WER FURCHT SAT - PARSONS TONY - Luebbe

GIRL ON FIRE - PARSONS TONY - Random UK

DIE LAST - PARSONS TONY - Random UK

THE HANGING CLUB - PARSONS TONY - Random UK

A band of vigilante executioners roam the hot summer nights, abducting evil men who they judge unworthy of living and hanging them by the neck until dead. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused dozens of vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child, the drug addict who put a pensioner in a coma and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops. But do these rogue hangmen crave true justice—or just blood?

As the bodies pile up and violence explodes all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe—dog lover, single parent, defender of the weak—embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet, hunting a righteous gang of vigilante killers who many believe to be heroes. The search will take Max from squalid backstreets, where religious fanaticism breeds, to mansions in mourning and all the way to the secret rooms of power where decisions are weighed about life and death. But before The Hanging Club is confronted, Max Wolfe must learn some painful truths about the fragile line between good and evil, innocence and guilt, justice and retribution. And discover that the lust for revenge starts very close to home.

La vita del detective della polizia di Londra Max Wolfe, da quando sua moglie non c'è più, è fatta di dipendenze: dalla caffeina, dalla figlia piccola che cerca di proteggere dalle durezze della vita, da Londra e dalla sua bellezza quando, all'alba, la percorre in lungo e in largo - uno dei pochi piaceri legati all'insonnia cronica. Stavolta, a occupare i suoi pensieri nelle passeggiate mattutine, l'ombra di un serial killer del passato che si allunga sul presente. Quando, la notte di Capodanno, in un esclusivo complesso residenziale, un bambino viene rapito e i suoi genitori vengono ritrovati morti, Max Wolfe si rende conto che le modalità dell'omicidio, e soprattutto l'arma usata, gli ricordano qualcosa. La risposta è nel Black Museum di Scotland Yard, un archivio unico al mondo dei delitti più efferati compiuti negli ultimi cento anni. Lì Max scoprirà che si tratta di un tipo di arma da fuoco usata in passato per abbattere il bestiame prima del macello. E c'è un solo killer che ammazzava così: il Macellaio. Max ha pochissimo tempo se vuole salvare la vita del bambino rapito, e se vuole fare giustizia prima che sia troppo tardi. Prima che la prossima famiglia distrutta dal serial killer sia la sua.

Max Wolfe is back-the two-fisted homicide detective with a small daughter and dog waiting for him at home and a crazed serial killer waiting for him somewhere out in the pitiless London streets.

On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon-a gun used to stun cattle before they are butchered-leads Max to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a mass murderer who, 30 years ago, was known as The Slaughter Man. But The Slaughter Man has done his time and is now old and dying. Is he really back in the killing game? And was the slaughter of a happy family a mindless killing spree, or a grotesque homage by a copycat killer, or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man? Max desperately needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family-or finds his way to Detective Wolfe's own front door.

The Slaughter Man is another taut thriller from acclaimed international bestseller Tony Parsons.

A poignant and witty novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. As millions of women have discovered before him, that is not as simple as it may have seemed. Man and Boy is by turns funny, sharp, warm, and heart-wrenching. It is a brilliantly engaging novel from one of the most gifted and influential commentators writing today.

The crown prince of lad-lit comes into mass market paperback with a surefire bestseller (possible no.1 paperback), backed up with an unmissable marketing campaign. A high-profile book, by a highly visible, media-friendly author, that will reall

Parsons' widely acclaimed debut novel; a Hornby}esque{ take (if you will) on the lot of a male single parent in the nineties, who learns about life and love the hard way after a sudden fall from grace. Tony Parsons is certainly no wallflower an

HE HAD TO FACE THE TOUGHEST JOB OF HIS LIFE. AND HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT HE'D BE ON HIS OWN.

Harry had it all: a beautiful wife, an adorable four-year-old son, and a high-paying media job. But on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, with one irresponsible act, he threw it all away. Suddenly he finds himself an unemployed single father trying to figure out how to wash his son's hair the way Mommy did and whether green spaghetti is proper breakfast food. This brilliantly engaging novel will tug at your heart as Harry learns to become a father to his son and a son to his aging father, takes stabs at finding new love, and makes the hardest decision of his life.