Danielle Trussoni

It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a letter addressed to “Countess Alberta Montebianco” at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she’s inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures, but in her very gene

The Ancestor

a novel

Angelology

"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink-a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor-understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower-he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people. All of this changes when Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder. Traumatized by the crime, Price has not spoken a word since her arrest five years before. And when she draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist believes it will explain the crime she committed, and calls Brink to solve it. What begins as a desire to crack a strange and alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with the woman who drew the puzzle. When Price reveals that there is something more urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, Brink is thrust into a hunt for the truth. The quest takes Brink through a series of interlocking enigmas, but the heart of the mystery is The God Puzzle, an enigmatic prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, one of the most controversial men in the history of Kabbalah. As Brink navigates a maze of clues, and his emotional entanglement with Price becomes more intense, he realizes that he is in danger. Because the shocking revelation of the puzzle's true meaning will redefine the nature of life, death, and human identity"--

A Novel

The Puzzle Master

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling Angelology will thrill fans of Deborah Harkness, Justin Cronin, and Elizabeth Kostova Hailed by USA Today as "a thrill ride best described as The Da Vinci Code meets Raiders of the Lost Ark," Danielle Trussoni's bestselling first novel, Angelology, wove biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, and Milton's Rebel Angels into a present-day world tinged with the divine supernatural. The novel plunged two endearing loners--art historian V. A. Verlaine and Evangeline, a beautiful young nun--into an ancient battle between a secret society and mankind's most insidious enemies: angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. Now a decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her wings a betrayal that haunts him still. The Nephilim are again on the rise, scheming to construct their own paradise--the Angelopolis--and ruthlessly pursued by Verlaine in his new calling as an angel hunter. But when Evangeline materializes, Verlaine is besieged by doubts that will only grow as forces more powerful than even the Nephilim draw them from Paris to Saint Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast. A high-octane tale of abduction and liberation, treasure seeking and divine warfare, Angelopolis plumbs Russia's imperial past, modern genetics, and the archangel Gabriel's famous visitations to conceive a fresh tableau of history and myth that will, once again, enthrall readers the world over.

Angelopolis

The author describes growing up with her Vietnam veteran father, a man haunted by his wartime experiences, and details their commitment to each other despite the anger, unhealed scars, and outrageous behavior that permeated their lives.

A Memoir

Falling Through the Earth

When twenty-three-year-old Sister Evangeline accidentally stumbles upon some mysterious letters exchanged between the late mother superior of her convent and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller, she is thrust into an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

Angelologia

The world’s greatest puzzle master sets out to solve the most dangerous enigma of his life—or die trying—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Puzzle Master, hailed as "thrilling" by David Baldacci It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan to open the legendary Dragon Box, a mysterious nineteenth-century puzzle that has remained unsolved for over 150 years. The box was constructed during one of Japan’s most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of national crisis, Emperor Meiji placed a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box, locked it, and hid it in a temple far from the palace. Only two people knew how to open the box: Meiji and the box’s sadistic constructor, Ogawa. Both died without telling a soul what was inside, or how to open it. Since then, the Imperial family has held a clandestine contest to open the box every twelve years, in the Year of the Dragon. The Dragon Box is devilishly difficult, filled with tricks, booby traps, poisons, and mind-bending twists. Every puzzle master who has attempted to open it has died in the process. But Brink is not any puzzle master. With his uncanny abilities, he may be the only person alive who can crack it. Yet, his determination is echoed by a radical group—headed by two sisters descended from an illustrious but disgraced samurai clan—who have vowed to claim Meiji’s secret. They know that the box’s contents have the power to change the fate of Japan, and the world. When they align with Brink’s archrival, Jameson Sedge, Brink is up against the most dangerous challenge of his life. Mike Brink’s quest to open The Dragon Box launches him on breakneck adventure across Japan, from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to the pristine forests of Hakone to historic Kyoto to an ancient cave in Kyushu. In the process, he discovers the power of Meiji’s hidden treasure, and-- more crucially-- the true nature of his extraordinary talent.

The Puzzle Box

De strijd tussen goede en kwade engelen gaat onverminderd door.

Stad van de engelen / druk 1

Untitled

Een non in New York ontdekt bij toeval een brief van haar overste aan een rijke Amerikaanse die een mythish verbond van engelen aan het licht brengt.

Het uur van de engelen

Susan Denaker

Evangeline, en ung nonne i et kloster like ved New York finner en mystisk korrespondanse mellom en av klosterets eldre abbedisser og Abigail Rockefeller. Hun gjenoppliver dermed en urgammel krig; krigen mellom tilhengerne av englelæren, en gruppe vitenskapsfolk med god kunnskap om englene og deres historie og de monstrøse nephilimene, giganter som er halvt engler og halvt mennesker. De er etterkommere etter engler som gjorde opprør mot Gud og paret seg med menneskene. En fantastisk thriller om den gode og det onde. Boka skal bli film med Will Smith som produsent.

Englelære

Angelópolis

The Pearl of the Orient

“If I had been another woman, I might have been skeptical. But I wasn’t another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer, story was all that mattered. Rising action, dramatic complication, heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life, that I controlled the narration.”

The Fortress

Da millenni si muovono nell’ombra. Sono spietati, implacabili, immortali. Sono i Nefilim, creature nate dall’unione tra gli angeli che hanno osato sfidare Dio e gli umani. Nel corso dei secoli, hanno vissuto in mezzo a noi, per dominarci. Sono stati condottieri, re, imperatori. E, ancora oggi, governano le sorti del mondo. Da generazioni combattono nell’ombra. Sono gli angelologi, una società segreta di studiosi, religiosi e... cacciatori. Nel corso dei secoli, si sono opposti con ogni mezzo al Male sceso sulla Terra con un battito d’ali. E, ancora oggi, sono alla ricerca dell’arma che possa annientarlo. Sono trascorsi dieci anni, ma Verlaine non può dimenticare: le ali scure di Evangeline che si stagliano contro il cielo di New York sono sempre lì, davanti ai suoi occhi, a rammentargli come la donna che ama – un tempo fedele alleata degli angelologi – sia diventata una Nefilim. Era stato allora, al cospetto di quel tradimento supremo, che lui aveva giurato di dedicare ogni istante della propria vita al tentativo di salvarla. Eppure, quando Evangeline gli appare improvvisamente davanti, in una stradina di Parigi, lui si rende conto che affrontare da solo una creatura così imprevedibile e pericolosa sarebbe un’assoluta follia. Ma gli angelologi cui si rivolge vogliono aiutare Evangeline o annientarla? E perché l’esito di quella missione sembra dipendere da un oggetto leggendario, forse sepolto nei sotterranei di Parigi, forse nascosto in un elegante palazzo di San Pietroburgo, forse perduto nelle lande desolate della Siberia? Ma, soprattutto, perché Evangeline è diventata il fulcro di quella guerra millenaria, da cui dipende il futuro dell’intera umanità? Sulla scia del successo planetario di Angelology, definito dal New York Times «uno dei migliori romanzi degli ultimi anni», Danielle Trussoni ci regala un nuovo bestseller in cui Storia, teologia e azione si fondono in modo geniale e danno vita a un affresco grandioso.

Le città degli angeli - Angelopolis

INGENIUM Eine einzigartige Gabe – und ein Rätsel, das besser nie gelöst werden sollte Nach Dan Brown und Stephen King: Der neue internationale Thriller-Star heißt Danielle Trussoni. Seit e r sich beim Football schwer verletzte und ein Schädelhirntrauma erlitt, kann der 32-jährige Mike Brink in Sekundenschnelle die komplexesten Rätsel lösen. Als ihn eine Gefängnispsycholog in aufgrund seiner besonderen Begabung um Hilfe bittet, willigt er ein: Mike soll die seltsamen Gemälde der verstummten Patientin Jess Price entschlüsseln, die wegen Mordes im Gefängnis sitzt . Mike macht sich daran, die verstörenden Rätsel zu lösen, die die schweigende Mörderin ihm stellt. Schon bald wird ihm klar, dass Jess von einer verzweifelten Furcht vor einem Verfolger erfüllt ist; eine Erkenntnis, die ihn zu einem Jahrhunderte alten Mysterium führt, das nie von einem Menschen gelöst werden sollte.

Das erste Rätsel

Ingenium

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale. "If I had been another woman, I might have been skeptical. But I wasn’t another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer, story was all that mattered. Rising action, dramatic complication, heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life, that I controlled the narration." From their first kiss, twenty-seven-year-old writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of jazz and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Eight years later, hopeful to renew their marriage, Danielle and her husband move to the south of France, to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc. It is here, in a haunted stone fortress built by the Knights Templar, that she comes to understand the dark, subterranean forces that have been following her all along. While Danielle and her husband eventually part, Danielle's time in the fortress brings precious wisdom about life and love that she could not have learned otherwise. Ultimately, she finds the strength to overcome her illusions, and start again. An incisive look at romantic love, The Fortress is one woman’s fight to understand the complexities of her own heart, told by one of the best writers of her generation.

A Love Story

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year A daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended. From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight. Spending hour upon hour trailing him around the bars and honky-tonks of La Crosse, Wisconsin, young Danielle grew up fascinated by stories of her dad's adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he'd risked his life crawling head first into narrow passageways to search for American POWs. A vivid and poignant portrait of a daughter's relationship with her father, this funny, heartbreaking, and beautifully written memoir, Falling Through the Earth, "makes plain that the horror of war doesn't end in the trenches" (Vanity Fair).

A l'âge de douze ans, Évangéline est placée par son père au couvent franciscain Sainte-Rose, au nord de New York. Elle y apprend jour après jour l'obéissance et la dévotion. Mais à vingt-trois ans, son quotidien réglé comme du papier à musique est bouleversé par la découverte d'une lettre datée de 1943. Cette missive envoyée il y a plus d'un demi-siècle par la célèbre mécène Abigail Rockefeller à mère Innocenta, ancienne abbesse du couvent, précipite Evangéline dans une histoire secrète qui va tout faire voler en éclats. Un conflit vieux de mille ans qui oppose des spécialistes des anges, les angéologues, aux Nephilim, des êtres hybrides nés de l'union de femmes humaines et d'anges déchus. Ces Nephilim, dont la beauté extérieure n'a d'égale que leur noirceur d'âme, poursuivent un seul et même dessein depuis leur naissance: régner en maîtres sur la Terre. Depuis des siècles, des générations d'angéologues agissent dans l'ombre pour contrecarrer leurs plans et se tenir prêts à les affronter le jour où ils lanceront l'assaut. Ce jour approche... Danielle Trussoni nous entraîne au cœur d'une intrigue d'une exceptionnelle richesse, nourrie de multiples références historiques, mythiques et bibliques.

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