwachte hoek.

      De zesde man / druk 12011
    • Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

      One Summer2011
      3,8
    • John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force. David Baldacci is one of the world's favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 110 million copies in print. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America.

      Zero Day2011
      4,0
    • První rodina

      • 376 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Začalo to jako obyčejná oslava dětských narozenin. Sešli se kamarádi a rodina. Nafukovaly se balónky, podávaly dorty, hrály se hry a rozdávaly dárky. Jenže tahle oslava se v jedné věci zásadně lišila od stovky jiných: probíhala v Camp Davidu, v prezidentské rezidenci. A skončila únosem, který se stal pro národní bezpečnost noční můrou. Agenti Sean King a Michelle Maxwellová mají před sebou nelehký úkol: zachránit nevinné dítě a Spojené státy.

      První rodina2011
      4,0
    • Zwarte Beertjes - 3477: Het labyrint

      • 311 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      De vierentwintigjarige Kirstin Kvist verlaat Zweden om in Engeland te gaan werken. Via haar vriend komt de terecht op Lydstep Old Hall, een oud, verwaarloosd landhuis in Essex. Daar gaat ze voor John, een veertigjarige schizofrene man, zorgen. Bij aankomst beseft Kirstin dat ze in een ongewone familie is beland. Johns familieleden gunnen elkaar het licht in de ogen niet. Het enige wat hen bij elkaar houdt is Johns geld. Wanneer een van zijn zussen een relatie krijgt met een kunstschilder uit het dorp is dat de aanzet tot een reeks gruwelijke gebeurtenissen en lijkt het noodlot langzaam maar zeker onafwendbaar...

      Zwarte Beertjes - 3477: Het labyrint2010
    • In Nextopia, timing is everything. And there is no better time than tomorrow. We live in an Expectations Society—a society where we are constantly striving towards our next job, the next big thing, the next date. In the Expectations Society, possibilities of finding happiness are endless. Meanwhile, it has never been harder to stay happy. This book will help you understand how this change in society and the human mind impacts business, love, and life itself. With a whole new set of ideas and theories about how expectations form the very essence of human nature, Micael Dahlen takes you on a journey towards Nextopia—a journey that never ends.

      Nextopia2010
      5,0