Tři roky na cestě kolem světa a do nitra vlastní duše
Ztroskotal na opuštěném ostrově v Karibiku, pracoval v čínském baru, stal se bezdomovcem v San Francisku, vyzval neprostupnou džungli Darién a projel pod polární září Aljašky. Přitom na začátku bylo zlomené srdce, vážná nemoc a obyčejné kolo z bazaru. Mladý cestovatel se vydal hledat ztracenou lásku a léčit své rány tam, kde ožívají romány Jacka Kerouaca. Tříletá cesta mu ale přinesla víc, než čekal. Vydal se nejen kolem světa, ale především do nitra duše.
"Sex, drogy a Manchester podruhé – a ještě drsněji!"
Po drogovém skandálu a převelení na noční směnu se musí detektiv Aidan Waits smířit nejen s otravným kolegou Suttym, který dělá vše proto, aby mu znepříjemnil život, ale také s tím, že už pravděpodobně nikdy nebude vyšetřovat žádný velký případ. To se ovšem změní, když je v opuštěném hotelu nalezen omráčený noční hlídač a šklebící se mrtvola muže bez identity. Zatímco dvojice policistů rozplétá zdánlivě neřešitelnou záhadu, Aidan si musí poradit i s případem vydírané studentky, který se nečekaně komplikuje. Navíc ho začíná dohánět jeho minulost a s ní i tajemství, která nikdy neměla vyplout na povrch…
Po Sirénách druhá detektivka Josepha Knoxe v hlavní roli s Aidanem Waitsem vrací na scénu protagonistu, který jako by vypadl z románů americké drsné školy – Aidan, „zkorumpovaný detektiv a kriminálník se zálibou v holkách a fetu“, jak sám o sobě tvrdí, má totiž do prototypického „klaďase“ velmi daleko. Právě jeho odlišnost, neortodoxní metody a zároveň temná minulost z něj činí čtenářsky atraktivního hrdinu. Knox pracuje s osvědčenými noirovými postupy a nabízí temný, dynamický a originální příběh v kulisách pulsujícího nočního Manchesteru.
"Noirovka ostrá jako břitva – naprosto výjimečné čtení
Sex, drogy a Manchester – osudná trojice detektiva Aidana Waitse. Potom co na něj praskne drogový prohřešek, dostane na výběr: buď si u policie, a vlastně ani nikde jinde už neškrtne, nebo se pokusí v utajení odhalit největší manchesterský drogový gang. Že to nebude zrovna bezpečná akce, Aidanovi dojde, jakmile kolem něj začnou mizet mladé dívky a objevovat se mrtvoly. Pozná Aidan, co je černé a co bílé i v šedých stínech Manchesteru? A jaké tajemství skrývá on sám?
'He said he didn't remember killing them...' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job... To extract the location of Martin Wick's final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away. Wick has spent over a decade in prison, in near-total silence, having confessed to an unspeakable crime that shocked the nation and earned him the nickname of The Sleepwalker. But when a daring premeditated attack leaves one police officer dead and another one fighting for his life, Wick's whispered last words will send Waits on a journey into the heart of darkness... Manipulated by a reticent psychopath from his past, and under investigation from his new partner, Detective Constable Naomi Black, Waits realises too late that a remorseless contract killer is at work. Can Aidan Waits solve his last case before fleeing justice? Or will his name be next on the hit list?
'When you're living a lie, you find it's best to avoid close attachments...' Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress - and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother - Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger... Bobbie's brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His car was found parked on a bridge overlooking the Thames, in the early hours of the same morning. Unsettled by Bobbie's story, and suffering from a rare attack of conscience, Lynch tries to back off. But when Bobbie leaves for rehab the following day, he finds himself drawn to her luxurious family home, and into a meeting with her mother, the formidable Miranda. Seeing the same resemblance that her daughter did, Miranda proposes she hire Lynch to assume her son's identity, in a last-ditch effort to try and flush out his killer. As Lynch begins to impersonate him, dark forces are lured out of the shadows, and he realises too late that Heydon wasn't paranoid at all. Someone was watching his every move, and they'll kill to keep it a secret. For the first time, Lynch is in a life or death situation he can't lie his way out of.
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