Max Kinnings Knihy

07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train is stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.

In a world obsessed with watching itself, reality is the new rock 'n' roll, and Tobe Darling - showbusiness guru and reality alchemist - has the would-be stars of tomorrow beating a path to his door. But Tobe's life is falling apart. He is tired of his clients' desperate ambitions, and lonely after his break-up with Scarlet - the one person who understands his bizarre sexual and psychological needs. After a disastrous appearance on a television show, things come to a head: Tobe dissolves his business partnership and goes out on his own with just one client to his name. But this new client is different from the rest. He is the ultimate show business personality. Tobe's new client is a serial killer.

Here's the deal. You're offered #1000 to kill someone, but you're no assassin and the target has psychic powers. You have two options: decline, or, get a gun, get smashed out of your brain and hit the streets in your souped-up Beamer whilst the "hit" draws you into his world. The choice is yours.

Er hat gestohlen. Er hat gelogen. Er hat betrogen. Nun soll er für seine Sünden sterben ... Der gefallene Hedgefonds-Manager Graham Poynter hat sich in seiner riesigen Villa im Londoner Nobelviertel Belgravia verbarrikadiert. Ein Elite-Sicherheitsteam soll ihn und seine Familie vor der Meute Journalisten schützen, die draußen auf ihn lauert. Doch gegen den maskierten Eindringling haben sie keine Chance. Als die Fernsehkameras schockierende Bilder von einem auf dem schmiedeeisernen Zaun aufgespießten Wachmann senden, schickt die Londoner Polizei ihren besten Mann: Ed Mallory, den blinden Ermittler und Spezialisten für Geiselnahmen. Doch wie stoppt man einen Wahnsinnigen, der in seinem unbändigen Rachedurst keine Gnade kennt?