Glenn Cooper

The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed ... A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed - with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives - and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost ...

Library of the Dead

In this thrilling sequel to "Secret of the Seventh Son," FBI agent Will Piper hunts for an ancient book that has had a profound effect on history--and holds a truth that mankind may not be prepared to hear. Original.

Book of Souls

In the wake of a series of murders linked only by postcards announcing the victims' imminent deaths, a once-legendary and alcoholic FBI profiler discovers bizarre links to the case, an eighth-century abandoned child, and a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a secret medieval society.

La biblioteca de los muertos

In New York City a murderer is on the loose: the Doomsday Killer has claimed six victims in two weeks. The police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, all that connects them is that each had received a postcard, before they died, announcing their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, a man on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will uncovers a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. This secret once lay buried in an underground library beneath a monastery and has now been unearthed. But the secret of the library is defended by people who would stop Will finding out the truth - at any cost.

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La biblioteca dei morti

International bestselling author Glenn Cooper delivers a new thriller featuring Cal Donovan, a Harvard theology professor, as he uncovers religious and papal history and plenty of conspiracy...

The Fourth Prophecy

The Library: Only a handful know it exists. It holds the world's most astonishing and terrifying information. But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved and survived the "Doomsday Killer" case and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power. Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know those that concern the future, world domination and the end of everything.

Il libro delle anime

In the sensational and much-anticipated conclusion to the internationally bestselling Library of the Dead trilogy, Will Piper, former FBI agent, is retired and living a life of leisure in Florida when a new Doomsday Killer emerges. Then Will’s son, Phillip, disappears after receiving a mysterious email from the other side of the world. The high-stakes adventure that Will is pulled into spans centuries and continents, and may at last reveal what the Library cannot about the future of humankind, if there is to be a future . . .

A Novel

The Keepers Of The Library

Miami, gennaio 2020. Gli Stati Uniti d’America sono sconvolti: il figlio del senatore John Killian, candidato alla Casa Bianca, è stato rapito. Mentre i giornali già parlano di una nuova ondata terroristica, l’FBI è convinta che il responsabile sia Cameron MacDonald, guardia del corpo del senatore, e concentra le indagini su di lui. In preda alla disperazione, Cameron non sa più come difendersi e chiede aiuto a Will Piper, facendo appello alla loro vecchia amicizia. Will non esita nemmeno per un istante: lascia la barca ormeggiata a Panama City, dove si è trasferito quando è andato in pensione, e raggiunge Miami. Ma ben presto l’alibi di Cameron si sgretola e le strade verso la sua innocenza si chiudono tutte, a una a una. A meno che Will non si decida a imboccare quella che porta nell’Area 51, il luogo in cui è conservata la Biblioteca dei Morti...

Il tempo della verità

Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains - and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring. When they discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realise that they've stumbled across something extraordinary. And at the very core of the labyrinth lies the most astonishing chamber of all, just as the manuscript chronicled. Aware of the significance of their discovery, they set up camp with a team of experts, determined to bring their find to the world. But as they begin to unlock the ancient secrets the cavern holds, they find themselves at the centre of a dangerous game. One 'accidental' death leads to another.And it seems that someone will stop at nothing to protect the enigma of the tenth chamber ...

The Tenth Chamber

La mappa del destino

Mai 2009. Une série de morts inexplicables secoue la ville de New York. Accidentelles ou criminelles, elles n'ont, en soi, rien d'inexplicable : ce que la police ne comprend pas, c'est cette carte postale, reçue par les victimes, la veille de leur décès. Postées à Vegas, toutes indiquent la date exacte de la mort de leur destinataire. Un véritable casse-tête. Le profileur Will Piper, en congé pour raisons personnelles, reprend du service pour l'occasion. Il se dirigera bientôt vers la plus invraisemblable des vérités, quelque part entre l'île de Wight et le désert du Nevada... Entre un mystérieux monastère, au large de l'Angleterre, et la zone 51, la fameuse base secrète américaine... Ce qu'il y découvrira fera chavirer les plus solides certitudes de la pensée occidentale. Tout est-il écrit d'avance ? Le libre-arbitre est-il une illusion ? Quand recevrez-vous, vous aussi, l'irréversible carte postale ?

Le livre des morts

I figli di Dio

A brilliant neuroscientist, obsessed with death since his own childhood near death experience, resorts to drastic measures to prove the existence of the afterlife. Milan, Italy today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same, distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero? Boston, a few months before. It is the most complex investigation that Cyrus O'Malley has ever faced. The FBI special agent looks at photos of the victims for the umpteenth time and wonders why, after being strangled, the serial killer has drilled a tiny hole through their skull. For Cyrus, the case becomes an obsession. To solve it, he will be forced to give up everything he holds dear. England, 1988. It is the most overwhelming feeling that Alex Weller has ever had. In ecstasy, at the pivot point between life and death, the boy sees a river of light flowing in front of him and on the other side there is his father, joyfully urging him to join him. But Alex cannot move, and suddenly he is back at the site of the terrible car accident that has just killed his parents. Since that time, Alex has had only one goal: to understand and relive that experience. Even if he is forced to kill.

Near Death

La piedra de fuego

¿Qué estarías dispuesto a hacer para conocer el secreto de la eterna juventud? ¿Puede un milagro convertirse en una maldición? Vuelve el autor de La biblioteca de los muertos con un thriller vertiginoso que combina con maestría hallazgos arqueológicos, secretos milenarios y un enigma del que depende el destino de la humanidad. «Francia, 1307. Yo, Bartolomé, fraile de la abadía de Ruac, tengo doscientos veinte años y esta es mi historia.» Así comienza un antiguo manuscrito hallado en una de las paredes de la devastada abadía de Ruac. Hugo Pineau, experto en restauración de textos, emprende la tarea de descifrar el misterioso escrito y el mapa que lo acompaña. Con la ayuda del reputado arqueólogo Luc Simard, llegará a un impresionante laberinto de cuevas. Se trata de un hallazgo de un valor incalculable. Sin embargo, comprenden que el secreto que contienen esas paredes es demasiado valioso, demasiado anhelado. Y que hay gente dispuesta a cualquier cosa para evitar que salga a la luz... Reseñas: «Cooper demuestra que el thriller histórico aún tiene recorrido y que existen huecos inexplorados.» Ramón Ventura, El Periódico de Catalunya «Un maravilloso libro con un estremecedor e inesperado clímax. Una lectura obligada para los fans del thriller histórico.» Euro Crime

La llave del destino

Un secreto que la Iglesia ha mantenido oculto. Una conspiración siniestra que pretende encumbrar el mal. Solo una mujer puede poner fin a la pesadilla antes de que esta se haga realidad. La nueva novela del maestro del thriller histórico con más de 7.000.000 de lectores en todo el mundo 1139. Al mirar el cielo después del eclipse, el obispo Malaquías tiene una lúcida visión de lo que va a suceder. Ciento doce estrellas brillan sobre la bóveda. Ciento doce Papas desde Celestino II hasta el final de la Iglesia. Hasta que los suyos se hagan con el poder... Roma, 2002. La joven arqueóloga Elisabetta Celestino recibe la noticia de que el Vaticano le prohíbe seguir explorando las catacumbas de San Calixto, donde se ha realizado un extraño hallazgo. Pero años después, cuando está a punto de celebrarse un nuevo cónclave para elegir el que será el Papa ciento doce, aparecen unos cadáveres en esas mismas catacumbas: varios hombres y mujeres que llevan siglos enterrados. Y todos ellos presentan una extraña anomalía genética... A pesar de que todo a su alrededor parece indicarle que debería olvidarlo. English Description The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Elisabetta Celestino, a brilliant young archaeologist at work in Rome’s ancient catacombs, has discovered a unique pattern of astrological symbols on an underground wall. She is devastated when the Vatican refuses to support her excavation project. Ten years later, a cave-in damages the vault, and a shocking discovery is made. Following a traumatic event, Elisabetta has left archaeology behind for the serenity of prayer and teaching, but the young nun unexpectedly finds herself in a race to solve the secret of the catacomb. Moving between present-day Europe, 1st-century Rome, and Elizabethan England, The Devil Will Come is an exhilarating tale of a battle between good and evil that has been fought in the shadows through the centuries and across continents--and that both sides are willing to kill to keep secret.

La Marca del Diablo

Biblioteka mrtvih

A terrifying secret. A shocking discovery has been made deep within Rome's ancient catacombs. One that the Vatican is determined must never be made public - for the sake of all mankind. A deadly conspiracy. But there are others who want to keep the truth hidden for far more sinister reasons, others who believe that not only are the church and the faith of a billion at threat, but life as we know it is about to be destroyed - for ever. And only one woman - a young Italian nun - can save us... The nightmare is about to begin.

The Devil Will Come

1947. De mystérieux manuscrits médiévaux sont retrouvés dans les ruines d'une abbaye de l'île de Wight. Winston Churchill demande au président Truman de les prendre en charge. Celui-ci fait construire dans le désert du Nevada une base top secrète destinée à les étudier : Area 51...2010. Un nouveau manuscrit fait surface à Londres, lors d'une vente aux enchères. Will Piper, ancien profiler du FBI, est engagé par d'anciens membres d'Area 51 pour en percer les secrets. Will y découvre, dissimulé dans la reliure, un poème écrit en 1581 par un de ses anciens propriétaires, William Shakespeare. Plus qu'un poème, c'est une véritable carte cryptée. La résolution des énigmes qu'elle renferme nous transporte autour de l'année 1530, à Paris, où deux hommes commencent à faire parler d'eux, Jean Calvin et Michel de Nostradamus...

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