Due assassini spietati. Un ragazzino che ha visto troppo. Una caccia all'uomo all'ultimo respiro, tra la natura selvaggia e la furia del fuoco. Jace Wilson è un quattordicenne come tanti, con i normali problemi di tutti i ragazzi della sua età. Un giorno, messo alla prova dai bulli che gli danno del codardo, Jace si tuffa nella vasca d'acqua che giace sul fondo di una grande cava abbandonata. Non sa che quello è il luogo in cui i fratelli Blackwell, due sadici assassini, si disfano dei corpi delle proprie vittime. Così, Jace assiste suo malgrado a qualcosa che cambierà per sempre la sua vita: l'omicidio, o meglio, l'esecuzione di un uomo. Scoperto dai criminali, riesce a fuggire, ma diventa un bersaglio. È un testimone, e deve essere messo a tacere. Nel tentativo di proteggerlo, Jace viene inserito, sotto copertura, in un corso estivo di sopravvivenza per ragazzi problematici tra i fitti e sperduti boschi del Montana, sotto la supervisione dell'istruttore Ethan Serbin. Ma sarà proprio questa scelta a segnare l'inizio di un incubo. Infatti, i Blackwell, eliminando senza pietà chiunque si metta sulla loro strada, non impiegano molto a scoprire dove si trova il testimone. Quando Jace capisce che i criminali sono vicini, si separa dal gruppo e si imbatte in Hannah Faber, una vigile del fuoco segnata da un tragico passato. Hannah è decisa ad aiutare Jace e a condurlo fuori dal bosco, al sicuro. Ma gli assassini sono sulle loro tracce. Intanto, un gigantesco incendio avanza inesorabile tra le insidie della natura e la forza distruttiva del fuoco, quei boschi diventeranno l'infern

DIE GEWALT DER DUNKELHEIT - KORYTA MICHAEL - Random Germania

"I was asleep when my wife died," Private Investigator Mark Novak tells us. His relentlessness as an investigator has been his professional calling card and curse, but he couldn't bear to ever investigate what happened to his wife two years before--until now.

When he returns to the country road outside Cassadega, Florida, where his wife was shot, he uncovers disturbing leads that show how her murder might be connected to Novak's own troubled youth in Montana.

Back in the mining towns of Montana he thought he'd left behind forever, he'll face an adversary more frightening than he's ever known, and a secret that has wended its way through his entire life: from the caverns beneath Indiana to the abandoned streets of a southern gothic town to the darkest corners of the Northwest.

ECHOES is mystery about evil and heroism, and what happens when the two are inextricably and tragically linked.

When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare.

The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber, who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains.

The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind.

In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse that illuminates nothing but the surrounding woods. One day its builder is found dead at the top of the light, and his belongings reveal a troubling local history.

For deputy sheriff Kevin Kimble, the lighthouse-keeper's death is disturbing and personal. Years ago, Kimble was shot while on duty. Somehow the death suggests a connection between the lighthouse and the most terrifying moment of his life.

Audrey Clark is in the midst of moving her large-cat sanctuary onto land adjacent to the lighthouse. Sixty-seven tigers, lions, leopards, and one legendary black panther are about to have a new home there. Her husband, the sanctuary's founder, died scouting the new property, and Audrey is determined to see his vision through.

As strange occurrences multiply at the Ridge, the animals grow ever more restless, and Kimble and Audrey try to understand what evil forces are moving through this ancient landscape, just past the divide between dark and light.

Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town's criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them.

Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. After years of near misses, Kent's team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships.

Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. As details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two must confront their buried rage and grief-and unite to stop a killer.

Michael Koryta, widely hailed as one of the most exciting young thriller authors at work today, has written his greatest novel ever-an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that Donald Ray Pollock has called "one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life."

Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.

Still mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case that may be his undoing. On the same day his wife died, the body of a teenage girl was pulled from the extensive and perilous cave system beneath Southern Indiana. Now the man who rescued the girl, who was believed to be her killer, begs Novak to uncover what really happened.

Garrison is much like any place in America, proud and fortified against outsiders. For Mark to delve beneath the town's surface, he must match wits with the man who knows the caverns better than anyone. A man who seemed to have lost his mind. A man who seems to know Mark Novak all too well.