Most Popular Books by Chuck Hogan

From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller. Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn''t plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines a life away from his gritty, dangerous work—a life centered around Claire. But before that can happen, Doug and his crew learn that there may be a way to rob Boston''s venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. Risky yet utterly irresistible, it would be the perfect heist to end his criminal career and begin a new life. But, as it turns out, pursuing Claire may be the most dangerous act of all. Racing to an explosive climax, Prince of Thieves is a brash tale of robbery in all its forms—and an unforgettable odyssey of crime, love, ambition, and dreams.

With a brilliantly plotted new crime novel set in small-town Massachusetts, Chuck Hogan, prizewinning author of Prince of Thieves, delivers a page-turning, knockout thriller that demonstrates why he is the unrivaled master of gritty suspense. The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night...A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace...A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town...An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves...An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all... Buried deep in the rural backcountry of New England, the town of Black Falls isn''t dying so much as quietly fading away. No supermarket. No traffic lights. No ATM. No hope. Donald Maddox, a man with no law enforcement background -- indeed, no background at all -- has returned to his hometown after fifteen years to find himself employed as an auxiliary patrolman on a local police force known to inspire more fear than trust in its citizenry. When a brutal murder shatters the isolation of this forgotten place, triggering the arrival of state police homicide detectives and a town-wide manhunt, both the local cops and Maddox appear to have something to hide. As the tightly wound mystery that is Maddox''s past begins to unravel, he becomes ensnared in a deadly conspiracy that ultimately threatens his life, as well as the lives of those nearest him. From its opening pages until its haunting final image, The Killing Moon displays the author''s trademark gift for soul-deep characterization, crisp pacing, and unflinching realism. This is Chuck Hogan''s richest, most satisfying thriller yet.

The tension-filled sequel to THE STRAIN, now a popular Amazon TV show.

The high-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from the world-famous director, whose films include Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy.

In this "masterly" thriller from the acclaimed author of The Town, the right‑hand man of one of the most infamous mob bosses in American history goes on a dangerous mission (New York Times Book Review). In the late 1970s, The Outfit, led by Tony Accardo, has the entire city of Chicago in its grip. When the bracelet he bought his wife is stolen in a jewelry heist, Tony has his loyal soldier Nicky Passero track it down—by whatever means necessary. What Accardo doesn''t know: Nicky has a secret which has made his life impossible and has put him in the pocket of the FBI. Based on the true story of Tony Accardo, the longest‑reigning mob capo in history, Gangland is a Shakespearean drama of integrity, lost honor, and revenge. Gritty and action‑packed, it is Chuck Hogan''s most thrilling novel yet. 2023 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel and a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022

A film tie-in edition of The Prince of Thieves, now a major motion picture called The Town directed by Ben Affleck

Another fabulous Boston-based thriller by Chuck Hogan, this one involving an Iraq war veteran who gets involved with dangerous big-time drug dealers.

A white supremacist, barricaded with his family on an isolated Montana mountaintop, holding off the cops with assault rifles. A brilliant hostage negotiator who has failed to come to terms with his personal demons, reluctantly taking leadership of the one case he can''t afford to lose. A virtual army of state and local cops, national guardsmen, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI''s elite hostage rescue team, clawing for jurisdiction, vowing vengeance for fallen comrades. A growing crowd of onlookers, sympathizers, and troublemakers, some willing to turn an isolated battle into an all-out war. A mixture as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerine... The Standoff. A stunning debut from a major new talent.

A horrific crime that defies explanation, a rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation spirals out of control in this heart-pounding thriller. Odessa Hardwicke''s life is derailed when she''s forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn''t the tragedy itself -- it''s the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent''s body after his death. Questioning her future with the FBI and her sanity, Hardwicke accepts a low-level assignment to clear out the belongings of a retired agent in the New York office. What she finds there will put her on the trail of a mysterious figure named Hugo Blackwood, a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries, and who is either an unhinged lunatic, or humanity''s best and only defense against unspeakable evil. From the authors who brought you The Strain Trilogy comes a strange, terrifying, and darkly wondrous world of suspense, mystery, and literary horror. The Hollow Ones is a chilling, spell-binding tale, a hauntingly original new fable from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Chuck Hogan featuring their most fascinating character yet.

LEARNING GOLF is a how-to-learn guide for golfers of all skill levels. The book lays down this simple challenge to the reader: "You have a choice in golf--you can be overwhelmed by waves of random tips & quick fixes & join the hit-&-complain club or you can follow this proven learning model & become your own life-long instructor & the final arbiter of your own enjoyment." LEARNING GOLF offers a simple & sure-fire formula for the permanent learning of the full golf swing, short game mechanics, & direction as to how to actually play the game of golf on the golf course. It does this by presenting a new model for learning the game, constructed from the most up-to-date research from the physical & social sciences, filtered through its author''s, Chuck Hogan''s, many years of experience as a teacher of the game. Hogan is an advisor to over 60 tour players, & in addition to serving as a consultant to numerous collegiate golf teams, he has been the lead educator for teacher training seminars for the PGA, the LPGA, the National Golf Foundation & the Canadian PGA. In addition to being a full-time golf instructor, Hogan is a prolific producer of highly-acclaimed books, magazine articles, videos & audio cassettes.

THE END OF THE WORLD WILL COME FROM WITHIN It first appears in Africa--hideous and unstoppable--an all-consuming terror unlike anything the world has ever seen. Two years later, it resurfaces to feed on the residents of a small New England town. Within days, only a handful survive--including one young woman whose blood is the serum of life--miraculously pared to bear witness to the plague''s terrible wrath. Not even he dreaded Ebola possesses the apocalyptic power of this loathsome scrounge that devastates the flesh and the soul. Two brilliant scientists--now bitter rivals--contained it once using the most extreme methods. But thee virus that has reemerged is a thousand times stronger. . .and it is changing Noone is safe from the contagion that devours but is never sated, from the pestilence that walks like a man. Woe to the Earth. The Zero hour has come.

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan''s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event. The Strain They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months—the world. A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold. In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . . So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city—a city that includes his wife and son—before it is too late.

FIVE DAYS TO GOLFING EXCELLENCE is about playing golf, but the author, Chuck Hogan, does not stop at teaching you how to make a correct golf swing. In fact, learning the golf swing is only one step in a learning progression that leads you to the true enjoyment of the game of golf. The book has been divided in to five sections, arranged as a five-day self-study course on golf. Day one is devoted to learning how to relax & feel good about the game of golf. Here the reader will learn to make golf a sequential learning process & how to enjoy playing the game on the golf course. Day two deals with the ins & outs of swing mechanics & the role that swing technique plays in learning the game. On the third day the golfer learns what images are & how to benefit from being able to use them. The reader then learns on the fourth day how to apply imaging techniques to create the appropriate mental constructs necessary to play good golf. The fifth day, the actual nuts & bolts of putting everything together in a useable, unified whole are presented. Critical to this entire 5-day learning experience is a new way of processing information about the golf shot & the shotmaker. In this book the reader will learn how to combine mental mechanic skills & an understanding & execution of physical skills that ensure both better performance & more enjoyment of the game of golf.

In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. At New York''s JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here . . .

The incredible true story of a group of moms who, united by a search for new purpose, attempt to solve a fifteen-year-old double murder. “An instant true crime classic.”—Douglas Century, author of The Last Boss of Brighton A lot of us like to think we could solve a mystery. Can these four moms actually do it? In 2020, Marissa, Jeannie, Samira, and Nicole find themselves at a familiar crossroads: when motherhood takes charge of their lives, they begin grappling with their own identities. Their thriving careers seem like a lifetime ago, and as their children become more independent, they struggle to find purpose. But when they meet at a bowling night fundraiser for their kids’ school, they discover a shared interest in true crime that crystalizes around a mysterious double homicide that took place in their hometown a decade earlier: A couple in their 60s vanished overnight from their home and mysteriously shuttered their family business, leaving millions of dollars unaccounted for. Initially believed to have absconded with the money, they went from suspects to victims when their bodies were discovered in their car at the bottom of a steep ravine. And then the case turned cold. But what if the moms could solve it? What if they could bring a killer to justice and give closure to a grieving family? The four women have no connection to the case and no law-enforcement background, but the determined group find themselves in incredible and often dangerous situations–digging for evidence in prohibited ravines, scouring potential crime scenes for blood splatter, and sifting through pages and pages of dense police files. As they get more and more entangled in this complex investigation, they also find themselves in real danger—and with information that could blow the case wide open. An emotional and often terrifying odyssey through a DIY criminal investigation, The Carpool Detectives is the ultimate wish fulfillment for any true crime fanatic, an absolutely thrilling read for armchair sleuths and mystery fans alike.

“The most credible and frightening of all the vampire books of the past decade.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn’t get much better than this.” —Nelson DeMille The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan—whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King—The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter. Still, a small band of the living fights on in the shadows, in the final book of the ingenious dark fantasy trilogy that Newsweek says is, “good enough to make us break that vow to swear off vampire stories.”

"This volume collects the comic book series The Strain: The night eternal #1-#12 and "A man of refined tastes," originally published in Free Comic Book Day 2015, from Dark Horse Comics."--Title page verso.

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event - an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months - the world.

Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control''s team—leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master''s horrific plan, a war has erupted between Old and New World vampires. Caught between these warring forces, powerless and vulnerable, humans find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. At the center of the conflict lies an ancient text that contains the vampires'' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all.

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event--an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months--the world. This horrifying first chapter introduces an outbreak of diabolical proportions that puts a terrifying twist on the vampire genre! Collects issues #1 through #6.

A magia e a força narrativa da dupla Guillermo de Toro e Chuck Hogan – o primeiro consagrado pelo premiadíssimo filme O labirinto do fauno, e o segundo, reconhecido por Stephen King como um dos maiores escritores de suspense da atualidade - continuam agora na conclusão da Trilogia da Escuridão, iniciada com o best seller Noturno. Em Noite eterna, a dupla encerra uma saga épica aterradora e vertiginosa, que atualiza as tradicionais histórias de vampiros ao adicionar a elas um suspense eletrizante, com estrutura de investigação policial comparável à de séries de sucesso como CSI, em que os protagonistas têm um olhar científico sobre os fatos. No terceiro volume da saga, os bebedores de sangue, infectados por um vírus letal, ganharam a guerra. Em uma noite aterrorizante, denominada Noite Zero, um terço da humanidade foi eliminada. Depois do sucesso retumbante de seu plano, o Mestre, líder absoluto do movimento dos vampiros, normalizou a situação planetária restaurando uma falsa estrutura de ordem e rotina. Assim, água, energia, as redes de televisão, com seus noticiários, obviamente reprisados, voltaram para os humanos sobreviventes. Ele sabia que deveria haver uma proporção de humanos para alimentar seu exército de strigoi, agora alimentados preferencialmente com sangue B positivo. Com uma narrativa ágil, Noite eterna remete à ideia do Apocalipse, um mundo sem retorno, onde a única saída pode ser a destruição total para que então se comece do zero. O fim dos tempos está próximo. Nele, todos e tudo que se conhecia terão desaparecido. Neste momento, todos os relacionamentos são baseados na força e no domínio. Esta é a crença dominante nesta nova ordem mundial contaminada pelo vampirismo. E nada indica que ela poderá ser efetivamente derrotada.

Der Kampf gegen die Untoten geht in die letzte Runde Sie waren immer hier. Unter uns. Sie haben gewartet. In der Dunkelheit. Jetzt ist ihre Zeit gekommen ... Durch ein Virus haben sich die Vampire rund um die Welt ausgebreitet und die menschliche Zivilisation in weiten Teilen vernichtet. Dem Anführer der Vampire ist es sogar gelungen, die anderen Vampir-Clans soweit zu schwächen, dass er die alleinige Herrschaft über den Planeten antreten kann. Doch er hat nicht mit Ephraim Goodweather, einst Chef der New Yorker Seuchenpräventionsteams, gerechnet. Goodweather stemmt sich mit aller Kraft dem Ansturm der Vampire entgegen. Wird es ihm gelingen, die Menschheit zu retten? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei ein sagenumwobenes Buch, das auf geheimnisvolle Weise in Goodweathers Besitz gelangt ist?

Un Boeing 777 atterra regolarmente all''aeroporto di New York e rimane immobile sulla pista, a motori spenti. Le tendine sono abbassate, il portellone non si apre, il pilota non risponde alle chiamate radio né i passeggeri al cellulare.

Un crimen inexplicable, una agente del FBI novata y un héroe extraordinario La vida de Odessa Hardwicke descarrila cuando se ve obligada a disparar a su compañero, un agente federal que pierde el control de forma inexplicable durante la captura de un violento asesino. El disparo, en defensa propia, conmociona a la joven agente, pero lo que más inquieta a Odessa es el ente espectral que le ha parecido ver desprenderse del cuerpo de su compañero fallecido. Hardwicke, que duda de su cordura y de su futuro en el FBI, acepta encargarse de recoger las pertenencias de un agente jubilado en la oficina de Nueva York. Lo que encuentra allí la pondrá sobre la pista de una figura misteriosa: Hugo Blackwood, un hombre tremendamente rico que asegura llevar siglos vivo y que o está loco de remate o es la mejor y única defensa de la humanidad frente a un mal indescriptible. De los autores de la Trilogía de la Oscuridad nos llega un mundo de suspense, misterio y terror literario siniestramente extraño, terrorífico y asombroso. "Los seres huecos" es un relato cautivador y escalofriante, una nueva fábula conmovedoramente original del oscarizado director Guillermo del Toro y del reconocido autor Chuck Hogan, protagonizada por su personaje más fascinante hasta la fecha.

Por el creador de la oscarizada El laberinto del fauno, llega Nocturna, la primera entrega de «Trilogía de la Oscuridad». Una estirpe maldita se propaga por el mundo. Y tú tienes algo bajo la piel que los vuelve locos. Un avión procedente de Berlín aterriza en Nueva York. Pero algo no funciona bien desde el momento en que toma tierra. Todas las luces del avión están apagadas, nadie responde a las llamadas de la torre de control, nadie contesta a los teléfonos móviles. Parece como si el avión estuviese muerto... Lo que al principio se considera un virus muy contagioso pronto se revela como algo aterrador. Los «infectados» tienen mucha sed y solo quieren beber... sangre. La epidemia se propaga a una velocidad de vértigo, y en pocos días toda la isla de Manhattan está invadida. Pero esto no ha hecho más que comenzar. Hay un plan siniestro para conquistar rápidamente todo el planeta. Los viejos vampiros han regresado. La lucha entre el bien y el mal vuelve a encarnarse en estas criaturas tan antiguas como actuales. La desigual lucha entre estos seres sobrenaturales y una raleada banda de héroes humanos nos arrastra a una historia llena de acción, alianzas, traiciones y batallas que nos hace reflexionar sobre la condición humana, en la mejor tradición de las películas de su autor, Guillermo del Toro. DESEARÁS QUE SOLO SEA UN CUENTO.

Das Ende der Welt beginnt New York, Flughafen. Eine Maschine aus Europa landet – und bleibt plötzlich stehen. Die Lichter gehen aus, nichts rührt sich mehr. Was ist geschehen? Ein Terroranschlag? Eine Seuche? Oder etwas ganz und gar Unvorstellbares ... Für Ephraim Goodweather, den Chef des New Yorker Seuchenpräventionsteams, ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. Für die gesamte Menschheit ist es keine Nacht wie jede andere. In dieser Nacht kommt auf dem John-F.-Kennedy-Flughafen eine gerade gelandete Maschine unvermittelt zum Stehen, der Pilot bricht den Funkverkehr ab, alle Lichter erlöschen. Goodweather trommelt seine Leute zusammen, und gemeinsam betreten sie das Flugzeug. Es bietet sich ihnen ein gespenstisches Bild: Die Passagiere sitzen aufrecht in ihren Sesseln und rühren sich nicht. Als Goodweather näher herangeht, bemerkt er bei allen einen kleinen Schnitt am Hals. Und er macht eine weitere unglaubliche Entdeckung: Die Passagiere leben – aber sie sind keine Menschen mehr ... Nein, es ist keine Nacht wie jede andere: In dieser Nacht beginnt der epische Kampf gegen das Böse, das gekommen ist, um New York zu erobern. Und nicht nur diese Stadt, sondern die ganze Welt.

Tras Nocturna y Oscura, por fin llega Eterna, el desenlace de «Trilogía de la Oscuridad». No es una coincidencia que el Invierno Nuclear (el oscurecimiento de la Tierra durante las 24 horas del día menos una, cuando hay luz solar) haya creado un ambiente casi perfecto para los vampiros. Ellos han ganado, tienen el control del planeta y los humanos han sido finalmente dominados, encerrados en vastos campos de concentración por el mundo donde, criados como vacas, ovejas o cerdos, son alimentados y «cosechados» para el mantenimiento y placer del Master. Una red desorganizada de humanos libres, constituida por gente común, entre ellos Eph, Zack, Vassily y Gus, continúa una desesperada resistencia, interrumpiendo el devastador nuevo orden del mundo y batallando contra los Señores Vampiros en todas las ocasiones posibles. Para ganar, tienen que confiar en la intervención de una inesperada raza de seres (quienes otorgan un nuevo sentido a la frase «ángeles y ministros de la gracia defiéndannos») quienes organizan a los humanos para la última batalla, la que recupere y rehabilite el planeta para toda la humanidad. Se juega con los sobrevivientes como si fueran peones en un juego del Bien y el Mal que tiene sus orígenes en los tiempos Bíblicos, y que requiere del sacrificio final de todos los implicados. Reseñas: «Las primeras cien páginas de Oscura eran un ejercicio sostenido de terror que mantenían al lector completamente embelesado y encantado, porque Del Toro y Hogan escriben con una autenticidad tan fresca tanto sobre lo fantástico (vampiros) como sobre lo completamente real (Nueva York, con todos sus extraños recovecos). Lo que comenzó en Oscura llega a su sublime y satisfactoria conclusión en Eterna... Los héroes de dimensiones trágicas no son habituales en la ficción popular, pero Goodweather reúne todos los requisitos. El diablo está en los detalles, y esta es una lectura endiabladamente buena cuajada de sustos muy logrados.» Stephen King «El más creíble y aterrador de todos los libros de vampiros de la última década.» San Francisco Chronicle

Segunda entrega de «Trilogía de la Oscuridad». Las criaturas de Guillermo del Toro son insaciables... Despertar no te servirá de nada...Y tú sigues teniendo algo bajo la piel que los vuelve locos. Mientras la enfermedad y la cuarentena empiezan a desparramarse por todo el país y el mundo, Eph y Nora identifican el parásito gusano que es el agente infeccioso. Se encuentran atrapados entre las dos facciones en guerra, los Vampiros del Viejo Mundo y los Vampiros del Nuevo Mundo, que luchan para controlar el planeta. Los humanos se han visto desplazados hasta el tope de la cadena alimenticia y ahora comprenden, para su horror, lo que es no ser el consumidor sino... el consumido. Con Nocturna despertaron unos vampiros que nunca debieron abandonar el subsuelo. Ahora la batalla total por el control del planeta se ha desatado. Bajo la tierra la noche es aún más Oscura...