Best Selling Books by Charlie Huston

A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this “fantastically hopped-up thriller [with] a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock” (Entertainment Weekly, Editor’s Choice). “Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant.”—Harlan Coben In development as a major motion picture starring Austin Butler and directed by Darren Aronofsky Henry “call me Hank” Thompson used to play California baseball. Now he tends to a bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. When two Russians in tracksuits beat Hank to a pulp, he gets the clue: someone wants something from him. He just doesn’t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn’t have it. Within twenty-four hours, Hank is running over rooftops, playing hide-and-seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor. All because of some Russian hoods and a flat-out freakshow of goons. All because once, in another life, the only thing Hank wanted to steal was third base—without getting caught.

With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L.A.''s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it''s a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide''s brains from a bathroom mirror and flirting with the man''s bereaved and beautiful daughter. Then things get weird: The dead man''s daughter asks a favor. Every cell in Web''s brain tells him to turn her down, but something makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Soon enough it''s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What''s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn''t have a clue, but he''ll need to get one if he''s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.

Nobody lives forever. Not even a Vampyre. Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he’s just a target with legs. For a year he’s sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What’s it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who’s carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What’s the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What’s the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What’s he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.

“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”—The New York Times Book Review Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillers–and his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isn’t happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when he’s handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league baseball star named Miguel Arenas. Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem that got him in trouble, but he can’t help liking the guy. After all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail. Before he agreed to buy his parents’ safety with a life of violence. And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the place where all his problems began—and where Henry might find a real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his life. Praise for A Dangerous Man “Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.”—The Washington Post “Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers–Pete Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Charlie has found it. He’s a true marvel.”—Ken Bruen, author of The Guards “Charlie Huston is the real deal.”—Peter Straub

“[Charlie Huston’s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe’s brass knuckles and straight razor can’t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe’s head on a stick, it’s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness. So it’s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joe’s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters he’s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than he’s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tears–over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels “In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly “[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.” –Stephen King “Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– you’re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.” –Fangoria, on Already Dead There’s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattan’s Vampyre Clans aren’t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New York’s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out what’s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Society’s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves. From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joe’s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other? Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joe’s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels “In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly “[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, Park is tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected their precious sleep. After a year of lost leads, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceutical giant behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows a secret is hiding. Drawn into the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda, Park delves deeper into the restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will risk everything. Whatever the cost to himself.

Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.

Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He hasn’t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, it’s that or your neck—you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joe’s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is. So it’s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It won’ t be long before he’s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someone’s pulling Joe’s strings, and now he’s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. He’s gonna cut them when he finds them—the strings and the hands that hold them.

Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner''s CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare. At the root of it all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction. A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy from the novelist hailed by the Washington Post as "the voice of twenty-first century crime fiction," Skinner is Charlie Huston''s masterpiece -- a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.

The first stand-alone thriller by critically acclaimed author Charlie Huston, The Shotgun Rule is a raw tale of four teenage friends who go looking for a little trouble–and find it. Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it’s spreading. Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It’s summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual ways: ducking their parents, tinkering with their bikes, and racing around town getting high and boosting their neighbors’ meds. Just another typical summer break in the burbs. Till Andy’s bike is stolen by the town’s legendary petty hoods, the Arroyo brothers. When the boys break into the Arroyos’ place in search of the bike, they stumble across the brothers’ private industry: a crank lab. Being the kind of kids who rarely know better, they do what comes naturally: they take a stash of crank to sell for quick cash. But doing so they unleash hidden rivalries and crimes, and the dark and secret past of their town and their families. The spreading stain is drawing local drug lords, crooked cops, hard-riding bikers, and the brutal history of the boys’ fathers in its wake.

The Fist of Khonshu is back and badder than ever, courtesy of acclaimed novelist Charlie Huston ("Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things") and red-hot, fan-favorite artist David Finch ("Avengers"). This volume collects "Moon Knight" (2006) issues #1-#6. Young adult.

A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. "I absolutely loved it. Catchpenny is a brilliant book, full of heart and the language is pitch-perfect. If Elmore Leonard had ever written a fantasy novel, this would be it.” —Stephen King Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he’s all but squandered his reputation as one of the most uniquely talented thieves in LA. There aren’t many who can do what Sid does. He’s a sly, a special kind of crook with the uncanny ability to move through mirrors. And the spoils he’s after are equally unusual. Forget jewels and cold cash—Sid steals curiosities—items imbued with powerful mojo, a magical essence gleaned from the accumulated emotion that seeps into interesting, though often banal objects. That spot on the carpet where your old dog used to lay at your feet? The passed-down family heirloom nobody wants but everybody refuses to throw away? These curiosities are full of mojo, which is both the currency of the criminal underground and the secret source of magic in the world. When a friend from Sid’s past comes looking for his help with an important client, and the chance to pay off old debts presents itself, Sid seizes the opportunity … as best he can. But the case he stumbles into is more complicated than it seems, and it portends a seismic shift in the world, one that will leave no one untouched. As the fog of his depression begins to lift, Sid sees connections everywhere he looks, and the once disparate threads of the case—a missing teenage girl, an entire bedroom saturated with mojo, and Sid’s own long-dead wife—begin to coalesce.

Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank’s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he’ll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption–and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.

Collects Moon Knight #1-6. Khonshu -- God of the Moon, God of Vengeance -- saved Marc Spector''s life, brought him to glory, and made him Moon Knight. But what Khonshu gives, he also takes away. Spector learned this the hard way, spiraling into madness, depression and worse. Now Specter wants back in the game. Will Khonshu hear his prayer?

Once, Marc Spector was the Egyptian god Khonshu''s avatar on Earth. But now, Spector and Khonshu are at odds. Moon Knight desperately wants to get back in the hero game, but every battle pushes him closer to the edge -- both in brutality and sanity! As the increasingly unstable Moon Knight tries to navigate the superhero Civil War, he finds himself in the sights of Norman Osborn''s Thunderbolts! Spector must take refuge far away, in one of his multiple personas -- but the lure of vengeance is too strong to keep him away for long. Can Moon Knight reclaim his heroic ideals, or will he succumb to the shadows -- and end up back under Khonshu''s thrall? COLLECTING: Moon Knight (2006) 1-30, Moon Knight Annual (2007) 1, Moon Knight: Silent Knight (2008) 1, Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) 1-10, Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) 1-3

Collects Deadpool #900 and Deadpool #1000. Thrill as the Merc with a Mouth squares off against probe-happy aliens, trigger-happy mimes, mimes from outer space, urban cannibals, underage hit men, one seriously unhappy fanman and Lady Luck herself!

Collects Punisher: Trial of the Punisher #1-2, Bullseye: Perfect Game #1-2, material from Daredevil #500. Two tales of crime and punishment, featuring Marvelu0092s most lethal marksmen! First, the trial of the century begins when the Punisher surrenders to police and admits to murdering a district attorney! As Frank Castle faces justice, and Matt Murdock becomes a witness for the prosecution, is this the end of the Punisheru0092s war on crime? Then: For a year, Bullseye vanished without a trace. Funny thing is, he was hiding in plain sight on the ball field, throwing heat that could take off a manu0092s head. Every man needs a challenge, a moment when he looks deep inside and sees what heu0092s made of. Bullseyeu0092s next pitch is one for the history books! Plus: a brutal Bullseye vs. Daredevil fight!

Collects Wolverine: The Best There Is #1-6. When Wolverine faces a problem of the villainous kind, there''s a good chance he''ll use his Adamantium claws to whip up a lethal solution to it. What happens, though, when he faces an opponent who becomes a much bigger problem if he''s killed? Enter: Contagion, a bold new addition to Wolverine''s rogues'' gallery. But first, Logan must contend with Contagion''s defenders, the aptly named crew known as the Unkillables.

Collects Moon Knight #7-13 Moon Knight Annual #1. Three months back on the job, and they''re already coming out of the woodwork. The bad guys you expect. But the heroes - them you don''t expect. Spider-Man... Frank Castle, the angel of death himself...even the fugitive Captain America. And now, this other thing. Someone is out there. Leaving bodies. Someone who knows you.

Khonshu - God of the Moon, God of Vengeance - saved Marc Spector''s life, brought him to glory, and made him Moon Knight. But what Khonshu gives, he also takes away. Spector learned this the hard way, spiraling into madness, depression and worse. Now Specter wants back in the game. Will Khonshu hear his prayer? The ground-breaking series that redefined Moon Knight for the modern age in one great book! Collecting: Moon Knight (2006) 1-13 and Moon Knight Annual (2008) 1.

When all the bad guys come out with a vengeance, a few heroes show up as well, including Spider-Man, Frank Castle, Captain America, and a strange new force who leaves bodies wherever he goes. Collects "Moon Knight" no. 7-13.

Einstecken will gelernt sein! Eigentlich soll sich Hank von einer Nierenoperation erholen, doch plötzlich tauchen von überall her merkwürdige Typen auf, die es auf ihn abgesehen haben und die auch über Leichen gehen. Was folgt, ist eine unglaubliche Odyssee durch den New Yorker Großstadtdschungel bis nach Mexiko und über Kalifornien zurück nach Manhattan, an die sich der Leser noch lange Zeit erinnern wird. Die perfekte Kulttrilogie für Fans von »The Big Lebowski und Pulp Fiction«. »Ich liebe Charlie Hustons Werke aus mehreren Gründen. Zum einen ist er ein brillanter Geschichtenerzähler und schreibt die besten Dialoge seit George V. Higgins, doch was mir am besten an ihm gefällt, sind sein morbider Sinn für Humor und die scheinbare Mühelosigkeit, mit der er finstere und gleichzeitig komische Schurken erfindet, die Beavis und Butthead wie Sonntagsschüler aussehen lassen.« Stephen King »Ein Plot, auf den Hitchcock neidisch gewesen wäre!« Entertainment Weekly »Charlie Huston mixt extreme Gewalt, rasante Action und eine Portion Melancholie zu mitreißenden Geschichten.« Frank Goosen »Charlie Huston ist einer der herausragendsten Autoren der Kriminalliteratur des 21. Jahrhunderts.« Washington Post »Ein absolut verrücktes Genie!« Duane Swierczynski »Huston ist einer der großartigsten und frischesten Autoren unserer Zeit.« Publishers Weekly »Charlie Huston liest sich wie Chandler auf Speed.« Playboy »Hustons Dialoge sind atemberaubend und seine Charaktere unvergesslich. Dem kann sich keiner entziehen.« The New York Times Book Review »Cool, blutig, hart muss ein Krimi sein, nicht wahr? Wenn Sie das auch so sehen, ist der Amerikaner Charlie Huston definitiv der richtige Autor für Sie.« Stern »Seine Hank Thompson-Trilogie gehört zum Aufregendsten, was je in der Genreliteratur aufschimmerte.« Max »Der Prügelknabe liest sich wie Der Malteser Falke aufSpeed.« Wallace Stroby »Als hätte Sam Peckinpah bei den Blues Brothers Regie geführt.« Booklist »Huston schreibt wunderbar trocken und hat mit Hank einen unglaublich coolen Helden geschaffen.« Washington Post

Uno scenario degno della città verrà distrutta all’alba di george romero. “La prospettiva della fine del mondo serpeggiava per le arterie della città. La malattia non faceva distinzioni di classe, razza, reddito, religione, sesso, o età. La malattia sembrava applicarsi ad un unico scopo: tenerti gli occhi aperti affinché tu ti rendessi incessantemente conto di quello che stava succedendo; affinché i tuoi incubi ti tormentassero anche da sveglio. La malattia ci considerava tutti uguali e voleva per noi lo stesso trattamento: dovevamo guardarci mentre masticavamo i nostri intestini, mordendo ciò che ci rodeva dall’interno. Voleva che tutti smettessimo di dormire.” In un futuro che potrebbe essere già arrivato, il mondo è sconvolto da un’epidemia di insonnia incurabile, che devasta i rapporti sociali e conduce alla morte. C’è un solo farmaco che riesce ad attenuarne i sintomi: si chiama Dreamer, garantisce enormi profitti al colosso farmaceutico che lo produce, viene distribuito negli ospedali, ma è anche al centro di un traffico illegale. In una Los Angeles su cui incombe l’apocalisse, il giovane poliziotto Parker “Park ” Hass – che, quando studiava filosofia, sognava un mondo migliore – deve incontrare uno spacciatore che potrebbe dargli informazioni preziose sul contrabbando di Dreamer, ma nel luogo dell’appuntamento trova solo cadaveri. Si impadronisce di un hard-drive pieno di dati, e da quel momento si trova coinvolto in un gioco mortale, tra un genio della realtà virtuale e un killer in missione. E Park ha una ragione in più per far luce sul l ’enigma di Dreamer: sua moglie si è ammalata d’insonnia, e la loro bambina neonata deve essere salvata. A qualunque costo.

Beim Morgengrauen bist du tot: Der nervenaufreibende Thriller »The Vyrus: Ausgesaugt« von Charlie Huston jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Den eigenen Dämonen kann man nicht entkommen ... Ein Leben voller Blut und Gewalt haben Privatdetektiv Joe Pitt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt: Auf der Flucht vor gnadenlosen Kriminellen musste er sich in die Schatten von New Yorks U-Bahn-Schächten zurückziehen – denn seit durch seine Ermittlungen ein Machtvakuum in der kriminellen Unterwelt New Yorks entstanden ist, tobt ein ausgewachsener Krieg an der Oberfläche. Als ein alter Freund ihn aufsucht, und ihn beauftragt, eine junge Frau zu finden, die von sämtlichen Unterweltbossen der Stadt gesucht wird, bleibt ihm keine andere Wahl, als eine Seite zu wählen – und gerät zwischen die Fronten eines mörderischen Konflikts, der die Millionenstadt für immer verändern wird ... Rasant, dreckig und so unfassbar spannend, dass man nicht aufhören kann zu lesen: »Huston ist einer der brillantesten Stilisten dieses Jahrhunderts.« Stephen King Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: »True Detective« meets »The Walking Dead« – der abgründige Thriller »The Vyrus: Ausgesaugt« von Charlie Huston, der spektakuläre fünfte Band in seiner Reihe um den Privatermittler Joe Pitt, in der alle Bände unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden können. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

Un viaggio allucinante nel misterioso passato di Moon Knight! Quali segreti si celano dietro le sue spaventose origini? Konshu, il dio egizio della Luna, l’ha riportato in vita perché combatta la malvagità nel mondo nei panni del Cavaliere Lunare della Vendetta! Ma questo è solo un lato della complicata vita di Marc Spector: avventuriero, tassista, imprenditore, mercenario, agente della CIA, ex pugile, marine, super eroe conosciuto come Moon Knight, ora costretto su una sedia a rotelle! Uno psicodramma a tinte nerissime ideato dal romanziere Charlie Huston e dal maestro dell''oscurità, David Finch! [CONTIENE MOON KNIGHT (2006) 1-13]

Zwischen mörderischen Schatten: Der nervenaufreibende Thriller »The Vyrus: Das Blut von Brooklyn« von Charlie Huston jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Ein Virus hat das Herz von Manhattan vergiftet ... Privatdetektiv Joe Pitt hat viel geopfert, um sich als Einzelgänger vor den mächtigen Klans von Amerikas einstmals stolzester Stadt zu behaupten. Doch um sich und seine schwerkranke Freundin Evie über die Runden zu bringen, muss er sich dem unerbittlichen Machtkampf in New Yorks Unterwelt stellen: Ein brisanter Auftrag führt ihn in jene Gegend von Brookyln, in die sich kaum noch jemand hineinwagt, seit ein neuer, unbekannter Feind selbst die mächtige »Koalition« in Aufruhr versetzt hat. Viel zu spät wird Joe klar, welchen Fehler er begangen hat, als er zwischen die Fronten einer Fehde zweier gefährlicher und brutaler Sekten gerät ... Rasant, dreckig und so unfassbar spannend, dass man nicht aufhören kann zu lesen: »Huston ist einer der brillantesten Stilisten dieses Jahrhunderts.« Stephen King Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: »True Detective« meets »The Walking Dead« – der abgründige Thriller »The Vyrus: Das Blut von Brooklyn« von Charlie Huston, der spektakuläre dritte Band in seiner Reihe um den Privatermittler Joe Pitt, in der alle Bände unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden können. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

Die Nacht ist tödlich: Der nervenaufreibende Thriller »The Vyrus: Stadt aus Blut« von Bestseller-Autor Charlie Huston jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Wer in den Abgrund blickt ... Seit sich Privatermittler Joe Pitt mit der bösartigen Krankheit infiziert hat, die in der nächtlichen Halbwelt Manhattans wütet, lebt er ein Schattendasein: Als Einzelgänger ist es ihm bisher gelungen sich den großen Klans zu verweigern, die New York unter sich aufgeteilt haben, muss aber ihre Drecksjobs erledigen, um zu überleben. Doch ein grausamer Fund auf einem verlassenen Grundstück ändert alles: die Leichen von vier Junkies, ihre Körper bestialisch zugerichtet, einer der Schädel aufgebrochen wie eine reife Frucht. Wider besseren Wissens beginnt Joe die Strippenzieher hinter den Morden zu suchen – und legt sich so mit der »Koalition« an, dem ältesten und mächtigsten Klan der New Yorker Unterwelt. Ein erbitterter Überlebenskampf nimmt seinen Lauf ... Rasant, dreckig und so unfassbar spannend, dass man nicht aufhören kann zu lesen: »So blutig wie brillant – von einem der herausragenden Thrillerautoren des 21. Jahrhunderts!« Washington Post Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: Der abgründige Thriller »The Vyrus: Stadt aus Blut« von Charlie Huston – der spektakuläre erste Band in seiner Reihe um den Privatermittler Joe Pitt. »True Detective« meets »The Walking Dead«! Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

No te pierdas este desternillante thriller que nos contará la historia de Web y su nuevo y sangriento trabajo. Con su vida hecha un caos y sus días de holgazán contados, Web encuentra su tabla de salvación en un trabajo muy poco convencional: limpiar escenas de crímenes. Lejos de reavivar sus fantasmas, arreglar el sangriento estropicio de otros le proporciona un extraño alivio. Un día elimina los restos equivocados y empiezan las complicaciones. Despojos humanos de toda índole, un matón lacónico, una mujer poco fiable y un cargamento de almendras son algunos de los ingredientes de este thriller mordaz, endiablado y sangriento. Reseña: «Violenta y desternillante.» The Washington Post