Carsten Stroud

Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school, literally vanishing into thin air. He's there one moment and gone the next, captured on security cameras. After he is found, the nightmare only gets deeper, especially for detective Nick Kavanaugh and his wife, Kate, a family practice lawyer. They have all been drawn into a shadow world between life and death--a world where a man killed on Friday night is in a duel on Sunday, where an armed robbery triggers a disastrous cascade of events that ricochets across twenty different lives, and where Nick and Kate will come face to face with the ancient force of anger and evil that lurks beneath Niceville.

Something is wrong in Niceville, where evil lives far longer than men do.

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Compulsively readable, and populated with characters who leap off the page, Niceville will draw you in, excite you, amaze you, horrify you, and, when it finally lets you go, make you sorry you have to leave.

Read the first thirty-five pages.  Find out why Harlan Coben calls Carsten Stroud the master of “the nerve-jangling thrill ride.”

Niceville

Taking in a troublesome orphan whose parents died under mysterious circumstances, lawyer Kate and police officer Nick discover the boy's astonishing abilities to shape shift and manipulate time before the trio is embroiled in a series of local disappearances. By the best-selling author of Niceville.

The Homecoming

"When the sun tops a nearby mountain, Tallulah's Wall, and bathes the town in soft Southern light, Niceville exudes an almost unearthly beauty. But there's a reason why Native American tribes avoided the place: An absence, "Nothing," inhabits the air and the depthless crater atop the ancient peak, bending time and the desires of a chosen few to her shadowy ends. As the Reckoning begins, Detective Nick Kavanaugh and his wife, Kate, a family lawyer, have accepted that reality in Nicevilleis not normal. Seemingly they've fought Nothing to a draw. But now a buzzing emerges in the heads of some perfectly regular folks. The boundaries between worlds are dissolving. And Nothing isn't finished."--Page 4 of cover.

The Reckoning

Er is iets mis in Niceville... Van de ene op de andere seconde verdwijnt een jongen spoorloos uit de hoofdstraat. Het onverklaarbare voorval is vastgelegd door een beveiligingscamera. Een brutale bankoverval ontaardt in een bloedbad met zeven doden, onder wie vier agenten. Deze ogenschijnlijk losstaande gebeurtenissen zijn de kiem van een reeks rampen, die slechts in 36 uur twintig verschillende levens beïnvloedt. Nick Kavanaugh, een agent met een duistere kant, leidt beide onderzoeken. Al snel krijgen hij en zijn vrouw Kate te maken met een schaduwwereld, waarin tijd een ander ritme heeft en gerechtigheid raadselachtige vormen aanneemt. Dit is de perfecte opening van een nieuwe cultserie: zo huiveringwekkend als Stephen King, met evenveel actie als Lee Child, zo lyrisch als Cormac McCarthy, zo mysterieus als Lost, zo bizar als films van de Coen Brothers en zo gewelddadig als die van Quentin Tarantino.

De vermissing

Street Cops in Canada

The Blue Wall

«La trilogia di Niceville di Carsten Stroud è l'opera di un autentico genio, particolarmente l'ultimo volume, NICEVILLE: LA RESA DEI CONTI. Scritto magnificamente, ipnotico. Mi ero già entusiasmato per Niceville, ma adesso che l'opera è completa ne posso ammirare la grandezza. Ricco di azione, scritto con una prosa elegante e asciutta che può ricordare Chandler o Vonnegut ma in realtà è Stroud puro. Nella mia mente, la città di Niceville ora occupa un posto di rilievo accanto ai grandi luoghi della Finzione Letteraria, come la Terra di Mezzo, Narnia, Arkham. L'energia e l'ambizione del lavoro di Carsten Stroud mi lasciano senza fiato. E' stato capace di rielaborare i generi letterari con una sicurezza magistrale, superando di slancio i crepacci in cui scrittori di minor talento sono destinati a sprofondare. Non esiste niente di paragonabile alla trilogia di Niceville, e non si può far altro che dire: bravo. Quindi... Bravo!» STEPHEN KING Benvenuti a Niceville, la città dove il male è nato molto prima degli uomini Il sole inonda di luce dorata le strade e le case coloniali, filtrando tra le querce e i salici per andare a rifrangersi sulle acque turbolente del fiume Tulip. Niceville sarebbe una cittadina idilliaca... Se non fosse per le ombre, i sussurri, le sparizioni. E tutte quelle morti misteriose. Il detective della omicidi Nick Kavanaugh è un forestiero, che vive e lavora in quel piccolo centro nel profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti per amore della moglie, Kate Walker, discendente di una delle più antiche famiglie della zona. Da tempo Nick è alle prese con eventi non solo criminosi, ma anche inspiegabili. Da un lato ci sono le conseguenze imprevedibili e sanguinose di una rapina in banca finita nel sangue, con una lunga scia di ricatti, vendette e complicità. E dall’altro, c’è Rainey Teague. Che è solo un ragazzo... o forse no. Forse è abitato da un’energia oscura e implacabile. La stessa che permea ogni angolo di Niceville. Perché a Niceville nulla resta morto e sepolto a lungo. A Niceville ogni famiglia custodisce un segreto che mormora dai confini del nulla, affilando gli artigli nel buio. A Niceville nessuno può sfuggire al vuoto.

Niceville Vol. 2

I confini del nulla

Homecoming

Stroud chooses one man--a career military man--and follows him as he brings raw recruits through training to become a fighting force in Desert Storm. Throughout, the grind of the army bureaucracy, the demands of training, and the rush of combat are apparent, to give readers a true view of what life in uniform isreally like.

Hearts, Minds and Sergeants in the U. S. Army

Iron Bravo

“A first-rate police thriller.”—Jonathan Kellerman Detective Frank Keogh. He’s a man who trades on nerve and luck—and a cop who’s about to become an executioner’s target. Detective Frank Keogh has a rare gift—for killing. He picked it up in the jungles of Vietnam and perfected it on New York’s mean streets. It’s a talent that comes in handy when you’re a sniper for the NYPD. But over the years his calling has produced a numbness that has his partner worries: Is Frank finding it too easy to pull the trigger now? Then, on a steamy August night in the South Bronx, a cop connected to Frank is found bizarrely murdered. No one really believes that Keogh is capable of such a brutal act . . . until a second savagely mutilated body is found, and the MO echoes a famous case solved by Frank’s father, a retired detective. Suddenly, Frank Keogh is a fugitive, dodging cops and meeting violence as he takes off on a cross-country chase to the Southwest desert . . . desperately searching for the man who framed him—and the father who could be his last, best hope of staying alive. “An epic police thriller . . . crackling with narrative energy . . . and a deep-grained savvy about cop ways and mores.”—Kirkus Reviews

A Novel

Sniper's Moon

As the New York City Police continue to find the mutilated bodies of murder victims--all of whom were somehow connected to NYPD sniper Frank Keogh--the department begins to suspect that the Vietnam veteran Keogh may be the killer. Reprint. K.

romanzo

»›Niceville‹ und ›Die Rückkehr‹ von Carsten Stroud: irrsinnig gutes Mystery/Crime/Horror-Epos. Hat mich umgehauen. Sowas haben Sie noch nie gelesen. Faulkner gekreuzt mit Steve King.« Stephen King Ein kleiner Ort im Süden der USA wird zum Schauplatz einer Folge nie dagewesener, schockierender Ereignisse, und mit einem Mal ist alles anders als je zuvor. Der Learjet einer Delegation dubioser chinesischer Unternehmer gerät kurz nach dem Abflug in einen Schwarm pechschwarzer Krähen, stürzt ab und explodiert. Ein Excop wird gefasst, in seinem Hummer-SUV liegen 100.000 Dollar eines kürzlich verübten Banküberfalls. Doch ihm gelingt die Flucht, weil der Gefangenentransport in einen bestialischen Unfall verwickelt wird, bei dem ein Hirsch eine nicht unerhebliche Rolle spielt. Der Excop verschanzt sich in einem Laden für Survivalausrüstung und provoziert eine üble Schießerei. Auf dem Highway rast ein tiefergelegter Sportwagen, verfolgt von einer Streife, mit über dreihundert Sachen in eine Reihe schaulustiger Trucker. Der kleine Rainey hört eine Stimme aus der Vergangenheit und mutiert von einem normalen Jungen in ein gnadenloses Monster. Und mittendrin der Ermittler Nick Kavanaugh und seine Frau Kate, die versuchen, Ordnung in das Chaos zu bringen. Aber über Niceville liegt ein Fluch, der nicht enden will ... Niceville-Trilogie: Band 1: Niceville Band 2: Die Rückkehr Band 3: Der Aufbruch

Roman (Niceville-Trilogie, Band 2)

Die Rückkehr

Checking out a reported robbery at Joe Bell's truck stop, Montana State Highway Patrolman Beau McAllister stumbles upon a shootout between Joe Bell and a band of Dakota Indians.

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