In una nazione allo stremo, tre ragazzi fragili ma pieni di speranza partono per un'avventura che li porterà a confrontarsi con i pericoli e l'oscurità che si nascondono nel cuore degli uomini. Come tanti, troppi, ragazzini di oggi, Simon, Louise e Paul, detto il Profeta, devono fare i conti con le loro paure e i loro traumi. Quando si incontrano in una clinica per la cura dell'ansia, il Profeta li convince che hanno una missione. Devono fuggire da lì e costruire la loro utopia, un luogo dove avere una seconda possibilità, lontano da quegli adulti che li hanno traditi lasciandogli un mondo allo sbando. Però, come in una fiaba contemporanea oscura e adrenalinica, per riuscirvi dovranno prima sconfiggere lo Stregone, un miliardario crudele e intoccabile, e salvare la ragazza che tiene prigioniera, principessa o drago che sia.

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Una sera d'estate i membri di due ricche famiglie newyorkesi e un pittore fallito salgono su un volo privato di ritorno dal mare. Il loro doveva essere un breve viaggio, invece, sedici minuti dopo il decollo, l'aereo precipita nelle acque dell'oceano. Gli unici superstiti sono Scott Burroughs, l'artista, e un bambino di quattro anni, ora unico erede di un impero economico, che l'uomo è riuscito a salvare. Mentre i media avanzano ipotesi di complotto, la polizia e i servizi segreti scandagliano nelle esistenze dei passeggeri. Da eroe, Scott si ritrova a essere un sospettato. E anche il prezioso legame che ha instaurato con il piccolo sopravvissuto comincia a essere corroso dalle insinuazioni.

Una sera d'estate i membri di due ricche famiglie newyorkesi e un pittore fallito salgono su un volo privato di ritorno dal mare. Il loro doveva essere un breve viaggio, invece, sedici minuti dopo il decollo, l'aereo precipita nelle acque dell'oceano. Gli unici superstiti sono Scott Burroughs, l'artista, e un bambino di quattro anni, ora unico erede di un impero economico, che l'uomo è riuscito a salvare. Mentre i media avanzano ipotesi di complotto, la polizia e i servizi segreti scandagliano nelle esistenze dei passeggeri. Da eroe, Scott si ritrova a essere un sospettato. E anche il prezioso legame che ha instaurato con il piccolo sopravvissuto comincia a essere corroso dalle insinuazioni.

From the Emmy Award-winning creator of Fargo and writer for the hit television seriesBones comes the thriller to read in 2016.



On a foggy summer night, 10 people--nine privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--board a private jet in Martha's Vineyard. The plane never reaches its destination, and the only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, the last remaining member of a wealthy media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between their gripping survival story and the backstories of the passengers, the mystery surrounding the crash heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy: was it by chance that so many influential people perished, or was something more sinister at work? Amidst heart-pounding suspense, the fragile relationship between Scott and the boy glows at the heart of the novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.

From the Emmy Award-winning creator of Fargo and writer for the hit television seriesBones comes the thriller to read in 2016.



On a foggy summer night, 10 people--nine privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--board a private jet in Martha's Vineyard. The plane never reaches its destination, and the only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, the last remaining member of a wealthy media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between their gripping survival story and the backstories of the passengers, the mystery surrounding the crash heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy: was it by chance that so many influential people perished, or was something more sinister at work? Amidst heart-pounding suspense, the fragile relationship between Scott and the boy glows at the heart of the novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.

As a rheumatologist, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients other doctors have given up on. His son, Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but, as a child of divorce, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, shedding his former skin and eventually even changing his name. One night, Paul is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot, and Daniel is the lead suspect. Convinced of his son’s innocence Paul begins to trace his sons steps to see where Daniel, or perhaps Paul, went wrong, beginning a harrowing journey--about the responsibilities of being a parent and the capacity for unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation—that keeps one guessing until the very end.

David believes that at heart, people are inherently rotten. Scott, his brother, believes that his life is going to fall apart, and that everyone he loves will leave him. Doris, their mother, believes that she has nothing to lose by revealing a 60-year-old family secret. This hysterically biting and ultimately redeeming novel by Noah Hawley proves them all rightand wrongwhile answering some of life's biggest questions. Like, how did Scott end up with two wonderful wives simultaneously? And why can't David manage to keep even one dysfunctional relationship going? It all comes down to love and families and what you believe inand, maybe, forgiveness.

Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. He teaches graduate-level classes on JFK and gives seminars on magic-bullet theories and how the symbols on the dollar bill reveal the presence of a secret government that is leading the world to ruin.

Linus' marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, an up-and-coming advertising executive, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical company, buy her ticket and die beside her?

Enlisting the aid of Edward and Roy -- his friends and fellow conspiracy theorists -- Linus heads across the country in search of answers. Along the way, the trio encounters a legion of disturbing and provocative characters and clues, including an irascible talk show host, a mind-controlling drug, and art emerging link between Claudia's ad agency and the U.S, Government. As their journey progresses, it becomes frighteningly clear they've left the realm of the academic and are tangled up in a dangerous, multilayered cover-up. Finally, deep in the heart of the American desert, stunned by an ominous revelation, Linus sees he has a new minion: to try to stay alive.

With writing that is electric, whip-smart and suspenseful at each turn, Noah Hawley draws us into a deliciously labyrinthine world of paranoia and plots.