New Releases by Caleb Carr

Questa è una storia d’amore. Una storia d’amore vero, puro e disinteressato, quello che per diciassette anni ha unito Caleb Carr e Masha, una gatta delle foreste siberiane. Fin da bambino l’autore, figlio di due giornalisti alcolizzati parte della Beat Generation, ha trovato nella compagnia dei gatti una via di fuga dal caos e dalla violenza che regnava in casa. Da sempre i suoi compagni più fedeli non erano umani, ma felini, adottati o salvati dalla strada. Crescendo le cose non sono cambiate molto e Carr ha condiviso lunghi tratti di vita con gatti che sono stati per lui amici onesti e leali, motivo di gioia e riflessione, ispiratori e complici. Ma anche causa di paure e dolore, come quando la sua amata e anziana Soki scompare nel bosco che circonda la grande e solitaria casa che l’autore si è fatto costruire alle pendici dei monti Taconic, al confine tra lo stato di New York e il Vermont. Ed è proprio in un rifugio per gatti del Vermont che Caleb incontra Masha, una splendida e giovane gatta delle foreste siberiane, dal carattere forte e di spiccata intelligenza e sensibilità. Masha era stata crudelmente abbandonata, e già da mesi era ospite del rifugio dove aveva respinto tutti i potenziali nuovi padroni ed era diventata il cruccio e il terrore delle operatrici. Con Caleb, però, nasce subito una sintonia e Masha lo sceglie, perché: “la verità è che non siamo noi a scegliere loro, sono loro che scelgono noi.” Per i diciassette anni successivi i due sono stati inseparabili, uniti da un legame che con il tempo si è fatto sempre più forte e saldo. Masha aveva reso la casa e le foreste circostanti il suo indisputato dominio e, quando le accadeva qualcosa, solo Caleb poteva aiutarla. D’altra parte, quando era Caleb a soffrire, nel corpo o nell’anima, era Masha a sapere cosa fare per alleviare i suoi dolori. Profondo, toccante e commovente, Il mio mostro adorato è il racconto di un legame in grado di travalicare ogni confine, una storia d’amore e accudimento reciproco che tocca il cuore.

Verpletterende pageturner voor katten- en literatuurliefhebbers. Al sinds zijn turbulente jeugd met een gewelddadige vader koestert schrijver Caleb Carr een speciale band met katten. Ze bieden troost en slepen hem door menig dieptepunt heen, tot in zijn volwassen jaren en het begin van zijn schrijverscarrière. Als hij verhuist naar het platteland beleeft hij de meest bijzondere kattenliefde van allemaal met Masha, een verwaarloosde Siberische asielkat. Masha blaast en vecht met haar verzorgers, maar om de een of andere reden kiest ze Carr als haar redder. En wordt zij die van hem. Zeventien jaar lang vormen ze een onafscheidelijk paar: Masha heerst over het huis en de omliggende velden, Carr over zijn studeerkamer. Als zij gewond raakt na de zoveelste aanvaring met een hond, mag alleen Carr haar verzorgen. Wanneer zijn fysieke kwalen weer oplaaien, wijkt Masha niet van zijn zijde. En zo worden ze samen ouder, en gebrekkiger, totdat het ondenkbare zich aankondigt.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The most brilliant feline portrait in literary history.” –People Magazine (Book of the Week) The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. “Dares us to take a journey into love and pain . . . My Beloved Monster is a love story and a requiem.” –Wall Street Journal “Excellent…Worth the emotional investment, and the tissues you will need by the end, to spend time with a writer and cat duo as extraordinary as Masha and Carr.” —Washington Post Book World Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her. She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters, but somehow, she chose Caleb as her savior. For the seventeen years that followed, Caleb and Masha were inseparable. Masha ruled the house and the extensive, dangerous surrounding fields and forests. When she was hurt, only Caleb could help her. When he suffered long-standing physical ailments, Masha knew what to do. Caleb’s life-long study of the literature of cat behavior, and his years of experience with previous cats, helped him decode much of Masha’s inner life. But their bond went far beyond academic studies and experience. The story of Caleb and Masha is an inspiring and life-affirming relationship for readers of all backgrounds and interests—a love story like no other.

When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it became a literary phenomenon, sold millions of copies and was a worldwide sensation. It became a modern classic, and a cornerstone of the historical suspense genre. After more than twenty years, the Alienist is back! The Alienist at Armageddon begins in the winter of 1915, soon after the start of the First World War. Reuniting the original''s beloved characters, the story is told from the perspective of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler--the famous psychologist, or "alienist," and his friend and comrade, John Moore, crime reporter for the New York Times. A massive explosive detonates mere feet from Kreizler''s home, marking the fourth in New York City in as many months. With his friends at his heels, Kreizler takes up his own case, and the cases of the other explosions. Amid the turmoil in New York City, they receive a news report: the RMS Luisitania, a British passenger ship bound for Liverpool from New York with Americans on board, has sunk mysteriously just eleven miles off the Irish coast. With international tensions high at the onset of the Great War, and many in Europe clamoring for American intervention, Kreizler''s case threatens to embroil not only his own life, but the lives of his countrymen, in the greatest and most deadly conflict modern civilization had ever seen.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND SEASON TWO OF TNT’S THE ALIENIST • Dr. Laszlo Kreizler returns in a “whopping thriller” (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr “at his strongest” (USA Today). June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. Praise for The Angel of Darkness “A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail . . . Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that Carr knows, and depicts, so well.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men—and women—to kill. . . . In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives’ crime-solving prowess. . . . The mystery is plotted with military precision.”—USA Today “[A] whopping thriller . . . Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.”—The Washington Post Book World “Fascinating . . . In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.”—Time

When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences. Praise for The Alienist “[A] delicious premise . . . Its settings and characterizations are much more sophisticated than the run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores.”—The Washington Post Book World “Mesmerizing.”—Detroit Free Press “The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller—way beyond. . . . A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller.”—The Buffalo News “Engrossing.”—Newsweek “Gripping, atmospheric . . . intelligent and entertaining.”—USA Today “A high-spirited, charged-up and unfailingly smart thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “Keeps readers turning pages well past their bedtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle

"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn''t mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They''re called "throwaways" because their parents have abandoned them, and the official response to their deaths seems equally callous. Trajan and Mike, armed only with their instincts and the help of a precocious neighborhood boy, fight for justice on behalf of the victims, but it soon puts them in a merciless killer''s crosshairs"--

Jack l''Éventreur fait piètre figure à côté du meurtrier de ce roman, dans lequel le lecteur découvre avec effroi les bas-fonds new-yorkais de la fin du XIX e siècle. " Si notre tueur respectait son calendrier, quel qu''il fût, il frapperait bientôt une nouvelle fois. " Mars 1896. Un meurtrier sème des cadavres d''adolescents atrocement mutilés dans les rues de New York sans provoquer la moindre réaction. Révolté par cette indifférence, Theodore Roosevelt, alors préfet de police, fait appel à Laszlo Kreizler, spécialiste des maladies mentales, et John Moore, chroniqueur criminel. Leur méthode est atypique : en étudiant les meurtres, ils tentent de brosser le portrait psychologique du tueur afin de le devancer dans ses funèbres desseins. Mais la découverte d''une nouvelle victime les entraîne bientôt dans une course contre la montre dans laquelle se confondent chasseur et proie. " Un monde digne d''Eugène Sue. Avec l''ombre de Sherlock Holmes qui plane, non loin de celle de Jack l''Éventreur. " – Télérama Né à Manhattan, Caleb Carr est diplômé d''histoire. Il a passé son enfance dans le Lower East Side, quartier populaire de New York où il réside toujours. Avec L''Aliéniste, son premier roman (Grand Prix de la littérature policière en 1996) et L''Ange des ténèbres, publiés aux Presses de la Cité, il est devenu un maître du thriller historique, mondialement reconnu.

Tout commence lorsque Sherlock Holmes reçoit un télégramme de son frère Mycroft qui l''appelle à l''aide : proche conseiller de la reine Victoria, ce dernier craint pour la vie de la souveraine. En effet, deux de ses serviteurs ont été percés de plus de cinquante coups de poignard, exactement comme le secrétaire italien de Marie Stuart, assassiné trois siècles auparavant. Et on sait que celle-ci a fini sans tête... Il n''en faut pas plus à Holmes et à son fidèle Watson pour accourir sur les lieux du drame et démontrer que la force de déduction vient toujours à bout de l''inextricable quand il s''agit de défendre l''ordre, l''Empire et la reine.

An epic account about the kingdom of Broken follows the efforts of a solitary noble soldier to confront legendary medieval adversaries to save a fortress city from internal and external dangers. By the best-selling author of The Alienist.

When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.

Caleb Carr ist zurück, mit einem viktorianischen Thriller, der das Fürchten lehrt Eine mysteriöse Nachricht führt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in ein düsteres Schloss nach Schottland, Ort eines grausamen Doppelmords, der das Land erschüttert. Galt das Verbrechen der Königin? Holmes und Watson ermitteln und sind bald einer unheimlichen Verschwörung auf der Spur. Autorisiert vom Estate von Arthur Conan Doyle, lässt Caleb Carr den berühmtesten Detektiv der Weltliteratur wiederaufleben: Sherlock Holmes. Ein kryptisches Telegramm führt Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street zusammen. Bald ist es entschlüsselt, die Reise geht nach Holyroodhouse, dem schottischen Sitz der Königin. In einem verwaisten Flügel des Schlosses fielen zwei Angestellte einem bestialischen Mord zum Opfer. Die königlichen Berater sind in heller Aufregung, bereits mehrere Anschläge auf die Königin konnten in letzter Minute vereitelt werden. Besteht ein Zusammenhang? Holmes’ und Watsons Ermittlungen führen in alle Richtungen, bis sich eine Verbindung mehr und mehr herauskristallisiert: ein weiterer Mord, der in Holyroodhouse in ebendiesem Flügel verübt wurde, allerdings mehr als dreihundert Jahre zuvor. Holmes, der nicht an Übersinnliches glaubt, fühlt sich auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence–and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot. Such a consideration of the Cold War–as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones–is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume’s contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in “The War Scare of 1983,” shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers “The Right Man,” his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions. The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer’s “The Berlin Tunnel,” which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative “Big Bill” Harvey’s effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines–and the Soviets’ equally audacious reaction to the plan; while “The Truth About Overflights,” by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War’s best-kept secrets. The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in “MIA” by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war’s “front lines”–Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs–as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others. Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.

Caleb Carr recaptures the path of Conan Doyle in one of his most popular novels, The Baskerville''s Hound (1902), whose resolution has paranormal shades. Little more than one century later, Carr brings back Sherlock Holmes as the main character, helped by the unconditional Watson, will investigate the stabbing, in the XVI century, of David Rizzio, confidant of Mary, queen of the Scots.

BASED ON THE FILM FROM THE ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR OF AUTO FOCUS AND AFFLICTION, AND FROM THE WRITER OF THE ALIENIST In the aftermath of World War II, Lankester Merrin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken a sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archaeological excavation of a mysterious, Byzantine church, buried in pristine condition as if on the day it was completed. Directly underneath the church, Merrin discovers a much more ancient crypt -- and finds himself face-to-face with unspeakable Evil. Madness descends on the local villagers and the contingent of British soldiers sent to guard the excavation. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village -- atrocities he''d hoped to never see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun....

Military historian Caleb Carr’s groundbreaking work anticipated America’s current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr’s authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately self-defeating. Far from prompting submission, it stiffens enemy resolve and never leads to long-lasting success. Controversial on its initial publication in 2002, The Lessons of Terror has been repeatedly validated by subsequent events. Carr’s analysis of individual terrorist acts, and particularly of the history of the Middle East conflict, is fundamental to a deep understanding of the roots of terrorism as well as the steps and reforms that must be taken if the continuing threat of terrorist behavior is to be met effectively today and, finally, eradicated tomorrow.

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times crime reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan''s infamous brothels.