Cody McFadyen

Shadow Man

»Die Blutlinie«.

»Wenn Ihnen dieses Buch keine Angst macht, sollten Sie Ihren Arzt aufsuchen.« (New York Times)

Nach dem Mord an einer Freundin folgt FBI-Agentin Smoky Barrett der Fährte des Mörders. Doch die Spuren, die der eiskalte Serienmörder hinterlässt, sind so blutig, dass ihr ganzes Können gefragt ist. Die Zeit arbeitet gegen sie. Mit jedem neuen Verbrechen gelangt Smoky zu einer erschrecken Erkenntnis: Der Mörder möchte sich einen Traum erfüllen. Einen Traum, der für viele zum Albtraum werden könnte...

2006, 407 Seiten, Maße: 11,2 x 17,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-10: 0340840072
ISBN-13: 9780340840078

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'Terrifically good, terrifically scary ... very hard to put down' -- San Francisco Chronicle 20060702 'SHADOW MAN grabs you by the throat and yanks you along for a hell of a scary ride. A spellbinding read from first page to last.' -- Faye Kellerman 20060702 'Coldly, stunningly brilliant. Move over Thomas Harris, Mcfadyen has brought a new game to town.' -- Lisa Gardner 20060702 'As humane as it is violent...Barrett's anger, pain and determination infuse the novel with a raw passion...it will be ... mehr ... among the best crime fiction you will read this year' -- Washington Post 20060703 'The wildest night ride I have been on for quite a while...By the time you finish reading this book you'll be running on adrenalin you never knew you had. If you're sick of books about serial killers, SHADOW MAN is the cure. Mcfadyen's writing and characterization run long, deep and true. And, by the way, he is beyond scary. Not to be missed' -- Bookreporter.com 20060620 'Authentic...handled well with some unexpected twists and turns. Mcfadyen has drawn Barrett and her fellow FBI members tenderly and intricately' -- Shots Magazine 20060620 'SHADOW MAN is one of the most powerful and authentic portrayals of a serial killer and the people who hunt them I have ever read. It kept me riveted right to the last page. Cody Mcfadyen is the real thing.' -- John Douglas, author of the #1 bestseller MINDHUNTER: Inside the F.B.I.'s Serial Crime Unit 20060620 'Disturbing ... a promising debut for Mcfadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm ... Pack[s] a visceral punch' -- Publishers Weekly 20060601 'A truly talented author' -- The Sunday Times, Australia 20060601 'I'm still reeling after reading this high-octane, heart-pumping FBI thriller...Brilliant. But not for the squeamish' -- ****Good Reading, Australia 20060601 'This is one of the best serial killer novels that I've read. It's up there with the early Patricia Cornwell novels, Primal Fear and The Silence of the Lambs - a stunning first novel' -- Manly Daily 20060601 'Mcfadyen has managed to deliver something fresh. His style of narration sucks the reader in from the first sentence and the story has enough plot twists to keep you intrigued to the last page. A superb debut novel, hopefully a sign of things to come from a truly talented author. In a word: chilling' -- Herald Sun, Australia 20060601 'If you like to be scared so witless you hold your breath for pages at a time, SHADOW MAN won't disappoint' -- New Idea, Australia 20060530 'This is a terrifically good, terrifically scary serial-killer story set in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The world of SHADOW MAN arrives fully formed, as if we're at the second or third installment of a well-established series. The novel's protagonist, FBI agent Smoky Barrett, is scarred and traumatized at the outset from a past encounter with a murderous psychopath -- a run-in that resulted in the deaths of her husband and young daughter. Now she has another nut on her hands.' -- San Francisco Chronicle 20060530

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Cody Mcfadyen, geboren 1968, unternahm als junger Mann mehrere Weltreisen und arbeitete danach in den unterschiedlichsten Branchen. Der Autor ist verheiratet, Vater einer Tochter und lebt mit seiner Familie in Kalifornien.

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